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Julie Ha and Eugene Yi’s extraordinarily moving “Free Chol Soo Lee,” the best documentary I’ve seen from this year’s US Documentary competition, gifts many things to its title subject, including the idea of being truly seen. A...

The most high-profile sections of Sundance 2022 seem to get the most press, groupings like U.S. Dramatic Competition, NEXT, or World Documentary Competition—programs that launch films into the arthouse scene for the rest of the year....

Female protagonists were definitely centered at this year’s Sundance. It felt like every other film I saw gave a platform to a phenomenal actress. That was certainly the case for this trio of thrillers from the...

The world is dealing with grief right now on a massive scale. There’s the direct grief of the amount of death that people have faced in the last two years, but also a grieving of ways...

We are pleased to offer an excerpt from the January 2022 edition of the online magazine Bright Wall/Dark Room. Their January theme is ‘The Best of 2021’ and, in addition to “The French Dispatch,” also features new...

I can attest that Brenda is a very dedicated philanthropist and producer and I know she will be a great asset to Film Independent. I am pleased to report that Brenda Robinson, the entertainment attorney, producer and dedicated philanthropist from Chicago who has...

Sony doesn’t have a new “Uncharted” game to tout in conjunction with the release of the Tom Holland & Mark Wahlberg adaptation of the wildly successful Naughty Dog series that’s launching in theaters next month. So...

Despite a few of my favorite documentaries of 2021 premiering at Sundance last year, including “Flee,” “Summer of Soul,” and “In the Same Breath,” I ended up surprisingly light on non-fiction films this year (in part...

The final stretch of the U.S. Dramatic Competition unfurled over the last two days of the virtual Sundance Film Festival, and it was a bumpy road in terms of quality. It was also a refreshing display...

You should never underestimate how much a decent twist can give momentum to a story. Let “In from the Cold” of all things prove that to you, if you do decide to give it a shot...