The second instalment of Cinetic Media’s Viral: A Film Industry Conversation took place on May 21 called What Happens to Film Festivals after Covid-19? with Eugene Hernandez (Director, New York Film Festival); Tabitha Jackson (Director, Sundance Film Festival); and Carlo Chatrian (Director, Berlinale) with moderator John Sloss (Principle, Cinetic Media) regarding the film festival circuit now […]
Friday, May 4th – 9pm @ The Revue Cinema The images and content on social media are censored based on more relative decisions than one may think. Who is behind what is considered “inappropriate”? Silicon Valley outsources hundreds of anonymous “digital janitors” in Manila who screen tens of thousands of posts while using their often […]
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Paramount Pictures announced today it will release the follow-up to AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, former Vice President Al Gore’s two-time Academy Award-winning landmark documentary about the world’s climate crisis. From Participant Media, and directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, the sequel follows Gore as he continues his decades long fight to build […]
Screening Times: Thurs, Jan 28 @ 11:59pm Sat, January 30 @ 6pm Writer and director Danny Perez returns to the Sundance Film Festival (his last feature, ODDSAC, played the Festival in 2010) with a new exercise in visual madness, further cementing his spot as a purveyor of demented imagery and unrelenting chaos. – 2016 Sundance […]
The 2016 Sundance Film Festival will be taking place from January 21 – 31 in Park City, Utah as always. They have announced all the films that will be screening during the 10 day smorgisbord of independent film in the many different categories and programs. Their will be several World Premieres in the Feature and […]
First Festival Screening – July 21, 2015 @ 7 PM, Toby Theater Last Festival Screening – July 23, 2015 @ 1:30 PM, DeBoest Theater A separate couple meet again after ten years when we found the body of their missing son. During their forced reunion, they both handle the death of their child in their […]
by alan gordon for FILMbutton Best of Enemies promises much: Two great wits and standard bearers for the opposing life/political philosophies of mid-20th century America – Gore Vidal on the Left, William F. Buckley on the Right – were, for various nefarious broadcasting purposes, thrown together on abc news television screens to comment on the […]
Festival Screening – Saturday, July 18, 2015 @ 7:00 PM (Director’s Guild of America) DGA 1 THE SUMMER OF SANGAILE is arguably one of the year’s most visually stunning films. It also happens to be one of the most romantic. Set against the bright summer skies of Lithuania’s countryside, the story begins with a chance […]
Last Festival Screening July 17, 2015 @ 5:00 PM (Director’s Guild of America) DGA 2 A typical online flirtation between two strangers developed into shocking international intrigue. Sophie Deraspe’s gripping Sundance hit follows the virtual romance between Sandra, a journalist from Montreal, and a Syrian girl named Amina whose blog “A Gay Girl in Damascus” […]
Festival Screening – Wednesday, July 15, 2015 @ 9:35 PM Concordia Hall Theatre The Hallow follows a family (Mom and conservationist Dad, plus baby on board), who take up residence in a woodland cottage. These outsiders immediately get the usual cold shoulder and dire warnings from the locals, and Dad further rubs the townsfolk the […]
