Fourteen years in the making, Limited Partnership became a labor of love for filmmakers Tom Miller and Kirk Marcolina. Here the pair discuss the film’s resonance as both a work of marriage equality advocacy and the celebration of a moving love story.
Forty years after lighting the fuse on the same-sex marriage debate, and with the Supreme Court expected to make a decision on nationwide same-sex marriage any day now, former Boulder County Clerk Clela Rorex joins Tony Sullivan to discuss the impact of their brave action all those years ago.
Critic Noel Murray writes about docs and features — from Chicago 10 to Night Moves — centering around American activists and radicals who’ve defied the status quos, sometimes questionably, and sometimes in ways that today seem more noble than dangerous.
Test your knowledge about all the things that were happening in America in the year 1971, from politics to music, movies to sports. The more far out your score the more groovy you are, man.
In her new film Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity, NYC-based filmmaker Catherine Gund found one of the more dynamic artistic minds in a city not lacking for creativity. Gund recently spoke to us about what it was like to capture Elizabeth Streb, “the Evel Knievel of dance,” on film.
One has to be a tough cookie inside and out to brave Elizabeth Streb’s challenging and risky POPACTION choreography. Two of the players featured in Born to Fly took a time out from running, dancing, ducking, falling, and spinning to talk to us about life in this unusual dance company.
Elizabeth Streb’s POPACTION pushes her performers to their athletic limits, and it got us wondering: what other forms of extreme performance art are out there? Not surprisingly, the human mind is capable of journeying to some quite intense places. Here are but a few.
Filmmaker and educator Andrew Beck Grave speaks about his deeply personal interactive documentary on the anniversary of the disastrous tornado that swept through his Alabama hometown, in a unique project that proved ultimaely therapeutic.
Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly’s film, The Homestretch, turns a sympathetic eye to an issue that is widespread across the United States: teen homelessness. The filmmakers jointly answered questions about making a film with main subjects leading lives in constant flux and uncertainty.
First-time filmmaker Theo Hope talks about the making of Little Hope Was Arson, including how he approached telling this tense story, how those depicted in it feel about the film, and the challenges of trying to get access to the Texas prison system.
Filmmaker Lacey Schwartz talks about Little White Lie, including ways it’s changed everything for her family, and how — while her story is certainly unique — she thinks it will spark similar conversations in other families.
A big part of the appeal of Little White Lie is tied to its hook, the story of an individual discovering that everything she thought she knew about her life was wrong. Read about nine other documentaries and feature films that center around a deep family secret that had maximum impact.
