Looking for a New Year’s resolution? I got one for ya right here. See something at one of our local theaters such as the Tower, not Edwards. Speaking of movies: Try something new in that area, too. Go to a Fresno Filmworks screening [or] the Fresno Film Festival, April 17-19, 2009, at the Tower Theatre.

I can’t tell you how many times people ask, ‘Why doesn’t Fresno ever get any good independent/art/foreign films?’ … But there are times, thankfully, when it’s downright easy to find these kinds of films in Fresno. In what is becoming one of the high film points of the year, Fresno Filmworks’ fourth annual festival unleashes a slew of intriguing titles from all over the world.

This didn’t exist when I attended [Fresno] State. It’s wonderful that now there’s a place for local filmmakers to express themselves.

Fresno Filmworks shows great films and needs to be supported. Also: They serve beer and scotch. Bonus!

They bring us a free screening of the indie Beautiful Losers, which is a film that I’ve been heavily anticipating that we’d get here locally. Filmworks comes through. Awesome!