FilmAthens to Launch 8th Annual Music Video Festival on June 15

By Mark Rozeman at 11:30 AM on April 12, 2013

Unlike other festivals, Athens, Ga.'s Sprockets Music Video Festival serves to exclusively highlight the men and women who help singers and bands add the visuals to their songs. This year, the 8th annual festival is scheduled for June 15.   read more

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Sundance To Hold Summer Festival in Los Angeles

By Mark Rozeman at 2:00 PM on March 4, 2013

While the official Sundance Film Festival may have come and gone, the Sundance Institute is set to host a four-day summer film festival later this August in Los Angeles.   read more

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Compliance

By Will McCord at 2:58 PM on August 21, 2012

The Milgram experiment in the ’60s demonstrated that many of us will torture another human being if an authority figure tells us to do so. Similarly, Compliance is based on a real incident in 2004 where a phone call from a man who claimed to be a police officer was received by a McDonald’s manager who was instructed to hold and interrogate a teenage employee for a charge of theft. The conversation went on for over three hours, and the caller’s instructions got more and more outrageous. No transcripts of the exchange exists, which led writer/director Craig Zobel (Great...  read more

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Twenty Must-See Films at SXSW 2012

By Michael Dunaway at 11:44 AM on March 9, 2012

Is it possible that there are really 20 must-see films in a film festival that lasts less than a week? It's very possible if that festival is SXSW, one of Paste's favorite weeks of the year. As you might expect, given the festival's and our special interest in music, there are quite a few music documentaries on the list. But there's something here for everyone.  read more

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25 Sundance Films We're Looking Forward To

By Michael Dunaway at 2:37 PM on January 18, 2012

The 2012 Sundance Film Fest begins tomorrow, and Paste film editor Michael Dunaway will be on hand to separate the wheat from the chaff. Here's what already has him excited to be in Park City, Utah.  read more

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