15 films, a docu-series and a VR work from Canada in Sundance 3ze41
A selection of 15 films, a docu-series and a VR work highlights the creativity and diversity of some of Canada’s brightest voices. Une sélection de 15 films, une série documentaire et une œuvre de réalité virtuelle qui rend compte de la créativité et la diversité de nos talents canadiens. ...
Actress Eileen Dietz to attend the World Premiere of "Lake Alice 691nj
LAKE ALICE SYNOPSIS: LAKE ALICE is set during Christmas at an isolated cabin in the subzero temperatures of northern Wisconsin where the days are short and the nights last forever. The cast includes Brando Eaton (American Sniper), Peter O'Brien (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Eileen Dietz (The Exorcist), Brad Schmidt (House of Lies), Caroline Tudor (Mortal Combat: Legacy), Laura Niemi (Jobs), and ...
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Jessica Williams to Host Live-Streamed Awards Show ...
Your're Invited: SF Film Society Party @ Sundance 5f3x49
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The Midwest Independent Film Festival is Back at Sundance 1h149
The Midwest Independent Film Festival is Back at Sundance: Monday January 23rd! The Midwest Independent Film Festival is the nation's only film festival solely dedicated to the Midwest filmmaker, presenting audiences with regionally produced independent cinema every First Tuesday of the month at Landmark's Century Centre Cinema, 2828 North Clark in Chicago. This year-round film festival sits proudly at the center of the independent film scene in Chicago and the Midwest and is de...
HBO has acquired U.S. TV rights to the searing documentary CRIES FROM SYRIA 395d5k
HBO has acquired U.S. TV rights to the searing documentary CRIES FROM SYRIA, by Oscar® nominee Evgeny Afineevsky, ahead of its world premiere in the Documentary Premieres section of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 22. This harrowing of the Syrian civil war from the inside out is Afineevsky’s follow-up to the Emmy®- and Oscar®-nominated “Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedo...
Spotlight Initiative Gala to Light Up Park City 2e3j
Connie Britton, Jay Duplass, Laura Prepon, and Barbara Kopple named 2017 Honorees to receive Awards The Creative Coalition announced this year’s honorees headlining the 2017 Spotlight Initiative Awards Gala Dinner to be held at the Kia Supper Suite during the Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Confirmed talent include actor and President of The Creative Coalition Tim Daly; actors Connie Britton, Jay Duplass, Laura Prepon, Carrie Preston, directors Barbara ...
Netflix presents Burning Sands w541z
PRESENTS BURNING SANDS from director/co-writer Gerard McMurray starring Trevor Jackson (ABC's American Crime), Alfre Woodard (Netflix's Luke Cage), Steve Harris (ABC's The Practice), Tosin Cole and DeRon Horton. Burning Sands takes you on a raw, voyeuristic journey of fraternity pledging through the eyes of one favored pledgee, who is torn between honoring a code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing....
Newness and TRUMPED: Inside The Greatest Political Upset of All Time Festival Lineup 5d5521
2017 Sundance Film Festival Adds Two More Films (L-R) Newness. Credit: Courtesy of Production; TRUMPED: Inside The Greatest Political Upset of All Time. Credit:Laura Hudock/Courtesy of SHOWTIME. Sundance Institute augments the 2017 Sundance Film Festival program with two new independent films, announced today: Newness, from director Drake Doremus, and TRUMPED: Inside The Greatest Political Upset of All Time, from directors Banks Tarver, Ted Bourne and Mary Robertson. The...
Anyone can make a movie. With no money. And be a well-known filmmaker. this ebook to findout how! y4b7
NO BUDGET FILMMAKING by Jack Truman. The entire Ebook will be available for free during Sundance and Slamdance. Here's a link to the Ebook for your review: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/646348 Anyone can make a movie. With no money. And be a well-known filmmaker. An informative, alternative, out-of-the-box reference book for the film industry, NO BUDGET FILMMAKING covers a wide range of tips and tools: from proven filmmaking techniques, valuable industry resources, and more...
Oklahoma City premieres in Sundance traces the events where 168 people were killed and 675 were injured in the blast 1b4y3d
OKLAHOMA CITY Barak Goodman's Startling Look At the Catastrophic Origins of the White Nationalist Movement *Premieres at Sundance 2017* *Opens in Theaters Feb. 3* *Premieres on PBS on Feb. 7* From American Experience - PBS: On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, a former soldier deeply influenced by the literature and ideas of the radical right, parked a Ryder truck with a five-ton fertilizer bomb in front of the Alfred P. M...
GOLDEN EXITS Premieres in Sundance U.S. Dramatic Competition 66a5r
Written and Directed by Alex Ross Perry (Acquisition Title/WME and Forager Films) Starring Emily Browning, Adam Horovitz, Mary-Louise Parker, Lily Rabe, Jason Schwartzman, Chloë Sevigny and Analeigh Tipton Synopsis: Nick has settled into a safe existence in a small pocket of Brooklyn, where he currently toils on an archival project for his father-in-law. Soon, 20-something Naomi arrives from Australia to assist Nick for the semester. She has no acquainta...
LOOK AND SEE: A Portrait of Wendell Berry to screen at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival 1sp6k
LOS ANGELES, CA (December 12, 2016) — LOOK AND SEE: A Portrait of Wendell Berry (previously titled THE SEER), directed by Independent Spirit Award-winning filmmaker Laura Dunn (THE UNFORESEEN), will screen in the Spotlight section at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival as part of the The New Climate program, following its award-winning premiere at SXSW earlier this year. The Sundance Film Festival...
Followup to An Inconvenient Truth to World Premiere at 2017 Sundance Film Festival as Day One Screening 3v6b31
Documentary Caps Festival’s First Slate of ‘The New Climate’ Films and Work About Environment and Conservation The Honorable Al Gore, 45th Vice President of the United States, former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed, Social Entrepreneur Jeff Skoll & Others ‘Power of Story’ on January 22; Live Streamed at sundance.org ...
MACHINES by Rahul Jain World documentary competition 2k411e
75 min / color /India, , Finland / 2016 / North American premiere Director Rahul Jain is available for interviews - screenings TBA Guy Lodge in Variety: "Mechanical spectacle and human pain make surprisingly complementary subjects in Rahul Jain's composed, immersive Indian factory tour. Following its critically acclaimed world premiere at the International Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Rahul Jain's feature debut MACHINES competes in ...
The Wound to Make World Premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival 3if19
The Wound, a film by by John Trengove, will make its world premiere in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. The Sundance Film Festival takes place January 19-29 with screenings in Park City, Salt Lake City and at Sundance Mountain Resort, Utah. The Sundance Film Festival has introduced global audiences to some of the most groundbreaking films of the past three decades, including Boyhood, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Fruitvale Station, Whiplash, The End of the...
New Frontier Showcases Storytelling’s Future at 2017 Sundance Film Festival 5u274q
Virtual / Augmented Reality Experiences, Installations, Live Performances Lead Programming, Including Works by Chris Milk, Nonny de la Peña Now in its second decade of breaking new ground at the forefront of art and technology, Sundance Institute has curated an in-depth vision of storytelling’s future for the 2017 edition of New Frontier at the Sundance ...
THE GOOD POSTMAN by Tonislav Hristov - World Cinema Documentary Competition 3m6l70
Sundance Film Festival - world cinema documentary competition - 82 min / color / Finland / Bulgaria / 2016 / North American premiere Screenings TBA Critical praise for THE GOOD POSTMAN: Variety: "Tonislav Hristov's superb documentary study of electoral process in a small Bulgarian village pulses with wider-world resonance." Screen International: "for outsiders to Europe’s issues, a textbook illustration...
PERSON TO PERSON to Make World Premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival 1z2166
Michael Cera, Tavi Gevinson, Abbi Jacobson, Bene Coopersmith and George Sample III Head up Ensemble Cast PERSON TO PERSON, written and directed by Dustin Guy Defa, will make its World Premiere in the NEXT Section at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. The Sundance Film Festival takes place January 19-29 with screenings in Park City, Salt Lake City and at Sundance Mountain Resort, Utah. In PERSON TO PERSON, a record collector hustles for a big score while his heartbroken roommat...
Premieres at Sundance 6k2c3y
BEATRIZ AT DINNER DIRECTOR Miguel Arteta SCREENWRITER Mike White PRINCIPAL CAST Salma Hayek, John Lithgow U.S.A. / 83 Min BEFORE I FALL DIRECTOR Ry Russo-Young SCREENWRITER Maria Maggenti ...
Sundance Festival full slate 4x616g
The Workers Cup Courtesy of Sundance Institute Sundance Institute convenes a full slate of provocative and agenda-setting independent films at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, beginning with today’s announcement of the 66 films selected for U.S. Competition, World Competition and NEXT, as well as a slate of environmentally focused programming under the Festival’s The New Climate program. The Festival hosts screenings in Park City, Salt Lake City and at Sundance M...
Sixty-eight short films at Sundance 2017 705a6c
Sixty-eight short films, announced today, will complement the lineup of longer fare at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. The short film slate aligns thematically with other Festival categories, including Midnight and The New Climate, the Festival’s new programming strand highlighting climate change and the environment. The Festival hosts screenings in Park City, Salt Lake City and at Sundance Mountain Resort January 19-29. The Institute’s for short films extends internat...
US Dramatic Competition at Sundance r5nm
Presenting the world premieres of 16 narrative feature films, the Dramatic Competition offers Festivalgoers a first look at groundbreaking new voices in American independent film. Band Aid / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Zoe Lister-Jones) — A couple who can't stop fighting embark on a last-ditch effort to save their marriage: turning their fights into songs and starting a band. Cast: Zoe Lister-Jones, Adam Pally, Fred Armisen, Susie Essman, Hannah Simone, Ravi ...
US Documentary Competition l1h5w
Sixteen world-premiere American documentaries that illuminate the ideas, people and events that shape the present day. Casting JonBenet / U.S.A., Australia (Director: Kitty Green) — The unsolved death of six-year-old American beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey remains the world’s most sensational child murder case. Over 15 months, responses, reflections and performances were elicited from the Ramsey’s Colorado hometown community, creating a bold work of art from the collective ...
World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance 6b1v6y
Twelve films from emerging filmmaking talents around the world offer fresh perspectives and inventive styles. Axolotl Overkill / (Director and screenwriter: Helene Hegemann) — Mifti, age 16, lives in Berlin with a cast of characters including her half-siblings; their rich, self-involved father; and her junkie friend Ophelia. As she mourns her recently deceased mother, she begins to develop an obsession with Alice, an enigmatic, and much older, white-collar criminal. Cast...
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