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PARK CITY '06 BIZ DAILY: "Sunshine" Pact Among Top Tier of All-Time Sundance Fest Deals

A major acquisition deal -- one of the largest in the history of the Sundance Film Festival -- was signed early Saturday morning with Cinetic Media selling worldwide rights to Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris' "Little Miss Sunshine" to Fox Searchlight within hours of its rousing world premiere at the...

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"The Ground Truth" about Iraq veterans

Paul Rieckhoff, of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), reports on Patricia Foulkrod's documentary "The Ground Truth", which opened at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday evening. IAVA worked with Foulkrod for nearly two years to create this film, which reveals the struggles that troops...

Sundance 2006.3: Sugarcube

Sundance Is Busy "Breaking Conventions"

While many people are lamenting that the Sundance Film Festival seems to be going more and more mainstream, this year's festival is hosting a number of undeniably unconventional films that are anything but ordinary. Roger Ebert comments on "Somebodies" in particular, a story about a group of young African-American men trying to live life and "make sense of the senselessness that is American today" (as described by Sundance). The film has no political or social agenda, it's just about ordinary guys who are "very, very funny because they don't seem to know they're in a movie...they're performing to celebrate themselves." Ebert also comments on ...

PARK CITY '06: Michael Cain: "The sheer volume of material, over 3200 hours of footage, often ran pe

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions.

"The Hawk Is Dying" a Popular Pick at Sundance

Julian Goldberger's "The Hawk Is Dying"premiered last night as a huge crowd of people waited to try get into the Raquet Club Theatre to see it. The film stars Paul Giamatti as an auto upholsterer with a passion for falconry who lives with his sister and her mentally challenged son; as described by S...

PARK CITY '06 BUZZ DAILY: Hardcore American Rock; "Daley" Draws Crowds; Email Jerk, and More Parties

Paul Rachman's "American Hardcore" has already scored a nice amount of press with a New York Times piece at the end of last month. Rachman's film, which recalls the "hardcore" punk phenomenon that swept segments of major cities around the U.S. and Canada in the '80s, is screening in the Sundance Fil...

PARK CITY '06 CRITIC'S DIARY: "Sunshine" Shines; Focus on Women's Issues in "Morning," "Stay," "Dale

Since its world premiere and subsequent high-dollar acquisition deal on Friday, "Little Miss Sunshine" has been the de facto talk of the festival throughout the weekend - and understandably so. Enormously big-hearted, hip but earnest and rousingly funny in fits and starts, the feature debut of music...