Scott Hamilton Kennedy

The Tribeca Film Festival announced selections for this year's narrative and documentary competitions. The festival, which takes place April 18-29 in Lower Manhattan, also unveiled the films for its non-competitive Viewpoints program, which focuses on...

Rufina Juarez has seen people who don’t know where food comes from. The nearest access to vegetables for the Los Angeles residents she works with is at corner markets, and the foods are not fresh, she said. The kids she works with have never seen...

While millions of moviegoers behold Woody Harrelson as a wild man shrieking warnings about the end of the world in "2012" right now, he's giving another showy performance in a small indie that could land him an Oscar nomination. "The Messenger" opened...

AFI Dallas celebrates its third year with a whopping 170+ movies!  What's a confessed film buff to do?  How does the saying go: so many movies, so little time? Okay, probably not, but AFI Dallas's film slate this year is jam packed with LOTS of goodies....

Scott Hamilton Kennedy's Oscar-nominated documentary, The Garden, is about the "largest urban garden in the United States" and efforts to save it. It's a tale of lawyered rich vs. organized poor, of property rights vs. squatter's rights and of brown vs....

The documentary category is where Hollywood wears its conscience on its sleeve, and this Oscar season's nominees have the politically engaged members of the industry buzzing more than usual over the range and variety of topics. Partly, that's because the...

Documentary maker Scott Hamilton Kennedy has earned critics' paeans and an Oscar nomination by training his camera on two intensely local, only-in-L.A. subjects: a play at a Compton high school and the rise and fall of a South Los Angeles community...

A whole world can be fit into 76 minutes, and that's what the splendid documentary "OT: our town" manages to do. The story of how a high school in Compton put on a production of the Thornton Wilder play, this film, brief as it is, is a saga as heartening...