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• YS filmmakers travel to New York

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 5, 2010

  

  Two Yellow Springs filmmakers, Aileen LeBlanc and Jim Klein, will be filming part of a documentary entitled “Take Us Home” in New York City on Monday, Nov. 8.

• Eat, Pray, Love

  By Aaron ZaremskySeptember 17, 2010

  

  Monica Hasek organized a Yellow Springs Version of the memoir “Eat, Pray, Love” last Thursday with the help of Yoga Springs Studio, the Winds Cafe and the Little Art.

• Looking at Yellow Springs through our elders’ eyes

  By Sehvilla MannJuly 22, 2010

  

  In 1999 local filmmaker Patti Dallas produced “A Portrait of Yellow Springs Through the Eyes of Our Elders,” a documentary for which she interviewed 17 individuals aged 75 and older. The elders spoke to themes such as the village’s early history, local resources such as Glen Helen and Antioch College, and the landmarks of Yellow Springs.

• Local filmmakers to screen works at FilmDayton Festival

  By Megan BachmanMay 13, 2010

  

  More than 20 years ago Jennifer Sharp worked as a janitor at the Little Art Theatre, cleaning the bathrooms and sweeping up popcorn. The 36-year-old is now back as a successful film director to show her first full-length feature.

• Film shows role for prison art

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 11, 2010

  

  As a filmmaker who has experienced some success and some challenges, Joanne Caputo has occasionally asked herself the question, “Am I an artist?” It’s perhaps a feeling she shares with her nephew, John Caputo, who is the focus of her latest documentary. As a prisoner for 11 years at the Graterford and Harrisburg penitentiaries in Pennsylvania, John Caputo would say that art in some ways saved him. But in making a life after his release, he wonders if he is truly an artist or simply an ex-con who makes art.

• ‘The Last Truck’ is Oscar-bound

  By Diane ChiddisterFebruary 4, 2010

  Steve Bognar and Julia Reichert, the village’s most famous filmmakers, will become even more famous next month when they attend the Oscar awards ceremony in Los Angeles as directors of one of the five films nominated in the Best Documentary Short category.

• Short films debut at Little Art

  By Stephanie BeasleyJanuary 14, 2010

  

  Filmmaker and villager Vanessa Query, left, has organized a festival of original short films that will be shown at the Little Art Theatre at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 21. She is shown with Little Art -Executive Director Jenny Cowperthwaite, who is enthusiastic about providing a venue for independent filmmakers.

• Red carpet for film biz partners

  By Stephanie BeasleyNovember 12, 2009

  There are many differences in the lives of good friends Diana Scott and Donna Lynn Johnson. A practicing nurse as well as the owner of Scott Street Tavern in Springfield, Scott is also a film student at Wright State University and the mother of two children. Johnson has a teenage son and is the owner of the Main Squeeze on Xenia Avenue. In her spare time, she runs a food consulting company and previously held positions with companies like Dole and Safeway Manufacturing in her native California.

  There is, however, something that is bringing these two seemingly divergent lives together: a joint venture that they have named Mad River Films.

• A nonprofit, Little Art lives on

  By Web AdminOctober 22, 2009

  Zack McGhee loves the Little Art Theatre. He first started coming here for the indie circuit as a teenager from Fairborn and then in 2006 became a projectionist to get paid for one of his favorite pastimes. He is proud to have brought his Republican parents here to see films such as Michael Moore’s Bowling […]

• Filmmakers strike a nerve with D.C. ‘Tea Party’ march video

  By Diane ChiddisterSeptember 24, 2009

  “We knew when we were putting it up that if it had a certain quality and speed, it might get attention,” Whiteside said.