There is so much that goes into a film, from the performances, to the writing, to the camera work, to the editing, that many awards come down to a dead heat. However, someone has to take home the crown, and this year at the UWPG Film Festival, the categories were stacked.
Read MoreThere is so much that goes into a film, from the performances, to the writing, to the camera work, to the editing, that many awards come down to a dead heat. However, someone has to take home the crown, and this year at the UWPG Film Festival, the categories were stacked.
Read MoreTelling difficult stories is hard, but its harder when it’s your own. This was the task undertaken by Emelie Kastberg with her film Criteria of Rape, in which the Swedish filmmaker recounts her personal experience of being sexually assaulted while working in the film industry.
Read MoreIt has often been said that time is a flat circle. That no matter what we do, we are meant to follow the same paths throughout history. That the names and places may change, but the underlying experiences remain the same. This is felt powerfully in Isabel Jansson’s Heimat Europa, a film that tackles the universality of the female experience, the refugee journey to find ‘home’, and the way our past and future are closely intertwined.
Read MoreWhether it’s a coming of age story from Germany that explores how female and refuge experiences transcend time, or a quirky Mexican superhero film that will make any comic nerd smirk, these films will delight.
Read MoreArt comes to life on day 3 of the 2020 UWPG Film festival, with the Animated Shorts Program. Animators and visual artists from around the world have come together, producing films that will concern, delight, confound, and leave you entranced.
Read MoreSometimes titles mask a film, other times they tell you exactly what you need to know before the thing even begins. not everything has to work out falls into the second category.
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