March 1998

What started as a small festival in Northhampton, MA back in 1976 has since blossomed into a competitive showcase for regional independent film. The festival’s goals, however, remain the same – to give audiences access to a diverse body of work by independent and student video and filmmakers, and to provide artists with an opportunity for audience, media and industry exposure.

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You dream of something different than your 9-5, punch-the-clock job. You want to open your own restaurant, write that novel, drive across country in a VW van, become a singer, or perhaps, make movies.

Make movies! What? Are we crazy?

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In 1994, Somerville filmmaker Laurel Chiten vowed never to make another film again. That was until she came across a book entitled “The Jew In The Lotus.”

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The locally-produced independent feature film "Family Trees" is headed to its second important market screening. This month, it will be shown in the Independents Showcase program at the 48th Berlin Film Festival and Market in Germany.

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In a way, this is nothing new. It’s the familiar tale of a woman with the wrong man, with Mr. Right standing by. But mostly this film is not a romance; it’s the portrayal of a setting. It’s the struggle of a neighborhood turned schizophrenic – home to both briefcase-toting urbanites and old world Mafiosos – that we know as the North End.

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Everybody in L.A. is waiting... and what they’re waiting for is The Call, the one that will change their life. It’s The Call about The Deal or The Job or The Part or whatever, and much of what you do when you’re not doing anything constructive is trying to figure out how to wait without feeling like you’re not doing anything constructive. There are a lot of bars in L.A., not incidentally, and this is a story about waiting, in a bar, for The Call about The Deal that will change the life of our old friend Ruben.

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Flora Cohen is the writer, producer and director of Lemonade in October, winner of the 23rd annual New England Film and Video Festival's award for Best Experimental Narrative. Ms. Cohen studied film at NYU before beginning her career as an independent filmmaker. Her company Tough Love Films, is based in Florence, Massachusetts. BFVF's Joshua Sandler interviewed Ms. Cohen for Intervisions.

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