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2021 Sundance Film Festival
The 2021 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 28 to February 3, 2021. The first lineup of competition films was announced on December 15, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Utah, the festival combined in-person screenings at the Ray Theatre in Park City, with screenings held online as well as on screens and drive-ins in 24 states and territories across the United States. Films U.S. Dramatic Competition * ''CODA'', written and directed by Siân Heder * '' I Was a Simple Man'', written and directed by Christopher Makoto Yogi * ''Jockey'', directed and co-written by Clint Bentley * '' John and the Hole'', directed by Pascual Sisto * ''Mayday'', written, directed and co-produced by Karen Cinorre * '' On the Count of Three'', directed by Jerrod Carmichael * '' Passing'', written, directed and produced by Rebecca Hall * '' Superior'', directed by Erin Vassilopoulos * ''Together Together'', written and directed by Nikole Beckwith * ''Wild Indian'', written and direct ... [...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] |
Rebecca Hall
Rebecca Maria Hall (born 3 May 1982) is an English actress and filmmaker. She made her first onscreen appearance at age 10 in the 1992 television adaptation of ''The Camomile Lawn'', directed by her father, Sir Peter Hall. Her professional stage debut came in her father's 2002 production of ''Mrs. Warren's Profession'', which earned her the Ian Charleson Award. In 2006, following her film debut in '' Starter for 10'', Hall got her breakthrough role in Christopher Nolan's thriller film ''The Prestige''. In 2008, she starred as Vicky in Woody Allen's romantic comedy-drama ''Vicky Cristina Barcelona'', for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. Hall then appeared in a wide array of films, including Ron Howard's historical drama '' Frost/Nixon'' (2008), Ben Affleck's crime drama '' The Town'' (2010), the horror thriller '' The Awakening'' (2011), the superhero film ''Iron Man 3'' (2013), the science fiction film '' Transcendence'' (2014), the psychological ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It
Just or JUST may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Just (surname) * Just (given name) Arts and entertainment * ''Just'', a 1998 album by Dave Lindholm * "Just" (song), a song by Radiohead * "Just", a song from the album ''Lost and Found'' by Mudvayne * ''Just!'' (series), a series of short-story collections for children by Andy Griffiths JUST * Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan * Jessore University of Science & Technology, Bangladesh * Jinwen University of Science and Technology, New Taipei, Taiwan Businesses * Just Group plc, a British company specialising in retirement products and services * Just Group, an Australian owner and operator of seven retail brands * JUST, Inc., an American food manufacturing company See also * * List of people known as the Just * Saint-Just (other) * Justice Justice, in its broadest sense, is the principle that people receive that which they deserve, with the interpretation of what then constitutes "deserving" being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebel Hearts (film)
''Rebel Hearts'' is a 2021 American documentary film, directed, produced, and edited by Pedro Kos. The film follows nuns at the Immaculate Heart College. It had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 29, 2021. It was released in a limited release on June 25, 2021, prior to digital streaming on Discovery+ on June 27, 2021. Synopsis The film follows a group of progressive nuns at the Immaculate Heart College, including Anita Caspary, Helen Kelley, and Corita Kent as they made sure women received degrees, and transformed the education system. Production Shawnee Isaac-Smith had the idea of making a documentary film revolving around the nuns at Immaculate Heart College, and conducted over 50 interviews with the nuns, however, ran into difficulty securing financing. Isaac-Smith saved the interviews until she found the right creative partners, which would ultimately be twenty years later, when Pedro Kos and Kira Carstensen would join as producer, and direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Nicks
Peter Nicks is an American filmmaker. Peter Olivera Nicks (born May 2, 1968) is an American film director, producer and writer. He began his career in television and served as co-producer and editor of the 2006 episode "Blame Somebody Else" of PBS series '' AIR: America's Investigative Reports''. The episode received an Emmy Award in 2007 for Outstanding Feature Story in a News Magazine, for its exposure of the pipeline of illegal labor human trafficking during the Iraq War. He directed the 2012 documentary film '' The Waiting Room''. It follows the life and times of patients, doctors, and staff at Highland Hospital, a safety-net hospital in Oakland, California. In 2015 Nicks received a United States Artists (USA) fellowship. In 2017 he released ''The Force (2017 film)'', a documentary about reform measures at the Oakland Police Department. In January 2021 the third in his planned trilogy about Oakland public institutions, ''Homeroom (2021 film)'', received its world pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homeroom (2021 Film)
''Homeroom'' is a 2021 American documentary film directed and produced by Peter Nicks. The film, which is the final chapter of Nicks' ''Oakland'' trilogy (following '' The Waiting Room'' and ''The Force''), follows the lives of the Oakland High School class of 2020 as they try to make the most of their final year in high school amidst district budget cuts and ultimately the COVID-19 pandemic and the George Floyd protests. Ryan Coogler and Davis Guggenheim, the latter of whom made a similar film, ''Waiting for "Superman"'', were executive producers on this film. The film was premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 29, 2021, where it was the inaugural winner of the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award - U.S. Documentary. It was released on Hulu on August 12, 2021. Synopsis Oakland as a tantalizing case study. In a city that struggles with rising crime and health care woes, its public school systems are not exactly equipped to prepare youth for the travails of young ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cusp (film)
''Cusp'' is a 2021 American documentary film directed and produced by Isabel Bethencourt and Parker Hill. It follows three teenage girls at the end of summer. The film premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, and was released on Showtime on November 26, 2021. Synopsis Three teenage girls in Texas confront the dark corners of adolescence at the end of summer. Release The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 30, 2021. In April 2021, Showtime Documentary Films acquired distribution rights to the film. It was released on Showtime on November 26, 2021. Reception ''Cusp'' received positive reviews from film critics. It holds a 90% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 21 reviews, with a weighted average The weighted arithmetic mean is similar to an ordinary arithmetic mean (the most common type of average), except that instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data poin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theo Anthony
Theo Anthony is an American film director, editor, and cinematographer from Baltimore, Maryland known for his documentary films, including 2016's ''Rat Film''. Anthony's work draws inspiration from the experimental film essays of directors such as Harun Farocki and Chris Marker. Life and career Anthony grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and studied cinema theory and creative writing at Oberlin College. In 2014, he attended Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School, and released his breakthrough short film ''Chop My Money''. ''Chop My Money'', Anthony's first short to play film festivals, was shot in the Eastern Congo, featured music by Dirty Beaches, and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival before being named a Vimeo Staff Pick and being featured by ''The Atlantic.'' In 2015, Anthony was named one of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film" by ''Filmmaker Magazine'', and completed the short film ''Peace in the Absence of War'', which premiered at the 2016 International Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Light, Everywhere
''All Light, Everywhere'' is an 2021 American documentary film, written and directed by Theo Anthony. It follows the biases on how humans see things, focusing primarily on the use of police body cameras. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 31, 2021, where the film won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Nonfiction Experimentation. It was released on June 4, 2021, by Super LTD. Synopsis The film follows the biases inherent to the way humans physically see the world, focusing primarily on the usage of police body cameras and other forms of police surveillance, but also tracing studies of solar eclipses as well as the parallel development of automatic weapons with the motion picture camera. Release The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 31, 2021. Shortly after, Super LTD, the boutique film division of Neon, acquired U.S. distribution rights to the film. It was released on June 4, 2021. Reception ''All ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ailey (film)
''Ailey'' is an 2021 American documentary film, directed by Jamila Wignot, which follows the life of dancer Alvin Ailey. It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 30, 2021. It was released on July 23, 2021, by Neon. Synopsis The film follows the life of dancer Alvin Ailey. Production In 2017, Jamila Wignot was approached by Insignia Films to direct a documentary about Alvin Ailey after discovering American Masters had not produced a documentary film revolving around his life, and that no film biographies about Ailey existed. Production on the film began in Summer 2018, and concluded in October 2019. Wingot also incorporated audio recordings made by Ailey, for an autobiography he was collaborating on with A. Peter Bailey, feeling it was important to have the story told from his voice. Wignot wanted to include apart from Ailey's life and career, a contemporary element to the film by filming rehearsals of Lazarus by the Alvin Ailey Dance Company to show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr
Lyle may refer to: People Surname * Lyle (surname) Given name * Lyle Alzado (1949–1992), American NFL All-Pro football player * Lyle Beerbohm (born 1979), professional mixed martial arts fighter * Lyle Bennett (1903–2005), head coach of the Central Michigan college football program from 1947 to 1949 * Lyle Berman (born 1941), professional poker player and business executive * Lyle Bettger (1915–2003), character actor known most for his Hollywood roles from the 1950s * Lyle Bigbee (1893–1942), outfielder, pitcher and halfback * Lyle Blackwood (born 1951), played in the National Football League with the Miami Dolphins * Lyle Boren (1909–1992), Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma * Lyle Bouck (1923–2016), lieutenant of the I&R Platoon of the 394th Infantry Regiment of the 99th Infantry Division in World War II * Lyle Bradley (born 1943), former ice hockey center * Lyle Campbell (born 1942), linguist and leading expert on American Indian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Indian
''Wild Indian'' is a 2021 American thriller film written and directed by Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. The film stars Michael Greyeyes and Chaske Spencer with Jesse Eisenberg and Kate Bosworth. The film was supported by the Sundance Institute through the ''Writers and Directors Labs''. The film had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 30, 2021, and was released in the United States on September 3, 2021, by Vertical Entertainment. Plot In an opening scene a Native American man with smallpox hunts in the woods while at home his wife is dying. Makwa Gi-Zheg is a young Ojibwe boy in Wisconsin in 1988. Abused by his father and bullied at school, his only friend is his cousin Teddo. Makwa develops a crush on a girl and is envious of James, who draws the girl's attentions. Makwa's teacher - a priest - gives a sermon saying a tortured spirit is an unworthy sacrifice before God, and that unwillingness to accept responsibility will bring suffering that will sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
