Beginning this April through the end of the year, Webby Award nominee and Indiewire parent company SnagFilms will roll premiere a new film for free each week. SnagFilms viewers will have the chance to watch 40 acclaimed indies and documentaries for the very first time exclusively on the website -- and at no cost! The monthly premieres, which you can stream online and through mobile devices and set-tops, will complement holidays as well as current and special events. The first of April's premieres is Alrick Brown's powerful Sundance Audience Award winner "Kinyarwanda" (available now), commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide. Also available now, in the spirit of Tribeca and Coachella, is "Let Fury Have the Hour," a portrait of 2012 counter-culture.Additional films making their April and May debuts include the following (select trailers below): "Rabbit Fever" (4/21) -- You've heard of dog and horse shows, but are you familiar with rabbit.
- 4/21/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
I love weird and wacky documentaries. I must have seen Trekkies and Trekkies 2 a hundred times each (I've spoken to Denise Crosby and they're going to try and make a Trekkies 3. I'm working on getting an interview with her.) and I loved King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (despite its timeline inaccuracy). Anything that's weird or talks about a sub-culture of America I've never seen or heard about before fascinates me. I recently watched the documentary Racing Dreams at ShoWest about three teenagers all trying to be Go-Kart champions and it was awesome.Now a new documentary has surfaced about the highly competitive world of rabbit shows. What? Written, produced and directed by Amy Do, the documentary looks like another strange, weird and funny look into that small slice of Americana you don't see everyday.Rabbit Fever is a coming-of-age story that follows six competitors as they strive...
- 4/8/2010
- LRMonline.com
Even though I grew up in New York City, I was always surrounded by beloved family pets that ranged from big to small. There was Gypsy, our German Shepherd and the kitty gang, Stinky, Spooky Skeezer and Louie (formerly Lu Lu before "she" grew noticeable boy parts), along with a Russian Dwarf Hamster named after a character from one of my favorite childhood books, Emmylou Tittlemouse. One of the pets I still miss to this day was a rabbit named Pierre, who was a black, miniature something-or-other breed and lived in the bedroom my brother and I shared at the time. Our big orange cat, Louie, would torment Pierre by camping out on top of his cage and glaring at him for hours on end. You can't underestimate nature.
Filmmaker Amy Do understands that that this notion is true, among all creatures -- the idea that humans can't fight their...
Filmmaker Amy Do understands that that this notion is true, among all creatures -- the idea that humans can't fight their...
- 3/2/2010
- by Alison Nastasi
- Cinematical
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