At the same time the South Carolina legislature was delivering a last-minute reprieve of the state’s beleaguered film industry, lawmakers in North Carolina were considering an expansion on their state’s tax incentive program to attract more film production business.
Since the beginning of her stage career, nearly six decades ago, British-born actress Rosemary Harris has received a lot of Tony Award nominations. How many? Don’t ask her – she’s embarrassed to say, with total sincerity, that she’s not entirely sure.
The South Carolina film community breathed a sigh of relief on June 29, when the Senate voted 28-13 to keep the state’s film incentives program intact. The result, which was far from certain until the final moment, was supported by “Army Wives” actresses Catherine Bell and Kim Delaney who travelled to the statehouse on the [...]
In January, Winston-Salem-based filmmaker Glenda Wharton premiered her new short film “The Zo” at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The nearly 30-minute animated opus, which is about a child trapped in a nightmare house by a monster, took five years of 12-hour workdays to complete.
I’m exceedingly proud of the fact that, over the past few years, the RiverRun International Film Festival has firmly established its reputation as one of the country’s preeminent regional showcases for international films. Despite its many successes, however, I’ve occasionally felt that our documentary program has struggled to find its identity.
In January, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival announced the hiring of Deirdre Haj as its new Executive Director. Since then, Haj has spent the past few weeks adjusting to her new role and preparing for this year’s event.
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham will open its 2010 installment with the documentary feature “Kings of Pastry,” about a French pastry competition, directed by Chris Hegedus and DA Pennebaker.
On January 8, with a mid-afternoon screening of the Belgian animated feature “A Town Called Panic,” a new independent movie theater in Winston-Salem opened its doors for the first time to the public.
In an effort to recruit more film and television productions to the state, North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue and a delegation of 20 other film industry leaders, including representatives of the Departments of Commerce and Labor, travelled to Los Angeles March 17-19 to meet with senior executives from the major studios.
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