Melanie Addington Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/melanie-addington/ What to Watch Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:15:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png Melanie Addington Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/melanie-addington/ 32 32 That’s a Wrap on the 2026 Oak Cliff Film Festival! https://www.hammertonail.com/features/ocff26-wrap/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:10:12 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=56175

It was a whirlwind of a film festival. I’m talking about the 2026 Oak Cliff Film Festival that I was super lucky to attend July 30 through August 3. The fest itself ran July 31-August 2 but, I like to […]

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]]> The 15th Oak Cliff Film Festival is Here and This Time, It’s Personal https://www.hammertonail.com/film-festivals/oak-cliff-ff-26/ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:08:30 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=56130

I am writing to you from the 15th Oak Cliff Film Festival and this time, it’s personal. I’ll get back to that (you know what you did…) momentarily but, I really cannot believe it’s the 15th festival seeing as I […]

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]]> All Because Robert Redford Started a Film Festival https://www.hammertonail.com/features/redford-2025/ Mon, 19 Jan 2026 23:56:46 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=54079

Robert Redford changed my life. It was all the way back in 1997 and my friend’s sister heard I was really getting into independent film and was particularly interested in the Sundance Film Festival. Hell, who wasn’t back in 1997? […]

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]]> 20 FILMS TO SEE (VIRTUALLY!) AT SUNDANCE 2021 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/sundance-2021-preview/ Thu, 28 Jan 2021 19:13:26 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=34079

Founded in 1980 by Robert Redford to promote the art and craft of filmmaking, the U.S. Film Festival, rebranded as the Sundance Film Festival in 1985, has long been a beacon for American independent cinema. Ever since then, the annual […]

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]]> That’s a Wrap on FilmEx 2021, NOW with new Anti-Piracy Tech Starring Eventive! https://www.hammertonail.com/features/filmex-2021-wrap/ Sat, 16 Jan 2021 19:50:18 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=34028

(The annual Film Festival Alliance gathering usually takes place in Midway, Ut. pre-Sundance. However, this year’s edition is all virtual and Melanie Addington, HtN contributor/Executive Director of the Oxford Film Festival is in attendance. She brings us this report…) As film festivals, filmmakers and […]

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]]> 2021 Film Festival Alliance, Day Four: What Do Filmmakers & Audiences Think of Virtual Fests? https://www.hammertonail.com/features/film-festival-alliance-day-4/ Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:21:38 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=34018

(The annual Film Festival Alliance gathering usually takes place in Midway, Ut. pre-Sundance. However, this year’s edition is all virtual and Melanie Addington, HtN contributor/Executive Director of the Oxford Film Festival is in attendance. She brings us this report…) On day four of the […]

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]]> 2021 Film Festival Alliance, Day Three: Sundance Film Festival’s Gina Duncan on Staying Fluid in Covid Times https://www.hammertonail.com/features/2021-film-festival-alliance-day-3/ Thu, 14 Jan 2021 20:00:42 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=34007

(The annual Film Festival Alliance gathering usually takes place in Midway, Ut. pre-Sundance. However, this year’s edition is all virtual and Melanie Addington, HtN contributor/Executive Director of the Oxford Film Festival is in attendance. She brings us this report…) Although new to being the […]

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]]> 2021 Film Festival Alliance, Day One: Conferencing Together but Apart in a Pandemic https://www.hammertonail.com/features/2021-film-festival-alliance/ Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:34:33 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=33994

(The annual Film Festival Alliance gathering usually takes place in Midway, Ut. pre-Sundance. However, this year’s edition is all virtual and Melanie Addington, HtN contributor/Executive Director of the Oxford Film Festival is in attendance. She brings us this report…) After […]

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]]> How Problematic Programming Undermines your Entire Stance https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/problematic-programming/ Tue, 15 Sep 2020 15:08:24 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=33357

An op-ed by Melanie Addington & Bears Rebecca Fonte “It’s very, very important we put the stories in the hands of those who own those stories,” Taika Waititi said at a past TIFF, but the clip has been used as […]

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]]> 2018 MEMPHIS FILM PRIZE REPORT https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/2018-memphis-film-prize-report/ Mon, 13 Aug 2018 19:11:51 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29988 Earlier this month, I fled muggy Brooklyn for even muggier Memphis to serve as a judge for the Memphis Film Prize, an annual short-film competition. The Memphis Film Prize is an offshoot of the Louisiana Film Prize, which was started […]

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