Archive for the 'Film' Category

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Emerging talent just isn’t confined to narrative and documentary feature films. As the Slamdance Film Festival celebrates its 15th anniversary in 2009, 86 short films in four different competition categories - documentary, narrative/experimental, animation and music video, which is a new classification this year - will be showcased and be eligible for a […]

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A look at bondage websites, the story of an oil industry diver-turned-filmmaker in the heart of Fallujah, a tale of two Crow Indian brothers, and a behind-the-scenes chronicle of a 12-year-old Texas girl who made a feature-length zombie film are among the documentaries that will be screened at next month’s Slamdance film festival.
In fact, in […]

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The biopic genre often is not easily executed. A director often shuffles between the demands of scrupulous historical accuracy and the need for a marketable, viable vehicle of entertainment in telling a story that must reflect the appropriate themes and epiphanies of that individual’s life. The film’s leading star must be careful to shade the […]