Saturday, August 9, 2014

Documentary Shines a Light on Unsolved Milwaukee Murder

Five years later, the horrific October 2009 murder of Milwaukee 19-year-old Ashleigh Love remains unsolved.

Friday, August 1, 2014

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Wyoming School Hostage Drama Comes Full Circle

In 1986, David Young, a former town marshal, together with his wife, took 154 students and teachers hostage at an elementary school in Cokeville, Wyoming. Miraculously, it ended without the loss of innocent life; only the death of the deranged couple.

Saturday, July 19, 2014

New Zealand Doctor Premieres Ambitious Trilogy

As one might expect for a New Zealand family physician with a sideline cinema practice, Peter Jackson is cited as a filmmaking influence. But so too, on David Whittet's handsome honor roll page, are Franco Zeffirelli, David Lean and Steven Spielberg, alongside a few other broader muses like Charles Dickens and Steve Jobs.

Saturday, July 12, 2014

A Suburban St. Louis Mass Shooting, Revisited

It's going to be an emotional afternoon at the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase. Elegy to Connie, a one-hour stop-motion animated hybrid documentary about a 2008 mass shooting at the Kirkwood City Council, is scheduled to locally premiere Sunday July 13th at 2:30 p.m. with the filmmaker in attendance.