Montclair Film Festival Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/montclair-film-festival/ What to Watch Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:10:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png Montclair Film Festival Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/montclair-film-festival/ 32 32 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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]]> Short Film Contest Winner/Runner-Up: Fall ’19 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/fall-19-shorts-winners/ Fri, 06 Dec 2019 20:50:24 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=31819 While it t’isn’t quite the season, at least in terms of popular holiday parlance, it is the season to announce the winners of our fall 2019 short film contest! In looking back at the last few announcement write-ups, I’ve noticed […]

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]]> A Conversation with Bob Byington, Kaley Wheless & David Krumholtz (FRANCES FERGUSON) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/frances-ferguson-bb/ Mon, 15 Apr 2019 18:39:44 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=31004

On Monday, March 11, 2019, at SXSW, I interviewed director Bob Byington to discuss his newest feature, Frances Ferguson (which I also reviewed). Joining us for the conversation were lead actress Kaley Wheless and supporting player David Krumholtz. The movie […]

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]]> Short Film Contest Winner/Runner-Up: Winter ’18 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/winter-18-shorts-winners/ Thu, 15 Mar 2018 16:14:10 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29173 I’d love to say that I rejiggered the quarterly Hammer to Nail Short Film Contests to dovetail perfectly with “Awards Season” but alas, it just worked out that way. I DID rejigger the contests so that the calls for entries […]

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]]> Short Film Contest Winner/Runner-Up: Summer ’17 https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/summer-17-shorts-winners/ Wed, 15 Nov 2017 00:13:20 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28701 As the late starting (I’m trying to reconfigure the short film contest submission time frames to better fit the film festival schedules at large) Hammer to Nail Summer 2017 Short Film Contest wound to a close on October 13, the […]

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]]> Short Film Contest Winner/Runner-Up: Spring ’17 https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/spring-17-shorts-winners/ Mon, 10 Jul 2017 23:15:21 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28355 Rather than starting in with some honest excuses in regards to the tardiness of posting the winners for the Hammer to Nail Spring 2017 Short Film Contest (day job is cray, Oak Cliff Film Fest rocked my socks), let me […]

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]]> Short Film Contest Winner/Runner-Up: Winter ’17 https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/short-film-contest-winter-17/ Mon, 03 Apr 2017 15:19:49 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27877 It’s that time again as we here at Hammer to Nail proudly present the winners of our quarterly short film contest!! It feels almost cliché to say it (or maybe I mean redundant?) BUT, this go around featured some STIFF […]

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]]> Short Film Contest Winner/Runner-Up: Fall ’16 https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/short-film-contest-fall-16/ Thu, 08 Dec 2016 00:29:46 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27284 This time of year is a particularly cold one for filmmakers. It’s no secret a wide swath of us have worked hard over the past year to create a film that might grace the screens of the Sundance Film Festival or […]

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]]> Charles Poekel’s 2016 Montclair Film Festival Wrap-Up https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/2016-montclair-film-festival-wrap-up/ Tue, 17 May 2016 13:48:58 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=26384 The 5th Annual Montclair Film Festival wrapped up last week.  Spanning two weekends, the fest continues to serve up a delectable blend of accessible indies, “local” films, and more challenging arthouse gems; a symbiosis that attracts a wide range of […]

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]]> Short Film Contest Winner/Runners Up: Summer ’15 https://www.hammertonail.com/watch-online/short-film-contest-winnerrunners-up-summer-15/ Fri, 31 Jul 2015 02:27:27 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=24868 Once again another Hammer to Nail Shorts Contest has come and gone and once again, all of us here at the site marvel at the sheer awesome of the entries. While of course the contest is fun, it’s also exciting […]

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