The second film to be screened at BIFF was a documentary that proved to be a tough watch. To clarify, it’s not a bad film at all, its just the subject matter is particularly harsh. It was also the first film I’d seen in the Liberty Theater since I left in 89, and I took…
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Bermuda and Back: A Happy Hobbit’s Return Home and a Film Festival Part 3
Goslings Wine cellar was the location yesterday evening for a meet and greet of the people and sponsors behind the Bermuda International Film Festival before the opening night presentation of Ginger & Rosa. Festival VIPs meet and mingle, there is laughter and shop being talked about equally. Bermuda has, in its time, perfected the art…
ReelWorld Film Festival: Sunset Stories – Ernesto Foronda and Silas Howard
Sunset Stories is a refreshing mix of several different genres of film, which manages to encapsulate bits of everything, without ever becoming too much of one thing. It’s first and foremost a comedy (a dark comedy, given the subject matter), but it’s evident from the very start that it’s also full of heart. There’s…
Bermuda and Back Again: A Happy Hobbit’s Return Home and a Film Festival Part 2
The first night back, and it was amazing. I wandered around St. Georges reacquainting myself with the lay of the land, and a couple things struck me right away… I forgot the smell, the salt water of the ocean mixing with hibiscus and fern, and I forgot the quiet. It settles right down at night,…
Bermuda International Film Festival – Ginger & Rosa (Sally Potter)
The Bermuda International Film Festival kicks off this evening with the powerful film, Ginger & Rosa, which Sue got to take a look at during the Toronto International Film Festival. I’m very excited to be able to cover this festival, and am looking forward to stepping inside the Liberty Theater. I haven’t been in there…
Bermuda and Back Again: A Happy Hobbit’s Return Home and a Film Festival Part 1
It’s been a long time since I’ve had the time or the luxury to travel, but when the Bermuda Film Festival was announced this year, I knew I had found the perfect reason to don my fedora, fill a kit bag and hop a jet plane. Being an air force brat, I’ve had the luxury…
ReelWorld: La Playa D.C. – Juan Andres Arango
Tomas (Luis Carlos Guevara) and his troubled younger brother, Jairo (Andres Murillo), live with their mother (along with her current partner and their baby) in the sprawling city of Bogota, Colombia. Despite losing their father in the small but violent, drug and war-torn village of Buenaventura on the country’s Pacific coast, neither boy has…
ReelWorld Film Festival – Contract – Shirley Frimpong-Manso
The 2013 ReelWorld film festival kicks off in high gear with Shirley Frimpong-Manso’s lighthearted romantic comedy from Ghana, Contract. We first meet Peter (Hlomla Dandala), a successful businessman who loves the ladies, but enjoys his bachelorhood too much to ever give it up for the stresses of an actual relationship. Realizing that he wants to…
Reel World Film Festival 2013
As luck and extreme good fortune would have it, I will be covering the Reel World Film Festival for the first time this year! Since Tim will be in freaking Bermuda (that’s my new name for it) covering their festival and passing out drunk on a beach somewhere, I’ll be taking on this one…
Toronto After Dark – Call For Entries!!!
We love film festivals here at The Mind Reels, so anytime one of them asks if we can help out we’re happy to oblige. Our friend Adam Lopez over at Toronto After Dark asked if we could share this, so filmmakers, get those submissions in NOW!!! Toronto After Dark announces Call for Horror, Sci-Fi,…
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