POW Fest opens with Coming Up Easy, local director Rebecca Rodriguez’s drama of a possibly deadly struggle between sisters. It continues with a dual screening of Irene Taylor Brodsky’s The Final Inch (see interview on page TK) and the film that beat it for the Best Documentary Short Subject Oscar, Smile Pinki. But the unsung gem of the festival is The Betrayal (Nerakhoon), another Oscar nominee that took longtime cinematographer Ellen Curras 23 years to make alongside co-director (and subjec...

The 46th Ann Arbor Film Festival awards have been selected by this year's jury. Twenty-five filmmakers from around the world were awarded more than $18,000, with experimental, documentary, narrative and animation all represented. To learn more about each awarded film, you can easily search on the festival website. Ken Burns Award for Best of the Festival - $3,000The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) - Ellen KurasGus Van Sant Award for Best Experimental Film - $1,000Office Suite - Robert ToddMichael Moore Awa...

Following the recent First Amendment legal victory by the Ann Arbor Film Festival, famed free speech advocate and Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt will be in attendance. He will join producer/director Joan Brooker-Marks for a no-punches-pulled Q&A following the screening of her new tell-all documentary Larry Flynt: The Right to be Left Alone which plays on Saturday, March 29th at 7:30pm.Also on Saturday at 10:00pm, Steve Kurtz will join the Q&A following a screening of Lynn Hershman Leeson...