Brandon Harris is a Brooklyn based filmmaker and journalist. He is a 2006 cum laude graduate of SUNY Purchase's Conservatory of Theatre Arts and Film. Brandon has written, produced, directed and edited several award winning short films including Happiness is no fun, a recipient of the 2006 National Board of Review student filmmaking grant, and Evangeleo, which has screened at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival and NewFest: The NYGLBT Film Festival among twenty festivals worldwide. Among his producing credits is Eva Vives’ (Raising Victor Vargas) short film She Pedals Fast(For A Girl) and Evan Louison’s forthcoming feature directorial debut, A Light In The Window Lost. He has served as assistant to producers Scott Macaulay and Robin O’Hara at Tribeca based Forensic Films (Vargas, Idlewild, Demonlover). He has contributed to Filmmaker Magazine, The National Board of Review online, Variety.com/TheCircuit and his own blog devoted to New York City cinema culture, Cinema Echo Chamber.
A hit at the most recent Rotterdam Film Festival, Paul Krik’s feature debut Able Danger is a Flatbush, Brooklyn set post 9/11 conspiracy tale that hinges its low budget thrills directly to a studied pastiche of classic film noir and a healthy cynicism of our government’s possible role in the events of 9/11 and the subsequent [...]
The ex-head of Slamdance loves Werner Herzog and Douglas Sirk.
Mark Russell doesn’t have many peers. This is what happens when your the visual effects supervisor for relatively low budget films. Having gleaned how to use the tools of the effects craft while working for Dreamworks in the late 90s, where Russell worked on such effects laden Steven Spielberg pictures as Amistad, Minority Report and Artificial [...]
Relaxed and genteel with a disarming smile and quick wit that strike you immediately upon meeting him, James Ponsoldt, the Athens, GA native who made a big impression at Sundance 06′ with his tragically underseen Nick Nolte high school baseball umpire drama Off The Black, is a well-rounded guy. He has a masters degree from [...]
2008 has proven to be a year of many ironies for filmmaker Benh Zeitlin, some sweet, others sour. His film, the visionary SXSW shorts winner Glory at Sea, is a sprawling post-Katrina, post-Apocalyptic New Orleans epic about a roving band of vagabonds and their child companions, all searching for their things or people they’ve lost [...]
In her blipster comedy I’m Through With White Girls, which cleaned up on the black film fest circuit last year before finally landing in NYC at a contentious BAM screening earlier this month, Jennifer Sharpe wears her black nerd credentials on her sleeve while maintaining a sure hand of a relatively conventional romantic comedy. Anthony [...]
Tom Quinn reveals what he’s listening to, his plans to remake Darby O’Gill and The Little People and how he saw The Dark Knight, just like everyone else.
Steven Boone
Film Critics & The Audience:...
Kevin Buist
FilmCouch #86: Happy-Go-Lucky and Adam...
Brandon Harris
Paul Krik of ABLE DANGER: The Media
Kevin Kelly
JCVD Review, Toronto 2008
Karina Longworth
Paris, Not France Director Adria Petty,...
Paul Moore
Revanche Review, Telluride 2008
Chris Thilk
Telluride 2008 line-up reactions
Lauren Wissot
The Eddie Izzard Awards: Films That...
FilmCouch #86: Happy-Go-Lucky and Adam Resurrected, Telluride 2008
We chat with some of the best filmmakers in Telluride (and the world): Mike Leigh and Paul Schrader!
