Writer-director Fernanda Valadez and writer-producer Astrid Rondero discuss how the political climate in Mexico impacted Identifying Features.
Sundance Review: Navigating consent in Ninja Thyberg’s Pleasure
Ninja Thyberg’s LA porn drama Pleasure is an authentic, scathing look at an industry with little regard for boundaries or consent.
Sundance Review: Together Together feels both fresh and familiar
Nikole Beckwith’s surrogacy drama, Together Together, starring Patti Harrison and Ed Helms, is sweetly subversive if a little thin.
Jane Schoenbrun wants We’re All Going to the World’s Fair to ‘scare you and make you cry’
Before the film’s Sundance premiere, we spoke to writer-director Jane Schoenbrun about We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, their horror film about loneliness and the internet.
Sundance Interview: Pacho Velez on Searchers and dating in the pandemic
Pacho Velez discusses Searchers, his documentary about online dating, which draws us into a series of intimate interviews with New Yorkers searching for love (or a hookup).
Sundance Review: San Francisco students stress over college applications in Try Harder!
Debbie Lum’s documentary Try Harder! follows students at Lowell, a high-achieving SF high school with a predominantly Asian student body.