The Director of Photography circled the gear and nodded, approving the way the packages were coming back together. I was crouched over his smattering of cases in a parking lot off of Market Street, loading up a delicate array of equipment for his return trip to New York. We had worked for days on location, [...]

I never intended to be a film programmer. In fact, like most people, I had no idea what that was until I programmed my first film festival at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) in 1992. I grew up in Ripon, Wisconsin (pop. 7111, the Birthplace of the Republican Party), and my salvation in this tiny [...]

Shanele Alvarez, a freelance cinematographer, finds filmmaking a means of expressing her passion in culture, education, and photography.  Her journey to being a cinematographer started when she first saw the making of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video. She soon began creating her own videos as a hobby, utilizing her family members as subjects.  Shanele continued to [...]

Kym is an experimental filmmaker whose work has been shown at many festivals, including the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, Perv Queerotic Film Festival in Sydney Australia, and Athens International Film & Video Festival, where she won Best Experimental Film for Devil’s Dairymaid. Kym’s work has also been featured in the “Oh Economy, Up [...]