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(L-R) Maman(s), Credit: Sundance Film Festival; The Procedure, Credit: Jacob Rosen; Thunder Road, Credit:Jim Cummings.
Sundance Institute announced today the jury prizes in short filmmaking at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. The Short Film Grand Jury Prize, awarded to one film in the program of 72 short films selected from 8,712 submissions, went to Thunder Road by director and screenwriter Jim Cummings. The awards were presented at a ceremony in Park City, Utah; full video ...
Joshua Oppenheimer and Werner Herzog at Sundance Film Festival's Cinema Café.
A daily series of informal chats rounds up special guests for thought-provoking discussions. #cinemacafe
Cinema Café guests have included Louis CK, Barbara Kopple, Spike Lee, Roger Corman, Julie Delpy, Nick Hornby, Dave Grohl, Walter Murch, James Marsh, Gaspar Noé, Steve Coogan, Samantha Power, Parker Posey, Ice-T, and many more. So bring your questions and an open mind.
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kick off the 2016 Sundance Film Festival with Festival Director John Cooper, Executive Director Keri Putnam, and Robert Redford
Sundance Institute Executive Director Keri Putnam during the Day One Press Conference Photo: Calvin Knight
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LOVESONG
A FILM BY SO YONG KIM
Actors Jena Malone (The Hunger Games), Riley Keough
(The Girlfriend Experience, Mad Max), Brooklyn Decker (Grace and Frankie), Amy Seimetz (Upstream Color) and Rosanna Arquette
Director/co-writer So Yong Kim and co-writer/producer Bradley Rust Gray.
SYNOPSIS:
Using the poetics of naturalism and minimalism in lieu of explicit dialogue and...
2016 Sundance Film Festival
NEXT Section
DARK NIGHT
Writer/Director: Tim Sutton
Actors: Robert Jumper and Anna Rose Hopkins
Composer: Maica Armata
Producer: Alexandra Byer
Executive Producer: Jonathan Gray
WHEN: Sunday, January 24th, 2016
Press Check-In Time: 7:50pm
Press Line Begins: 8:20pm
Press Line Ends: 8:45pm
Screening...
CAMERAPERSON
A Bold Interrogation of the Power of the Camera
By Director & Cinematographer Kirsten Johnson
Downloadable Poster:
What does it mean to film somebody? What effect does it have on them - and what does it have on you? Kirsten Johnson is one of the most notable cinematographers working in documentary cinema today, having shot Citizenfour, Happy Valley, Fahrenheit 911, The Oath, The Invisible War, and dozens of ...
Online screeners available for review and interviews
Screening times at Treasure Mountain Inn, 255 Main Street, Park City, UT
January 25th, 2016 7:45PM- Gallery
January 26th, 2016 10:00PM- Ballroom
MY ENEMIES is US premiering at the 2016 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, UT.
Starring Louise Marleau (THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE), Frederic Lemay (LOUIS CYR), Hubert Prou...
GREEN ROOM
Jeremy Saulnier's Fiendishly Effective Thriller Opens April 1 from A24 Plays at Sundance Film Festival in Spotlight Section
A punk band on the road find themselves besieged by neo-Nazis in a backwoods Oregon club, in this brilliantly crafted and wickedly fun horror-thriller starring Patrick Stewart, Anton Yelchin, Alia Shawkat and Imogen Poots, from the director of the cult hit BLUE RUIN. Down on their luck punk rockers The Ain't Rights are fin...
North American Premiere Sundance 2016 | NEXT
THE FITS
Written + Directed by Anna Rose Holmer
Starring Royalty Hightower, Makyla Burnam + Inayah Rodgers
"Beguiling"
- VARIETY
"Captivating"
- THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Sweat, blood, and dancing"
- INDIEWIRE
"Royalty Hightower, gives a commanding, physical performance"
- VANITY FAIR
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Cast: Kika Magalhaes, Will Brill, Clara Wong, Flora Diaz and Olivia Bond
Francisca has been unfazed by death from an early age—her mother, formerly a surgeon in Portugal, imbued her with a thorough understanding of the human anatomy. When tragedy shatters her family’s idyllic life in the countryside, her deep trauma gradually awakens some unique curiosities. As she grows up, her desire to connect with the world around her takes a distinctly dark form.
Shot in crisp black and whit...
**Official Selection - 2016 Berlinale Panorama**
A dynamic coming of age story about agency, resilience and the transformative artform that is voguing, KIKI offers riveting and complex insight into the daily lives of a group of LGBTQ youth-of-color who comprise the "Kiki" scene, a vibrant, safe space for performance created and governed by these activists. Following members of the scene as they prepare for and perform at exuberant Kiki ba...
ACTRESS DAISY RIDLEY SIGNS ON TO EXECUTIVE PRODUCE SUNDANCE PREMIERE FILM
“THE EAGLE HUNTRESS”
Daisy Ridley, star of the current blockbuster STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS and hero to young women everywhere, has signed on as an Executive Producer for the Sundance Premiere film THE EAGLE HUNTRESS, as announced by Morgan Spurlock, executive producer for the film.
Ridley joined the team after seeing a cut of film and felt she was obligated to do everything within her power to make sure...
Kodak and Sundance Institute are collaborating to support the Institute’s preservation efforts while also supporting independent filmmakers who are using motion picture film. As part of the new alliance, Kodak is providing film to the Sundance Institute’s Archives, which hosts a wealth of images, tapes and artifacts preserved over its rich 35-year history. Kodak is also creating 35mm exhibition prints for filmmakers who originated their projects on film and those with features in the...
2016 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL - U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE
A film by Robert Greene
SUNDAY, JANUARY 24 - MONDAY, JANUARY 25
What does it mean to tell somebody else's story? In this ingenious blend of documentary and psychological thriller, Robert Greene (ACTRESS) follows Kate Lyn Sheil (House of Cards, LISTEN UP PHILIP) through her creative process as she prepares for her next, tragic role: Christine Chubbuck, a Flori...
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Featuring: Howard Brookner, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, James Grauerholz, Jim Jarmusch, Sara Driver, Brad Gooch, Robert Wilson, Matt Dillon, Madonna, and more
Directed by: Aaron Brookner
Producer: Paula Vaccaro
Co-Producers: Sara Driver, Alex Garcia
Executive Producer: Jim Jarmusch
Genre: Documentary
Run Time: 96 minutes
Synopsis: UNCLE HOWARD is an intertwining tale of past and present. New York filmmaker How...
Werner Herzog's new documentary LO AND BEHOLD: REVERIES OF THE CONNECTED WORLD. The film is premiering this Saturday (1/23) at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.
TRT: 98 Minutes
About the film:
Society depends on the Internet for nearly everything but rarely do we step back and recognize its endless intricacies and unsettling omnipotence. Presented by NETSCOUT, a leader in service assurance and cyber security, Werner Herzog explores – in a playful ye...
2016 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
OPENING NIGHT – WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
“SKY LADDER: THE ART OF CAI GUO-QIANG”
WORLD PREMIERE
THURSDAY, JANUARY 21st
WHO: Director Kevin Macdonald (THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND, ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER), subject Cai Guo-Qiang and wife Ho...
Uber has already taken over the roads in most major cities. Now it’s getting ready to take over the skies this week at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The San Francisco company is partnering with aircraft manufacturer Airbus Group SE for a pilot program that will let Sundance attendees hail a helicopter ride from the Uber app.
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**2016 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL - U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION**
WEINER
Thrilling, Wild Inside Look at an Unprecedented Political Meltdown Has World Premiere at Fest;
Film Recently Acquired by Sundance Selects & Showtime Films
With unprecedented access to Anthony Weiner, as he mounts his New York City mayoral campaign, WEINER is a thrilling look inside his impending political meltdown. What begins as an unexpected comeback from being a...
Land Of The Enlightened by Pieter-Jan De Pue
Promotional campaigns for six European films are being boosted with Films Sales Support (FSS) from European Film Promotion (EFP) at this year's Sundance Film Festival (January 21 - 31, 2016). Dedicated to the discovery of new independent cinema from around the world and as gateway to the North American market, the Sundance Film Festival is one of the important festivals in the US. €25,000 towards sales compa...
2016 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL - U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION NEWTOWN
Kim Snyder's Powerful Witness to A Small Town in the Aftermath of Unthinkable Violence Has World Premiere at Fest
There are no easy answers in Kim A. Snyder's searing new documentary NEWTOWN - no words of compassion or reassurance that can bring back the 20 children and six educators who lost their lives during the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Instead, Snyder gives us exclus...
On Thanksgiving Day 2012, American photojournalist James "Jim" Foley was kidnapped in Syria and went missing for two years before the infamous video of his public execution sent shockwaves and introduced much of the world to ISIS. JIM: THE JAMES FOLEY STORY tells the story of his life through intimate interviews with his family, friends and fellow journalists - while fellow hostages reveal never-before-heard details of his captivity with a chilling intimacy that reveals their...
2016 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
"KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE"
WORLD PREMIERE SUNDAY, JANUARY 24
Temple Theatre 3700 North Brookside Court Park City, UT
Attending: ctress/Subject Kate Lyn Sheil (House of Cards, The Girlfriend Experience), director Robert Greene, cinematographer Sean Price Williams, producers Susan Bedusa and Douglas Tirola, co-producers Bennett Elliot and Danielle Rosen, executive producer Christos V. Konstantakopo...
Global art initiative connects individuals in one-on-one conversation
Portals, a global public art initiative connectingpeople in live, full-body dialogue, will connect characters in Park City to others in Havana, Cuba; Isfahan, Iran, and Mexico City, Mexico during the Sundance Film Festival from January 22-26, 2016. The Portal will be located at the Airbnb Haus, where local characters from around the world can share their stories with one another.
Portals are g...
As the 2016 Sundance Film Festival kicks off on today, Thursday in Park City, Utah, U.S.A., Sundance Institute and Picturehouse have adjusted the previously announced 2016 dates for the Sundance Film Festival: London to 2 – 5 June at Picturehouse Central. The festival will feature the international and UK premieres of films from the 2016 edition of the renowned Sundance Film Festival.
Clare Binns, Director of Programming and Acquisitions at Picturehouse, comments:
“P...
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