6-1-12: Maryland Morning Screen Test: Lotfy Nathan

Lotfy Nathan is chronicling the lives of Baltimore’s “Twelve O’Clock Boyz,” the renegade dirt bikers who inspire some Baltimoreans and terrify others. He takes the final Maryland Morning Screen Test.

Maryland Morning Screen Test Presents Lotfy Nathan

The final Screen Test in our two year series features the work of Lotfy Nathan

4-27-12: The Maryland Morning Screen Test Presents Bryan Robinson

Tom Hall interviews filmmaker Bryan “Grasshopper” Robinson about his documentary “Water Boy,” his animated films, and his thoughts about being a filmmaker in Baltimore.

TONIGHT, Wed. 4/25: Bryan “Grasshopper” Robinson Takes the Screen Test

At the Windup Space this evening, the Baltimore filmmaker Bryan “Grasshopper” Robinson talks about his new documentary focusing the people who sell water on the street, his music videos, and his animation projects.

April 25: The Maryland Morning Screen Test Presents Bryan “GRASSHOPPER” Robinson of Grasshopper Philms

The Baltimore filmmaker Bryan “Grasshopper” Robinson talks about his new documentary focusing the people who sell water on the street, his music videos, and his animated projects.

3-30-12: Maryland Morning Screen Test presents Sig Libowitz

Attorney and film producer Sig Libowitz tells Tom Hall how he came to make a courtroom docudrama based on recently declassified transcripts from Guantanamo detainee tribunals, and how the military reacted when he screened it for the Pentagon.

March 28: Maryland Morning Screen Test presents Sig Libowitz

Sig Libowitz had a distinguished career in film when he entered law school. That’s where he found a story that makes us reexamine the frontiers of American jurisprudence. On March 28, Tom Hall interviews Libowitz in front of a live audience at The Windup Space about “The Response,” his film about a “combatant status review tribunal” at Guantanamo Bay.

2-24-12: The Maryland Morning Screen Test Presents Steve Blair

Producer, writer, and director Steve Blair is known for his 2010 comedy, I Do & I Don’t, starring Jane Lynch. He talks with Tom Hall about creating that film, producing commercials in Baltimore, and his plan to take on the War of 1812 in film.

1-27-12: Maryland Morning Screen Test: Karen Yasinsky

Karen Yasinsky tells Tom Hall why she felt she had to make the leap from visual art to motion pictures, and how a puppet can make you feel something even if its face never changes expression.

January 25: Maryland Morning Screen Test presents Karen Yasinsky

Tom Hall will interview filmmaker Karen Yasinsky in front of a live audience, then screen some highlights from her career.