The funny thing about film festivals is that there never seems to be enough time to talk about the films you’ve just seen. Distribution strategies, yes, industry gossip, most definitely, but the actual creative decisions and approaches involved in making the films themselves – barely! So the Grand Cinema’s mini-festival celebrating Filmmaker‘s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in Tacoma, WA, last month felt like a truly rare treat. Bringing together 14 of the actors and filmmakers or filmmaking teams on the list, including myself and Katherine Fairfax Wright, my directing partner on Call Me Kuchu, The Grand Cinema scheduled […]
by Malika Zouhali-Worrall on Sep 5, 2012Last year we were flattered when The Grand Cinema in Tacoma, Washington asked if they could put together a screening series of our 2010 25 New Faces of Independent Film. It was an amazing turnout with The Grand screening films from 22 of the 25 and 11 of the filmmakers making the trip to attend. Well, The Grand is doing it again! Beginning this Friday and running until the 25th, The Grand Cinema will screen 20 works from this year’s 25 and it sounds like they will once again have a bunch of the filmmakers on hand. If you live […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Aug 15, 2011Attention film lovers in or around Tacoma, Washington: Beginning this Friday, The Grand Cinema will be presenting projects from this year’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Nowhere else in the country will you be able to see the works from this year’s 25 New Faces in a concentrated program at the same venue. The six-day event will include 21 films and 12 of the “25” will be making the trip to be in attendance, including New Low‘s Adam Bowers, Babyland‘s Marc Fratello and The New Year‘s Trieste Kelly Dunn. We here at Filmmaker would like to give a special […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Aug 16, 2010