Tag: 2019 Sundance Film Festival
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #1. Alice Waddington – Paradise Hills
Added to the Sundance film festival at the beginning of the decade, over time, the NEXT section (formerly referred to as "<=>") has unearthed...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #2. Danielle Macdonald – Paradise Hills
Actress Danielle Macdonald from Paradise Hills is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #3. Núria Valls – Paradise Hills
Producer Núria Valls from Paradise Hills is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #9. Anna Margaret Hollyman – Sister Aimee
Actress Anna Margaret Hollyman from Sister Aimee is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #8. Marie Schlingmann – Sister Aimee
Filmmaker Marie Schlingmann from Sister Aimee is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for...
The Magic Life of V | 2019 Sundance Film Festival Review
V for Vanquish: Hristov Showcases Role-Playing as Trauma Therapy in Intimate Doc
For his seventh documentary feature, Finland’s Tonislav Hristov returns to his home country...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #7. Samantha Buck – Sister Aimee
Filmmaker Samantha Buck from Sister Aimee is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #10. Rhys Ernst – Adam
Director Rhys Ernst from Adam is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #11. Leo Sheng – Adam
Actor Leo Sheng from Adam is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our...
2019 Sundance Film Festival: Nicholas Bell’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films
Like many of the fourth quarter 2018 film festival circuit venues (Toronto, Venice, AFI), Sundance 2019 benefits from an overstuffed foreign film market, taking...
2019 Sundance Film Festival: Dylan Kai Dempsey’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films
Whether you’re going to the festival or just keeping tabs, here are my six picks—five features plus a short film bonus—from the many films...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #17. George Rush – Give Me Liberty
Producer George Rush from Give Me Liberty is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected...
2019 Sundance Film Festival: Green’s Premature, Poe’s Selah and the Spades & Griffin’s The Wolf Hour in the NEXT section
Last year's NEXT section offerings gave us Madeline's Madeline, Night Comes On, Search and We the Animals. This year we have Rashaad Ernesto Green's...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: The Scorecard Before the Announcements
Later today, the Sundance Film Fest unveil their 2019 line-up. Taking a Thierry Fremaux Cannes approach, the fest will be annoucing their programming offerings...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #100. Alex Winter – Zappa
With Sundance having premiered Thorsten Schütte's Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words just a couple of years back, perhaps they'll not...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #99. Alistair Banks Griffin – The Wolf Hour
Shooting took place in November of 2017 on Alistair Banks Griffin's sophomore feature and a cast of Naomi Watts, Jennifer Ehle, Kelvin Harrison Jr.,...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #97. & #98. Richard Linklater – Where’d You Go, Bernadette & Untitled Moon Landing Project
In an almost film per eighteen months pace, Richard Linklater might have not one, but two features released in 2019....and perhaps the filmmaker will...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #96. Benh Zeitlin – Wendy
With the amount of time being put into the post production portion of the process, I doubt that sophomore jinx will be applicable here. Wendy is...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #95. Trey Edward Shults – Waves
Trey Edward Shults blasted onto the scene with his award winning SXSW, Cannes debut Krisha (2015) which was followed up with It Comes at...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #94. Untitled Roger Ross Williams – Apollo Theater Docu
A celebrated docu filmmaker (his 2010 short Music by Prudence won Oscar) outside of the festival, Roger Ross Williams' second home is indeed Park...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #93. Untitled Penny Lane – Religious Activism Documentary
Proselytism can sometimes send people to canoe to remote islands with inhospitable tribe habitants. Penny Lane has found some docu zealots among programmers (her...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #92. Untitled Noah Baumbach Comedy
While Netflix held off at showing the pic during the fall season, there is no reason to think that they won't premiere in early...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #91. Untitled Miranda July Crime Drama
We're not sure if the Madeline's Madeline experience put Miranda July into the let's make a movie spirit, but shortly after premiering last January...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #90. Untitled Lulu Wang Comedy
Her debut film in 2014's Posthumous (Jack Huston and Brit Marling) went mostly unseen, but something tells me this currently untitled American-Asian family comedy...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #89. Untitled Christopher Morris Comedy
Christopher Morris brought Four Lions to Sundance in 2010, and his follow up went into production in the summer of 2017 in the Dominican...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #88. Untitled Alex Lehmann Duplass Brothers/Ray Romano Comedy
Part of the larger Duplass Bros. family that keeps growing, Alex Lehmann saw his directorial debut Blue Jay get launched at TIFF and shortly...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #87. Owen Kline – Two Against Nature
The by-product of acting royalty, Criterion connoisseur, and child actor in The Squid and the Whale, Owen Kline's debut was briefly mentioned in a...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #86. Rodrigo Bellott – Tu Me Manques
One of the producers on the 2013 Sundance entry We Are What We Are, Bolivian filmmaker Rodrigo Bellott was his country's foreign film category...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #85. Babak Anvari – Transgression
Another Sundance alumni who broke out big at the fest with Under the Shadow, Babak Anvari quickly lined up a pair of projects with...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #84. Scott Z. Burns – The Torture Report
It would be kind of neat to see Scott Z. Burns premiere his directorial debut at the same time as his frequent collaborator Steven...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #83. Martha Stephens – To the Stars
Martha Stephens' fourth feature film follows in the footsteps of Land Ho! (Sundance '14). With filming having taken place in May, starring Shea Whigham, Malin Akerman,...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #82. Lynn Shelton – Sword of Trust
A project she likens to her 2009 film Humpday, described as an improvisational type of production, Lynn Shelton's eighth feature film in Sword of...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #81. J.D. Dillard – Sweetheart
The only J.D. Dillard related news to drop in 2018 was that he co-wrote Joe Sill’s directorial debut project Stray. Another tight-lipped Blumhouse production...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #80. Carlo Mirabella-Davis – Swallow
After a false start of sorts, Carlo Mirabella-Davis will finally be premiering the France-US co-production and his directorial debut Swallow in 2019. His past...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #79. David Wnendt – The Sunlit Night
David Wnendt broke out big (so did his star Carla Juri) with his four feature film 2013's Wetlands (read review). With a US and...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #78. Julian Jarrold – Sulphur And White
Julian Jarrold showcased Kinky Boots at Sundance way back in 2005 and premiered the likes of Becoming Jane (2007), Brideshead Revisited (2008), and A...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #77. Hannah Pearl Utt – Stupid Happy
Moving from Disengaged the TV Series to Disengaged the feature, Hannah Pearl Utt received a helping hand (and so did producer Mallory Schwartz) for...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #76. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson – Someone Great
Considered ahead of its time, writer-director-producer Jennifer Kaytin Robinson parlayed her canceled MTV’s Sweet/Vicious gig into a directorial debut featuring the likes of Brittany Snow,...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #75. Josephine Decker – Shirley
Josephine Decker's Madeline's Madeline was next level for the filmmaker and so it was no surprise when she joined a project that was already in...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #74. Pippa Bianco – Share
In less than two weeks from now, we should be finding out what the final title is for Pippa Bianco's feature length version which...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #73. Selah and the Spades – Tayarisha Poe
Receiving a ton of support along the way, the micro-budgeted Selah and the Spades went into production this summer in Tayarisha Poe's backyard of...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #72. David Gutnik – Russian American
Brooklyn-born and based David Gutnik has been chipping away at Russian American (formerly Brighton Beach) since 2016, with post perhaps being further delayed because...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #71. Sebastian Schipper – Roads
Exploding onto the scene with his fourth feature film in 2015's Victoria (read review) which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, Sebastien Schipper actually...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #70. Gideon Raff – The Red Sea Diving Resort
Perhaps in the same programming methodology as when Sundance included Brad Anderson's Beirut in their 2018 line-up, STX will get to launch Gideon Raff's...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #69. Matt Wolf – Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
More or less working on what we can imagine was a bewildering docu project for the past four years, NYC based filmmaker Matt Wolf's Recorder:...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #68. Calvin Reeder – The Procedure 2 (Short)
Already a long history with the fest, Calvin Reeder has premiered his features at the fest in The Oregonian (Sundance ’11) and The Rambler (Sundance ’13),...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #67. Keola Racela – Porno
Working in the short form and picking up Sundance film experiences by being an art dept. intern on David Gordon Green's Prince Avalanche and...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #66. Ritesh Batra – Photograph
Post The Lunchbox fame (his well traveled Film Fest favorite which was also shown at Sundance in 2014), Ritesh Batra hit a creative cluster mark with Our Souls...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #65. Michael Tyburski – Palimpsest
Based on the 2013 Sundance short that would win a Special Jury Award, Michael Tyburski's feature version of the Palimpsest has been receiving a...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #64. Jacob Estes – Only You
Jacob Estes could be making it a Sundance trifecta with Mean Creek (2004) and The Details (2011) being joined Only You - a horror, sci-fi, thriller that...
