#sundance2015

[garyalvarez]

#tbs to #Sundance2015 with friend and fellow filmmaker Ericka Concha, editor of the feature documentary IN FOOTBALL WE TRUST--which premiered at the festival and was later picked up by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's production company. #LBC@Sundance (at Sundance Film Festival)

[bellyta1]

Que filme bom é Eu, Você e a Garota que vai morrer (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, EUA, 2015) de Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. Adaptado do livro de mesmo nome de Jesse Andrews, que assina o roteiro, o longo é um daqueles poucos que vencem o "clichê". Estamos carecas de saber como que filmes de doenças são batidos, entretanto este vai além do câncer da personagem "que vai morrer". Temos um enredo tão delicado com as angústias e desafios da adolescência, as decisões complicadas para futuro. A doença aqui não é a protagonista, é apenas o combustível necessário para que o personagem principal encare sua propria vida de maneira justa. Mas além disso, o principal de "Eu,Você e a Garota que vai morrer" é seu amor ao cinema. A beleza de mostrar a juventude rejuvenescer o cinema, e como este é fonte inegável de expressão pessoal. Sem dúvida, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon criou aqueles filmes que se torna inevitável um sorriso no rosto ao final, e um agradecimento enorme pelo seu tempo bem gasto. Grande Prêmio do Júri e do Público em Sundance 2015. #euvoceeagarotaquevaimorrer #MeandEarlandtheDyingGirl #alfonsogomezrejon #sundance2015

[do-td]

The Witch: GIF Special

How would 1630s Puritans have looked in GIF form? Find out in @TheWitchMovie: GIF special!

It’s here! After months of anticipation rising to extreme levels, today is the day UK moviegoers can experience the pure terror that is Robert Eggers’ The Witch. This New England woodland horror was reviewed on this blog over a year ago, & we showed the nerve-shredding trailer in August, so to celebrate the release of THE BEST FILM OF THE YEAR, here is a compilation of GIFs to fuel your fear.…

[barthendrikx-blog]

“You can jail a revolutionary, but you can’t jail a revolution.” 

THE BLACK PANTHERS - VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION premieres Tuesday, February 16, 2016, 9/8c on Independent Lens | PBS.

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution FULL FILM (1:55:26) Click here!

October 15th 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the black socialist organization The Black Panther Party (for Self Defense). Tomorow Feb.16h PBS’ has it’s TV debut of the acclaimed Sundance 2015 film:  The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (115 min). A feature length documentary by 4x Emmy Award winning (2003 - The Murder of Emmett Till) (2010 Freedom Riders), and  MacArthur “genius” recipient, Director Stanley Nelson Jr. The film is produced by Firelight Media (founded 1998) , a non-profit filmmaking company founded by filmmaker Stanley Nelson himself, and award-winning writer and philanthropy executive Marcia Smith. 

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (trailer)

Filmmaker Stanley Nelson describes his seven year effort. Read the Feb 11, 2016 article by PBS’ Craig Philips....

Ex-Black Panther Leader Elaine Brown Slams Stanley Nelson’s ‘Condemnable’ Documentary..  Read the March 11, 2015 article from Elaine Brown - DailyBeast.   

“Like any good work of history, Vanguard of the Revolution sticks close to the facts, plotting complex events into a packed, fast-moving timeline and leaving to the viewers the work of drawing lessons and analogies for our own time.” 

wrote A.O. Scott on Sept. 1, 2015 in The New York Times. Read more here. 

This particular film was made to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution will be the first film in a three-part series of documentaries about African-American history titled America Revisited. 

Watch the Jan. 30.2015 interview with investigative reporter Amy Goodman from Democracy now - VIDEO. 

Premiering February 16, 2016. Check local listings here!  Get Involved here!

You can watch 5great clips from the film here: 

Clip - Women Panthers - VIDEO 

Clip - Free Breakfast Program - VIDEO 

Clip - Black Panther Style - VIDEO 

Clip - Jamal Joseph - VIDEO 

Clip - Ericka Huggins - VIDEO 

All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50. 

In Fall of 2016, the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) will present a major exhibition to coincide with the 50th anniversary the Black Panther Party’s founding on October 15, 1966, in Oakland. read more here. 

Dress Code presents Emory Douglas: The Art of The Black Panthers (VIMEO) 

Go here for freelance journalist and film programmer Ashley Clark’s brilliant 3 handy BFI guides for more: 

Black UK film - 10 great black British films. 

Black indie - A short history of black US indie cinema. 

Black Power - Be black, baby! An overview of Black Power on film. 

“ESSENTIAL VIEWING for anyone concerned with our nation’s history - and its present.” ��� David Fear, Time Out New York

also recommend Director Göran Olsson’s 2011 The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (TRAILER) doc. It features the found footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists (discovered some 30 years later in the cellar of Swedish Television). Watch the film here on Netflix. 

“You can jail a revolutionary, but you can’t jail a revolution.”

This quote comes from African-American activist Fred Hampton. Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and deputy chairman of the national BPP. He gave this speech at age 20, and murdered at age 21. Watch an excerpt from the speech here. 

WATCH: "The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther"

Photo credit: Women holding Black Panther flags. Courtesy of Photographers Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch/ Firelight Media / PBS. Go here to order some of the stunning photo’s from Ruth-Marion Baruch.

[lcwilli1]

Look back at #sundance2015 🎞 #AndrewLincoln #NormanReedus #TheWalkingDead #TWDFamily #RickGrimes #DarylDixon #Rickyl #NormAndy (photo: Scott Roth/Invision)

[janellalysse]

Started the year working for #Canon at #sundance2015, went to a lot of #slccomiccon thangs and met ChrisEvans, hung out with a lot of pups and @shaycarl liked one of my pictures. I guess it was an okay year! #2015bestnineinstagram

[pamelaganmizze]

Pray for the best.. Hope for the best.. Cheers for the best.. 🍷🍷🍻 #cheers #friday #tgif #sundance2015 #sundancefilmfestival (at Nexus Connexion At Bangsar South)

[dustinesson]

Billboard’s Winterfest at Park City Live, Sundance 2015

IGGY AZALEA

“Iggy, one of the most celebrated artists on the planet right now, graced Park City Live with her presence. The ‘Fancy’ singer certainly lived up to the hype. Just check out her performance below.”

[garyalvarez]

#tbt to #Sundance2015. #nightowls (at Main St. Park City)

[ohmysweetpotato-blog]

Yeah. We came here to eat 😉 #sundance2015 (at Metrotent)

[jyslifetimes]

Me: Yo @jennifertphang what you doing this Saturday? JTP: Be in #HongKong for the Asia premiere of #Advantageous at 130p! Then will be joining other #sundance2015 filmmakers for a panel at 4pm at the #Metroplex. You should come! Me: (shakes head) Wish I could Jen. You mind saying that again in Chinese please? 彭翠蘭導演：香港禮拜六9月19日 1330我會參加 #心靈漫遊 亞洲首映！然後1600我會在星影匯跟其他2015年的辛丹斯電影節導演參加電影座談會，別錯過！ 我：好傷心我人在美國，那如果住香港的朋友們想去的話... 彭翠蘭導演：資料！ Screenings: http://hk.sundance.org/eng/advantageous.htm Panel: http://hk.sundance.org/eng/panel.htm 放映：http://hk.sundance.org/chi/advantageous.htm 電影座談會: http://hk.sundance.org/chi/panel.htm（在 Hong Kong）

[everyday-occurrence]

13/9/15

Premiere next week

Snoop Dogg, Jake the Dogg and Banjo the Dogg

[ravenbannerentertainment]

#womancrushwednesday today & every week until we run our of hearts ♥️♥️💔 @teg_lee . ・・・ Arrgghh 😩 Apple I heart you so much!! 🍏💙 #turbokid #sundance2015 #fangirling #wcw #mermaidhair #unicorngirl (at fb.com/RavenBannerEntertainment)

[mssngpeces]

Congrats to yungjake, one of ten artists funded for the sundanceinstitute & Time Warner Fellowship Lab for 2015. http://ow.ly/R1nr5

[arturoswift-blog]

"The Wolfpack” (d. Crystal Moselle; 2015)

Worrying about their family is always in the forefront of a good parent’s mind, but at what point does this concern begin to drive a person to act in fear rather than goodwill?

The winner of this year’s Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize, “The Wolfpack” is a strange, immersive documentary that enters the life of the Angulo family and the confines of their Lower East Side apartment in Manhattan. The seven Angulo children and their two parents are holed up on the 16th floor of their building scarcely leaving for anything, including food, due to the paranoid fears of their father, Oscar. Director Crystal Moselle was fueled by a chance encounter on one of their few outings to understand and document a circumstance quite unique to anywhere in the world. 

Grainy recordings out of their barred window show children dressed up on Halloween, a light winter dusting and various traffic jams that interrupt scenes of the boys eating dinner together in one of the corners of their four bedroom apartment. In a documentary featuring home movies from all of their youngest years, it doesn’t seem out of the place given the video quality, but a timestamp showing the year 2010 in the lower right-hand corner betrays itself, revealing just how long these boys and their family have been removed from the rest of their building and city.

To pass the years, the brothers obsessively watched any movie they could get their hands on, but they didn’t just consume this media either - they lived it. They transposed the lines, memorized them, created elaborate cardboard sets, props, and costumes and recorded Angulo Brothers productions of The Dark Knight, among others.

Many of the scenes that compose this piece are candid, fly-on-the-wall recordings of the boys in their element. It showed them making dinner with Mom’s approval on the crucial elements of the perfect spaghetti sauce and glimpses of siblings arguing over inane reasons. I started to feel charmed by their dynamic amongst one another, their brotherly bond and their quips of movie one-liners - the foundation to every conversation they had.

The illusion of fun and camaraderie, whatever amount there was, quickly dissolves. We hear about the boys growing displeasure with their father, recounting the fact that only Oscar has the key to the front door. We see them talk about their strained relationship and the silent treatments as they look around the corner and pause anytime they sense the door creak. Moselle finally shows us Oscar’s origin as a self-proclaimed “free man” in one of only two interviews with the boys’ father. We see the door open into Oscar’s life, but only enough to understand the reason he put his family on this path in the first place, not much more. What’s missing is more of an understanding of Oscar and his reasons for never turning their situation around. Though given his paranoia I don’t see any reason to have that expectation.

Moselle does a masterful job of creating a lighthearted reassurance of the boys’ lives and their ability to find solace amongst one another. The clips of their productions, including an original, seem so childlike and oblivious. Her transition from that perceived naivety to the surreal, uncomfortable standoff between the kids and their father was terribly unsettling and kept me completely enthralled through the film’s entire run-time.

As we catch The Wolfpack leaving their apartment for one of several outings, we frequently catch them beaming over the smallest things, acting like rescued animals released from their cages, sprinting down subway platforms nearly in sync, shoulder-to-shoulder. They’ve finally tasted their autonomy, their freedom, and there’s no real option but to make this city, not just their apartment, their home.

My Verdict: 5/5

Favorite Performance: N/A

Edited by Rebekah Anderson

[sourfilmandmusic]

I co-wrote this short film with director Zachary Heinzerling. It premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. It’s a fable about a man who goes hunting the red grouse in the Scottish Highlands, but everything he sees changes shape right before his eyes. The visuals are based on artist Hugh Hayden’s work, who also starred as the only human role.