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Courtesy of Sundance Institute The crop of documentaries that premiere at the Sundance Film Festival is always wide-ranging, both in style and in content. And this year’s selections were no exception, even if the 2021 festival was an unusual one, having largely migrated to digital platforms. They ran the gamut from dramatic explorations of refugees’ experiences to funny and heartbreaking looks at American high schools to experimental films about technology’s effects on our lives. The worl...

10 Sundance films that tackled the pandemic (Even if they didn’t mean to) by Angie Han (Even if they didn’t mean to) by Angie Han On the same day that the Sundance Film Festival kicked off last year, Wuhan, China, went into lockdown — not that many festival goers seemed to take much note of it at the time. A year later, however, its become impossible to miss. The coronavirus seemed to be everywhere I looked during Sundance 2021, starting with the experience itself — virtual,...

7 films to know from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival Three films from Sundance 2021, from left to right: CODA, Were All Going to the Worlds Fair, Judas and the Black Messiah Image: Sundance Institute / mashable composite 2021-02-05 15:03:38 UTC For obvious reasons, the Sundance Film Festival looked a little different this year. Instead of Park City theaters crowded with snow boots and puffer jackets, the films played in front of audiences of one or two on the couch at home. Q&As took place ove...

Courtesy of Sundance Institute Early in 2020, when we still had hope that the spread of Covid-19 would be suppressed in a few weeks or months and we’d be back to our lives in short order, film critics joked about what the 2021 Sundance Film Festival selection would be like. Dramas about parents trapped at home with their kids for a few weeks and having a personal revelation. Quirky romances between quarantined roommates. Zoom-mediated comedies. That sort of thing. Back then, nobody dared thin...

After the First Virtual Sundance, Four Writers Compare Notes What worked online? What didn’t? And which films stood out? When you’re watching from home, feel-good movies don’t always have the same effect. Oscar the Grouch and his pal Caroll Spinney in the Sundance documentary, “Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street.”Credit...Luke Geissbühler Feb. 5, 2021 At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, there were the usual premieres and Q. and A. sessions, breakouts and crowd-pleasers —...

The 15 Best Films We Saw at Sundance Eliott Grover, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The 2020 Sundance Film Festival was one of the last major events of its kind –– or any kind –– to take place before the world changed forever. With little time to prepare a viable pivot, other festivals like SXSW and Cannes were forced to cancel. As the pandemic raged through the summer and into the fall, Sundance organizers understood that they would have to radically reimagine their event in order to...

LOGIN ‘In the Same Breath’ Film Review: Explosive COVID-19 Doc Explores the US and China’s Botched Responses Sundance 2021: Director Nanfu Wang (“One Child Nation”) follows the virus — and governmental propaganda — from Washington to WuhanCarlos Aguilar | February 3, 2021 @ 11:18 AM Last Updated: February 3, 2021 @ 12:09 PM Sundance Institute Already one of the most audacious voices in nonfiction storytelling, director Nanfu Wang has made a career exploring d...

NBCU Academy and NBC News Studios launch Original Voices program NBCU Academy and NBC News Studios have announced the launch of Original Voices, a new fellowship program given to six diverse documentary filmmakers to support feature-length non-fiction films that shine ... February 2, 2021 NBCU Academy and NBC News Studios have announced th...

Sundance 2021 first impressions: In the Same Breath, In the Earth, Knocking, The Pink Cloud, How It Ends Mining the woes of our fluid reality, this years line-up captures the dissonance weve all felt under long stretches of self-isolation. Prahlad Srihari February 01, 2021 08:19:47 IST , pandemic movies mostly made for cautionary lessons and vicarious thrill rides. They were heig...

LOGIN How ‘In the Same Breath’ Director Got Multiple Camera Crews in Wuhan to Shoot COVID Doc (Video) Sundance 2021: “It requires a lot of producing,” Nanfu Wang tells TheWrap’s Sharon WaxmanUmberto Gonzalez | February 1, 2021 @ 9:41 AM Last Updated: February 4, 2021 @ 7:01 AM Acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang’s gripping documentary “In the Same Breath” recounts the origin and spread of the novel coronavirus from the earliest days of the outbreak in Wu...