Road to IFFBoston: Frownland
‘Frownland,’ winner of a Special Jury Award at SXSW is a film tracing the miserable existance of Keith Sontang, a “troll from under the bridge.”
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Road to IFFBoston: Blood Car
It’s the future, Gas prices are at $30 a gallon. Necessity being the mother of invention, a man invents a car that runs on human blood.
Road to IFFBoston: Saviours
Filmed over two years with no budget, ‘Saviours’ is the first film from Ross Whitaker and Liam Nolan. It follows the intimately the story of three boxers from St. Saviours Olympic Boxing Academy in Dublin, Ireland.
Road to IFFBoston: Larry (the Actor)
Produced by two Boston locals, Eric Poydar and Brett Portanova. The two met as PA’s on David Mamet’s “State and Main,” and have worked together ever since.
Road to IFFBoston: Second Skin
“Second Skin,” from Pure West films is a documentary about Massively Multiplayer Online Games, and the lives that they’ve transformed. Games like Second Life, and World of Warcraft have become a subculture, and “Second Skin,” follows a group of people and the effects such games have had on their lives.
Introduction: the Independent Film Festival of Boston
Before the last 5 years, living in Boston, one felt very much removed from the world of film. The festivals here were lower key, the projects that came to the city were few and far between. Something changed. Maybe the world got smaller. Boston no longer feels so removed from that world.