Sundance 2021: Bring Your Own Brigade riveting, immensely elucidating documentary about California wildfires with surprising epiphanies

Sundance 2021: Bring Your Own Brigade riveting, immensely elucidating documentary about California wildfires with surprising epiphanies

ByLes RokaJan 30, 2021

In a Bay Nature magazine essay published earlier this month about what Californians should learn from recent years of devastating wildfires, Don Hankins poses the central question and context: Where did we go wrong, and what can we do differently to live in this land? To recognize that fire is the law of the land is … Read more

Sundance 2021: The Most Beautiful Boy in the World absorbing, sensitive story of the pains of objectification, fragile ephemerality of beauty

Sundance 2021: The Most Beautiful Boy in the World absorbing, sensitive story of the pains of objectification, fragile ephemerality of beauty

ByLes RokaJan 29, 20218 min read

For his novel Death in Venice, Thomas Mann’s visualization of Tadzio, the strikingly beautiful boy, was based in…

Sundance 2021: Mormon-themed dark comedy narrative and Turkish sociological thriller shine as part of festival short films slate

Sundance 2021: Mormon-themed dark comedy narrative and Turkish sociological thriller shine as part of festival short films slate

ByLes RokaJan 29, 20217 min read

A Mormon-themed dark comedy narrative and a Turkish sociological thriller surrounding two university students underscore just how rigorously…

Sundance 2021: Four documentaries, one narrative highlight Utah connections to festival slate; Tumbleweeds for Kids selections

Sundance 2021: Four documentaries, one narrative highlight Utah connections to festival slate; Tumbleweeds for Kids selections

ByLes RokaJan 27, 202113 min read

EDITOR’S NOTE: Part II summarizes the films and programs from Sundance 2021 that are part of The Utah…

Sundance 2021: Utah film industry weathers pandemic with resilience, resourceful risk taking

Sundance 2021: Utah film industry weathers pandemic with resilience, resourceful risk taking

ByLes RokaJan 26, 202115 min read

EDITOR’S NOTE:  Part I is an overview of the Utah film industry in the current moment. Part II…