Voices from Issues Past
What happened at AIVF over the last 30 years? Coming up with a coherent and entertaining way to answer that…
Author: john_rodzvilla
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Movies on the Move
The original idea was to drive filmmaker Ben Blaine into the countryside and abandon him, but since Ben can’t drive…
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Love’s Labor Lost
Alot of what AIVF did was to create an interface between very diverse communities of independent media makers and audiences…
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Q&A – James Schamus
Writer, producer, and film executive James Schamus has had about as brilliant a career in independent film as they come,…
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Q&A – Larry Clark
Larry Clark’s films are shocking. There’s Kids, about drug-using, AIDS-carrying, sexually active Manhattan teenagers; Bully, the true story of a…
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On the Margins of the Multiplex
In 1973, a young, cinema-loving bohemian couple fled the high rents of Manhattan for the more affordable suburbs of Huntington,…
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One-Two Punch
I thought that making Monster’s Ball was rough. I vowed upon wrapping that film that I would never make another….
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Show Us Your Shorts
“I don’t know how big of a historian you are,” begins David Dundas, one of the founders of YouAreTV, a…
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Hell or High Water
In 1998, I joined the production team of Julie Gustafson’s Desire, a documentary about teenage girls from three diverse New…