Celebrating the 'Thoreau of the American West'

The sentence at the top of the Facebook page for Wrenched tantalizingly summarizes its subject. It reads: 'How Edward Abbey lit the flame of environmental activism and gave the movement its soul.'

UNC Alum Comes Home for Beautiful Q&A

When Meredith Edwards graduated from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington in 2007, there was not yet an Indiegogo or Kickstarter. The crowd-funding platforms would follow, respectively, one and two years later and it is thanks to the former that Edwards was able to make her directorial debut.

A Manchester Premiere Selfie

From across the pond tonight, an Oscar selfie homage has been tweeted to the hostess with the Samsung most-est. And regardless of whether Ellen DeGeneres directly responds, the snapshot is a wonderful reminder of the joy that typically accompanies a cast-and-crew premiere like the one at Manchester's Cornerhouse for 27, Memory Lane.

Spotlighting Hollywood's First Animal Activist

Her name was Nell Shipman. And thanks to the generosity of the Kickstarter community, this Canadian's remarkable story will soon be retold, documentary-style.

Mick and the Volcano

This is the fifth time Mick Kalber has held a premiere event at the Palace Theatre in Hilo, Hawaii.