by Rosemary Pacheco It may be cold outside, but things are heating up in Rhode Island. Those of us in the film world are very excited as the industry is booming right now – great things are happening all around us. Short film/TV pilot Half Pint, produced by Original Concept & Development Associates (Andre Stark […]
Go to the crawl space and dust off your joie de vivre, the Brown University French Film Festival is back. This year there’s a well balanced variety of films including a feature animation based on a best-selling graphic novel; a period drama that takes an original look at three days in the life of a […]
Q1: According the Athenaeum’s website, the building was the site of many important moments in the courtship of poet Sarah Whitman by this American icon, including the moment of that courtship’s demise in 1848. Q2: In 2005, the Athenaeum made the controversial decision to sell its unbound and complete copy of the masterwork of this […]
By Erin Swanson The 4th Annual Providence Children’s Film Festival is coming to town from February 14-19, thanks again to the hard work of several key players. Eric Bilodeau had over 22 years of experience programming thematic film fests when he came aboard as the director of programming for PCFF. “I had not been […]
The Independent Spirit Awards has named Providence-based filmmaker Laura Collela their Jameson FIND Your Audience Award winner for 2013. The prize comes with a $50,000 grant to cover the winner’s marketing and distribution costs. Colella, a mainstay of the Providence film scene, has frequently used the city as a character in her films, including Tax […]
What’s your biggest pet peeve? People who express loud and extremely confident points of view while being completely uninformed. Loud and wrong is not a good look on anyone. What do you never leave home without? Breath mints. Fresh breath, even while playing roller derby – it’s the right thing to do as a team […]
In a world where sandwiches are held together with drink umbrellas and OJ flows straight from the fruit to the glass, bacon-heads and health freaks alike can live and dine together in harmony. Liberty Elm Diner’s brunch-utopia pulls in more regulars than Sunday mass. What it exactly keeps people coming back is debatable . . […]
New Year’s resolution: Stop whining; make wine. At least, it is if you’re Emanuella Petrucci, owner and founder of Women Wine Making. Petrucci , who grew up on the west coast of Italy on top of a little mountain, started making wine in 2011 to honor her father and her heritage. “I grew up around […]