by Gregory Kallenberg | Jun 12, 2017 | The Guest Column
A Film Prize Genesis Story The legend of the Louisiana Film Prize (www.LaFilmPrize.com) is that, on a wild, tequila-fueled night, I came up with a simple idea that has become a proving ground for indie filmmakers. The next morning, this was scrawled on a wall...
by Edward Douglas | May 11, 2017 | The Guest Column
It’s probably not a coincidence that the posters for both of Israeli filmmaker Rama Burshtein’s movies feature women in wedding dresses. That may because her first feature, Fill the Void, and her new movie, The Wedding Plan, show two very different sides of the same...
by Colin Stacy | Apr 22, 2017 | The Guest Column
Olivier Assayas is a vulgar artist (not to be confused with a vulgar auteur). His films work within a realism that leans into a refined yet, frankly, embarrassing intimacy with the audience. They are elegant works and their elements crude. Modern notions of realism...
by Edward Douglas | Apr 6, 2017 | The Guest Column
Imagine if you’re driving down the road one day and someone veers into the path of your car and you hit them. Obviously, you’d have insurance that could cover this incident and the victim’s medical expenses. In the case of Chinese cab driver Lao Shi (Gang Chen) in...
by Melanie Addington | Feb 11, 2017 | The Guest Column
It doesn’t seem all that long ago that the Oxford Film Festival launched in 2003 with a series of films including GENGHIS BLUES produced by Adrian Belic, THE MURDER OF EMMETT TILL and 61 other films along with 4 panels about screenwriting, animation and documentary....
by Edward Douglas | Jan 19, 2017 | The Guest Column
In early 2011, Iranian filmmaker was barely known in the United States except to a select group of foreign film cinephiles, despite having directed four previous films. His 2009 film About Elly won a number of festival prizes including the Tribeca Film Festival’s jury...
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