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This year’s Akron Film Festival features more workshops than ever

By Kyle Kutuchief

In addition to several films, this year’s Akron Film Festival features more workshops than ever. On Saturday at the Akron Digital Media Center, there are workshops on motion design and title animation. Saturday at the Akron Art Museum there will be a seminar on deconstructing Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and one on cinematography. On Sunday at…

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The Heldenfiles: Akron Film Festival

The annual Akron Film Festival kicks off its four-day run at the Akron Art Museum on Thursday.

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Meeting with NE Ohio movie pioneer leads to short film

Joe Siebert with Len Zaleski.

Joe Siebert, director of the short documentary The Real Bold Badmen discusses how a chance meeting during high school led to his new film about one of Northeast Ohio’s first independent filmmakers.

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Area movie maker gets inspiration from Film Festival

Chris Holmok

Chris Holmok is an independent filmmaker from Akron. His short movie See Jane Work, won the Akron Film Festival’s Movie Mashups contest in August. It screens as part of the festival on Sept. 24 at 10:55 p.m. at the Akron Art Museum. Here, Chris talks about making movies. All the elements have always been there.…

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Akron filmmaker discusses film about best friend

Dave Rich and Ted Mallison from the Akron-based band Houseguest discuss their filmmaking pasts in front of the now-demolished Fairlawn Lanes bowling alley, one of the many things reflected upon in the documentary film Sincerely, P.V. Reese by Philip B. Swift.

Philip Swift, director of the short documentary “Sincerely, P.V. Reese” discusses how his Akron roots convinced him to create a personal essay about the death of his best friend. The movie will be shown as part of the Akron Film Festival at the Akron Art Museum on Sept. 23 at 7:45 p.m. A few years…

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