The filmmaking duo of Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw have taken us from the Long Island stock car racetrack featured in THE LAST RACE, to the oak forests of the Piedmont region of Italy in the Oscar-nominated THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS. Their continuing...
LOS FRIKIS is the new film from co-directors Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, creators of the 2019 sleeper hit, THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON. LOS FRIKIS is a powerful coming of age story inspired by the true event of a group of punk rock iconoclasts defying the...
Amidst the chaos and destruction of the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine, three artists defiantly find inspiration and beauty as they defend their culture and their country. Winner of the 2024 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, PORCELAIN WAR is the most decorated...
Sometimes, it takes a documentary filmmaker a while to get to the essence of the story they are trying to tell. In the case of SABBATH QUEEN, filmmaker Sandi DuBowski needed 21 years to really get a handle on his central character, Amichai Lau-Lavie, and...
If you can get past the Sundance hype and the commodification of the term “indie,” you can see that the independent film revolution began decades earlier. And it arguably began with John Cassavetes, a man who THE NEW YORKER said, “…may be the...
In this episode of INSIDE THE ARTHOUSE, hosts Raphael Sbarge and Greg Laemmle speak with Kurt Ravenwood, the producer of HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS and the marketing genius who believed that there was a way to connect with audiences, and plowed a path to success. HUNDREDS OF...
