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FeaturesKenneth Lonergan, 'Manchester By The Sea'
Arguably the most acclaimed film in Sundance, Kenneth Lonergan’s Premieres selection packs a punch and sparked a $10m US buy from Amazon Studios that will include a theatrical launch most likely during awards season.
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FeaturesTiger directors: Elisabeth Subrin, 'A Woman, A Part'
After an intensive three-and-a-half year pre-production period, writer-director Elisabeth Subrin brings her feature debut A Woman, A Part to the 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam, where it will receive its world premiere in the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition.
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FeaturesTiger directors: Prabda Yoon, 'Motel Mist'
Prabda Yoon’s directorial debut Motel Mist - world premiering in the IFFR 45th Hivos Tiger Awards Competition - is the perfect summary of his prolific career.
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FeaturesTiger directors: Felipe Guerrero, 'Oscuro Animal'
Colombian director Felipe Guerrero explains why he cut out dialogue in his debut feature Oscuro Animal, which receives its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) today (Jan 29).
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FeaturesMads Matthiesen, Denmark's next top 'Model'
Mads Matthiesen made a splash with his 2012 debut Teddy Bear. The Danish director talks to Wendy Mitchell about his English-language follow-up, The Model, which screens at Goteborg and Rotterdam.
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FeaturesAndrew Haigh: the time of his life
UK writer-director Andrew Haigh reflects on a whirlwind year for 45 Years, his disappointment Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay missed out on Bafta nominations, and upcoming projects Lean On Pete and an Alexander McQueen biopic. Michael Rosser reports.
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FeaturesTiger directors: Fiona Tan, 'History's Future'
The filmmaker reveals the challenge of making her debut feture.
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FeaturesNate Parker talks Sundance hit 'The Birth Of A Nation'
You may know the name Nate Parker from his roles in The Great Debaters, Non-Stop and Arbitrage. Then Monday afternoon happened at the Eccles in Sundance.
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FeaturesSlamdance directors: Claire Carré, 'Embers'
SCREEN SUBSCRIBERS: Claire Carré talks to Jeremy Berkowitz about the challenges of a first feature, her fascination with memory and building the world of her film using places across the globe.
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FeaturesDoron Weber, The Sloan Foundation
As Sundance prepares to announce the winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize, Jeremy Kay talks to the Sloan Foundation’s vice-president and programme director about his mission to further public understanding of science, technology and economics through grant allocation and partnership with film schools around the US.
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FeaturesSundance directors: Mirjana Karanovic, 'A Good Wife'
Acclaimed Serbian actress Mirjana Karanovic discusses the inspiration for her directorial debut about a woman who discovers her husband’s war crimes.
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FeaturesSlamdance directors: Paul Taylor, 'Driftwood'
SCREEN SUBSCRIBERS: Filmmaker Paul Taylor talks with Jeremy Berkowitz about the use of dialogue in film, creating an alternate universe on screen and the influence Greek mythology has on his work.
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FeaturesSundance 2016: Babak Anvari talks 'Under The Shadow'
Screen sat down with first-time feature director Babak Anvari and Lucan Toh of production company Wigwam Films to discuss Farsi-language horror Under The Shadow, which has been acquired by Netflix.
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FeaturesParis RDV: Vincent Garenq talks true-crime drama 'Kalinka'
SCREEN SUBSCRIBERS: Director discusses new crime-drama starring Daniel Auteuil, his passion for true stories and future projects
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FeaturesSlamdance directors: Jeremy Lalonde, 'How To Plan An Orgy In A Small Town'
SCREEN SUBSCRIBERS: Jeremy Lalonde takes the coming-of-age formula and turns it on its head: what if the protagonist was a confident teen gazelle who becomes a Sex And The City-style big city writer and the plot was about her return to her hometown to plan an orgy?
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FeaturesSundance directors: Yao Huang, 'Pleasure. Love.'
The dreamy intimacy of Yao Huang’s debut feature is a departure from the more mannered Chinese film-making to which Western audiences have become accustomed.
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FeaturesSundance directors: Elite Zexer, 'Sand Storm'
Elite Zexer’s feature debut stems from her love for the Bedouin people and in particular her fascination with the role of women.
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FeaturesSundance directors: Alejandro Fernández Almendras, 'Much Ado About Nothing'
Alejandro Fernández Almendras won the Sundance World Cinema Dramatic prize in 2014 with To Kill A Man and he mines the familiar terrain of social and legal injustice in his return to Park City.
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FeaturesSundance directors: Rebecca Daly, 'Mammal'
Australian actress Rachel Griffiths usually inhabits gregarious characters but plays against type in Mammal as a woman who loses a son and weaves a complicated relationship with a teenage boy.
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FeaturesSundance directors: Agnieszka Smoczynska, 'The Lure'
Agnieszka Smoczynska had already collaborated with screenwriter Robert Bolesto on her short films but the impetus for her trippy $1.6m (€1.5m) feature debut came as a surprise.