- Indiewire talks with James Scurlock, the director of the doc "Maxed Out" about debt in America. "Now, I had planned to do kind of a romp through consumer culture, and that's how the film starts. But what I started to learn was that the real transformation has been in the behavior of the financial industry, not the behavior of individuals. Some reporters ask me, "What about personal responsibility?" My question is, "What about corporate responsibility?"

- Writer/Director Richard Linklater gets feted by his home crowd. Well deserved.

- Fortissimo Films has announced a partnership with Entertainment Farm to co-produce Kiyoshi Kurosawa's new film. Tentatively titled, "Tokyo Sonata," the film will be (in the words of an annoncement) set in contemporary Japan and, "is a story of the facade of modern day family life and how once we look beyond what is presented to us we often discover something quite different, often sad and heartbreaking."