Jan 19, 2024 · Sillen: Postproduction for Love Machina was definitely tricky. We cut in Adobe Premiere and onlined in Resolve. There are many very different types of archival footage in the cut. It includes everything from 1960s drugstore snapshots, mini-DV footage to …

Seeds, courtesy of Sundance Institute.. Hailey Gates's war-training satire Atropia won today the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Brittany Shyne's Seeds, about Black farmers in Georgia and their relationship to both the land and U.S. agricultural policy, won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary.

Feb 15, 2024 · Green: Yeah, I was coming out of editing King Richard, and I received a script.At the time, I felt like, “I don’t know if I should even open this.” Like, “Is this real?” Filmmaker: Meaning, you didn’t know the status of the life rights? Green: I mean, I wanted it to be legit. Filmmaker: How did you go about vetting the material? Green: I …

Jan 19, 2024 · Love Machina, the latest film by documentarian Peter Sillen (Benjamin Smoke) follows the couple Martine and Bina Rothblatt, who attempt to transfer Bina’s consciousness to a commissioned humanoid artificial intelligence to preserve their love for one another.The film is also the first feature film editor credit for Conor McBride who discusses the timeliness of the film and its subject matter ...

Canon EOS C80. You might conclude that the C80 and C400 are essentially the same camera, only in two shapes and sizes. This underscores the current situation that when it comes to compact cine cameras, two profiles compete: mirrorless, descended from DSLR still cameras held up to the eye—and boxy, which are blind (sans viewfinder) and covered with buttons, switches, threaded holes for ...

The New You: Aaron Schimberg on A Different Man. Aaron Schimberg has always had a personal interest in facial disfigurement. The New York–based writer-director was born with a bilateral cleft lip and palate, along with other medical issues, and has spent the majority of his filmmaking career grappling with people’s perception of him.

Nov 15, 2024 · Though Debra Granik is no stranger to Sundance — 2004’s Down to the Bone, 2018’s Leave No Trace and 2010’s Oscar-nominated (in four categories) Winter’s Bone all premiered in Park City — I was a bit surprised to see the indie vet’s name attached to a project at the fest’s 40th edition earlier this year. Unlike the director’s prior …

Dec 22, 2023 · Filmmaker: You’ve spoken previously about how Saul’s degenerative condition, his early onset dementia symptoms, was interesting for you to explore because it’s directly related to your own fears. Franco: I think the fear of losing one’s own mind is a massive one for me, but then I guess it’s most people’s greatest fear. Certainly one doesn’t want to lose any capacity ...

Oct 24, 2024 · There’s an honesty to Rap World, the feature debut of co-directors Conner O’Malley and Danny Scharar, beyond its vérité stylings.With Scharar playing the director, Ben, Rap World is a mockumentary following three friends—Matt (O’Malley), Casey (Jack Bensinger) and Jason (Eric Rahill)—from Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, as they trudge through one long night in a quixotic attempt to make a ...

Hits & Misses 2024: Case Studies of Six Sundance 2024 Premieres. In September, Variety declared, “Indie Films Are Staging a Box Office Comeback,” touting the success of the films Longlegs, Thelma and Late Night with the Devil as signs of life for a segment of the industry “crushed by COVID, strikes and streaming,” as reporter Brent Lang wrote.