Stephen Saito

3 days ago | moveablefest.com | Stephen Saito

The warmth inside the bar that Sam Davis found for “The Singers” was real, though sometimes it could be a little too much so when telling the story of a group of strangers who find harmony with one another on a cold, wintery night and the production had to commence in the Los Angeles suburb of La Habra on a summer’s day. “I remember at one point, the opera singer was warming up in the walk-in refrigerator because his voice is so loud and needed to insulate himself.

6 days ago | moveablefest.com | Stephen Saito

Cari (Yelyna De León) has a problem in “20 Pounds to Happiness” and it’s not her weight, despite what she thinks as she dutifully attends support groups or finds herself eating fried chicken for comfort when things go awry.

1 week ago | moveablefest.com | Stephen Saito

In the opening minutes of “Papá Melissa,” Melissa Hackerman remembers it feeling as if she was walking into a cave to experience her rebirth, a new name coming to her in her dreams after she began her physical transformation into a woman to match what she had long felt inside.

1 week ago | moveablefest.com | Stephen Saito

Even though “American Sons” was built around the memory of J.V. Villarreal, a soldier in the U.S. Marine Crops who tragically didn’t return home from his service in Afghanistan, it is quite easy to believe he is still alive from his dispatches from the battlefield, enthusiastically describing all the parts of the military experience that were new to him as someone who spent his childhood in San Antonio.

2 weeks ago | moveablefest.com | Stephen Saito

Leave it to a writer to explore every meaning of the word “retreat” in “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” when Agathe (Camille Rutherford) finds out she’s been accepted into the Jane Austen Residency, a two-week excursion for writers in an idyllic chateau where she can let the thoughts for her work come to her during long walks on the property.