Ian Durkin

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Staff Pick Premiere: the real-life urban legend “DOGWALKER”

Some stories are too good not to retell. When I hear a tale that seems stranger than fiction, I usually cannot resist sharing it with my friends and family. Although, with each retelling, one piece of essential truth seems to…

Staff Pick Premiere: “A Grand Canal” tells a 16mm tragedy

As filmmakers, we wield the unique ability to revise the world around us by scripting and reworking it into a version that feels most significant to ourselves. For Chinese/Canadian filmmaker Johnny Ma, his ambition to approach a…

Staff Pick Premiere: coming of age as a ‘Five Star’ recruit

As many Americans can attest, in recent years the college admissions process has transformed into an expansive and expensive mesh of competition, aspiration, and anxiety. Perhaps no American understands this more than Brandon…