“I Was Drawn to Harlem as a Character and How Gentrification Was Also an Antagonist”: DP Eric Yue on A Thousand and One
A.V. Rockwell’s feature debut A Thousand and One begins with Inez (Teyana Taylor) migrating between shelters during an intensely hot summer in ’90s-era New York City. Her 6-year-old son Terry is in foster care, and she makes the bold decision…
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Dean Devlin and Jonathan Glassner on Their Tense New Sci-Fi Series The Ark
Dean Devlin and Jonathan Glassner are partly responsible for the shape of science-fiction that audiences take for granted today. Devlin was the writer for Stargate, Independence Day, and 1998's Godzilla (along with the popular series Leverage). Glassner is a television…
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Emilia Jones & Nicholas Braun Discuss Filming the Bad Kiss Scene
There was a lot of buzz at this year’s Sundance Film Festival for Susanna Fogel’s Cat Person, starring Emilia Jones and Nicholas Braun. Based on Kristen Roupenian’s remarkably viral New Yorker short story of the same name, Cat Person is…
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Shrinking’s Luke Tennie on What He Learned From Series’ Creator Jason Segel
Can the team behind Apple TV+ and Ted Lasso score another creative goal with Shrinking? That’s the plan. The new comedy tracks befuddled, grieving therapist Jimmy (Jason Segel), who suddenly starts breaking rules, telling his clients exactly what’s on his…
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“Nothing Is Wasted in the Process of Documentary Editing”: Editor Jean Rheem on Bad Press
Bad Press, courtesy of Sundance Institute. When the 2015 Free Press Act is repealed, Angel Ellis and her colleagues at Mvskoke Media in Okmulgee, Oklahoma begin a long battle to offer transparent journalism for Muscogee Nation readers. Bad Press, directed…
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Ben Whishaw & Alice Englert Discuss Her Directorial Debut
Actress Alice Englert can now add writer-director to her resumé, after premiering her directorial debut, Bad Behaviour, at the Sundance Film Festival this year. Following in the footsteps of her mother, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Jane Campion, Englert’s feature is a…
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Sherry Cola on Her Scene-Stealing Turn in Randall Park’s Shortcomings
Sherry Cola and I were able to squeeze a phone call for our interview just moments before she had to get ready for the Sundance Film Festival premiere of her latest movie Shortcomings. Naturally, it was an exciting day for…
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“Choosing the Perfect Lens for Us Was the Bigger Challenge”: DP André Jäger on The Persian Version
The Persian Version, courtesy of Sundance Institute. When Leila’s (Layla Mohammadi) Iranian-American family gathers in New York City for her father’s heart transplant surgery, a secret that she’s been keeping is unceremoniously spilled. What she wasn’t expecting, however, is learning…
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Teen Wolf Stars Discuss Their Return to Beacon Hills in New Movie
Teen Wolf has had a fascinating history over the past four decades. Following the cheesy Michael J. Fox classic in 1985, a sequel and an animated kids show (The Cartoon Adventures of Teen Wolf) was created before the idea laid…
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How Willem Dafoe Influenced Jasmine Curtis-Smith’s Fairy
Prime Video wasn’t about to let anyone else snatch up In My Mother’s Skin at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Before the movie's January 20th debut, the streamer claimed the global distribution rights to the much-praised Midnight line-up selection. Writer-director…
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“We Initially Imagined It as a Rectangle That From the Left Starts Off Dark, Gray and Gloomy”: Editor Iva Radivojevic on King Coal
In Sundance NEXT selection King Coal, Elaine McMillion Sheldon employs a hybrid approach, blending contemporary imagery with archival material and poetic voiceover to explore the impact that coal — the substance and the industry — has had on Central Appalachia.…
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Maryam Keshavarz Discusses Turning the Lens Towards Herself for The Persian Version
Maryam Keshavarz was coming out of an undoubtedly exciting weekend at Sundance Film Festival when we met over Zoom earlier this week. Her latest film, The Persian Version, had just made its premiere as part of the festival's U.S. Dramatic…
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