Category: Festivals

By Jan Hamilton Director: Lee Haven Jones, Screenwriter/Producer: Roger WilliamsOver an evening a wealthy family gathers for a sumptuous dinner with guests in their ostentatious house in the Welsh mountains. Served by a mysteriously disturbing young woman, the assembled party do not realize they are about to eat their last supper. Cast List: Anne Elwy, Nia… Continue reading SXSW 2021 Review: THE FEAST

By Jan Hamilton Director/Screenwriter: Todd Stephens, Producers: Todd Stephens, Eric Eisenbrey, Tim Kaltenecker, Stephen IsraelAn aging hairdresser (Udo Kier) escapes his nursing home and embarks on an odyssey across his small town to style a dead woman’s hair for her funeral, rediscovering his sparkle along the way. Cast List: Udo Kier, Jennifer Coolidge, Linda Evans, Michael… Continue reading SXSW 2021 Review: SWAN SONG

By Jan Hamilton Director/Screenwriter: Elle Callahan, Producers: Eric B. Fleischman, Maurice FadidaIn a modern America where witches are real and witchcraft is illegal, a sheltered teenager must face her own demons and prejudices as she helps two young witches avoid law enforcement and cross the southern border to asylum in Mexico. Cast List: Gideon Adlon, Elizabeth… Continue reading SXSW 2021 Review: WITCH HUNT

By Jan Hamilton Directors: Mallory Everton, Stephen Meek, Screenwriters: Whitney Call, Mallory Everton, Producers: Scott Christopherson, Stephen Meek, Abi Nielson HunsakerTwo directionless sisters brave a cross-country road trip to rescue their grandmother from a COVID outbreak at her nursing home. Cast List: Whitney Call, Mallory Everton, Anne Sward Hansen, Julia Jolley, Baylee Thornock, Jessica Drolet, Stephen… Continue reading SXSW 2021 Review: RECOVERY

By Jan Hamilton Director: Nick Gillespie, Screenwriters: Brook Driver, Matt White, Nick Gillespie, Producer: Finn BruceWhen Paul’s chances of winning a national talent contest are ruined and his dreams of fame are slashed, he plans a deathly revenge rampage!! 1 lunch break, 5 spectacular murders! Each wrongdoer dispatched in a fitting manner by the sparkly… Continue reading SXSW 2021 Review: PAUL DOOD’S DEADLY LUNCH BREAK

By Jan Hamilton Director: Natalie Morales, Screenwriters: Mark Duplass, Natalie Morales, Producer: Mel EslynA Spanish teacher and her student develop an unexpected friendship. Cast List: Natalie Morales, Mark Duplass, Desean Terry, Christine Quesada Adam and Will are a couple who live together in relative wealth in Oakland. Will works. Adam stays at home. Will buys Adam… Continue reading SXSW 2021 Review: LANGUAGE LESSONS

By Liz Lopez Rating: B- The jobs held by 18-year-old Ashley is in her senior year of high school, as featured in the documentary “Fruits of Labor” that screened at the SXSW Film Festival, include working the graveyard shift in a food processing plant and her mother, Beatriz cleans other people’s houses. Nothing glamorous and… Continue reading SXSW 2021 Review: FRUITS OF LABOR

By Jan Hamilton Directors: Kelley Kali, Angelique Molina, Screenwriters: Kelley Kali, Angelique Molina, Roma Kong, Producers: Roma Kong, Angelique Molina, Kelley Kali, Capella Fahoome, Deon ColeWhen a recently widowed mother becomes houseless, she convinces her 8-year-old daughter that they are only camping for fun while working to get them off the streets. Cast List: Kelley Kali,… Continue reading SXSW 2021 Review: I’M FINE (THANKS FOR ASKING)