Abigail Honor’s “Saints and Sinners” screened at CUNY TV Studios as part of the film series “Documented Italians” presented by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College. “The director’s talent lies in her ability to suggest different aspects of the theme without favoring one over another”, writes journalist Letizia Airos Soria in her column in IADP. “At the end of the screening, the audience was left with an overarching feeling of purity and simplicity.” Read more…

“The Girl Next Door”, a feature produced and shot by Persona’s regular collaborator, Bill Miller, is now available on DVD in stores near you. Firefox News calls it the “Year’s Most Disturbing Movie.”

Peter Rosen’s “Who Gets to Call It Art?”, a documentary on the New York art scene of the 60s, filmed by Yan Vizinberg, will air on Sundance Channel on July 16th, 9:00pm ET. Watch David Hockney, Frank Stella and James Rosenquist recall their beginnings and discuss Henry Geldzahler, the first curator of contemporary art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose career spanned Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art and Minimalism.

We learned this and much more in Grace Hartigan’s studio in Baltimore while shooting the documentary about the artist whose friends included Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Larry Rivers.

“Flannel Pajamas,” a film directed by Jeff Lipsky and produced by our friend (and attorney) Jonathan Gray, opened last week at New York’s Angelika Film Center. Hollywood Reporter calls it “a thoughtful dissection of the courtship and marriage of two ultimately mismatched New Yorkers.”