Stories By Dylan Kai Dempsey
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Interviews
Video Interview: Lissette Feliciano (Women is Losers) – 2021 SXSW Film Festival
March 24, 2021Writer/director Lissette Feliciano’s debut feature, Women is Losers —named after the Janis Joplin song—is an exuberant...
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Interviews
Video Interview: Bradley Grant Smith (Our Father) – 2021 SXSW Film Festival
March 23, 2021You may recognize Bradley Grant Smith as an actor from recent indie gems such as The...
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Interviews
Video Interview: Martin Edralin (Islands) – 2021 SXSW Film Festival
March 18, 2021Filmmaker Martin Edralin’s tender debut feature Islands introduces us to Joshua (Rogelio Balagtas): a taciturn, 49-year-old...
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Film Festivals
2021 Sundance Film Festival: Dylan Dempsey’s Overview & Top 5 Films
March 12, 2021Before we head into next week’s SXSW online edition, I thought I’d circle back to the...
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Reviews
One for the Road | 2021 Sundance Film Festival Review
February 15, 2021Road to Redemption: Poonpiriya Paves the Way for Heartfelt Crowd-Pleaser Teetering between cornball and poignant, Baz...
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Reviews
R#J | 2021 Sundance Film Festival Review
February 8, 2021A Plague on Both Your Collab Houses: Carey Williams’ No Fear Shakespeare Carey Williams’ R#J is...
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Film Festivals
2021 Sundance: Dylan Dempsey’s Top 5 Most Anticipated
January 27, 2021Before COVID, we had pre-existing conditions: closing theaters, last-resort blockbusters and evolving formats. Now, in the...
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Reviews
Notturno | Review
January 18, 2021Darkest Nocturne Before the Dawn: Rosi’s Vision of War-Torn Lives Filmed on the borders of Iraq,...
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Reviews
76 Days | Review
December 3, 202076 Days Later: From the Frontlines of Wuhan As one of the earliest documentaries to cover...
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Interviews
Interview: Miles Joris-Peyrafitte – Dreamland
November 9, 2020At age 23, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte won a Sundance Special Jury Prize for his first feature film,...