Sunday, September 13, 2015

Innocent NYPD Detectives Doc Wins Another Prize

At the close of this year's DOCUTAH International Documentary Film Festival in St. George, Utah, a big winner at the Saturday Raven Awards ceremony was Once Upon a Crime: The Borrelli-Davis Conspiracy, collecting awards for Best Feature Film and Best Editing. The movie tell the story of two retired NYPD detectives falsely convicted and imprisoned for a Colorado murder.

Monday, September 7, 2015

Soca Music Star Segues to the Silver Screen

Just how long has it been since director Todd Kessler was last on the PR forefront? Well, on his IMDb page, the "official site" link currently points to a mothballed Myspace page.

Sunday, August 30, 2015

Another Strand of Miami Beach Jewish Life

When Aaron Davidson was in Grade 11, he won first place in the Jewish Museum of Florida's "South of Fifth, Now & Then" competition for his short about Goldstein's Kosher Butcher Shop. This afternoon, he will be back at the Florida International University-affiliated institution in Miami Beach to sneak preview his latest film, What's My Line.

Galactic Film Festival Pulls Into Los Feliz

Hollywood Blvd. ends - or begins - depending on which way the career flow is ebbing, at Hillhurst Ave. in Los Angeles' Los Feliz district. At this five-way intersection is also Virgil Ave., Sunset Blvd. and Sunset Dr., on the corner of which sits the historic Vista Theater.

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Tracking Cambodia's Evolving Cyber-Democracy

After editing a documentary about 1950s-era American life and working as the cinematographer on a pair of projects covering sex workers and a real-life slice of Orange Is The Black, Ellen Grant has directed her first feature project.