Josephine is the sensation of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Writer-director Beth de Araújo’s sophomore feature won both the U.S. Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition—a rare double that places the film in the company […]

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The 2026 Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday, January 22 and runs through Sunday, February 1 for, sadly the last time, in and around Park City, Utah. Last year’s passing of Sundance progenitor Robert Redford kind of added a real […]

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The nominations for the 2022 Gotham Awards have been revealed. The nominations in 12 categories recognize independent/arthouse films and breakout TV from this year. The ceremony will be held at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan on Monday, November 28. Angelica […]

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One film that made a wave of terror at this year’s SXSW was writer-director Beth de Araújo’s Soft & Quiet. In her feature debut, which plays out in real-time, it follows a group of white supremacist women who set off […]

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(The 2022 SXSW Film Festival ran March 11-20 in glorious Austin, Texas. Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Soft & Quiet. Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Director Beth de Araújo’s Soft & Quiet certainly begins as the title […]

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