January 2008

interviews

The Execution of Solomon Harris

Morality and Mortality in One Long Shot
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.

Never-Ending Storm
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.

He sure looks like The Jesus Guy

Questions of Faith
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?

A Compulsion to Tell the Truth
Andy Blood of the CT-based Wolf Gang Pictures lets soldiers tell their story of Iraq in My War, My Story.

filmmaker's tool box

Corporate Expatriates: From Money to Movie
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.

reports from the field

Theatre Revival
After almost a decade, Concord, NH welcomes a new independent theater to Main Street.

The Inaugural Bangor Film Festival and 28-Eighty Film Shootout
Television producer and Maine blogger Cameron Bonsey shares his experience as a judge and panelist at Bangor, ME’s first-ever film festival.

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