Max Walker-Silverman returns with Rebuilding, a tender follow-up to his 2022 debut A Love Song that explores displacement, community, and resilience in the aftermath of a wildfire. Starring Josh O’Connor as Dusty, a Colorado rancher struggling to reconcile his identity […]

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There’s so much uncertainty in the world and strangely, as it always somehow seems to, the Sundance Film Festival reflects that. On a surface level, there’s the fact that no one knows where the 2026 Sundance Film Festival will be […]

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Max Walker-Silverman’s A Love Song (which Melanie Addington reviewed out of Sundance), follows the widowed Faye, a woman in late middle age, as she awaits the arrival of a high-school flame, Lito, whom she has not seen in years. She […]

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One of this year’s indie films to break out on the festival circuit is Max Walker-Silverman’s feature directorial debut, A Love Song. Having premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and screening at Berlinale and Tribeca, the drama has earned […]

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The Tribeca Film Festival just announced its lineup of narrative, documentary, & animated features/shorts for the 2022 edition. This year’s festival will run from June 8-19, and will open with the Jennifer Lopez Netflix documentary, Halftime. About 110 feature films […]

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For the first time in almost 19 years, I am not involved with Oxford Film Festival in any way other than as a fan and I am so happy to share that the team of Jim Brunzell and Program Director […]

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(The 2022 Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30 all virtually. Check out Melanie Addington’s movie review of A Love Song. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not pay just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) We all […]

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