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Dirty Hands Make Beautiful Porcelain

By Lauren Shipman | March 21st, 2012 in Film | Locale:

Play silent witness to porcelain artist Sue Paraskeva’s creation process via this haunting black and white artist profile.

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Prostitution With a Cherry on Top

By Brodie Lancaster | March 20th, 2012 in Film | Locale:

We talked to Charity Miller, the writer of comedy short Cherry on Top, after the film’s premiere at SXSW’s Midnight Shorts program.

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Robert Altman’s Missing Movie

By Nerida Little | March 20th, 2012 in Film | Locale:

A Kansas city flea market has turned out an original 16mm print of Robert Altman’s 1951 commissioned film ‘Modern Football’.

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5 Minutes With Taiwan Oyster

By Brodie Lancaster | March 19th, 2012 in Film | Locale:

A dark comedy that earned many a fan down in Austin, the Taiwan Oyster is set to make Billy Harvey and Jeff Palmiotti household names. Before that happens, we checked in with the actors to ask them our SXSW-inspired rapid-fire questions.

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Win $500k At The YouTube Film Festival

By Angela McCormack | March 19th, 2012 in Film

Take a stab at wining 500,000 big ones with Your Festival: a film festival by YouTube, created by you. Entries must be short but can be in any medium, format or style, and will be judged by the babin’ Michael Fassbender. Go! Enter!

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Spoiler Alert!

By Latoyah Forsyth | March 16th, 2012 in Film | Locale:

This is a public service announcement. College Humour Originals have joined forces with prominent television actors and actresses to advocate for a cause near and dear to patient television viewers hearts. Stop the spoilers. And yes, they’re talking to you.

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Sun Don’t Shine: SXSW Reactions

By Brodie Lancaster | March 16th, 2012 in Film | Locale:

Right up until its premiere at SXSW over the weekend, the plot of the latest feature film from indie darling triple threat Amy Seimetz was kept totally secret—and rightly so. Sun Don’t Shine stars Kate Lyn Sheil and Kentucker Audley as a couple facing significant obstacles in their dysfunctional relationship.

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Somebody Up There Likes Me: 100 Word Review

By Brodie Lancaster | March 16th, 2012 in Film | Locale:

It may star TV’s favorite soft-hearted Libertarian father figure, but don’t expect writer/director Bob Byington’s latest feature to play along with standard comedy rules.

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See Girl Run: 100 Word Review

By Brodie Lancaster | March 15th, 2012 in Film | Locale:

Nate Myer’s romantic drama See Girl Run is slow and steady, but doesn’t quite cross the finish line to leaving audiences satisfied.

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The Source: SXSW Reactions

By Brodie Lancaster | March 15th, 2012 in Film | Locale:

The feature-length documentary The Source premiered at SXSW over the weekend and provides a fascinating and intimate look inside the 1970′s apparently utopian group, The Source family.

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