2021 Sundance Film Festival

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Jockey Writers Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar on What Goes Into a Healthy Writing Partnership

Greg Kwedar and Clint Bentley are screenwriting partners who have worked together for 10 years. Their first feature was Transpecos,…

2 years ago
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Passing Writer-Director Rebecca Hall Goes Deep on All Five Stages of Production

Passing writer-director Rebecca Hall knew for a long time that she wanted to make her own film, and paid close…

2 years ago
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John and the Hole Director Pascual Sisto on his ‘Contemporary Fable’ and the Function of Bunkers

John and the Hole plays out like a fairy tale in many moments, which is exactly what director Pascual Sisto…

3 years ago
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In the Earth Explores the Power of Myth in the Pandemic

Ben Wheatley used his new Sundance film In the Earth to keep himself together during the pandemic. “I was having…

3 years ago
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How Knocking Uses Its Visuals as a Vessel to Empathize with the Ignored

After a beautiful overhead shot opens director Frida Kempff's psychological thriller Knocking, we are immediately pulled into lead character Molly’s…

3 years ago
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2021 Sundance Awards – Complete List of Winners

Since this year's Sundance awards winners were announced via a virtual ceremony, with pre-recorded clips, there was a certain charm…

3 years ago
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How So Many Lil Peep Songs Made Their Way Into Cusp

Cusp is a documentary that follows a group of three rural Texas teen girls who pass a summer hanging out, partying,…

3 years ago
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Strawberry Mansion Used a 16mm Film-Out, Meaning It Shot Digitally and Transferred to Film Stock in Post

Strawberry Mansion takes inspiration from '80s children's movies of the co-directors' youths, and in order to accurately capture that VHS…

3 years ago
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Mass Tackles Incredibly Difficult Subject Matter, But The Actors Kept Things Light On Set

At the end of the Sundance Q&A for Mass, a festgoer asked the four lead actors and writer-director Fran Kranz…

3 years ago
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How Eight for Silver Uses Werewolves as an Addiction Metaphor

Visually, the monsters at the center of Eight for Silver are not your typical werewolf creatures. Director Sean Ellis was…

3 years ago
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Jockey Director Clint Bentley: ‘No Jockey Wants Their Kid to Be a Jockey’

Jockey director Clint Bentley became interested in horse racing jockeys because his dad was a jockey — and his "earliest memories…

3 years ago
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How It Ends Follows L.A.’s Overcomplicated Class on the Last Day of Human Existence

How It Ends won me over as soon as Nick Kroll's character referred to a stockpile of marijuana as "the…

3 years ago
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Cryptozoo by Dash Shaw Is the Rare Hand-Drawn Animated Feature for Adults

In his introduction before the world premiere of Cryptozoo, Sundance programmer Charlie Sextro laid out exactly how unique this film…

3 years ago
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“The Touch of the Master’s Hand” Moviemakers On Editing Their Mormon Masturbation Comedy Short (Video)

Sundance short "The Touch of the Master's Hand" takes a humorous yet sensitive look at a young Mormon missionary struggling…

3 years ago
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On the Count of Three Director Jerrod Carmichael On Walking A Tonal Tightrope With His Suicide-Pact Film

The subject matter of On the Count Three, which follows two longtime friends who make a suicide pact, might surprise…

3 years ago
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Strawberry Mansion Directors Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley on Their DIY Adventure Tale’s VHS Roots

Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley are the co-writers and co-directors of Strawberry Mansion, which premiered in the Sundance NEXT category.…

3 years ago
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Censor Looks at Video Nasty Era of ’80s Britain, With Sound Design Influenced by Watership Down

Censor — from British writer-director Prano Bailey-Bond — looks at '80s Britain when the Video Nasty movement was in full…

3 years ago
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Sundance Film Festival Director Tabitha Jackson on Opening Day: ‘Energy — That’s What a Festival Is’

Sundance Film Festival director Tabitha Jackson says that even if the festival can't be in-person this year, the event can…

3 years ago
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Sundance Survey: Moviemakers Give Us an Inside Preview of 19 Sundance Films

The Sundance Film Festival was one of the few in-person events unscathed by the pandemic in 2020, since it begins…

3 years ago