This year’s RiverRun International Film Festival in Winston-Salem will host a Work-in-Progress screening of the music documentary “The Wonder Year,” directed by North Carolina native Kenneth Price. CPJ recently caught up with Price and asked him to tell us a little more about his film.
The RiverRun International Film Festival in Winston-Salem will host the World Premiere of the documentary feature “The Day Carl Sandburg Died,” directed by Asheville-based filmmaker Paul Bonesteel. We recently spoke with Bonesteel and asked him to tell us a little more about his film.
British born writer/director Erica Dunton has steadily built an impressive resume of films over the past few years while maintaining a strong connection to North Carolina. With her latest film, “to.get.her,” which won a high-profile audience award at this year’s Sundance, set to show at RiverRun, CPJ tossed a few questions her way.
Regulars at PlayMakers Repertory in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, know Brendon Fox from the 2009 production of Michael Hollinger’s “Opus,” which he directed. In February, he returned to PlayMakers to direct both parts of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America.”
In the recent production of “Angels in America” at PlayMakers Repertory Company, Matthew Carlson appeared as the character Prior Walter. This is the second noticeable performance for Carlson on a prominent North Carolina stage this season: early this fall he was also Tom Wingfield in Triad Stage’s production of the Tennessee Williams classic “The Glass [...]
The 2011 RiverRun International Film Festival, held April 8-17 this year, the Festival will feature a spotlight on “Contemporary French Masters,” showcasing some of France’s most important films and filmmakers of the last decade.
The Wilmington Regional Film Commission announced that the new ABC Family TV movie “Teen Spirit” has opened its production office and will begin filming next month in Wilmington.
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, held April 14-17 this year in Durham, announced that it would open its 14th annual festival with the U.S. Premiere of “Guilty Pleasures,” directed by Julie Moggan.
Entertainment Partners, a payroll and production services company with offices in nine other states, announced February 18 that it was expanding into North Carolina. The company will provide both payroll and procurement services and will be based at EUE Screen Games Studio in Wilmington.
HBO announced on October 27 it had committed to a third season of the comedy “Eastbound & Down.” While the first season of the show was filmed in Wilmington, the second season principally filmed in Puerto Rico (standing in for Mexico), and returned for only a few days of filming in North Carolina. So far, [...]
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