Cooking Up Some Margarine Mischief

In the case of the 1960s-era comedy Margarine Wars, set to premiere March 21st in Royal Oak, Michigan, it all starts with the names of the principal character and small Wisconsin town where he finds himself stranded on his way from New York to California. This is the story of Howard Schmear (Ron G.), a “big city Afro Jew” who swerves off the road in order to avoid hitting a cow and must then try to pay for repairs to his VW bus by dealing in margarine, a product banned in the conservative Midwestern burgh.

Slumdog Dance Crew

For the past three years, San Francisco-based filmmaker Alvin Shen has been shooting weddings and music videos with company partner Brian Schwab under the moniker HD Video Inc. He's also working on his M.A. in Fine Arts in Producing at the Academy of Art and fundraising to complete an intriguing documentary called Kenya Boys.

A Great-Great George Clooney Tale

To all George Clooney fans, consider this: had a certain Nicholas Clooney not been forced to leave Ireland for the United States in 1847, because he was worth a mere two pounds and two shillings, there might not be a George Clooney. Or, perhaps a variation of the dapper leading man would have risen through the BBC ranks rather than those of NBC.

Absent Father Letters Continue to Roll In

It really is one of the more remarkable sections you will find on any current documentary film website. Titled, simply, “Write Your Father,” it encourages viewers of the documentary Absent to share what they want to say to their departed, estranged dads.

Former Fleet Street Journo Debuts Newspaper Comedy

Although the title of Tony Flood's newsroom comedy script is Hacking It, the movie is not about the recent scandal that shuttered London's scandalous News of the World and, presumably, led Rupert Murdoch to take to Twitter in this new year to try and repair his PR image. Rather, this group of UK journalists gain legitimate access to a deathbed confession, but then make a total mess of the resulting scoop.