Representational image released by Sundance Film Festival | Photo Credit: Sundance Institute Sundance Institute today announced that the upcoming 40th edition of the Sundance Film Festival will take place from January 18 to 28. While the previous edition had a hybrid format, Sundance has stated that the upcoming edition will be presented in person, with […]
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In D. Smith’s ‘Kokomo City’, a portrait of four black transgender sex workers in America, the comfort level from the presence of a trans filmmaker is palpable as the protagonists openly recount their experiences. Deep in the woods, eight-year-old Coco is swimming in a lake with her great-aunt Lourdes. As they wash, Lourdes instructs Coco […]
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Daniel Roher and the members of the crew from “Navalny” accept the award for best documentary feature film at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. | Photo Credit: Chris Pizzello India’s climate change documentary All That Breathes lost the best documentary award to Navalny at the 95th Academy Awards. Directed by Daniel […]
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This image released by the Sundance Institute shows Evgeniy Maloletka in a scene from ‘20 Days in Mariupol,’ an official selection of the World Documentary Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival Mstyslav Chernov’s documentary “20 Days in Mariupol,” a first-person account of the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, won the audience […]
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“A Thousand and One,” a drama about an impoverished single mother and her son in New York City, won the Sundance Film Festival’s grand jury prize in the U.S. dramatic competition, while “Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project” was awarded the top prize in the U.S. documentary category. This year’s winners were announced at […]
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The Sundance Film Festival met the moment by going virtual for the past two years because of the coronavirus pandemic. But on Thursday, there was a palpable sense of relief from the festival’s leadership team at being in-person again. Sundance Institute CEO Joana Vicente, director of programming Kim Yutani, senior programmer John Nein and incoming […]
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Randall Park made a pact with himself some years ago that he wouldn’t attend the Sundance Film Festival if he didn’t have a project there. But the “Fresh Off the Boat” star never imagined that his first time would be as a director and not as an actor. His adaptation of “Shortcomings,” Adrian Tomine’s graphic […]
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Documentaries about Brooke Shields, Judy Blume and Michael J. Fox, films from veteran directors like Nicole Holofcener, an adaptation of the viral New Yorker story “Cat Person” and the feature directorial debut of actors Alice Englert and Randall Park are among the world premieres set for the Sundance Film Festival in January. Programmers for the […]
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