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*Sundance is over and marks another historical event in the record books. And as we reported earlier, “Fruitvale” director Ryan Coogler went home a champ with not one major award, but two. Not only did the film pick up the Audience Award, but also the Grand Jury Prize, the most celebrated, coveted award of the [...]
*Saturday night at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, “Fruitvale” won the Grand Jury prize. “Fruitvale” is a drama based on the real-life story of a young man balck man named Oscar Grant, who was shot to death at an Oakland BART station. The movie also won the Audience Award for U.S. dramatic [...]
*“Beasts of the Southern Wild,” in all of its controversial essence, was a top pick at both Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals earlier this year. Critics were absolutely taken aback by the films sheer brilliance and riveting storyline, which included a 6-year-old heroine addict. Quvenzhané Wallis, who was six at the time of production, worked [...]
*Days after Spike Lee railed against Hollywood studio executives at the Sundance Film Festival, his co-producer and co-writer of “Red Hook Summer” has accused those same executives of attempting to keep black filmmakers under their thumb. “It’s the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens,” James McBride wrote [...]
*As you probably know by now, Spike Lee was at the Sundance film festival to screen his new movie, “Red Hook Summer,” which is a low-budget, independent film that takes place in a Brooklyn neighborhood. After the Sunday screening, he introduced the cast and began to field questions. This is where things went sour. As [...]
*Major talent firm UTA has swooped up writer-director Dee Rees, whose debut film “Pariah” had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Focus Features picked up worldwide rights to Rees’ teen drama, which had screened opening night of the festival. Based on an award-winning short Rees screened at Sundance three years earlier, [...]
*If you can recall the beef Q-Tip had with the producers of the film “Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest” based on his rap group’s making, you might remember that he was pretty livid about the way things went down. So he and the other members of legendary rap group [...]
*A filmmaker is on a journey to reveal the behind the scenes ingenuity of The Tribe Called Quest with an exclusive Sundance documentary. “Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest” is set to premiere on the big screen soon. A trailer for the film recently hit the Internet and folks are [...]
*For my money, the British flick Fish Tank was easily the best movie released in the first month of 2010. And if I were handing out another accolade for February, that would have to go to this compelling, super-realistic indie, a character-driven affair written and directed by Emily Abt. Ms. Abt, an award-winning filmmaker previously [...]
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