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2017 Sundance Film Festival
The 2017 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 to January 29, 2017. The first lineup of competition films was announced November 30, 2016. Awards The following awards were presented: * Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – ''I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore'' by Macon Blair * Audience Award: Dramatic – '' Crown Heights'' by Matt Ruskin * Directing Award: Dramatic – Eliza Hittman for ''Beach Rats'' * Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – David Branson Smith and Matt Spicer for ''Ingrid Goes West'' * U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance – Chanté Adams for ''Roxanne Roxanne'' * U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Director – Maggie Betts for ''Novitiate'' * U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematography – Daniel Landin for ''The Yellow Birds'' * Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – ''Dina'' by Dan Sickles and Antonio Santini * Directing Award: Documentary – Peter Nicks for ''The Force'' * U.S. Documentary Orwell A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park City, Utah
Park City is a city in Utah, United States. The vast majority is in Summit County, and it extends into Wasatch County. It is considered to be part of the Wasatch Back. The city is southeast of downtown Salt Lake City and from Salt Lake City's east edge of Sugar House along Interstate 80. The population was 8,396 at the 2020 census. On average, the tourist population greatly exceeds the number of permanent residents. After a population decline following the shutdown of the area's mining industry, the city rebounded during the 1980s and 1990s through an expansion of its tourism business. the city brings in a yearly average of $529.8 million to the Utah Economy as a tourist hot spot, $80 million of which is attributed to the Sundance Film Festival. The city has two major ski resorts: Deer Valley Resort and Park City Mountain Resort (combined with Canyons Village at Park City) and one minor resort: Woodward Park City (an action sports training and fun center). Both Deer Val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chanté Adams
Chanté Adams (born December 16, 1994) is an American actress. She starred in the 2017 biopic ''Roxanne Roxanne'', for which she received the Sundance Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Performance. Life and career Adams was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. She began acting as a student at Cass Technical High School. She received her bachelor's degree from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama, after which she moved to New York to pursue an acting career. One month after moving to New York, Adams was invited to audition for the lead role in a biopic about rapper Roxanne Shanté. She was cast in the role and filming began eight days later. For her performance in ''Roxanne Roxanne'', Adams received the Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Performance at 2017 Sundance. Adams has appeared in the films '' Monsters and Men'' (2018), '' Bad Hair'' (2020), and '' The Photograph'' (2020). In 2021, Adams starred opposite Michael B. Jordan in the romantic drama ''A Journal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Roberts (filmmaker)
Kim Roberts, A.C.E., is an American filmmaker who has worked primarily on documentaries as a film editor and writer. Roberts has a master's degree in documentary film production from Stanford University (1996). Her first credit as an editor was for ''Long Night's Journey into Day'' (2000), which was directed by Deborah Hoffmann and Frances Reid and that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. She was credited as both an editor and writer for ''Great Wall Across the Yangtze'' (2000), which was directed by Ellen Perry. Her work since then and several of her honors are sketched in the filmography below. Roberts was featured in a ''New York Times'' article on film editing in 2012. She has been selected for membership in the American Cinema Editors, which entitles editors to append "A.C.E." to their film credits. Selected filmography This filmography is based on the listing at the Internet Movie Database. For each film, the director(s) and year of release are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Fogel
Bryan Fogel is an American film director, producer, author, playwright, speaker and human rights activist, best known for the 2017 documentary ''Icarus,'' which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 90th Academy Awards in 2018. ''The New York Times'' described Fogel's film ''Icarus'' as "Illuminating" and ''Variety'' magazine called it "A Game Changing Documentary." ''Icarus'' premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award "The Orwell Award" and the first ever "Audience Choice" Award of Sundance Film Festival London. The film was acquired in a historic $5 million sale by Netflix and launched globally on August 4, 2017 and won its first Feature Documentary Oscar with ''Icarus''. The evidence brought forward in Icarus through Russian whistle-blower Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov was instrumental in the Olympic Committee's banning of Russia from the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. After ''Icarus'', Fogel directed and produced the 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icarus (2017 Film)
''Icarus'' is a 2017 American documentary film by Bryan Fogel. It chronicles Fogel's exploration of the option of doping to win an amateur cycling race and happening upon a major international doping scandal when he asks for the help of Grigory Rodchenkov, the head of the Russian anti-doping laboratory. It premiered at Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2017, and was awarded the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award (Orwell Award). Netflix acquired the distribution rights and released ''Icarus'' globally on August 4, 2017. At the 90th Academy Awards, the film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Synopsis While investigating the furtive world of illegal doping in sports, Bryan Fogel connects with Russian scientist Grigory Rodchenkov, the director of Russia's national anti-doping laboratory. Rodchenkov creates a plan for Fogel to take banned performance-enhancing drugs in a way that will evade detection from drug-testing, helping Fogel's experiment to prove that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Force (2016 Film)
The Force is a metaphysical and ubiquitous power in the ''Star Wars'' fictional universe. "Force-sensitive" characters use the Force throughout the franchise. Heroes like the Jedi seek to "become one with the Force", matching their personal wills with the will of the Force, while the Sith and other villains exploit the Force and try to bend it toward their destructive desires. The Force has been compared to aspects of several world religions, and the phrase "May the Force be with you" has become part of the popular-culture vernacular. Concept and development Creation for the original films George Lucas created the concept of the Force to address character and plot developments in ''Star Wars'' (1977). He also wanted to "awaken a certain kind of spirituality" in young audiences, suggesting a belief in God without endorsing any specific religion.''The Mythology of Star Wars'' (2000 documentary) He developed the Force as a nondenominational religious concept, "distilld fromth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Nicks
Peter Nicks is an American filmmaker. Peter Olivera Nicks (born May 2, 1968) is an American film director, producer and writer. He began his career in television and served as co-producer and editor of the 2006 episode "Blame Somebody Else" of PBS series '' AIR: America's Investigative Reports''. The episode received an Emmy Award in 2007 for Outstanding Feature Story in a News Magazine, for its exposure of the pipeline of illegal labor human trafficking during the Iraq War. He directed the 2012 documentary film '' The Waiting Room''. It follows the life and times of patients, doctors, and staff at Highland Hospital, a safety-net hospital in Oakland, California. In 2015 Nicks received a United States Artists (USA) fellowship. In 2017 he released '' The Force (2017 film)'', a documentary about reform measures at the Oakland Police Department. In January 2021 the third in his planned trilogy about Oakland public institutions, ''Homeroom (2021 film)'', received its world ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Santini
Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular male baby names in the United States since the late 19th century and has been among the top 200 since the mid 20th century. In the English language it is translated as Anthony, and has some female derivatives: Antonia, Antónia, Antonieta, Antonietta, and Antonella'. It also has some male derivatives, such as Anthonio, Antón, Antò, Antonis, Antoñito, Antonino, Antonello, Tonio, Tono, Toño, Toñín, Tonino, Nantonio, Ninni, Totò, Tó, Tonini, Tony, Toni, Toninho, Toñito, and Tõnis. The Portuguese equivalent is António (Portuguese orthography) or Antônio (Brazilian Portuguese). In old Portuguese the form Antão was also used, not just to differentiate between older and younger but also between more and less important. In Galician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Sickles (director)
Dan Sickles is an American documentary film director, writer, actor and producer. He is best known for his documentaries, '' Mala Mala'' and '' Dina''. In 2015, he was named in ''Out'' magazine's OUT100. Life and career Sickles was born in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. He earned his BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2010. Sickles directed, wrote and produced his debut documentary, '' Mala Mala'', along with Antonio Santini, about nine trans-identifying individuals in Puerto Rico, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won the runner-up audience award at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. In 2015, he directed a short film, ''I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast'', based on the Melissa Studdard poetry collection ''I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast''. In 2017, Sickles directed and produced his second documentary, '' Dina'', along with Antonio Santini, about a love story between a suburban woman and a Walmart door greeter, premiered at the Sundance Film Fes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dina (film)
''Dina'' is an American documentary film about Dina Buno and her partner Scott Levin, both on the autism spectrum. Production ''Dina'' was directed by Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles. It was edited by Sofia Subercaseaux and is 101 minutes long. Release ''Dina'' premiered in 2017 at the Sundance Film Festival. Awards ''Dina'' won the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize in 2017. It also received the 2017 Karen Schmeer Award for Excellence in Documentary Editing from the Independent Film Festival Boston, the IDA Award for best feature documentary of the year in 2017, and a special jury prize for honesty and humanity from the 2017 Sarasota Film Festival. Also in 2017 Dan Sickles received the Producer’s Vision Award from the Sun Valley Film Festival for producing the film. Dina Buno and Scott Levin were listed among the 2017 Cinema Eye Honors Unforgettables. The film also received the Utah Film Center’s Peek Award in 2018. Nominations ''Dina'' was nomi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Yellow Birds (film)
''The Yellow Birds'' is a 2017 American war film directed by Alexandre Moors and based on the novel ''The Yellow Birds'' by Kevin Powers. The film stars Tye Sheridan, Alden Ehrenreich, Toni Collette, Jason Patric, Jack Huston and Jennifer Aniston. The story is about two young U.S. soldiers who navigate the terrors of the Iraq War. When only one of the soldiers returns home, he is tortured by a promise he made to the other's mother before their deployment. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2017. It was released on May 17, 2018, through DirecTV Cinema before being released in a limited release and through video on demand on June 15, 2018, by Saban Films. Plot The story alternates between flashbacks of U.S. soldier John Bartle's time serving in Iraq with his friend Daniel "Murph" Murphy, and Bartle returning to his home in Richmond, Virginia. Only Bartle has come back, leaving the fate of Murph a mystery. Bartle first meets Murph during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Landin
Daniel Landin BSC, is a British cinematographer. Landin started working with Super 8 and VHS video in 1978, collaborating with the industrial music group Throbbing Gristle, documenting live performances and art events. In 1979, he formed the experimental militant classicist group ‘ Last Few Days’ with Simon Joyce and Keir Fraser, a highly conceptual collective whose primary aim was live performance in unconventional venues (chapels, cinemas, burger bars, silos, tunnels etc.). Recording was a secondary priority and was mainly live, apart from the ‘Polavision’ soundtrack produced by Cabaret Voltaire at their Western Works in Sheffield 1982. As the performances became more ambitious, visual imagery became intrinsic to the events, and working on Super 8 and 16mm, Landin created films which were projected during performances. Confrontational events were staged at which synchronised films which were simultaneously projected onto multiple screens to accompany challenging and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
