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Jonathan Majors’ ‘Magazine Dreams’ Seeking New Distributor

Jonathan Majors’ body-building drama Magazine Dreams is seeking a new distributor, nearly a year after Searchlight Pictures acquired the rights to the feature. The specialty arm of Walt Disney Studios has returned the project’s rights to the filmmakers, who will now shop it to other buyers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The decision comes several…

2024 Sundance Film Festival Names Jury Members

@Sundance Institute The nonprofit Sundance Institute announced today the 16 jurors granting awards for artistic and cinematic excellence at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, along with the five jury members who present the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize. The 2024 Festival will take place January 18–28, 2024, in person in Park City and Salt…

Exclusive Video Interview: Director Charlotte Regan on the Sundance Winning Film ‘Scrapper’

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Writer-director Charlotte Regan makes her feature film debut with Scrapper, a funny, endearing story of a twelve-year-old girl named Georgie (Lola Campbell) living alone in London and the unexpected reunion she has with her previously absent father Jason (Harris Dickinson). Campbell is a breakout…

Exclusive Video Interview: Directors Razelle Benally and Matthew Galkin on Their Showtime Documentary Series ‘Murder in Big Horn’

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. There is a disturbing phenomenon of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women across the United States, where Native women all too frequently disappear and little is done to find them. The Showtime documentary series Murder in Big Horn, which made its premiere at the Sundance…

Sundance Film Festival Review – World Grand Jury Prize Winner ‘Scrapper’ is a Wonderful Tale of Newfound Family

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…

Sundance Film Festival Review – ‘Past Lives’ is an Extraordinary, Intoxicating Tale of a Relationship That Could Have Been

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…

Sundance Film Festival Review – ‘Magazine Dreams’ Shows the Destructive Power of Societal Standards

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…

2023 Sundance Film Festival Awards Announced

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…

Fire of Love : Q&A with Director Sara Dosa on the Oscar Nominated Doc

Synopsis : Fire of Love tells the story of two French lovers, Katia and Maurice Krafft, who died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of our planet, while simultaneously capturing the most explosive volcano imagery ever recorded. Along the way, they changed our understanding of the…

Sundance Film Festival Review – ‘Jamojaya’ is a Contemplative Portrait of Father, Son, and Fame

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…

Sundance Film Festival Review: Scoot McNairy and Emilia Jones Capture the Complexities of Father-daughter Relationships in Fairyland

Sometimes the most emotionally fulfilling relationships, which shape a person’s entire life perspective and development, prove to be the ones that society deems to be unconventional. While society is often unwilling to accept the seemingly unconventional connections people can develop, some of the most emotionally captivating films are character-driven stories that chronicle and celebrate those…