Favorite things
We’re excited to go to the launch tonight of The Recipe Project, the new book/CD collaboration between rock star chefs and One Ring Zero. Food, drink, writers like Mark Kurlansky and performances including the crazy talented ORZ and Claudia Gonson (The Magnetic Fields) and Allyssa Lamb (Las Rubias Del Norte). Video at Time Magazine. Piece at [...]
Deaf Jam
I was blown away watching deaf teens perform slam poetry with hearing teens in Judy Lieff’s “Deaf Jam”. The film, which we are friends of/fans of, is showing this week on Independent Lens.
Vote now, vote often
William Miller and Lee Baker’s film “Don’t Follow me (I’m Lost)” about musician Bobby Bare, Jr. is a pick of the day on Indiewire & is vying for pick of the week (https://apps.facebook.com/my-polls/2ej24e4j). We got to know these talented folks at a at a concert for the film in Brooklyn- we’d been fans of BBJr [...]
Our favorite kind of fly
Everyone should know about Paul Goodman. A new film directed by Jonathan Lee and edited by our friend Kim Reed.
Teen dreams
Friend Brooke Hauser’s new book, “The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens” is just released, inspired by her own article for the New York Times about the 2008 Prom at the International High School in Prospect Heights. Funny and honest – it almost (almost) makes us want [...]
Sweet thing!
Congratulations to Kevin and Jennie and the wee Miette! Blind Man’s Colour was in fact playing when the news came in. (“The Warm Current’s Pull”, directed by Kevin Chapados and Chunwoo Kae)
Light’ning in a bottle
Doug Block discusses changes in filmmaking on Film Courage radio show.
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