Tag: 2024 Sundance Film Festival
Interview: Haley Elizabeth Anderson – Tendaberry
Tucked away in the NEXT section at this year's Sundance Film Festival we were reminded of the singular stroke of genius that is vision...
Interview: Producer Carlos Zozaya – Tendaberry
With a resume that began as a Script Supervisor on Anna Rose Holmer's The Fits and Zachary Shedd's Americana, leading up to his first...
Thelma | Review
Grandma Scamma: Margolin Steals a Win with Squibb
Although there’s a prodigious sub-genre of kooky comedies featuring elderly resilient women (though more often in European...
Interview: Marie Amachoukeli – Àma Gloria
Dialling into a unique relationship dynamic that isn't portrayed in cinema, Marie Amachoukeli, who won the Camera d'Or award at the 2014 edition of...
Interview: Christian Moldes / Quince Kings – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
Wrapping up our conversations with fellows from the 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab, we met with a filmmaker who promptly reminded us that there is...
Interview: Sara Crow & David Rafailedes / Satoshi – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
On the day that this conversation took place, Sara Crow and David Rafailedes were on their way to a reception to accept one of...
Interview: Kristine Gerolaga / Lamok – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
Further proof that the Sundance Institute's Labs have made a firm commitment to include projects that fall in just about every genre, one of...
Interview: Hanna Gray Organschi / Rubber Hut – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
We can confirm that it'll have been a noteworthy 2024 for Hanna Gray Organschi. With a recent visit to Sundance Screenwriters Lab and the...
Interview: Jane Casey Modderno / Here for the Weekend – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
After crafting half a dozen shorts and adding to her repertoire with recent social platform/television writing on horror series like "The Birch" followed by...
Interview: Francesca Canepa & Miguel Ángel Papalini / La Otra Orilla – 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
Prior to embarking on the writing journey for La Otra Orilla, a project supported by the CNC folks, Peruvian filmmaker Francesca Canepa premiered her...
Interview: Alexandra Qin – Thirstygirl (Short)
In our recently published Top 10 short films of 2024 Sundance Film Festival, we identified Thirstygirl - an intimate, candid, taboo-free ten-minute travelogue and...
Interview: Kantarama Gahigiri – Terra Mater – Mother Land (Short)
In what could be best described as a slideshow formatted collection of smartly composed frames moving from apocalyptic awe to a grounded retrogress, Kantarama...
Interview: Àlex Lora Cercós – The Masterpiece (La Gran Obra) (Short)
Known for a cinema that tackles social issues via the fiction and documentary feature form, it's after the release of his debut fiction feature...
2024 Sundance Film Festival: Alexandra Qin’s Thirstygirl & Kate Jean Hollowell’s Say Hi After You Die Lead Our Top Ten Short Films
We watched, we came and we conquered. 12,098 shorts were submitted for the 2024 edition of the Sundance Film Festival and of that, only...
In the Land of Brothers | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review
Family of Straw: Amirfazli & Ghasemi Present a Trilogy of Familial Tragedies
The title, of course, is a bitter irony relating to Iran’s self-anointed nickname,...
Malu | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review
A Streetcar Named Desejo: Freire Mines Matriarchal Tendencies
Having directed several short films and television series, Brazilian director Pedro Freire unleashes a motherlode of intergenerational...
Veni Vidi Vici | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review
Destroy Everything You Touch: Hoesl & Riemann Come to Conquer with Dark Satire
As ABBA once succinctly stated, “Money, money money/Must be funny/In a rich...
Sujo | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review
Goodbye Horses: Valadez & Rondero Explore a Valley of Violence
Working as co-directors on their latest feature Sujo, Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero once again...
2024 Sundance: Palme d’Or Winner Flóra Anna Buda, The Procedure’s Carlos A.F. Lopez & Malia Ann Among Short Films Selections
The chances of having your short film selected for Sundance Film Festival's Short Film program is 0.004 percent - which means the lucky 53...
2024 Sundance: A Different Man, The Outrun, Winner & Sasquatch Sunset Among Premieres
Sundance Film Festival's Premiere section (a mix of fiction and docs) will have some biggie titles to contend with the likes of Aaron Schimberg's...
2024 Sundance: Scott Cummings’ REALM OF SATAN & Haley Elizabeth Anderson’s Tendaberry Among NEXT Items
Long-time editor (Never Rarely Sometimes Always) and director (Buffalo Juggalos - short) Scott Cummings and a talent to watch in Haley Elizabeth Anderson (Sundance...
2024 Sundance: Michael Dweck, Jeff Zimbalist, Stephen Maing & Brett Story in the U.S. Docu Comp
It'll be highly likely that we'll be talking about these docu films by the end of 2024 - as the cream of the crop...
2024 Sundance: Amachoukeli, Molly Manning Walker, Linklater & Asmae El Moudir in Spotlight Section
The Spotlight section is a quartet of items with two heavy-hitters from the Cannes Un Certain Regard section, a small gem from Cannes' Critics'...
2024 Sundance: Daniel Hoesl, Klaudia Reynicke & Thea Hvistendahl in World Cinema Dramatic Comp
Daniel Hoesl's Veni Vidi Vici, Klaudia Reynicke's Reinas and Thea Hvistendahl's Handling the Undead are among the ten titles selected for the needle in...
2024 Sundance: Jesse Eisenberg, Sean Wang, Laura Chinn, India Donaldson & Zucheros in U.S. Dramatic Comp
The big surprise for the U.S. Dramatic Competition this year is they shaved off two titles making a dozen into a ten piece. We...
2024 Sundance: Schoenbrun’s “I Saw the TV Glow” & Rose Glass’ “Love Lies Bleeding” Among Midnight Selections
The Midnight section offering eight items and floating to the top on pretty much everyone's list we find some highly anticipated sophomore features in...
2024 Sundance: “Ibelin”, “Black Box Diaries” & “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” in World Cinema Docu Comp
This year's World Cinema Docu Competition sees The Painter and the Thief (2020) filmmaker Benjamin Ree among the pack of ten. Here is the...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kyle Mooney’s Y2K
With so many A24 items looking for 2024 positioning, we wouldn't be surprised if Kyle Mooney's feature debut waits for the next train to...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David Michôd’s Wizards!
Could David Michôd be returning to the fest where he launched Animal Kingdom back in 2010? Now that 2023 has come and gone, it's...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Susanna Fogel’s Winner
Berlinale gave us Reality earlier this year and next January we think we might be seeing Winner - another project that looks at the...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anu Valia’s We Strangers
She pretty much began her film career with a bang winning Sundance's Jury Prize for US Fiction for her short, and then followed that...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joel Potrykus’ Vulcanizadora
A filmmaker synonymous with American indie film but hasn't been picked by Sundance in his first four features in Ape (2012), Buzzard (2014), The...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nicolas Pesce’s Visitation
Both his directorial debut in the glorious micro-budgeted B&W house-of-horrors and in the Portuguese language The Eyes Of My Mother (read review) and his...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Trey Edward Shults Film with The Weeknd
After Krisha (2015), It Comes at Night (2017) and Waves (2019), American indie filmmaker Trey Edward Shults might actually be shooting from both sides...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Pavement / Alex Ross Perry Film
He might be technically retired from what we consider regular fiction filmmaking, but since his TIFF premiered Her Smell back in 2018 Alex Ross...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Justin Anderson’s Swimming Home
Our most anticipated feature debut films for this year is indeed ready but it'll be dropping in 2024 instead. Perhaps a fest that is...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Laura Chinn’s Suncoast
A recent 2020 Black List ranked un-produced screenplay that quickly moved into production with the support of the Searchlight folks (the film will likely...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ruben Amar & Lola Bessis’ Silver Star
Next up in our predictions list is a filmmaker tandem that gave us micro indie Swim Little Fish Swim - which was selected as...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tolga Karaçelik’s The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write about a Serial Killer
Completely off trade news radar, we learned that Turkish filmmaker Tolga Karaçelik moved into production on his English-language debut this past June with none-other...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Angarano’s Sacramento
Avenues (2017) filmmaker Michael Angarano is obviously best known for an actor career that has spanned two-plus decades (and most recently seen in Oppenheimer)...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeremy Saulnier’s Rebel Ridge
After Murder Party (2007), the Cannes Film Festival selected Blue Ruin (2013) and Green Room (2015) and TIFF selected Hold the Dark (2018), Jeremy...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bryn Chainey’s Rabbit Trap
We're unable to stamp Rabbit Trap with an actual 2023 production start date so this guesstimate might be completely off but short film and...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lance Hammer’s Queen at Sea
He landed at Sundance in the U.S. Dramatic Competition with Ballast in 2008 and would end up winning the Directing Award and Cinematography Award...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun
Park City has been a fruitful ground for the films on addiction and the next stint in rehab could be Nora Fingscheidt’s fifth feature...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Daniel Minahan’s On Swift Horses
We all know that Sundance is a welcoming launchpad for first-time filmmakers -- and this was indeed the case for Daniel Minahan who shored...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bernardo Britto’s Omni Loop
A sophomore film project (fka Omni Loop Blues) that was selected to participate in the Sundance Institute's 2017 Screenwriters Lab looks be be ready...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Geremy Jasper’s O’Dessa
Sold for a whopping 10 million to Fox Searchlight at Sundance back in '17, Patti Cake$ became a major calling card for Geremy Jasper...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch
Marielle Heller broke out big at Sundance back in 2015 with coming-of-ager The Diary of a Teenage Girl - the pic received a lot...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: RaMell Ross’ The Nickel Boys
Definitely the type of film that could end up jockeying for a position at a fall film festival later in the year instead, RaMell...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ariel Kavoussi’s The Next Big One: A Comedy with Three Potential Problems
Actress Ariel Kavoussi has slowly moved from acting to directing shorts and earlier this year she put together her feature film debut with a...
