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Never Get Busted
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Sundance Film Festival / Never Get Busted : Exclusive Interview with Showrunners David Anthony Ngo & Erin Williams-Weir

©Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival Never Get Busted : Barry Cooper was a highly decorated Texas narcotics officer — until he turned on the police force by bustin crooked cops and teaching drug users how to hide their stash. Showrunners : David Anthony Ngo, Erin Williams-Weir Executive Producers : John Battsek, Chris Smith Co-Executive Producer : Michael Agar Producers : Erin Williams-Weir, Daniel Joyce, David Anthony Ngo, Louise Schultze…

Nobuhiro Hosoki
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2025 Sundance Recap Pt 1: ‘Atropia,’ ‘André is an Idiot,’ ‘Ricky,’ ‘East of Wall,’ ’Train Dreams’
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2025 Sundance Recap Pt 1: ‘Atropia,’ ‘André is an Idiot,’ ‘Ricky,’ ‘East of Wall,’ ’Train Dreams’

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival will be wrapping up this weekend, although for those of us covering it virtually, we’ve gotten a bit of a late start. There have been quite a few themes with the movies at this year’s festival, including many films written and directed by actors starring in their own films, as…

Edward Douglas
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Sundance Film Festival: ‘The Dating Game’ is an Amusing Look at Romance in China That’s Best When It Gets Serious
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Sundance Film Festival: ‘The Dating Game’ is an Amusing Look at Romance in China That’s Best When It Gets Serious

It’s not always easy to find a partner, but there can be exacerbating circumstances that make it even more difficult. As a result of China’s one child’s policy, which was ended a decade ago, there are 30 million more men than women. Those odds aren’t great even for the most socially well-adjusted individuals with unlimited…

Abe Friedtanzer
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Sundance Film Festival: ‘Plainclothes’ / Tom Blyth Explodes Inside the Character’s Mind & Soul
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Sundance Film Festival: ‘Plainclothes’ / Tom Blyth Explodes Inside the Character’s Mind & Soul

@Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Ethan Palme The ‘90 have been most likely one of the most controversial decades for gay rights in the United States. The optimism and liberalism of the Bill Clinton presidency clashed in many ways with the homophobia still reigning in many parts of the United States, especially far…

Adriano Ercolani
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Twinless
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‘Atropia’ and ‘Twinless’ Win Top Prizes at Sundance Film Festival

Atropia (U.S. Dramatic Competition), Seeds (U.S. Documentary Competition), Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears) (World Cinema Dramatic Competition), and Cutting Through Rocks (اوزاک یوللار) (World Cinema Documentary Competition) Awarded Grand Jury Prizes; NEXT Innovator Award Presented by Adobe Goes to Zodiac Killer Project Twinless (U.S. Dramatic Competition) and André is an Idiot (U.S. Documentary Competition) Receive Audience Awards Presented by Acura Audience Awards Presented by United Airlines Go…

Nobuhiro Hosoki
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Sundance Film Festival: ‘The Alabama Solution’ is a Vital, Urgent Call for Prison Reform in a Very Broken System
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Sundance Film Festival: ‘The Alabama Solution’ is a Vital, Urgent Call for Prison Reform in a Very Broken System

Conditions within prison facilities aren’t known to be great, and they’re not invitations that many in positions of power believe to be most deserving of resources. Some argue that criminal offenders need to be kept in line and shouldn’t be treated with kindness, and therefore their needs should be at the bottom of any priority…

Abe Friedtanzer
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Sundance Film Festival: ‘Touch Me’ is a Weird, Appealing Story of Cross-Species Attraction
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Sundance Film Festival: ‘Touch Me’ is a Weird, Appealing Story of Cross-Species Attraction

©Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival There are plenty of theories about the existence of extraterrestrial life, and theatrical first contact experiences like the one depicted in Star Trek are hardly the only way in which humanity could become aware of them. Touch Me offers a truly unique method of undeniable confirmation for one human that…

Abe Friedtanzer
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Twinless
Interviews

Sundance Film Festival 2025 / Twinless : Actor/Writer/Director James Sweeney Interview

©Courtesy of Republic Pictures As a life-long fan of films and television shows, and an endless passion for writing, Karen Benardello decided to combine the two for a career. She graduated from New York’s LIU Post with a B.F.A in Journalism, Print and Electronic in 2008. Karen has since been working in the press in…

Karen Benardello
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Third Act
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Sundance Film Festival / Third Act : Exclusive Interview Director Tadashi Nakamura

©Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo’s program called “Morning Satellite” at…

Nobuhiro Hosoki
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Sundance Film Festival: ‘Omaha’ is a Heartbreaking Family Portrait with Terrific Performances
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Sundance Film Festival: ‘Omaha’ is a Heartbreaking Family Portrait with Terrific Performances

It’s hard for many people to imagine what it really means to be out of options. There are so many things that would have to go wrong and fall apart for those who live in relative affluence to lose their homes and be forced to live either on the street or out of their cars….

Abe Friedtanzer
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Gianluca Matarrese
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Sundance Film Festival / Gen_ : Exclusive Interview with Writer/Director Gianluca Matarrese

©Courtesy of Ballota Films Gen_: At Milan’s Niguarda public hospital, the unconventional Dr. Bini leads a bold mission overseeing aspiring parents undergoing in vitro fertilization and the journeys of individuals reconciling their bodies with their gender identities. He navigates the constraints set by a conservative government and an aggressive market eager to commodify bodies. In…

Nobuhiro Hosoki
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