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April 2007Industry NewsSun, 04/01/2007 - 00:00Posted in
By Mya Davis
A report of news & happenings in the local industry for April 2007.Email news to news@newenglandfilm.com.
What's HappeningSoul Sister, with Rahman Oladigbolu as director and Ken Willinger as cinematographer, has started production this spring south of Boston. The film is about the friendship that develops between an African American woman and an African immigrant. For more information visit read more... Visual PoetrySun, 04/01/2007 - 00:00Posted in
By Nikki Chase
Director Robert Todd explains how he stumbled upon filmmaking and developed his unique style of visual expression with Interplay, screening at the MFA with the Black Maria Traveling Film Festival this month.Robert Todd makes poetry. Not with words, but with images. His latest film, Interplay, is a 6.5-minute expression of movement that he literally filmed in his backyard. Todd shows the joy of summer with a combination of horizontal and vertical movements as well as multiple exposures layered in different contradicting movements. "I don't think of them as experimental films, I think of them as this sort of emotional poetry," he says. read more...The Boston Connection: On BroadwaySun, 04/01/2007 - 00:00Posted in
By Ellen Mills
In 1997, Boston native Dave McLaughlin wrote and produced a play in a local pub. A few years later, he drew upon that experience to write and direct On Broadway, a family drama set in Boston. On Broadway will have its world premiere on April 26th at the Independent Film Festival of Boston.With a collaborative art such as filmmaking, the willingness to make connections and use them could mean the difference between a film living on the screen or living in the can. Maybe it stems from being the youngest of 11 children or from his years writing and producing plays on a shoestring budget, or maybe it’s a bit of both, but Dave McLaughlin definitely has a knack for connections and collaboration. McLaughlin used both, plus doses of talent and dedication, to write and direct his feature film, On Broadway. read more...Dorothea Gillim's Stand-Out HeroinesSun, 04/01/2007 - 00:00Posted in
By Elizabeth Engel
Dorothea Gillim creates one smart heroine after another with her animated series, Hey Monie, and her latest program, WordGirl. This month Hey Monie screens as part of Women in Film & Video/New England’s Chicks Make Flicks series.On April 12th Dorothea Gillim will be showing
episodes of her animated series Hey Monie at the Chicks Make Flicks
series at MIT. Gillim directed this 2003 comedy about the adventures of Simone
“Monie,” a single African American urban professional woman and her best friend
Yvette. The show originally aired on the Oxygen Network and was later picked up
by Black Entertainment Television (BET). Gillim will be present to answer
audience questions after the screening. read more... The “World’s Toughest Race” by RowboatSun, 04/01/2007 - 00:00Posted in
By Kellie Speed
New England native Thomas Mailhot rows the Atlantic and becomes a documentary star in Row Hard No Excuses, screening this month at the Independent Film Festival of Boston.Although Thomas Mailhot and John Zeigler shared a mutual interest in rowing, they didn’t plan on making a documentary about their 3,000-mile journey across the Atlantic. But when Mailhot spoke of his plans to a producer friend, whose son had an interest in filming, the story began to unfold as a documentary. read more...Delivering Video on the WebSun, 04/01/2007 - 00:00Posted in
By David Tames
In a series of articles to appear over the next few months, filmmaker and media technologist David Tamés begins to unravel web media distribution and viewing for those of us who need a translator.Back in early February I was sent a link to the The Machine is Us/ing Us video on YouTube by Michael Wesch, an assistant professor of anthropology at Kansas State University. This video is among the read more... Trash to Treasure: A Story of Economic SurvivalSun, 04/01/2007 - 00:00Posted in
By Nancy L. Babine
What do you do with your garbage? Boston College professor Ernesto Livon-Grosman explores how recycling in his native Buenos Aires has brought economic vitality to the lives of displaced workers in his documentary film, Cartoneros.
Cartoneros, Boston College professor Ernesto Livon-Grosman’s first documentary film, opens with a quote by French poet, Charles Baudelaire, setting the stage for a fascinating exploration of the complex sociological, ecological, and economic system of trash recycling in his native Buenos Aires:
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