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2022 Sundance Film Festival
The 2022 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 20 to 30, 2022. Due to COVID-19 pandemic protocol it was to have been a hybrid festival, but on January 5, 2022 it was announced that the in-person components would be scrapped in favor of a virtual festival due to the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. The first lineup of competition films was announced on December 9, 2021. Films U.S. Dramatic Competition *'' 892'' by Abi Damaris Corbin *'' Alice'' by Krystin Ver Linden *''blood'' by Bradley Rust Gray *''Cha Cha Real Smooth'' by Cooper Raiff *'' Dual'' by Riley Stearns *''Emergency'' by Carey Williams *''Master'' by Mariama Diallo *''Nanny'' by Nikyatu Jusu *''Palm Trees and Power Lines'' by Jamie Dack *'' Watcher'' by Chloe Okuno U.S. Documentary Competition *''Aftershock'' by Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee *''Descendant'' by Margaret Brown *''The Exiles'' by Ben Klein and Violet Columbus *''Fire of Love'' by Sara Dosa *''Free Chol Soo Lee'' by Julie Ha and Eugene Yi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sundance Institute
Sundance Institute is a non-profit organization founded by Robert Redford committed to the growth of independent artists. The institute is driven by its programs that discover and support independent filmmakers, theatre artists and composers from all over the world. At the core of the programs is the goal to introduce audiences to the artists' new work, aided by the institute's labs, granting and mentorship programs that take place throughout the year in the United States and internationally. The institute has offices in Park City, Los Angeles, and New York City, and provides creative and financial support to emerging and aspiring filmmakers, directors, producers, film composers, screenwriters, playwrights and theatre artists through a series of Labs and fellowships. The programs of Sundance Institute include the Sundance Film Festival, which is critically acclaimed. It promotes independent filmmakers, storytellers, and composers. The Sundance Institute's founding staff, asse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanny (film)
''Nanny'' is a 2022 American horror film written and directed by Nikyatu Jusu, in her feature directorial debut. It stars Anna Diop, Michelle Monaghan, Sinqua Walls, Morgan Spector, Rose Decker, and Leslie Uggams. Jason Blum serves as an executive producer through his Blumhouse Television banner. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2022, where it won the Grand Jury Prize, making it the first horror film to ever win this award at Sundance. The film was given a limited theatrical release on November 23, 2022, by Amazon Studios, prior to streaming on Prime Video on December 16, 2022. Plot Aisha is an illegal Senegalese immigrant in New York City. She left her now six-year-old son, Lamine, in the care of her cousin, Mariatou, in Senegal a year earlier. She hopes to earn enough money to bring her son and cousin as immigrants to the United States to live with her. Aisha is hired as a nanny for Rose, the young daughter of Amy and Adam Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Allynne
Stephanie Allynne is an American actress, writer, and comedian. She is best known for her roles in '' In a World...'' (2013), ''Dream Corp, LLC'' (2016), '' One Mississippi'' (2016–17), and '' The L Word: Generation Q'' (2019–present). Biography Allynne moved from southern California to Buffalo, New York, for some of her youth. She headed to Los Angeles at the age of 18 and joined the Upright Citizens Brigade. She performs regularly with ASSSSCAT, Wild Horses, and Last Day of School: The Text Message show. Allynne started making numerous appearances on television including ''The League'', ''The Mindy Project'', '' Happy Endings'', '' 2 Broke Girls'', ''Kroll Show'', and ''Key & Peele''. Allynne wrote and co-starred in '' One Mississippi'' with her wife Tig Notaro. The show was a loose autobiography about their lives. Allynne is developing an hour drama for HBO and is co-writing and producing the feature ''First Ladies'' for Netflix, starring Jennifer Aniston and Notaro. Perso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Am I OK?
''Am I OK?'' is a 2022 American comedy-drama film directed by Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne and written by Lauren Pomerantz. It stars Dakota Johnson, Sonoya Mizuno, Jermaine Fowler, Kiersey Clemons, Molly Gordon, June Diane Raphael, Tig Notaro, and Sean Hayes. It had its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2022, and is set to premiere on HBO Max on a yet-to-be-determined date. Premise Lucy, a 32-year-old woman living in Los Angeles, realizes that all her dates with men are unsuccessful because she is a lesbian. With the help of her lifelong best friend Jane, she attempts to navigate coming out and dating women in her 30s. Cast * Dakota Johnson as Lucy * Sonoya Mizuno as Jane * Jermaine Fowler as Danny * Kiersey Clemons as Brittany * Whitmer Thomas as Ben * Molly Gordon as Kat * Tig Notaro as Sheila * Sean Hayes as Stu * Odessa A'zion as Sky Production In October 2019, it was announced Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne would direct the film from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramin Bahrani
Ramin Bahrani ( fa, رامین بحرانی; born March 20, 1975) is an American director and screenwriter. Film critic Roger Ebert ranked Bahrani's ''Chop Shop'' (2007) as the sixth-best film of the 2000s, calling him "the new director of the decade". Bahrani was the recipient of the 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship. Bahrani is a professor of film directing at his alma mater the Columbia University School of the Arts. In 2021, Bahrani was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for ''The White Tiger''. He is a BAFTA and Emmy Award nominee. Early life and education Bahrani was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the son of Iranian immigrants. His father, originally from Shiraz, initially exposed him to the poetic works of Hafez and encouraged him to pursue his passion for the arts. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University in 1996. Bahrani also studied filmmaking in Iran and briefly lived in Paris after graduating from college. Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shalini Kantayya
Shalini Kantayya is an American filmmaker and environmental activist based in Brooklyn, New York, whose films explore human rights at the intersection of water, food, and renewable energy. Kantayya is best known for her debut feature documentary, '' Catching the Sun.'' Early life and education Born to Indian parents with a mother who emigrated to the United States, Kantayya was born and raised in Hartford, Connecticut. She received a BA in Media Studies and International Human Rights from Hampshire College in Massachusetts, and an MFA in Film Direction from the City College of New York. Career Kantayya finished in the top 10 out of 12,000 filmmakers on Fox’s ''On the Lot,'' a reality television talent show by Steven Spielberg, Mark Burnett and David Goffin. She founded the production company 7th Empire Media in 2011, Filmography ''A Drop of Life'' - Director ''Set in the near future, A DROP OF LIFE is the story of two women, a village teacher in rural India and an Afri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Roher
Daniel Roher () is a Canadian documentary film director from Toronto, Ontario. He is most noted for his 2019 film '' Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band'', which was the opening film of the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Roher grew up in midtown Toronto, Canada in a Jewish family. After graduating from Etobicoke School of the Arts, he studied for three semesters at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, USA. His 2019 film '' Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band'' was also screened at the 2019 Whistler Film Festival, where it was the winner of the Whistler Film Festival Documentary Award. Roher and Eamonn O'Connor were Canadian Screen Award nominees for Best Editing in a Documentary at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020, and Canadian Cinema Editors award nominees for Best Editing in a Documentary in 2020. Roher previously directed the short documentaries '' Survivors Rowe'', which was a CSA nominee for Best Documentary Progr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navalny (film)
''Navalny'' is a 2022 documentary film directed by Daniel Roher. The film revolves around Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and events related to his poisoning. It was produced by HBO Max and CNN Films. The film premiered on 25 January 2022 at the Sundance Film Festival, where it received critical and audience acclaim and won the Audience Award in the US Documentary competition and the Festival Favorite Award. It also received a nomination for Best Documentary Feature at the 95th Academy Awards, won the award for Best Political Documentary at the 7th Critics' Choice Documentary Awards and picked up best documentary at the 76th BAFTA awards ceremony. Synopsis The film tells about the events related to the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the subsequent investigation into the poisoning. On 20 August 2020, Navalny was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent, falling sick during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow, and was hospitalized in serious condition. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tia Lessin
Tia Lessin is an American documentary filmmaker. Lessin has produced and directed documentaries and earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Documentary. She co-directed the film ''The Janes'' which had its premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and is the director (film), director and producer (film), producer, with Carl Deal, of ''Trouble the Water'' and ''Citizen Koch''. She directed ''Behind the Labels'' and produced several of Michael Moore's films including ''Fahrenheit 9/11'', ''Where to Invade Next'' and ''Fahrenheit 11/9''. Career Tia Lessin is producer and director, together with Carl Deal, of the Academy Award-nominated feature documentary ''Trouble the Water'', winner of the Gotham Independent Film Award and the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize for best documentary. Lessin was a co-producer of Michael Moore's ''Where to Invade Next'', ''Capitalism: A Love Story'', ''Fahrenheit 9/11'', winner of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Brown (film Director)
Margaret Brown is an American film director. Early life and education Brown was born and raised in Mobile, Alabama. A Murphy High School alumna, she earned her BA from Brown University with concentrations in Creative Writing and Modern Culture and Media, and her MFA in Film from New York University. Career Brown served as cinematographer for ''99 Threadwaxing'' in 1999 and director for ''Ice Fishing'' in 2000. Her full-length debut was '' Be Here To Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt'' (2004) which chronicles the turbulent life of American singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt. ''Time Out'' magazine listed it at number 7 on its "50 Greatest Music Films Ever". She subsequently directed the feature documentary ''The Order of Myths'' a 2008 Sundance Film Festival selection about the segregated Mardi Gras celebration of Mobile, Alabama. The film was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. It won many awards including a Peabody Award, a Cinematic Vision Award at the Silverdocs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonya Lewis Lee
Tonya Linnette Lewis Lee (née Lewis; March 30, 1966) is an American film and television producer, author, entrepreneur, and advocate for women and infant health. Since founding her production company, Madstone Company Inc., in 1998, she has been involved in media for children, through her work with Nickelodeon and her authorship of children's books. Life Lewis Lee was born in Yonkers, New York, to Lillian Charlotte (née Glenn) and George Ralph Lewis. Her father was a Philip Morris corporate executive. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a BA and the University of Virginia School of Law with a JD. After practicing law at Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle LLP in Washington, D.C. for nearly two years, she returned to New York and married Spike Lee in 1993. They have two children. Career Film and television Lewis Lee has been producing content for television and film for nearly 20 years. She began her career producing interstitial programming for Nickelodeon. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chloe Okuno
Chloe Alexandra Okuno (born August 1, 1987) is an American horror film director. She co-directed ''V/H/S/94'' (2021)''.'' Her feature film directorial debut, '' Watcher'', premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S Dramatic Competition. Okuno has also directed several short films, including ''Slut'' (2014). ''Slut'' won several awards, including the Jury Prize for Best Short Film at the Las Vegas International Film Festival. Life and career Okuno was born in Los Angeles and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley before graduating from the American Film Institute in 2014. In 2021, Netflix purchased ''Rodney & Sheryl'', a drama directed by Okuno and based on a true story. However, in April 2022, it was revealed Netflix was no longer involved with the film, now renamed ''The Dating Game'', which has been financed by AGC Studios and Vertigo Entertainment and is currently being sold to international distributors at the Marché du Film by AGC. Her feature dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |