The Slate : The latest in all things cinematic

A message from Julian Farris Films to all of their supporters

One would think that the entertainment news media would be all over a story that involves an independent filmmaker, Michael Attardi who not only surpassed the all-time wins record but, has smashed the record as a non-studio giant. Attardi’s 66th award on the film festival circuit happened at the Queens International Film Festival.  No one can dispute that Attardi’s animation sensation, “Once Upon a…

While other children were playing jacks and hopscotch with their peers, five-year-old Michele Willner Levy was playing the quiet game with her mother. “We’d stand against an inside wall and we weren’t allowed to speak,” she recalls. “We’d only whisper until she felt that things were clear.” It really wasn’t a game at all. The year was 1944. World War II was raging. Michele and her mother, Frieda,…

As an Emmy Award-Winning News Reporter and Docujournalist for WFMZ-TV and President of Julian Farris Films, Jaccii Farris has come across amazing stories. She’s produced award-winning documentaries like Rhoads Opera House Fire; The Legacy of a Tragedy; Aftershocks: Earthquake in Haiti; and Timebomb: Allentown Gas Explosion. But her latest project, Letters to Frieda is one of even greater importance.   Farris…

A look at the Big Apple Film Festival

Musician-turned-director, Stephen Dijoseph discusses his very first film project

Short Reviews of Films from Tribeca 2014

Writer and director of Finding Neighbors, Ron Judkins, sits down with HFI

A Look at the SouthSide Film Festival

A Review of Oculus