January 27, 2015
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Sundance 2015: The Horizon Award Reception for 20-year-old Verónica Ortiz-Calderón

...I had to change who I was, but being here tonight proves that under represented stories have a place.” Horizon Winner Veronica Ortiz-Calderón from Horizon Award on Vimeo. The Horizon Award was...

March 20, 2015
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The Second Annual White House Film Festival LIVE Today at 1

...of giving back. During the festival, the President will announce a new "Call to Arts" initiative, enlisting professionals to help young artists around the country. How has the past year's events, on...

October 27, 2015
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Third Annual Middleburg Film Festival Draws Deep Roster of Talent

...hardly be improved upon in late October, but as much as a draw as the setting is, the festival itself, created by BET co-founder and Sundance Institute member Sheila Johnson and ably directed...

February 11, 2016
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Warner Bros. Names Ryan Coogler First Creative Talent Ambassador

...and commercial smash, and many believe both Fruitvale Station and Creed should have been nominated for Oscars. Creed did manage to get Sylvester Stallone an Oscar nom for Best Supporting Actor. Now news has broke that Coogler has been...

April 27, 2017
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Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story Doc Writer/Director on Unsung Film Heroes

...three sons but volunteered at the research library located at Samuel Goldwyn Studios. Under the tutelage of librarian Lelia Alexander, Lillian eventually bought the library and became known as “the dean of...

January 2, 2018
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Han Solo Will Get a New Theme from John Williams in Solo

...is no slacker himself with the Bourne Identity trilogy and DreamWorks films including How to Train Your Dragon and Shrek under his belt. Interestingly, the honor of scoring a Star Wars film...

January 18, 2018
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Sundance 2018: Burden Cinematographer on Lensing a Timely Look at Racism in America

...they come away with a feeling of hope…which seems especially important in these times. Featured image: Garrett Hedlund appears in ‘Burden’ by Andrew Heckler, an official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition...

January 22, 2018
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Sundance 2018: Reinaldo Marcus Green’s Monsters and Men is an Astonishment

...of Manhattan—this is the New York so many millions of people inhabit, one lived partly underground in the subway, and then miles away from Wall Street or Fifth Avenue, in the outer...

June 8, 2018
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Al Pacino Collaborates with Quentin Tarantino For the First Time in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

...panic in Hollywood in 1969. Panic about cults and random murders spread throughout the Los Angeles valley, gripping the community. It was a unique and terrifying time that could make a fascinating...

June 14, 2018
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Ocean's 8 Production Designer on the Art of the Con Artist

...privilege to enjoy that space all to ourselves.” DiGerlando’s elegant recreation of a Met Gala fund-raising dinner for the Costume Institute was filmed in the museum’s actual Temple of Dendur, but the...