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2013 Oscar Nominated Shorts Spotlight: Animation
A look at this year's five Oscar nominates for Best Animated short film.
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2013 SF Indiefest Day 4: I Declare War, Simon Killer, Various Shorts
On the docket for day 4 of the festival were two shorts programs: Defying the Limits, a collection of boundary-shattering films that push the medium in new directions, and An Animated World, which, as the title would suggest, showcased...
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2013 Berlin Film Festival Day 4: Maladies
When attending a festival, the town in which it is hosted comes alive to match the draw of the event. All across Berlin, the presence of Berlinale is felt: shop windows are decorated with film reels and retro cameras,...
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2013 Oscar Nominated Shorts Spotlight: Live Action
Just by glancing over the synopsis for each of the five Oscar nominated short live-action films, you get the sense that you are in for a somber set of films to watch. One of the films (Henry) is about...
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2013 SF Indiefest Day 3: Desire Inc., Be Good, Wrong and More
I arrived at the Roxie Theater on Saturday afternoon prepared for a huge day of films, and that’s exactly what my third day at SF Indiefest delivered. The first presentation of the day was a trio of shorts by...
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2013 Berlin Film Festival Day 3: Lovelace & The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman
I have made a point of making my program selection as diverse as possible, while still attending the bigger film screenings. Because not everyone is as interested in the big name films from the US, it is typical for...
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2013 SF Indiefest Day 2: The Legend of Kaspar Hauser & Not In Tel Aviv
The second official day of SF Indiefest was also the first day to take place in San Francisco’s historic Roxie Theater, which will act as the hub for the rest of the festival. The night’s films were a pair...
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2013 Berlin Film Festival Day 2: Don Jon’s Addiction & Paradise: Hope
What marks a film festival as a truly unique cinematic experience is the audience. Each morning when get off the S-Bahn in Potsdam Hof, I exit the station via the Arkan Galaria--directly across from the Cinemaxx and Berlinale Palast....
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2013 SF Indiefest Day 1: The We and the I
As a native of the San Francisco Bay Area and a humble film lover, I am almost ashamed to say that this year’s SF Indiefest, which is celebrating its 15 year anniversary, is my first. After researching the history...
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2013 Berlin Film Festival Day 1: Intro & I Used to be Darker
Berlin brought me on board in a pool of sunshine--a welcome in the midst of the typical cloudy German winter. I walked to my hostel from the Bellevue S-Bahn station loaded with gear and clothes to last the 11...
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2013 Oscar Nominated Shorts Spotlight: Documentary
This year's group of short documentary nominees may look like a harrowing bunch to sit through (topics include homeless teens, African children receiving heart surgery and breast cancer patients to name a few) but that should be no reason...
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The Diary of Preston Plummer
The Diary of Preston Plummer feels like a very personal film for writer and director Sean Ackerman; essentially about two young souls that fall in love and discover they each have their own painful family histories. This indie film...
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Undefeated
The winner of last year’s Academy Award for Best Documentary, Undefeated, tells the story of Bill Courtney and his rag tag group of footballers at Manassas High School in North Memphis, Tennessee and their struggles to come together to...
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The Naked Zinester
Awesome, just – awesome. This short documentary, The Naked Zinester, explores the life and work of Aaron Tsuru and from Jon Nix’s directorial style we get to go up close and very personal with the man behind the camera....
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