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Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize Awarded to Computer Chess at 2013 Sundance Film Festival
Park City, UT — Sundance Institute today announced the winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, as well as the recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Lab Fellowship, presented through the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program.
Q&A: A Chat with Robin Weigert, This Year’s Festival Breakthrough
Every Sundance Film Festival introduces the world to a new crop of filmmaking talent, with previously unknown directors and performers becoming Sundance-approved sensations overnight—or at least over 10 swift January nights. But not every one of those artists fits the cliché about the prodigious first-timer, or about the 20-something It girl of the year. In fact, one of this year’s great breakout performances comes courtesy of a TV and stage veteran, a 43-year-old actress whose work in the likes of Deadwood and Sons of Anarchy won her admirers but few high profile roles to date.
Day Six: Shorts Awards, Cutie and the Boxer, and In a World…
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2013 Sundance Film Festival Announces Jury Awards in Short Filmmaking
Park City, UT— Sundance Institute this evening announced the jury prizes and honorable mentions in short filmmaking at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The awards were presented at a ceremony in Park City, Utah.
This year’s Short Film program is comprised of 65 short films selected from a record 8,102 submissions.
Day Five: Shane Carruth’s Inscrutable Upstream Color, Narco Cultura Probes Mexican Drug Cartels
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Day Four: Backup Singers in the Spotlight, Delpy and Hawke Return with Before Midnight
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Sundance Institute and Women In Film Los Angeles Study Examines Gender Disparity in Independent Fil
Study Conducted by Stacy L. Smith, Ph.D.
Sundance Google+ Hangout: Direct-to-Fan Church
Today’s Google+ Hangout featured Topspin Media Senior Vice President of Marketing Bob Moczydlowsky, filmmaker and founder of The Webby Awards Tiffany Shlain, and Sundance’s Chris Horton and Joseph Beyer. It was educational and entertaining discussion on the evolution and explosion of Direct-to-Fan Distribution (D2F). The D2F model allows artists to create interest in their work directly with fans, develop relationships with their fans, and sell directly to them through various platforms.
Sundance 2013 Day Three: ‘Fruitvale’ Recounts BART Police Shooting, Doremus’s ‘Breathe In’ Premieres
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Sundance Google+ Hangout: New Frontier of Storytelling – Transmedia Disruptors
Sundance hosted its first Google+ Hangout that was broadcasted live earlier today featuring four of the New Frontier artists. It was the first hangout in a series of eight Google+ Hangouts happening live at 2 pm throughout the festival.
The hangout guests today were Jigar Mehta, Yung Jake, Gregory Bayne, and Brigitte Dale.
Day Two: Dave Grohl Debuts Sound City, Dirty Wars Shocks Audiences
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Day One Sundance Film Festival Roundup
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A Celebration of Music in Film Presents Talent from Twenty Feet from
Park City, UT — Sundance Institute today announced that singers Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Tata Vega and Judith Hill and multi-platinum recording artist The Fray will perform at the annual ‘A Celebration of Music in Film’ event on January 20, 8:00 p.m. MT, at Sundance House Presented by HP at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
Sundance Institute and Alfred P. Sloan Mark 10th Anniversary of Collaboration
Park City, UT — Sundance Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation today announced the members of the Sloan Jury at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, who will also participate in the Science in Film Forum Panel at the Festival. The members of the 2013 Sloan Jury are: Paula Apsell (Senior Executive Producer, Nova and Nova ScienceNow, Director, WGBH Science Unit), Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Fountain, Pi), Scott Burns (writer, Contagion, Pu-239, The Informant and producer, An Inconvenient Truth), Dr.