Every year, thousands of eager filmmakers compete in what is arguably the most hectic film-production contest known to mankind. Salient Film Editor Gerald Lee sat down with student filmmaker Michelle Kan to discuss the competition and its appeal. Read more »
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Evening Flix
Evening Flix comprises a series of movies examining the lives, works and worlds of various artists. Here’s a quick guide to what’s being shown. Read more »
Film Review – Eternity
While Alex Galvin’s new sci-fi feature proves to be a technical success, it falters on an emotional level due to some irritating performances and underwritten characters. Read more »
Documentary Edge Festival 2013
For the purposes of your global education, here is Salient’s guide to the highlights of the Documentary Edge Film Festival 2013. Read more »
Film Review – Trance
Despite featuring a well-honed sense of visual flair, Trance is an appalling pile of drivel, assailing the audience with a chaotic story that never once makes you care about what’s going on. Read more »
Great Expectations
Directed by Mike Newell Adaptations of the works of Charles Dickens seem to come thick ...Read more »
Wellington Underground Film Festival
March 21-23 New Zealand Film Archive, 84 Taranaki St Low-budget filmmaking is something mainstream audiences ...Read more »
Film – Escapism Done Right and Escapism Done Wrong
It’s time to reclaim the word ‘escapism’. Let’s stop taking it to mean a juvenile fantasy that has no intellectual heft. Read more »
Film
“if you’re playing the movie on a telephone, you will never, in a trillion years, ...Read more »
Film Review – Zero Dark Thirty
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow 9/11 has shaped the world in ways that many filmmakers have ...Read more »
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