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Film Festivals

I'll probably never do it again but in the past, I've covered film festivals like Tribeca, NYFF, SXSW, Japan Cuts, Hot Docs, the Bentonville Film Festival, and Final Girls Berlin.

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Interview with Melissa Haizlip on 'Mr. SOUL!' (2018)

I must first acknowledge that the Indie Memphis Film Festival programming was excellent this year. One of the films that I knew I couldn't pass up is "Mr. SOUL!," a documentary produced, written, and directed by Melissa Haizlip. For those unfamiliar, "SOUL!" was a
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Interview with Actress Kirin Kiki

Kirin Kiki has worked with many notable Japanese directors (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Naomi Kawase, Seijun Suzuki) and given honest, magnetic performances that have won her accolades, including three Japan Academy Awards. When I told my husband I was doing this interview he said, "Wow, she's like the Meryl
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Interview with Maria Reinup, Creative Director of What the Fest!?

If you're in NYC and need something fun to do this weekend, check out What the Fest!? at IFC Center. As I type this, "Revenge" (Fargeat, 2018), the festival opener, is playing and I'm bummed that I have to watch it alone on my
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