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We had the chance to speak to a small sampling of this year’s Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellows and among them we found Chloe Sarbib, an American-French-Algerian filmmaker current professor at Montclair State University (previously taught at Columbia) and who comes...

We had the chance to speak to a small sampling of this year’s Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellows and first up was a filmmaker from Iceland and a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA film program in Katla Sólnes. After completed a...

The Boring & Beautiful: Sorrentino’s Tone Deaf Portrait of a Lady It’s unfortunate no one’s as likely to be infatuated with the eponymous Parthenope (pronounced like ‘Penelope’) as Paolo Sorrentino, utilizing the myth of the failed siren as subtext for...

Everybody Hurts: All Pain and No Gain in Christopher Andrews’ Debut Bring Them Down If misery loves company, then Bring Them Down is a party. The feature debut by Christopher Andrews is set in a dour and desolate vision of...

A touching, sober, political and poignant text on femicide, Mexican filmmaker Natalia León‘s debut Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado plunges us into two times, two versions of self as Olivia returns back to her Mexican hometown, seeking...

Antonia Campbell-Hughes made the jump ionto feature filmmaking with 2022’s It Is In Us All and she is now laying the groundwork for her upcoming sophomore feature and has lassoed quite the ensemble. Deadline reports that that The Brutalist‘s Raffey...

Flush with this overall sense that story emerges from the psyche and the shadows, storytelling is passed down for fear of being lost in Entre le Feu et le Clair de Lune – a short highly personal and imaginative docu...

We imagine it’ll be extra champagne uncorking for some of the A24 folks who landed the film for a cool 8 million dollars – today’s IndieWire poll of the Best of Sundance (as voted on by 176 critics) further confirms...

Of all the major film festivals, it’s perhaps the Sundance folks who have built the deepest ties with the filmmaker community and much of this stems from the alumni relationships formed from having programmed a short and sometimes, as is...

Among the select few documentary short films chosen for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival is Death Education, a poignant story set in China in places we don’t always associate with the final resting place. Following a high school teacher who...