From Pinewood Studios to Lone Pine, California

Next month, the Lone Pine Film Festival will celebrate its 25th silver anniversary. And there to document the California hamlet's long Hollywood legacy and crucial connections to the Western genre will be nascent British filmmaker John Jessup.

Mississippi Teacher Rolls Out Another Movie

Jimmy Lee, a one-man dynamo in Jackson, Mississippi, told an interviewer in 2008 that his stage play No Good Comes To Those Who Do Wrong was not based on personal experience. "I have a wild imagination," said Lee, dressed in white suit and blue kerchief for the "blue carpet" play premiere.

One More Q&A for Alt-Weekly Reporter Billy Manes

Billy Manes' Orlando Weekly bio ends with the rhetorical, 'In his spare time, he likes listening to Duran Duran with his three miniature pinschers. Don’t you?'

A Close-Knit Band of Movie Lovers

The genealogy of this documentary begins with an interrupted conversation in LA's San Fernando Valley in the fall of 2010 and continues Friday, August 22nd with a premiere screening at a film festival in Oaklyn, New Jersey.

Vetting the Capture of a Mexican Drug Cartel Leader

Charlie Minn is absolutely right when he says that he is "relentless." He's made ten documentaries in the past four years and the latest opens Friday August 22nd in Tempe, Arizona for a limited run.