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Meet the Filmmakers Behind this Year’s Sundance Film Festival Indigenous Film Tour
By Stephanie Ornelas “Indigenous joy is what makes us wake up in the morning. What’s the purpose of living if you can’t experience joy?” –
The 2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour Is Coming to a Theater Near You
Award winner “When You Left Me On That Boulevard” is one of seven shorts featured on the 2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour. A
Check Out These Sundance-Supported Films at the 2023 Tribeca Festival
Sundance-supported “A Revolution on Canvas (Untitled Nicky Nodjoumi)” will have its world premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Festival. (Photo courtesy of Tribeca Festival) One of
Time Travel, Australian Outlaws, and a Purple Recliner Populate These Sundance Films With June Birthdays
Jenny Slate (also known as the voice of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On) plays Donna in “Obvious Child.” (Photo by Chris Teague) By Vanessa
Give Me the Backstory: Get to Know Tom CJ Brown, the Filmmaker Behind “Christopher at Sea”
One of the most exciting things about the Sundance Film Festival is having a front-row seat for the bright future of independent filmmaking. While we
Release Rundown: Romantic “Past Lives” and Creepy “Run Rabbit Run” Open to Wider Audiences in June
Childhood friends in Korea, Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo) meet again two decades later in America, in Past Lives. By Vanessa Zimmer
The Pride of Sundance: 400 LGBTQ+ Films from Festival History to Watch This June (and Beyond!)
John Cooper is the emeritus director of the Sundance Film Festival, a role he stepped into this summer after serving as Festival director from 2010 to 2020. He originally joined Sundance Institute in 1989.
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About So Yun Um and her “Liquor Store Dreams”
So Yun Um and her father, Hae Sup Um, pose in their Los Angeles liquor store. (Photo courtesy So Yun Um) By Vanessa Zimmer Just
How Sundance Institute Labs Pave the Way for Influential Artists
[Above: Nia DaCosta and Tessa Thompson at Sundance Institute’s 2015 Directors Lab for “Little Woods”] By Stephanie Ornelas For over 40 years, the Sundance Institute
Get Acquainted With This Summer’s Filmmakers Through These 13 Sundance Films
André Øvredal directed “Trollhunter,” a horror fantasy shot in found-footage style that premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. By Vanessa Zimmer Summer extends her
Director Geeta Gandbhir: Interview Techniques for Documentarians
Editor’s note: The Sundance Collab event Advisor Studio Series: Geeta Gandbhir on Documentary Interview Techniques originally took place on May 31, 2022. This AAPI Heritage
It’s Official – Sundance Film Festival Asia is Coming to Taiwan
Sundance Institute Partners with G2Go Entertainment to Invigorate Local Independent Arts Launches Short Film Competition in Support of Upcoming Asian festival, Submissions Now Open On
Who Was… Gayle Stevens?
At one time, the Utah Advisory Board included, from left,Tina Lewis, Gayle Stevens, Jennifer Berger-Hammond, and Stephen Denkers. (Photo courtesy Tina Lewis) By Vanessa Zimmer