Seeds, courtesy of Sundance Institute.. Hailey Gates's war-training satire Atropia won today the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Brittany Shyne's Seeds, about Black farmers in Georgia and their relationship to both the land and U.S. agricultural policy, won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary.

Canon EOS C80. You might conclude that the C80 and C400 are essentially the same camera, only in two shapes and sizes. This underscores the current situation that when it comes to compact cine cameras, two profiles compete: mirrorless, descended from DSLR still cameras held up to the eye—and boxy, which are blind (sans viewfinder) and covered with buttons, switches, threaded holes for ...

Jan 19, 2024 · Love Machina, the latest film by documentarian Peter Sillen (Benjamin Smoke) follows the couple Martine and Bina Rothblatt, who attempt to transfer Bina’s consciousness to a commissioned humanoid artificial intelligence to preserve their love for one another.The film is also the first feature film editor credit for Conor McBride who discusses the timeliness of the film and its subject matter ...

The New You: Aaron Schimberg on A Different Man. Aaron Schimberg has always had a personal interest in facial disfigurement. The New York–based writer-director was born with a bilateral cleft lip and palate, along with other medical issues, and has spent the majority of his filmmaking career grappling with people’s perception of him.

Hits & Misses 2024: Case Studies of Six Sundance 2024 Premieres. In September, Variety declared, “Indie Films Are Staging a Box Office Comeback,” touting the success of the films Longlegs, Thelma and Late Night with the Devil as signs of life for a segment of the industry “crushed by COVID, strikes and streaming,” as reporter Brent Lang wrote.

Mar 16, 2023 · The caveat is that our sample size is not large or representative enough to draw conclusions about the overall likelihood that a given film will make money in a given budget range (you cannot, for instance, say that a film made for less than $50,000 has a 40 percent chance of breaking even and/or making a profit).. What is extremely useful, however, is to look at the trends across the budget ...

Considerations: The Best Picture Shortlist. Every Tuesday Tyler Coates publishes his new Filmmaker newsletter, Considerations, devoted to the awards race.

Jan 25, 2025 · Films are made over many days, but some days are more memorable, and important, than others. Imagine yourself in ten years looking back on this production. What day from your film’s development, production or post do you think you’ll view as the most significant and why? A few months before ...

Jan 7, 2025 · Two new documentaries — The Alabama Solution from Andrew Jarecki and The Stringer from Bao Nguyen – have been added to the Premieres category of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, the Sundance Institute announced today.Both directors have histories with the festival. Each of the projects are directed by filmmakers who have presented their works at previous editions of the Sundance Film Festival.

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