Sundance 2016
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Nate Parker on Sundance Hit 'The Birth of a Nation': 'It's a Massive Blow to White Supremacy'
Nate Parker was pumped. The writer-director-actor had just finished the Q&A for the final Sundance Film Festival screening of his breakout debut feature The Birth of a Nation, but he wasn’t nearly ready to stop talking about the movie that had taken the festival by storm. Parker wrote, directed and stars in the biopic of Nat Turner, a preacher and slave who, in 1831, led a famed slave rebellion in Virginia.
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Sundance: 'Birth of a Nation' Sweeps Top Prizes
Taika Waititi, director of fest film ‘Hunt for the Wilder People,’ hosted the awards ceremony in Park City Saturday night.
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Our Favorite Movies From Sundance 2016
Sure, there are plenty of high-profile films from award-winning filmmakers at the Sundance Film Festival, but of the great joys of the indie mecca is the opportunity for discovery. Every year, little films from semi-anonymous directors capture the imaginations of audiences and journalists piled into retrofitted theaters in Park City, Utah. With a title aimed squarely at D.W. Griffith’s racist, 1915 celebration of white supremacy, Nation is a raw, visceral depiction of the life of Nat Turner (P
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Sundance Celebrity Kids: Hollywood’s Next Generation Attend Film Festival
No wonder the annual Sundance Film Festival is known for being a place to discover the next big thing. This year, the offspring of actors Johnny Depp and Clint Eastwood, singer Lisa Marie Presley, and others are all making the rounds.
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'Star Wars': Director Colin Trevorrow Says 'Episode IX' Will Be Shot on Film, Not Digital
Colin Trevorrow prefers to watch period pictures that are shot on film instead of on a digital camera, the director behind Jurassic World said during a press conference at the Sundance Film Festival on Thursday. A belief that digital cameras are anachronistic will impact his choices on his next project. When Trevorrow slides behind the camera on Star Wars: Episode IX, he plans to use film stock.
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Sundance Report: Wyatt Cenac on New Indie 'Jacqueline,' #OscarsSoWhite, and Jon Stewart Reunion
After Wyatt Cenac left The Daily Show With Jon Stewart in 2012, viewers likely assumed the fan favorite would start popping up in Hollywood comedies à la fellow alums Rob Riggle and Kristen Schaal, or perhaps even headlining films like Steve Carell and Ed Helms. Written and directed by Bernardo Britto (whose 2014 Sundance-winning short Yearbook is essential viewing), Jacqueline is an inspired mockumentary-style indie starring Cenac as an unnamed “director” contacted by the titular low-level Fre
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'Eddie the Eagle' Surprises at Sundance, Where Hugh Jackman Endorses Taron Egerton for Han Solo Role
Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards is not a household name in the U.S. — and frankly, said Hugh Jackman, that’s the reason why a biopic about the British Olympian was kicking around Hollywood for 15 years before it got made. Jackman and friends are hoping that changes with the inspirational new sports drama Eddie the Eagle, which premiered to cheers last night as the surprise, unofficial screening at the Sundance Film Festival. The film stars Kingsman breakout Taron Egerton as Edwards, who, despite his
