Saturday, September 20, 2014

Campaigning to Protect a Borneo Rainforest

Tonight in Oxford, Ross Harrison hosted the first UK screening of his half-hour documentary Sunset Over Selungo, ahead of the movie's online release September 22nd.

Saturday, September 13, 2014

The Original Gidget Parties in Coronado

Even though Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story is several years old, it's responsible for one of this weekend's coolest screening events.

Quidditch Doc Inaugurates Palm Springs 'First Features' Series

The festival odyssey for former UCLA graduate film student Farzad Sangari began this summer in Washington, D.C. With some degree of prestige, as the Saturday June 19th screening debut of Mudbloods was hosted by the AFI Docs festival.

Extreme Poverty Doc Previews in the Lands of Lincoln, Disney

Every three seconds, someone, somewhere dies of extreme hunger and poverty. Usually a child; very often, tipped over by the symptoms of a preventable disease.

Saturday, September 6, 2014

The Little Ohio Movie Theater That Could

It wasn't just the rise and fall of 20th century socialism that was on display at the recent Telluride Film Festival. Preceding Friday and Sunday screenings of Peter von Bagh's political doc Socialism was a shorter look at the rise and fall of traditional film projection.