Maggie Greenwald’s Sophie and the Rising Sun is an unconventional period piece about race, public and private spaces, and romance. Set in 1941 in the South, the mysterious arrival of a badly beaten Japanese man disrupts small town life.
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Writer-director Nicolette Kribetz discusses Wild
German writer-director Nicolette Kribetz’s film Wild is a strange, dream-like journey of sexual and physical liberation. At Sundance, Kribetz and lead actress Lilith Stangenberg discussed the genesis of the story, creating the character, and the ways in which men and women are confined by social norms.
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?
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 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.
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.