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Goldcrest Post Helps Send Six Films to Sundance
Continuing its long-time support for independent film, Goldcrest Post provided post-production sound and/or picture services for ten films screening in this year’s Sundance Film...
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Sundance Filmmakers Turn to Panavision for Production and Post Services
As entertainment industry luminaries prepare to swarm Park City for the Sundance Film Festival, Panavision and Light Iron (Panavision’s post production subsidiary) are proud...
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Deluxe’s EFILM and Coca-Cola Regal Films Support Independent and Emerging Filmmakers at Sundance 2019
Los Angeles, CA – January 16, 2019 – EFILM, a division of Deluxe Entertainment Services, Inc, will be returning to the Sundance Film Festival...
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We Are Stardust: VR Experience ‘SPHERES: Songs of Spacetime’
"We are the pioneers of the language of virtual reality, and we are the ones creating these experiences, telling these stories, and defining people's...
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Amazon Comedy ‘I Love Dick’ Is a Story About What Happens When Women Reclaim Their Voices
"So many of these feelings are about women wanting so badly to be heard," says creator Jill Soloway.
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VR Filmmakers Talk Going Beyond Cinematic Rules
In an episode of the No Film School podcast, four VR filmmakers, who each had work accepted into Sundance this year, explain where VR...
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‘Tree’ Bursts Into Life at Sundance, Powered by Quadro Pascal
The Tree VR installation that debuted at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier program transforms participants into trees. The haptically enhanced virtual reality...
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Macon Blair on the Unexpected in ‘I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore’
Actor Macon Blair makes his directorial debut with I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore , which premiered at Sundance and is...
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‘Zero Days VR’ Lets Users Embody a Destructive Computer Virus
"One of our biggest goals has been that we wanted to make sure that people understand the kind of high-stakes of cyberwarfare," says director...
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Premiere Pro Makes Editing ‘Ingrid Goes West’ Feel Like Jazz
"Beyond the rough assembly, it's crucial for me to create a workflow where the director and I can explore ideas without having to stop...
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Luca Guadagnino’s Sundance Film ‘Call Me By Your Name’ Was Shot on Only One Lens
In the below video from MovieMaker Magazine, director Luca Guadagnino explains why his Sundance movie Call Me By Your Name was shot with only one lens....
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Two Climate Change Documentaries Show the Subject Might Be Perfectly Suited for VR
"Both of these films utilize the much-discussed ability of VR to place viewers 'right there' and give them an immersive experience of a situation...
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David Lowery Uses Adobe Creative Cloud to Edit His Sundance Film ‘A Ghost Story’
"I love knowing that everything works together ," he says.
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Filmmaker Rahul Jain Goes on a Quest for Reality with Documentary ‘Machines’
Rahul Jain’s documentary Machines–which won the Cinematography award at Sundance–takes place inside a textile factory in India where it took a while for him...
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Manual Underwater Time-Lapse and More Painstaking Techniques Went Into Documentary ‘Chasing Coral’
Jeff Orlowski’s Sundance-winning documentary Chasing Coral explains the cause and effects of coral bleaching, when ocean coral dies once the water temperature raises by a...
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Experience Evolution with Friends in Social VR Piece ‘Life of Us’
Within’s new Life of Us is a unique social VR experience that lets up to four people experience evolution together as they turn into animals...
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Woody Allen and NYC Color Inspire the Look of ‘The Incredible Jessica James’
Sundance comedy The Incredible Jessica James tells the story of a New York City playwright (Jessica Williams) and her romantic mishaps. Cinematographer Sean McElwee speaks...
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‘Landline’ Editor on Riding the Line Between Comedy and Drama
Gillian Robespierre follows up her breakthrough debut feature Obvious Child with the new ensemble dramedy Landline, about a teenager who discovers her father is...
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Rembrandt and John Singer Sargent Inspire Look of Painterly Sundance Film ‘Novitiate’
Director Maggie Betts’ Sundance film Novitiate tells the story of a young woman training to be a nun and grappling with issues of faith...
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‘Mudbound’ DP Rachel Morrison on Creating a Period Look Without Overstylizing
Dee Rees’s Sundance-premiering film Mudbound tells the story of the struggles of two farming families in the post-WWII deep South. Cinematographer Rachel Morrison took inspiration from...
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How ‘A Ghost Story’ Helped Filmmaker David Lowery Deal With His Own Mortality
David Lowery’s film A Ghost Story stars Rooney Mara as a grieving widow and Casey Affleck as her departed husband, now relegated to haunting her house...
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‘Chasing Coral’ Editor on Telling a Non-Political Environmental Story
Chasing Coral editor Davis Coombe speaks to Filmmaker Magazine about editing Jeff Orlowski’s Sundance documentary on scientists trying to capture the phenomenon of coral bleaching. “We...
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Julian Rosefeldt’s ‘Manifesto’ Takes on the “Myth-Making Machine of Cinema”
Julian Rosefeldt’s video art installation turned feature film Manifesto features Cate Blanchett taking on 13 wildly different roles to deliver dozens of real manifestos...
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Eliza Hittman on Her “Coming-to-Consciousness” Story ‘Beach Rats’
Eliza Hittman’s Sundance film Beach Rats is a coming-of-age film about a young man from South Brooklyn exploring his sexuality and opportunities–or lack thereof....
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‘Tell Them We Are Rising’ Editor Kim Miille Strives to Let Archival Photographs Tell Its Powerful Story
Stanley Nelson’s new Sundance documentary Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities uses archival photographs and more to tell the complex...
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A Realistic Environment, Haptics, Sound and Heat Create a Visceral Rainforest VR Experience
Directors Milica Zec and Winslow Porter transport users to experience the life of a rainforest tree with their new VR piece Tree, now showing at...
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Documentary ‘Last Men in Aleppo’ Finds the Human Story Behind the Headline-Making Conflict
Feras Fayyad and Steen Johanessen’s new documentary Last Men in Aleppo, which premiered at Sundance, attempts to show a different, more human side to...
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‘I Love Dick’ DP on the Thrill of Working With Several Directors Over One Project
In the below video from Sundance, IndieWire speaks to cinematographer Jim Frohna about working with several different directors–including Jill Solloway, Andrea Arnold, and Kimberly...
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‘City of Ghosts’ Director Matthew Heineman on Why Directing, Producing and Shooting His Films Makes It Easy to Dive In
"Things just grab me and I become obsessed with them."
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Short Animated Film ‘Dear Angelica’ Ushers in New Era of VR Beauty
"When I say 'Dear Angelica' may be the most beautiful VR I’ve ever seen, that's hardly hyperbole."
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This VR Music Video Lets You Shoot Metallic Kittens from Your Hands
"I'm excited to see Hurd and other pioneering VR music video directors take the interactivity to the next level."
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Sundance AR Experience Lets Two Users Interact with the Same Hologram
Meta's 'The Journey to the Center of the Natural Machine' premieres at Sundance Film Festival's New Frontier initiative.
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Rory Kennedy Makes a Different Kind of Surf Documentary with ‘Take Every Wave’
Rory Kennedy’s new documentary Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton examines the life, sport, and personality of surfing icon Hamilton. The film premieres...
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Documentary ‘Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman:’ Three DPs Have an Intuitive Feel for Landscapes and Portraiture
Susan Froemke and John Hoffman’s documentary Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman–premiering at Sundance–is a cinema verité piece that captures three environmental conservationists with very close ties...
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Sports Illustrated Explores Mt. Everest in VR
Most people will never climb Mt. Everest for real, but a new VR experience from Sports Illustrated can make anyone feel like they’re there....
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Sundance Will Premiere Three Climate Change VR Experiences
The 2017 Sundance Film Festival’s “The New Climate” showcase will feature 14 pieces related to the climate change crisis, with three of them being VR...
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Sundance VR Experience Will Make the Audience Feel Like a Professional Dancer
Dancers and choreographers Lily Baldwin and Saschka Unseld explore the possibilities of experiencing a dance piece in VR with their project Through You, a Sundance Film...
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Julian Rosefeldt’s Art Installation ‘Manifesto’ Will Premiere as Full-Length Movie at Sundance
Julian Rosefeldt’s video installation Manifesto, which stars Cate Blanchett as 13 different characters delivering the manifestos of 20th century artists, will be presented as...
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Julia Hart’s ‘Miss Stevens’ Is a Grown Up Coming-of-Age Story
Screenwriter Julia Hart makes her directorial debut with Miss Stevens, about a young English teacher who finds out she may have as much growing up...
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Watch Single-Take Short Film ‘Thunder Road’
"I knew it was gonna be much more challenging if it was all one shot; the memorization, the dance choreography, the dramatic and comedy...
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‘O.J.: Made in America’ Is a Full Portrait of History, Race and a Storied Athlete
Soon after FX’s acclaimed Ryan Murphy-produced American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, comes a 5-part documentary series from ESPN’s 30 for 30 which...
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Museum of Modern Art to Feature VR Experience
New York’s Museum of Modern Art is featuring a VR experience as part of its Slithering Screens exhibit running through April 29th. The exhibit celebrates...