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Josh FarrellFarrell is a Sonoma native now living in L.A. and Bowden has credible directing credits after doing several successful projects, including The Full Picture, a feature-length film shown at a recent Sonoma International Film Festival. |
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Roger RhotenIt is not an overstatement to say that if Roger Rhoten had not more-or-less stumbled on the scene, exactly 20 years ago, no one would be watching The Houseboat—starring Cary Grant and Sophia Loren—in the cavernous theater behind the swinging doors. |
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Lana GreenThe summer she turned 10, while her schoolmates were throwing pool parties and hosting sleepovers and gorging on Sponge Bob cartoons, Lana E. Green made a movie. |
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Kevin McNeelyHe’s rolled up astride a vintage BMW bike, dismounting like a middle-aged James Dean. The helmet removed reveals a cascade of hair, a soft tumble of waves any 59-year-old man would be proud to shake loose. |
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Documentary Filmmakers in Sonoma |
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Finding the Beauty in darknessLisa Kristine has seen things—things she can’t un-see, things that haunt her, things that compel her forward. With camera in hand, she sets out, again and again, to document the pain, the neglect, the atrocities that hide in dark corners and in plain sight across the globe. |
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Film SchoolWhere other teachers go begging for pencils and chalk, the Wizard has rooms full of expensive technology. On a campus with a hint of custodial neglect, the Wizard’s vast lair sparkles and gleams. |
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Cultural terroristIt might be otherwise unfair to shackle John Waters to the outrageous legacy of his almost adolescent past—that was 40 years ago, he was only 25 after all, when he made the film by which he is most often measured. But the thing is, he embraces it, he affirms it, he is actually proud. |
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Cinema in Sonoma |
