Typewriter Doc Nearing Its Final Keystrokes

It began when two LA filmmakers, Gary Nicholson and Christopher Lockett, read the May 31st, 2010 Wired.com article "Meet the Last Generation of Typewriter Repairmen.” Two years later, the pair have interviewed three such practitioners of the nearly lost art and are close to wrapping their documentary The Typewriter (In the 21st Century).

Canadian Holocaust Film Comes to San Diego

Tonight at the 2012 San Diego Jewish Film Festival, the remarkable Holocaust documentary I Will Not Die finally gets a U.S. premiere.

Huggy Bear Narrates Look Back at Vegas High School Riots

Antonio Fargas, who played Huggy Bear on the 1975-79 ABC-TV series Starsky and Hutch, has continued to do all sorts of acting. Everything from Flyguy in the 1988 Keenan Ivory Wayans send-up I'm Gonna Git You Sucka to a recurring role with Everybody Hates Chris.

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 of Butterfield.

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.