What Do I Know?

The first night of the Festival as I ran into a guy near the ticketing in just a polo shirt.  It was about zero outside and the chill was co...

I got more video taken than I was able to put up during the festival.   First is a short video with Festival Director Teresa Scott in the ba...

Jim Parker - AIFF Docs [This is a followup of the post on my choices for best films.] Documentaries were the strongest program in th...

  Let me list my choices first here with little comment and then I'll want to talk separately about some of the categories and why I di...

Features In Competition: Shouting Secrets Lad:  A Yorkshire Story Between Us Confine Aquí y Allí Grassroots Things I Don't...

Documentary Films in Competition: Go Ganges Roadmap to Apartheid People Of A Feather Ping Pong Cutting Loose World Before Her ...

In Competition: The Backwater Gospel Frankie Rulez!! The Game Lemons Much Better Now Paths of Hate Survival of the Fetish H...

In Competition: Calcutta Taxi Mossadegh Cockatoo Hunt Lapse Trial of Ben Barry HONORABLE MENTION: Cockatoo RUNNER UP: C...

 SUPERSHORTS IN COMPETITION: Bip Bip (Beep Beep) Blue Dame Gutty Her Next Door Matriarche O.V.N.I (UFO) Polarized HONORA...

SNOWDANCE IN COMPETITION : Catching Alaska’s Light Waves I Met Her In A Coffee Shop Mothers Against Pornography No Horizon Any More ...

7:19 The musicians are gone and they are setting up the stage. Matt Jardin and Harvey Hubbell from Disleksia the movie with OA staff ...

My Saturday at the film festival was one very satisfying movie after another.  [Check the AIFF 2012 Tab above for what's on today.] I...

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:  Sunday morning (Dec. 9) at 11:15 am Native Tongue short film p rogram plays at the Alaska Experience Theater.    Thi...

When they told me the title of the film, it didn't register.  I realized why when I checked out the program where it is listed as P.N.B....

  [Check the AIFF 2012 Tab above for what's on today.] I got to talk to Shelagh Carter Thursday night.  Her film Passionflower is ...

  [Check the AIFF 2012 Tab above for what's on today.] I saw two films Thursday: Things I Don't Understand   seems to fit well...

Mirvish's fake McCain advisor leaker Martin Eistenstadt  [Check the AIFF 2012 Tab above for what's on today.] Between Us  film...

Somewhere in the film Go Ganges , JJ says something like, "At some point you just have to accept all the confusing differences and emb...

Between Us had a good audience in the tiny theater downtown.  I wasn't looking forward to watching two couples duking it out, but I qui...

Sunday  hunkered down and decided I needed a new strategy (well, actually a strategy period) for the festival.  It's now down to seeing ...