#SUNDANCE: 2022 AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Winners at this year's Sundance Film Festival have been announced and NANNY wins top honours taking the U.S. Grand Jury Prize. The U.S. Grand Jury Prize for Documentary went to THE EXILES.
Audience Awards went to last-minute Festival addition NAVALNY, which centers on Russia's jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny for U.S. Documentary. It also won the Festival Favourite Award.
Cooper Raiff's CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH took the U.S. Dramatic Award. The latter starring Raiff and Dakota ...
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#SUNDANCE: “SHARP STICK”
By David Baldwin
Sarah Jo (Kristine Froseth) is a naïve 26-year-old caregiver with shockingly little knowledge about sex, likely due to a trauma she suffered nearly ten years prior. She begins a sexual relationship with the father of one of her clients, which ends even quicker than it began, but wants to continue learning more about her sexuality and desires. So Sarah Jo makes an alphabetical list of positions and scenarios she wants to experience – and she is dedicated to checking them ...
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#SUNDANCE: “EMILY THE CRIMINAL”
By David Baldwin
Emily (Aubrey Plaza) has a checkered past and her debts are mounting up. With prior arrests and charges on her record, well-paying jobs are hard to come by. When a friend at her catering job gives her a number to help with money, Emily lands herself in the middle of a credit card scam that proves to be just as lucrative as it is dangerous.
EMILY THE CRIMINAL is one of the most intense and thrilling movies of this year’s Festival. Full stop. First-time feature ...
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#SUNDANCE: “BLOOD”
By Amanda Gilmore
Young widow Chloe (Carla Juri) travels to Japan for work where she’s welcomed by an old friend, Toshi (Takashi Ueno). Chloe wanders this unfamiliar landscape and creates bonds with people along the way.
Writer/Director Bradley Rust Gray’s latest Feature is a meditation on grief and learning how to feel again. His Script follows Chloe as she builds relationships with people in Japan, even though there are language barriers involved ...
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#SUNDANCE: “PIGGY”
By Amanda Gilmore
Writer/Director Carlota Pereda’s daring Feature debut is a twisted revenge against bullies tale.
In a small Spanish town, teenager Sara (Laura Galán) spends her summer days working at her parents’ butcher shop. The days are anything but fun, as the teenagers in the town incessantly bully her. Going so far as calling her family the "Three Little Pigs”. When a serial killer arrives in their town and takes a liking to Sara, she has a choice to make: ...
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#SUNDANCE: “GOD’S COUNTRY”
By Amanda Gilmore
Julian Higgins’ Feature debut follows Sandra (Thandiwe Newton) in the direct aftermath of her mother’s passing. Over the course of seven days, the increasing environment of racism and misogyny brings Sandra to a boiling point.
God’s Country is a slow-burn pressure-cooker of a film that will have you on the edge of your seat. Higgins creates tension in every frame as we follow Sandra’s grieving process and determination to be taken ...
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#SUNDANCE: “SUMMERING”
By Amanda Gilmore
James Ponsoldt’s latest Feature follows four best friends, Daisy (Lia Barnett), Mari (Eden Grace Red Field), Dina (Madalen Mills) and Lola (Sanai Victoria) on the last weekend of summer before entering middle school. When they arrive at their secret spot in the woods to lay trinkets from their summer together, they find a dead body. They spend the next day finding out who he was and what happened to him.There’s a lot to love ...
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#SUNDANCE: “WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT COSBY”
By Justin Waldman
We Need to talk about Cosby explores how "America’s Dad" went on to be exposed as a monster, a sexual predator for over 40 years. It is hard to separate art from the people who create it, and the Documentary touches on that, but it is a little too soft at times for the exploration of what Bill Cosby has done, and not what he’s done. It will be premiering episodically over four weeks, which may dilute its potency, however it packs the punch that it needs to bring to the ...
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#SUNDANCE: “HATCHING”
By Justin Waldman
For someone’s Feature debut to be so absolutely beautifully twisted and messed up is such a delight and that is exactly what Hanna Bergholm manages with Hatching. It is a rare occurrence to see something that embraces the work of David Cronenberg and Yorgos Lanthimos so perfectly, but that is what gets delivered by Screenwriter Iija Ratusi. Hatching is a haunting, terrifying, creature family movie.
The Mother, Sophia Heikkila, has a blog about the perfect family love ...
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#SUNDANCE: “DUAL”
By Amanda Gilmore
After learning she has a terminal illness, Sarah (Karen Gillan) decides to participate in a futuristic cloning procedure to help ease her partner and family’s impending loss. Ten months later, she learns that she’s in remission and decides to decommission her clone. However, Sarah’s Double files a motion to live and they are set for a duel to the death.Writer/Director Riley Stearns’ third Feature is a dark Sci-Fi Comedy with a pair of powerful performances ...
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