- 1. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Are Back: Our Top 10 Pop Culture Picks For Spring 2022
- (Entertainment)
- ... (Anita Hill) Pushkin Industries; (Charli XCX) Emily Lipson/Atlantic; (I Love That for You) Tony Rivetti Jr./Showtime; (Alice) Sundance; (First Lady) Jackson Lee Davis/SHOWTIME; tibet house (Steven Sebring); ...
- Created on 01 March 2022
- 2. Aubrey Plaza Shows Off Her Dramatic Chops in "Emily The Criminal
- (Movies)
- Right away, we learn three things: Emily (Aubrey Plaza) has a criminal record, $70,000 of student debt, and a bit of a temper. She’s stuck in the gig economy, delivering food for a catering company ...
- Created on 08 February 2022
- 3. Reclaiming The Lens: 10 Women Filmmakers Spearheading The New Wave in Black Cinema
- (Movies)
- ... Pariah, a coming-of-age tale about a young teen coming to terms with their sexuality, really put this writer-director on the map when it premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2011. In 2015, Rees went ...
- Created on 22 April 2021
- 4. Catch First Time Directorial Debuts From Questlove to Rebecca Hall, 10 Must-See Films From Sundance 2021
- (Entertainment)
- Sundance was presented as a virtual festival this year. That’s code for watching films on your laptop at home. Their website was very well organized and easy to navigate, with all the usual categories ...
- Created on 12 February 2021
- 5. PJ Harvey Goes Into a Capitalist Whirlwind With New Film A Dog Called Money
- (Blog)
- ... For Me" Is The Perfect Protest Track For Right Now 4 Must-See Films About Women From Sundance That Are Sure To Make An Impact Director Ekwa Msangi And Actor Jayme Lawson Tell An Intimate Immigration ...
- Created on 16 December 2020
- 6. Director Ekwa Msangi and Actor Jayme Lawson Tell An Intimate Immigration Story With "Farewell Amor": BUST Intervie
- (Movies)
- ... to create a home for the family. When the audience meets this family, Walter is picking up Esther and Sylvia from the airport after 17 years of separation. The film, which premiered at Sundance 2020 ...
- Created on 08 December 2020
- 7. Aya Cash On Horror, Humor, And Feminism In "Scare Me
- (Movies)
- ... on Shudder October 1, is called Scare Me and takes this recipe seriously, outfitting the film with eerie music, jump scares and skin-prickling tension. His tale, first released at Sundance Film Festival ...
- Created on 01 October 2020
- 8. 'Real Life is Comedy': Kris Rey and Gillian Jacobs Spill On "I Used to Go Here" ...
- (Movies)
- ... micro-budget films such as her unscripted 2009 debut, It Was Great, But I Was Ready To Come Home, and 2015 Sundance film, Unexpected. In this way, I Used to Go Here is a film of ‘firsts’ for Rey: her first ...
- Created on 30 July 2020
- 9. Week of Women: Miss Juneteenth, Teyana Taylor, Phoebe Bridgers
- (Entertainment)
- ... Top photo: Miss Juneteenth, provided by Sundance Film Festival More from BUST Week Of Women: H.E.R, Soko, and Padma Lakshmi Week Of Women: Black Lives Matter Week Of Women: Lady Gaga, Tracee ...
- Created on 18 June 2020
- 10. Director Crystal Moselle Talks All Things HBO's "Betty": BUST Intervi
- (TV)
- ... Russell played fictional versions of themselves. The movie premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018 to great success. Like That One Day and Skate Kitchen, Betty tells another new origin story about ...
- Created on 01 May 2020
- 11. 4 Must-See Films About Women From Sundance That Are Sure To Make An Impact
- (Movies)
- Attending the Sundance Film Festival is a great way to check out what’s going to be relevant for the coming year. This trip I watched twelve films in four days. Sounds like a lot, but with 118 feature ...
- Created on 04 February 2020
- 12. Getting Real With Akilah Hughes: BUST Interview
- (Entertainment)
- ... advantage of. You’re an alum of the Sundance Film Lab, and in the wake of the disappointing Golden Globe erasure of women in film and TV, there still seems to be a lot of room to be made for female creatives. ...
- Created on 24 December 2019
- 13. Jillian Bell Wants To Tell A New Kind Of Story: BUST Interview
- (Movies)
- ... sparkling reviews at Sundance, is Paul Downs Colaizzo’s debut as writer/director, and stars 35-year-old Bell as the titular character, a woman who’s perfectly content with her less-than-healthy lifestyle. ...
- Created on 19 September 2019
- 14. Try Not To Cry While Watching Awkwafina In "The Farewell" Traile
- (Movies)
- ... Sundance Film Festival hit will leave viewers in their feels and craving more Awkwafina — whether it’s rapping about vaginas or slaying the game as a lead actress in tear-jerking dramedies. By the ...
- Created on 08 May 2019
- 15. High School Girls Force School To Take Action After Boy Classmates Rated Their Looks
- (Feminism)
- The boys at a high school in Bethesda, Maryland, one of the most affluent neighborhoods in the country, created a list to rank their female classmates, reported the Washington Post. It included ...
- Created on 03 April 2019
- 16. 8 Short Kids' Films Every Mini-Feminist Should See
- (Entertainment)
- The New York International Children's Film Festival will be running from February 22 to March 17 in various theaters across New York City. The festival, which is now in its 22nd year, is featuring a ...
- Created on 20 February 2019
- 17. Tessa Thompson Announces The 4% Challenge, Asks Actors To Commit To Working With Women Directors
- (Entertainment)
- A panel discussion at The Sundance Film Festival brought forth an exciting initiative which hopes to narrow Hollywood’s pervasive gender gap, Deadline reports. In a speech, Tessa Thompson announced ...
- Created on 29 January 2019
- 18. Adinah Dancyger's "Cheer Up Baby" Explores The Aftermath Of Sexual Assau
- (Movies)
- ... earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, is an intimate and necessary insight into understanding life after assault. We spoke with Dancyger on her creative choices and the deeper importance of ...
- Created on 12 November 2018
- 19. The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Features Incredible Films, By Woman, That Are A Total Mind F*ck
- (Movies)
- ... one of the darkest films at Sundance. It explores painful themes of how some women protect their abusers. LEVEL 16 Canadian filmmaker, Danishka Esterhazy has created a feminist, dystopian sci-fi ...
- Created on 12 October 2018
- 20. "Crime + Punishment" Examines Racism And Policing In NY
- (Movies)
- ... and thewinner of this year's U.S Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking at the Sundance Film Festival, Crime + Punishment examines the harmful practices and discrimination that have ...
- Created on 09 August 2018
