Starz Denver Film Festival — The Brothers Nee (Aaron and Adam Nee) have seen a lot of success with their eclectic first feature film, The Last Romantic. The film made its world premiere at South by Southwest and has gone on to film festivals in Boston, Newport, Florida as well as being featured in FILMMAKER magazine. The Last Romantic is now a contender for the Emerging Filmmaker Award at The Starz Denver Film Festival. more…

Starz Denver Film Festival — After making is US premiere at The Woodstock Film Festival, Swedish Auto has been working the festival circuit landing at the Virginia Film Festival and the Los Angeles International Film Festival. Now, the film is part of The Starz Denver Film Festival’s Emerging Filmmaker Competition. more…

AFI’s Hollywood — First-time feature directors Kurt Mattila & Matt Checkowski made a big splash with their first feature Lies & Alibis. The film which made it’s US premiere at Cine Vegas, recently had it’s LA premiere on Nov 10th and 11th at the AFI’s. more…

AFI’s in Hollywood — After a successful premiere at the Cannes Film Festival (winning the ACID award), The Norwegian International Film Festival (winning Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor) and the Toronto Film Festival, Jens Lien’s film The Bothersome Man made it’s mark at the AFI’s last night. more…

AFI’s Hollywood — Making it’s North American premiere at the AFI’s in Los Angeles, first-time feature director Matt Bissonnette’s film Who Loves the Sun is a humorous and touching story about reunion of three friends that haven’t seen each other for a long time. more…

AFI’s in Hollywood — Director Goran Dukic’s feature debut has gotten a ton of attention recently. Starting with their world premiere at Raindance in the UK, Wristcutters has picked up a number of awards including: Best Director at the Seattle International Film Festival, Best Feature Film at Gen Art ‘06 and a Grand Jury Award nomination at Sundance among others. more…

AFI’s in Hollywood — Switzerland’s official 2006 Academy Awards entry, Vitus is the story of a incredibly intelligent child who is struggling with his parents’ expectations and trying to find his own way in life. more…

AFI’s in Hollywood — Making it’s world premiere at this years AFI Fest, Big Dreams Little Tokyo is a humorous look at young businessman named Boyd who’s trying to do whatever he can to be successful. Dave Boyle directed and starred in this funny film about perseverance and sticking to your dream no matter how bleak things may look at times. more…

Director, Lucy Walker (”The Devil’s Playground”) brings us a story of blind mountain climber, Erik Weihenmayer, and blind educator, Sabriye Tenberken, leading six blind teens on a 3-week ascent up Mount Everest. The idea for the expedition came about after Tenberken, who founded Braille Without Borders, the first and only school for the blind in Tibet, wrote an email to Weihenmayer upon hearing the news that he had summitted Mt. Everest in 2001. She had read his book “Touch the Top of the World” to her students and invited him to come to the boarding school to meet them. more…

In 1992, after a spate of horrible stories were written about Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love soon after the birth of their daughter, Frances Bean, they decided that they wanted to get their story out in their own words. They contacted music journalist, Michael Azerrad, who had written a cover story on Kurt for “Rolling Stone” magazine. Over the course of what turned out to be about 25 hours of taped conversations with Cobain from December ‘92 - March ‘93, Azerrad came to have deep feelings for his subject and a friendship blossomed. more…