Film Festival reViews

In the Land of the Lost Crusaders is a story of the Khevsurian warriors, forgotten guardians and keepers of the honor and spirit of the ancient Georgian Kingdom in the Caucasus Mountains. A small group of filmmakers are making this Georgian/Ukrainian/American feature documentary in a quest to capture and preserve the remnants of the last […]

Alice Guy Blache was the first woman film director of the first narrative film in 1896.  She built and wholly owned Solax Studio, Fort Lee, New Jersey in 1912 and accomplished things no one was doing at the time– special effects, super imposition, synchronized sound, colorization, cut mattes on film, developing fiction films as a […]

On Sunday, July 1, the Fort Lee Film Commission sponsored events honoring first woman filmmaker Alice Guy Blache. This early cinema pioneer made magic at her Solax Studio built in Fort Lee, New Jersey. From 1912 through 1918, she made hundreds of short and feature-length films– writing, directing, producing and distributing. Madame Blache is just […]