Peter Wong

Is it possible to love a city branded the worst place to live in America?  Rajan Gill and Reaa Puri’s short documentary “Harvest Party At Camp Two” shows how it’s possible to do so without embracing masochism.  Who cares if<br> Read More »

Directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (and Lessin in particular) are not strangers to the  pages of Beyond Chron.  The documentaries “Trouble The Water” and “The Janes” (co-directed by Lessin but not Deal) have been previously discussed here.   Opening<br> Read More »

Bradley, the protagonist of Stuart Valberg’s short “And They Shall Handle Serpents.” only has one spoken phrase in the film.  Admittedly, his words are easy to miss if the viewer is not paying attention.  Then again, much about this slightly<br> Read More »

Aaron Hughes’ entertainingly daffy episodic “Cat And Nat” hilariously mixes stop motion animation and live action.  Its loony world of mischief-making dust bunnies and harbingers of doom fortune cookies makes a viewer grateful they don’t actually live in the titular<br> Read More »

Ashley Brandon’s entertaining short “Panther Pat” recounts the forgotten strange but true story of the first woman to play on a professional American football field in 1970. Her name was Patricia Palinkas, a school teacher and a wife.  More relevantly<br> Read More »

Julia Loktev’s epic nearly five-and a-half-hour documentary “My Undesirable Friends” is several things: a paean to independent journalism not beholden to official sources or access, a group portrait of several idealistic mostly 20-somethings who wanted to better the country of<br> Read More »

The Dan Lungrens and Gregory Corraleses of the world would brand Kip Andersen and Chris O’Connell’s documentary “Join The Club” a cinematic hagiography of an unrepentant miscreant.  For those of us aware of the lives saved and good times delivered<br> Read More »

Chelsea Christer goes from documentary (“Bleeding Audio”) to fiction with her short “Out For Delivery.”  It’s a dark comedy which follows a woman whose desire to achieve death with dignity falls considerably short of her efforts. That woman is Joanna,<br> Read More »