There are 13 student–made short films in competition at the 2010 Savannah Film Festival. Of these, seven were made by current or recently–graduated SCAD students. Over the festival’s eight days, […]
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Savannah Film Festival: Panels and workshops
All events in Gutstein Gallery unless indicated. Admission is free for SCAD students, faculty and staff, $3 for other students, and $5 for the public. Adobe CS5 and the DSLR […]
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Savannah Film Festival 2010
There is, of course, a little bit of Hollywood in all of us. The annual Savannah Film Festival taps into that tendency to admire and vicariously participate in the cinematic […]
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Extreme closeup: Vincent D’Onofrio
Although television — more specifically, Law and Order: Criminal Intent — has been his bread and butter for the past nine years, actor Vincent D’Onofrio is making a concerted effort […]
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Extreme closeup: ‘Beneath Hill 60’
One of the most fascinating — but curiously little–known — chapters of military history came during World War I in Belgium. In an attempt to break the stalemate of trench […]
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Mark your calendar: ‘Rabbit Hole’ added to film festival lineup
On Oct. 31, the Savannah Film Festival will screen Rabbit Hole, the new film from director John Cameron Mitchell, creator of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Actor Miles Teller will […]
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Freeze frame: Savannah Film Festival
And the Lifetime Achievement Award goes to … Gandalf the White! Sir Ian McKellen, so memorable as the wily wizard Gandalf in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, tops […]
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Mark your calendar: Upright Citizens comedy
The Touring Company of the Upright Citizens Brigade, an improv comedy troupe, stops into the Lucas Theatre for a just–announced show Oct. 5. The company has produced prodigious talents you’ve […]
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Barrow’s vote too far; Film Fest wraps
Congressman John Barrow of Savannah represents a district where more than one out of five people not on Medicare are uninsured. Despite this sobering statistic, this past Saturday he was […]
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Living to tell the tale
Judy Maltz, a journalism professor at Penn State University, had an amazing story to tell. Maltz, who produced and co-directed the film No. 4 Street of Our Lady, was descended […]
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Becoming ‘Precious’
Unless there’s a last–minute gold rush of five-star movies between now and the end of the year, the 2009 Oscars belong to director/producer Lee Daniels and his film Precious – […]
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Life, love and ‘Lemon Lima’
Winner of the Outstanding Narrative Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival, and the Audience Award at the Woodstock Film Festival, writer/director Suzi Yoonessi’s Dear Lemon Lima is a warm, […]