Get to Know 15 Influential LGBTQ+ Directors From Sundance History
Helen Shaver (second from left) portrays a New Yorker who travels to Reno, Nevada, to seek a divorce in 1959, in Donna Deitch’s Desert Hearts.
Helen Shaver (second from left) portrays a New Yorker who travels to Reno, Nevada, to seek a divorce in 1959, in Donna Deitch’s Desert Hearts.
By Stephanie Ornelas Sometimes you have to let art speak for itself. As 2022 Sundance Film Festival favorites hit theaters and streaming sites, several new
By Hajnal Molnar-Szakacs and Paola Mottura Five years ago, the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program partnered with the Kendeda Fund to cultivate, fund, and elevate
Courtesy of IFC Films Here at the Sundance Institute, we talk a lot about film. Whether it’s helping co-workers figure out what to watch this
By Vanessa Zimmer From our London edition to our Indigenous shorts tour, by now you realize that the Sundance Film Festival doesn’t happen just in
Bradford Young won an Excellence in Cinematography Award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival for his work on Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, featuring Rooney Mara
Steven Mackintosh, Emer McCourt, and Justin Chadwick star in London Kills Me, the story of street hustlers in England’s capital city. By Vanessa Zimmer As
Victor (Adam Beach, left) and Thomas (Evan Adams) go on a road trip to retrieve the ashes of Victor’s father, in Smoke Signals. By Vanessa
Director Sophia Banks attends a Los Angeles screening of her film Black Site. Not to make a huge deal of it, but director Sophia Banks
New Zealand’s Taika Waititi, who helmed Hunt for the Wilderpeople at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, directs this summer’s Thor: Love and Thunder. By Vanessa
By Vanessa Zimmer Nanfu Wang’s journey took her from a small, remote village in China with not a single movie theater — and where her
Greg Nava (far left) and Anna Thomas attend a Directors Lab at the Sundance Resort in 1981. By Vanessa Zimmer Director Greg Nava proudly points