Independent Cinema

In Ari Taub's new film "79 Parts," premiered at this year's Soho Film Festival, we rediscover New York City of the 1970s before cell phones, Uber, and "If you see something say something."

'Creedmoria', a film by first-time writer/director Alicia Slimmer, made its SoCal premier at the Dances With Films Festival. It chronicles the efforts of sweet-sixteen Candy Cahill, played by Stef Dawson, to come of age in one of the most dysfunctional families in movie history. As I watched the film, I hoped, for Slimmer’s sake, that this movie wasn’t too autobiographical. It turns out that it was.

I just hope to raise the bar in terms of how people respond to independent film, in particular black independent film.

To gain a friend is golden; to lose a friend is heartbreaking.

The statistics about PTSD are overwhelming. The numbers of vets who cannot deal and commit suicide are staggering.

A plethora of impulsive passions and rancorous violence, which can only bring forth an ending besmirched with tragedy.

Every day I went to work wanting to make this the best film that it could possibly be.

I was making bad action films in Asia. Not that I don’t love Asia. I do. That was the best part of it, seeing other countries.

Whit Stillman's winning romantic comedy about politics set in late Cold War Spain.

Bridgend is hauntingly beautiful and at the same time like a nature built prison.