Jake RennBy the time one arrives at the half-resort, half-therapeutic center which serves as the main setting for writer-director Meredith Hama-Brown‘s narrative feature film, Seagrass, it’s already quite apparent that the creator’s voice is...
Saelyx FinnaPalestinian filmmaker Yousef Srouji has called himself an “accidental filmmaker.” Divine timing could be another way of interpreting the creation of his first film, Three Promises, which premiered in 2023, amidst Israel’s war on...
“There was, there was not” is a common opening line for Armenian fairy tales. Filmmaker and multimedia artist Emily Mkrtichian adopts this line as the title for her feature debut — a documentary that embeds deeply within the lives...
Vee Hua 華婷婷The 40th Annual Sundance Film Festival takes place from January 18 to 28, with online screenings beginning on the 25th and lasting only three full days. In a record-breaking year, 15,000 short films were submitted to Sundance and only 56 were...
The 40th Annual Sundance Film Festival takes place from January 18 to 28, with online screenings beginning on the 25th and lasting only three full days. In a record-breaking year, 17,000 short and feature films were submitted to Sundance this year...
In its 24th year of programming, imagineNATIVE 2023 champions a program of Indigenous short and feature films from all over the world, as well as industry panels, music events, and much, much more. What’s notable about imagineNATIVE, held at...
Now in its fourth year, the Lynn Shelton “Of a Certain Age” Grant awards $25,000 in unrestricted funds to one woman, nonbinary, transgender, and/or intersex filmmaker over 39 who has yet to make their first narrative feature film. In...
Sundance Film Festival 2023 returns virtually and in-person, with events taking place from January 19 to 29. This list of short films represents our favorites out of this year’s nine short film programs — which include six focused...