BLOG POST BY RUTH MARAMIS FlixChatter.net One of the things I love most about blogging for Twin Cities Film Fest is getting the opportunity to see so many indie gems, as well as insights about making them from the filmmakers themselves. Filmmaker Laura Somers has been such a personal inspiration to me as a newbie …
BLOG POST BY RUTH MARAMIS FlixChatter.net The best part about attending film festivals is you get to see indie gems you normally won’t be able to see on the big screen. Twin Cities Film Fest celebrates indie films and indie filmmakers from all over the globe. And TCFF loves alumni! Ben Zuckert is back to …
BLOG POST BY RUTH MARAMIS FlixChatter.net An eco thriller based on a true story AND it has a Minnesota connection? Well, even in a throng of fantastic indie feature films playing at the TCFF, this one is definitely a must-see! The film is an eco-thriller, the first to cover the deformed frog phenomenon that began …
BLOG POST BY RUTH MARAMIS FlixChatter.net Every year TCFF has put together an amazing lineup of documentaries and Inventing Tomorrow that tick all the boxes of what makes an inspiring, fascinating AND entertaining film. Considered the Olympics of high school science fairs, ISEF is the largest gathering of high school scientists in the world, attracting approximately …
BLOG POST BY RUTH MARAMIS FlixChatter.net What a day! What a night! It’s the ninth year I’m covering TCFF (yep that’s right, I’ve been with this amazing film fest since its inception) and they’ve done it again. They had not one but TWO opening night film and they’re both amazing! The 11-day film fest is …
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TWIN CITIES FILM FEST UNVEILS 2017 AWARD WINNERS; ‘THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI’ NAMED BEST FEATURE Martin McDonagh’s new drama leads TCFF’s 2017 honorees. Other top awards go to “Human Flow,” “The Year of Spectacular Men,” “Instructions for Living” The inaugural Fun is Good Bill Murray Comedic Shorts Award goes …
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TWIN CITIES FILM FEST ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR 2017 AWARDS ‘The Florida Project,’ ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,’ ‘Human Flow’ and ‘The Bachelors’ lead 2017 contenders; winners to be announced Saturday St. Louis Park, MN (October 27, 2017) – The Twin Cities Film Fest announced more …
The past 10 months have been arduous, rewarding, frustrating, challenging and most of all, an education. Here are the ten things I learned from writing Betta Fish. If you’re producing the script you’re writing, make the budget of the film first. This will allow your script to be tailored to the budget. This is key …
By Jatin Setia Earlier this week at a preview screening, as I grabbed my seat in the theater awaiting the start of the newest M. Night Shyamalan’s production, ‘Split,’ I caught myself already predicting the ‘twist’ that usually accompanies Mr. Shyamalans’ films. The first frame hadn’t even hit the big screen yet and I was …
Review Lion Directed by Mark Davis Written by Luke Davies A young orphaned boy from India is adopted by a loving Australian family, but, as a young man, finds himself compelled to find the mother and brother he feels he left behind in the based-on-a-true-story drama Lion—an incredibly impressive first feature effort from director Mark …
