Tag: Utah Film Center
Cinema always has been viewed as one of the most potential media to transport audiences to new landscapes, characters, identities and truths. With the addition of virtual reality, the individual audience member is immersed in a different...
The 16th Utah Film Center’s Damn These Heels LGBTQ Film Festival will feature a world premiere of Gracefully, a documentary by Iranian filmmaker Arash Eshaghi, which has been banned in Iran.
The Utah
Review was privileged to screen...
A Zen poem from Chinese literature by Sengcan:
The Great Way is not difficult
for those who
have no preferences.
When love and
hate are both absent
The 16th Utah Film
Center’s Damn These Heels LGBTQ Film Festival offers
23 films and two programs of short films. Utah filmgoers have a rare
opportunity to see some of the best examples of LGBTQ cinema today, as 20 films are receiving their...
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...
