The Sundance Film Festival has unveiled the Jury and Audience award winners for its 2024 edition. The U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury prize went to first-time director Alessandra Lacorazza’s In the Summers, about two sisters who navigate their loving but volatile […]

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NEW YORK, NY (November 16, 2023) – Indie Film Site Network (IFSN) has announced D. Smith’s vibrant directorial debut Kokomo City as the recipient of the 2023 IFSN Advocate Award. The recipient of the award, established to highlight one indie film […]

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One of the most exciting, daring new voices to come out of Sundance this year is director D. Smith. Her feature directorial debut, Kokomo City, is a black-and-white-shot documentary that dives into the lives of four black trans sex workers […]

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The Sundance Film Festival has unveiled the Jury and Audience award winners for 2023. First-time filmmaker A.V. Rockwell’s drama A Thousand and One was announced as the U.S. Dramatic Competition Grandy Jury Prize Winner. The U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize […]

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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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What's especially marvelous is how the separate elements come together to be more than the sum of each part, working in subtle harmony with actors and director to tell the story.

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