Why She's On Our Radar: In the Sundance U.S. Dramatic contender "Filly Brown" from directors Youssef Delara and Michael D. Olmos, Gina Rodriguez gives a commanding turn as the titular young hip-hop artist. The drama centers on Brown, a Los Angeles based struggling rapper with a mother in prison and ...
Read More »When 1970s Mexican-American singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez faded from view, he'd never had much visibility in the first place. Typically known only as "Rodriguez," the musician's gentle pop tunes and activist spirit came through in a handful of albums that were barely noticed in...
Read More »The start of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival began Thursday, as it always does, with a press conference with founder Robert Redford. Redford opened the discussion at the Egyptian Theatre in Park City, sitting alongside Sundance Institute head Keri Putnam and festival director John Cooper...
Read More »Robert Redford was asking for trouble at the opening press conference for the Sundance Film Festival this year. The event, which found the festival founder sitting before a roomful of journalists alongside festival director John Cooper and Sundance Institute executive director Keri Putnam, followed ...
Read More »For your perusing pleasure: Here's all 55 of our Meet the Filmmaker interviews for Sundance 2012, now accessible through one handy location.
Read More »Benh Zeitlin's "Beasts of the Southern Wild," screening in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, is set to debut. The film received grants from the San Francisco Film Society, Cinereach, and Rooftop Films. It's set to make its debut on Saturday.
Read More »Most of the Indiewire team is here in Park City for the long haul. We know, despite what your friends may say, how exhausting it can be to spend 10 days watching movies.
Read More »One of the most compelling pre-Sundance Film Festival storylines this year is Amy Berg’s West Memphis Three documentary, “West of Memphis.” Premiering Friday at The MARC, the Documentary Premiere comes on the heels of the third installment of Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’...
Read More »Hands down one of the raciest titles to play in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance this year is Ira Sach's semi-autobiographical gay relationship drama "Keep the Lights On." In it, Danish actor Thure Lindhardt plays Erik, a hard-partying documentary filmmaker who has a highly charged hookup w...
Read More »OK, a brief moment of bragging: In 2011, our 15th anniversary, we had a record-breaking year of traffic growth and revenue. And now, as we're heading into Sundance 2012 with our largest-ever team, we're announcing a bunch of well-deserved promotions on our advertising and editorial sides. &n...
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