Tag: U.S. Indie Film
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mike Cahill’s Bliss
Providing Sundance with slices of sci-fi theories in a pair of editions with Another Earth in 2011 and I Origins in 2014, auteur Mike...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: R. J. Cutler’s Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry
Acclaimed docu filmmaker R.J. Cutler has already made a couple of trips to Sundance most notably with Grand Jury Prize for Cinematography winning The...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: PJ McCabe & Jim Cummings’ The Beta Test
A filmmaker really coming into his own, Jim Cummings didn't waste much time post Thunder Road setting himself up with consecutive projects in The...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lina Roessler’s Best Sellers
An actress turned director hit the lottery when the likes of Michael Caine, Aubrey Plaza and Cary Elwes lined up for her directorial debut....
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Dosunmu’s Beauty
Synonymous with Sundance as all of his works have premiered there, Andrew Dosunmu's could technically see his fourth feature land in the Premiere section...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Riley Keough & Gina Gammell’s War Pony (Fka Beast))
A South Dakota micro indie project that filmed under the radar in Pine Ridge is the fruit of a creative collaboration (the shingle is...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Adventure
Netflix decided to completely forgo the film festival circuit around the midway mark this year and so the big mystery question at this point...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Scott Cooper’s Antlers
With the restructuring of Searchlight and Covid kicking around the release date, the only reason why we think Antlers might break into the Sundance...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Theo Anthony’s All Light, Everywhere
While working on this long form project, Theo Anthony has been keeping busy with short projects in 2019's Subject to Review (a docu that...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Iva Radivojevic’s Aleph
Covering the limits of this planet a la Herzog, celebrated filmmaker Iva Radivojevic has been working on this multi-character multi-storied docu project for half...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kogonada’s After Yang
Perhaps some of the futuristic elements in Kogonada's sophomore feature are the reason why it didn't join A24's Zola and Minari at last year's...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Amy Koppelman – A Mouthful of Air
For a festival that promotes new voices, how much fun would it be to see this debut break into the line-up? Proving that there...
2021 Sundance Film Festival: 75 Predictions For a COVID-19 Edition
As an accredited journalist for this site I've been making the annual trek to Park City since 2006 and one way we like to...
Annie Silverstein’s Bull | 2019 Cannes Film Festival
Not officially opening the section, but nonetheless the first film out of the Un Certain Regard gate, Annie Silverstein presented her directorial debut Bull...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #15. Paul Harrill – Light From Light
Filmmaker Paul Harrill from Light From Light is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #14. Tayarisha Poe – Selah and the Spades
Filmmaker Tayarisha Poe from Selah and the Spades is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #16. Ashley Connor – The Death of Dick Long
Cinematographer Ashley Connor from The Death of Dick Long is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #12. Alistair Banks Griffin – The Wolf Hour
Filmmaker Alistair Banks Griffin from The Wolf Hour is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #13. Kaet McAnneny – The Wolf Hour
Production Designer Kaet McAnneny from Alistair Banks Griffin's The Wolf Hour is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of...
2019 NEXT Section Sundance Trading Card Series: #4. Rashaad Ernesto Green – Premature
Filmmaker Rashaad Ernesto Green from Premature 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: #5. Zora Howard – Premature
Co-writer and actress Zora Howard from Premature 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: #6. Joshua Boone – Premature
Actor Joshua Boone from Rashaad Ernesto Green's Premature is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected...
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...
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 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...
Video: Andrew Heckler’s Burden | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
A long time in the making and perhaps the longest gestating film from the entire line-up all sections combined, starring Garrett Hedlund, Forest Whitaker...
Interview: Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Way back in 2006, Robert Pickering “Bo” Burnham won our hearts with viral home videos during YouTube’s first legs. Since then, the 27-year-old hyphenate...
Video: Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade – 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Is Eighth Grade an affectionate critique of adolescence? A study on our relationship with technology? A self-love letter aimed at insecure adults? All of...
Interview: Elsie Fisher – Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Previously unknown aside from her voice acting in the Despicable Me series, Elsie Fisher is a star-in-the-making thanks to her performance in Bo Burnham’s...
Interview: Josh Hamilton – Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
We caught up with film (recent Park City trips include Experimenter, Take Me to the River, Manchester by the Sea) and TV staple Josh...
Video: Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here | 2017 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay / Actor
My personal Palme d'Or of the fest was the last in competition and we've yet to see where it'll land next. With Telluride still...
Video: Matt Ruskin’s Crown Heights – 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
"I was lucky to put their own words into the film" - Matt Ruskin
It was an emotional world premiere screening at the Library especially...
Video: Geremy Jasper’s Patti Cake$ – 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
"Patti is my alter-ego". - Geremy Jasper
A project that was nurtured via the various Sundance labs, Patti Cake$ played like gangbusters during its world premiere...
Interview: David Lowery (A Ghost Story)
Just prior to immersing himself into editing dock mode with the feature he shot earlier this summer (Old Man and the Gun - with...
Video: Michael Almereyda’s Marjorie Prime – 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
“We got drunk in a bar last year and talked a lot about holograms.” – Michael Almereyda on his conversation with playwright Jordan Harrison.
Just...
Video: Marti Noxon’s To The Bone: 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
"I needed to grow a pair, I needed to hit bottom, I needed to decide to live for myself." - Marti Noxon.
A comedy about...
Video: David Lowery’s A Ghost Story: 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
"My tastes and interests run all shapes and sizes." - David Lowery.
Prior to being one of the most lauded films to come out of...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 11: Lynne Ramsay Hammers out Career Best & Palme Contender in You Were Never Really Here
Kitchen sink realism in the distant past, You Were Never Really Here counts as feature number four, and yet this is her seventh visit...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Critics Getting High with Benny & Josh Safdie’s Good Time
You always remember your first time. I was there when the two pees in a pod, Ronald Bronstein and Eleonore Hendricks were included in...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled Mushrooms into Critic Fave
A longstanding "member" of Cannes well before she showcased her skillset with The Virgin Suicides in the Quinzaine (she was probably at the Apocalypse...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Yorgos Lanthimos Does the Mash Potato with The Killing of a Sacred Deer
He'll be referenced as the one who began the Greek New Wave in cinema and there was a time when we didn't quite know...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Baumbach Buries the Hatchet with The Meyerowitz Stories
Almost a dozen features in and The Meyerowitz Stories is Noah Baumbach's first time on the Croisette (if you exclude his screenwriting cred on...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Ruben Ostlund Tumbles Up the Stairs with The Square
He received an earlier screening late last night and has been consider the buzz title (mostly for better) and mentioned in the same breathe...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 3: Bong Joon-Ho Has No Pet Peeve’s with Okja
He first hit the Croisette with another "creature movie" in 2006 with the Directors' Fortnight included The Host, and after showings of Tokyo! (2008)...
