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BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!*

By | February 2012

2012 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL WORLD DOCUMENTARY FEATURES SELECTION! Gertten spends his second banana film defending his first banana film without offering enough factual information to really defend either…

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BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!*

Swedish documentarian Fredrick Gertten made a film called BANANAS!* about a group of Nicaraguan plantation workers who sued Dole over unsafe working...

FILM THREAT PODCAST – EPISODE 59 – ABRE LOS OJOS

Don and Mark tell all after their adventures at the 2012 Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals! Well, not really "all"; as expected, the two get...

GOING BIONIC – DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – CHAN

A few days ago, Jack Moik, the director of Nydenion, the German sci-fi film that my company represents, sent me a trailer of his film’s upcoming release...

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF MONKEY MAN – 18

George Lucas responds to criticism as only George Lucas can in the latest New Adventures of Monkey Man. From the mind of Brian Lynch (Spike, Angel and...

2012 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES AWARD WINNERS

The House I Live In, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Law in These Parts and Violeta Went to Heaven took home the jury prizes at the 2012 Sundance Film...

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FOR ELLEN

In For Ellen, Paul Dano stars as Joby Taylor. Joby’s a hard-working lead singer for a struggling rock group. Fights with his bandmates and issues...

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FILLY BROWN

Majo Tonorio (Rodriguez) is a socially conscious rapper and poet from L.A. who launches her music career in an attempt to help her drug-addicted mother get...

2012 SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES JURY AND AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS

Another year of Slamdance is in the books, and the award winners from the 2012 film festival have been announced with Getting Up, Bindlestiffs, No Ashes,...

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THE THEATRE BIZARRE

This review was originally published on July 28, 2011... If there’s one thing I especially like about going to the Fantasia Film Festival it’s that...

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COME BACK, AFRICA

Barely seen since its initial theatrical release, Lionel Rogosin’s 1959 drama is significant for offering one of the first ground-level views of South...

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