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Mary Katzke: Between Us:
Mary Katzke got both the idea and the money for her latest documentary unexpectedly: via a life-threatening illness. Misdiagnosed in…
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Viva la Revolucion DV!
The Celebration (1998), 105 min., color Director: Thomas Vinterberg [www.dogme95.dk] Original Format: Mini DV (PAL) Transferred to: 35mm Synopsis: The…
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Cast Off Your Costumes!
My desk is festooned with the fruits of two previous Independent Feature Film Markets: a cupful of pens, buttons, a…
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DVD Unbound: Blowing Up the Small Screen
We’re trying to get rid of the film print as a distribution format," explains James Boyd, the man responsible for…
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War Stories
When the year was young, the hot topic was Monica, not Kosovo. So at the Sundance Film Festival in January,…
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THE GORE COMMISSION REPORT
Between the impeachment proceedings in Washington and the bombing runs over Iraq, the mid-December release of a final report by…
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SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME
Picking a producer is like hiring your own boss. Indie veteran Gill Holland offers some words of advice to novice…
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Recasting the Casting Director
Producer Sandra Katz has tried for three years to raise money for Nothing Men, a film by first-time director John…