“When everybody was saying ‘No’ this story does not have an audience, you, Sundance and the people who have seen this film have proven that there is an audience for this film, and I thank you!” beamed Clemency director Chinonye Chukwu after accepting the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize for her death penalty drama Clemen…

From Dear White People and Sorry to Bother You star Tessa Thompson, Oscar winning director Damien Chazelle, Palme d'Or winner and Top of the Lake director Jane Campion, there are a lot of Sundance alums named today as jurors for the 112-film festival kicking off next week.

As well as who will decided the victors in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Egg, the satire on motherhood helmed by Marianna Palka the premiered this year at the Tribeca Film Festival. Christina Hendricks, Alysia Reiner and Anna Camp star in the comedy, which will now hit theaters January 18 day-and-date with a digital…

Receiving Risa Mickenberg’s script for Egg—premiering this week in Tribeca—director Marianna Palka had an instant, strong reaction to the material, recognizing something that had the potential to be really special.

“David [Alan Basche] and Alysia [Reiner] sent me the script, and I was, I think, 19 pages into the script…

Orange Is the New Black‘s Alysia Reiner, Christina Hendricks, and Anna Camp have signed on to topline motherhood dark comedy Egg, directed by Marianna Palka from indie production company Over. Easy. LLC. Also starring David Alan Basche and Gbenga Akinnagbe, the pic centers on conceptual artist Tina (Reiner), when she…

MPI Media Group has acquired multi-territory rights to writer-director Marianna Palka’s Bitch, the dark dramedy that premiered this year in the Midnight section at the Sundance Film Festival. MPI will now handle international territory sales in Cannes and release the pic domestically later this year under its Dark Sky…

From writer/director Marianna Palka and Company X—the production banner of Elijah Wood, alongside Josh Waller, Daniel Noah, and Lisa Whalen—Bitch is a film shaking up Sundance’s Midnight audiences like none other. Marking Palka’s return to the festival following 2008’s Good Dick—featuring an earlier collaboration with…