BRUISER’s crit & culture editor Alex Lei offers a preview of what’s to come at this weekend’s New/Next Film Festival
October in Baltimore is when the days get shorter, the humidity finally starts breaking, and — for the cinephilic — is when Station North becomes home to an overwhelming collection of some of the best emerging, low-budget, and DIY filmmaking you will see all year. From October 1-4, New/Next Film Festival will take up residency in the Charles Theater (as well as up and down the block for afterparties that always stretch until the sky turns from black to blue), and our city begins the center of the indie film world for a whirlwind weekend.
On top of our regular annual post-fest roundup from Lukas Armstrong-Laird (catch-up with last year’s edition here), this year on BRUISER we are expanding our coverage to help guide you through the nearly 40 features and baker’s dozen of shorts programs that New/Next has to offer this year. Later this week, we will be publishing a number of interviews with current-and-former Baltimorean filmmakers, including a conversation between Theo Anthony (Rat Film) and his old friend/collaborator Marnie Ellen Hertzler on her opening night film Eternity One, so stay tuned.
In the meantime, here is what is on my radar for New/Next 4.0:
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