Tag: film festival
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Slamdance Film Festival Coverage No. 3
Well, life made sure I didn’t get to see every film on my Slamdance watch list, but there were some good ones. Here’s the last installment of films I managed to screen. Hopefully, next year will be more “normal” and that pesky “life” won’t get in the way as much. Narrative Taipei Suicide Story Director:…
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An Interview With Director Chelsea Christer – “Bleeding Audio”
An interview with Chelsea Christer, director of Bleeding Audio A Slamdance Film Festival Documentary Synopsis: From inspiring triumphs to heartbreaking setbacks, Bleeding Audio relives the explosive career of the Matches and explores what it means to succeed in the digital age of music. Thanks very much to Chelsea Christer for taking some of her valuable…
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Slamdance Film Festival Coverage No. 2
What’s up, everyone? Who’s ready for more Slamdance films? Ready? Better be. Narrative A Brixton Tale Directors: Darragh Carey, Bertrand Desrochers Producers: Rupert Baynham, Dennis Gyamfi, Beau Rambaut Cast: Ola Oreyibi, Lily Newmark, Craige Middleburg, Jaime Winstone, Barney Harris, Dexter Padmore, Rose Kerr Synopsis: “Class and race relations come to a head in this gritty…
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Slamdance Film Festival Coverage No. 1
What’s up, everyone? Just wanted to start talking about the films we’re watching for Slamdance 2021. Like Sundance a couple weeks ago, this year Slamdance is virtual, and there’s a lot of material to get through. While we’re not watching everything they have on tap (because after Sundance, frankly, we’d die), we’re getting a pretty…
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Cryptozoo
Cryptozoo 95 Minutes, Not yet rated Written and Directed by Dash Shaw Synopsis: Cryptozookeepers try to capture a Baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown. Cryptozoo, I quickly discovered, was a hand-drawn, full-length animated movie made for adults. Adults. I…
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John and the Hole
John and the Hole 98 Minutes, Not yet rated Written by Nicolás Giacobone Directed by Pascual Sisto Synopsis: A coming-of-age psychological thriller that plays out the unsettling reality of a kid who holds his family captive in a hole in the ground. This is a film that was going to be at the Cannes Film…