January 2008

By Lynn Tryba Some people think the Hurricane Katrina story has been told already.  Lucia Small and Ed Pincus’s latest documentary, The Axe in the Attic, screening this month at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in Boston, reminds viewers the story is far from over.

By Scott R. Caseley Andy Blood of the CT-based Wolf Gang Pictures lets soldiers tell their story of Iraq in My War, My Story.

By David Pierotti After almost a decade, Concord, NH welcomes a new independent theatre to Main Street.

By Garret C. Maynard In part II of a two-part series, Garret C. Maynard offers tips for making your film in partnership with a corporate expatriate who has also helped finance it.

By Cameron Bonsey Boston Society of Film Critics will host its first-ever awards ceremony, Sundance welcomes another crew of New England filmmakers, and Lowe Road Productions starts closing in on Romeo, thanks to collaboration between filmmaker moms... A report of news & happenings in the local industry for January 2008.

By Cameron Bonsey Television producer and Maine blogger Cameron Bonsey shares his experience as a judge and panelist at Bangor, ME’s first-ever film festival.

By Scott R. Caseley Screening this month at Sundance, New England natives Wyatt Garfield and Ed Yonaitis's narrative short, The Execution of Solomon Harris, focuses on one man’s dilemma when a power failure occurs while a prisoner is in the electric chair.

By Lynn Tryba In The Jesus Guy, first-time documentarian Sean Tracey depicts a man who looks and talks like Jesus.  But does he do what Jesus would do?