With the support of IFP, Rooftop Films, and Edgeworx, Shaka King brings his feature-length debut "Newlyweeds" to the NEXT competition of this year's Sundance Film Festival.
Read More »It's been a dozen years since Srdan Golubovic's debut feature, "Absolute Hundred" opened at Toronto. Over time, the focus of the born-and-raised Belgrade native has shifted from downtrodden Olympians to parents faced with impossible decisions, the main subject of his Oscar-shortlisted "The Trap" bac...
Read More »"Escape from Tomorrow" is Randy Moore's debut feature. The Illinois-born filmmaker credits his father for passing on his passion for telling stories. He recalls making short films with a Betamax camera as far back as he can remember. But it was "Dead Poets Society" that chang...
Read More »Documentarian Gabriela Cowperthwaite has directed, produced and written works for ESPN, NatGeo, the Discovery and History Channels as well as DirecTV-- among them "City Laz" An Urban Lacrosse Story." She originally moved to LA to pursue a PhD in Political Science, but during a summer in Guatemala sh...
Read More »Cinematographer-director Christina Voros, whose alma matters are Harvard and NYU's Tisch Scool, debuted as a director with 2008's "The Ladies," which won 15 festival Grand Jury prizes. Her film "Kink" is the latest of many collaborations with James Franco; others include "As I Lay Dying," "Child of ...
Read More »After a career in various other capacities in the international film industry, Dylan Mohan Gray has arrived at Sundance 2013 with his filmmaking debut. Self-described as a "garden variety Punjabi-Irish hybrid, lover of contemporary history and politics," Gray studied film in college, but not necessa...
Read More »Jacob Kornbluth's last foray into Sundance territory came back in 2004 with the Mary-Louise Parker-led "The Best Thief in the World." Nearly a decade after, the Berkeley-based director has his first documentary feature in "Inequality for All." A self-taught filmmaker, Kornbluth's background as a wor...
Read More »Austrian filmmaker Daniel Hoesl has sharpened his teeth on Ulrich Seidl's "Paradise" trilogy (the final installment of which premieres at this year's Berlinale) as an Assistant Director. The Vienna native now arrives at Park City with "Soldate Jeannette," his feature directorial debut. The film is s...
Read More »It's been almost 20 years since Nick Ryan, along with three friends, began Image Now Films to work on commercials and graphic design. In the intervening time, Ryan has maintained his connection to the film world, also taking part in animation and music video production. The Dublin filmmaker has draw...
Read More »"V/H/S" became one of the curiosities of Park City this time last year. The horror anthology featured a mix of different styles and sensibilities from individual filmmakers and collectives alike, but wrapping together all the disparate stories was Adam Wingard's "Tape 56." Wingard, a self-educated A...
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