Sundance Film Festival 2024 Review - As SKYWALKERS: A Love Story opens, we see headcam footage of Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus as they attempt to hide from construction workers on Malaysia's Merdeka 118. At 2,227′ tall the building will soon be the second-tallest in the world. The couple are determined to be the first [...]

Sundance Institute has announced the names of the six transgender storytellers of color selected for the second edition of the Trans Possibilities Intensive. The three-part event, led by Moi Santos, founder of the Trans Possibilities Intensive, will take place from March 27-29. Here’s everything you need to know about the program and the 2023 Fellows: [...]

The Flying Sailor is a short film selected for the 2023 Sundance Film Festival animated shorts block. A film by Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby, and a team of talented 3D and 2D animators, this little story took me by surprise -- in a good way. The Flying Sailor is tragic, beautiful, and morbidly humorous. A [...]

Sundance 2023 Film Festival - Writer/director Valeria Hofmann's AliEN0089 isn't your typical thriller. It critiques sexism in gamer culture, while combining elements of Giallo, found footage, and nightmarish animation sequences. It's an effective, engrossing, and haunting short. Mariana Di Girólamo stars as Sabina, a gamer who faces harassment whenever she logs into a first-person shooter-type [...]

A howling good horror movie

Sundance 2023 Film Festival  - Michael Ironside has a history of playing villains in film. In writer/director Andrew Fitzgerald's short, The Family Circus, he plays an imposing cop that threatens to unravel a family attempting to cover up a son's drunk driving incident. The film is a tense family drama set against the backdrop of [...]

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