Elias Savada

JOANNA

By Elias Savada | June 2014

2014 AFI DOCS FESTIVAL SELECTION! Yes, you’ll eventually shed a tear. The dead don’t cry, just us, the living. Joanna Salyga was a saint….

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JOANNA

Joanna Salyga is a pensive, thin thirty-something with close-cropped hair, who dotes on her inquisitive, playful, five-year-old son, Johnny, and loves...

21 DAYS

Poland has five short films in this year's AFI DOCS program, second only to the 12 from the United States. One of those, in the "Shorts Program: Odds and...

CHERRY POP: THE STORY OF THE WORLD’S FANCIEST CAT

Well, you know that this short is going to be fun when the kitty kat kitsch starts flowing across the screen and the credits are scripted in pink (although...

THE VISIT

"The Visit" (originally "Odwiedziny") is a bold and simple film. And a rather sad one. From Studio Munka, which also is offering "21 Days" on the same...

THE SECRET WORLD OF FOLEY

Foley Artists. Other than these being amongst the hundreds of credits that roll by a film's end (if you stay to watch them), you probably have no idea...

THE CHILEAN ELVIS

The only film from Chile in this year's AFI DOCS, it also will be the sole movie to be presented fours times, twice as a lead in to "Bronx Obama," and...

FAST ICE: RESCUE FROM ANTARCTICA

Another 'grabbed-from-the-television-headlines' effort that's part of the "Shorts Program: Face the Music" at this year's AFI DOCS, "Fast Ice: Rescue...

AMANDA F***ING PALMER ON THE ROCKS

You know her from Kickstarter. Her blog. Twitter. A famous, peppy, thirty-something performer. Kristen Bell? Well, yes, but no. Especially if you're...

YOU WON’T REGRET THAT TATTOO

Melbourne, Australia-born and Toronto-based Angie Bird, an advertising art director turned commercials director is grabbing at the brass ring with her...

SATI

The rawness of depression is examined in this downer of a film, a Polish entry in the "Shorts Program: Face the Music" at the 2014 AFI DOCS festival....

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