Sundance 2024
‘Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat’ Review: Kinetic Doc Connects Jazz, Decolonization and the Birth of the United Nations
Johan Grimonprez delves into Belgium's past to investigate the plot against Congolese independence.
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Will Ferrell Doc ‘Will & Harper’ Lands at Netflix After Sundance Bow
Will & Harper, the doc about friends Will Ferrell and Harper Steele, has landed at Netflix in a massive eight-figure deal. The doc is about friends reconnecting after a major life event, and those friends just happen to be Ferrell and former Saturday Night Live head writer Steele. Following Steele coming out as a trans woman, the […]
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Netflix Nabs Sundance Doc ‘Daughters,’ About Girls Reuniting With Their Incarcerated Fathers
The Sundance documentary Daughters has landed at Netflix. The feature follows four young girls as they prepare for a daddy-daughter dance, which is a chance to reunite with their incarcerated fathers as part of a fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., prison. Daughters took home the audience award in the documentary competition and earned the […]
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Focus Features Lands Sundance Coming-of-Age Movie ‘Didi’
Focus Features had landed the worldwide rights to Sean Wang’s feature directorial debut Dídi, which won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. The film is set in 2008 in the San Francisco Bay Area and, according to the film’s logline, follows an “impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t […]
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Magnolia Lands June Squibb Sundance Comedy ‘Thelma’
Magnolia Pictures has landed the North American rights to June Squibb comedy Thelma, which premiered out of the Sundance Film Festival. A wide theatrical release is planned. Josh Margolin directed the feature that follows a 93-year-old grandmother (Squibb) who gets conned by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson (Fred Hechinger) and sets out […]
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‘Porcelain War’ Review: Intimate Reflection on Making Art in Wartime Ukraine Is Beautiful but Frustrating
Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev won the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Documentary Competition at Sundance with this look at the difficulty and necessity of producing art in times of conflict.
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‘Reinas’ Review: An Understated Portrait of a Peruvian Family Navigating Political Turmoil
In Klaudia Reynicke's third feature, a father reconnects with his daughters during a tumultuous summer in Lima.
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‘Ponyboi’ Review: River Gallo and Dylan O’Brien Star in a Sexy, Sweaty New Jersey Fever Dream
The intersex actor and the 'Maze Runner' star play a sex worker and a goofy gangster, respectively, in a crime drama directed by Esteban Arango.
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Sundance: ‘In the Summers,’ ‘Porcelain War’ Win Top Fest Jury Prizes
The 2024 Sundance Film Festival has announced its winners, with In the Summers taking the Grand Jury prize for U.S. Dramatic Competition and Porcelain War landing the award for U.S. Documentary Competition. Sujo won the jury prize for the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section, and A New Kind of Wilderness won for World Cinema Documentary […]
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‘Power’ Review: Yance Ford’s Smart and Searing Documentary on Policing in America
The essay-like Netflix film from the 'Strong Island' director delves into the origins and implications of modern police violence in the United States.
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Sundance Wrap-Up: Malia Obama, Music Stars and Nostalgia Loom Large as Standing Ovations Hit Park City
The sun is setting on the 2024 installment of the Sundance Film Festival, closing out a milestone 40th edition and leaving many headlines in its wake. Those included a whopping $17 million Netflix acquisition for a buzzy directorial debut, a pro-Palestine protest that shut down Main Street, a Sundance debut for a former first daughter, […]
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‘Every Little Thing’ Review: A Stunning Up-Close Portrait of a Hummingbird Rescuer and Her Tiny Patients
Inspired by Terry Masear’s book about her work with the world's smallest birds, Sally Aitken’s documentary follows her during a busy caretaking season in Los Angeles.
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