You’ve heard that “Battlefield Heroes” is like a Korean Monty Python film about the escapades of war in the 7th century with slapstick comedy, sight gags and silly kings. After seeing it screened at the Santa Fe Film Festival tonight,…
When the average American thinks of a symbol of freedom, they might not think of a wild horse, mane flying, galloping across a wide open plain. However, that iconic symbol is in danger of being forever lost to storytelling legend.…
Each of the delicacies in the Santa Fe Film Festival’s SHORTS PROGRAM III explores the loss of our innocence around our spiritual and intellectual decay, delivering a banquet of emotions to indulge in. This program screens Sunday, October 23 at…
What goes around comes around. Come full circle. Karma. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. A person’s actions, whether good or bad, will have consequences for that person. Actions create an entire cycle of cause and effect. In case you…
In this program of shorts from India, Italy, Albania and the USA, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Whether in the whole of a life, a decade, a day or a phase, we all make choices,…
“Killing Memories” begins like a movie script: A black screen with sounds of gunfire: Rifles. Machine guns. Running. Shouting. Chaos. The first images appear and a voice remembers: “That evening when I killed that first soldier I sat down to…
Thusday, October 20 9P-Closing OPENING NIGHT PARTY @ The Cowgirl 319 S. Guadalupe Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501 Friday, October 21 5P-7P FILMMAKERS’ LOUNGE NETWORKING RECEPTION (Open to the Public) 540 East Alameda, Santa Fe, NM 87501 (on the…
Immigration is a hot button for us here in the US, and films that deal with the topic are as old as “talkies” themselves. But the business of refugees in film is less specific, especially in the US where we…
The dramatic question which motivates “Callers” is this: How does a slovenly, down on his luck guy deal with the sudden and unexpected death of his girlfriend? There are several different avenues that a filmmaker can go down to give…
Friday, October 21 ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION: Curator Brent Kliewer and Pawel Wendorff 3PM @ The Zane Bennett Gallery 425 South Guadalupe, Santa Fe, NM 87501 The 12th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival presents an informal dialogue between Santa Fe…
Murder has become such a fun game in US films that we forget it is really a painstaking, methodical plod through evidence discovery, and often it has little to do with the dead body itself. In Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s ONCE…
The thing about short films is they are super concentrated bolts of thought. (You thought I was gonna say that the thing about shorts is they’re short. Heh. That too.) This gathering of projects in SHORTS PROGRAM IV that plays…
