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First Look at the 2015 Sundance Program Guide
Get a first look at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival Film Guide! This printable PDF contains synopses, film stills, and screening times for films, New Frontier, and Power of Story panels.
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Sundance-Supported Films ‘Whiplash’, ‘Boyhood’, and ‘Ida’ Garner Golden Globe Nominations
Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, and Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida each received Golden Globe nominations this morning, with Richard Linklater’s sweeping coming-of-age drama Boyhood leading the way with five. J.K.
‘Appropriate Behavior’ Director Desiree Akhavan’s 7 Takeaways From the Episodic Story Lab
I’ve been encouraged by Oprah and Deepak Chopra via my mother to keep a journal. On the evening of my arrival at the Sundance Institute Episodic Story Lab, I wrote the following entry: “This evening was kind of rough and soul-crushing and made me feel like I have no place in this industry.”I was never good at summer camp, or college, or any of those supposedly fun, nurturing places that outcasts are expected to flourish in.
Sundance Institute Accepting Open Applications for Second Episodic Story Lab
Los Angeles, CA — Sundance Institute is now accepting project submissions for its second Episodic Story Lab through Wednesday, February 11 at 5:00 p.m. MT at applications3.
Sundance Institute Announces Short Film Program For 2015 Sundance Film Festival
Park City, UT — Sundance Institute announced today the program of short films selected to screen at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, January 22 to February 1 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The 2015 Short Film program is comprised of 60 short films selected from 8,061 submissions. The Festival is the centerpiece of the year-round public programs for the Institute, which also hosts 24 residency labs and grants more than $2.
Sundance Institute Announces Films In Premieres And Documentary Premieres For 2015 Sundance Film Festival
Park City, UT — Sundance Institute announced today the films selected to screen in the out-of-competition Premieres and Documentary Premieres sections, as well as the selections for a new Special Events section and participants for two panels, at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, January 22 to February 1 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The Festival is the centerpiece of the year-round public programs for the Institute, which also hosts 24 residency labs and grants more than $2.5 million to independent artists each year.
3 Sundance Filmmakers Contributing to the Dialogue Around Police Violence
As the national dialogue surrounding police violence continues unabated following two Grand Jury decisions to not indict officers in the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, we turn to film to reflect on how we’ve arrived at the present climate. These three Sundance Institute alumni have already added their voices to the ever-growing conversation about the indelible connection between police brutality and race in America. We hope they will help illuminate the issues at hand in a time of grief and confusion.
Sundance Institute Announces Films in Spotlight, Park City at Midnight, New Frontier for 2015 Sundance Film Festival
Park City, UT — Sundance Institute announced today the films selected to screen in the 2015 Sundance Film Festival out-of-competition sections Spotlight and Park City at Midnight, as well as the films and installations to be featured in the New Frontier program. The Festival, which takes place January 22 to February 1 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah, is the centerpiece of the year-round public programs for the Institute, which also hosts 24 residency labs and grants more than $2.5 million to independent artists each year.
“A Space to Explore”: Filmmaker Mike Day on Sundance Institute’s Music and Sound Design Lab
Sundance Institute recently hosted the second edition of the Music and Sound Design Lab for Documentary Film at Skywalker Sound. This unique residency brings together four emerging film music composers with four Documentary Film Program-supported filmmakers and world-class Skywalker sound designers to experiment and discover new possibilities for music and sound design in documentary film. Often over-looked or eschewed by documentary filmmakers in favor of an “intimate” approach to shooting and often constrained by tight budgets, music and sound took center stage at the lab.
Sundance Institute Announces Films in U.S. and World Competitions, NEXT <=> for 2015 Sundance Film Festival
Park City, UT — Sundance Institute announced today the films selected for the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions and the out-of-competition NEXT <=> section of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, January 22 to February 1 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
An Insider’s Look at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival Program
It may not nullify the cliché that quality beats quantity, but for the third consecutive year total submissions for the Sundance Film Festival reached 12,000. That conspicuous statistic, however, only tells a small part of the story that Festival Director John Cooper, Director of Programming Trevor Groth, and their team work exhaustively to shape.
Today we revealed the official selections for the U.
Alicia Van Couvering on the 5 Stages of Sundance Institute’s Creative Producing Lab
The film business is preoccupied with lists. What other industry spends half of the year doling out awards and rankings? There are the public lists: the top ten’s, the best of’s, the critics’ picks, the shortlists for awards, the awards themselves. The industry lists: X’s to watch, Y’s of the year.
Documentary Film Program Experiences CPH:DOX and the Danish Filmmaking Community
After a week of inspiring statements regarding the importance of cinematic artistry in documentary by, among others, our fearless leader Tabitha Jackson and The Act of Killing director Joshua Oppenheimer, it’s evident that the conversation around the art of non-fiction storytelling is getting louder. That conversation was in full flow in Denmark recently as the DFP attended CPH:DOX to cheer on 11 DFP-supported films in the program, connect with filmmakers outside the orbit of our support, and find exciting new projects and artists at the CPH:FORUM. Joshua Oppenheimer accepts the DOX:AWARD.
December Now Playing: ‘We Are the Giant,’ ‘Difret,’ and more
With the announcement of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival program forthcoming, we round out this year’s slate of Sundance-supported films with a small but vigorous pair of theatrical releases – and a crop of Festival favorites coming to DVD and Blu-Ray in time for the holidays. Greg Barker’s We Are The Giant continues to gain pertinence with the ongoing detainment and trial of one of the film’s primary subjects, activist Maryam Al-Khawaja (read more here), while the Audience Award winner in World Dramatic Competition, Difret, finally brings its engrossing tale of abduction and forced marriage in Ethiopia to theaters.
In Theaters
Friday, December 12
We Are The Giant, directed by Greg Barker
Difret, directed by Zeresenay Mehari
DVD & Blu-Ray
Tuesday, December
Frank, directed by Lenny Abrahamson
Dead Snow 2: Red vs.
5 Sundance Films With Families to Avoid This Thanksgiving
The holidays seem to invariably arrive wrapped in complaints — about premature decor, about delayed shipping, about… family. That last one we hope to preempt this Thanksgiving, if only by way of the old “it could be worse” adage. Dysfunctional families have long made for well-trodden material among indie filmmakers, but these 5 recent Sundance Film Festival selections feature families (I use that term loosely) that straddle everything from the bizarre to the macabre to the downright depressing.