Unlikely Heroes: The 31st Sundance Film Festival and the 20th Pan African Film and Arts Festival Bérénice Reynaud March 2012 Festival Reports As many had expected, Benh Zeitlin’s first feature, Beasts of the Southern Wild, won The Grand Jury Prize, as well The Excellence in Cinematography Award (for Ben Richardson’s magic-realist imagery) in the US D...
Take the A Train and Don’t Look Back: The 30th Sundance Film Festival and the 19th Pan African Film and Arts Festival Bérénice Reynaud May 2011 Festival Reports It’s at Sundance that independent queer cinema was launched in the US media. Since Todd Haynes’ Poison (1991) (1) and Gregg Araki’s The Living End (1992), the notion of queer cinema has evolved, but Araki is st...
Reports from the Festival Front: The Year Obama Walked: The 28th Sundance Film Festival and the 17th Pan African Film and Arts Festival Bérénice Reynaud April 2009 Festival Reports Sundance: 15-29 January 2009 Pan African: 5-16 February 2009 Of Mormons and Men Never was the paradox of Sundance felt so profoundly, and, I will add, so creatively, as this year. The entire country was reel...
