Have Brain Tumor, Will Document

What do you do if you're diagnosed with a brain tumor? If you're Wisconsin filmmaker Dave Erickson, you soldier on from that moment in 2007 and eventually make a sometimes comical documentary about the topic.

An American Cellist, a Spanish Trail and Three Dozen Very Special Concerts

In terms of follow-the-production websites, the one for documentary Walk to Fisterra: A Cellist's Journey is one of the best I've recently seen.

Father, Son Wrap Faith-Based Granpda Movie

Last week, retired teacher Greg Lammiman and his son Dallas finished filming their feature comedy My Grandpa Detective. Shot in various Alberta small towns, the movie is slated for DVD release and a local premiere at the beginning of next year.

Seattle Spotlights Challenges Faced by Homeless 'Refugees'

On Monday, May 19th, at a sold-out Seattle International Film Festival screening and online, free, starting at 7 p.m. PT, four animated shorts about the complicated issue of American homelessness will be premiered.

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.