“What Drives You?” It was the question we posed to each of the actors and filmmakers that passed through our Sundance Studio at this year’s festival, which ended over the weekend. And we got a variety of answers, from the simple to the complex, from the serious to the silly.
Tony Gilroy, who premiered the excellent…
Rudy Valdez was not a filmmaker when he started the long, emotional journey of making the documentary film The Sentence, which detailed the aftermath of his sister Cindy Shank’s 15-year sentence in federal prison for conspiracy charges related to crimes committed by her deceased ex-boyfriend—something known, in legal…
“Basically it deals with an outside group, “the other,” that moves into a new town and is viewed through the prism of the other and it’s a spiritual religious group that this town isn’t familiar with” said Wild Wild Country filmmaker Chapman Way, setting up the premise of the documentary.
Directed by brothers Chapman…
“Elvis like America was young once and beautifully flawed like anybody but Elvis had his majesty when he landed on the world stage just as America had her majesty,” said director Eugene Jarecki during his turn at Deadline’s Sundance Studio to speak on his documentary film, The King.
“This is a movie very much about…
Crystal Moselle’s narrative feature debut, Skate Kitchen, utilized the real-life group of New York City female skateboarders, who were the subjects of her 2016 short, That One Day.
“It was either I’m going to make a documentary feature or collaborate with them to make a narrative feature,” said Moselle on her stop at…
When The Happy Prince helmer Rupert Everett decided the angle on his directorial debut Oscar Wilde film, the actor, who has portrayed the famed poet and playwright on various occasions, thought “it would be amazing to do another film about Oscar Wilde but attacking the end up his life” as oppose to the other three…
“I was immediately drawn to the story and the way that it asked this very large question about could one moment in your life define your whole life,” said director Anthony Mandler during his turn at Deadline’s Sundance Studio to speak on his directorial debut feature, Monster.
Based on the young adult novel by Walter…
Known for starring roles on Criminal Minds and beloved animated series Archer (where she voices Lana Kane), Aisha Tyler seized the opportunity recently to make her feature directorial debut with Axis.
Starring writer Emmett Hughes, as well as Tyler, Paget Brewster and Oscar nominee Sam Rockwell—all of whom lent their…
“No publication was more consequential to changing culture in the world as much as National Lampoon,” said director David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer, They Came Together) of the subject of his latest film, A Futile and Stupid Gesture. “Until the advent of Deadline.”
And with that flattering and obviously 100%…
Happening upon Vivian Bang’s “Can You Hear Me / LA 92” performance art piece at downtown Los Angeles’ REDCAT Theater, writer/director Daryl Wein sensed the presence of a kindred spirit.
“I was just blown away by her performance and everything that she was talking about. The piece was dissecting the LA riots from the…
“I think it’s a piece of social history that is often mistaken for a story about nightclubs and disco” says director Matt Tyrnauer of the subject of his new documentary, Studio 54, which played Sundance this week. “there’s actually a whole other story—maybe many other stories. Starting to excavate through all of the…
One of the most celebrated female directors of recent years—recognized as part of Time Warner’s OneFifty and Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film—who brought her first two narrative features to the Berlinale Forum, Josephine Decker’s latest, Madeline’s Madeline, premiered at Sundance on…
