Once Upon a Time in Harlem is the best film I saw at Sundance this year. It is also, in a sense, a miracle. In 1972, the legendary documentary filmmaker William Greaves—director of the avant-garde masterpiece Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968), […]

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Imagine this peculiar back-and-forth as mere embellishment. There is a far superior interview—in Interview, no less—with the great Charles Burnett and Barry Jenkins “You’re Either a Storyteller or a Liar” Go read that. Then, if interest persists, you can return […]

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When first-time filmmaker A.V. Rockwell’s drama A Thousand and One won the Sundance U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize last month, juror Jeremy O. Harris called it “a stirringly emotional and real film… [It] will be remembered. It hits not only […]

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“I am going to war, and there will be casualties.” Afro-Latina filmmaker Rebeca “Beba” Huntt puts her life front and center in her very personal documentary, Beba. Neon picked up the film after its premiere at the Toronto International Film […]

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Founded in 1980 by Robert Redford to promote the art and craft of filmmaking, the U.S. Film Festival, rebranded as the Sundance Film Festival in 1985, has long been a beacon for American independent cinema. Ever since then, the annual […]

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