Posted on November 7th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Lance Hammer at the Berlin International Film Festival
(Photo by John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images)
I recently sat down in West Hollywood to chat with Lance Hammer who won the Sundance Film Festival directing award for his debut feature Ballast. The film also won the cinematography award at Sundance and it has been nominated for four Gotham Independent Film Awards.
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Posted on August 21st, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Carl Deal and Tia Lessin
I recently sat down to chat with Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, the filmmakers behind Trouble the Water, the Sundance grand jury prize winning documentary about hurricane Katrina that opens in New York and Los Angeles on 8/22.
On the same day, I also spoke with two of the subjects of that [...]
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Posted on August 13th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
“From now on, if I undertake a new project, I’m going to try to know how I can do it with almost no money. I don’t want this financing thing to stand in the way of making the movie. I’m trying to think of subjects that can be done small, in addition to a bigger [...]
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Posted on August 13th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Kim Rivers Roberts and Scott Roberts in Trouble the Water
Back in July you may remember I mentioned having caught up to the Sundance jury prize-winning documentary Trouble the Water, the story of hurricane Katrina told through the eyes of two survivors: Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her husband Scott Roberts. I’ll have a review of the [...]
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Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Back during the Cannes Film Festival, Spike Lee was in town drumming up interest for his new World War II drama Miracle at St. Anna. Never one to shy away from controversy, Lee took the opportunity not only to criticize the treatment of life and death by Joel and Ethan Coen, but also to point [...]
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Posted on May 13th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Jody Hill, Will Ferrell, Ben Best, Danny McBride and Adam McKay
Throw a press conference in L.A. to promote a $70,000 indie martial arts comedy called The Foot Fist Way written, produced and directed by three friends from the North Carolina School of the Arts and you might be hard pressed to find many takers. Promise [...]
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Posted on May 1st, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Garth Jennings (right) directs Will Poulter on the set of Son of Rambow
To spread the word about their newest film, Son of Rambow, the British filmmaking team known as Hammer & Tongs (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) recently subjected themselves to a roundtable interview at Paramount Studios; sort of the journalistic equivalent of a [...]
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