Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are an American filmmaking duo whose partnership spans over two decades. Boden, originally from Newton, Massachusetts, developed a love of movies, English literature, and photography at a young age. She discovered filmmaking as a medium […]

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(The 2025 Sundance Film Festival runs January 23- February 2 in and around gorgeous Park City, UT. HtN has you covered for all the hottest titles like M.J. O’Toole’s OBEX movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) “One […]

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“When I enter a museum, I’m not looking for what’s on the walls, I’m looking at what’s behind them,” says a participant in Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild]. “I wonder if people know that they’ve paid $20 to enter a museum that’s holding […]

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Myrsini Aristidou is a Cypriot filmmaker born and raised in Limassol. She holds a BFA in Film and Art History from Pratt Institute and an MFA in Film Directing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and in 2016 founded […]

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After a huge festival run last year that included Sundance, SXSW, and TIFF, cult Canadian actress and filmmaker Grace Glowicki’s Frankensteinian comedy Dead Lover is set to arrive in theaters stateside this spring. Glowicki, known for her roles in Strawberry […]

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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. Check out Chris Reed’s Shame and Money movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join […]

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Robert Redford changed my life. It was all the way back in 1997 and my friend’s sister heard I was really getting into independent film and was particularly interested in the Sundance Film Festival. Hell, who wasn’t back in 1997? […]

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The first hot film festival of 2026 is almost here! Ahead of its move to Boulder, Colorado in 2027, Sundance Film Festival will be returning to Park City, Utah, one final time from January 22–February 1, 2026. The online portion […]

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(The 2025 Sundance Film Festival runs January 23- February 2 in and around gorgeous Park City, UT. HtN has you covered for all the hottest titles like Don Lewis’s Zodiac Killer Project movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) […]

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Alia Shawkat is an aspiring actress honing her craft in a very unlikely setting: Atropia! Model, journalist, and actress Hailey Benton Gates wrote and directed the dark comedy that took home the Sundance U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at this […]

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