The Adobe Youth Voices and Cinequest 2010 film camp kicked off yesterday with 30 participants gathering at the Adobe headquarters in downtown San Jose to begin the three week journey through the creative process of film making. Participants come from Boynton High School, CCOC, Moldaw Zaffaroni BGCP, Mervin G....

Mash-up Food Network with The History Channel and you'd have an intriguing documentary called Cooking History. Chances are, you've never seen anything quite like it. Surprisingly, it works well—although, I could do with one or two fewer animal decapitations. But this is life or death, depending if the bread...

As a guy it pains me sometimes to use adjectives such as cute, charming, delightful. But these are entirely appropriate for the latest Cinequest screener I watched called Raspberry Magic. Of a strong group of films so far, it may be the best yet. The story is centered around a...

https://vimeo.com/9385193 With only 12 days to go to opening night, our conversation with Cinequest co-founder Halfdan Hussey continues. This time he talks about the film submission and screening process. Imagine what's involved trying to select the very best, from over thousands of films? See what kind of impact that can have...

Here's one that will pull on the heart strings. The Tijuana Project is a refreshing change from the incessant drug battle-charged headlines we see coming out of Mexico, especially border towns such as Tijuana, just 30 minutes South of San Diego. I admit we sent this one to the bottom...

https://vimeo.com/9335031 Alejandro Adams is a Cinequest veteran. His newest film Babnik (Russian slang for "womanizer"), a World Premiere about the Russian sex trade, marks his third feature to be screened at the festival. Our very own Loni Kao Stark from SSC caught up with him at the media launch party to...

First, a quick recap. We're counting down to the Cinequest Film Festival 20, now opening in 15 days on Tuesday, February 23 with a screening of Dagur Kári's The Good Heart starring Brian Cox and Paul Dano. At the media launch party we received 10 screeners. We screen them. Write...

Here's a well-made film from Brazil. Called Paulista (Quanto Dura o Amor), the second Cinequest screener that Loni and I have watched, it follows the ups and downs of three relationships. It recently played at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Sex, and sexual identity play a big role and...

Fans of Cinequest come from all walks, circles. Ash Kalra, a San Jose Councilmember now in his second term, was gracious enough to spend a few minutes with us talking about the upcoming film festival. Sometimes these can be quite predictable, for all the right reasons: everyone raves about what...