“Jodie, a single 36-year-old travel nurse, compares herself to the world around her. While attending a Guns N’ Roses concert, she thinks she may have met her potential match — until he ghosts on her the next day.” Directors Colby Holt & Sam Probst on PIG HAG which screens at the 2019 edition of South […]
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South By Southwest 2019 Interview – WELL GROOMED director Rebecca Stern
“WELL GROOMED is about the world of competitive creative dog grooming and the women who groom their poodles into fantastic technicolor sculptures. It is an escape from the everyday stress into the passion of a niche community of women spending quality time with their animals.” Congratulations on WELL GROOMED playing at SxSW this year! Is […]
SxSW 2019 Interview – ONE MAN DIES A MILLION TIMES diretor Jessica Oreck
“I like to describe ONE MAN DIES A MILLION TIMES as part documentary, part legend and part oral history. It’s the true story of one of the world’s most important seed banks and the heroism of the botanists who worked there throughout the Siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944. But the whole film takes […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – LA MALA NOCHE director Gabriela Calvache
“A brave and elegant woman prostitutes herself to meet her pimp, but an unexpected event forces her to make a very dangerous decision. A chain of events leads to a point of no return.” Director Gabriela Calvache on LA MALA NOCHE which screens at the 2019 edition of SxSW Film. Congratulations on your film playing […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – BREAKTHROUGH director Bill Haney
“Rebel. Pioneer. Cancer survivor. Nobel Prize winner. Musician. Texan. Jim Allison. Breakthrough is the astounding, inspiring, true story of Jim Allison’s stubborn, visionary and extraordinarily successful quest to find a cure for cancer.” Director Bill Haney on BREAKTHROUGH which screens at the 2019 edition of SxSW Film. I hear you are back at SxSW this […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – MOTHER’S LITTLE HELPERS director Kestrin Pantera
“MOTHER’S LITTLE HELPERS is a funny dysfunctional family drama, inspired by true events, about how family ties can twist and tear you– and though they may not break you, they might send you to jail. It’s a rock and rollin’, shit-kicking, dope smokin’, party havin’ tale about what happens when a group of adult siblings […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – OTHER SIDE OF THE BOX director Caleb J. Phillips
“Literally, it’s just about two people opening a box, and their lives going to hell. They become trapped in a bizarre, rule based, home invasion. It’s about fear of the unknown, and how little it takes to be make us feel unsafe.” Director Caleb J. Phillips on OTHER SIDE OF THE BOX which screens in […]
SxSW 2019 Interview – JEZEBEL director Numa Perrier
“JEZEBEL is my true story of when I lived with my older sister, her boyfriend, her son and my brother in a studio apartment in Las Vegas. My sister worked from home as a phone sex operator so when it was time for her shift we’d either have to leave or put our Walkman on…it […]
SxSW 2019 Interview – TALES FROM THE LODGE director Abigail Blackmore
“TALES FROM THE LODGE is an amusing creeper about five friends reuniting at an isolated lodge. One of them has brought his new girlfriend along and this causes arguments within the group which leads to the girlfriend storming off into the woods. When she returns an hour later she has some very bad news for […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – AUTONOMY director Alex Horwitz
“AUTONOMY is a documentary about the future. It’s the first deep-dive documentary about self-driving cars — how they work, how they don’t work, and how they stand to change society. It will satisfy the tech nerds, to be sure, but I think we made something that will appeal to everyone. It’s about trust, control, fear, […]
Blu Ray Review – GREEN BOOK, out on Blu Ray on March 12th
GREEN BOOK is one of my favourite movies of 2018 and easily the best film I saw at last fall’s Toronto International Film Festival. I was there the moment the film premiered at last fall’s Toronto International Film Festival and even at the Press & Industry screening I could feel a complete shock-wave through the […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – SWEET STEEL director Will Goss
“It’s about a man who procrastinates on his suicide attempt because he doesn’t care for the taste of the gun in his mouth. The subject matter is admittedly grim, but I feel that we’ve found an approach to the story and characters that is equally sensitive and unique.” — Director Will Goss on SWEET STEEL […]
SxSW 2019 Interview – BECOMING LESLIE director Tracy Frazier
“BECOMING “LESLIE” tells the story of a cross-dressing vagabond from Florida who winds up becoming a cultural icon of all things weird in Austin, Texas. He was best known for shining a satirical light on police accountability with the treatment of the homeless population. At the heart, the documentary is a character portrait of a […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview — PORNO director Keola Racela
“The film is about five movie theater employees in a small Christian community who find a creepy old film reel in the basement. They watch it and think it’s pornography, but it turns out to be a devil movie that summons a succubus, who terrorized these virgins over the course of the night. “ Director […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – THE WALL OF MEXICO directors Magdalena Zyzak & Zachary Colter
“THE WALL OF MEXICO tells the story of a wealthy Mexican-American family who builds a wall around their property to keep poor white locals from stealing their artesian water. It’s an allegory that extends beyond current Mexican-American relations, mapping onto various human social hierarchies: political, socioeconomic, sexual, and so on.” I hear you are back […]