- 41. 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
- 42. 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
- 43. 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
- 44. The True Story Behind An Epic '90s Literary Hoax: BUST Interview
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- ... / Magnolia Pictures. More from BUST With ‘White Girl,’ Morgan Saylor Is Done Playing ‘The Girlfriend’ Or ‘The Daughter’: BUST Interview 4 Amazing Lady-Led Films From Sundance Sticky: A Love Story Is ...
- Created on 09 September 2016
- 45. How Lauren Greenfield Shed A Light On America's Aristocracy With 'Queen Of Versailles': 52 Weeks of Directo
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- ... she built with them over three years, when the movie premiered at Sundance–which Jackie attended–Greenfield got the news that David Siegel was suing her, claiming that the film was more fictional than ...
- Created on 08 September 2016
- 46. With ‘White Girl,’ Morgan Saylor Is Done Playing ‘The Girlfriend’ Or ‘The Daughter’: BUST Interview
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- If you haven’t heard of White Girl yet, you’re about to. The indie drama with the incendiary name has slowly been gathering buzz since before it premiered at Sundance in January, and with its wide release ...
- Created on 02 September 2016
- 47. From 'Girlfriends' To 'My So-Called Life,' The Underrated Career Of Claudia Weill: 52 Weeks Of Directo
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- ... film performed poorly at the box office, but upon an offer from Joe Papp, Weill turned to directing several plays in New York at the Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Williamstown, and then Sundance. ...
- Created on 18 August 2016
- 48. Looking Beyond the Bechdel: 5 Tests that Examine Equality in Film
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- Most people have heard of the Bechdel test. It's a popular, three-step model that examines how under-represented women are in films and TV. The criteria is simple but an absurd number of films don't ...
- Created on 08 August 2016
- 49. "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
- 50. Alex Karpovsky On The Final Season Of ‘Girls,’ His New Short Film ‘Possibilia,’ And Why He Joined Tinder
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- ... some time from shooting the final season of Girls to talk to BUST about his short film, “Possibilia.” Directed by the Daniels (you know them from Swiss Army Man), “Possibilia” played at Sundance in 2014 ...
- Created on 03 August 2016
