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Watching Year Zero at Out North AIFF 2011 I'm not into zombies.  I understand that they are metaphorical in the best zombie stories....

Back in October I talked to Brent Scarpo via Skype before his trip to Anchorage.  I wanted to record it, so I used my digital camera on a t...

Screen Shot from Landscape with Duck One more of the animated films in competition was Landscape with Duck by Portland filmmakers Patric...

[The Anchorage Film Film Festival ended Sunday, Dec. 11, followed by three more days of Best of the Fest. I'm trying to put up video I ...

All the animated films I saw were good in some way.  This was the category I tried to know best and I've gotten some video on most of th...

I emailed AIFF features coordinator Tony Sheppard to get some more information about the film Apartment in Athens .  It appears our showing ...

[UPDATE:  It's not totally clear, but this could be the North American premiere of Apartment in Athens. ] I haven't seen Love You ...

The prizes in the Anchorage International Film Festival are called "Golden Oosikars."  Oosikar is a fusion of Oosik and Oscar...

Here's the whole list from the Official AIFF 2011 website.   I've added some pictures,  and links to posts if I had one about the fi...

Top Three: Give Up Tomorrow Goold's Gold With Great Power:  Stan Lee Story Winners: Honorable Mention: With Great Power:  Stan Le...

Features:  Honorable Mention:  The Wedding Party Runner Up:   Love You To Death Winner:  Inuk Documentaries: Honorable Mention:  G...

Snow Dance Documentaries Top Three: Two Chad Carpenter:  Man Behind the Comic Tashalaska   Winners: Honorable Mention Runner Up:...

The Inuk crew. Amanda Jane of The Wedding Party and Travis Betz of The Dead Inside. The Wifi was out, but it's b...

There's lots to see today.  Here's a link to the Sunday schedule.   I suggest going to "Print Schedule," (light blue)  the...

[Here's Sunday's schedule .] Just after Travis Betz's workshop ended I got a chance to ask one of the younger and more inquis...

Year Zero showing at workshop today I spent all day at two Film Festival workshops. The afternoon workshop was Animation with Richard Cun...

 The Corridor I'm not a horror movie fan.  I look away before the blood flows.  But I stayed in the Bear Tooth Thursday night to see t...

How much can I get into one title?  I left out the rest of the title (One Man Joins An Uprising).  I talked briefly with film maker Greg Ham...

I talked to co-producer and actor in The Casserole Club after the showing last night.  The was about five couples who had casserole dinners ...

I was pulled right into this documentary about a high school teacher who set up an experiential learning situation in his Palo Alto classroo...