Robert Ryan became a movie star working for Paramount Pictures and then RKO in the 1940s while Dana Andrews worked simultaneously for Samuel Goldwyn and Twentieth Century Fox. Their daughters, Lisa Ryan and Susan Andrews, talk about growing up [See the full post…]

Deborah Nadoolman Landis, president of The Costume Designer’s Guild, Local 892 in Hollywood, emphatically asserts that costume designers help actors discover their characters. And while big budget movies give designers plenty of resources, it’s not about the budget says Landis–it’s [See the full post…]

The director of the Los Angeles Film Festival, Richard Raddon, says that being overshadowed by Hollywood isn’t the challenge one might think. He says it’s a plus that Hollywood directors and actors live in the neighborhood, literally. The LA Film [See the full post…]

Independent media distribution over the Internet was once talked about–by independent content creators–as if it were a real option. But it was never realistic on a wide scale basis. The bandwidth, hardware and audience weren’t there. But times have changed. [See the full post…]