November 2003

By Ellen Mills The Red Sox may have lost, but Patricia Alvarado’s films about the team are definite winners. Here she discusses her award-winning film about draftee Manny Delcarman and her portrait of Red Sox legend Luis Tiant.

By Mattias Frey Professor and filmmaker Larry Benaquist talks about his new documentary "Here Am I, Send Me: The Journey of Jonathan Daniels," the state of academic film studies, and why every movie is a miracle.

By Chris Cooke Chris Cooke reviews "Displaced! A Miracle at St. Ottilien," screening at the Boston Jewish Film Festival this month.

By Chris Cooke Reality TV takes over, Adam Sandler's "The Mayor," and more... A report of news & events in the local industry for November 2003.

By Genevieve Butler How filmmaker Dan Akiba turned a wedding video into much more in "My Brother’s Wedding," screening at the Boston Jewish Film Festival this month.

By Randy Steinberg Boston Screenwriter Randy Steinberg reports on his experience at this year’s 10th Annual Austin Film Festival.

By Kevin McCarthy Filmmaker Richard Day talks about his hilarious drag extravaganza "Girls Will Be Girls," screening this month at the EROS Film Festival.

By Michele Meek In its 25th year, the IFP Market offered a tamer, more mature event for screening both completed and in-progress documentaries, narratives and shorts to industry attendees.  Also, read a report about the annual Hamptons International Film Festival.

By Dan McCallum Filmmaker Deborah Scranton van Paassen enables the small town veterans of Goshen, NH to communicate their untold World War II stories in the documentary "Stories from Silence: Witness to War," screening at the Somewhat North of Boston Film Festival this month.