Air crews with the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen are facing Saudi legal proceedings for alleged war crimes linked to a US arms firm with a base in Scotland.
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By Anthony D'Alessandro
Editorial Director/Box Office Editor
Apple and A24 have acquired Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine’s documentary Boys State for $10 million, according to industry estimates. The deal is for global rights.
Boys State is a political coming-of-age story, examining the health of American democracy through an unusual experiment. A thousand 17-year-old boys from across Texas gather together to build a representative government from the ground up. High-minded ideals
Air crews with the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen are facing Saudi legal proceedings for alleged war crimes linked to a US arms firm with a base in Scotland.
Khruangbin & Leon Bridges, “Texas Sun” (Dead Oceans)
American Factory, the firstfilm from Barack and Michelle Obama's production company Higher Ground,took home the award for best documentary during Saturday's 2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards.After taking the stage to accept the award, co-director Julia Reichert was quick to explain the true purpose for their project. "Our film tries to ask questions about the fate of working people in Ohio, in China and really around the world.
U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw speaks at the Log Cabin of Republicans of Houston’s dinner – Photo: Log Cabin Republicans of Texas, via Facebook.
By Erik Pedersen
Every summer, more than 1,000 teens swarm the Texas capitol building to attend Boys State, the annual American Legion-sponsored leadership conference where these incipient politicians divide into rival parties, the Nationalists and the Federalists, and attempt to build a mock government from the ground up.
Lee Isaac Chung’s coming-of-age film Minari claimed the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury prize at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
PARK CITY, Utah — What do “Reservoir Dogs,” “Napoleon Dynamite,” “Clerks” and “Wet Hot American Summer” all have in common? The Sundance Film Festival.
Sony Pictures Classics has teamed with Sony’s Stage 6 Films to oversee the global release of Heidi Ewing’s feature narrative debut “I Carry You With Me (Te Llevo Conmigo),” a gay love story about two men who immigrate to the United States. The deal follows the movie’s enthusiastic reception at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The romantic drama debuted to multiple standing ovations in Park City, where it was shown in the NEXT section. It will be released later this year.
Amid the snow-covered mountains of Park City, Utah – South African filmmakers, producers, and directors have made a strong representation this year at Sundance – the largest independent film festival in the US.
The best political documentary at Sundance this year does not star Hillary Clinton or AOC, but a bunch of 17-year-old dudes.
Amazon Studios has bought “Uncle Frank,” an acclaimed drama about a closeted gay man forced to come out to his Southern family in the 1970s. The film debuted this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival.
She's beauty, she's grace…
Boys State (like Girls State) is a decades-old program, run by the American Legion in states across the country, intending to give bright high school kids a crash course in the American political system.
Elyse Steinberg, one of the co-directors of the new documentary “The Fight,” was inspired to learn more about the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) shortly after Donald Trump moved into in the White House.