Tribeca Film Festival is my backyard as a Reel Jersey Girl accessing the most interesting, spine-tingling, and controversial work for the nextfor eleven days.

Twelve years, on New Year's Eve, I put out my first podcast program calling it a tryst for indie film lovers around the film festival circuit worldwide.

Witnessing Jessica Sherrs one-woman show, Bette Davis Aint for Sissies, we concur its a firecracker of a show where you fasten your seatbelts its going to be a bumpy night.

While most films we've seen at Tribeca Film Festival depended upon programmer scheduling to fit with our own, there were several that fit perfectly with the women in film line up that I focus on. Yuri Turchyn found the most appropo music for this episo...

Friday Night Opening Weekend at Tribeca Film Festival 2017 was a one of a kind cinematic experience under Special Screenings The Public Image is Rotten combining performance and after the film screening conversation with John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten,

Women in Film History Month with Barbara Moss, founder of Women's Film Preservation Fund, along with the amazing, committed women on this WFPF committee and New York Women in Film & Television (NYWiFT) as well as their partners –staunch and steadfast –...

Strad Style, winner of the 2017 Slamdance Documentary Feature and Audience Award literally knocked us off our feet.

Woodstock Film Festival 2016 Movies & Music on a recent perfect fall weekend in the Catskills. Check out Christina Kotlar and Yuri Turchyn absorbed in the art of conversation sorting through a carefully chosen weekend schedule of award winning films pi...

On a recent perfect autumn weekend spent in the Catskills, at the fiercely independent Woodstock Film Festival 2016, Christina Kotlar and Yuri Turchyn recap in an absorbed art of conversation sorting through a carefully chosen weekend schedule of award...

Film Festival reViews Archives Episode 01 Tribeca Film Festival 2006, with interviews and commentary from filmmakers; Laurence Asseraf, executive director of the Tribeca Underground Film Festival, a short film showcase and one of the first stereoscopic...