Norman Lear’s life, work shines in opening Sundance film

It’s one of the weirdest dramas ever to screen at Sundance or any other festival, and Cooper said comparisons to the 1980s comedy Weekend at Bernie’s aren’t valid.

At the annual opening-day press conference in Park City’s tiny but elegant Egyptian Theatre, the actor/director turned indie film mentor avoided getting drawn into the increasingly noisy debate, signified by the Twitter hashtag #OscarsSoWhite, about the lack of diversity in Hollywood movies and the Academy Awards.

January doesn’t tend to be a great month for movies if you’re surveying the options at your local multiplex, but it’s one of the best times of the year for film lovers lucky enough to attend the Sundance Film Festival.

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“We strongly believe why the (original) film was so successful the first time around was because we’re talking about things that are true to (children)”, said Marie Claude Beauchamp, the film’s producer.

OK, so I just landed in Utah, and I’m all prepared for a change from the L.A. scenery.

Schlotman said her itinerary will be “jam-packed” with group and one-on-one meetings.

Scary movies have always been associated with the Sundance: The Blair Witch Project, Saw, The Babadook and The Witch all earned their first shrieks in Park City, a silver mining town turned ski Mecca nestled in the mountains of the Wasatch Range.

“Cincinnati played NY in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s (in the movie), so there’s a lot to talk about there”, she said. This year, he said it’s hot-button political topics like guns and abortion that are present. That’s where de Cavel comes in. And it’s another way to highlight Cincinnati.

Two separate films about the 1974 on-air suicide of a news reporter in Florida will also be featured, as will a quirky documentary entitled “Nuts”, about a small-town doctor in Depression-era Kansas who made a fortune claiming he could cure impotent men by transplanting goat testicles into them.

“Sundance has become a highly competitive festival because it’s such a popular festival”, she said.

Does Redford’s belief in the relationship between the festival’s independence and its diversity hold up? We had an entirely Japanese crew in Japan and they guided us. These films were selected from 12,793 submissions, including 4,081 feature-length films and 8,712 short films.

Changing viewership habits and distribution models that favor on-demand services, like Netflix, have hurt the industry’s bottom line, Redford said. McDonald said “Safety Not Guaranteed” was a gem of a film. “YouTube Creators Intensive and New Voices Lab will discover and nurture a new class of visionary independent artists creating episodic content”, noted Michelle Satter, Founding Director of Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program.

While the Sundance Kids program is still relatively new, the Utah Student Screening series is now entering its 16th year of offering Utah students the chance to participate in the Sundance Film Festival. He finds a glimmer of hope in the mysterious and über-cool Raphina, and with the aim of winning her heart, he invites her to star in his band’s music videos.

“When we were filming the movie, we knew we had something special”.