Written by Precious Ringor Applications for Full Spectrum Feature’s Chicago Independent Producers Lab (CIPL) are now open until January 17, 2021. The program is sponsored and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Chicago Film Office’s Independent Film Initiative. Designed to identify emerging producers in the local industry, the program intends ...
Key West Film Festival Goes Outdoors
Written by Precious Ringor On Wednesday the 18th, the Ninth Annual Key West Film Festival was held. The 5-day film fest featured more than sixty movies from a variety of themes including music & arts, women empowerment, and films centered ...
Sci-Fi Berlin Film Festival starts Nov. 29
Written by Precious Ringor Starting on November 29, Berlin Sci-fi Filmfest will be celebrating its fourth year with an Exclusive Virtual Cinema that will run the whole weekend of December 6. Over the last three years, the organization has shown ...
Meet Diane Paragas, Director of Yellow Rose
Written by Precious Ringor On October 9, Yellow Rose debuted in movie theatres across the United States for one evening making it the first Filipino film to be released by a major Hollywood studio. The film follows a young, Filipino-American ...
Mallorie Ortega: Between Patience and Hard work
Written by Jonah Azurin Mallorie Ortega is busy. She wrote, produced, and directed her first feature film, The Girl Who Left Home, in just four years and she’s producing a few projects during the pandemic. Her film premiered in October ...
St. Louis International features Dave Chappelle
Written by Julieta Gozalo The 29th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International FIlm Festival (SLIFF), an annual presentation of the nonprofit Cinema St. Louis (CSL) kicked off its 2020 edition on Friday, November 5th and will run throughout the month of ...
Int’l Children’s Film Festival runs through November
Written by Julieta Gozalo Has the quarantine left your family bored with nothing to do? Here’s a film festival made for the whole family to enjoy! The 37th Annual Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (CICFF), presented by FACETS - a ...
Interview with Doug Montgomery from Japan Connects Hollywood
This past weekend, Japan Connects Hollywood hosted its second annual film festival online. Film Fest Magazine writer Precious Ringor caught up with Executive Director Doug Montgomery to learn more about the festival, its origin and goals for the future. What’s ...