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The Reeler TV Teaser

During the Tribeca Film Festival (April 25 – May 5) we will be producing daily online videos for TheReeler.com. The series is called ReelerTV and…

Movie Recommendations (not for the faint of heart)

Oksana Akinshina in “Lilya 4-Ever” (2002) I haven’t had much time to write about recent films watched – but there are a few that I…

Website for “All God’s Children”

Over the last two weeks I’ve been tinkering around on a website for our recently finished feature-length documentary “All God’s Children”. It’s still a work…

Instant Movies on Netflix

I can’t deny it: I love Netflix. Having become a member in the early days of DVD rentals it was a heaven-sent service when the…

… For Cultural Purpose Only

“No Commercial Value — For Cultural Purpose Only” That’s what you’re supposed to write on the outside of your parcel when you mail your screener…

This American Life… ON TV!!!

Tonight the TV version of the fantastic NPR radio show “This American Life” premieres on Showtime. Each episode of the weekly radio show has a…

TV Anchor Sexually Abused

This week CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 aired a show about Headline News anchor Thomas Roberts who was sexually abused as a teen by a Catholic…

DVD Cover Design

Another milestone – over the weekend we designed the DVD cover and label for “All God’s Children”. We hope that soon we’ll be able to…

Dinner with a Sister

Sunday night we had dinner with one of the “Five Sisters”: Beth Weitzel – and her husband, two kids and their spouses. They were all…

FINISHED!!!

Color correcting at Glue Edit & Designfeaturing Rich Darr in All God’s Children It’s been a little over three years since we conducted the first…

Fiscal Sponsorship!

The International Documentary Association [ida] came through for us again:All’s Well and Fair and Five Sisters have both been accepted for fiscal sponsorship! Yay! (Actually…

All’s Well and Fair

It finally happened – I officially changed the name of my long-term documentary project. In 1996 when I filmed the first part of this portrait…

It’s about to happen: Color Correction…

Yesterday Scott dropped off the hard drive with all of the media for “All God’s Children” to begin the process of color correction (getting all…

Vintage Guitars in Brooklyn

Thimo and a 1940s Gibson at Retrofret Good friend and talented singer/songwriter Thimo Sander is visiting for a few days from Berlin. While checking out…

Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench My last movie recommendation before the Independent Spirit Awards and the Academy Awards. <p class=”MsoNormal”><span style=”font-family:Verdana;”><a href=”http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0264236/”>Richard Eyre’s</a> “Notes on…

“Pan’s Labyrinth” – “El Laberinto del Fauno” (2006)

Doug Jones and Ivana Baquero Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth” is a moral fairy tale for adults about changing from being selfish to selfless and…