Social media can lead to strange things, as evidenced in Stefan Avalos’ documentary Strad Style. Avalos profiles Danny Houck, a 32-year-old living in small-town Ohio at an old, rotting farmhouse, ...
The Sundance Film Festival won’t be handing out its awards until tomorrow but that other Park City shindig held its ceremony last night and a certain Stradivari obsessed documentary took some top ...
He started playing at age 2½ and had his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra when he was 10. So when film director Stefan Avalos says “I’ve never not known the violin,” he is not being hyperbolic.
Daniel Warth’s “Dim the Fluorescents” and Stefan Avalos’ documentary “Strad Style” have won the Sparky Awards for grand jury prizes at the 23rd Slamdance Film Festival. “Strad Style” also won audience ...
It shouldn’t be possible to reach port in as leaky a vessel as “Strad Style.” Yet this documentary about an Ohioan’s singular quest ends up thoroughly disarming and rewarding, despite a ...