Filmmaker Focus
STAR TREK Legend Jonathan Frakes
STAR TREK fans, we're about to make your week. SCREEN's Mike McNamara tracked down the legendary Jonathan Frakes, better known as Commander William T. Riker ...
READ MOREThree Star Michelin Chef Curtis Duffy Talks About SXSW Hit FOR GRACE
There are only twelve three star Michelin restaurants in the country, and Grace, in Chicago's West Loop, is one of em. The documentary FOR GRACE ...
READ MORETwo-Time Academy Award Nominee Bill Plympton
One of the great animators of our time, two-time Academy Award Nominee Bill Plympton, met up with SCREEN's Mike McNamara for this week's Filmmaker Focus. ...
READ MOREX-MEN Executive Producer and Co-Writer Tom DeSanto
"Hugh Jackman had submitted on old school VHS tape from London with a full man-perm because he was playing Curly in OKLAHOMA on the West ...
READ MOREA Pornumentary? Meet the Director of DANLAND
A pornumentary? If there is such a thing, this Slamdance hit is it. SCREEN's Mike McNamara met up with director Alexandra Berger out at Slamdance ...
READ MOREDEAR WHITE PEOPLE Director and Sundance Winner Justin Simien
"Justin Simien’s first feature film DEAR WHITE PEOPLE... is as smart and fearless a debut as I have seen from an American filmmaker in quite ...
READ MOREDirector Hunter Adams Previews His Film DIG TWO GRAVES
First Tuesdays with The Midwest Independent Film Festival will host the highly anticipated Chicago Premiere of DIG TWO GRAVES at Landmark's Century Centre Cinema on ...
READ MOREThe Anti-Valentine's Day Doc? HotDocs Hit LOVE ME
The perfect movie for Valentine's Day is a documentary about... Russian mail order brides? It's true, so says SCREEN's Mike McNamara, who viewed this riveting ...
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