Last week at the Sundance Film Festival, Facebook engineer Phil Fung and former employees Julia Lam and Franklyn Chien announced a partnership with the Sundance Institute to support Asian American artists here at the Filmmaker’s Lodge on Monday, Jan. 21. The non-profit A3 Foundation will spons...
Read More »It's not often that the two most anticipated movies at a major film festival live up to the hype. Yet, as the 2013 Sundance Film Festival wound down this past weekend, that's exactly what happened.
Read More »As is the case every January, Park City played host to a crop of filmmakers and actors with work in the Sundance Film Festival. This year saw stars like Amanda Seyfried and literary icon David Sedaris drop down in Utah, as well as up-and-comers like "Cutie and the Boxer" director Zachary Heinzerling...
Read More »Launched in 2011, the Sundance Institute’s Artist Services initiative was designed to help Sundance alumni filmmakers get their work in front of audiences in a shifting industry environment that was developing increasing options for self-distribution. The effort has been one of executive direc...
Read More »Inspired by the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks in which ten random victims were killed in Washington D.C., Alexandre Moors' "Blue Caprice" is a semi-road movie that looks at the killers' stories prior to the event. The filmmaker's feature debut that screened in the Next section ne...
Read More »Directing team and friends since childhood, Louis Sutherland and Mark Albiston used their personal stories of growing up in New Zealand in the 80's as the inspiration for "Shopping," nominated for the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic award. The coming-of-age story meets crime dr...
Read More »Egyptian-American filmmaker and director of the 2001 Grand Jury Prize: Documentary nominated "Startup.com" Jehane Noujaim documents the daily lives of the Egyptian activists during the protests of 2011 in "The Square (Al Midan)." Also nominated for the Grand Jury Prize in the Wor...
Read More »Russian filmmaker Maxim Pozdorovkin and co-director Mike Lerner's "Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer," winner of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award, charts the controversial arrests of the radicial punk rock group of the same name. Pozdorovkin, who shares a similar political ideo...
Read More »Italian filmmaker Giorgio Diritti's "There Will Come a Day," a nominee for the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic award, contemplates the meaning of life in a journey through nature. The film follows a lost Italian woman as she embarks on a quest towards faith and self-realization...
Read More »A road movie inspired by the likes of early Almodovar and Peter Sellers comedies, "Ass Backwards" is the first feature from Los Angeles filmmaker Chris Nelson. The film follows two best friends who travel back to their hometown to win the beauty pageant they lost as kids. The film starring...
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RT @indiewire: FRANCES HA has stellar debut at indie box office; PINES hits $20 million: http://t.co/tY2bd74O8B
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RT @indiewire: FRANCES HA has stellar debut at indie box office; PINES hits $20 million: http://t.co/tY2bd74O8B
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