Press
“We Burn Like This is a well-made narrative feature debut and leads to a bright future behind the camera for Waksman.”
-Solzy at the Movies
News
‘Pig,’ ‘Red Rocket,’ ‘Pleasure’ in Deauville Festival Competition Lineup (Variety)
Deauville American Film Festival competition lineup announcement
August 10, 2021
Freestyle Acquires Coming-Of-Age Pics ‘We Burn Like This’ And ‘Love You Anyway’ (Deadline)
Exclusive North American acquisitions announcement and trailer premiere
June 3, 2022
Santa Barbara Film Festival Sets Lineup For Hybrid Edition (Deadline)
World Premiere announcement.
March 9, 2021
WE BURN LIKE THIS Awarded Best Feature Film at Best of NFMLA Awards (Deadline)
Announcement of Best Feature Film Award from Best of NewFilmmakers LA
June 2, 2023
Buffalo International Film Festival returns with in-person, virtual screenings (The Buffalo News)
Highlighted as Closing Night Gala film
October 6, 2021
Reviews, Features, and Interviews
Andrew Stover is taken in by the drama We Burn Like This (Film Threat)
August 16, 2022
The Best Undistributed Films of 2021 (The Film Stage)
January 3, 2022
BIFF Review: We Burn Like This Walks Through a Dense Minefield of Emotions (The Film Stage)
October 7, 2021
We Burn Like This: Alana Waksman’s Debut Feature Film (The Iowa Source)
July 1, 2022
NFMLA Celebrates Asian and Asian American Filmmakers and Alana Waksman’s WE BURN LIKE THIS (Moviemaker Magazine)
Filmed interview with Madeleine Coghlan (actor) and Alana Waksman (writer/director/producer)
July 1, 2022
Heartland Review 2021: We Burn Like This (Midwest Film Journal)
October 8, 2021
We Burn Like This - Tallgrass 2021 (Solzy at the Movies)
October 25, 2021
Madeleine Coghlan Interview on the film We Burn Like This (The Movie Culture)
Madeleine Coghlan (lead actor) interview
October 5, 2021
Devery Jacobs: ‘I had never seen it be done until I started doing it’ (Seventh Row)
Interview with Devery Jacobs where she discusses her role with We Burn Like This
September 8, 2021
Filmed in Montana, 'We Burn Like This' takes center stage at MINT film festival (Billings Gazette)
Front page feature
September 17, 2021
Interview: Alana Waksman - WE BURN LIKE THIS (Forthright Radio)
Interview with Joy LaClaire
June 9, 2022
"We Burn Like This": personal experience for Alana Waksman's first film (Cultures-J)
Review from French publication for Diasporama Film Festival
January, 2023
Fairfield filmmaker to screen debut feature July 9 (Southeast Iowa Union)
In person Iowa screening announcement and feature
June 1, 2022
What should you watch at Woods Hole Film Festival? Here are 10 ideas (Cape Cod Times)
Featured as 1 of 10 films to watch
July 27, 2021
SBIFF 2021: Films to Find (Santa Barbara Independent)
Featured in favorite films at the festival by Santa Barbara Independent.
March 30, 2021
Filmmaker Interviews (Santa Barbara Independent)
Filmmaker Interviews: ‘We Burn Like This’ with Director Alana Waksman
April 2, 2021
Film fest preview: 'We Burn Like This' (Telegraph Herald)
Featured for Iowa premiere at Julien Dubuque International Film Festival
April 15, 2022
Film Shot In Billings Will Get Montana Premiere At Festival (Yellowstone Public Radio)
Listen and read full interview below.
September 16, 2021
Film Shot In Billings Premieres This Month (Yellowstone Public Radio)
Listen and read full interview below.
April 2, 2021
'We Burn Like This' Writer Director Producer Alana Waksman (KGEZ Good Morning Show)
Radio interview with John Hendricks and Robin Mitchell
June 7, 2022
'We Burn Like This' examines Jewish life in Montana (Missoulian)
Featured article for fundraiser
March 29, 2019
Feature Film To Bring Not In Our Town To The Big Screen (Yellowstone Public Radio)
Listen and read full interview below.
July 19, 2019