Tag: Utah Film Center
Two award-winning films with LGBTQ themes — a 2018 Kenyan narrative feature and a 1984 documentary about five decades of gay activism leading up to the Stonewall riots of 1969 — will be screened in separate free,...
There are many reasons why the sleeper hit comedy Napoleon Dynamite (2004) deserves to be
the pride of the Utah film industry. Directed by Jared Hess and written by Hess
and his wife Jerusha, it has become a timeless...
Sixteen short documentary films produced by students in schools throughout the Salt Lake City valley in collaboration with their teachers and featuring a wide range of stories about immigration and migration will premiere May 1, as part...
Within the first three minutes of the exceptional documentary Intelligent Lives, the viewer is introduced to the film’s two most important themes. The first dismantles the narrow yet long accepted perceptions of measuring intelligence that have done...
When Supa Modo, the award-winning feature-length narrative film from Kenyan director Likarion Wainaina, opens the Utah Film Center’s Tumbleweeds Film Festival for Children and Youth on Friday (March 1, 7:30 p.m., The City Library auditorium), Wainaina will...
The eighth presentation of the Utah Film Center’s Tumbleweeds Film Festival for Children and Youth from March 1-3 brings in a slate of Utah premieres including films from Swaziland, Kenya, two from Iran and another from the...
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...
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...
