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.

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.

From Pinewood Studios to Lone Pine, California

Next month, the Lone Pine Film Festival will celebrate its 25th silver anniversary. And there to document the California hamlet's long Hollywood legacy and crucial connections to the Western genre will be nascent British filmmaker John Jessup.

Mississippi Teacher Rolls Out Another Movie

Jimmy Lee, a one-man dynamo in Jackson, Mississippi, told an interviewer in 2008 that his stage play No Good Comes To Those Who Do Wrong was not based on personal experience. "I have a wild imagination," said Lee, dressed in white suit and blue kerchief for the "blue carpet" play premiere.