Southwest

The 48 Hour Film Project (48HFP) is a wild and sleepless weekend in which you and a team make a movie—write, shoot, edit and score it—in just 48 hours. On Friday night, you get a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre. By Sunday night, the movie must be complete. “While the time limit places an unusual restriction on the filmmakers,” reads the 48HFP mission statement, “it is also liberating by putting an emphasis on ‘doing’ instead of ‘talking.’” MORE »

You can hardly turn a page of Pillsbury House Theatre’s press kit for Bulrusher without being reminded that playwright Eisa Davis was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. This leaves you looking forward to some remarkable scripting. However, I wound up thinking that if this is the caliber of talent they’re nominating these days, the Pulitzer folk should take a harder look the rest of what’s out there. If they really can’t come up with anything better, they should just take a year or two off from handing the award out. Woefully stilted from first word to last, Davis’s static saga of self-worth and identity isn’t much more interesting than watching paint dry. MORE »

South Minneapolis residents—and anyone else who enjoys watching youngsters make something of themselves—can point with satisfaction to Phillips Community Television (PCTV), where fledgling filmmakers have combined their talents to contribute La Llorona (The Weeping Woman) to the .edu Film Festival 2008. MORE »

Throughout your career, you’ve transformed local references to make them resonate far beyond Lyndale Avenue. Could you say more about that? MORE »