Tag: 2020 Sundance Film Festival
Video Interview: Zeina Durra – Luxor
The soaked in history backdrop of Egypt serves as a reminder that the past is sometimes more present than one can anticipate and while...
The Last Shift | Review
Stuck in Neutral: Cohn Cooks Up Sensitive (and Hilarious) Fast Food Tragedy
Andrew Cohn delivers a heart-wrenching ode to the working class, missed connections and...
Video Interview: Sean Durkin – The Nest
One of the hallmark signature hallmarks found in Durkinian cinema is the ability to capture the psychology of his characters through their inaction. This...
Video Interview: Maïmouna Doucouré – Cuties | 2020 Sundance Film Festival
With her award-winning short Maman(s), Maïmouna Doucouré masterfully details the traumas associated by living in a nonsecular upbringing. Mining from her own experiences and...
Cuties | Review
L’amener Sur: Doucouré’s Debut a Winning, Familiar Bildungsroman
French writer/director Maïmouna Doucouré strikes a mostly affable balance between familiar coming-of-age tropes and culturally specific intersections...
Spree | Review
Click it or Ticket: Joe Keery Slays in Uber-Dark-Satire
Eugene Kotlyarenko’s fifth feature film is an outrageously satirical indictment of influencer culture with a commanding...
Video Interview: Ariane Labed & Balthazar Lab – Olla (Short Film) | 2020 Sundance Film Festival
After a whirlwind fest tour that began back in Cannes in the Directors' Fortnight section and ended just after Sundance with a showing at...
Video Interview: Dylan Holmes Williams – The Devil’s Harmony (Short Film) 2020 Sundance Film Festival
With a certain clinical Lanthimos-like aestheticism and The Stepford Wives sorting of the character set, London-based filmmaker Dylan Holmes Williams has been super-charged by...
Video Interview: Teemu Niukkanen & Antti Toivonen – Are You Hungry? (Short Film) 2020 Sundance Film Festival
Making their second Park City trip in just as many outings with 2020's Are You Hungry? following in the footsteps of Fucking Bunnies (2017), the...
Video Interview: Zamo Mkhwanazi – Sadla (Short Film) 2020 Sundance Film Festival
Premiering her shorts at prestige fests such as Clermont-Ferrand, Cannes and the Toronto Intl. Film Festivals, Johannesburg (known as Jozi for locals) and Switzerland...
Video Interview: Haley Elizabeth Anderson – Pillars (Short Film) – 2020 Sundance Film Festival
Nature's wrath, individualism, a father-daughter relationship grounded in tough love and the L word are heightened and poetically rendered in Haley Elizabeth Anderson's Pillars...
Video Interview: Alexandre Dostie – I’ll End Up in Jail (Short Film) – 2020 Sundance Film Festival
An award-winning film that began it's festival life at TIFF in 2019, and would hit Park City and prestigious Clermont-Ferrand early 2020, Quebecois filmmaker...
Video Interview: Jessie Kahnweiler – He’s the One (Short Film) 2020 Sundance Film Festival
Arriving at the Sundance Film Festival with yet another thought-provoking and edgy-laced noir humor oeuvre that asks tough questions He's the One addresses victim...
Video Interview: Bridget Moloney – Blocks (Short Film)
An educational rainbow colored building toy that has been making victims out of unsuspecting adults (stepping on one is up there with Bruce Willis'...
Video Interview: Fanyana Hlabangane (The Spirit Guest) – 2020 Sundance Screenwriters Lab
Once again reflected in this year's batch, the 2020 January Screenwriters Lab truly emphasizes geographic inclusion and diversity perhaps best exemplified in this future...
Video Interview: Laura Moss & Brendan O’Brien (Birth/Rebirth) – 2020 Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab
Most recently collaborating on the 1989-set coming-of-ager (set against the backdrop of Ted Bundy's execution) SXSW selected short Fry Day, they continued their creative output...
Video Interview: Andrew Thomas Huang (Tiger Girl) – 2020 Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab
A multidisciplinary visual effects artist who has previously worked with the likes of Perfume Genius, Thom Yorke, FKA Twigs and most notably Björk (he...
Edson Oda’s Nine Days Leads Dylan Dempsey’s Top 10 Films of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival
This year’s Sundance slate was one of the most diverse ever: nearly half of the 128 feature films were directed by women; 34% of...
2020 Sundance Film Festival Winners: Minari Farms both the U.S. Grand Jury Prize & Audience Awards
Crowd and critical favorite in Lee Isaac Chung's Minari landed top honors at the 2020 edition of the Sundance Film Festival winning both the...
Charter | 2020 Sundance Film Festival Review
The Custody of Love: Kernell Returns with Emotionally Wrought Portrait of a Mother’s Love
Consider the standard, universally familiar (i.e., acceptable) narrative of fathers who...
Exil | 2020 Sundance Film Festival Review
Fugee Fugue: Perceptions and Paranoia Make Bitter Bedfellows in Morina’s Drama
For anyone who’s ever experienced the phenomenon of ‘otherness,’ Visar Morina’s terrific sophomore film...
Summer White | 2020 Sundance Film Festival Review
Sons & Lovers: Patterson Explores the Trouble with Sharing the Love in Subdued Debut
The subject of the single mother is a scenario rife for...
Sundance 2020: Dylan Dempsey’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films
Sundance 2020’s narrative slate is filled with a stellar list of incumbents returning after initial Sundance breakthroughs: Dee Rees, Eliza Hittman, Justin Simien, Carlos...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Justin Simien’s Bad Hair, David Bruckner’s The Night House & Bill Benz’s The Nowhere Inn in Midnight Section
Last year's Midnight section gave us Greener Grass, The Lodge and Sweetheart. In 2020, it appears that the section is more "worldly" with four...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Miranda July, Julie Taymor, Dee Rees & Sean Durkin in the Premieres Section
The most acquisitions and distributor launch-pad friendly section of the festival, the Premieres category had some big ticket items in Nisha Ganatra's Late Night,...