ABDUCTED IN PLAIN SIGHT

TEN BURNING QUESTIONS: Skye Borgman’s ABDUCTED IN PLAIN SIGHT is a dream of impossibility for the true crime documentary enthusiast

By John Wildman 7 years ago

Skye Borgman’s ABDUCTED IN PLAIN SIGHT is a dream of impossibility for the true crime documentary enthusiast. Tracing the two abduction/kidnappings of a pre-teen Jan Broberg by Bob Berchtold with the arguable permission of her parents, the film begins with a reality that is hard for one to wrap their head around, even acknowledging that the events of the film took place in the 70s and to a naïve Mormon family in Idaho – that two parents would stand by and more or less give permission to a man to take their little girl and even “marry” her.

FILM FESTIVAL PHOTO GALLERY: Dallas’s Best of Fests Celebrated its Historic Film Festival Event with one of the most fun Red Carpets on Record

By John Wildman 7 years ago

Dallas’ film festival community did something never before seen anywhere else in the country when 22 film festivals joined forces last weekend to offer up films from each film festival that either were award-winners, major hits from a previous edition of their fest, or simply demonstrated the programming style and taste of the film festival.

David Blue Garcia’s thriller TEJANO Opens Dallas and North Texas’s Best of Fests will be first film festival featuring all of a single city’s prominent fests joining forces for one big event fest

By John Wildman 7 years ago

The film festival community in Dallas, Fort Worth and North Texas has long been an unsung hero for film lovers locally, bringing films to audiences that they likely would never have had an opportunity to see on a big screen or even be aware of, otherwise.