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From the award-winning short film It Felt Good to Have This Pain
By Jefferson Beavers 5.21.2013

Meet our 2013 festival short film competition winners

One month has now passed since the curtain fell on the 2013 Fresno Film Festival. Here’s one last look at this year’s award winners in our annual short film competition. BEST SHORT FILM (tie) and JOHN KELLY AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN CINEMATOGRAPHY It Felt Good to Have This Pain Director: Matt Latham June and Olivia…

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John Rios and his swede collaborators have remade the movies Kill Bill, Jackie Brown, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, and more. Photo by Andrew Veihmeyer.
By Andrew Veihmeyer 5.15.2013

Swede all-star makes homemade masterpieces

By Andrew Veihmeyer John Rios recalls the time when he landed his first acting role. With an intentionally awful Irish accent, he played the corrupt ex-cop Keaton in a “sweded” version of the mobster thriller The Usual Suspects. “I still fear that the great Gabriel Byrne might see that one day and facepalm,” he says.…

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