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By Chris Ball
The Plain Dealer
Five survivors of Anthony Sowell's house of horrors on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland's Mount Pleasant neighborhood take center stage in this dark 2016 documentary. Cleveland filmmaker Laura Paglin tells the convicted serial killer's shameful story through the victims' perspective. Melvette Sockwell, Vanessa Gay, Latundra "Lala" Billups, Shawn Morris and Gladys Wade lived to tell how they were lured into his death trap...
By Andrea Simakis
The Plain Dealer
If you think you’ve seen everything you need to know about the crisis in urban education after watching “Waiting for Superman,” think again. Director Laura Paglin spent three years inside Entrepreneurship Preparatory School, a charter school on Cleveland’s East Side that boasts test scores that are among the highest in the state. Smartly, Paglin focuses her lens on one student, seventh-grader Tyree Stewart, a charmer who arrives at E Prep barely able to read but with dreams of becoming a “billionaire scientist”...
By Andrea Simakis
The Plain Dealer
When software entrepreneur John Zitzner approached Cleveland filmmaker Laura Paglin about shooting a documentary about a fledgling charter school he'd helped start on the city's East Side, she was intrigued. But first, she laid down some ground rules: She would have "complete creative control" and act as an independent entity. And it "wouldn't be creating a glorified PR piece," she says...
By Michael K. McIntyre, Plain Dealer Columnist
Cleveland Plain Dealer
MONDAY METRO
Cleveland Councilwoman Fannie Lewis got a standing ovation at the screening of the film "No Umbrella - Election Day in the City," a documentary about problems at a Cleveland polling place in the 2004 election in which the fiery Lewis is the star. The film will be shown again tonight at 6 at City Hall...
By Julie E. Washington
Cleveland Plain Dealer
The subscription DVD service Ironweed Films will release Cleveland Heights filmmaker Laura Paglin's short documentary "No Umbrella - Election Day in the City" in April. It will be packaged with a feature film and other short films by other directors, said Ironweed outreach and marketing manager Natalie Silverstein...
By Clint O'Connor, Plain Dealer Film Critic
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Park City, Utah - After years of waiting, she finally got invited to the big dance. She had to say no.
Cleveland Heights filmmaker Laura Paglin was thrilled when the Slamdance Film Festival accepted her short documentary "No Umbrella: Election Day in the City." Slamdance runs concurrently with the Sundance Film Festival. Paglin had also submitted her film to Sundance, America's premiere film festival and one of her dream destinations...
By Julie E. Washington
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Writer-director Laura Paglin has found that getting her locally produced film "Nightowls of Coventry" shot was half the battle.
The war's not over until you get the film into theaters...
By Donald Rosenberg
Plain Dealer Music Critic
Every piece of music is a journey of some kind.
Dennis Eberhard's "Shadow of the Swan" travels well beyond mere tonal regions to pay tribute to real-life expeditions that ended in tragedy. The Cleveland composer created his three-movement work for piano and orchestra in response to the 1986 Challenger space-shuttle disaster and the 2000 Kursk catastrophe...
Cleveland Plain Dealer
LOCAL FILMMAKER TAKING OWN SCRIPT TO THE SCREEN
[CLEVELAND] In front of a cozy art theater, a pair of community activists in fashionably casual '70s dress handed out fliers, urging passers-by to boycott a 24-hour neighborhood deli. Across the street, filmmaker Laura Paglin of Cleveland Heights squinted into the camera as a red Thunderbird whizzed by. Several blocks away, a half-dozen bikers revved up their motorcycles...