‘All About Us’ Southern Film Tour

It’s difficult seeing independent films in the South, even in a city like Atlanta. So you have to be on your toes to catch good independent movies. My good friends and independent filmmakers Christine and Michael Swanson at Faith Filmworks have announced a film tour of their latest film [...]

Interesting Reads

Here is an interesting article that appeared in the New York Times regarding Hollywood’s failing efforts to break into the lucrative Bollywood film industry.
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There is a new trend going on in Hollywood of taking American movies and remaking them overseas. Not simply dubbing for foreign audiences, but redoing the whole movie to fit other [...]

Atlanta’s Women of Color Art and Film Festival

The Women of Color Art and Film Festival is taking place this weekend in Atlanta and it’s totally free. So if you’re in the ATL and are interested in films by and featuring women of color, head over to the Auburn Avenue Research Library where screenings are taking place all weekend. [...]

REVIEW:The Class

The Class is a documentary-style fictional film about one year in the life of a teacher and his class of 14 and 15 year-olds in an immigrant community in Paris. It received a lot of buzz because it featured the real-life teacher who wrote the book on which the film was based, the [...]

ON DVD: Rent Filmed Live on Broadway

True Confessions of a Renthead: I first saw Rent in Boston in 1997, during my last year of law school. I went as a gift to myself for finishing my very last set of law school exams. It was at the Schubert Theatre and I had the worst seats ever–the very last [...]

Africa Is Home to 3rd Largest Movie Industry in the World

The New York Times recently reported that, in the Bronx, purveyors of dvds from Africa are making a killing in retail sales and rentals. Turns out that Nigeria has the third largest movie industry in the world, behind Hollywood and Bollywood respectively. Referred to as “Nollywood,” the Nigerian movie industry is true [...]