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Premiering in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section at the Sundance Film Festival, Riley Sterns’ Dual asks some real existential questions about creating life, destroying it, and how far would you go to preserve who you are. Along with Stern, Dual’s Karen Gillan (Gunpowder Milkshake), Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) and…

Master director Mariama Diallo and stars Regina Hall and Zoe Renee joined Deadline’s Sundance Studio to discuss the film, which premiered this week in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section. This is Diallo's debut feature about three women strive to find their place at a prestigious New England university whose frosty…

“I really liked the idea of people in their 30s still figuring things out and still becoming whoever they're becoming,” Dakota Johnson said of her latest film Am I OK? screening at Sundance. “I think we often see those in high school, [in the] early 20s. But I'm like, ‘How could anybody know who they are then at all…

“I was really intrigued by a story that was actually very simple,” says director Chloe Okuno at Deadline’s Virtual Studio at Sundance. “Watcher is almost minimalist in its approach to narrative.” Okuno was joined by the stars of the film Maika Monroe and Karl Glusman to discuss their film, Watcher. Watcher follows…

Fresh director Mimi Cave joined stars of the film Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sebastian Stan, Jojo T. Gibbs, and Dayo Okeniyi at Deadline’s virtual studio at Sundance to discuss their new film. “[Fresh] is really kind of a classic boy meets girl thriller, with a twist and it comments on the perils of contemporary dating,” says…

“The film is on illegal abortion, but it’s also mainly the story of a very young girl in the 60s in France trying to be free,” says Happening Director Audrey Diwan at Deadline’s Virtual Studio at Sundance. “The main purpose of the movie was not watching at her but trying to be her through that process.” Diwan was…

"I really wanted to know what happened, who was responsible, and ultimately to make a film where we could learn some lessons from that to ensure that this kid of tragedy doesn't happen again," director Rory Kennedy says of the motivation behind Downfall: The Case Against Boeing. Debuting at the virtual Sundance Film…

Back in 2020, writer-director Gabriela Ortega found herself meditating on the ways in which people have reframed their “relationship to grief and to loss” amid the Covid-19 pandemic, channeling this exploration into the script for the short film, Huella. While Ortega shelved a project for a while, feeling that it was…

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…