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Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, the B.B. King, and other legendary soul artists. “It has always been a dream of mine to direct films and telling this story has truly been an amazing experience,” Questlove said in a statement. “I am overwhelmed and honored by the reception the film is receiving and want to give special thanks to Sundance, and my production partners: Radical Media, Vulcan Productions, Concordia, Play/Action Pictures and LarryBilly Productions.” Summer of Soul made its world...

February 04, 2021 Path to happiness: A still from Fire in the Mountains, one of two Indian entries to the prestigious Sundance Film Festival, held from January 28 to February 3 this year Path to happiness: A still from Fire in the Mountains, one of two Indian entries to the prestigious Sundance Film Festival, held from January 28 to February 3 this year× Two Indian entries make a mark at the just concluded Sundance Film Festival * The Sundance Film Festival, an annual event organised by the Su...

Rolling Stone The Best Movies We Saw at Sundance 2021 From a postapocalyptic genre flick to a handful of brilliant, offbeat docs about our current moment — these were the films at this year’s festival that moved and marked us By The Sundance Institute, 3 It was a given that this year’s all-virtual, all-living-room-screenings-all-the-time Sundance was going to seem a little strange. Having experienced a few pandemic-corrective festivals already over the past 10 months, a ...

Sundance Film Festival 2021: Writing With Fire, Indian documentary about Khabar Lahariya, wins audience award Writing With Fire, which marks the feature debut of directors Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh, follows the rise of Khabar Lahariya, Indias only newspaper run by Dalit women. FP Staff February 03, 2021 11:37:07 IST A still from Writing with Fire. Twitter @812filmrevi...

CODA has won the top award at the Sundance Film Festival, taking this year's U.S. Grand Jury prize, while Questlove's Summer of Soul won both the audience and grand jury prize in the U.S. documentary section.

Indian documentary Writing with Fire wins audience award at Sundance Film Festival Updated: Updated: This Indian film follows this ambitious group of Dalit women who run a newspaper. Share Article This Indian film follows this ambitious group of Dalit women who run a newspaper. "Writing with Fire", an Indian film chronicling the rise of Khabar Lahariya, Indias only newspaper run by Dalit women, has won the audience award in the World Cinema Documentary category at the Sundance Film Festival 20...

Top row: CODA, Courtesy of Sundance Institute; Summer of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), photo by Mass Distraction Media; Flee, courtesy of Sundance Institute. Bottom row: Hive, photo by Alexander Bloom; Writing With Fire, courtesy of Sundance Institute; Ma Belle, My Beauty, courtesy of Sundance Institute. *Park City, UT — After six days and 73 feature films, the 2021 Sundance Film Festival’s Awards Ceremony took place tonight, hosted by actor and comedian Patton ...

Sian Heder’s “CODA,” one of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival’s opening-day screenings, was the big winner at the awards ceremony Tuesday night. The film took home the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize, the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award, as well as the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast. Heder was also honored with the U.S. Dramatic Directing Award. Courtesy of Sundance Institute. Photo by Seacia Pavao A dramatic feature about the only member of a family who can hear and a doc...

Top doc honors went to 'Summer of Soul' from director Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, who accepted his award from inside a car on his "way to work" in New York City at 'The Tonight Show.'

847 Park City, February 3 “Writing with Fire”, an Indian film chronicling the rise of Khabar Lahariya, India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women, has won the audience award in the World Cinema Documentary category at the Sundance Film Festival 2021. The festival, which started from January 28 and will close on February 3, is presented by Sundance Organisation, a nonprofit that discovers and supports independent artists, and introduces audiences to their work. According to the film gala’...