Director Rahul Jain may not claim any particular visual influences for his bleak and beautiful documentary Machines, but a viewer, watching the endless turning of rollers and streams of colorful fabrics tended...
Axolotl Overkill marks 24-year-old writer and director Helen Hegemann’s debut feature film. She has also written two novels, including Overkill’s source material, Axolotl Roadkill.
When smart-ass, chain-smoking, 16-year-old Mifti (Jasna Fritzi Bauer) isn’t...
One might be tempted to expect Kerstin Tan's delightful and affecting Pop Aye to be a comic take on the classic Hollywood buddy picture: An aging architect, Thana, hooks up with an...
Sam (Harriet Dyer) tries to survive with babe in arms in Killing Ground, Sundance's Midnight program.
Sundance’s Midnight program has rolled out quite a few horrors and thrillers that had us on the...
Sabaah Folayan's debut documentary Whose Streets? does not linger over the August 2014 killing of Michael Brown Jr. in Ferguson, Missouri. We hear recordings of 911 calls about the incident. We see...
Festival Launches Amidst Concerns about Freedom, Truth, Equity and the Environment
The 2017 Sundance Film Festival opens today with healthy dose of snow and unease. One day before the inauguration of a Twitter-obsessed...
Though the film industry takes over much of Park City during Sundance, plenty of dining options remain for us Z-listers. If you need to refuel after stalking your favorite celebrities and bingeing...
Only a mystery and a whiff of scandal remains of the pioneering
silent movie One Hundred Years of Mormonism.
by Lynn Kenneth Packer
In the last 20 years, films by and about Mormons have...
Acting may end for Robert Redford, but his creation will endure.
Despite being awarded the Medal of Freedom in November by President Barrack Obama (who said The Candidate was the best political movie ever...
Hannah Canter, from Louisville, Kentucky flew into Salt Lake with two friends last year to attend the festival. The appeal, she says, was mostly the films. “I’ve always liked movies, but I’ve...
"The nice thing is you get to know people - the same people who volunteer year to year at the same place."
- Amanda Pratt -
Amanda Pratt warns volunteering is hard work. A...
"I can see six or eight movies in a day. It can be exhausting or it can be exhilarating." - Levi Elder
by Christie Marcy
Levi Elder uses a spreadsheet to choreograph his Sundance...
