Festival Interviews
Documentary | Festival Interviews | Film Festival & Event Profiles | Interviews | Massachusetts | Vermont
2018 Festival Interview: The Longest Year
Through abstract natural images and the voices of loved ones, Jessie Beers-Altman unpacks a tragic, life-altering event.
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Comedy | Documentary | Festival Interviews | Massachusetts
2018 Festival Interviews: To the Editor: Consider the Crow’s Point of View
Consider this playful re-enactment of a letter to the editor that was actually published in the Provincetown Banner.
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Drama | Festival Interviews | Film Festival & Event Profiles | Film Festivals | New England | New Hampshire | Short Films
2018 Film Festival Interviews: Rabbits
A lonely farmer reflects on the death of his wife and we learn that there may be more to the story.
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Connecticut | Documentary | Festival Interviews | Film Festival & Event Profiles | Interviews | Massachusetts | New England | Short Films
2018 Festival Interview: Edward Hopper & Marshall’s House
Bob Burnett captures the perspectives of curators and five generations of Marshalls in his loving and curious look at Edward Hopper’s famous painting.
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Acting | Comedy | Festival Interviews | Film Festival & Event Profiles | How to Be a... | Interviews | New England | Rhode Island | Short Films
2018 Festival Interview: Nobel Prize
Anthony Ambrosino’s pithy meditation on language, usage and how we all combat border at a minimum wage job will make you laugh, cautiously.
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Festival Interviews | Film Festival & Event Profiles | Film Festivals | Massachusetts
2017 Festival Interview: Boston Jewish Film Festival
NewEnglandFilm.com chats with Ariana Cohen-Halberstam, Artistic Director for the Boston Jewish Film Festival about the themes for this year’s festival, how she selected some of its notable films, and why she integrated podcasting and VR into her lineup.
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Festival Interviews | Film Festivals | Filmmaking | Maine | New England
2017 Festival Interview: Bird Carver
Screening through October 15 as part of the 2017 Online New England Film Festival, Bird Carver profiles Steven Valleau, the bird carver in-residence at the Wendell Gilley Museum in Southwest Harbor, ME. In this interview with NewEnglandFilm.com, the documentary’s director Madeleine Cohen discusses how life’s big choices inspire her films and offers some unique advice about documentary filmmaking.
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Documentary | Festival Interviews | Film Festivals | Interviews | Massachusetts | New England
2017 Festival Interview: Praying for Change
Screening through October 15 as part of the 2017 Online New England Film Festival, Praying for Change highlights homelessness in the US through the lens of Leroy Bailey, a man committed to improving the lives of homeless veterans. In this interview with NewEnglandFilm.com, the film’s director Brian McPartlan reveals his inspiration for the film and Netflix the documentary that inspired him to become a filmmaker.
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Documentary | Festival Interviews | Filmmaking | Interviews | Maine | New England
2017 Festival Interview: Oak Street Mural
Oak Street Mural, which screens through October 15 as part of the 2017 Online New England Film Festival, captures the creation of a public mural in Rockland, ME through gorgeous time-lapse photography. In this interview with NewEnglandFilm.com, one of the documentary’s directors, Scott Sell, discusses the impetus for making it and how his background in journalism led him to filmmaking.
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