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The Sundance Film Festival will Accept Submissions from Virtual Reality and Episodic Programming
Sundance Film Festival has recently announced new programming and events for the 2018 edition in Utah from January 18-28. Park City, Sundance, and Salt Lake City will host screenings and events during the festival. The festival's management provided background on some of the new programming set to showcase at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival: ‘Indie Episodic’ section: After several years of programming episodic content in the 'Special Events' section — where selections included O.J.: Made in America, Transparent, Top of the Lake, The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, Animals, Gente-fied, The Chances and Strangers — the 2018 Festival will have an ‘Indie Episodic’ section specifically for stories
Sundance Institute Selects Eight Projects for their Documentary Labs
The Sundance Institute have recently announced eight projects that they plan to work on and develop with their documentary labs this year. Additionally, the festival announced that this year attendance grew to an all-time high of at least 71,600 attendees. Documentary Film Program Director Tabitha Jackson shares insight on the film production process: “This vibrant array of projects illustrates the power of documentary filmmakers to use the language of cinema to tell untold stories, challenge and change perspectives and use their independent voice to speak truth to power.” - Tabitha Jackson The selected projects for the Documentary Edit and
Sundance Institute Helps Filmmakers Launch Film Projects with Kickstarter
The Sundance Institute is connecting with film production teams Columbus and Unrest to help them strive in the digital production era. Many filmmakers continue to work on balancing a budget for a film project that people will want to invest their time on, as well as a mode of distribution that will be the most effective. Along with financial boundaries, filmmakers also take on a set of moral responsibilities behind their works of art. That is one main reason that Sundance is working with these films to help them find a level of independence away from major studios. This
NBA Playoffs 2017: A Roundup of Highlights, Scores and Predictions
The NBA Playoffs are sweeping the nation with competition from Boston to Washington. Second round matches have been set with the Utah Jazz advancing past the Los Angeles Clippers. Celtics 123, Wizards 111 | Celtics lead series 1-0 Jazz 104, Clippers 91 | Jazz win series 4-3 After the results today the matchups are set for the second round. The Boston Celtics will go against the Washington Wizards. Cleveland Cavaliers will face off against the Toronto Raptors in the Eastern Conference. The Western Conference will host matchups between the Warriors and Utah Jazz. In addition, the Spurs will compete against the
Women In Film and Sundance Institute Launch Initiative titled ReFrame
Women in Film and the Sundance Institute have worked together to form a new program called ReFrame. This senior network of executives will be teaming with studios, networks, agencies and independent financing entities to build awareness and strength to women filmmakers. The Sundance Institute noted that ReFrame’s three initial offerings are: 1. Culture Change Toolkit ReFrame will introduce a Culture Change Toolkit tailored to film, TV and media executives and creative teams. The Program aims to improve hiring and promotion practices for women of all backgrounds by addressing bias and other roadblocks at key decision points in the pipeline. Toolkit components will
The String Cheese Incident to Release Believe on April 14
The String Cheese Incident returned to the studio with Jerry Harrison, Talking Heads producer, to create a beautiful piece of art titled Believe. The album will be released on SCI Fidelity Records on April, 14. This album marks the first project to be produced from the band's Sound Lab Studio. Believe showcases nine original tracks including 'My One And Only.' Stream and preview the track below on Soundcloud. 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 On the track 'My One and Only' the band features Bonnie Paine of Elephant Revival on vocals and originally intended to be conceptualized as a road song. The String Cheese Incident's keyboardist
Sundance Film Festival 2017 Awards and Recap
Sundance Film Festival 2017 showed its true colors this past January 19-29. After ten days and 119 feature films being screened, the festival brought the best independent film to the forefront of entertainment during a dark time in our country's history. As the political pendulum swings back and forth, people all over the country experience a wide range of emotions. A beautiful piece to the Sundance festival is the freedom to express different points of view to help audience members express their own emotions during playback. After the films have screened, the festival awards the top films in different categories. A
The 2017 Sundance Film Festival Hack Doesn’t Stop the Show
The 2017 Sundance Film Festival is currently underway in the mountains of Utah. During the first day of the event, the festival organizers experienced major issues with the ticketing system. The festival tweeted: 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 The festival was able to fix the issue and ticket sales have been running more smoothly since day one. Each year, the Sundance Film Festival works hard to create online and physical locations for users to purchase tickets. It does become difficult when you have so much demand taking place all at once. With this issue, it could have been from an outside attacker, or
Amazon Acquires a Grateful Dead Documentary titled Long Strange Trip
Amazon announced today that they will acquire Long Strange Trip by Amir Bar-Lev. The documentary is set to debut at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Long Strange Trip will have four screenings at the upcoming film festival in Utah. Business Wire and Amazon spoke with the director of the film Amir Bar-Lev, as well as band members from the Grateful Dead featuring Bob Weir and Micky Hart: "I first reached out to the Grateful Dead about this film back in 2003," said Bar-Lev. "Since then, everyone who has come aboard has treated this project with a renegade spirit of cooperation and ingenuity
Sundance Film Festival 2017 Live Streaming Schedule
Watch the day 1 press conference with Robert Redford on YouTube with the live stream. The Sundance Festival organizers have recently announced a series of live streams that will run during the festival this month from Park City, Utah. Sundance Film Festival 2017 is set to stream panels and discussion with the Power of Story series. This year, Power of Story: The New Climate will connect with screenings of An Inconvenient Truth Sequel: Truth to Power, a documentary featuring Al Gore's fight to protect the environment, at the festival. In addition to the film screenings, former Vice President of the United
Sundance Film Festival has recently announced new programming and events for
The Sundance Institute have recently announced eight projects that they plan
The Sundance Institute is connecting with film production teams Columbus and
The NBA Playoffs are sweeping the nation with competition from Boston
Women in Film and the Sundance Institute have worked together to
The String Cheese Incident returned to the studio with Jerry Harrison,
Sundance Film Festival 2017 showed its true colors this past January
The 2017 Sundance Film Festival is currently underway in the mountains
Amazon announced today that they will acquire Long Strange Trip by Amir
Watch the day 1 press conference with Robert Redford on YouTube