- 41. Ana Lily Amirpour's "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" Is A Western Noir With A Feminist Twist: 52 Weeks Of Directo
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- ... completed production on A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, a Western? Noir? — the film could be classified as several genres — vampire film set in Iran. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival ...
- Created on 08 December 2016
- 42. 6 Shows and Movies to Watch During Transgender Awareness Week
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- ... played by Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and her story after learning that her boyfriend/pimp has cheated on her. The film was shot in Hollywood on three iPhone 5S smartphones and premiered at the 2015 Sundance ...
- Created on 18 November 2016
- 43. With 'Girlhood' And 'Tomboy,' Celine Sciamma Redefines Coming-Of-A
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- ... International Film Festival. Girlhood premiered at Cannes in 2014 and played both Toronto (2014) and Sundance in 2015. She considers Water Lilies, Tomboy, and Girlhood a trilogy of coming of age films. ...
- Created on 03 November 2016
- 44. From "Harlan County USA" To "Shut Up And Sing," Barbara Kopple Captures Social Change: 52 Weeks Of Directo
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- ... with depression and suicide. The film played at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The otherHot Type is about The Nation, the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the U.S. and follows the magazine’s ...
- Created on 13 October 2016
- 45. Sally El Hosaini Captures Queer Narratives And Masculinity In Egypt: 52 Weeks Of Directors
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- ... in the 2009 Sundance Directors and Screenwriters lab to develop the film. Later, in 2012, the film would be shown at the Sundance Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize and won ...
- Created on 06 October 2016
- 46. How Sarah Polley Went From Child Star To Oscar-Nominated Director
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- ... The film brought her attention in the United States where the film played at the Sundance Film Festival. “It took a long time for me to realize what a contribution it could be and how lucky we are to get ...
- Created on 22 September 2016
- 47. How "The Kids Are All Right" Director Lisa Cholodenko Became Queen Of The Indie Aesthetic: 52 Weeks Of Director
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- ... Sundance. It was actually in the editing room of High Art that Cholodenko was inspired for her next film. She says she and the editor were listening to different music and one of the albums was Joni Mitchell’s Ladies ...
- Created on 15 September 2016
- 48. "The Wedding Plan's" Rama Burshtein Shows The Lives Of Orthodox Jewish Women: 52 Weeks Of Directo
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- ... to portray Shiva for over a year. Hadras Yaron won the Volpi Cup at Venice Film Festival for her portrayal of the young woman. Burshtein took the script for Fill the Void to the Sundance Screenwriting ...
- Created on 04 August 2016
- 49. How Adrienne Shelly Went From Dropping Out Of Film School To Making A Critically Acclaimed Sundance Film: 52 Weeks Of Directors
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- ... have to choose, but you don’t have to choose. Shelly would never find out that her film made it into Sundance. On November 1, 2006, she was found hanging in her Greenwich Village work studio. Her ...
- Created on 21 July 2016
- 50. How Laura Poitras Went From Filming Iraqi Prisoners To Helping Snowden: 52 Weeks Of Directors
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- ... with his son and other young Muslim students. The film premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Excellence in Cinematography Award. The film also played at the Berlin Film Festival ...
- Created on 14 July 2016
