Film Festival reViews

On the vestiges of winter still dark and cold, I discovered their mission: To provide creative people with exceptional instruction, feedback and support in inspiring venues so that their writing projects, goals and careers move forward at a writing retreat in Italy away from the distractions of everyday life.

Fasten your seatbelts, Bette Davis Ain’t For Sissies is an entertaining mindbender. A one-woman stage show, written and performed by Jessica Sherr who transforms into her character, the legendary Hollywood icon, Bette Davis on the night of the 1939 Oscars. Davis arrives home after leaving the banquet hall in the Coconut Grove at the Ambassador […]

Facing racism, sexism, exclusion and just plain dismissal from a male dominant music establishment, The Girls in the Band, a documentary directed by Judy Chaikin, is about female big band and jazz instrumentalists whose stories and experiences as women overcame social and gender repressive obstacles to just wanting to play their music– in bands, in […]