By Justin Sanders
Even for the most well-adjusted among us, high school is a time when it’s easy to slip into loneliness, depression, and even despair. For Samantha Ramirez-Herrera, whose family moved to Arizona from Mexico when she was six years old, such feelings were a foregone conclusion. “High school was when I started... Read more
By Justin Sanders
The word “passion” came up a lot during our interview with filmmaker Michael Sucsy, and for good reason. If ever there was a career origin story attesting to the power of following’s one passion over the easy path, it’s his. Sucsy’s Grey Gardens (HBO, 2009) dramatized the real-life story made... Read more
By Justin Sanders
Every creative working in film has a different story for how they got their break. For Canadian film composer Jeff Morrow, it began with a Google search. “One day, I just decided I was going to drop off a CD of my jazz compositions to someone in the entertainment industry,”... Read more
By Justin Sanders
While shooting the film he won an Oscar for, The Revenant, Leonardo DiCaprio made headlines for the hardships he endured outdoors in subzero temperatures. But the hardest job on that film may have occurred indoors, in a room rarely thought about by people not involved with post-production – the coloring... Read more
By Justin Sanders
With their band The Kin, Isaac and Thorald Koren have toured the world with the likes of Pink, Coldplay, and Rod Stewart. At one time, not so long ago, they were bringing their signature brand of high-energy yet introspective alternative rock to crowds of 20,000 people and more – even... Read more
By Justin Sanders
The talented individuals behind film festivals tend to be able to spot a good submission a mile away, but when Slamdance Film Festival President Peter Baxter first laid eyes on the work of Japanese animator Shunsaku Hayashi, he knew he had something that was more than good. “I felt transported... Read more