Archive for the 'Film Festival' Category

My Daughter the Terrorist [Documentary]

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Perhaps a little heavy for a 10 AM screening, with an occasional missing head and dead body, I still enjoyed My Daughter the Terrorist. It’s about the civil war in Sri-Lanka - a war I didn’t know was happening. Labeled by the world as terrorists, the film follows two female best friends in the guerrilla [...]

Coffee and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

Monday, April 7th, 2008

“Full Frame is my Holy Grail, more than Sundance,” I overhear from a guy sitting behind me before a film starts.
“Did you go to Sundance?”
“No.”
While I’m in the same position as Mr. King Arthur behind me, having not attended Sundance to compare, I agree with his feelings - Full Frame is great. A lot of [...]

Full Frame Take Two

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

I raved about the great experience I had last year at the Full Frame Film Festival in Durham, so it’s no surprise that I am returning this year with a few classmates who felt the same way.
I’m leaving tomorrow, the day the festival starts. Armed with a student pass, I plan to see as many [...]

Full Frame Film Festival

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Being that our second semester was mainly dominated by documentaries, The Film School supports us in going to the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, which ran from April 12-15 in Durham, NC. I know this post is slightly overdue, but I was waiting for the Festival to post the winners on their website. They still [...]

26th Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival

Friday, May 11th, 2007

I don’t really plan on announcing every new film festival that has an open entry call (for every festival you could want to enter visit www.withoutabox.com), but I just got an e-mail from the CLGIFF announcing that right now the Early Bird entry deadline (May 15) has no entry fee. Any festival without an entry [...]