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Written by Noralil Ryan Fores
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
Interviews:
 Photo Courtesy Sarasota Film Festival. A conversation with director Laura Terruso and cinematographer Eugene Lehnert about their short The Last Butcher in Little Italy, a glimpse at the culture of old New York.
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 Photo Courtesy Filmmakers. Quite soon the image painted will be that of mermaids swimming gracefully, their fins moving in unison, their expressions joyous and serene. First, however, another image, that of two artists sitting in a park, eating sandwiches and pie and talking for hours upon hours. Sitting closer of the two is James Ponsoldt, whose 2006 debut feature Off the Black placed him high on the indie radar; next to him is comedienne-filmmaker Amy Seimetz, who at this moment sets her gaze away a bit, her attention fixed on at point in the distance. Read more.
 Photo Courtesy Sarasota Film Festival. In July 2005, war photographer and filmmaker Mark Brecke boarded an Amtrak train heading east with a box of stills and a loan of radio recording equipment from National Public Radio. For the next three days he would speak with 24 passengers about his experiences in a strife ridden Darfur and the refugee camps in Eastern Chad. As he shared heartbreaking photograph after photograph, the passengers questioned, theorized and often embraced the knowledge, no matter how sadly it was met. As their voices gained strength with fact, their opinions would only strengthen Brecke's quiet argument for intervention at his coming meeting with Congress on Capitol Hill.Read more. |
Noralil Ryan Fores |
| About the author: |
| Editor. A perpetual wanderer both literally and metaphorically, Noralil Ryan Fores grew up in a theater with an acting teacher for a mother and a professional videographer for a father. Right in line with her upbringing, she went on to study in the film program at Florida State University then jumped ship to grab a graduate degree in Magazine, Newspaper and Online Journalism from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. She has interned for South Florida's City Link Magazine and served as an editorial assistant for MovieMaker Magazine. Currently, she lives and writes from Atlanta. |
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