Twenty Years of Podcast Love

Independent film in conversation · 2006–2026

Film Festival reViews connects listeners with the people, ideas, and stories behind the festival screen.

Asbury Shorts with Doug LeClaire. A Woodstock Maverick with Meira Blaustein. Selected conversations from the archive.

The film festival experience

The films stay with us. So do the conversations. Explore independent cinema, festival discoveries, film preservation, and the people who make the stories possible.

FILM FESTIVAL · PROGRAMMING

Sonoma International Film Festival

DOCUMENTARY · PODCAST

Light From The East Keeps Shining

PODCAST · PROGRAMMING

What Do You Look For In A Short Film?

From the Festival Notebook

My first Cannes

A first encounter with the Cannes Film Festival.

An insider’s SILVERDOCS

Films, filmmakers, and documentary cinema.

A city of cineastes

Premieres and audiences in Toronto.

New Jersey on Film

Early cinema, women filmmakers, and a film history that keeps moving.

New Jersey’s next filmmaking chapter

New soundstages, studio campuses, and production crews are shaping New Jersey’s next chapter in film and television. Netflix’s Fort Monmouth campus and Lionsgate Studios Newark are part of that growing landscape.

Follow the places, people, and possibilities behind the story through Reel Jersey Girl—from New Jersey’s film history to the industry taking shape today.

Always another story

Christina Kotlar Turchyn

Twenty years of stories, conversations, discovery. The work continues—across screens, festivals, and generations.