Sundance Institute Names Carrie Lozano Head of Documentary Film Program

Patrick Schwarzenegger's upcoming thriller, .The crime drama is like meets Robin Hood, following recent college grad Lance Zutterland (Schwarzenegger) as he finds himself deep in debt and railing against the system. So, he joins up with a band of underground criminals (fronted by Michael Shannon and Alex Pettyfer), who steal from the uber-rich and give to, well, themselves.

Angelique Jackson The Sundance Institute announced today that Gina Duncan will join the Sundance Film Festival team as producing director. In the newly-created role, she will report to festival director Tabitha Jackson and work closely with programming director Kim Yutani.Duncan most recently served as V.P.

Also Read: How Sundance and Other Film Festivals Are Prepping for Virtual 2021 Event - and Permanent Changes Post-COVID (Video)She’ll also be working to build more inclusivity at the festival and manage year-round engagement between the industry and other artists. Her first day will be Monday, Sept.

Kenadi Dodds proved that she was in it to win it during Tuesday’s night’s “America’s Got Talent” final.

Naman Ramachandran Sundance winner and upcoming BFI London Film Festival title “Farewell Amor” will bow in December on curated streaming service Mubi.Mubi has acquired worldwide VOD rights, excluding North America, Africa, China and Israel, on the film. IFC has acquired the North America rights.Producer Huriyyah Muhammad won the Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for narrative features at the Sundance Film Festival, where the film received its world premiere in the U.S.

Gigi Hadid’s father Mohamed has written a heartfelt poem for his “little grandchild” as the heavily pregnant model prepares to give birth.

Also Read: 'Wander Darkly' Stars Diego Luna and Sienna Miller Had to 'Stop Looking Happy' During Filming (Video)At TheWrap’s studio at Sundance, Miele told TheWrap’s Brian Welk that the film was inspired when she and her husband survived a car crash six years earlier.

Bella Hadid is looking forward to becoming an aunt. The star's sister, Gigi Hadid, is expecting her first child with musician Zayn Malik.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerGrasshopper Film has secured the U.S. distribution rights to IWOW: I Walk on Water, a documentary feature from New York-based photographer and filmmaker Khalik Allah, to released in physical and virtual theaters later this year. In IWOW, Allah focuses on longtime muse Frenchie, a 60-something schizophrenic, homeless Haitian man, who he becomes increasingly intertwined with.

Veteran Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui, one of Venice’s two Career Golden Lion recipients this year alongside Tilda Swinton, brings prewar Hong Kong to exquisite if restrained life in her latest historical drama, Love After Love (Di Yu Lu Xiang).

Jamie Lang In today’s Global Bulletin, “The Nest” tops Deauville, ITV outlines plans for carbon neutrality, Abacus Media Rights sells “People You May Know” in key territories, Southeast Europe gets its first premium independent series co-production and Sky enlists Gabriela Sperl to document German’s Wirecard financial scandal.“The Nest,” directed by Sean Durkin and starring Jude Law and Carrie Coon, was the big winner at the recently concluded 46th Deauville American Film Festival, taking home

It's been 17 years since Gus Van Sant stunned and polarized audiences with Elephant, his transfixing, oddly lyrical response to the Columbine High School massacre of 1999, a national tragedy now almost normalized by the sickening frequency of mass shootings that have continued to stain American soil. A number of films in the years since have reflected on school shootings in provocative ways, among them We Need to Talk About Kevin, And Then I Go and Vox Lux.

Filmmakers Celine Held and Logan George have had quite the journey when it comes to the release of their first feature film. With years of research and numerous short films under their belt, “Topside” was meant to premiere at the 2020 SXSW before the pandemic caused everything to come to a screeching halt.

Connections are everywhere, whether we like it or not. The very principle of missing out on the electronic kind of social influence plays out in the new film “Save Yourselves!”.

David Robb Labor EditorThe nonprofit relief organization co-founded by Sean Penn and Ann Lee is offering private COVID-19 testing to Los Angeles-based film and TV productions, the net profits from which will help fund the organization’s free testing for at-risk and low-income communities.Their Community Organized Relief Effort – which has helped victims of the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti and numerous other natural disasters – already has provided more than 1.3 million free tests to

Veteran filmmaker and lecturer Carrie Lozano has been tapped as Sundance's new documentary film program director. Lozano will replaceinterim director Kristin Feeley, who took over the position when prior director Tabitha Jackson, who ran the program for six years, was named the new director of the Sundance Film Festival.