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To Catch a Dollar: Gayle Ferraro Banks on America

With job creation a constant topic in the news, there’s no better time to see Gayle Ferraro’s powerful documentary about microfinance, To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America. The term...

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Focus Forward: Helping documentary moviemakers share their visions by Kyle...

With its impressive pedigree and thought-provoking line-up, Focus Forward is quickly emerging as one of the best online documentary showcases around. Presented by GE and strategic media company...

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Lee Hirsch Rallies for Peace with Bully by Kyle Rupprecht

With over 10 million school kids being bullied, there has never been a better time to watch Lee Hirsch’s powerful, moving documentary, Bully. The movie follows the lives of five students who face...

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Cinequest 2013: 4k technology and an international lineup make the Bay Area...

Midnight’s Children. Now in its 23rd year, Cinequest Film Festival (CQFF) is devoted to discovering exciting up-and-coming moviemakers, as well as showcasing the most dynamic films, artists and...

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Top 10 Cities to Be a Moviemaker: 2013

Let’s assume for the moment that this June you’re graduating from film school in, say, New York. You know some moviemakers in Greenpoint who’ll help you work on your projects, and vice versa. But rent,...

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Love and the Bomb: Sally Potter Returns to 1960s London with Ginger & Rosa

From Orlando, her audacious breakthrough film (based on a Virginia Woolf novel many considered unadaptable) to the stylistically polarizing Yes (in which most of the dialogue was written in rhyming...

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The Silent Revolution: In the footsteps of The Artist, Pablo Berger’s...

Spanish writer-director Pablo Berger made a name for himself with his offbeat 2003 debut feature, Torremolinos 73, about an unlikely married couple who become the director and star of adult films—and...

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Festivals: Top 50 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee 2013

Everyone knows about Sundance, Cannes, Toronto, SXSW, Rotterdam, Venice and Berlin. But depending on what source you reference, the tally of film festivals worldwide numbers between 4,000 and 6,000. To...

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It’s A Disaster: “Arrested Development’s” David Cross discusses his...

Actor-writer-comedian David Cross probably needs no introduction. He’s worked on two of the funniest and most influential comedy series of the past 20 years: the HBO cult fave “Mr. Show with Bob and...

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Blackmailing Prostitutes: Antonio Campos explores the disturbing mind of...

Judging by his two features—2008’s unsettling Afterschool (about a teenager who accidentally films the deaths of two students) and now Simon Killer—it’s clear writer-director Antonio Campos is...

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Vimeo Branded Channel Brings Together Art and Business by Kyle Rupprecht

One of the world’s largest creative networks, video-sharing site Vimeo has just launched an exciting new product: the Brand Creative Fund. The Vimeo branded channel enables brands to develop...

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Kon-Tiki Redux: Norwegian’s Oscar-nominated film arrives

Kon-Tiki is a new, much buzzed-about film from Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg, which depicts a historic expedition across the Pacific Ocean by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl. KON-TIKI Trailer...

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Some Girl(s): Neil LaBute launches his SXSW-vetted film on Vimeo by Kyle...

Independent production company Leeden Media has announced that it is eschewing traditional distribution offers for its new comedy-drama Some Girl(s) (which premiered at SXSW this year), and will...

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Venus and Serena: A doc about two of the best tennis players in history goes...

Co-directors Michelle Major and Maiken Baird.Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures. Superstars of the tennis world, Venus and Serena Williams have been winning championships for over a decade, showing...

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Ray Harryhausen: The Golden Voyage

Visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen passed away last week at the age of 92. Long before the days of CGI and motion capture, movie monsters were sculpted by hand and brought to life via stop-motion...

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Precious to Violet & Daisy: Oscar-winning Screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher’s...

In the audacious new comedy-thriller Violet & Daisy, Saoirse Ronan and Alexis Bledel star as a pair of teenage assassins (and best friends), whose latest target—a sad sack loner (played by James...

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A Disturbing Evening: Inside Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio

While there, Gilderoy encounters a culture clash with the Italian crew, and, more disturbingly, finds the events of the film he’s working on starting to bleed into real-life, as his psyche grows...

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Sloppy Seconds: The Best (and Worst) Horror Remakes

Horror movie remakes are a dime a dozen these days, with retreads of such genre classics as Poltergeist, Hellraiser and Suspiria currently in production. The latest to hit theaters is Maniac, an update...

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Re-Vamping: Ten Unique Takes on Vampire Mythology

In celebration of the release of “Byzantium” this Friday, we’ve come up with a selection of ten films that put wonderfully unique spins on vampire mythology. It’s impossible to escape vampires these...

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The Way, Way Back: Coming of Age in Hollywood

Young adulthood has long represented a rich source of inspiration for moviemakers. This confusing and confused life stage offers moviemakers ample room for gross-out comedy, tender drama, tragedy and...

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