Outstanding Achievement in Acting and Producing honoree and star of “The Kindergarten Teacher” Maggie Gyllenhaal walked the red carpet on opening night. Gyllenhaal accepted her award before the screening of “The Kindergarten Teacher.” Gyllenhaal discusses on the red carpet ho
By Renuka Vasu Lightning strikes twice for husband-and-wife filmmaker duo, Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. Three years after “Meru,” their incredible mountaineering documentary that followed three professional climbers up Mount Meru, they are back with “Free Solo,
A Quiet Place is a film unlike any before because its center character is sound. Since the protagonists live in a quiet world, there aren’t layers of airplanes flying, loud Foley footsteps or a radio in the background. There are only footsteps on sand, the mouthing of their words and the rub of th
They say that you can’t help but watch things go wrong, and Sara Colangelo’s “The Kindergarten Teacher” shows just how wrong it can get when a person reaches their breaking point. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays kindergarten teacher Lisa Spinelli, capturing the broken woman’s obsession w
Imagine turning the corner and seeing yourself there. That’s exactly what happened to Bobby Shafran, Eddy Galland and David Kellman, three identical triplets who were separated at birth and didn’t reconnect until almost 20 years later. The documentary “Three Identical Strangers,̶
“The audiences were much more moved by goodness than sadness,” Director Morgan Neville said of the profound emotional effect his most recent and highly successful project had on viewers. “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” tells the story of Fred Rogers, the man behind the legenda
Photos by Nick Thomsen The SCAD Savannah Film Festival kicked off the week-long event with movies including A Quiet Place, Roma, and The Kindergarten Teacher. Movies such as A Quiet Place had a talk afterwords with stars John Krasinski, Emily Blunt and Millicent Simmonds. Here is a photo recap of th
Film fest brings people from all over the world together to celebrate cinema in the relatively small southern city of Savannah. With such a huge influx of people, businesses get a welcome boost of customers during a time of year when tourism declines. With the likes of John Krasinski, Emily Blunt an
The League of Women Voters of Coastal Georgia and 9to5 Georgia have arranged for local businesses to give incentives for voting in the midterm elections on Nov. 6. Some businesses also are offering incentives during the Early Voting period as well, which began Oct. 15. All customers have to do is v
“This club is something we should have had years ago,” Basha Cole, co-founder of the SCAD Muslim Student Association, said. Cole is a second year grad student who, throughout all her six years at SCAD, was appalled that there was no MSA whatsoever on campus. Until this year, there hasn’t been