by Bailey Pennick When Lawren Desai moved back to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, after a stint in Los Angeles, she realized that she didn’t need to

by Bailey Pennick When asked about how she first experienced I Love Lucy and its creators, Amy Poehler laughs as she tries to comprehend a

By Stephanie Ornelas The haunting and artistic experience that’s delivered in You Won’t Be Alone explores what it means to be human when the rest

By Stephanie Ornelas  “If the camera is predatory, then the culture is predatory as well.” This is one message director Nina Menkes wanted to send

By Vanessa Zimmer Writer-director Riley Stearns is known for creating a world where everyone speaks in a deadpan cadence. And nowhere is that played to

By Bailey Pennick A simple knock on a door starts it all. While this is a semi-accurate way to describe the beginning of the intimate

by Katie Small Motherhood and the immigrant experience are big themes in many of this year’s Festival selections, and Nanny delivers both. In the pre-recorded

By Bailey Pennick Sometimes you just need to rip the Band-Aid off. Yes, it hurts like hell and, yes, it’s still going to leave that

By Katie Small To say viewers were in shock after the Midnight premiere of Speak No Evil might just be an understatement. Despite the late

By Stephanie Ornelas When Korean journalist K.W. Lee first wrote to Chol Soo Lee, who was on death row at a California prison, he had

By Vanessa Zimmer March of time be damned, these Florida women who call themselves the “Calendar Girls” are going to put on their makeup, slip

By Katie Small From the Festival that brought you some of the most iconic and deeply disturbing horror flicks of the last several decades —