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A Conversation with Eleanore Pienta, Syra McCarthy, Dana Millican & Josh Peters (JOSEPHINE)

Jack Schenker — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:58:28 +0000

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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Jim Brunzell’s 2018 Sundance Film Festival Preview

A.D. Calvo — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:08:45 +0000

The projectors are warming up, the curtains are about to be raised and the first images will soon be hitting the screen on the 2018 Sundance Film Festival (hosted by the Sundance Institute), starting Thursday, January 18 and running through […]

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SUNDANCE ’14: MIKE S. RYAN’S WRAP-UP

Mike S. Ryan — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:02:48 +0000

I think Eric Kohn got it right in his Indiewire wrap-up: the Sundance Film Festival is so vast that it would be wrong to call this year’s program mediocre just because there wasn’t one breakout hit like Beasts or Fruitvale. […]

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FRUITVALE STATION

Michael Tully — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 19:03:52 +0000

On paper, Fruitvale Station is a movie of the week. On screen, it’s heartbreakingly real life.

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