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Alex Heeney

Sonita, 2016 San Francisco Film Festival

Alex Heeney / January 28, 2016

Sonita and Sand Storm at Sundance: when the patriarchy looks like your mother

Both films explore how empowered women function within a patriarchal society. They pose the question, can you defeat the patriarchy simply by exercising agency?

Mammal, Rebecca Daly

Alex Heeney / January 26, 2016

Rebecca Daly discusses Sundance drama Mammal

The new film from Irish writer-director Rebecca Daly, Mammal, is a smart, sensitive story about family, love, grief, and parenting.

Resilience

Alex Heeney / January 26, 2016

Resilience reveals a new public health crisis

Redford has crafted a densely packed film intended to educate the public about Adverse Childhood Effects, or the very real existence of Toxic Stress.

Alex Heeney / January 25, 2016

NUTS! and foreveryone.net: The visionary and the charlatan

The Sundance documentaries foreveryone.net and NUTS! each chronicle the scientific achievements and self-mythologizing of two very different men.

Unlocking the Cage

Alex Heeney / January 22, 2016

Sloan Prize contenders: Science at Sundance 2016

We take a look at the films in contention for the Alfred P. Sloan Prize, the jurors, and make some predictions.

45 Years, Music in film 2015

Alex Heeney / January 22, 2016

45 Years of marriage on thin ice

In 45 Years, Andrew Haigh uses sound and very precise framing to develop a complex, cinematic story of a long-term relationship. Read our book about Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete.

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