Festival News Help Us Celebrate 15 Years of BWiFF Individuals and businesses who donate $250+ will be recognized on the big screen for their contribution before every session at BWiFF 2025.
Wrongfully Rotten 'John Carter' Was Too Good to Get Such a Low Score Do you think "John Carter" deserves the reputation it received? Or is it Wrongfully Rotten?
Cinema Cerebration Skip the Trailer for 'Words on Bathroom Walls' 'Words on Bathroom Walls' welcomes you into the mind of a teenager beginning with what will be a life-long struggle with paranoid schizophrenia. It’s terrifying. And beautiful.
Editorials Reflecting on the 25th Anniversary of “Speed” I woke up this morning and learned that Jan De Bont’s 1994 action-adventure “Speed” was released in theatres on this day 25 years ago. This information threw me a bit as I realized it has been 25 years since I began my obsession with the art of motion picture
Cinema Cerebration 'Booksmart' Gets Better After Multiple Views It’s silly. It’s foul. It’s nostalgic and moving. It’s also quite fittingly smart. Booksmart follows Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) and Molly (Beanie Feldstein) the day before their high school graduation — more specifically, the night before. The two best friends have chosen to pass up the opportunity to
Editorials Please Don't Spoil the Story Technology continues to connect humanity at an unprecedented rate, which is an incredible thing. Nearly anything we would want to learn about is right there at our fingertips and through social media we can communicate like never before. Storytellers are able to reach audiences they would have not otherwise through
Festival Alumni Mylissa Fitzsimmons Talks 'Everything in the End' Earlier this week, writer/producer/director Mylissa Fitzsimmons launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for her first feature film, Everything in the End. Fitzsimmons has had two short narrative films exhibited at Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival; the coming of age drama That Party That One Night screened at
Cinema Cerebration We're Better Together – Just Like in 'Avengers: Endgame' I’ve never been a comic book reader. In fact, I can’t think of a time when I read one. I don’t mean to infer that I was ever opposed to reading comics; I just never got into it myself. So it wasn’t the established characters that
Film & TV Netflix Experimenting with a Play Random Episode Feature Imagine you have just reached the end of a long day and what seems like a mirage before you is in fact the couch you’ve been longing for since you left hours ago. You manage to carry your exhausted self just a few more steps and then let gravity
Festival Alumni Band Called Catch Releases New Single 'See You Soon' with Music Video In the early days of Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival, programming included an evening dedicated entirely to independent music. Initially, the Blue Carpet Opening Night festivities were focused on music and then later got moved to midweek as the Festival Centerpiece Concert. The evening would begin with a opening performance