Saturday, Jul. 13, 2019

The darkest, most violent chapter in the history of Bisbee was an open secret for decades in the funky old Arizona copper town 7 miles (11 kilometers) north of the U.S.-Mexico border.

But few residents knew the details of how about 1,200 miners, most of them immigrants, were pulled...

Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019

Chelsea has signed Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated director Nisha Ganatra for her first commercial representation. She is a heavyweight in episodic television whose new feature, Late Night, is making big waves following its premiere at the recently wrapped Sundance Film Festival...

Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019

Director Joe Berlinger is no stranger to Sundance. He has over the years debuted six lauded documentaries there, the last being WHITEY: United States of America v. James J. Bulger in 2014. The first was back in ‘92 when he and colleague Bruce Sinofsky’s Brother’s Keeper won the...

Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019

After 10 days and 121 feature films, the 2019 Sundance Film Festival’s Awards ceremony took place on Saturday night (2/2), with host Marianna Palka emceeing and jurors presenting 28 prizes for feature filmmaking. Honorees represent new achievements in global independent storytelling. Bold,...

Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019

In the ecosystem of who directs Hollywood's top-grossing films, women of color are the rarest kind.

But the 2019 Sundance Film Festival is proving to be a referendum on the dismal industry statistics . And the positive reception to and pricey acquisitions of films like Gurinder Chadha's "...

Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019

In its third major buy of the Sundance Film Festival, Amazon Studios has acquired the world rights for the inspirational comedy "Brittany Runs a Marathon " for $14 million.

Deadline first reported the news of the acquisition Wednesday.

The film stars Jillian Bell as an aimless 20-...

Monday, Jan. 28, 2019

"Bend It Like Beckham" director Gurinder Chadha knows a little bit about being a Bruce Springsteen fan, having seen The Boss at Wembley Stadium in 1984 where she proudly stood atop her chair and sang her heart out to his songs. So when she came across Guardian journalist Sarfraz Manzoor's memoir...

Monday, Jan. 28, 2019

Dan Gilroy's satirical contemporary art world thriller "Velvet Buzzsaw" will be available to Netflix subscribers worldwide this Friday, but he and his team gave audiences at the Sundance Film Festival a sneak peek at the film Sunday night where the most-common word used to praise it was "weird...

Monday, Jan. 28, 2019

There's an early scene in director Jennifer Kent's film "The Nightingale" that is so relentlessly brutal, it's become almost infamous and has evoked the most extreme reactions, both positive and negative.

And it's not at all what Kent expected to happen. She thought she'd made a film...

Monday, Jan. 28, 2019

It's not uncommon for audiences at the Sundance Film Festival to give standing ovations, but the ceremonial act took on a solemn air as two men who accuse Michael Jackson of molesting them as boys walked onstage following the festival's only screening of "Leaving Neverland," a documentary about...

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