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Posted Aug 16, 2012, by Nate von Zumwalt, Editorial Coordinator
Five Things You Should Know About the Making of Robot & Frank
Our latest installment in the “Five Things You Should Know” series probes perhaps the most inventive storyline from last year’s…
Posted Aug 15, 2012, by Claiborne Smith
Exclusive interview with Compliance director, Craig Zobel, on his creepy crank-call cautionary tale
Compliance may be the most difficult film to watch in the 2012 Sundance Film Festival program. No one gets their head gashed in…
Posted Aug 10, 2012, by Mike Plante, Short Film Programmer
Short Order: Remembering Chris Marker, who set the standard for short filmmaking with La Jetee
It’s hard to imagine a more irreplaceable filmmaker than Chris Marker. The legendary filmmaker passed away last week on his 91…
Posted Aug 8, 2012, by Nate von Zumwalt, Editorial Coordinator
5 Things You Should Know About the Making of Searching for Sugar Man
Sometimes the most effective documentaries are those that appear to be misclassified. Stories that, absent of a screenplay,…
Posted Aug 8, 2012, by Howard Goldberg, director, Jake Squared
Kickstart Jake Squared
Howard Goldberg is a Sundance alumn who developed the screenplay “Eden” at the 1993 Screenwriters Lab. The completed film was…
Posted Aug 7, 2012, by Nate von Zumwalt, Editorial Coordinator
Congress Passes Janey Ensminger Act, Fueled by Sundance-Supported Doc Semper Fi: Always Faithful
Last week was all at once the culmination and zenith of a journey for the audacious filmmaking team behind the Sundance…
Posted Aug 3, 2012, by Sundance Institute
August Now Playing
Check out these Sundance Institute and Sundance Film Festival supported films hitting theatres across the country this month.
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Posted Aug 2, 2012, by Nate von Zumwalt, Editorial Coordinator
5 Things You Should Know About the Making of Indie Game: The Movie
There is an inclination to briskly dismiss films that loiter along the periphery of our interests. After all, many of today’s…
Posted Aug 1, 2012, by Nate von Zumwalt, Editorial Coordinator
Olympic Gold on the Silver Screen
Beyond the tape delay broadcasts, ubiquitous spoilers, and compulsory diplomacy, I’ve always been rapt by the galvanizing…
Posted Jul 31, 2012, by Maria Catalina Prieto, U.S. Embassy, Bogota
Recollections of Maria Catalina Prieto from the U.S. Embassy in Bogota
After a week of intense work the Film Forward 2012 team returned home. This program, an initiative of Sundance Institute, is to…
