The take-away from Friday's DC Shorts 7 p.m. Showcase is that you can get away with a lot more in a short film; it can be that much more raunchy, bizarre, offensive and opinionated. And I was a happier viewer for it.
Here were my thoughts on the films in Showcase 3, which will screen again [...]

Photos By Ben Crosbie
The sixth annual DC Shorts Film Festival kicked off its week of screenings this Thursday, with a two-hour showcase of 11 short films that surprise with their depth of story, creativity, and entertainment value. I've been going to the fest for the last four years, and while there's always reason for me [...]

“This was our film school”, said director Aron Gaudet about his first feature documentary, The Way We Get By, which has screened at more than 20 film festivals in the last three months, including Silverdocs this past week. Gaudet and his now fiance/film's producer Gita Pullapilly spent four grueling years on the project, working [...]

Winning the Sterling US Feature Award at Silverdocs was a surprise to directors Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher, whose documentary October Country moved beyond the traditional three-act narrative with a layered character study of a low-income rural American family.
The portrayal is particularly intimate in that it follows Mosher's own family.  He is the eldest of [...]

Casting in fiction filmmaking is often said to make or break a film.  But this is even more the case in documentary, where casting often involves making a bet that the subjects' lives will make for an entertaining story.
Director Marshall Curry certainly bet well when casting three tween race kart drivers for his latest doc, [...]