Former public defender Larry Krasner was elected district attorney of Philadelphia in 2017 with a mandate to shake things up. Big time.
"The whole system was broken. We were trying to fix all of it," he told Deadline. "I had been in court four to five days a week for 30 years and what I was watching was a slow motion…
The Zaatari refugee camp in Northern Jordan, home to the largest number of Syrian refugees in the world, sits on a rocky patch of soil, surrounded by barbed wire.
When filmmaker Ali El Arabi traveled there to do some reportage for the UN and the Arab League, he found people poor in opportunities, yet "very rich" in…
Burgeoning filmmaker Carlson Young returns to the Sundance Film Festival with The Blazing World, a fantasy thriller based on her 2018 short film of the same name, which also premiered at Sundance.
Marking her feature directorial debut, Young co-wrote and stars in the film, which is slated to premiere today at 3 PM PT…
In Nikole Beckwith’s Sundance comedy Together Together, the filmmaker tells a refreshing story of Matt (Ed Helms), a 40-year-old single man who hires Anna (Patti Harrison) as a surrogate. The result? A look at a very different kind of platonic love between two people that is seldom put on film. Beckwith, Helms and…
With her first feature, Mayday, writer/director Karen Cinorre infused an assortment of personal obsessions into a coming-of-age story like none other.
Starring Grace Van Patten, Soko, Havana Rose Liu and Juliette Lewis, the fantastical drama centers on Ana (Van Patten), a young woman experiencing only pain and…
One of the most talked-about titles at this year’s Sundance Film Festival is Rebecca Hall’s feature directorial debut, Passing, an adaptation of Nella Larsen's 1920s Harlem Renaissance novel.
Making its world premiere today in the Dramatic Competition section, Passing tells the story of two Black women, Irene Redfield…
In 2015, Erin Vassilopoulos brought the short film Superior to Sundance. The short put the spotlight on the relationship of teen twins Marian and Vivian played by real-life twins Alessandra and Ani Mesa. Six years later, the twins have returned to the fest via Vassilopoulos’s directorial feature debut — also titled Sup…
Mass, the screenwriting and directing debut from Fran Kranz, captures an emotionally charged meeting between two couples, parents of both the victim and the perpetrator of a tragic shooting that took place years ago.
During his time at Deadline’s virtual Sundance studio, Kranz shared how the Parkland school shooting…
It's December 31, 1999. At a Polish television station, a jaded TV presenter hosts a show counting down to the new millennium. In the midst of the live broadcast, 20-year-old Sebastian suddenly enters the studio. He's armed with a gun and possibly explosives—his goal to hijack the airwaves.
That's the setup for the…
Premiering today at the Sundance Film Festival, Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.’s debut feature, Wild Indian, follows two Anishinaabe men whose lives take two very different paths after covering up the savage murder of a schoolmate.
“I was in my mid-twenties and I went back to my reservation and I was feeling pretty…
In the mid-1960s, TV producer Joan Ganz Cooney and psychologist Lloyd Morrisett joined forces to develop a new kind of children's show, one that would try to educate young kids instead of pushing products at them, as commercial television did.
The result of their efforts became Sesame Street, one of the…
“We started conceiving of the film pretty early on in quarantine. We were facing such an unprecedented, as we all were, and being confronted with so many feelings that were so loud,” said star Zoe Lister-Jones, on how the Covid-19 pandemic inspired her latest film, the existential apocalyptic comedy, How It Ends…
