Monday, Jan. 24, 2022

Richard Davis was a bankrupt pizzeria owner when he got the idea for a bulletproof vest in 1969 Michigan.

Body armor was nothing new, of course, but Davis had an inkling that he could make something lighter that could be worn, undetected, under clothes. Kevlar, he'd discover, was the...

Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022

Dale Dickey tends to get "those crusty roles," as she heard someone once call them. A familiar, craggy face from films like "Winter's Bone" and "Hell or High Water," Dickey has long been a riveting supporting player in rural dramas. 

But in the Sundance entry "A Love Song," Dickey, long a...

Friday, Jan. 21, 2022

Boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya wanted to make a documentary about his 1996 fight against Julio César Chávez. It was coming up on 25 years since the "Ultimate Glory" showdown and he figured the time was right to look back. So he asked Eva Longoria Bastón, his friend of 20 years, if she'd be...

Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022

The lights may be dim at the Eccles Theater and Park City's Main Street will have fewer cinephiles packing the snowy sidewalks when the Sundance Film Festival begins its 44th edition Thursday night. But if 2021 proved anything, it's that the world's premier independent film festival is more than...

Friday, Jan. 14, 2022

Two directorial duos--one sporting individual Sundance track records, the other with a joint pedigree at the festival--return this month with their latest documentaries.

Then we have two solo artisans on the narrative side, bringing their feature directorial debuts to Sundance.

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Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022

Just two weeks before it was to be held in Park City, Utah, the Sundance Film Festival is canceling its in-person festival and reverting to an entirely virtual edition due to the current coronavirus surge. 

Festival organizers announced Wednesday that the festival will start as scheduled...

Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021

The Sundance Film Festival is returning to the Utah mountains in January armed with documentaries about Bill Cosby, Princess Diana, Kanye West and Lucille Ball and the directorial debuts of Eva Longoria, Tig Notaro and Jesse Eisenberg.
Festival organizers unveiled the lineup for the 2022...

Friday, Feb. 19, 2021

Art vs. commerce isn’t necessarily an either/or proposition. The two aren’t always at odds. Sometimes both can peacefully co-exist, if not flourish. And a couple prime examples of such flourishing emerged front and center at the recently concluded Sundance Film Festival.

Consider CODA...

Friday, Feb. 19, 2021

I’m so honored to be a part of the Sundance Film Festival 2021, participating in Tabitha Jackson’s first festival and the very first virtual Sundance festival. Jane (animation director Samborski) and I were previously in the 2013 Sundance Film Festival with an animated short we did called ...

Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021

Questlove accepted his documentary grand jury prize and audience award from his car on the way to work and “CODA” director Sian Heder accepted her top awards in American Sign Language from her own home with her kids by her side and her husband filming. The 2021 

Sundance Film Festival...

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