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Woodstock Film Festival • Film

ON THE LINE: John Murlowski and Shylo Molina on Who Helps the Helpers

At the 2026 Woodstock Film Festival, a conversation about compassion fatigue, boundaries, and playing a young person as more than a diagnosis.

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Woodstock Film Festival • Independent television pilot

WOODSTOCKERS: Corbin Bernsen and Stephen Tobolowsky Bring the Conversation Home

Corbin Bernsen and Stephen Tobolowsky join me as the independent television pilot reaches the 2026 Woodstock Film Festival.

Screening Room

Inside Blow the Horn: Director Nacho Arenas on Trust, Performance and Knowing When to Intervene

Coffee Tea or Labrish Media speaks with Blow the Horn director Nacho Arenas about adapting a play for his first feature, trusting actors, purposeful details and the filmmaker’s responsibility behind the camera.

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K Files

K. Michelle Is Showing Us the People Behind Jesus & Whiskey

CTOL K Files examines Me, Myself & K, Kristian Bush, Simone Tisci, Blame Tennessee and the people behind K. Michelle’s Jesus & Whiskey era.

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Culture Desk

I Thought I Knew André Leon Talley—Then I Read The Chiffon Trenches

Mona revisits André Leon Talley through television, America’s Next Top Model, and The Chiffon Trenches—and sees the man behind the spectacle.

Culture Desk

My First Impression of Lauryn Hill Was on Screen

Mona Indefatigable Heights traces her personal Lauryn Hill review from Sister Act 2 and Jamaica to MTV Unplugged, the BET performance, and YG Marley.