One lovely Tuesday evening in Amsterdam during IDFA, I went out to the “boonies” of the city (about a 20 minute walk from the city center) to attend a presentation of the Mediamatic Lab. Tipped off to this open presentation by Joel Heller, three intrepid Americans set off to see what the Dutch design […]

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I posted a bit article about the self-distribution efforts of John Sayles and Maggie Renzi with their newest film Honeydripper. The New York Times has followed up and given an in-depth picture of the plan. From where I sit, the plan looks like they put a lot of thought into how to find an audience […]

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IDFA is the largest documentary festival and market in the world. And this being my first foray to the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, things have been a bit overwhelming. But certain themes are cropping up that reflect the sign of the times, not only in documentary, but in making and disseminating art for […]

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A while back I posted a brief about the Ann Arbor Film Festival losing their state funding due to accusations that the festival was screening pornographic work. The state of Michigan took action after prompting by an essay out of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, revoking the festival’s cultural arts money. One of the […]

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Patrick Z. McGavin of ScreenDaily talks to John Sayles and Maggie Renzi about their upcoming release of Honeydripper.
“Most of our films took three or four weeks before people started to talk about them,” he says. “Our films play to people over 30. Those people don’t go the first weekend. It was clear to us that […]

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