It’s 1993, An audacious and free-spirited Inez (Teyana Taylor) has recently been released from Rikers Island. A year later, she’s living in a Brooklyn homeless shelter and struggling to get by but is determined to stay out of trouble. One day, Inez spots Terry (Aaron Kingsley Adetola), a six year old boy she’d left behind….
Creating an equally sophisticated and satirical exploration into the toxicity of a person who has little regard to how their self-serving actions affect the people in their life can be a challengw for even the most experienced filmmakers. But actress Alice Englert, the daughter of Oscar-winning filmmaker Jane Campion, effortlessly crafted a tantalizing story that…
Courageously shifting into the next professional and personal stages of their lives can offer a liberating freedom for creatives who are eager to attain satisfying fulfillment. That’s certainly the case with filmmaker Roger Ross Williams and Mexican lucha libre wrestler Saúl Armendáriz, who performs under the ring name Cassandro. Williams, who’s an Oscar-winning documentarian, made…
Children may be capable of growing up on their own, but there’s still some value in having an adult around. The circumstances of a family situation may be unpredictable and influenced by many factors, which can involve an untimely death or other events that force people not to be together as they should. When a…
Director Maite Alberdi emotionally captured the hearts of audiences at Sundance 2020 with “The Mole Agent.” The film went on to garner an Oscar nomination and was shown to audiences around the globe. Now, she’s at the festival again with her surprisingly well-made documentary, “The Eternal Memory,” which won the top prize for the World…
In the best of circumstances, two people meet at exactly the right moment and are able to proceed on a path together to forge a relationship. But the timing doesn’t always work out like that, and one person being available and interested may not coincide with the other. The sense of loss that can come…
People will go to incredible lengths to be perceived as beautiful. What that looks like is different by culture and by gender, and celebrities often embody the worst ideals, which then encourage devoted fans to mimic them in their own lives. There are diets and workout programs that promise participants supposedly healthy and fit bodies…
The Sundance Film Festival, a program of the nonprofit Sundance Institute, returned back in person and across the country online for 2023. Whether you gathered in theaters or are joining us from home, the Festival offers the opportunity to be a part of the discovery of stories and artists that will inspire and entertain us…
The first 10pm screening I ever attended at the Sundance Film Festival was Justin Chon’s Ms. Purple, which, while melodically slow, was absolutely captivating and well worth the late hour. Chon starred in his subsequent film, Blue Bayou, a more conventional drama about a family torn apart by unexpected immigration news. His latest, Jamojaya, is…
Two months after the Great Hanshin Earthquake Disaster killed 6,433 people and caused more than $100 billion in damages, a sarin gas attack took place in a Tokyo subway in 1995. Harrowing sounds echoed throughout the subway which sent shivers down to the spine of a first responder. The incident shocked the world, and was…
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