Tag: Sundance Film Festival 2019
EDITOR’S NOTE: To read more about this year’s Fear No Film slate, see here, and the Utah Short Film of the Year competition, see here.
There are many new enhancements in programming for the...
Just days before the Democratic primary
for the U.S. Congressional 14th District seat in New York,
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign had just enough money to commission a poll
to gauge the first-time candidate’s standing in the electorate. It showed her
35 points...
In the documentary film Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements which premiered at this year’s Sundance, viewers see Jonas, in his early teens, experiencing something familiar to every musician –amateur or professional, student or virtuoso. At times,...
One of the most controversial
elements in the annual reenactment of the Moore’s Ford Bridge quadruple lynching
that occurred in 1946 in Georgia is a tiny doll. One of the women in the reenactment
carries it under her clothing. In...
Prior to the opening of this year’s Sundance, producer Geralyn Dreyfous said the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data breach is part of two of the biggest stories of the year. After watching The Great Hack, directed by Karim Amer...
On Jan. 29, Roger Stone, who served as
President Trump’s political consultant to use his skills in opposition research,
emerged from a Washington, D.C. court, giving the crowd a Nixon victory salute
while others chanted “lock him up.” Stone was...
In the trade publication Editor and Publisher, when nationally syndicated columnist Molly Ivins died in 2007 after a triple bout with cancer and its complications, Greg Mitchell recalled in a piece headlined Molly Ivins: The Plucking Truth...
For Abe, 12 (played by Noah
Schnapp of Stranger Things) and
living in Brooklyn, navigating the various roots of his family’s identities
that clash far more often than they interact would exhaust the capabilities of
many adults. His mother is Israeli-Jewish...
The Witch Hunters is a debut project in many ways. For Serbian director Rasko Miljkovic, it is his first feature-length narrative film and his first appearance at a U.S. film festival happens to be at Sundance 2019,...
In the cinematic and literary genres, especially in the last
decade, an impressive canon of creative nonfiction works has expanded that
engages and motivates its audience to advocate for the cause of nature
conservation and preservation more effectively than platforms...
