Festivals

Freedom can be attacked by regulation, medication and tanks. These films explored each of those methods

Three films chosen for this year’s Anthem Libertarian Film Festival were created in Iran. Film festival director Jo Ann Skousen said how glad she was to have these submissions, given the risks filmmakers took making the films.

It takes a long time to perfect a film. Last year, the producers of No Safe Spaces brought it to the Anthem Film Festival to get feedback on their work-in-progress. This year, they were back at Anthem with a “95% done version.” But, as true creatives, they were still open to suggestions for improvements. Not many improvements will likely be needed, as the film won the Anthem Grand Prize for director Justin Folk and producer Mark Joseph.

Individuality, accountability and choice are themes of the Anthem Libertarian Film Festival, but, they have cowboys, vampires and Penn Jillette, too.

Kevin and Sam Sorbo talk about their new film which will show at Anthem Film Festival. “Miracle in East Texas” was inspired by one of the most improbable true stories ever, the tale of two con men at the dawn of the Great Depression, and the biggest oil strike in the history of the world.

Where some people go to see old pictures and others go to take new pictures.

If people stopped owning cars, what would our cities, currently configured with huge parking structures and optimized for rush hour traffic, evolve into?

In an era when every third film out of Hollywood is a remake, seeing a new take on an old story is refreshing. The Highwaymen, by Netflix, approaches a tale we have probably seen before, the story of Bonnie and Clyde, from a new angle — the perspective of the …

Before seeing these films, I thought I knew all about Johnny Cash. I was wrong. And, I knew nothing about the music at Bluebird Cafe, and that made me sad.

This drama by filmmaker Josephine Mackerras won two awards at the SXSW 2019 film festival.