Friday, Feb. 16, 2024

My first time attending Sundance in 1994 coincided with my first trip to the U.S. I made my way with a press badge and stayed in a cozy Bed & Breakfast on Main Street in what appeared to be a quiet little ski town. 

Today, accommodations on Main Street are reserved for A-list...

Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024

It’s been an eventful Sundance Film Festival for directors Natalie Rae and Angela Patton as their Daughters earned major distinction with not only the Festival Favorite Award, voted on by event attendees, but also the Audience Award in the U.S. Documentary competition. Furthermore,...

Friday, Jan. 26, 2024

"In the Summers," an affecting, years-spanning drama about a complicated parent-children relationship, nabbed the Grand Jury prize at the 40th Sundance Film Festival, while the top honor for documentary went to "Porcelain War," about a Ukrainian couple who craft fragile, intricately painted...

Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024

"Who's that girl?" has been a common refrain from Sundance Film Festival goers walking out of "My Old Ass" this week in Park City, Utah.

Its star Maisy Stella, 20, will be a familiar name to some, for her years on "Nashville" playing Daphne Conrad, for her viral video singing Robyn's "...

Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024

Angela Patton has devoted her career to listening to the needs of young girls. Over a decade ago, the CEO of the nonprofit Girls For a Change and founder of Camp Diva Leadership Academy helped start a program in Richmond, Virginia, that created a daddy daughter dance for girls whose fathers are...

Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024

Titus Kaphar wanted to find a way to talk to his children about his life experience, his addict father, generational trauma and healing. An acclaimed painter and MacArthur fellow, Kaphar found that images were insufficient on their own. Words were, too. He even tried making a documentary to tell...

Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024

June Squibb is perhaps the busiest 94-year-old in Hollywood. This year alone she'll voice a role in "Inside Out 2," head to New York to star in Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut and film a television series that she can't quite talk about just yet.

And for the first time in her rich...

Monday, Jan. 22, 2024

Chiwetel Ejiofor had read Jeff Hobbs' "The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace" years before Antoine Fuqua asked if he might consider writing and directing an adaptation.

The book, which explores the complex life of a brilliant boy who grew up in the crime ridden and blighted Orange,...

Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024

Filmmaker Yance Ford was in a "Sundance haze" when he took a meeting with Netflix following the premiere of "Strong Island" in 2017. The streamer was still somewhat new in the original documentary space at that point, but had made several big splashes with docs as different as "The Square,"...

Friday, Jan. 19, 2024

Jesse Eisenberg had not seen "Succession" when he was writing his new film "A Real Pain." But his sister Hallie Eisenberg knew from years of watching Roman Roy that Kieran Culkin would be perfect.

The film, which premieres at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday (1/20), follows two very...

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