Robert Drew (left), president and founder of Drew Associates, an independent documentary film producer, explains to an interviewer, Alfred Norrins, the new concept of journalistic filmmaking he pioneered in the late 1950s, which came to be known as American cinema…
War on Weed Gone Way Wrong
This is the story of Jesse Snodgrass, a kid with Aspergers Syndrome who was entrapped by an undercover cop posing as a student at Jesse’s high school.
BIRTH OF A GUITAR
Watch Kipp Krusa craft a guitar at his shop in Bon Aqua, Tenn. The video was produced and directed by Christopher Durai. The soundtrack was written and performed by James Scott on a Baritone Krusa Guitar.
Black Coffee: The Irresistible Bean
The beginning of a three-part documentary on coffee. It starts where coffee came from: Ethiopia, the place a goat herder named Kaldi discovered it. It moves on to the Arab world, then Turkey before it’s smuggled to India and finds…
‘BATTERED BASTARDS OF BASEBALL’: No Bunting in this Netflix Documentary
By Gregory Crofton Independent films, yes, everybody knows about them. Indie baseball? That existed too, at least it did for five seasons in Portland, Ore., back in the ’70s. Think the baseball version of “Slap Shot,” a wild sex-and-beer-fueled hockey…