• Environmental Film Festivals – A List for the Planet

    Environmental films didn’t really exist until about the 1970’s. For the most part there were few film-makers seriously looking at the earth and our place in it until the late 1960’s. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) became the first […]

    Jun 2, 2016
    Bob Peryea
  • CGI – Is it really worth It?

    CGI:  three letters that are as divisive as any in moviemaking, particularly among the rising stars and purists. Computer Generated Imagery have become the fallback of seemingly every movie made in the last 15 years. Is CGI really worth […]

    May 25, 2016
    Bob Peryea
  • Best 5 Short Documentary Film Festivals

    The creators of short films are a special breed. There is a perception that making a short film, particularly one under 10 minutes, is easier than making a full-length movie. Anyone who has tried to write a poem versus […]

    May 16, 2016
    Bob Peryea
  • Crowdfunding for Films: A Few Success Stories

    Crowdfunding is all the rage for filmmakers. They will put up their films for crowdfunding and hope that the money will roll in. It might, but there are some tricks that have worked for some films that producers and […]

    May 9, 2016
    Bob Peryea
  • Top 10 Queer Film Festivals

    It has been an open secret that Hollywood has always had its fair share of gays and lesbians. For decades, they hid their lives, but today they are open and honest about it. Today, there are not only LGBTQ […]

    May 2, 2016
    Bob Peryea
  • Top 10 Animation Film Festivals

    Many of us hear animation and think of cartoons playing on Saturday morning. Animation is so much more than that. Animated films are much more than simply funny. Many animated films span the range of film, from dramas to […]

    Apr 24, 2016
    Bob Peryea