Archive for April, 2010

ATLFF 2010: A Look at Alley Pat: The Music is Recorded

ATLFF 2010: A Look at Alley Pat: The Music is Recorded

“The music is recorded… I’m ‘bout the only thing live around here.” – Alley Pat Those words were uttered into a microphone, charged through the airwaves and came alive on radios across Atlanta some time in the mid-eighties, signaling the start of three to four hours of conversation, joking, jiving, trash talk and, if you’re [Read More]

ATLFF 2010: “Battle” Fatigue and other “Grooves”

ATLFF 2010: “Battle” Fatigue and other “Grooves”

A new Battle of Atlanta is brewing at the AFF!  Whether a coincidence or a tongue in cheek programming decision, two films with the word “battle” leading the title are screening on the same day within hours of each other!  Twice! Ironically, both films have a civil conflict of sorts as part of the plot.  [Read More]

Sisters “Carry” Quite a Load

Sisters “Carry” Quite a Load

The Things We Carry is the debut feature of the Lobit Sisters. Athena Lobit produces while Alyssa Lobit wrote the script and stars in the movie directed by Ian McCrudden. The film tells the story of Emmie (Alyssa Lobit) revisiting home after the death of her drug-addict mother. She reluctantly reconnects with her estranged sister [Read More]