Do you know who made the absolute most out of her Hollywood breakout opportunity? Storm Reid. Not only is she exceptional in Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time, but ever since, she’s been scooping up a wide variety…
Read moreMeet Brianna Jackson, a 16-year-old gifted rapper who attempts to take the battle scene by storm to lift up her family and the legacy of her father — a local hip hop legend whose career was cut short by gang…
Read moreMilisuthando, courtesy of Sundance Institute. The self-described South African “writer, editor, cultural worker and artist”—and now debut feature filmmaker—Milisuthando Bongela grew up under apartheid. Yet she also didn’t, at least not within the straightforward narrative of having witnessed a racist…
Read moreImagine surviving an emergency plane landing (after being struck by lightning), only to get taken hostage on a war-torn island. Well, you don't have to use your imagination here as Director Jean-François Richet (The Emperor of Paris, Blood Father) alongside…
Read moreIs There Anybody Out There?, courtesy of Sundance Institute. While many non-white, non-straight folks have long lamented underrepresentation in cinema, Ella Glendining has literally never seen anyone that looks like her on-screen—or off-screen, for that matter. (Yes, other similarly bodied…
Read moreSmoke Sauna Sisterhood, courtesy of Sundance Institute Debuting January 22 in the World Cinema Documentary Competition, Smoke Sauna Sisterhood is an intimate look at a tradition that UNESCO has added to its “Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of…
Read moreThe new supernatural thriller There's Something Wrong with the Children follows Ellie (Amanda Crew, Silicon Valley) and Thomas (Carlos Santos, Gentefied), and their two children Lucy (Briella Guiza), and Spencer (Briella Guiza) (David Mattle) as they spend the weekend at…
Read moreBad Press, courtesy of Sundance Institute. While freedom of the press has certainly been a newsworthy topic these past few years, those of us in the US can at least take comfort in (i.e., take for granted) the fact that…
Read moreOne of the most haunting performances of 2022 came about in a very peculiar way. Guslagie Malanga had only starred in one film from 2014, and went on to earn an Art History degree and become an art curator in…
Read moreL'Immensità, courtesy of Sundance Institute. After premiering at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, Italian director Emanuele Crialese’s latest feature L’Immensità makes its way Sundance in the festival’s “Spotlight” section. Co-written by Crialese alongside Francesca Manieri and Vittorio Moroni, the film…
Read moreDan Hernandez and Benji Samit are showing off their creative superpowers this week. The ambitious showrunners of Koala Man, their new animated comedy series from creator Michael Cusack (YOLO: Crystal Fantasy), just dropped on Hulu. Quirky and free-spirited, the show…
Read moreSometimes I Think About Dying, courtesy of Sundance Institute. Daisy Ridley stars in Sometimes I Think About Dying, directed by Rachel Lambert and co-written by Kevin Armento, Stefanie Abel Horowitz and Katy Wright-Mead. Ridley plays Fran, an office worker who,…
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