"God didn't say in the Bible: 'thou shalt be 110 pounds,'" the actress replied wryly when asked what advice she had to young women watching movies and questioning whether they conformed to the perfect feminine Hollywood prototype.
Director T. C. Johnstone visited Campbell University as part of its Undergraduate Lecture Symposium. He talks with us about how he got into film making and the challenges of filming Rising From Ashes.
It's not surprising then that a trio of films from this year's festival look at universities. Documentaries are often about the act of self-examination. So why not documentary film festivals?
What do Pamela Smart and Viktor Bout have in common?
A large part of what makes the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival so well curated is not just the quality of the films but the way they dialogue with one another.
"I would not come to a movie that I thought was a sermon."
Here is something that doesn't happen nearly as often in documentaries as it does in narrative films: a supporting character steals the show.
Minority opinions are important things, particularly in Christian circles where they are rarely trumpeted or met with as much charity or respect as they ought to be. So it is worth disagreeing publicly if not to persuade, at least to model that it can be done without vitriol or condemnation.
Bad Words is the third film I have seen in as many weeks featuring an emotionally arrested adult male mentoring an adolescent boy.
