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Meet the 2012 Sundance Filmmakers #53: Carrie Preston, 'That's What She Said'
Actress Carrie Preston (HBO's "True Blood") makes her directorial debut with "a chick flick that's not for pussies" called "That's What She Said." The film will be part of Sundance's NEXT program.
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Watch: Exclusive Trailer for Sundance Dramatic Contender 'The Comedy'
Writer-director-musician Rick Alverson has worked with recording label Jagjaguwar on nine albums and since 2010 their partnership has evolved into making films. Alverson's debut, "The Builder," was an existential study of an immigrant vs. the American promise and was followed by "New Jerusalem," abo...
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Meet the 2012 Sundance Filmmakers #52: Sam Pollard, 'Slavery By Another Name'
Sam Pollard has been making films about the African-American experience for years, having had a hand in producing part of the legendary "Eyes On The Prize" documentary series as well as collaborating with Spike Lee as an editor. His career continues with his documentary "Slavery By Another Name."
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15 Films Indiewire Wants To See at Sundance 2012
By now everyone's received their 2012 Sundance Film Festival catalogs and, if they look anything like ours, they're already well-thumbed and dog-eared. It's a hell of a thing, trying to figure out which films you need to see; at this point, before the buzz machines kick into gear, it'...
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Meet the 2012 Sundance Filmmakers #51: Rasit Celikezer, 'Can'
"After I write down a story I have been dreaming of, in time, that story finds it way into one of the mediums that it will shine itself through. To be more specific, I move on with whichever would make a better effect."
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Meet the 2012 Sundance Filmmakers #50: Ben Lewin, 'The Surrogate'
Polish born and Australian raised, Ben Lewin has always had a passion for photography and creative writing. After a briefly diverting career as a criminal lawyer, and through "sheer accident" he would up at the British National Film School and began working in entertainment, "nev...
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Meet the 2012 Sundance Filmmakers #49: Keiichi Kobayashi, 'About the Pink Sky'
Keiichi Kobayashi has directed television programs, music videos, commercials, and Web‐based dramas in his native Japan. "About the Pink Sky (Momoiro sora o)" is his debut feature film, and it won best picture at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2011. What's it about: This...
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Meet the 2012 Sundance Filmmakers #48: Lise Birk Pedersen, "Putin's Kiss'
Danish director Lise Birk Pedersen became interested in in documentary filmmaking when she traveled to China as a lone 16-year-old girl. Smelling change in the air and witnessing the "many great stories, contrasts and characters illustrating that" inspired her sketchbook drawings, but that...
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Meet the 2012 Sundance Filmmakers #47: Katie Aselton, "Black Rock"
"Black Rock," a Maine-set thriller, is Katie Aselton's second feature. Her first, "The Freebie," premiered at Sundance in 2010. She also appeared in Mark and Jay Duplass' "The Puffy Chair," which played the fest in 2005. She stars in "Black Rock" (whic...
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Spike Lee Talks to Indiewire: "I'm not going to let other people dictate the stories I tell."
First things first: "Red Hook Summer," Spike Lee's Brooklyn-set drama premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, is not a sequel to 1989's "Do the Right Thing." Yes, it takes place in the same neighborhood melting pot as that earlier film and Lee allegedly reprises th...
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