Category: Festival Blog

Director Ben Klein, film subject Christine Choy, and director Violet Columbus attend the Q&A at the virtual premiere of The Exiles. By Vanessa Zimmer A

Day Eight of the 2022 Sundance Festival brought viewers together through a friendly game of movie trivia presented by NPR. Over three rounds, host Aisha

By Bailey Pennick The climate crisis is something that affects everything we do, not just as storytellers and artists, but human beings on this planet.

Salik Rehman appears in All That Breathes by Shaunak Sen. By Vanessa Zimmer A poetic tribute to a New Delhi family that has devoted its life

By Katie Small Taking an unsettling look at the consequences of emotional manipulation and codependent relationships, Resurrection mixes magical realism and horror to unnerving effect.

By Stephanie Ornelas  From its opening shot until the credits roll, Alex Pritz’s Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary about a land dispute in Brazil unfolds

Our Meet The Artist video series on YouTube takes you directly into the minds of the storytellers. It’s a series about the directors featured in the Sundance Fest submitted by the directors themselves, designed to take a deeper look into the films that will be premiering at the 2022 Festival.

By Vanessa Zimmer Writer-director-producer David Rust Gray’s blood examines the tenacity of grief and its dreamlike hold on a young widow who trudges through life

By Stephanie Ornelas  Director and writer Juan Pablo González displays his true love and respect for the Mexican state of Jalisco while showing the resilience

When it comes to championing the new voices, leaders, and narratives of independent storytelling, we’re ready to celebrate at the drop of a hat. Today,

by Bailey Pennick “Yeah, mama.film is in an interesting evolution,” says Lela Meadow-Conner with a light laugh over Zoom. The executive director and founder of

By Bailey Pennick Jen Richards is being very honest right now. “As for the process of filming and the film itself, I found it a