Hollywood seems like a distant and peculiar land to most of us in RI. It entertains us from a distance, but we don’t usually think of it as directly affecting us. Right now, however, there are both a writers’ strike and an actors’ strike taking place that impact the part of Rhode Island that engages […]
With 48 hours of jam-packed production time, from casting to editing, small groups of filmmakers came together early this summer to build 7-minute stories. The rules were simple: include a character (either Edward or Elizabeth Vanterbus, Marine Life Scientist), a prop (a cone) and a line (“Read the sign. What does it say?”) but each […]
This summer has been unruly, with days swinging from blisteringly hot to torrentially rainy. During the second week of August, when everyone else is asking themselves, Will the weather hold so I can make it to the beach?, put something fun and interesting on the calendar instead — catch dozens of new films, including several […]
Photo courtesy of RI Film Office ‘90s movie nostalgia is alive and well in Rhode Island. 2021 saw the resurrection of the Sanderson sisters for the filming of Hocus Pocus 2. And this year, Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell reprised their roles of Dexter and Ed for the filming of Good Burger 2 in the […]
As a born and raised Rhode Islander, it’s hard to find films or TV shows that invoke the true atmosphere of New England. Most media that’s set in New England is typically focused on Boston, and many big-box representations of New England’s rural areas are just that – representations. That was a refreshing feature of […]
This year was packed with tons of highly anticipated movie releases. I was fortunate (or sometimes unfortunate) enough to see these movies for myself, and sometimes I was reminded of our good ol’ Rhody in these viewings. Here are 5 movies that I watched this year that reminded me of RI in some way, shape, […]
The spectacle of the big screen, the joy of a story well told and heartstrings left barely intact: George Marshall loved all these things, and that was reflected throughout his life’s prominent work. Marshall was the founder and, for 40 years, the director of the Rhode Island International Film Festival. He taught film – be […]
October will see the return of New England’s SENE Fest to RI for its 14th iteration, across the multiple screening rooms of The Artists’ Exchange in Cranston from Oct 13 – 15. Post-COVID, it’s extra exciting to consider having a bunch of filmmakers and film appreciators sit together and share a screening experience, and that’s […]
You have to be a little crazy to try to write, plan, cast, shoot and edit a short film in just two days. Yet 16 teams of people who are that exact kind of crazy took part in the 48 Hour Film Project Providence in August. The 48 Hour Film Project is an international competition, […]
Death. As the saying goes, it’s one of the few things inevitably shared by all humans. Yet when it’s pending, we often don’t know how to deal with it – and in cinema this reluctance is often reflected. Film is full of funerals and spectacular, world-saving sacrifices, but tends to flinch from confronting the slow, […]