Photo by Tsutomo Harigaya, Courtesy of Sundance Institute ◎ Director Shiori Ito talks about her debut feature film, “Black Box Diaries,” which she directs and investigates her own sexual assault case. Marking Sundance Film Festival’s 40th anniversary, it received 17,435 submissions from 153 countries; of the 4,410 features 1,679 were from the United States and 2,741…
©Photo by Matt Infante/Matt Infante-Sundance Institute The most intriguing characters are often those who are bound by the empathic limits of their own lived experiences. That’s certainly true for Sebastian Stan’s protagonist of Edward in the new psychological sci-fi thriller, A Different Man, as societal expectations fuel his internal turmoil and sense of truth. The…
Amazon MGM Studios has acquired worldwide rights to the new documentary I Am Celine Dion, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Irene Taylor. It’s being produced by Sony Music Vision, in partnership with Sony Music Entertainment Canada and Vermilion Films. According to an announcement from the studios, “This intimate exploration takes viewers on a journey inside Celine’s…
Located on the Ohio River just across from West Virginia, the village of Pomeroy (pop. 1,673) was a prosperous industrial town in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By 1870, Pomeroy had 5,000 residents who worked in a wide variety of industries including coal mines. steel mills, machine shops, a brewery, an organ factory, a…
Sundance has paved the way for Asian American cinema in recent years. As a result, films like “The Farewell,” “Minari” and this year’s “Past Lives” have all garnered Oscar nominations. Now at the just-ended 2024 edition, director Sean Wang won the Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival for his debut feature “Dìdi.”…
There are certain key events that people from a particular generation will remember. One of them for Americans who were alive in the early 2000s is the case of Terri Schiavo, who was in a vegetative state and whose husband’s request to remove her feeding tube attracted national controversy and attention. Her story played a…
The Küstendorf Film and Music Festival is the film event created by the well-known filmmaker and professor, Emir Nemanja Kusturica, organised by the production company Rasta International, with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia. Emir Kusturica, as a cineaste is largely acclaimed for his films that tackle political struggle…
©Ennio Morricone in Ennio. Courtesy of Music Box Films. Synopsis : A feature documentary directed by Giuseppe Tornatore about the life and work of legendary composer, Ennio Morricone, including interviews with renowned filmmakers and musicians, recordings from Morricone’s acclaimed world concert tours, clips of classic films scored by Morricone and exclusive footage of scenes and…
Just like Superman, the most indelible superheros are those who repeatedly defy self-pity, even in the most difficult circumstances. They instead rise up to become a passionate advocate to improve not their own lives, but also others who find themselves in the same situation. Christopher Reeve is one such superhero, whose successful career was marred…
What people achieve is often defined by what others expect of them. Growing up in a poor neighborhood that few leave doesn’t typically lead to success, and the chance to follow a different path can be equally appealing and unattainable. For one young man, the need to change things as he saw them around him…
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