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Grand Piano
Every once in a while, we all see one of those special films – something that pushes the boundaries, defies expectations, breaks down the walls and makes us reconsider what is possible in the world of film making. Eugino...
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2014 Oscar Winners
The big winner Oscar Sunday was Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, winning seven awards including Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Visual Effects. Though for the second year in a row, the winner for Best Director did not go...
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2014 Spirit Award Winners
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave was unsurprisingly the big winner at the Film Independent Spirit Awards today with a total of five wins including, Best Feature, Best Director, Best Supporting Female, Best Cinematography, and Best Screenplay. There were...
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If You Build It
In 2010 Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller, two architect-activists living in the Bay Area (who upon meeting developed a fast attraction to one another) migrated cross-country to the dilapidated rural town of Windsor in Bertie, the poorest county in...
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10 Best Film Spirit Award Winners of All Time
Over the past 28 years the Independent Spirit Awards have recognized and awarded independent films that often get overshadowed during the popularity contest that surrounds most award shows. Many of the previous Spirit Award winners are now household names...
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Giveaway: American Hustle Original Soundtrack
David O. Russell’s American Hustle hauled in an impressive ten Oscar nominations this year, which tied Gravity with the most nominations for a motion picture. In order to commemorate the double digit Oscar nominated film, we are giving away...
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Oscars 2014 Predictions
Over the past several weeks we have provided an extensive individual breakdown for all of the major Oscar categories. Today we have compiled our 2014 Oscars Predictions on a convenient one sheet for you, along with links to our...
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Way Too Indie Hangout #1 – Spirit Award and Oscar Predictions
In our first Way Too Indie Hangout video chat, Bernard Boo (writer), Dustin Jansick (editor-in-chief), and Ananda Dillon (editor), discuss the films that we have watched recently which include; Charlie Stratton’s In Secret (review), Eliza Hittman’s It Felt Like...
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7 Boxes
7 Boxes is a cat-and-mouse chase movie set in a seedy marketplace in the Paraguayan capital of Asunción, whose breakneck pace is its saving grace, for better or for worse. On one hand, the rapid clip at which the film...
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Emily Pilloton Talks Inspiring Students Through Design in ‘If You Build It’
If You Build It, an uplifiting documentary directed by Patrick Creadon (I.O.U.S.A., Wordplay), follows designer-activists Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller, who in 2010 moved to Bertie County, the poorest county in North Carolina, to set up Studio H, a forward-thinking...
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‘Ghostbusters’ Harold Ramis Dead at 69
Harold Ramis, the actor, writer and director whose films include Stripes, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day and Caddyshack, has died at the age of 69 from complications related to autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, a condition he had for the past few years. According...
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SFFS Artist in Residence Sebastian Silva Talks The Gift of Spontaneity, ‘Magic Magic’
“My biggest fear is for my mind to control me and not the other way around,”Chilean filmmaker Sebastian Silva told us at FilmHouse in San Francisco, when asked about the inspiration behind his 2013 psychological creeper Magic Magic, starring Juno...
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Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Picture
Last week we predicted that Gravity’s Alfonso Cuarón would get the win for Best Director, so historically speaking that would mean Gravity should have a 73% chance of winning Best Picture because of how closely tied those categories are....
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Eddie Mullins Talks Peak Oil, Cameras On Sticks, “Doomsdays”
Dirty Fred (Justin Rice) and Bruho (Leo Fitzpatrick), believe that peak oil–the theory that we will soon deplete the earth of petroleum, causing the demise of our modern lifestyles–will bring upon mass hysteria and a societal breakdown. In preparation...
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