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07/12/11 Oscar-nominee Vera Farmiga turned heads at this year's Sundance Film Festival when she showed up in Utah with her ambitious directorial debut, "Higher Ground." The film was a hit at the event, garnering a coveted distribution deal with Sony Pictures Classics and generally favorable reviews. In it, Farmiga plays Corinne, a woman propelled into a small fundamentalist community where she finds ...
06/24/11 "Buck" tells the story of horseman Buck Brannaman, and it recently received the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Brannaman grew up in the small community of Norris and inspired the 1998 Robert Redford movie "The Horse Whisperer."
06/02/11 Below find an interview with "The Last Mountain" director Bill Haney, originally published during indieWIRE's coverage of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. "The Last Mountain" opens in New York and Washington, DC this Friday, June 3. Synopsis, courtesy of Solid Ground Films. In the valleys of Appalachia, a battle is being fought over a mountain. It is a battle with severe consequences that affect ...
05/23/11 Christopher Plummer (left) and Ewan McGregor play father and son in Mike Mills' "Beginners," opening June 10, 2011. Courtesy Focus Features One of the year's best movies - as well as some hot titles from this year's Sundance Film Festival - will be playing at the 8th annual Damn These Heels!
05/11/11 At this year's Sundance Film Festival, Oprah Winfrey made a surprise appearance with Rosie O'Donnell, the Oprah Doc Club curator, to announce that it was her intention to do for documentaries what she did for books. Last night, the Oprah Winfrey Network debuted the first in their (for now) monthly series of documentaries in the Oprah Doc Club, Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato's "Becoming Chaz ...
04/30/11 AP file photo/Victoria Will Morgan Spurlock wears his "NASCAR jacket" promoting sponsors of his new film, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, in January.AUSTIN - Morgan Spurlock was fed up with advertising. It wasn't enough that there were more commercials than ever to break up television programs, but there were ads that cluttered the screen ...
04/13/11 I went skiing in Park City, Utah, the former mining town, the schmancy ski resort, the home of the Sundance Film Festival. I made it through the day with little more than a bruised ego, but, man, did I excel at apr?s-ski.
04/11/11 Marshall Curry's "If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front," which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, has been picked for U.S. release by Oscilloscope Laboratories. The doc - which tells the story of the rise and fall of an ELF cell, as told through the transformation and radicalization of one of its members - will be released theatrically in June, followed by DVD and ...
03/22/11 Faustina, 454 E. 300 South, will host a special set-price menu, March 26, 4:30-10 p.m., to recreate the ChefDance menu served at the Sundance Film Festival.
03/10/11 International Film Circuit has announced its plans for a theatrical release of Robin Hessman's "My Perestroika," which premiered at last year's Sundance Film Festival and has since gone on to screen at New Directors/New Films, Full Frame (where it won the 2010 Filmmaker Award), and Silverdocs (where it won the 2010 Special Jury Award). The film will open in New York on March 23rd, followed by a ...
03/04/11 BERNIE DOTSON Gallup Independent PARK CITY, Utah Excitement was in the air as hundreds filed into theatres at the Sundance Film Festival for special screenings of films directed and produced by Native Americans from the Four Corners region. Just hours before the screenings began, Park City, Utah, was buzzing with speculation on how "Grab" and "The Rocket Boy" would be received by journalists ...
03/04/11 Excitement was in the air as hundreds filed into theatres at the Sundance Film Festival for special screenings of films directed and produced by Native Americans from the Four Corners region.
02/25/11 Hot off its success at the Sundance Film Festival and the Grammys, Hudson Valley, New York's Cape Cod Leather was invited to be part of Mik Cire's Mercedes Benz Fashion Week presentation, held at New York's Lincoln Center on February 12th, 2011.
02/23/11 Like Crazy, Drake Doremus' third film, was picked up by a division of Paramount Pictures at January's Sundance Film Festival for theatrical release this fall. Douchebag, Doremus' second fi...
02/16/11 Tamara Krinsky is reporting on the science-oriented films and conversations from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. This is her second report for Scientific American . Winning a jury prize at Sundance can change a filmmaker's life, bringing them recognition and new career opportunities. But winning the Alfred P. Sloan prize brings a filmmaker a li'l something else: $20,000 in ...
02/14/11 Sony Pictures Classics has acquired Vera Farmiga's directorial debut "Higher Ground," it was announced today. Well received in its debut at last month's Sundance Film Festival (where it screened in U.S. competition), the film stars Farmiga, John Hawkes, Donna Murphy and Joshua Leonard. SPC took rights in North America, Australia and New Zealand Full press release below. NEW YORK, NY (February 14 ...
02/11/11 Jamaican-born writer-director Tanya Hamilton caused quite a sensation last year at the Sundance Film Festival with her feature debut Night Catches Us, an intense political-and-romantic drama set in Philadelphia.
02/11/11 Cast member Jeremy Piven arrives for the premiere of the film "I Melt With You" during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
02/08/11 For purely entertainment reasons, I signed up to go to the Sundance Film Festival over Winter Term. I saw the festival as an exclusive gathering of untouchables nestled between mountains.
02/06/11 What was in this year at the Sundance Film Festival: black teenage lesbians from Brooklyn, reluctant cult members, death. What wasn't in: movie stars.
02/06/11 A film about redemption has proved redemptive for its director, David O. Russell. A rising star at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival, where his "Spanking the Monkey" took the Audience Award, Russell went on to make the... | 
