Sundance
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How Lena Dunham and Her ‘Sharp Stick’ Cast Embraced the ‘Toxic’ and ‘Messy’ Aspects of Women’s Lives (Video)
Sundance 2022: Dunham’s first feature in 12 years tells the story of a “woman on a judgement-free sexual journey”
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How Rory Kennedy Hopes to Prevent Another Fatal Plane Crash With ‘Downfall: The Case Against Boeing’ (Video)
Sundance 2022: Kennedy’s documentary explores the fatal missteps that cost more than 300 lives
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Why ‘Meet Me in the Bathroom’ Directors Didn’t Want a ‘Behind the Music’ Type Documentary (Video)
Sundance 2022: “We wanted to make something that lives and breathes and makes you feel like you had been dropped into that time,” Dylan Southern says
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How a Firefighter-Turned-Filmmaker Gained Access to a Terrorist Rehab Center in ‘Jihad Rehab’ (Video)
Sundance 2022: “I think because of my time in Yemen, one thing I realized living there is the way to get something done is usually not to go through official channels, it’s through back channeling,” Meg Smaker tells TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman
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Bill Nighy’s ‘Living’ Finds New Life at Sony Classics
Sundance 2022: Oliver Hermanus’ film re-imagines Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 classic “Ikiru”
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The Sundance Blues: Good Films Can’t Overcome a Muted Virtual Festival
Sundance 2020: This year was supposed to be a triumphant return to an in-person festival, but the pandemic other plans
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‘Navalny,’ About Russian Opposition Leader, Added as Surprise Film to Sundance Lineup
Daniel Roher directs the documentary that will premiere Tuesday in competition at the virtual festival
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Emma Thompson Wanted Her Body ‘Untreated’ in ‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’ (Video)
Sundance 2022: “I’ve always been a card-carrying, kind of militant feminist about women’s bodies and what’s been done to them,” Thompson says
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Women Filmmakers at Sundance: Don’t Touch My Abortion
Sundance 2022: the films are reminding us what it was like when women did not have the right to choose
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How Thandiwe Newton Used Her Own Experience to Shape Her ‘God’s Country’ Performance (Video)
Sundance 2022: “I felt that I had experienced those same frustrations daily,” Newton tells TheWrap’s Brian Welk
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Why ‘Aftershock’ Filmmakers Were Inspired to Make a Doc About Disparities in Maternal Health Care (Video)
Sundance 2022: “Someone would tell me a story about a sister, a friend, a cousin who had died from complications of childbirth,” Tonya Lewis Lee tells TheWrap
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Why Jesse Eisenberg Lucked Out With Julianne Moore on His Directing Debut ‘When You Finish Saving the World’ (Video)
Sundance 2022: “The first take she did of every scene was the best,” the Oscar-nominated actor says
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‘Calendar Girls’: Women Get Candid About the Anxieties of Aging in Clip From Sundance Doc (Exclusive Video)
The film follows senior volunteer dancers in Florida
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‘Dual’ Producer Lee Kim Signs First Look Deal With XYZ Films
Riley Stearns’ film starring Karen Gillan and Aaron Paul will premiere at Sundance this week
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‘I Didn’t See You There’ Clip Provides a Meditation on Freakdom From Sundance Documentary (Exclusive Video)
Filmmaker Reid Davenport’s personal feature is playing in the U.S. Documentary Competition section at Sundance
