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Sundance Film Festival 2021 to offer unique virtual reality projects, more Black representation The Sundance Film Festival 2021 will take place from 28 January to 3 February. FP Staff January 28, 2021 12:56:19 IST This years Sundance Film Festival will take place largely online. The organisers are urging Hollywood to stay home and watch virtual premieres and Q&As on their laptops. Industry netwo...

Three years ago, filmmakers Julie Cohen and Betsy West got a dream Sundance debut. They premiered their film "RBG" to a sold-out crowd with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg not only

The Sie Film Center on East Colfax Avenue, Sept. 3, 2018. Something is happening this year in Colorado that has never happened before: The Sundance Film Festival is coming to show movies during its festival heyday. Since its inception in 1978, the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, has blossomed from a modest event in a ski resort town to a snowy bonanza of movies, stars and parties. It’s an event so big, the local grocery store can barely keep up with the rush on tea supplies and sna...

Seeking the next big thing at Sundance 27 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 6 minutes to read Passing, the directorial debut by Rebecca Hall which stars Ruth Negga, left, and Tessa Thompson, will premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Photo / AP NZ Herald Three years ago, filmmakers Julie Cohen and Betsy West got a dream Sundance debut. They premiered their film RBG to a sold-out crowd with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg not only in attendance but seeing it for the first time. There was a standing ovation,...

Produced by Oakland director Ryan Coogler, Judas and the Black Messiah is the story of an FBI informant tasked with keeping tabs on the charismatic Black Panther leader Chairman Fred Hampton. The movie makes its virtual world premiere at Sundance Film Festival on February 1st. (Courtesy of Sundance Institute) Local talent shines in the virtual 2021 Sundance Film Festival By Jan 25, 2021 Theres no doubt that our arts world has become smaller in the last year, but online an...

With the adrenalin pump of a top-of-the line sports special latched onto the poignant story of a loving family in trouble and trauma, "The Crash Reel" is also the tale of a modern day Icarus.

Tweet How It Ends “It’s a very weird year to try and write a preview for a film section,” Belcourt programming director Toby Leonard tells the Scene, empathetically. He goes on to describe conversations he’s had with friends and colleagues in the world of independent film distribution lately. “Every conversation at some point is like, ‘Look, anything can still change at any given time, with a couple of weeks’ notice, frankly.’ ” Leonardâ€�...

Canada pulls documentary from Sundance 2021 over director’s claims to indigenous roots Filmmaker apologizes for claiming family came from the Quebec Algonquin community. (Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute) An image from director Michelle Latimers documentary "Inconvenient Indian," which was selected for the 2021 Sundance Film Festivals World Cinema Documentary competition — but was pulled by the National Film Board of Canada after questions about Latimers claim to indigenous roots....

We hope you all enjoy time with family this Christmas. A big thank you to all 4-H members, 4-H Leaders, parents, grandparents, and all our volunteers who do so much to help with the Codington County 4-H program. We look forward to a new year in 2021. Watertown Winter Farm Show, NE 4-H Calf Show The 2021 Watertown Winter Farm Show to be held February 10-13, 2021 at the Codington County Extension Complex with changes due to COVID. The Northeast 4-H Calf Show is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 13, 20...

Top 10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the 19 th Century Suffragette and Mountaineer Annie hung a “Votes for Women” banner on Mount Coropuna in Peru at the age of 61 years old. It had taken her five attempts over four years and she was the first person to do it. She later referred to the experience as a ‘horrible nightmare’. She never married and never had children. She did one of the few things open to women at the time: became a teacher, graduating from Rhode Island Normal School, (a t...