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As this year’s Sundance Film Festival concludes, a hit from last year’s festival is finally getting its release in less than a month. Jamie Dack’s feature-length debut Palm Trees and Power Lines won the U.S. Dramatic Directing Award at the […]

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On top of working as an actor for nearly two decades, Jesse Eisenberg has also branched out as a playwright and a short story writer. His opportunity to make his own film came as soon as he came up with […]

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“We have heard the story told by the hunter, and not by the lion, and not by the lions who not only fought back but got away,” Angelica Ross says in the trailer for Chase Joynt’s experimental documentary, Framing Agnes. […]

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Indie Film Site Network (IFSN) has announced Shaunak Sen’s remarkable, essential documentary All That Breathes as the inaugural recipient of the IFSN Advocate Award. The recipient of the award, established to highlight one theatrically released indie film each year that […]

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Innovative filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead have crafted some of the best sci-fi indies of the 21st Century, such as Spring and The Endless. They have also recently been in the good graces of the Marvel Cinematic Universe […]

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One of the most talked-about horror movies that came out of Sundance this year was writer-director Carlota Pereda’s Piggy. A feature-length version of her award-winning short film, it centers on an overweight teenage girl, played by Laura Galán, who is […]

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Shaunak Sen’s documentary All That Breathes is beginning to make waves this awards season. With breathtaking cinematography, it immerses us into the lives of two brothers in Delhi, India who devote their lives to caring for a rare bird species […]

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Are y’all ready to rock? Oscilloscope Laboratories has just released the trailer for Rita Baghdadi’s electrifying rock documentary, Sirens. The Sundance-selected doc tells the story of Lebanon’s first all-female heavy metal band, Slave of Sirens. Executive produced by Natasha Lyonne […]

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Winner of the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance, Nikyatu Jusu’s directorial debut Nanny puts a nightmarish spin on the American dream. In a breakout leading performance, Anna Diop (Titans) stars as a Senegalese immigrant who finds […]

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