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March 2008


Racing Against the Clock

news in brief

Industry News 3/08
The race to build a major production studio is on, VT hosts the Women's Film Festival and the Green Mountain Film Festival, four visionaries receive Image Awards for their contributions to regional film, and more...

profiles


Garden Girl's city chickens

Think Spring
Patti Moreno has another persona as “Garden Girl” on her website devoted to urban sustainable living.  Now she has two seasons to look forward to -- spring in the garden and hosting Farmer’s Almanac TV.

watch it...  What is urban sustainable living?  Find out here.

Award Season on Campus
Boston University’s Redstone Film Festival celebrates top student work at screening and awards ceremony.

q & a

Owning Our Ancestors
Katrina Browne investigates her Rhode Island family’s role in the slave trade in Traces of the Trade:  A Story from the Deep North.

Wizards of Gore
Emerson alum Jeremy Kasten opens this month’s Boston Underground Film Festival with his re-make of The Wizard of Gore.

watch it...  View the Wizard of Gore trailer here.

first person


My Mexican Shiva

A South-of-the-Border Search for Jewish Identity
Amherst professor, fiction writer, and film enthusiast Ilan Stavans comments on the adaptation of one of his novellas into a feature film, screening this month at the Hartford Jewish Film Festival.