December 2005

If you're a filmmaker, you're likely familiar with the 'hurry up and wait' phenomenon that plagues the production atmosphere. (Especially if you're a production assistant; come on, you don't actually enjoy crawling out of bed at 5 am to race to a location, dress the set, help the grips, and then sit around waiting forever for the 'magic hour,' do you?)  If you're an independent filmmaker, you understand that this temporal marvel extends beyond the set; it taints pre and post-production with the same fervor. Does this sound familiar? read more...

Generations of college students, Cambridge residents and visitors who passed through Harvard Square knew and loved "The Tasty," a diner that was open late and was rarely empty. In a room not much larger than a decent walk-in closet, a cross section of society sat elbow-to-elbow every day. As filmmaker Federico Muchnik describes it "You could walk in anytime of day and on your left would be a Harvard professor and on your right would be a homeless person and you had to talk because you were so close together. There was no judgment. read more...

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It is the not-too-distant future in the United States. Christianity is illegal and its followers hunted down. Like many stories of religious persecution, this may be based more on reality than one may like to admit. What if it were against the law to talk about faith? "Public Enemy Number One" is the third film in a series called "Contending for the Faith." It premieres at the Theater of the Performing Art in Hartford, Connecticut on December 3 at 7 pm and can be seen this next Easter Sunday on PAX read more...

Ahh, the holidays. Who supposed at age 10 that the fun of the season could already be on the decline? That the parties, the gift-giving, even reuniting with long-lost family would feel so, uh, different as an adult? It’s not a feeling filmmaking trio Chris Tyrrell, Stacey Cruwys, and Tom Mariano counted on either. At ages 31, 31, and 36 respectively, they could be the last of the Holiday-Holdouts. Sure, Santa and Mrs. Clause may drink a little too much and flirt with the elves but in the end it all works out, right? "Of read more...