Haut et Court has taken the French distribution rights to Sean Ellis' thriller "Metro Manila" a couple weeks before the film's debut at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. It centers on a destitute countryman in the Philippines who is sucked into a dangerous crime ring when he moves to the country's bu...
Read More »As has been the case for several years now, Indiewire is the place to get to know the Sundance Film Festival filmmakers. Over the next two weeks, we'll be posting the 2013 batch of filmmaker profiles. Indiewire invited directors with films in the the Competitions, NEXT category and Midnight...
Read More »The team behind "99% - The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film" -- Audrey Ewell, Aaron Aites, Lucian Read and Nina Krstic -- have between them a very diverse resume, from feature doc producing ("Until the Light Takes Us") and songwriting, to war photography and film ethnography. Below they discuss...
Read More »Born in Portland and raised in Seattle, Calvin Reeder worked in construction out of high school while also shooting 16mm films during that same period. Since then, he's gone on to become a renown short film director, known for mixing underground horror shock with an existential atmosphere in acclaim...
Read More »A big-screen take on an acclaimed stage play, a documentary, and a film from Mexico...it looks like there will be some compelling alternate choices at the Sundance Film Festival this year if you're shut out of the big-ticket screenings, and with a handful of trailers dropping, let's take a q...
Read More »The five jury prize winners of the $200K Focus Forward Filmmaker competition have been announced. The Grand Jury Prize of $100K will be announced at a live awards ceremony on January 22 at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
Read More »Making its world premiere in the World Dramatic competition at this month's Sundance Film Festival is Srdan Golubovic's anticipated ensemble drama "Circles." Indiewire has the exclusive trailer ahead of its debut in Park City on January 18. READ MORE: Sundance 2013: World Cine...
Read More »For the second year IFP and Sundance Institute’s joint initiative "American Independents in Berlin" will take place at European Film Market during the 2013 Berlinale. *EFM Accreditation period: Ends January 6, 2013 Applications received after January 6, 2013 may not be considered.
Read More »One of the funkier selections in the Sundance Film Festival’s NEXT <=> program is “Newlyweeds,” the filmmaking debut of writer-director Shaka King. In its look at the life of a couple in love with smoking up as much as with each other, the dark romance-comedy has the pungent ...
Read More »After a flurry of news reports Thursday that Open Road Films was actively trying to acquire “jOBS,” the new biopic about Apple mastermind Steve Jobs, the company has confirmed that it has purchased rights to the film three weeks before its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. In a service-deal ca...
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