Rooftop Films, in partnership with Time Out New York, presents a special sneak preview screening of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival sensation “Ping Pong Summer”, preceded by Cruising Electric a film by Brumby Boylston, on Saturday, May 30th at the roof of the Old American Can Factory in Brooklyn. The event will be filled with […]
Sundance Institute announced the Jury, Audience and other special awards of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the feature film Awards at on January 25, 2014. Some of the awards winners include: Rich Hill, Whiplash, Return to Homs, To Kill a Man Earn, Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory, Whiplash, The Green Prince, […]
Part of the Sundance Film Festival’s vitality is the culture of conversation we cultivate around the films in the program, with filmmakers, documentary subjects, actors, and artists. It’s through those interactions that the films really come off the screen and audiences can engage with the people who make it. The program is broken up into […]
Sundance Institute is thrilled to congratulate 7 Sundance-supported films and alumni on their Oscar nominations this morning, led by four films in the Best Documentary Feature category including Directing Award winner Cutie and the Boxer and World Cinema Audience Award winner The Square. Visit website to view all the oscar nominated films and more about […]
Sundance Institute has selected 12 projects for its 2014 January Screenwriters Lab, an immersive, five-day (January 10-15) writers’ workshop at the Sundance Resort in Utah. Participating independent screenwriters – drawn from around the world, including the United States, Latin America, Europe, and China – will have the opportunity to work intensely on their feature film […]
Film Independent announced the nominations for its 29th Annual Independent Spirit Awards this morning with actresses Octavia Spencer and Paula Patton presenting the honors. A total of 24 films supported by Sundance Institute or the Sundance Film Festival received recognition, led by three noms for Grand Jury Prize winner Fruitvale Station and a pair for […]
The Sundance Institute Theatre Program is accepting submissions through November 15 for its 2014 Theatre Lab, July 7-27 at the Sundance Resort in Sundance, Utah. Under the supervision of Artistic Director Philip Himberg and Producing Director Christopher Hibma, the Lab is the centerpiece of the Theatre Program’s year-round work and in previous years has supported […]
by allan tong for FILMbutton “There’s something in that mud,” says Bono about the Fame recording studios in this swampy hamlet in Alabama. Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, The Allman Brothers, The Rolling Stones and many others have recorded some of the best songs of the past 50 years here. Contemporary interviews and archival photos bring […]
from vkpr Hot Docs 2011 Top Ten Audience Favourite & Sundance 2011 Audience Award: Documentary Opens: Toronto (Carlton) – Friday, October 28th Edmonton (Metro) – Friday, November 4th Vancouver (Vancity) – Friday, November 18th “I am pretty hard to impress, so I thought if someone could inspire me that much, then they would probably inspire […]
by James Olsen for FILMbutton We Were Here Director: David Weissman Cast: Eileen Glutzer, Paul Boneberg, Guy Clark, Daniel Goldstein, Ed Wolf In We Were Here, Weissman introduces us to five people who were in San Francisco when the AIDS epidemic began. In one way or another, each was affected with the changes to the […]
