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 […]
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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 […]
Cinequest 2021: Director Michelle Danner On The Runner
For several years, Michelle Danner has worked as an actor and acting teacher in Los Angeles. After appearing in many films and television shows, she […]
Cinequest 2021: Fireside Chat With Michael Rabehl
We’re officially beginning coverage of Cinequest 2021 with our annual podcast preview guest-starring (as always) program director Michael Rabehl. The difference this year? We’re on […]
Actor Shawn Patrick Boyd Creates A New Role: Graphic Novelist
Actor/writer/producer Shawn Patrick Boyd guested on the podcast last year with writer/director Charlie Griak to talk about their film Nina of the Woods, available now for […]
Fanboy Planet Podcast Episode #574: Good News!
Interview with Paul A. Kaufman, writer/director/producer of Butter, the state of comics delivery, film releases, and then more good news than you’re expecting!
Cinequest 2020: Butter
Kids can be cruel, often because they’re just thoughtless. And in the internet age, as a now disgraced comedian once observed, empathy can be harder […]
