A Retrospective of the Carmel Art & Film Festival

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The Carmel Art & Film Festival is days gone, and with it, that peculiarly L.A.-transplant vibration in the air—that mix of genuine film fan giddiness ...

A Talk with Carmel Art & Film Festival Opening Act Fred and Steve

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Fred and Vinnie is one of those personal-project Hollywood films that, primarily, actors carry with them a long time. Vera Farmiga’s Higher Ground, about a ...

Pardis Parker's 'The Dance' is a Short Film with Wide Appeal

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Pardis Parker is taking the short film genre by storm with his ten-minute romantic comedy, 'The Dance.'

The Carmel Art & Fest is Crazy for Matthew Modine

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My editor confesses that Matthew Modine's 1985 Vision Quest, aka Crazy for You (after the Madonna hit song), in which he plays a promising 18-year-old ...

Before the Carmel Art & Film Festival, Tom Sizemore Spoke to the Weekly

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Prior to the screening of his new film White Knight at the Carmel Art & Film Festival, Tom Sizemore spoke with the Weekly about movies, patriotism, drug addiction and second chances.

Shira Piven's Directorial Debut at Carmel Art and Film

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Shira Piven's feature-length directorial film debut, Fully Loaded hits the screens of the Sunset Center at this year's Carmel Art and Film Festival.

SpectorDance Nets a Cool $20k With Ocean

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After a heated online voting race between Galveston Tree Conservancy and the Spokane Reforesting Group, among others, SpectorDance came out on top scoring a $20,000 ...