Over the years, I followed film festivals that not only presented excellent programming, but found ways to focus on filmmakers. DC Independent Film Festival Annual Forum makes it their mission to find ways that will help filmmakers move forward with their works. Another establishing aspect since they are in the heart of the DC community […]

The DC Independent Film Festival Annual Forum has announced its 2026 film lineup and program, which will run Wednesday, February 11, through Monday, February 16, at theaters throughout the nation’s capital. This year, sound and music are at the essence of DCIFF. “This year’s festival will celebrate inspiring stories and the many sights and sounds […]

Country Music and Arrangements, with fellow Kinderhook band member Jerry Kopychuk, a conversation about the seminal days fusing genres with creative arrangements

Two years after they started playing together, Kinderhook Creek seized a foothold in the New York music concert scene in 1975 with the developing country rock sound, opening for Poco at the Schaefer Music Festival in Central Park before a crowd of 25,000 music lovers.

Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World" directed by Michael Fiore, is an intimate look at a father-and-son relationship in a family business that their Ukrainian patriarch started. Then in 2022 war broke out in Ukraine..

What brought us together – going to Sundance, hosting panels and programming, and speaking engagements, was a connection to a very special mentor, guru, and guiding star – Alice Guy Blache.

You can’t beat the hospitality that comes along with top-notch programming, in California wine country. Steve Shor has the magic touch as program director for the Sonoma International Film Festival with 120 films from 35 countries, chefs preparing food, and sommeliers pouring the wine.

LIGHT FROM THE EAST is about an extraordinary Ukrainian American stage production taking place during a coup in August 1991, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

After 40 years with Asbury Shorts USA, and still going strong, Doug LeClaire shares his secrets to a successful four-decade run that compares this theatrical event with an off-off-Broadway production.

I start the New Year catching up with Meira Blaustein Co-Founder/Executive & Artistic Director of the Woodstock Film Festival. Fiercely independent is her motto.