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One on One: Geeta Patel and Senain Kheshgi
What is the true test of friendship? Travelling ...Read More
Short Shot: Next Floor for the Bourgeois Dinner Party, Please
An upper crust dinner. Well-dressed socialites ...Read More
Meet the Artist: New Frontier Artist John Underkoffler Tampers with the Future of Filmmaking
When I visited the Oblong Industries laboratory ...Read More
One on One: Geeta Patel and Senain Kheshgi
Posted by Bridgette Bates on Mar 5 09.What is the true test of friendship? Travelling together in a war-torn ...Read More
Q&A: The Yes Men Fix the World
Posted by Jeff Hanson on Feb 25 09.They’ve been called everything from heroes to troublemakers and ...Read More
Short Shot: Next Floor for the Bourgeois Dinner Party, Please
Posted by Mike Plante on Feb 25 09.An upper crust dinner. Well-dressed socialites gorge themselves on every ...Read More
A Tip of the Hat
Posted by Bridgette Bates on Feb 20 09. Congratulations to James Marsh's Man on Wire, winner of the Academy Award ...Read More
Meet the Artist: New Frontier Artist John Underkoffler Tampers with the Future of Filmmaking
Posted by Mike Plante on Feb 19 09.When I visited the Oblong Industries laboratory in downtown Los Angeles ...Read More
Q&A: Earth Days
Posted by Jeff Hanson on Feb 19 09.Robert Stone’s Earth Days is an enlightening but sobering journey through ...Read More
Physician, Heal Thyself
Posted by Mike Plante on Feb 12 09.Intelligent, confident, protective against mood swings and other ...Read More
Meet the Artist: When You’re Strange and Also on the Hunt for the Truth
Posted by Holly Willis on Feb 12 09.Tom DiCillo, director of the hilarious, almost-too-true 1995 film Living ...Read More
Opinion: Mark Duplass
Posted by David Ng on Feb 4 09.When two lifelong buddies decide to take their friendship into ...Read More
Q&A: Cold Souls
Posted by Bridgette Bates on Feb 4 09.Sophie Barthes' haunting comedy Cold Souls takes a literal cognitive ...Read More
Short Shot: Boutonniere
Posted by Todd Luoto on Feb 3 09.A simple teenage girl is forced into preparing for a prom she doesn't ...Read More
Q&A: Sergio
Posted by David Ng on Feb 3 09. The war in Iraq has spawned many documentaries, but few are as intensely ...Read More
Day 10: My Festival Experience
Posted by Evany Thomas on Jan 26 09.I’m awake, and it’s … 10 a.m.? I don’t know. Where am I? What day is it? ...Read More
Awards Celebrate 2009 Storytellers
Posted by Bridgette Bates on Jan 25 09.Last night, the 25th Sundance Film Festival culminated with a celebration ...Read More
Q&A: Rough Aunties
Posted by David Ng on Jan 24 09. You don’t want to mess with the women in charge in Rough Aunties, the new ...Read More
One on One: Natalia Almada and Dana Perry
Posted by Claiborne Smith on Jan 24 09.What makes a person want to reveal private family history to a wide ...Read More
Day 9: My Festival Experience
Posted by Evany Thomas on Jan 24 09.The alarm blares at 6 a.m. and I blurrily turn on the television to help ...Read More
Meet the Artist: Cory McAbee
Posted by Mike Plante on Jan 24 09.John Cooper, the Festival’s Director of Programming, once said, “Sundance ...Read More
Q&A: The Clone Returns Home
Posted by David Ng on Jan 24 09. A winner of the Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award in 2006, Kanji ...Read More
Q&A: Barking Water
Posted by Evany Thomas on Jan 24 09.In Barking Water, the latest film from Sundance Institute Lab alum ...Read More
Short Shot: The Powerful, Numbing Realism of 2 Birds
Posted by Mike Plante on Jan 24 09.2 Birds takes place one bright summer night, as a group of teenagers move ...Read More
A Spoonful of Sugar
Posted by Claiborne Smith on Jan 23 09.Films about activists and their causes may carry with them that icky, ...Read More
Day 8: My Festival Experience
Posted by Evany Thomas on Jan 23 09.It’s day eight of the festival, and I’m only just now beginning to figure ...Read More
Opinion: Stanley Nelson
Posted by Holly Willis on Jan 23 09.Stanley Nelson has been writing, directing, and producing documentary ...Read More
The Digital Word of Mouth
Posted by David Ng on Jan 23 09.When it comes to making your independent movie a hit, it’s not about what ...Read More
Q&A: Black Dynamite
Posted by David Ng on Jan 23 09.An affectionate spoof of Shaft, Dolemite, and just about every other ...Read More
Short Shot: I Am So Proud of You: The Existential Life of a Stick Figure
Posted by Todd Luoto on Jan 23 09.If cinephiles think shorts don't generate the same sort of hype and ...Read More
Q&A: Sin Nombre
Posted by Claiborne Smith on Jan 23 09.Sin Nombre, Cary Joji Fukunaga’s harrowing first feature, is one of the ...Read More
Day 7: My Festival Experience
Posted by Evany Thomas on Jan 22 09.It’s 5 a.m., and I’m lying in the dark, trying to figure out how I could ...Read More
Meet the Artist: Big Hopes for Big Fan
Posted by Cristy Lytal on Jan 22 09.When writer-director Robert Siegel was growing up on Long Island, he used ...Read More
Opinion: Sam Rockwell
Posted by Evany Thomas on Jan 22 09.Sam Rockwell is everywhere at once this year. He’s pulling a double-shift ...Read More
Q&A: Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
Posted by Jeff Hanson on Jan 22 09.Funny, intriguing, at times uncomfortable, and always unapologetic, ...Read More
Meet the Artist: Dominic Murphy’s Ability to Combine Stylized Visuals and Engaging Performances Make White Lightnin’ Stand Out
Posted by Holly Willis on Jan 22 09.The origins of the rollicking film White Lightnin’ are appropriate: a ...Read More
Day 6: My Festival Experience
Posted on Jan 21 09.After finally lowering my barbeque-laden body into the sweet loving arms ...Read More
Shorts Awards Announced
Posted by Todd Luoto on Jan 21 09.On Tuesday, Festivalgoers – many of whom had been celebrating Tuesday as ...Read More
One on One: Ondi Timoner and Nasty Nets
Posted on Jan 21 09.The Festival is host this year to two unique insights into the Internet. ...Read More
Indie vs. Hollywood?
Posted by David Ng on Jan 21 09. It was an impressive convocation of seasoned auteurs: Steven Soderbergh, ...Read More
The New Man's Land
Posted by David Ng on Jan 21 09.Quentin Crisp once theorized that certain people dislike homosexuals ...Read More
Q&A: I Love You Phillip Morris
Posted by Claiborne Smith on Jan 21 09.I Love You Phillip Morris is the improbable story of Steven Russell (Jim ...Read More
They're Alive! 10 New Films Emerge from the Sundance Institute Labs
Posted by Holly Willis on Jan 20 09.What, exactly, is a Sundance Lab movie? People sometimes talk about Lab ...Read More
Day 5: My Festival Experience
Posted by Evany Thomas on Jan 20 09.After logging a full six hours of sleep, the most consecutive winks I’ve ...Read More
Q&A: Mystery Team's Director Dan Eckman on Internet Comedy
Posted by Jeff Hanson on Jan 20 09.So is there life after YouTube? Director Dan Eckman moves Web sensation ...Read More
Opinion: Nick Hornby
Posted by Claiborne Smith on Jan 20 09.Those who know that British scribe Nick Hornby, wrote the male-centric ...Read More
Meet the Artist: Bobcat Goldthwait’s World’s Greatest Dad Isn’t Your Average Indie Comedy
Posted by Mike Plante on Jan 20 09.If you recognize the talents behind World’s Greatest Dad — written and ...Read More
Short Shot: This Is Her
Posted by Cristy Lytal on Jan 20 09.“This is me. This is my husband. And this is the bitch who will one day ...Read More
Day 4: My Festival Experience
Posted by Evany Thomas on Jan 19 09.Wide awake at 5:30 once again, sigh. Since there’s no going back to ...Read More
One on One: Najwa Najjar and Cherien Dabis
Posted by Holly Willis on Jan 19 09.Palestinian filmmakers Najwa Najjar and Cherien Dabis met at Sundance ...Read More
Q&A: Thriller in Manila’s Director John Dower on the Forgotten Former World Heavyweight Boxer Joe Frazier
Posted by David Ng on Jan 19 09. One of the most surprising facts you learn about Joe Frazier in the new ...Read More
Short Shot: Going Beyond Just Acting for the Camera
Posted by Todd Luoto on Jan 19 09.One thing about Justin Nowell is clear: he’s not solely concerned with ...Read More
Meet the Artist: Tommy Wirkola Creates a Lot of Life from Dead Snow
Posted by Claiborne Smith on Jan 19 09.Director Tommy Wirkola’s second movie Dead Snow, stars a lot of Nazi ...Read More
