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STIFF Film Review – Headcase
The amount of pluck and drive necessary to produce an independent feature is immensely admirable, and so it makes it hard for me to talk about Headcase with the candidness necessary to compose a film review. But here it goes: Headcase is a film whose…
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STIFF Short Film Reviews – A Certain Kind of Monster/Making an Impact/Wild Rice Without a Rat
The Seattle True Independent Film Festival (STIFF) runs from May 3rd to the 11th this year. With every festival, there are always scores of short films that premiere along with the full features. Here are a few from this year.
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STIFF Short Film Reviews – The 100 Hour Project/Everybody Masturbate
The 100 Hour Project (2012, 45 min.) It’s a tough thing, being an artist. Sure, you get to live in a world of creativity and imagination, but very few fortunate people have the opportunity to carve out a career. Many artists spend years struggling to…
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STIFF Film Review – Go Ganges!
J.J. Kelley and Josh Thomas, documentary filmmakers who last made Paddle to Seattle: Journey Through the Inside Passage (2009), return to familiar territory with Go Ganges! (2012). This time around, instead of kayaking from Alaska to Seattle, Kelley and Thomas take a much more ambitious…
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STIFF Film Review – Roadmap to Apartheid
Screened at Seattle’s True Independent Film Festival (STIFF), the engaging documentary Roadmap to Apartheid profiles the current struggles of life amongst Palestinians and Israelis in the current state of Israel. The film posits the premise that the situation in Israel now is analogous to that…
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STIFF Film Review – On Falling
Have you ever been the only sober person in the room when everyone else is high? And do you notice how fascinating all the stoners find themselves, but how in your sober estimation they get to be deadly dull? Well, that’s the same experience you…
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STIFF Film Review – The Caretaker
Tom Conyers’s The Caretaker (2012), an independent horror film from Australia, does something not enough horror films do right: makes us understand and even sympathize with its monster. Sure, there are good movies where the monster is a brainless killing machine whose sole purpose is…
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STIFF Film Review – Antihero
How does one go about writing a review of an independent film such as Antihero (2011)? Whenever a person or a group of people are able to create a feature-length film, a bit of credit has to be given, because it’s a very difficult feat…
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