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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Central Ohioan Daniel Houck was pushed into the limelight when Strad Style, the indie film chronicling his unlikely rise from a tinkerer who learned violin-making by watching YouTube videos to a ...

"Any documentary filmmaker worth his salt has to become obsessed by his subject," said Stefan Avalos, director of Strad Style, which arrived in Toronto for its Canadian premiere at Hot Docs. There are ...

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.

An Ohio man tries to copy a master-made violin in Stefan Avalos' first documentary, 'Strad Style.' By THR Staff Would you trust an Ohio hermit who drives a low rider and practices magick to build the ...