Haitian filmmaker Bruno Mourral signs with talent agency WME Haitian filmmaker Bruno Mourral signs with talent agency WME for his feature film debut, Kidnapping Inc., set to premiere at Sundance Film Festival. Top News · Jan 17, 2024
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood review – intimate portrait of an ancient Estonian tradition This gentle, soft-edged documentary about the sauna ritual and the women who practise it is deserving of its Sundance prize The Guardian - UK · Oct 14, 2023
Another thriller from Down Under Shortly after the world premiere at Sundance Film Festival this year, Netflix announced it had acquired the rights to an Australian psychological horror titled Run Rabbit Run. Bangkok Post · May 29, 2023
Sundance Film Festival London: our pick of this year’s highly anticipated films 11 feature films have been specially selected for London’s 10th birthday edition Evening Standard · May 10, 2023
A Thousand and One review – Sundance hit cuts deep The poignant story of an ex-con mother struggling to raise her son amid a changing Harlem is powerfully poignant The Guardian - UK · Apr 23, 2023
Blindspotting season 2: release date, cast, trailer and everything we know about the comedy series Based on the Sundance hit movie, Blindspotting season 2 returns to Oakland to catch up with Ashley, Miles and company. Here's what we know. WhatToWatch · Mar 21, 2023
The reigning queen of SXSW is feeling the 'pressure': 'Did they like that?' As Parker Posey was to Sundance in the '90s and Greta Gerwig to SXSW in the mid-aughts, no one embodies the current sensibility of the South by Southwest Film & TV Festival quite like Rachel Sennott. With a persona that is ditzy but knowing, somehow earnestly cynical, tuned in but… Los Angeles Times · Mar 13, 2023
'All That Breathes': The Indian documentary flying high at film festivals After winning top prizes at Cannes and Sundance, "All That Breathes" is now shortlisted for an Academy Award for best documentary. Indian director Shaunak Sen tells us about this poetic exploration of kinship and environmental protection, as we follow Nadeem and Saud, two brothers saving the birds of prey falling… France 24 · Mar 7, 2023
Sundance 2023: Fiction Films of Note In the third of a four-part survey, our film critic CJ Sheu reviews four more narrative films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The News Lens · Feb 4, 2023
Hits, misses and deals: what can we learn from this year’s Sundance? A return to in-person premieres for the Utah-based festival saw big money acquisitions and the start of some Oscar campaigns The Guardian - US · Jan 31, 2023
For film lovers, Sundance matters as much as ever. Here are 19 (more) reasons why PARK CITY, Utah — The 2023 Sundance Film Festival came to a close Sunday, capping the festival’s first in-person edition since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in early 2020. Los Angeles Times film reporter Mark Olsen and film critic Justin Chang sat down to discuss what they saw and liked… Los Angeles Times · Jan 30, 2023
Sundance online: 'Fair Play' and other festival picks to watch at home The Sundance Fim Festival is a mad dash of snow-covered sidewalks, last minute ticketing and buzzy theaters packed with hyped-up moviegoers, a rite of passage for any true film lover. Tribune News Service · Jan 25, 2023
Psychological thrillers 'Fair Play' and 'Magazine Dreams' jolt Sundance competition to life PARK CITY, Utah — For the seasoned Sundance-goer, returning to this film festival for the first time since January 2020 can feel like a half-comforting, half-disorienting resumption of familiar rituals. Aside from the occasional masked face peeking out from the usual parka-and-beanie ensemble, you almost might be able to convince… Los Angeles Times · Jan 23, 2023
Iranian Women Take Center Stage at Sundance Film Festival Movies by and about Iranian women took center stage at the Sundance film festival this weekend, as diaspora filmmakers reflected on female-led protests and the deadly challenges of censorship and resistance in their ancestral home. "Joonam," a documentary about a three-generation family of Iranian women now living in Vermont, and… Asharq Al-Awsat · Jan 23, 2023
The Independent UK · Jan 21, 2023 Brett Kavanaugh documentary reveals new witness testimony of alleged sexual assault The new revelation is featured in the documentary Justice, which debuted on Friday at the Sundance Film Festival
The Guardian - US · Jan 21, 2023 ‘I hope this triggers outrage’: surprise Brett Kavanaugh documentary premieres at Sundance Covertly-made Justice, from director Doug Liman, shows to sold-out audience and shines new light on allegations of sexual assault
The Independent UK · Jan 20, 2023 Friendship lies behind Sundance comedy ‘Theater Camp’ There is quite a bit of history between the team behind “Theater Camp,” a loving satire of musical theater kids and their teachers that premieres Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival
Los Angeles Times · Jan 20, 2023 6 movies to make time for at this year's Sundance Film Festival Three years have passed since some of us last set foot in Park City, Utah, where the Sundance Film Festival has been on COVID-mandated hiatus — at least as an in-person event — since January 2020. Not that the festival has exactly hibernated in the meantime: In 2021 and 2022,…
Tribune News Service · Jan 19, 2023 Coming home to Detroit led filmmaker Qasim Basir back to Sundance DETROIT — When he was in his 20s, Qasim Basir was running around Detroit making movies and selling them at local liquor stores.
Evening Standard · Jan 18, 2023 Sundance Film Festival: Our selection of the festival’s most anticipated films Here are the films to keep your eye on, as the major festival is just around the corner
Los Angeles Times · Jan 11, 2023 SXSW Film and TV Festival to take flight with ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ With awards season kicking into high gear and Sundance about a week away, the South by Southwest Film and TV Festival released its initial program lineup on Wednesday. This year’s festival, running March 10 to 18, will open with “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” a fantasy-adventure tale, based on…
ABC News · Dec 8, 2022 Two SA films to be shown at prestigious Sundance Film Festival South Australian-made Run Rabbit Run and Talk to Me are among four Australian films that will be shown at the prestigious festival.
The Guardian - US · Dec 7, 2022 Sundance 2023: Anne Hathaway, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Julia Louis-Dreyfus lead lineup After cancelling in-person events for the 2022 edition, the Utah-based festival will return to physical premieres for the first time since 2020
WEKU · Oct 27, 2022 Birds fall to Earth from Delhi's toxic skies. Two brothers are there to save them Named the best documentary at Sundance and Cannes, All That Breathes explores the mission of two Muslim brothers: saving a raptor cut down by smog and deadly kite strings.
Los Angeles Times · Apr 5, 2022 ‘Flee’ didn’t win an Oscar, but its refugee story couldn’t be more timely Embedded in every hand-drawn line of the animated documentary “Flee” is a poignantly unfiltered humanism that has galvanized viewers worldwide. Spotlighting a young Afghan man crossing borders to find a safe haven, this portrait based on a real-life story combats the superficial tropes around refugee stories with profound curiosity for…