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56th Nashville Film Festival Screens September 18-24, 2025 - Weekly Wilson - Blog of Author Connie C. Wilson
If you are planning on attending the 56th Nashville Film Festival to view any of the 150 or so feature films, shorts, animated shorts or documentaries (Sept.18-24, 2025) check out some reviews of...
“Ben’s Sister” Screens at 56th Nashville Film Festival on September 20, 2025 - Weekly Wilson - Blog of Author Connie C. Wilson
Emma Weinswig, is a talented Writer/Director/Actress who took home the SXSW Audience Award for "Ben's Sister," an 18-minute film that won the Narrative Shorts Competition at SXSW in 2025. The film...
“The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick” at Nashville Film Festival - Weekly Wilson - Blog of Author Connie C. Wilson
I missed “The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick” when it premiered at SXSW. As it turns out, that was probably for the best. Director Pete Ohs is having much more success with his newest film...
“Blondi,” (Hitler’s Dog), Takes Us On An 18-Minute Tour of the 3rd Reich at Nashville Film Festival - Weekly Wilson - Blog of Author Connie C. Wilson
The 18 minute short “Blondi” by Writer-Director Jack Salvadori follows Hitler’s dog in 1940s Germany. The log line says, “Can a dog still be man’s best friend if that man is the Führer? Blondi...
“Bark” Short to Screen at Nashville Film Festival on September 19, 2025 - Weekly Wilson - Blog of Author Connie C. Wilson
Directors Steven Lai and Leonardo Giovenazzo wrote and directed an 11-minute short entitled “Bark.” It will have its Southeast Premiere at the 56th Nashville Film Festival on Friday, September...
“Matter of Time” Documentary Features Eddie Vedder at Nashville Film Festival - Weekly Wilson - Blog of Author Connie C. Wilson
In 2014, musician Eddie Vedder and Jill McCormick Vedder co-founded the EB Research Partnership,a non-profit organization dedicated to finding a cure for the genetic skin disorder epidermolysis...
“Color Book” To Screen At 56th Nashville Film Festival on September 19, 2025 - Weekly Wilson - Blog of Author Connie C. Wilson
Will Catlett and Jeremiah Daniels in "Color Book" at the 56th Nashville Film Festival. (Photo by Autumn Bailey Entertainment). “Color Book” premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Festival and has garnered...
Printers’ Row on Saturday & Sunday, 9/6 and 9/7/2025 - Weekly Wilson - Blog of Author Connie C. Wilson
Today was the final day of Printers' Row 2025. It is the third largest outdoor book sales event in the United States. I've done Printers' Row at least 5 times, always with limited success, because...
Kyle Langford Poses Outside Auschwitz in GOP Run for California Governor - Weekly Wilson - Blog of Author Connie C. Wilson
Did Kyle Langford, a Republican candidate for governor of California, post a photo of himself in front of Auschwitz as an advertisement for "My 0% unemployment Plan." Yahoo fact checked it and...
“Little Bird” & “The Stand” At HollyShorts Film Festival - Weekly Wilson - Blog of Author Connie C. Wilson
Vietnamese filmmaker and AFI Conservatory MFA Graduate Oanh-Nhi Nguyen is the only filmmaker to have two films accepted into the HollyShorts Film Festival, taking place August 7-17th in Hollywood...
“Clout” @ HollyShorts Film Festival Examines Internet Life - Weekly Wilson - Blog of Author Connie C. Wilson
An interesting 16:50 short now playing at the HollyShorts Film Festival (Aug. 7-17th), “Clout” was directed by Johnny Murphy Dodge and written by Dodge in collaboration with Tom Duthie and Tristam...
“We Do Our Best” Screens at HollyShorts Film Festival - Weekly Wilson - Blog of Author Connie C. Wilson
Hannah Rose Ammon wrote and directed the 13:41 film “We Do Our Best,” her first directorial/writing effort after five roles as an actress. She enlisted veteran actress Jennifer Esposito to star in...
FBI Told to Erase All Mention of Trump in Epstein Documents - Weekly Wilson - Blog of Author Connie C. Wilson
BREAKING: Senator Dick Durbin drops a massive bombshell and reveals that Attorney General Pam Bondi "pressured" roughly 1,000 FBI personnel to sift through tens of thousands of Epstein documents...
Francis Ford Coppola in Chicago with “Megalopolis” on July 25, 2025 - Weekly Wilson - Blog of Author Connie C. Wilson
As part of my Birthday Tour (7/23), I purchased tickets to see "Megalopolis" (for the second time) with Francis Ford Coppola in attendance. He was coming to the Chicago Theater in downtown...
Department of Education Is Latest on the DJT Chopping Block - Weekly Wilson - Blog of Author Connie C. Wilson
“As Justice Sonia Sotomayor stated in her dissent to the decision that allows DJT to destroy the Department of Education, ‘When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and...
“2024:” Trump Threatens to ‘Bomb the S***’ Out of Moscow/Beijing - Weekly Wilson - Blog of Author Connie C. Wilson
There’s a new book out entitled “2024,” It is written by 3 co-authors who appeared on CNN to shill for this new book. The book is subtitled: “How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats...
Is the Trump Administration Looking Out for You During Weather Crises? - Weekly Wilson - Blog of Author Connie C. Wilson
In the wake of the Texas flash flood catastrophe that has, so far, claimed 50 lives, with over 29 missing, 27 of them young girls at a campsite (Camp Mystic) along the Guadalupe River, this seems...
Trump Orders Bunker Buster Bombs Be Dropped on Iran on 6/21/25 - Weekly Wilson - Blog of Author Connie C. Wilson
Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, framed the risks this way: “While we all agree that Iran must not have a nuclear weapon, Trump abandoned diplomatic efforts to achieve that goal and...