William Burke “Skeets” Miller, a journalist with the Louisville Courier-Journal, won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Floyd Collins, the central Kentucky cave explorer who was trapped in the winter of 1925 some 55 feet below ground in Sand Cave, part of the Mammoth Cave Complex. But you can bet it was a bittersweet honor, as the man Miller chronicled and several times visited during the ordeal died 14 days after first getting ensnared January 31st.
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Friday, February 20, 2015
Locked in a Basement with a Disney Classic
For 20 years, BravoFACT has been funding aspiring Canadian filmmakers in all sorts of different ways. Earlier this month, at the 2015 Victoria Film Festival, the broadcaster offshoot parsed out more substantial support.
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Green Bay Packers Comedy Has Been Percolating Since Super Bowl XXXVIII
First, it was Brett Favre in There's Something About Mary. This summer, if all goes according to Wisconsin indie fundraising and shooting plans, it will be Aaron Rodgers' turn to cameo in another romantic comedy, The Sixty Yard Line.
Saturday, February 7, 2015
Grandpa, The Movie Star
Tonight, in Liberal, Kansas, writer-director Joel Trujillo will premiere his ninth feature. But this one is extra special.
Sunday, February 1, 2015
A Filmmaker Guided by His God
One definition of the word “canon” reads as follows: the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired. So it seems apt that the maker of the genuine and inspired grassroots faith-based indie drama A Town Without Faith makes his home in Canon City, Colorado.
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