Mike Cahill's "Another Earth" is the recipient of the 2011 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival. The award includes $20,000 cash from Sloan, and is presented to an "outstanding feature film focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, en...
Read More »The Sundance Film Festival is heading into its final hours and there's much talk around Park City about what films could factor into tomorrow night's awards ceremony. The U.S. Dramatic prize in particular has recently given a trio of films - Courtney Hunt's "Frozen River," Lee Daniels' "Precious" an...
Read More »New Video has acquired rights to Sundance doc "The Flaw," directed by British filmmaker David Sington ("In The Shadow of the Moon"). It will be released under New Video's Docurama Films brand later this year.
Read More »Director of "May in the Summer," Cherien Dabis, has been announced as the winner of the 2011 Sundance/NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) International Filmmaker Award.
Read More »Day 9 at Sundance is up and running as the film festival nears its end...
Read More »Calvin Lee Reeder has been churning out intensely psychedelic short films for several years, borrowing liberally from vintage grindhouse movies while turning the genre on its head. In concise wonders like "The Farm" and "The Rambler," Reeder places his elaborate, unsettling audio-visual design on pa...
Read More »Focus Features has picked up worldwide rights to writer-director Dee Rees' Sundance U.S. Dramatic Competition film, "Pariah." It's their first acquisition of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival; last year, their sole festival pickup was Lisa Cholodenko's "The Kids Are All Right."
Read More »Day 8 at Sundance is up and running as the film festival nears its end...
Read More »The 2011 Sundance Film Festival has played host to a slew of fresh faces with multiple films in the lineup. British up-and-comer Juno Temple appeared in "Kaboom" and "Little Birds." The other Olsen sister, Elizabeth Olsen, had lead roles in "Martha Marcy May Marlene&quo...
Read More »For me, one of the standout films at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival was David Weissman's chronicle of the AIDS epidemic, "We Were Here." A very specific depiction of the onset of AIDS in America, the film focuses on the stories of five individuals who lived in San Francisco at the time - four gay m...
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