Filmmaker Peter Hsieh Drives All Night To Success
Set in the all-night dreamland that can be the city of San Jose, Drive All Night captivated virtual audiences at Cinequest 2021. I talked with writer/director […]
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Cinequest 2021: Röcket Stähr Rocks Death Of A Rock Star
Though he doesn’t play the orchestra in Death of a Rock Star, filmmaker/musician Röcket Stähr does pretty much everything else on the film. In the wake of […]
Cinequest 2021: Death Of A Rockstar
Te morituri, röck and röll. They did say that in the gladiator arenas, didn’t they? If not, let’s say they will in our future history, […]
Cinequest 2021: Slapface
Is there a relationship more special than that of a boy and his monster? Certainly the Virago doesn’t think so. After Lucas (August Maturo) and […]
Cinequest 2021: D. Mitry Spins Magic Out Of Sorrow
With My True Fairytale, filmmaker D. Mitry turned a personal tragedy into the inspiration for his first feature film. Currently streaming at Cinequest, My True Fairytale […]
Cinequest 2021: I Make Good Sounds At Parties
If a short film can cover insecurity, trauma, heartbreak, and hope in 8 minutes while telling a coherent story through a clever lens, you have […]
Cinequest 2021: Maya Sanbar Illuminates Child Refugee Crisis With Footsteps On The Wind
Having experienced the trauma of being a refugee herself, filmmaker Maya Sanbar knows its effect on children globally — whether it be the result of […]
Cinequest 2021: Joel Souza, The Man Driving Crown Vic
A successful screenwriter working from Fremont, California, Joel Souza turned feature film director last year with Crown Vic, a gritty cop drama covering one night […]
Cinequest 2021: Six Minutes To Midnight
It’s two weeks before the start of World War II. As schoolgirls take their exercise on a British beach, one of their teachers finds himself […]
Cinequest 2021: Nicholas Woods Confronts Echoes Of Violence
Filmmaker Nicholas Woods makes his Cinequest debut with Echoes of Violence, a revenge thriller that turns the genre on its head. Few characters allow you to […]
Cinequest 2021: Drive All Night
If you’ve walked in downtown San Jose by day, you might not have thought of it as a David Lynchian landscape. Maybe not even walking […]
Cinequest 2021: Talking Existence With hazart
Can you convince an AI to believe in an afterlife? That’s one of the intriguing questions posed by the writing/directing duo hazart in their new […]
Cinequest 2021: A Sexplanation
Let’s talk about sex. In documentarian Alex Liu’s mind, we don’t talk about it enough, or if we do, it’s not honestly enough. We may have […]
Cinequest 2021: A Hard Problem
“A memory is precious because it can be forgotten.” So memories get set in books, clothes, bric-a-brac, objects to sum up who a person was. […]
Cinequest 2021: Welcome To The Show
At a Cinequest years ago, I sat at a hotel bar with a director who specialized in interactive theater. He told me he thought it […]
Cinequest 2021: Alex Liu Offers A Sexplanation
Let’s talk about sex, honestly. In Alex Liu’s documentary A Sexplanation, he talks to people with different viewpoints, from religious conservatives to experts from the […]
Cinequest 2021: Everything In The End
Everything ends. That’s what gives it meaning. Or maybe it is all just meaningless. This may not be the year for you to contemplate that, […]
Cinequest 2021: Peter Hsieh Couldn’t Sleep, So He Created Drive All Night
To some, Silicon Valley is already a wonderland. Playwright Peter Hsieh saw another side to it, and taking his own sleepless nights driving around the […]
Cinequest 2021: Echoes Of Violence
Sometimes it isn’t about bad things happening to good people. Sometimes bad things happen to bad people that are out of whack with how bad […]
Fanboy Planet Podcast Episode 585: Rabehlmania In The Time Of Pandemic
As promised, here’s the official podcast episode, our annual conversation with Cinequest program director Michael Rabehl (the video is here). Also as promised, however, is […]
