by Tom DeWolf | Jun 7, 2008 | Appearances by Tom, Movies, Reviews
I’m new to the film festival circuit. I’ve learned that each festival takes on a certain theme, sometimes planned and sometimes not. The Newport festival ended up selecting a variety of films having to do with family/relationship issues. I intended to...
by Tom DeWolf | Jun 4, 2008 | Movies, Reviews, Traces of the Trade
I arrived in Newport, Rhode Island yesterday afternoon for the opening of the Newport International Film Festival where Traces of the Trade is one of the featured films. The film that opened the festival held particular interest for me. I missed it when it played at...
by Tom DeWolf | Apr 22, 2008 | Appearances by Tom, Inheriting the Trade, Movies, Reviews, Traces of the Trade
Next week Katrina and I will participate in the Council on Foundations Philanthropy Summit in Washington, D.C. We will be guests of Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media. We’ll attend an all-day session on Wednesday–Philanthropy and the Media–at the...
by Tom DeWolf | Apr 14, 2008 | Movies, Reviews, Race, Oppression, Privilege
This past Friday night MSNBC broadcast the documentary film Meeting David Wilson. David Wilson is a 28-year old African American man from New Jersey who, in researching his ancestry, found another David Wilson–a white man from North Carolina whose ancestors once...
by Tom DeWolf | Mar 7, 2008 | Books, Reviews, Movies, Reviews
This past week Lindi and I have been on a movie kick. We went to our favorite local video store, Westside Video (we are deeply biased since we started it in 1984 and owned it for 14 years), with nothing in particular in mind and perused the shelves for something that...
by Tom DeWolf | Jan 28, 2008 | Inheriting the Trade, Movies, Reviews, Traces of the Trade
Here’s an article in the Hollywood Reporter that covers the highlights of Sundance in a succinct and balanced way–in my opinion at least; and certainly in the mind of the article’s author, Kirk Honeycutt. I happen to agree with his perspective...
