Posts filed under "Filmmakers"
Barbara Stepansky: Tension & Suspense in Storytelling
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 [...]
Windrider 2015: The Relevant and Timeless DEFACE
There’s another film with North Korean subject matter that will surely engender passionate discussion, and this one is a Windrider offering at Park City / Sundance 2015. The acclaimed award-winning short is DEFACE, and the filmmaker is Art Center College of Design MFA graduate John Arlotto. DEFACE tells the heartbreaking tale of Sooyoung, played by [...]
Wrestling with Foxcatcher
By Elijah Davidson ,Reel Spirituality Foxcatcher is a quiet film. Like a patriarch who refuses to talk about his feelings, the film sits still, apparently brooding, unbothered by your presence in the room. It takes its time, does what it wants, and only gets up when the game is over. The game, in this case, [...]
Gods and Kings: Ridley Scott’s Exodus and Interfaith Dialogue
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
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 [...]
Alumni News: Oscar winner Luke Matheny Premieres Amazon Series
Windrider congratulates 2012 WR participant Luke Matheny on the premiere of the Amazon Original Series Gortimer Gibbon’s Life On Normal Street set to debut November 21 on Amazon Prime. The series, executive produced by Oscar winner Matheny is a coming of age, family friendly offering featuring Sloane Morgan Siegel, Ashley Boettcher, Drew Justice as a [...]
Trailer Watch: Ava DuVernay’s Selma
The much anticipated SELMA, directed by “windy” filmmaker Ava DuVernay will debut in selected theaters December 25. SELMA chronicles three intense months in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King passionately fought for civil rights, culminating with the historic march through Alabama that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Windrider congratulates filmmaker and [...]
Joey Jones, Director of “Little Red Plane”
Joey originally hails from Ohio, where he received a BA in Architecture from The Ohio State University. After realizing his true passion for storytelling, he moved to Pasadena, CA to study at Art Center College of Design where he studied animation and co-directed and produced Little Red Plane. LRP has screened in over 50 international [...]
Anna McGrath, director of “Small Change”
Anna McGrath is a film writer and director based in Melbourne, Australia. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts Degree at the University of Melbourne (1996), Anna had forays into the worlds of advertising in London and opera in Melbourne. She then dedicated herself to three years of crewing on film and TV productions in [...]
Michelle Steffes, director of “Driftwood”
Michelle directed her first non-student short film, Say It Again, Sam, while she was the Director of Development at Larger than Life Productions, the production company of Gary Ross (Seabiscuit, Hunger Games.) Later, she wrote the short script Driftwood, which led to her acceptance into AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women, where she directed the film. [...]
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