2021 Nightstream - part 3
I’m thrilled to be covering this year’s Nightstream online film festival! Check out my coverage so far here. There are loads of genre feature films, retro screenings, short films, panels, and conversations. Here is my second dispatch from the festival!
In addition to feature films, there’s a bunch of panels and discussions. I caught 28 Films Later: What Every Filmmaker Should Know on their First Movie According to Divide/Conquer. D/C producers Adam Hendricks and Greg Gilreath share some of their bits of wisdom and what each filmmaker should know going into their first feature film productions. This wasn’t some infomercial, but they shared some good bits. I was interested because among their many films they produced included 2017′s Lucky (read my interview with director John Carroll Lynch here). While I, myself, have directed several films and been on quite a few movie sets, I even learned a thing or two from listening to these two talk.
Camille Rowe in Cosmic Dawn
Next I caught the sci-fi thriller Cosmic Dawn. I was interested in catching this because it is about alien abductions and I’ve always been fascinated with alien sightings, Roswell, etc. Lead character Aurora is now a grown up who has spent her whole life searching for her mother who she saw abducted by aliens as a child. At a bookstore, the clerk (played by Emmanuelle Chriqui of Entourage) recruits the woman for a UFO cult. I was into the first half and then it kinda lost me. Something about this just felt like it was straight-to-video or made-for-cable-late-at-night. Maybe it was that I saw this after watching Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes, which was one of the highlights of the festival (read my review here). Either way, I was disappointed!
I’ll have more reviews and coverage in the coming days.
For info on Nightstream: https://nightstream.org/
