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Two alumni and current and former faculty of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts have connections to the Sundance Film Festival, which runs through today. The festival
/PRNewswire/ -- The University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) has announced that independent filmmaker and educator Deborah LaVine has been named...
Film Independent Continuing to rack up numerous wins and nominations across awards season, Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland is entering the home stretch now with both the Film Independent Spirit Awards (where the film has been nominated in five categories including Best Feature) and Oscars mere weeks away. With a mesmerizing blend of scripted and pseudo-documentary elements, Nomadland is the ultimate road movie; an indispensable chronicle of the modern-day nomad subculture in the American West. With a cast including real-life nomads Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells–who all play themselves in t...
'Nomadland': Chloé Zhao and crew reveal how they made one of the year's best films Updated 15th March 2021 Credit: Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures 'Nomadland': Chloé Zhao and crew reveal how they made one of the year's best films Having been wrenched from the earth, the mineral gypsum is crushed first. It's then blasted at high temperatures and ground down, packed up and shipped out to find a new purpose. What's left behind is a void; an empty space where something once thought permanent used to be. Such was the fate of Empire, a mining town near the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. When th...
Rocks, and The Father lead this year’s nominations, with two women—Chloé Zhao and Sarah Gavron—nabbing seven nominations each. Four women total earned nods for directing compared to last year’s all-male directing nominees, and in a reversal from last year’s entirely white acting nominees, 16 of 2021's 24 nominated actors are from underrepresented groups. Advertisement Deadline, the changes come as the result of a seven-month review process (HFPA better be taking some copious notes), in which the organization evaluated its procedures and implemented some changes, “including the i...