Mike Sullivan describes the years-long process filmmakers Jessica Barnthouse and Stacy Buchanan undertook in making their first feature documentary, Something Wicked This Way Comes. The film featured at this year’s Boston Underground Film Festival. A revised version of the doc, titled The Man in the Mask, will be showing at festivals later this year.
In Circle Up, Boston-based filmmaker Julie Mallozzi explores the power of peacemaking circles in restorative justice. She documents women using this indigenous practice to cope with extreme violence and loss. Marie-Emmanuelle Hartness met with Julie after a screening and Q&A at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge to discuss the film’s production and its use in activism.
Backpack Full of Cash is a new documentary by Director and Activist Sarah Mondale. The film, which is co-produced by Vera Aronow, offers an unforgiving portrayal of the charter school movement in America. Marie-Emmanuelle Hartness was at the Boston screening and talks with Mondale and Aronow about making the film and about working with Nancy Carlson-Paige and her son, Matt Damon.
Film critic Evan Crean reviews Matthew Heineman’s documentary “City of Ghosts,” which screened at the 2017 Independent Film Festival Boston (IFFBoston).
Film critic Evan Crean reviews Jeremy S. Levine and Landon Van Soest’s documentary For Ahkeem, which screened at the 2017 Independent Film Festival Boston (IFFBoston).
Film critic Evan Crean reviews Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin’s film La Barracuda, which screened at the 2017 Independent Film Festival Boston (IFFBoston).
Film critic Evan Crean reviews Brett Haley’s dramedy “The Hero,” which screened at IFFBoston 2017.
Film critic Evan Crean reviews Melissa Dowler’s documentary Letting Go of Adele, which screened at Independent Film Festival Boston (IFFBoston) 2017.
Film critic Evan Crean reviews Eric Stange’s documentary <em>Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive</em>, which screened at IFFBoston 2017.