"George Washington" producer Craig Zobel is back in Park City with his second directorial effort, "Compliance," after premiering his debut, "The Great World of Sound," to great acclaim at the 2007 edition of the event. That film netted Zobel the Breakthrough Director aw...
Read More »Actor Todd Louiso ("High Fidelity," "Jerry Maguire") made a splash at the 2002 edition of the festival where his first feature, "Love Liza," starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Kathy Bates, nabbed the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.
Read More »"Marina Abramović The Artist is Present" (which will screen in the U.S. Documentary competition) documents the 2010 career retrospective of performance artist Marina Abramović, which featured the artist, still and seated, during the show's three month long run at the Museum of Modern Art in New York...
Read More »"Searching for Sugar Man" (playing in the World Documentary competition) is a documentary about '70s rocker Rodriguez. Despite critical praise, the single-name Rodriguez failed to catch on in America -- but his music became the soundtrack to anti-apartheid sentiment in South Afri...
Read More »So Yong Kim returns to Sundance this year after winning the 2006 Special Jury Prize for her debut "In Between Days." "For Ellen" (U.S. Dramatic Competition) marks her third feature following her sophomore effort "Treeless Mountain," released in 2009 by Oscilloscope Labo...
Read More »Every year, Indiewire is the place to get to know the Sundance filmmakers ahead of the festival. And today we're launching the 2012 batch of filmmaker profiles -- about four each day, all the way up to the opening day on January 19. Indiewire invited directors with films in the U.S. Dramati...
Read More »"We're Not Broke" (competing in the U.S. Documentary Program) is a documentary from New York filmmakers Karin Hayes and Victoria Bruce, who initially wondered if anyone would ever want to watch a movie about corporate income tax. They've been filmmaking partners for almost a decade. Hayes says filmm...
Read More »"KID-THING" (playing in the NEXT program) is the newest film from the Austin-based Zellner Bros., who last came to Sundance in 2008 with "Goliath." They raised funds on Kickstarter; among their incentives was the promise of "a SLOW-DANCE with a Zellner of your choice to FORE...
Read More »Greek filmmaker Giorgos Lanthimos has won praise from prestigious film festivals and critics, as well as from some of our own Playlist staffers, for his Oscar-nominated “Dogtooth” and the recent “Alps.” However, a key component to the success of both films (and their outrageo...
Read More »Writer/director Dee Rees came into this year's Sundance Film Festival as a relative unknown and emerged as a filmmaker to contend with.
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