Nevertheless Film Festival: South Mountain
August 8, 2019When home falls apart, we learn to shelter ourselves
A Conversation with Bridgette Auger, Co-director of “We are Not Princesses”
August 8, 2019“We are Not Princesses,” a documentary feature about a group of Syrian women living in a refugee camp in Lebanon, played at the premiere Nevertheless Film Festival at the Michigan Theater on July 14.
“The Dead Don’t Die” with Jim Jarmusch live in NYC
June 25, 2019Jim Jarmusch: An Unconventional Filmmaker In 1984, director Jim Jarmusch went to the Cannes Film Festival for the first time and won the Camera d’Or for Stranger Than Paradise, a film that would define modern American independent cinema. This year, his latest film, The Dead Don’t Die, opened the festival. In the thirty odd years
For Nevertheless Film Festival, female film directors are just the beginning
June 17, 2019Nevertheless Film Festival opens in mid July in Ann Arbor, and Current sat down with festival founder Meredith Finch to talk about what makes this film festival unique. The festival’s name is inspired by the phrase “Nevertheless, she persisted,” spoken by Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell when justifying his move to silence Sen. Elizabeth Warren
Trembling On The Brink
May 31, 2019The Brink follows former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s mission to unify extreme nationalists across the globe after his exit from the Trump administration.
Cinetopia is Off to a Brilliant Start at the Michigan Theater
May 13, 2019The Ann Arbor Film Festival launches its eighth season with “Before You Know It”, a comedic drama about a family theater company and (finally) coming of age