Sundance highlighted pressing environmental problems with its commendable but flawed New Climate program.
Film Festivals
Review: Marjorie Prime is a failed stage-to-screen adaptation
Michael Almereyda’s screen adaptation of the play Marjorie Prime never sheds its theatrical origins and fails to find new insights as a film.
Review: Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto is witty and thought-provoking
Cate Blanchett x13 stars in Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto, a hilarious deconstruction of art manifestos and a call for original thought.
Québécois filmmaker Sophie Goyette talks Mes Nuits Feront Écho
Québécois writer-director Sophie Goyette discusses her feature debut, Mes Nuits Feront Écho (Still Night Still Light), about three people connected by their dreams, which has its international premiere at the Rotterdam Film Festival.
Protecting the land: Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman and RISE
Two documentaries screening in Sundance’s New Climate program — Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman and RISE — shed light on projects to protect land in the U.S. and the lasting effects of colonialism.
Sundance: Sarain Fox and Michelle Latimer on their VICE series, RISE, telling Indigenous stories
Host Sarain Fox and Director Michelle Latimer discuss the making of their new VICE TV series, RISE, telling Indigenous stories, and what it means to tell these stories through film — an inherently colonialist medium.