Billy Ray, Not the Singer

Billy Ray

There’s Drive, one of my favorite films and film soundtracks, and then there’s Drive. That thing which compels us to pursue some action or purpose. Screenwriter and director Billy Ray stopped in to teach one of Hal Ackerman’s lectures on … Continue reading

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What is an Asian American film festival?

Silas Howard, Michelle Krusiec

When The National Film Society asked me “What is Asian American Cinema” I couldn’t come up with anything. I just kept thinking – “it’s growing.” Not a very exciting answer, I know. In Asia, my Asian friends ask me what … Continue reading

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Dog Tooth

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Not sure how I feel about movies with incest and extremely realistic physical abuse, but I watched this movie Dog Tooth? I’m researching horror/thriller/dark drama. My director gave me an entire list of movies that I will now classify as … Continue reading

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Welkommen to Mein Cryo-Tank

Tanja Djelevic

I’m not opposed to nudity. I’ve done it for TV and film and it’s odd, because I find it’s always easier to shoot and harder to watch because you know – now it’s there on film. It can be done … Continue reading

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Somebody Picked Me or The VC Film Fund

Danny Pudi

When I started writing Made in Taiwan as a nubile Theatre major in college at Virginia Tech, I never thought that a decade and a half later, I’d be turning it into a film. I thought it was only going … Continue reading

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