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Sundance 2024 Film Festival Coverage
Virtual Sundance attendance was truncated this year starting Jan 24-28th. Still, it's a great way to start my film/movie year off on a good foot!
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SUNDANCE Film Festival Coverage 2022
Film Festival Coverage, including an advanced Sundance Filmmaker Interview with Dania Bdeir for her short WARSHA, making its World Premiere - part of my 5 Questions Series
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RICKY TYREE KickStarter – CHRONOLOGY
I met director/writer/producer Ricky Tyree at Sundance 2020 and we began following each other on social media, but I somehow missed the begining of his film Chronology, Kickstarter campaign which as of 11/30/21 only has 9 days to go!
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Announcing the Sundance Institute COVID-19 Respond and Reimagine Plan with $1Million in Emergency Relief for Independent Artists and Organizations
Being an independent artist means daring to tell bold, authentic stories with no strings attached and no compromises. It means taking risks, centering new perspectives, searching for meaning, and deepening our connection to the world around us. The COVID-19 pandemic has cast a bright light on the importance of art, reminding us that, as Joan Didion famously wrote, “we tell ourselves stories in order to live.” It has also laid bare the vulnerability of independent artists, who are mostly freelance workers and often left out of the current support systems despite their cultural and economic impact. Further, our attention is called to examine the systems and structures across our field that…
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DOWNHILL (Sundance 2020 Premiere)
Is Downhill as good as the original? No, of course not. Although, I do remember there being a number of unnecessarily slow, extraneous scenes in “Force Majeure”, so co-directors and writers Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (Academy Award winners for The Descendants which they co-wrote with Alexander Payne) do create a tighter script in “Downhill”; yet the movie is also missing some of the subtleties of things farther under the surface, which foreign films seem to capture so well.