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RED CHEF REVIVAL was the winner of BEST FILM & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the October 2019 TV Web Series Festival in Toronto. Matthew Toffolo: What motivated you to make this film? Danny Berish: What motivated us to make this series was based on how embarrassingly little we knew about the indigenous culture and cuisine. 2. […]… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Danny Berish (RED CHEF REVIVAL TV Web Series) — Matthew Toffolo’s Summary

Matthew Toffolo: What motivated you to make this film? Christian Frosio: The theme of the song is a subject dear to me. During the recording music session, I started to write the storyboard of the video clip and to imagine the related scenes. It was a natural process. The idea was to reinforce the message […]… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Christian Frosio (OPEN THE WINDOW) — Matthew Toffolo’s Summary

Matthew Toffolo: What motivated you to make this film? Ashley Gerst: I was motivated by my relationship between my grandfather and myself. He passed away in 2013, and I wanted to do something to honor his memory and to help me find a way through my grief regarding his death. 2. From the idea to […]… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Ashley Gerst (THE SPIRIT SEAM) — Matthew Toffolo’s Summary

Sundance 2020 was a whirlwind experience, to say the least. Both Collin and I are still shaking off the cobwebs from the week spent in… via Sundance 2020 Wrap-Up — MovieBabble

Where were you the day you fell out of love with Taylor Swift? Was it when she dropped Red in 2012? After all, the follow-up… via How ‘Miss Americana’ Converted a Skeptic into a Swiftie — MovieBabble

(Cover Image & Source: The Story of Lassie (documentary photo) @ YouTube) …It all began in the year of 1859., with “The Half-brothers”, a short story of two half-brothers who are lost and dying in the snow, rescued by the female Rough Collie dog (also known as the Scottish shepherd dog), written by the British […]… Continue reading The Story of Lassie – The World´s Most Famous Dog — Libertas Nova

The title The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper sums up this nonfiction nicely. Rubenhold narrates the lives of Polly Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Kate Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly, from their birth to those fateful days in 1888. Along the way, she also explores Victorian society as… Continue reading The Five by Hallie Rubenhold review — Random Book Reviews Web

Our mission at SAW is to foster conversations about this thing we all love (or love to hate): film/TV. Many of our features are designed with you in mind. Your opinions, to be more to the point. You have ’em. We want to hear ’em. Question of the Day (QOTD) is exactly what it sounds […]… Continue reading Are Documentaries Considered Movies? — ScreenAge Wasteland

We’ll be updating them throughout the day. Here are the nominees: Best Feature A HIDDEN LIFE CLEMENCY THE FAREWELL MARRIAGE STORY UNCUT GEMS Best Director Robert Eggers – THE LIGHTHOUSE Alma Har’el – HONEY BOY Julius Onah – LUCE Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie – UNCUT GEMS Lorene Scafaria – HUSTLERS Best First Feature BOOKSMART THE […]… Continue reading Spirit Awards Announcing Winners — Awards Daily

“Maybe, said his brain and his upbringing, if you make enough tea and small talk, time reverses and all bad things are undone.” Louise Penny, Canadian, from Still Life Photo: Chi Chen via “Maybe, said his brain and his upbringing, if you make enough tea and small talk, time reverses and all bad things are undone.”… Continue reading “Maybe, said his brain and his upbringing, if you make enough tea and small talk, time reverses and all bad things are undone.” — Art of Quotation