Sundance Film Festival

Sundance 2012: World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Fourteen films from emerging filmmaking talents offer fresh perspectives and inventive styles. 4 Suns / Czech Republic (Director and screenwriter: Bohdan Sláma) — Immature Fogi attempts to straighten up and accept his responsibilities as a new husband and father, as well as role mo...

Sundance 2012: World Cinema Documentary Competition

Twelve documentaries by some of the most courageous and extraordinary filmmakers working today. ½ REVOLUTION / Denmark (Directors: Omar Shargawi, Karim El Hakim) — In January 2011, two filmmakers captured the reality of the Egyptian revolution as it occurred out of view from the wo...

Sundance 2012: U.S. Documentary Competition

The world premieres of 16 American documentary films. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry / U.S.A., China (Director: Alison Klayman) — Renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has garnered international attention as much for his ambitious artwork as his political provocations and increasingly pu...

Sundance 2012: U.S. Dramatic Competition

The world premieres of 16 American narrative feature films. Beasts of the Southern Wild / U.S.A. (Director: Benh Zeitlin, Screenwriters: Benh Zeitlin, Lucy Alibar) — Waters gonna rise up, wild animals gonna rerun from the grave, and everything south of the levee is goin’ under, in t...

Doug Liman, Josh Fox, Yoav Potash and More Awarded Doc Film Grants From Sundance

The Sundance Institute announced the 29 lucky feature-length documentaries set to receive $582,000 in grants from the Documentary Film Program, covering everything from development and production to audience engagement. Among the big-name filmmakers being awarded grants are Josh Fox ("...

'Another Happy Day' Director Sam Levinson: "Indie Festivals Are Our Only Way of Fighting Back"

If you spoke with 26-year-old Sam Levinson about how his debut feature "Another Happy Day" came together, you'd never know he's the offspring of a Hollywood legend. (For the unaware: Son of director Barry "Men In Black" Levinson.) On the strength of his Sundance award-win...

Sundance Wish List 40 Films to Watch For

In His Own Words: Joshua Leonard Shares a Scene From His Directorial Debut "The Lie"

Below indie stalwart Joshua Leonard ("The Blair Witch Project") shares a scene from his first solo directing credit "The Lie." Based on a T.C. Boyle short story that first appeared in the New Yorker, "The Lie" centers on a man who tells a lie to get out of work that ina...

Sundance Announces 2012 New Frontier Program

The Sundance Institute has announced the artists and projects involved in the New Frontier program at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.