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Windrider Int’l Student Film Festival featured in VARIETY.

Posted by Monika Moreno-Lapp May 15, 2015 0 Comment 27 views

May 15, 2015 | 02:34PM PT Steve Chagollan Assistant Managing Editor, Features @SteveChagollan The Angelus Student Film Festival, an annual affair that took place at the Directors Guild in West Hollywood, has assumed a new identity as the Windrider International Student Film Festival. The live-action and documentary short showcase awards three prizes worth $10,000 each [...]

WINDRIDER ANNOUNCES STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL FOR WINDRIDER 2016

Posted by Monika Moreno-Lapp April 15, 2015 0 Comment 216 views

The Windrider International Student Film Festival (WISFF) will debut this January, 2016 during the Windrider Forum in Park City.  The Angelus Student Film Festival, widely touted as one of the top student film festivals for over 15 years, not only in the U.S., but also internationally, has re-emerged as the Windrider International Student Film Festival [...]

Hilla Medalia: Returns To Sundance and Brings Dancing Home to Windrider

Posted by Monika Moreno-Lapp January 24, 2015 0 Comment 352 views

When Hilla Medalia, the award winning, Peabody winning documentarian heard CENSORED VOICES was accepted to Sundance 2015, it truly felt like she was coming home. As a student filmmaker ten years ago from Southern Illinois University, Hilla accepted an invitation from Windrider Forum to bring her emotionally charged DAUGHTERS OF ABRAHAM to WR Park City, [...]

Monika Moreno-Lapp – 2015 Spirit of Windrider Recipient

Posted by Monika Moreno-Lapp January 17, 2015 0 Comment 760 views

“I honestly don’t think I would be where I am today without Monika’s unwavering belief in me. Sometimes that’s all that it takes.”– Barbara Stepansky, filmmaker; Angelus Award winner Disruptor. Change Agent. Innovator. Nurturer. Mentor. Touchstone. All of these could be considered Monika Moreno’s monikers, according to those with whom she has collaborated or those whom [...]

Selma: A Bracing Tonic for Troubled Times

Posted by Monika Moreno-Lapp January 11, 2015 0 Comment 288 views

By Craig Detweiler from The Hollywood Journal It has been a rough year for race relations in America. The corrosive effects of bad religion have also made far too many headlines. Selma arrives as a refreshing tonic for our troubled times. It offers a feature length portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that rises [...]

How David Oyelowo Prepared Spiritually for “Selma”

Posted by Monika Moreno-Lapp January 8, 2015 0 Comment 345 views

by Cathleen Falsani,  Patheos.com / The Dude Abides blog Cathleen Falsani had the chance to speak with the British actor David Oyelowo who portrays Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the film.  Born in Oxford, England to Nigerian parents, Oyelowo, 38, was raised in the Baptist church. His Christian faith continues to be a driving [...]

Barbara Stepansky: Tension & Suspense in Storytelling

Posted by Monika Moreno-Lapp January 5, 2015 0 Comment 627 views

Like many film school students, Barbara Stepansky looked to childhood events for a suitable thesis film for her graduate degree at American Film Institute. Only Barbara’s childhood was anything but ordinary.  The event she selected to illuminate was entrenched in the dark days of the Cold War, when her father’s involvement in the Solidarity Movement [...]

Best Films of 2014 – Back and Beyond

Posted by Monika Moreno-Lapp December 28, 2014 0 Comment 397 views

December 27, 2014 by Craig Detweiler Co-founder of the Windrider Forum and the 2014 Spirit of Windrider award recipient, Craig Detweiler is Professor of Communication and Director of the Center for Entertainment, Media and Culture at Pepperdine University.  A popular cultural commentator,  he also blogs as “Doc Hollywood” for Patheos.com, where this article originated. So [...]

Gods and Kings: Ridley Scott’s Exodus and Interfaith Dialogue

Posted by Monika Moreno-Lapp December 12, 2014 0 Comment 298 views

By Dr. Kutter Callaway Dr. Callaway is an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Theology and Culture at Fuller Theological Seminary. His musings are typically focused on film, music, and contemporary culture.   It had all the makings of a stereotypical joke. You know the one: a Christian, a Muslim, and a Jew walk into a screening of [...]

Sundance Film Festival 2015: High Profile Documentaries Among Premieres

Posted by Monika Moreno-Lapp December 9, 2014 0 Comment 262 views

By Brooks Barnes,  Reprinted from NY TIMES, Carpetbagger LOS ANGELES – The Sundance Film Festival’s more commercial noncompetition lineup in January will include a documentary expose about college rape, a roster of stalwart indie stars and eagerly awaited new features from Noah Baumbach and Jared Hess, among other directors. Sundance programmers on Monday said their [...]

WINDRIDER FORUM 2015: 11th Anniversary Jan 22 – Feb 1, 2015

Welcome to the Windrider Forum

The Windrider Forum was launched at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival as an immersive experience between filmmakers and film lovers designed to facilitate thoughtful conversation, awaken compassion, and inspire change. Since then we have hosted Forum events in a variety of local communities and other festivals. And, now the Windrider Web Fest will feature a new short film and interactive experience each week on this website and on our “Riding the Wind” Facebook page.

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