The 17-min film Okechukwu, helmed by Anayo Amuzi, is part of the narrative short lineup in next month's Pan African Film Festival. The Nigerian/US production tells the story of a Nigerian man who is new to America, "works in a dead-end job and lives with his brother and his wife. While...
Read More »Directed by Robert Philpson, the short documentary T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness: Queer Blues Divas of the 1920s, will be featured next month at the Pan African Film Festival. The doc explores the private sexual lives of lesbian and bisexual "blues divas" in the 1920's, a time w...
Read More »Need a dose of slapstick physical humor? We thought so. Two minutes of gloriously silly bloopers from Best Picture front nominee "The Artist" have emerged online -- and some of the mugging, toothy grins, and crack-ups nearly rival what made the final cut.
Read More »This year we held a trailer contest and the winner is Tony Szulc.
Read More »Valérie Donzelli has made a heartbreaking film about the fight a couple goes through to save their son from a brain tumor. They declare war on the cancer and with the support of their family their become singlemindely focused on saving him. This story parallels the actual true ...
Read More »Chicken and Egg Pictures always has a great party at Sundance: delicious home-cooked food paired with a celebration of women filmmakers and the folks who support and nurture them.
Read More »Don't tell me you've given up watching 30 Rock. It's back on the air with two episodes tonight. I love me some Tina Fey.
Read More »I confess that orginally I was going to call this post "Charlize Theron is a dingbat" but why make the obivous so...obvious?
Read More »The urban Hip Hop drama Filly Brown premiered this year at the still ongoing Sundace Film Festival and has been received with fairly warm reviews, especially for the star turn of its relatively unknown lead Gina Rodriguez (Our Family Wedding), a performance that THR calls "magnetic" a...
Read More »Have you ever wondered how a writer's artistic vision survives the journey from page to screen? Please join me - in person if you're in Park City or right here through this live video stream - when I moderate a Sundance panel with four terrific writers. "The Power of Story: In the Begin...
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