Julia Baylis News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Searchlight Pictures has picked up the Sundance short film Wiggle Room for their Searchlight Shorts program. From director Julia Baylis and Sam Guest, the short follows Daisy (Deanna Gibson), a teenage paraplegic who is determined to save her wheelchair ramp from repossession and confronts the shady insurance agent who owes her money. Gibson, who made her acting debut in the short, won a special jury award for her performance. Searchlight Shorts have included shorts from directors like Martin McDonough and David Lowry, and are housed on the studio label's YouTube channel. Stories centering o...

Must-See Shorts from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival Snowy After providing coverage on nearly every feature film premiering at Sundance Film Festival this year, today we turn the spotlight on our favorite shorts. With 50 short films accepted from nearly 10,000 submissions, check out our thoughts on a handful of the premiere below, courtesy of Dan Mecca and Shayna Warner. BJ’s Mobile Gift Shop (Jason Park) Heartwarming, clever, and well-paced, filmmaker Jason Park builds a fully-realized, hyper-real Chicago in which BJ (Johnnyboy Tellem) is a hustler on the streets with a traveling bag of pr...

European productions take home the majority of the Sundance 2021 short film awards Lizard has scooped the Grand Jury Prize, while the French animation Souvenir Souvenir was crowned Best Animation On the left, a still from Lizard, and on the right, director Akinola Davies Jr accepting his award over Zoom The 2021 edition of the Sundance Film Festival has proven to be a good one for European short films, with almost all of the awards in the festival’s short film section going to European productions and co-productions. The winner of the Grand Jury Prize was UK film Lizard by Akinola Davie...

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 Oswalt, with jurors presenting 24 prizes for feature filmmaking and seven for Short Films. Honorees,...

Posted on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021 by Chris Evangelista Today, the Golden Globe nominations were announced, and the results were pretty bad! So perhaps we should try to cleanse our palates with the 2021 Sundance Film Festival awards. This year’s Sundance was virtual, and while that experience can’t hold a candle to being on the ground in Park City, the festival organizers deserver lots of credit for putting the fest together in any capacity and running it smoothly. While I found a lot of the films I saw this year to be lacking, there were still plenty of noteworthy titles. Lots of at...