Tag: 2024 Sundance Film Festival
Thelma | Review
Grandma Scamma: Margolin Steals a Win with Squibb
Although there’s a prodigious sub-genre of kooky comedies featuring elderly resilient women (though more often in European...
Interview: Producer Carlos Zozaya – Tendaberry
With a resume that began as a Script Supervisor on Anna Rose Holmer's The Fits and Zachary Shedd's Americana, leading up to his first...
Interview: Marie Amachoukeli – Àma Gloria
Dialling into a unique relationship dynamic that isn't portrayed in cinema, Marie Amachoukeli, who won the Camera d'Or award at the 2014 edition of...
Interview: Haley Elizabeth Anderson – Tendaberry
Tucked away in the NEXT section at this year's Sundance Film Festival we were reminded of the singular stroke of genius that is vision...
Interview: Christian Moldes / Quince Kings – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
Wrapping up our conversations with fellows from the 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab, we met with a filmmaker who promptly reminded us that there is...
Interview: Sara Crow & David Rafailedes / Satoshi – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
On the day that this conversation took place, Sara Crow and David Rafailedes were on their way to a reception to accept one of...
Interview: Kristine Gerolaga / Lamok – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
Further proof that the Sundance Institute's Labs have made a firm commitment to include projects that fall in just about every genre, one of...
Interview: Hanna Gray Organschi / Rubber Hut – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
We can confirm that it'll have been a noteworthy 2024 for Hanna Gray Organschi. With a recent visit to Sundance Screenwriters Lab and the...
Interview: Jane Casey Modderno / Here for the Weekend – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
After crafting half a dozen shorts and adding to her repertoire with recent social platform/television writing on horror series like "The Birch" followed by...
Interview: Francesca Canepa & Miguel Ángel Papalini / La Otra Orilla – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
Prior to embarking on the writing journey for La Otra Orilla, a project supported by the CNC folks, Peruvian filmmaker Francesca Canepa premiered her...
Interview: Alexandra Qin – Thirstygirl (Short)
In our recently published Top 10 short films of 2024 Sundance Film Festival, we identified Thirstygirl - an intimate, candid, taboo-free ten-minute travelogue and...
Interview: Kantarama Gahigiri – Terra Mater – Mother Land (Short)
In what could be best described as a slideshow formatted collection of smartly composed frames moving from apocalyptic awe to a grounded retrogress, Kantarama...
Interview: Àlex Lora Cercós – The Masterpiece (La Gran Obra) (Short)
Known for a cinema that tackles social issues via the fiction and documentary feature form, it's after the release of his debut fiction feature...
2024 Sundance Film Festival: Alexandra Qin’s Thirstygirl & Kate Jean Hollowell’s Say Hi After You Die Lead Our Top Ten Short Films
We watched, we came and we conquered. 12,098 shorts were submitted for the 2024 edition of the Sundance Film Festival and of that, only...
In the Land of Brothers | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review
Family of Straw: Amirfazli & Ghasemi Present a Trilogy of Familial Tragedies
The title, of course, is a bitter irony relating to Iran’s self-anointed nickname,...
Malu | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review
A Streetcar Named Desejo: Freire Mines Matriarchal Tendencies
Having directed several short films and television series, Brazilian director Pedro Freire unleashes a motherlode of intergenerational...
Veni Vidi Vici | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review
Destroy Everything You Touch: Hoesl & Riemann Come to Conquer with Dark Satire
As ABBA once succinctly stated, “Money, money money/Must be funny/In a rich...
Sujo | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review
Goodbye Horses: Valadez & Rondero Explore a Valley of Violence
Working as co-directors on their latest feature Sujo, Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero once again...
2024 Sundance: Palme d’Or Winner Flóra Anna Buda, The Procedure’s Carlos A.F. Lopez & Malia Ann Among Short Films Selections
The chances of having your short film selected for Sundance Film Festival's Short Film program is 0.004 percent - which means the lucky 53...
2024 Sundance: A Different Man, The Outrun, Winner & Sasquatch Sunset Among Premieres
Sundance Film Festival's Premiere section (a mix of fiction and docs) will have some biggie titles to contend with the likes of Aaron Schimberg's...
2024 Sundance: Scott Cummings’ REALM OF SATAN & Haley Elizabeth Anderson’s Tendaberry Among NEXT Items
Long-time editor (Never Rarely Sometimes Always) and director (Buffalo Juggalos - short) Scott Cummings and a talent to watch in Haley Elizabeth Anderson (Sundance...
2024 Sundance: Michael Dweck, Jeff Zimbalist, Stephen Maing & Brett Story in the U.S. Docu Comp
It'll be highly likely that we'll be talking about these docu films by the end of 2024 - as the cream of the crop...
2024 Sundance: Amachoukeli, Molly Manning Walker, Linklater & Asmae El Moudir in Spotlight Section
The Spotlight section is a quartet of items with two heavy-hitters from the Cannes Un Certain Regard section, a small gem from Cannes' Critics'...
2024 Sundance: Daniel Hoesl, Klaudia Reynicke & Thea Hvistendahl in World Cinema Dramatic Comp
Daniel Hoesl's Veni Vidi Vici, Klaudia Reynicke's Reinas and Thea Hvistendahl's Handling the Undead are among the ten titles selected for the needle in...
2024 Sundance: Jesse Eisenberg, Sean Wang, Laura Chinn, India Donaldson & Zucheros in U.S. Dramatic Comp
The big surprise for the U.S. Dramatic Competition this year is they shaved off two titles making a dozen into a ten piece. We...
2024 Sundance: Schoenbrun’s “I Saw the TV Glow” & Rose Glass’ “Love Lies Bleeding” Among Midnight Selections
The Midnight section offering eight items and floating to the top on pretty much everyone's