Tuesday, May 13, 2014

A Colossal Con Man

One newspaper headline read: "Most Amazing and Fantastic Story of the Year." The year was 1938; the story was the unmasking of a con man posing as Dr. Frank Donald Coster; and all these years later, the forgotten, fantastic story is being retold in the documentary Self Made: The American Dreams of Philip Musica.

Saturday, May 10, 2014

A Wicked Version of The Bermuda Triangle

It's known as The Bridgewater Triangle. It spans about 200 square miles in southeast Massachusetts and on Friday, May 16th, the community of Bridgewater will play host to a feature documentary about it, called simply The Bridgewater Triangle.

Saturday, May 3, 2014

A Big Summer for America's Last Wooden Whaleship

Tethered to maritime museum Mystic Seaport, the Charles W. Morgan was a ship with a story waiting to be retold. Enter Connecticut filmmaker Bailey Pryor.

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.