Category: Festival Blog

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

By Stephanie Ornelas The world of bodybuilding has long been known for its pursuit of the perfect, sculpted body. Men and women go to extreme

by Katie Small Remaining flexible served Chloe Okuno well while making her first feature, Watcher. The director’s debut psychological thriller was six years in the

By Stephanie Ornelas Meagan Good is breaking barriers. The actress joined Morgan Debaun, CEO of Blavity Inc. (Creators of Shadow & Act), in a candid

By Vanessa Zimmer Philippines-based writer-director Martika Ramirez Escobar sees life as one big, long movie that we’re revising, revising, and revising again, until it is

Naz Kawakami appears in Every Day in Kaimukī by Alika Tengan. By Vanessa Zimmer Basil Tsiokos and his fellow programmers had the pleasure, and the challenge, of

By Katie Small Master is a deeply disturbing, racially-charged, supernatural psychological thriller that is unnerving on multiple levels. It offers an unflinching, succinct reckoning with

by Bailey Pennick “First I might have to give a disclaimer that I might cry — and that we might all cry [right now] —

By Stephanie Ornelas  Addressing war and conflict, regardless of location in the world, is always a daunting task for filmmakers when addressing the affected people

By Vanessa Zimmer Sinéad O’Connor may have been young, angry, outspoken, and impulsive. But there was one thing she was not: insincere. That’s the takeaway

By Stephanie Ornelas  When casual meet-cutes merge with gruesome discoveries, you’re left with one fascinating recipe for a horror film. That’s what you get with

by Bailey Pennick Progress rarely comes from staying in your comfort zone. To try is to be uncomfortable, but if you make the effort, extraordinary