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SEX AND SECULARITY
Hanif Kureishi’s films, like his childhood memories, are populated by complex characters who hold Eastern and Western values simultaneously. This, he says, is what fundamentalists can’t deal with.
TV GUIDE
Producer, writer and new Focus co-president James Schamus interviews Fortissimo Film Sales’ Wouter Barendrecht on the role of independent film in a TV world.
DEBUT PERFORMANCE
Justin Lowe reports on the grass-roots marketing success of Gene Cajayon’s self-distributed The Debut.
HOW AND WHEN TO SCORE
In part two of our series on music and independent film, Reed Martin examines the roles of composer and music supervisor.
FULL DISCLOSURE
Scott Saunders talks with key creative personnel involved in the production and post-production of Steven Soderbergh’s Full Frontal.
REPORTS
TOUR GUIDE
The Mobile Film School.
AGAINST THE GRAIN
Pip Chodorov’s company Re:Voir.
BURDEN OF HISTORY
Photographer Johnny de Brest.
CRIME SCENE
Michigan filmmakers’ courtroom battle.
KILLER BS
Jacques Boyreau’s B-movie poster book, Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters.
SPACE INVADER
Julia Loktev’s installation art.
URBAN LANDSCAPES
The design company Imaginery Forces.
SE®VE AND PROTE©T
Official’s Copyright and Trademark software.
SCAN AND PAN
StageTools’ software.
PSYCHO KILLER
David Jacobson’s Dahmer: The Mind is a Place of Its Own.
TEST CASE
Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Das Experiment.
