Sundance features – Page 5
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FeaturesSundance 2017: The biggest deals
The deals that defined Sundance 2017 came in at the high end.
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FeaturesSundance 2017: The stand-out documentaries
Screen rounds up the critically-acclaimed documentaries from this year’s festival.
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FeaturesSundance 2017: The stand-out feature films
Screen rounds up the critical breakthroughs from this year’s festival.
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FeaturesPinewood Atlanta Studios, Georgia Film Academy -- Sundance 2017 reception
Pinewood Atlanta Studios president Frank Patterson chaired a packed presentation and networking event with Georgia Film Academy (GFA) at High West Distillery & Saloon in Park City.
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FeaturesKristen Stewart discusses her directing debut at Sundance
The celebrated actor called her Sundance short “a full-frontal heartbreak movie”.
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FeaturesSundance 2017 profiles: World Cinema Documentary preview
A Syria-filmed courage-under-fire doc is among those playing in Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary competition.
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FeaturesSundance 2017 profiles: World Cinema Dramatic preview
Our guide to the films in Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic competition.
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FeaturesSundance 2017 preview: climate change to the fore
The festival will host the premiere of Al Gore’s new climate change doc, with the environment one of the key themes this year.
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FeaturesJames Schamus: What makes something a movie?
In a preview of his talk at Sundance Film Festival London on June 4, the American industry veteran looks at the challenges of how to define a film in the era of multi-platform content.
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FeaturesDavid Farrier, Dylan Reeve – 'Tickled'
When New Zealand journalist stumbled upon the world of competitive endurance tickling he was intrigued and made enquires to the person who seemed to be in charge, Jane O’Brien. Then things got dark in the Sundance documentary.
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FeaturesKenneth Lonergan, 'Manchester By The Sea'
Arguably the most acclaimed film in Sundance, Kenneth Lonergan’s Premieres selection packs a punch and sparked a $10m US buy from Amazon Studios that will include a theatrical launch most likely during awards season.
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FeaturesDoron Weber, The Sloan Foundation
As Sundance prepares to announce the winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize, Jeremy Kay talks to the Sloan Foundation’s vice-president and programme director about his mission to further public understanding of science, technology and economics through grant allocation and partnership with film schools around the US.
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FeaturesSundance directors: Mirjana Karanovic, 'A Good Wife'
Acclaimed Serbian actress Mirjana Karanovic discusses the inspiration for her directorial debut about a woman who discovers her husband’s war crimes.
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FeaturesSundance: New Frontier strand celebrating 10 years at this year’s festival
Following the recent Consumer and Electronics Show (CES), Sundance’s New Frontier strand, now in its tenth year, boasts a bigger-than-ever slate of virtual-reality (VR) pieces and mixed media installations.
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FeaturesSundance 2016: Babak Anvari talks 'Under The Shadow'
Screen sat down with first-time feature director Babak Anvari and Lucan Toh of production company Wigwam Films to discuss Farsi-language horror Under The Shadow, which has been acquired by Netflix.
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FeaturesSundance directors: Yao Huang, 'Pleasure. Love.'
The dreamy intimacy of Yao Huang’s debut feature is a departure from the more mannered Chinese film-making to which Western audiences have become accustomed.
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FeaturesSundance directors: Elite Zexer, 'Sand Storm'
Elite Zexer’s feature debut stems from her love for the Bedouin people and in particular her fascination with the role of women.
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FeaturesSundance directors: Alejandro Fernández Almendras, 'Much Ado About Nothing'
Alejandro Fernández Almendras won the Sundance World Cinema Dramatic prize in 2014 with To Kill A Man and he mines the familiar terrain of social and legal injustice in his return to Park City.
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FeaturesSundance directors: Rebecca Daly, 'Mammal'
Australian actress Rachel Griffiths usually inhabits gregarious characters but plays against type in Mammal as a woman who loses a son and weaves a complicated relationship with a teenage boy.
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FeaturesSundance directors: Agnieszka Smoczynska, 'The Lure'
Agnieszka Smoczynska had already collaborated with screenwriter Robert Bolesto on her short films but the impetus for her trippy $1.6m (€1.5m) feature debut came as a surprise.