BY CYNDI GREENING, PHOENIX, USA (CINEMA MINIMA) — I’m excited to report that I will be posting a podcast with respected Film Critic, Author and Film Festival Aficionado Emanuel Levy this week! Levy is a prolific writer. His website has a mountain of commentary on contemporary independent and mainstream film. He’s started a series of articles on the upcoming Oscars. If you’re unfamiliar with Levy (gasp!), you can get a good sense of his sensibility by reading Levy’s Article on Oscar’s Year of New Faces. Tune in later this week for the podcast.
Levy has long followed Independent Film and the Festival Circuit. His book Cinema of Outsiders explores the idea of independent film becoming a victim of its own success. The massive crowds at key festivals (like Sundance) and growing media machines that roll into those festivals each year support Levy’s assertion that Hollywood has co-opted the movement and mainstreamed it.
A thoughtful, provocative, visionary film writer, Levy wrote about the Images of Small-Town America in the early 90′s. Small-town America is the primary setting for independent film.
