Being that our second semester was mainly dominated by documentaries, The Film School supports us in going to the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, which ran from April 12-15 in Durham, NC. I know this post is slightly overdue, but I was waiting for the Festival...
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26th Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival
I don't really plan on announcing every new film festival that has an open entry call (for every festival you could want to enter visit www.withoutabox.com), but I just got an e-mail from the CLGIFF announcing that right now the Early Bird entry deadline (May 15) has...
Full Frame Take Two
I raved about the great experience I had last year at the Full Frame Film Festival in Durham, so it's no surprise that I am returning this year with a few classmates who felt the same way. I'm leaving tomorrow, the day the festival starts. Armed with a student pass, I...
Coffee and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
"Full Frame is my Holy Grail, more than Sundance," I overhear from a guy sitting behind me before a film starts. "Did you go to Sundance?" "No." While I'm in the same position as Mr. King Arthur behind me, having not attended Sundance to compare, I agree with his...
My Daughter the Terrorist [Documentary]
Perhaps a little heavy for a 10 AM screening, with an occasional missing head and dead body, I still enjoyed My Daughter the Terrorist. It's about the civil war in Sri-Lanka - a war I didn't know was happening. Labeled by the world as terrorists, the film follows two...
Bomb It [Documentary]
The program said this is the most comprehensive documentary on graffiti art. It's probably true. Bomb It covers graffiti around the world, from LA to New York, San Paolo to Japan. And each place has their own uniqueness and style. The fast paced style of the film...
Bigger, Stronger, Faster [Documentary]
It's a film about body building, Hulk Hogan, steroids, Sylvester Stallone, and the male image in America. Yes, men have image problems too, Jean Kilbourne. The steroids part was what got me into the the theater, after experiencing the magic ((By magic, I mean keeping...
The Blacklist [Documentary]
If you need an example of a talking head doc, this is it. For an HBO film ((I did learn that it wasn't produced by HBO, only acquired prior to Sundance)), I was kind of let down, but later it made sense. The Blacklist is a series of interviews of some of the...
Blogging for Toronto
Bad news: I went down from #3 to #too-far-for-me-to-count on the Toronto International Film Festival blog list. Maybe I should start with the good news. Coffee and Celluloid is listed as one of the blogs for TIFF. I'm not sure if that's any sort of achievement to...