Justina Walford

FILM NEWS: Justina Walford from Studio Movie Grill Announces ONE STORY MOVEMENT with up to 11 $1000 prizes for documentary and aspiring filmmakers across the country

SMG’s One Story Movement project invites documentary and aspiring filmmakers to create a short film that highlights the work of those who strive to leave a positive wake in our communities. Films must be under three minutes and about an organization, community, or individual within 30 miles of a Studio Movie Grill location.

FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: Brooke Purdy and Colette Freedman ‘s QUALITY PROBLEMS Closes The Women Texas Film Festival’s red carpet with plenty of “Quality” talent as the fest closed things out with a lot of fun

The Closing Night red carpet for the Women Texas Film Festival was as energetic, eclectic, and fun as the headlining film, QUALITY PROBLEMS. Writer, director, star, Brooke Purdy and producer Colette Freedman set the tone for WTxFF’s big finale evening that included films from representing all sections and genres at the festival: documentaries, comedy, drama, horror, etc., you name it – the women that made it were on that carpet.

FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: Savannah Bloch’s AND THEN THERE WAS EVE Opens The Women Texas Film Festival’s Opening Night Red Carpet at Studio Movie Grill had filmmakers, a City Councilman, and the first Trans mayor – all there to celebrate the 2nd year of WTxFF

The Women Texas Film Festival (WTxFF) enjoyed an busy red carpet at Studio Movie Grill’s Northwest Highway theaters in Dallas. The 2nd year of the only full-fledged, female-focused film festival in all of Texas opened with Savannah Bloch’s award winner, AND THEN THERE WAS EVE, and the Trans community (including the mayor of New Hope, Texas) came out in force to support and check out the film.

FILMS GONE WILD: A rant about lame journalists and how a lot of people missed the amazing thing that Studio Movie Grill did when WONDER WOMAN opened

And meanwhile great film and entertainment journalists and critics like Steve Dollar, Susan King, and Ed Douglas aren’t getting raised on a pedestal by the people who employ them. Or frankly, not employed nearly as much as they should be. These are pros. People that do this stuff the right way. I don’t remember one of them having issues reading through the first fucking paragraph in a press release.

DALLAS ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2017 REVIEW: Lee Soo-Youn's BLUEBEARD is a creepy twisting vine, entangling reality and illusion as dismembered bodies emerge in an entirely modern tale

Beneath the surface, however, seems to be another theme that is perhaps a bold statement on the dangers of disassociation of connections and relationships in modern urban culture. It is strongly implied that this abrupt disruption from home, wife, child, professional identity and economic class helped ignite the doctor’s decline in mental stability—that the strain of these sudden jarring changes and absence of connectedness brought on a psychological collapse.