Borscht Film Festival 8 Expands Its Scope — And Its Notoriety

I don’t think he’s seen it,” says Nick Ducassi, sitting in the living-room-turned-office of filmmaking collective Borscht Corp’s headquarters. He sounds unconvinced as he utters it. But Lucas Leyva, on a break from editing film in the adjacent Florida room, agrees: “He probably hasn’t seen it. [The letter] came from…

Hitchcock: This Psycho Film Is For The Birds

It must be said that Sacha Gervasi’s Hitchcock, opening today at Coral Gables Art Cinema, is worth seeing if you’re a fan of old Hollywood, the film industry in general, and/or Hitch himself. If you aren’t, feel free to skip this messy biopic as you’ll probably be bored — cue dramatic…

Borscht Film Festival’s #PostModem Accepted to Sundance

For the filmmaking team of Lucas Leyva and Jillian Mayer, it’s Sundance 2.0. The filmmaker/artist duo brought the short film Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke, to the Sundance Film Festival for the first time last year (along with some very unpretentious film fest swag in the form of…