Frances Bodomo, Tracy Droz Tragos & Andrew Droz Palermo, Cynthia Hill, Eve Ensler & Tony Stroebel
Honored at 8th Annual Women In Film Sundance Filmmakers Panel, Presented by Skywalker Sound
On January 19, 2014 Women In Film, Los Angeles (WIF), the leading non-profit organization dedicated to women in the global entertainment industry, awarded four grants worth $32,000 in a combination of cash and in-kind donations at its eighth annual Sundance Filmmakers Panel discussio...
High profile Slamdance premiere results in competitive deal-making for theatrical release
Main Street Films announced today the acquisition of Joe Manganiello’s La Bare. Manganiello’s production company 3:59 Inc., run by brother Nick Manganiello, produced the crowd-pleasing documentary. The Magic Mike star’s directorial debut gives an insider’s look at the history, the lives and the culture of the most popular male strip club in the world, La Bare Dal...
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Park City, Utah -- Sony Pictures Classics announced this morning that it has secured worldwide rights to Martha Stephens & Aaron Katz’s bawdy road trip comedy LAND HO!, which premiered on Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival. SPC plans to release the film nationwide in 2014.
The film is produced by Mynette Louie, Sara Murphy, and Christina Jennings, and executive produced by David Gordon Green, and Julie Parker B...
JASH SHORT HONORED AT SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
YouTube comedy collective JASH and filmmaker Janicza Bravo have won The Jury Award, U.S. Fiction at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
They were honored for the dark comic short “Gregory Go Boom” which stars JASH co-founder Michael Cera as a parapalegic who leaves home to be on his own. The short also stars Brett Gelman and was written and directed by Bravo.
It’s worth noting tha...
Emerging Artists from Vietnam/UK, Australia, Denmark and India Selected for their Visionary Projects
Sundance Institute and Mahindra today announced the winners of the 2014 Sundance Institute | Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award, in recognition and support of emerging independent filmmakers from around the world. The winning directors and projects are Hong Khaou, MONSOON from Vietnam/UK; Tobias Lindholm, A WAR from Denmark; Ashlee Page, ARCHIVE from Australia; and Neeraj Ghaywan, FLY ...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Announces Short Film Awards : Of God and Dogs Wins Short Film Grand Jury Prize
Fueled by artistic expression and limited only by their runtime, short films transcend traditional storytelling. They are a significant and popular way artists can connect with audiences. From documentary to animation, narrative to experimental, the abbreviated form is no longer just for the novice. Shorts have and will continue to be an important part of cinema, storytelling, and c...
Original Documentary About Famed Labor Organizer Marks First In Joint Venture Between Univision News and Participant Media’s TV Network
Pivot, the cable network from Participant Media targeting Generation Y, and Univision News, the award-winning news division of Univision Communications Inc., the leading media company serving Hispanic America, have acquired the U.S. TV rights to ‘Cesar’s Last Fast’ from Richard Ray Perez and Lorena Parlee in advance of its world...
Support for Documentary Films Examining Contemporary Human Rights and Social Issues
Park City, UT — Innovative documentary films addressing some of the most important issues facing the world today received a boost with a $5 million grant to the Sundance Institute. Christopher Stone, president of the Open Society Foundations, announced the dollar-for-dollar matching grant at the Sundance Film Festival.
"My foundations have long supported arts and culture--es...
Spotlight on Women Directors. Moderated by Indiewire's Anne Thompson @ 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
Spotlight on Women Directors. Moderated by Indiewire's Anne Thompson @ 2014 Sundance Film Festival. Women directors tend to get more opportunity in documentary than Hollywood. It's hard to explain why, but we can certainly celebrate their results. Hosted by Thom Powers and the SundanceNOW Doc Club, four Sundance Film Festival participants and alumnae will discuss th...
I wanted to share with you a fun guide to Park City’s restaurant scene while at Sundance created by Tastemade.
Take a peek: https://www.tastemade.com/locations/park-city
All the restaurants listed are OPEN during Sundance! Watch 1 minute episodes of the best local hot spots, get a sneak peek at what they look like inside, and which dishes to try. Instead of trying to figure out which restaurants are open this year, Tastemade has done it for y...
Two-time Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Lucy Walker returns to Sundance Film Festival 2014 with a remarkable new documentary, THE LION'S MOUTH OPENS. The 15 minute film is screening as part of the festival's Shorts Competition.
Synopsis: A stunningly courageous young actor, Marianna Palka, confronts her risk of Huntington's Disease.
This documentary film features a cast that happens to include a number of notable actors (who are not acting), they are listed her...
Sundance Institute today highlighted the roster of music performances to take place at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, including talent from Low Down – featuring Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea, composer Ohad Talmor and and a reading by Elle Fanning – who will perform at the ‘A Celebration of Music in Film’ event on January 19, 8:00 p.m. MT, at Sundance House Presented by HP at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. Also at the event will be The Fela! Band, performing music ...
Women In Film (WIF), the leading non-profit organization dedicated to women in the global entertainment industry, celebrates ten years of partnership with the Sundance Institute, and will present its eighth annual filmmakers’ panel discussion at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. This year’s panel subject is “Truth Be Told,” and will explore how filmmakers find truth in their work and how they choose to share it with an audience. Featured panelists will include ...
This year's program features eight days of an eclectic mix of songwriters and artists, from legendary icons to rising stars, all hand-picked by ASCAP.
The Sundance ASCAP Music Café will be located at Rich Haines Gallery (751 Main Street, Park City, UT). It is open to Festival credential holders from January 17 to 24. Doors open at 1:30 p.m. with performances starting at 2:00 p.m.
To view a complete schedule of performances and for artist profiles, ple...
Native American filmmaker Sterlin Harjo's intimate and moving documentary feature film THIS MAY BE THE LAST TIME will have its world premiere in the Documentary Premiere's section on Sunday, January 19th at 2:30pm at the Prospector Theater.
In THIS MAY BE THE LAST TIME, Harjo revisits his grandfather’s mysterious death and how hymns played a role then and now in uniting families and communities in times of worship, joy, mourning, hope and ...
Movie lovers around the world can share their family history through precious family photos at the Sundance Film Festival. Award-winning director Thomas Allen Harris is bringing to the premier Park City event his innovative traveling roadshow, the Digital Diaspora Family Reunion (DDFR), which captures the stories and histories of American families in a national family photo archive. People can participate by uploading family photographs to Instagram using #1World1Family or #DDFRtv to tag thei...
Klip Collective has much to look forward to during the upcoming 2014 Sundance Film Festival. The creative production shop has been commissioned to turn their massive projections into a pre-roll trailer that will play before every film screening at the Festival. To top it off, for the third year, Klip Collective will also participate in the Festival’s New Frontier presentation with the premiere of their projection installation What’s He Projecting in There...
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Written and Directed by Desiree Akhavan
Starring Desiree Akhavan, Rebecca Henderson, Halley Feiffer, Scott Adsit, Anh Duong, Arian Moyad
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The following talent will be available for interviews during the festival
Writer/Director/Actor: Desiree Akhavan
Actor: Rebecca Henderson
Actor: Halley Feiffer
Synopsis:
For Shirin (Desiree Akhavan), being part of a perfect Persian family isn’t easy. Acceptance eludes her from all sides: h...
RETURN TO HOMS, the powerful and timely documentary from Syrian filmmakers director Talal Derki and producer Orwa Nyrabia, will have its North American premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2014 in the World Cinema Documentary Competition.
The film recently had its world premiere at the highly respected International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), where it was the opening night film and received acclaim from audiences and critics.
BRIEF SYNOPSIS:
Filmed between August 2011 ...
Here is one of the most meaningful documentaries at this year's Sundance Festival, award-winning "Waiting For Mamu," which follows the story of 2012 CNN Hero of the Year, Pushpa Basnet, the internationally-lauded social worker and founder of a development center for children who would otherwise grow up behind bars in her native Nepal. Director Thomas Morgan, co-director Francois Caillud, producer Angela Bernard Thomas and executive producers Morgan Spurlock ...
AND HO! by Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz
Starring Paul Eenhoorn and Earl Lynn Nelson
About the Filmmakers:
LAND HO! is the first collaboration between Martha Stephens and Katz, each a rising star in their own right. Stephens' first feature, PASSENGER PIGEONS, premiered at SXSW 2010 and won Chicken and Egg's "We Believe In You" award. This was followed by her second feature, PILGRIM SONG (SXSW 2012). Katz also made his debut at SXSW (in 2006),...
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HELLION
Written and Directed by Kat Candler
Starring Aaron Paul, Josh Wiggins, Juliette Lewis, Deke Garner
Synopsis:
Writer/director Kat Candler's HELLION paints the powerful portrait of a family on the brink of dissolution set against the haunting backdrop of the refineries of Southeast Texas.
Obsessed with heavy metal, dirt bike racing and partaking in the occasional act of vandalism with his band of ...
Park City, UT — Sundance Institute today announced that the newly restored Hoop Dreams (1994) will screen in the From the Collection program at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, 20 years after the film made its world premiere at the 1994 Festival. The recently completed restoration represents the collaborative effort of Sundance Institute, UCLA Film & Television Archive, the Academy Film Archive and Kartemquin Films. Filmmakers Steve James, Peter Gilbert and Frederick Marx and subject...
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