Tribeca Film Festival

Phiphen Pictures will premiere the film "The God Committee" this month at the Tribeca Film Festival. The company is founded by Molly Connors, who lives in New Jersey and Maine. Producers also include Amanda Bowers, who grew up in Montclair, and Jane Oster, who lives in Englewood Cliffs...

Erin Lee Carr brings her compassionate eye to a teen who urged her suicidal boyfriend to go through with it, and to a memoir about her father, David Carr.

Roger Ross Williams' "The Apollo" looks at the 85-year-old Harlem performance venue in the light of black history in America.

Daniel Karslake's "For They Know Not What They Do" looks at four individuals who came out as transgender or gay to their families.

By PATRICIA CONOVER For Montclair Local Most of the children who watched “National Velvet” on television decided that they wanted a horse, Stephen Colbert observed. But not Rachel Weisz. When Colbert asked Weisz when she first realized that she wanted to be an actress, Weisz recalled watching Elizabeth Taylor’s star turn in National Velvet. “When I watche ...

Actress Annette Bening was the reason to make "The Seagull," says director Michael Mayer.

By GWEN OREL orel@montclairlocal.news We caught up to Bob Feinberg, Founder and chairman of Montclair Film, while he was out walking his Cavapoo dog Maeby (named for a character in “Arrested Development”) on a Saturday morning. Feinberg w... Read More ...

In our new series "Friends and Neighbors," we interview interesting people who live in town. Here: Montclair's Reuben Atlas is more than a filmmaker.

By GWEN OREL orel@montclairlocal.news A Fox News-watching conservative voter from Orlando named Travis has important things to say in Reuben Atlas’ new film, “ACORN and the Firestorm.” One might not think ACORN helped people like Travis, who aren’t liberal, but that isn’t true. For Atlas, who co-directs...