Tracking Aimee Mann
Aimee Mann is one tough woman to track down. After a month of scheduling and rescheduling an interview time, I…
Author: john_rodzvilla
The Miller’s Daughter
Rebecca Miller needs to recharge. Well, her phone at least. Plugged into an ancient socket behind me and perched on…
Is it too late to edit myself out of this film?
Dear Doc Doctor: I think I made the mistake of putting myself in my film as the inquisitive filmmaker—as a…
The Pay-Off
In the first few minutes of Kevin Everson’s new film Spicebush, the screen splits into two frames, one showing a…
Filming Curtis
When I was a teenager, I took a poetry workshop in Brookline, Massachusetts with Barbara Helfgott Hyett, a wonderful teacher…
Chlotrudis
Several couples chat casually, surrounded mostly by empty red velvet seats inside Brookline, Massachusetts’s Coolidge Corner Theatre in early November….
The State of Short Films
Cinema was born as a short form. Most early films were mere seconds long. Throughout the history of celluloid, countless…
Q&A with David Russell of Big Film Shorts
David Russell is the go-to man for all things short film. In 1996, he started Big Film Shorts, a distributor…
The Anatomy of a Short
Ten years ago two witty gents from Colorado, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, made a riotous animated short called The…