Tales from the “Screenwriter’s Festival”
The Austin Film Festival and Conference was held this past month in sunny, hip, Austin, Texas. It was my first…
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RIDM ’14: The Use and Abuse of Poetry in Documentary Film
Gusts of bitingly cold wind eat away at the inch of precocious snow on the ground, offering a fittingly bracing…
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Filmmakers and Their Global Lens: Hal Hartley
In the second edition of our new series, Filmmakers and Their Global Lens, The Independent’s special contributor Dana Knight speaks with the…
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Filmmakers and Their Global Lens: Eugene Green
In this first edition of our new series, Filmmakers and their Global Lens, The Independent’s special contributor Dana Knight interviews…
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DOC NYC 2014, November 13th – 20th – Critic’s Choice
“Too much ain’t enough” might be the cry-of-the-night heard throughout the recent 52nd New York Film Festival and this past…
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Artifacts from Cinematic Heaven and Hell: The Kubrick Cult Moves to TIFF
This article was originally published on June 5th 2013, Stanley Kubrick: the exhibition can now be seen as part of the…
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FNC 2014: Hybrid Filmmakers find Common Ground
Montreal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinema (FNC) is a festival that doesn’t like to be put into neat and tidy boxes….
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Private Violence: An Insider’s Perspective
Pamela Mason Wagner takes a look at ‘why women stay’ with filmmaker Cynthia Hill on her documentary Private Violence, about women in abusive relationships.
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The 11th Beijing Independent Film Festival: Shutdown Report From China
Gen Carmel provides first-hand accounts from a filmmaker and programmer who tried to attend the 11th Beijing Independent Film Festival, including a confrontational video between festivalgoers and plain clothes police, as well as the entire festival program.
