The Moveable Fest
Stephen Saito is a writer from Los Angeles whose articles have appeared in The L.A. Times, Premiere, and IFC.com. He started The Moveable Fest in 2011 and still actively covers film festivals, focusing on independent films and emerging directors.
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moveablefest.com | Stephen Saito
A glitzy premiere at the Grauman’s Chinese may not always have the same magic as they once did when they can be counted on at least once a week, but during AFI Fest last fall, it would’ve been hard not to notice a particularly radiant crowd gathering on the red carpet for the bow of “Familiar Touch.” Facing a higher bar to clear when taking place at the adjacent multiplex in the Hollywood and Highland Mall, there was a real buzz in the air as a particularly well-dressed collection of...
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moveablefest.com | Stephen Saito
Back in 1965, it was a mark of great national pride in Canada when “Winter Kept Us Warm” became the first English language film from the country to premiere in Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival, a feat even more remarkable when it introduced another language that was quite uncommon for the time on screen.
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moveablefest.com | Stephen Saito
There’s nowhere on earth the Navy SEALS in “In Waves and War” wouldn’t go, but nonetheless Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk find the vets of the war in Afghanistan in a most unexpected place, considering an unorthodox treatment for their unresolved PTSD that involves venom of a poisonous frog (5-MeO-DMT) and the bark of iboga trees (Ibogaine) for their psychedelic properties.
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moveablefest.com | Stephen Saito
When Andrew Theodorakis first had the seed for what would become “The Sixth Borough,” he knew just how huge a subject hip-hop in his hood of Long Island was, but what he probably couldn’t anticipate was how he ended up following in the footsteps of the artists he idolized such as Eric B. and Rakim, Public Enemy and De La Soul as the momentum around the project started taking on a momentum of its own, much like the scene that inspired it.
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moveablefest.com | Stephen Saito
There’s a moment in “The Floaters” when Nomi (Jackie Tohn) would seem to be speaking on behalf of the film’s director Rachel Israel, trying to inspire the collection of teens in front of her by appealing to their more rebellious side at Camp Daveed.
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