The films of Linda Niccol play with our expectations of traditional gender roles. In both the short films Dangerous Ride and The Handkerchief, male-female protagonists engage in a dance of shifting perceptions and trust. In The Handkerchief, a young blind man (Krampus‘ Luke Hawker ) meets a passerby and an unexpected relationship evolves. In Dangerous [...]

This is the first of a two part story highlighting an active member of  Nigeria’s film community.  With local crews working on enterprisingly low budgets even by most independent film standards, Nollywood produces over 1500 direct to video films a year.  Hakeem Onilogbo is the 37 year old CEO of Hakeem Effects, aka Tricks International, [...]

Ready or not it’s here: Dick: The Documentary. Brian Fender, a fine art photographer, writer and filmmaker, is the man behind the film – a collection of interviews with men who share stories about their first orgasms, talk about circumcision, size, masturbation, molestation and religion among other things. The idea for the doc came to [...]

The best documentaries usually take a while to produce. It took four years and lots of international travel to make “Pulling John,” and all of that work shows up on the screen. At a lean 72 minutes, every frame of this film delivers either key character development or is part of a tension build for [...]