Jesse Moss explains his interest in covering Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s run for presidency in 2020, the love story between Pete and Chasten, and why “Mayor Pete” matters.
The open air art festival that has taken the world by storm is allowing a peek behind the art. Desert X is releasing a documentary that follows the DesertX 2021 artist from thought to conception to installation.
“The Alpinist” is a harrowing but hopeful documentary about Marc-André Leclerc, a Canadian rock climber and alpinist that was considered one of the best. From directors Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen, “The Alpinist” will be released in theaters on September 10th. I spoke with the filmmakers (Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen) about the making of the […]
A documentary on a mother’s use of social media to find the people responsible for killing her daughter in Riverside begins streaming Wednesday, April 14 on Netflix. “Why Did You Kill Me?” is a documentary about Belinda Lane’s use of the social networking site MySpace to investigate the people she believes are responsible for shooting […]
Local filmmakers, P. David Ebersole and Todd Hughes of The Ebersole Hughes Company, team up with the Gand Band in the eye-opening documentary “My Name is Lopez.” Fresh from the success of their last effort “House of Cardin,” Ebersole and Hughes create an homage to music icon, the late great Trini Lopez. I sat down […]
I’m proud of our Filipino films especially these two new movies that recently won local awards. First, we have “Fan Girl” from writer/director Antoinette Jadaone starring newcomer Charlie Dizon as the fan girl of the title and Paulo Avelino playing a fictional version of himself. The film topped the recently concluded Metro Manila Film Festival […]
The new HBO documentary “40 Years a Prisoner” about the controversial 1978 Philadelphia police raid on the back-to-nature group MOVE. The film follows the story of Mike Africa Jr. and his decades-long fight to free his parents, Debbie Sims Africa and Michael Africa Sr., two MOVE members imprisoned for the death of a police officer […]
