Skylight Pictures’ award-winning new film, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator, will bow theatrically September 14 at New York City’s IFC Center via distributor International Film Circuit followed by a national rollout. It can be seen at LALIFF this Monday July 18 7:30 pm at the Egyptian Theater on Ho...
Read More »The Sundance Institute announced today its participants for this year's Creative Producing Labs (July 18 - 22) and Creative Producing Summit (July 22 - 24).
Read More »Shorts are having an impact on new digital media and new types of distribution. Their importance and their filmmakers' importance has long been recognized by the top festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Sundance, TIFF) and among the trade, agents keep an eye on the top shorts filmmakers. So too, certain leading shorts film festivals and markets, the leaders of which are Clermont Ferrand in France and Oberhausen in Germany (for more cutting edge shorts), festivals like the Guanajuato International Film Festival, Expresión en Corto, held during the final week of July in the cities of San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato Capital, Mexico and the Palm Spr...
Read More »In a move that marks the first time in recent memory that the Sundance Film Festival has invited a short film sponsor, Yahoo! will sponsor the Short Film Program at the 2012 edition of the event. Yahoo! will premiere some of the short film selections on its Yahoo! Movies page. Online viewers of the ...
Read More »Andrew Rossi’s “Page One: A Year Inside The New York Times” takes a conventional verité approach to the one topic that virtually everyone today has an opinion on. Turning his cameras to the inner circle of editorial decision-making at the proverbial paper of record, Ros...
Read More »Eleven projects have been named recipients of the $1.5 million "Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute," a three-year initiative designed to "support documentary and narrative feature film projects with themes that evoke global cultural exchange and social impact." The 11 will receive help in what ...
Read More »ATO (Art Takes Over) was launched last year at Cannes by musician Dave Matthews along with Johnathan Dorfman, Sarah Lash and Temple Fennell. Their plan to release 4 to 6 films annually seems to be coming to fruition. In Sundance 2011 they acquired film The Convincer, Casino Jack was acquired in Toronto 2010, and " title="Mao’s Last Dancer">Mao’s Last Dancer in Cannes 2010 which was released in August. Terri was picked up from its producers on its completion September 2010 and is being sold internationally by Coach 14. 20th Century Fox has home video rights. ATO releases its films theatrically through its partnership with Samuel Goldwyn ...
Read More »The Sundance Institute has announced the screenwriting and directing lab fellows for its June Directors and Screenwriters Labs. The fellows will spend the entire month of June working on their projects with Creative Advisors and each other. The Directors Lab runs from May 30 through June 23; th...
Read More »Danfung Dennis' Sundance Film Festival award-winning war doc "Hell and Back Again," has been acquired by New Video for North American distribution. The feature debut from Dennis chronicles the life of an injured Marine returning home from Afghanistan to his wife and everyday life. The company plans ...
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