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Fox Searchlight have used the annual Utah set fest as both an acquisitions point and launching pad. Just last year they had the pair...

It wouldn't be the first time a veteran helmer with a Hollywoodized filmography cracked the line-up and seeing that he directed mainstream titles such...

Last year we had a docu about the aftermath/current state of the Arab Spring (Jehane Noujaim's The Square), so keeping with the same subject...

Madeinusa, her debut film, was a 2006 Sundance selected pic, while her sophomore drama The Milk of Sorrow was a winner in Berlin, we...

As a cinematographer, Kirsten Johnson has been a staple of the festival with the likes of Darfur Now, The Oath and more recently, The...

Kids. Such as Sex, Lies, and Videotape or Reservoir Dogs before it, and such as Winter's Bone, Blue Valentine and Fruitvale Station after it, Larry...

Country Bumpkin: Bond’s Debut a Grating Escapade of Disingenuous Cliché Swedish born Fredrik Bond, who’d made a notable name for himself as a successful director...

Mars Attacks: Robinson’s Promising Debut an Arid Mirage Early on in Ruairi Robinson’s directorial debut, The Last Days on Mars, a generic yet eerily promising...

La Dolce Vita: Sorrentino Visits Rome & Fellini in Opus-like Stroke In Paolo Sorrentino's lavishly received Italian crime potboiler Il Divo, the stage is set...

Bleak House: Collyer Returns to the Slipping Down Life After her fantastic 2006 directorial debut, Sherrybaby, director Laurie Collyer returns with a sophomore feature, Sunlight...

City of Neon Lights: Marie’s Debut a Soundtrack Assisted Cliché How the title Paris Countdown was decided upon to stand as the English language translation...

German director Christian Petzold's long running collaborative relationship with his starring actress Nina Hoss has been fruitful to say the least. A '12 Berlin...

There's No Place Like Home; Macdonald Pulled By Too Many Strings This polished as his docu-work, Kevin Macdonald's fourth fiction feature is a little bit...

The Man Who Wasn’t There: Koland’s Debut Lost In Its Own Drift Poor Minnesota, it sure gets a bum rap when it comes to the...

For its 9th annual schedule of events, the 2013 Film Independent Forum, a nonprofit arts organization that produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards as...

Toying with narrative form seems to be director Miguel Gomes's forte. Our Beloved Month Of August turned the documentation of a musically inclined rural...

Where the Truth Weakly Lies; West Memphis Less Effective in Non-Docu Treatment Atom Egoyan has carved a career out of films focused on misunderstood and...

If you live there, you know Maine is much more than just lobsters and lighthouses. Filmmaker, Lance Edmands, is going to introduce the rest of us to the local side of his home state in his feature film debut, Bluebird. Set in a small Maine town, it’s about a school bus driver who accidentally locks a young boy in a school bus on a cold winter night. The boy is taken to the hospital the next day. The story follows the aftermath of this tragedy and how it affects and changes the families involved.