Category: Festival Blog

Actor Evan Rachel Wood’s journey from domestic violence survivor to activist is told in Phoenix Rising, in Special Screenings. By Laura Kern In these selections

By Katie Small Finnish director Alli Haapasalo wants to reclaim the word “girls.”  “I love the term ‘girls’ — it’s a very positive word for

by Bailey Pennick Before the Sundance Film Festival premiere of AM I OK? co-directors Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne described their feature as a love

By Katie Small  Writer-director Jamie Dack’s first feature, Palm Trees and Power Lines, explores the feelings of loneliness and insecurity that often lead young women

By Vanessa Zimmer If you haven’t seen Aubrey Plaza since she played the bored and snarky April Ludgate in television’s Parks and Recreation — surprise! 

By Vanessa Zimmer For Reid Davenport, of I Didn’t See You There, mostly it’s about invisibility. His curly-haired frame in a wheelchair is reflected in

by Bailey Pennick Trinitie and Lee-Curtis Childs have been swirling around the heads of the Ebo twins for a while. Writer-director Adamma Ebo started writing

By Stephanie Ornelas  In a world where social media has become fundamental to the way billions of people communicate and share content, director Shalini Kantayya

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 Imagine if the Sundance Institute looked in the mirror and saw Indie Memphis staring back. The similarity of their profiles is remarkable.

Eagle eye viewers of our program might have noticed that within the U.S. Documentary Competition section of our 2022 Film Festival lineup there were only

by Bailey Pennick “Remember that this is a faith-based movie,” say Clarence “Coodie” Simmons and Chike Ozah, the directing duo behind one of the most