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Robert L. Lynch: Remaking America Through the Arts

2013-06-10T12:23:30Z

The arts can serve as both a model and catalyst for change for a number of the pressing societal challenges which face our nation. But it will require new ways of thinking and engaging with the opportunities and challenges of a more diverse, technologically-driven and entrepreneurial world.

Read more: Workforce, Leaders, Arts Education, Economy, Cultural Tourism, Sundance Film Festival, Americans for the Arts, Robert Redford, Arts News

Marshall Fine: Movie Review: The Kings of Summer

2013-06-02T22:02:44Z

Shown at Sundance under the title Toy's House, Jordan Vogt-Roberts' The Kings of Summer is a coming-of-age tale that touches a lot of bases and explores a variety of tones in ways that most films are too timid to do.

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Robert Redford On What Keeps Him Going At 76

2013-05-15T13:27:19Z

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“I work because I want to work,” says Redford, now 76. “Work keeps me going.”

By Barbara Lovenheim

When I interviewe...

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Dan Mirvish: Veronica Braff Changes 100 Years of Film Financing for the Best

2013-05-13T16:22:56Z

In all the fuss over Veronica Mars and Zach Braff raising millions of dollars on Kickstarter, people are getting stuck in the trees and missing the forest. The crowd-funding/Kickstarter movement in general is changing the fundamental paradigm of film financing from "investing" in films to "donating" to them.

Read more: Zach Braff, Sundance Film Festival, Julia Stiles, Kickstarter, Veronica Braff, Taye Diggs, Film, Indiewire, Robert Redford, Veronica Mars, Slamdance, Hollywood, Zach Galifianakis, Melissa George, David Harbour, Business News

'Fruitvale Station' Trailer Arrives

2013-05-11T10:44:39Z

The trailer for what could be one of the year's first major Oscar players has debuted, and it offers a decidedly intense depiction of a deadly night i...

Read more: Fruitvale Station, Kevin Durand, Octavia Spencer, Video, Sundance Film Festival, Chad Michael Murray, Oscar Grant, Sundance 2013, Fruitvale Station Trailer, New Movie Trailers, Fruitvale Station Sundance, Oscars 2014, Michael B. Jordan, Oscar Preview, Entertainment News

Molly Rowan Leach: Which Way Is The Front Line From Here

2013-04-23T17:50:41Z

Approaching the two-year anniversary of Tim's tragic death in Misrata covering the risings of the Arab Spring, Sebastian Junger, his close friend and co-director of their Oscar-nominated Restrepo has created an extraordinary documentary of his friend's life.

Read more: Tim Hetherington, Restrepo, Sundance Film Festival, Humanitarian, Sebastian Junger, Documentary, HBO Documentaries, War Photography, Film, Oscars 2011, Photojournalism, Arts News

Sarah Barness: Filmfest DC

2013-04-19T15:53:33Z

This year, I volunteered at Washington D.C., International Film Festival and got to meet some of the people involved, as well as see some of the films. My two favorites were Kings of Summer and The Deep.

Read more: Megan Mullally, Kings of Summer, Nick Offerman, Sundance Film Festival, International Film Festivals, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, The Goonies, The Deep, Washington DC, Film, Dc Filmfest, The Sandlot, DC News

Marlon Regis: Coachella, Minus the Festival!

2013-04-17T15:24:38Z

Because of growing corporate interests -- mostly from the fashion industry -- one can have a free blast without even stepping foot onto the Empire Polo Club grounds.

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Ben Goldfarb: A River Changes Course at the Yale Environmental Film Festival: Interview With Filmmaker Kalyanee Mam

2013-04-15T11:57:20Z

Although demolished trees provide the film its unsettling backdrop, its real focus is the three families, and the meditative rhythm of their lives: hands rooting for potatoes, scythes mowing through swathes of cane, fish cleavers thumping against chopping blocks.

Read more: Sundance Film Festival, Environment, Cambodia, Documentary, River, Festival, Film, Deforestation, Overfishing, Yale, Green News

Victoria Silchenko: On Creativeness and Why Crowdfunding Will Surpass the VC industry

2013-03-11T09:08:49Z

According to the Kickstarter's data, there was $274 billion collected last year (+238 percent from 2011). In comparison, VC's invested $26.5 billion in 2012 (-10 percent from 2011). Do you see the difference?

Read more: Seed Capital, Creativity, Vc, Oscar, Sundance Film Festival, Entertainment, Charity, Equity Crowdfunding, Equity, Crowdfunding, Kickstarter, Crowdsourcing, Donating to Charity, Kickstarter Project, George Clooney, Venture Capital, Film, Donation Crowdfunding, Crowd-Funding, Film Finance, Crowd Funding, Art, Startup, Creative Minds, Social Entrepreneurship, Venture Capitalists, Oscar Nominations, Startups, Donations, KickStarter.Com, Entrepreneurship, Small Business News

How To Direct Your Own Son

2013-02-28T10:00:45Z

To illustrate how long it can take Sundance Film Festival hits to arrive in theaters, look no further than "The End of Love." Mark Webber's second eff...

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Isaac Zablocki: Sex and Sexability

2013-02-22T17:50:53Z

Television and cinema feed us images often setting an inhuman standard of beauty. Imperfections are airbrushed out and erased from the public's purview.

Read more: Disability, Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Film, Movies, Sexuality, Sex, Arts News

Marshall Fine: Why Beasts of the Southern Wild Doesn't Deserve Its Oscar Nominations

2013-02-14T07:47:08Z

Cheap, amateurish and sometimes just plain hard to watch, Beasts enjoyed a wave of overwrought critical hosannas, going all the way back to when the film first was shown more than a year ago at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Marshall Fine: Annals of the Underrated: Sam Rockwell

2013-02-06T07:01:02Z

Sam Rockwell is one of the funniest, most original and compelling actors working in films today. And one of the most underrated, in terms of awards or the kind of big-budget roles that turn someone into a star.

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Katie Shapiro: Female Filmmakers Steal Sundance Spotlight

2013-02-04T14:50:43Z

This year the Sundance Film Festival was all about the ladies. OK, maybe halfway about the ladies, which is still a very good sign.

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Ira Sachs: How to Survive the Plague

2013-02-04T14:37:21Z

Watching How to Survive a Plague reminds me that we have a voice, that we are stronger together than alone, and that we can be heard, if we don't let others silence us. It is history-telling at its best and a movie I can't forget.

Read more: HIV/AIDS, Sundance Film Festival, AIDS Awareness, How to Survive the Plague, Sundance Film Festival 2013, Arts News

Tim Hanstad: Reflections From Sundance About the Power of Data Versus Story

2013-01-30T18:58:18Z

As a data-driven leader, for years I have carried a prejudice against the value and power of storytelling, often thinking of stories as too anecdotal, bordering on the shallow.

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Erica Schlaikjer: $200k Filmmaker Competition Showcases Socially Conscious Art and Media

2013-02-01T18:26:10Z

Torrent's film tells the story of Neil Harbisson, who was born with achromatopsia, which causes complete color blindness. Harbisson helped develop the "eyeborg," a device that translates colors into sounds, giving him the distinction of being the world's first officially recognized cyborg.

Read more: Documentary, Sundance Film Festival, Film, Impact News

Erica Schlaikjer: New Film Shows Girls Rising from Plight to Power

2013-02-01T17:25:50Z

"Educate girls, change the world." That's the simple and powerful mission of the new documentary film and social action campaign Girl Rising.

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Roya Rastegar: May in the Summer : Sundance 2013 Review

2013-01-31T17:27:00Z

Written and directed by Cherien Dabis, May in the Summer is a disarmingly humorous, sharply observed and deeply affecting story about a Palestinian-American writer, May, who returns to her childhood home in Jordan in preparation for her summertime wedding.

Read more: Film Festival, Nadine Malouf, Cherien Dabis, Alexander Siddig, Ritu Singh Pande, Independent Film, Hiam Abbass, Elie Mitri, Bill Pullman, Palestine, Amreeka, Alia Shawkat, Sundance Film Festival, Entertainment News

Dakota Fanning On Her First Nude Scene

2013-01-31T13:27:09Z

Dakota Fanning has been inching her away towards adulthood for a while now. First came the provocative ad for Marc Jacob's fragrance Oh, Lola! which s...

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Clark Seydel: Entrepreneurs at Sundance

2013-01-30T14:30:08Z

Entrepreneurs and filmmakers are both visionaries. At the Sundance Film Festival it was evident that getting the two together to collaborate was going...

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Scott Bridges: Sundance: The Ultimate Dinner-and-a-Movie (PHOTOS)

2013-01-29T19:18:19Z

What follows is the fruit of my investigations -- a taste of Sundance.

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Erica Schlaikjer: How Sundance Filmmakers Took A Stand for Social Justice

2013-01-29T14:27:46Z

A Sundance Film Festival panel talk opened up discussion on issues such as human rights, faith, due process and climate change.

Read more: Documentary, Social Justice, Sundance Film Festival, Film, Impactx, Video, Impact News

Kristin McCracken: Amplify the Message: Social Media at Your Festival Debut

2013-01-28T19:03:07Z

How can you make the most out of social media today? As you head to Sundance, Slamdance, or any festival this year, some tips on how to capitalize on the increased exposure it will bring -- both to your film and to you as a filmmaker.

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