Despite the dual SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, the festival circuit keeps chugging along with a steady stream of indie and international films screening locally. Film critic Erin Trahan highlights the fests to explore this season.
Critic Sean Burns says RoxFilm's nine days of screenings, panels and music brings audiences more than the the "pop cultural fascination with Irish gangster movies and tiresome townie caricatures" they've come to expect.
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