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Emotions were high on Sunday as U.S. alpine skier Bode Miller tied for a bronze medal in the men’s Super-g — and dissolved into tears in a post-race interview with NBC’s Christin Cooper. Cooper initially asked him to put the medal into perspective at his age, 36, after his “turbulent year” and coming back from a knee injury. Then she asked what this medal in Sochi meant compared to his other five. Miller was the first to reference the April 2013 death of his brother, Chilly, who’d hoped to qualify for the Sochi Olympics in the Snowboard Cross event.

Rooftop Films and Nyfvc will host a benefit for Hurricane Sandy relief efforts on November 14, transforming a simple night of StoryCorps animation into an evening of support for those who have been affected by the storm. Nyfvc, Rooftop Films and StoryCorps/Rauch Brothers have absorbed all costs and labor for the event so that the proceeds can go directly to Occupy Sandy Relief. The animation shown during this evening will combine genuine anecdotes of everyday people, shared in their own voices and chosen from StoryCorps' archive of 40,000 audio interviews, with the Rauch Brothers' animation. Although these stories are not directly linked to the hurricane, they should speak to the ways that everyone's lives are inexplicably intertwined. A Q&A will follow with Mike Rauch and StoryCorps Producer Lizzie Jacobs, moderated by writer and animator Morgan Miller. In addition to contributing all monetary proceeds to Hurricane Sandy relief efforts, the fundraiser.

It’s a film festival! It’s a sideshow! It’s both! It’s the 12th annual Coney Island Film Festival, which will be taking over the world famous Sideshows by the Seashore and other venues on Sept. 21-23 at one of the most wonderful places on Earth: Coney Island!

This year’s fun begins on the 21st with the knock-’em-dead (literally) Opening Night film Play Dead, co-directed by underground journalist Shade Rupe and the world’s greatest silent magician, Teller. The film is a documentary performance of Teller and Coney Island’s own Todd Robbins hit live off-Broadway gore-a-thon.

Play Dead will then be followed by a wild Opening Night Party featuring a performance by Mr. Robbins, plus lots of burlesque performances, Go Go dancers and other crazy surprises.

Some of the other highlights of this year’s Ciff include the Mark Mori’s documentary Bettie Page Reveals All...

The 14th annual Boston Underground Film Festival is ready to kick ass and take names on March 29 to April 1 at the Brattle Theatre. And a few of those names will look familiar to Buff fanatics — and underground film fans the world over.

A trio of Buff favorites are returning to the fest with debut feature films after totally killing it with their amazing short films in the past. Jamie Heinrich‘s Happily Never After is a feature-length expansion of the short film that took home the Best of Fest Award in 2010, but with more solid and mature themes as the movie explores the problematic life of a degenerate photographer.

Another former award winner is Richard Bates Jr. who will be screening Excision, another feature-length extension of a short film, this one about a teenage girl who exercises her morbid obsession with surgery every chance she gets.

Steven Kostanski‘s feature...