Jerusha Hess first made her mark at Sundance with "Napoleon Dynamite," which she co-wrote. She was also the film's costume designer. Since then, the Salt Lake City resident has co-written the screenplays for "Nacho Libre" and "Gentlemen Broncos" with her husband, Jared Hess. "Austenland" marks her d...
Read More »London-based documentarian Ben Lewis is heading to the Sundance Film Festival for the first time with his film "Google and the World Brain," after making films about poverty, Nicolae Ceausescu, and Baader-Meinhof.
Read More »Polish director Jacek Borcuch, whose "All That I Love" played Sundance and was Poland's Oscar entry in 2011 is back in Park City this year with his latest, "Lasting." Ahead of its world premiere at the festival, Indiewire has the exclusive trailer.
Read More »The black-and-white fourth film from Korean director O Muel will make its debut in the World Dramatic Competition.
Read More »"The Moo Man" directors Andy Heathcote and Heike Bachelier hail from England and Germany, and have backgrounds in photography and philosophy, respectively. Their first documentary, "The Lost World of Mr. Hardy," played in UK cinemas, and Bachelier's "Feindberührung" for German TV networks ZDF won th...
Read More »The New York Film Festival - showing a more selective line-up than any other major one except Telluride - was the big winner when the Oscar nominations were announce this morning. The two films with the most nominations - "Lincoln" (12) and "The Life of Pi" (11) both world premiered at their event.....
Read More »The Sundance Institute is well known for its commitment to helping artists develop their work and take creative risks. Its many film labs — for composing, writing, directing, editing — have supported countless filmmakers and produced some of the most distinctive movies of the last 30 yea...
Read More »Unknown ObjectItalian born Francesca Gregorini, director of "Emanuel and The Truth About Fishes," developed her love for filmmaking while studying Theater and Semiotics at Brown. After selling pilots to HBO and Paramount she co-wrote and co-directed Toronto 2009 entry "Tanner Hall," starring a then ...
Read More »Premiering in the NEXT section at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, "I Used to Be Darker" marks Matt Porterfield's anticipated follow-up to his beguiling amalgamation of documentary and fictional narratives "Putty Hill." The film, which takes its title from a lyric in a Bill Callahan song, centers on...
Read More »Master documentarian Kim Longinotto has for over two decades made films that explore issues relevant to women in such diverse places as Japan, Iran, Africa and India. Following her most recent work, the HBO doc "Pink Saris," Longinotto is back with "Salma," a bracing film about how a Muslim woman ag...
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