#sundance-film-festival

#sundance-film-festival

Navalny, a film that followed the imprisoned Russian dissident Aleksei A. Navalny as he investigated his own near-fatal poisoning in 2020, won the Oscar for best documentary feature on Sunday, with Mr. Navalny's wife and daughter appearing onstage to deliver a message of defiance.Accepting the award, the Canadian filmmaker Daniel Roher spoke out against President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, and said he was there because Aleksei Navalny right now is languishing in a gulag six and a half hours outside of Moscow, and I want to remind the world that he is there.

The Sundance Film Festival announced Thursday that it would debut Doug Liman's documentary Justice, which examines the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh and his Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 2018.Three women accused Kavanaugh of assault as the Senate Judiciary Committee considered whether he should be seated on the nation's highest court; he denied them all.

Actor Jonathan Majors is already part of the conversation for next year's Oscars.Ayesha Rascoe looks at how his career has taken off, with two big movies out now and another on the way.A MARTINEZ, HOST: From the Sundance Film Festival to big screens around the country, one actor has critics and movie fans buzzing - Jonathan Majors.

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The Tickells are kindred eco-spirits.Rebecca grew up in Vermont and spent a lot of time outdoors.Alluding to her "stressful upbringing," she says that nature was "deeply healing."Joshua moved from his native Australia to Louisiana when he was nine.He lived near oil refineries and experienced extreme pollution.

Sundance Film Festival is back in London this July with a packed programme, including eleven feature films that premiered in Utah earlier in the year.Picturehouse Central is hosting the film fest, which'll open with the UK premiere of Scrapper, written and directed by Londoner Charlotte Regan, and close with the UK premiere of comedy-drama You Hurt My Feelings, from Nicole Holofcener, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tobias Menzies.

Feature first-timer Raine Allen Miller directs this romcom urban-pastoral, goofing and freewheeling around the streets of south London with an almost childlike innocence shot by Olan Collardy in rich colour with cartoony wide-angle streetscapes, and scripted by Nathan Bryon and Tom Melia.Unsubtle and on-the-nose though it undoubtedly is, there is also an amiable, upbeat energy.

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Filmmakers, film industry execs, actors, industry insiders, film devotees and marketers will return to Park City, Utah this year for the Sundance Film Festival, which is being held in-person for the first time since 2020.The last two years attendees tuned in virtually due to the pandemic.

Chaz's Journal


Before we embark on 2023, I'd like to take a moment to look back at 2022.In January, we  returned to the Sundance Film Festival, publishing dispatches from our editors Brian Tallerico and Nick Allen as well as our contributors Marya Gates, Robert Daniels and Isaac Feldberg.In February, Barbara Scharres brought us highlights  from the Rotterdam International Film Festival, while  our annual Women Writers Week was held in March, showcasing the essential work of so many brilliant female writers.

Navalny, 46, fell ill in Siberia in 2020 and was flown to Germany, which said it found evidence he had been poisoned with Novichok, a banned nerve agent.The movie Navalny, a look at the Russian dissident who was poisoned with a nerve agent and nearly died, captured the Oscar for best documentary feature.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Navalny, a look at a Russian opposition leader following an attempt on his life, has won the Oscar for best documentary feature.Director Daniel Roher's portrait of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has shadowy operatives, truth-seeking journalists, conspiracy theories and Soviet-era poisons.

Sarah Natochenny almost missed her audition to voice Ash Ketchum."I was 18 years old, and I had an 'At a Glance' desktop calendar.I didn't flip the page over until Monday.The audition was on that Monday," she explains."I was like, 'Oh God ... this is today!'"Tech is not your friend.