Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Thom Fitzgerals
Starring: Adrian Grenier | Jacki Weaver | Lucy Liu | Mya Taylor
Michael says: “Director Thom Fitzgerald was part of the cavalcade of talent present at our 10th Awards Ceremony, way back in 2004 with his debut film, HANGING GARDEN, taking the special Vanguard Award. His latest film, STAGE MOTHER, has got
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Lawrence Michael Levine
Starring: Aubrey Plaza | Christopher Abbott | Sarah Gadon
Michael says: “When I perused the listings for this year’s festival, BLACK BEAR jumped out immediately because of lead actor, and two time Chlotrudis nominee, Aubrey Plaza. In fact, I had the privilege of presenting Aubrey with PIFF’s first ever
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Fernanda Valadez
Starring: David Illescas | Juan Jesús Varela | Mercedes Hernández
Michael says: “This Mexican feature is a slow burn as a mother travels from her tiny village in Guanajuato to the Mexican/US border to find out what happened to her son. Along the way she encounter resistance, danger and mounting
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Shalini Kantayya
Michael says: “This film couldn’t have been released at a better time as it explores the problematic uses and misuses of facial recognition, applied algorithms, artificial intelligence, and bias. But best of all it introduced me to Joy Buolamwini, a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Adam Jones | Darby Duffin
Michael says: “Filmmakers do a great job weaving multiple narratives into a cohesive story about the fishing industry from ocean to plate. From Gloucester, MA to Norway, Japan, Montauk NY, Washington DC, Wellfleet, and Los Angeles, this film manages to
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Filippo Meneghetti
Starring: Barbara Sukowa | Jérôme Varanfrain | Léa Drucker | Martine Chevallier
Michael says: “Two older, retired women who have been romantically involved for the past twenty years live in neighboring apartments. They plan to move to Italy to live out the remainder of their lives together now that Madeleine has become
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Director: Scott Speer
Starring: Alexandra Shipp | DeRon Horton | Ian Tracey | Nicholas Hamilton
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Eugene Kotlyarenko
Starring: David Arquette | Joe Keery | Kyle Mooney | Sasheer Zamata
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Amanda McBaine | Jesse Moss
Chris says: “I’m often drawn to documentaries that focus on a subculture or an event that I personally would never, ever want to participate in, like this conference of a thousand teenage boys from Texas who come together in state
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Director: Robin Pront
Starring: Annabelle Wallis | Charlotte Lindsay Marron | Hero Fiennes Tiffin | Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
