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Written by Stephen Hart
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Monday, 19 April 2010 |
 “The music is recorded… I’m ‘bout the only thing live around here.” Those words were uttered into a microphone, charged through the airwaves and came alive on radios across Atlanta some time in the mid-eighties, signaling the start of three to four hours of conversation, joking, jiving, trash talk and, if you’re lucky, some good music from the 50s and 60s.
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Written by Steve Warren
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Wednesday, 21 April 2010 |
 Possibly my favorite line in any movie this year comes from “Dumbstruck,” as an entertainer who’s on the road all the time explains the dissolution of his marriage: “After 25 years, she decided she didn’t want to be alone anymore.” The irony, at a time of personal heartbreak, shows why Dan Horn is one of the more talented of the five ventriloquists director Mark Goffman follows for a year in his documentary.
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Written by Stephen Hart
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Thursday, 15 April 2010 |
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 Stephen Hart reviews short film Asbury Park. Colin returns home to Asbury Park, a city undergoing revitalization, after a relatively short stint in jail. Though he is welcomed by his mother, his brother is less than happy to him back. Colin strives to gain his brother’s forgiveness for a wrong that he cannot right.
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Written by Martin Kelley
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Monday, 12 April 2010 |
 Patrick Franklin makes his directorial debut with Pushin' Up Daisies, which will premiere at the 2010 Atlanta Film Festival. The movie incorporates his love of cinema, a penchant for the absurd, and his dedication to challenging the customary. The film tracks an intrepid yet inept filmmaker who's trying to create a documentary about flowers. However, as a zombie outbreak threatens his artistry.
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Written by Martin Kelley
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Tuesday, 13 April 2010 |
 Short films are often overlooked in the hype surrounding film festivals and truthfully it is somewhat understandable. The features are like the quarterbacks of the film world. They’re the ones that bring home the big prizes and can change the face of film-making for at least 6 months.
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Written by Martin Kelley
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Thursday, 15 April 2010 |
 Rebound relationships can be a real bitch. So goes the theme of the RomCom/Horror mash-up Love on the Rocks which is written and directed by Georgia Tech grad Justin Edwards whose feature film marks his debut at the Atlanta Film Festival.
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Written by Martin Kelley
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Wednesday, 15 April 2009 |
 "It ain't where you're from...it's where you're at." - Rakim. One of the most famous quotes in the Pre-Millennium Hip-Hop lexicon certainly applies to one of the films in the documentary section of the Atlanta Film Festival Where You From.
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