How Not to Drown at Sea: The 33rd Sundance Film Festival and the 22nd Pan African Film and Arts Festival Bérénice Reynaud March 2014 Festival Reports Looking over the Frontier It’s a pity that, at Sundance, we are so busy trying to discover the next hot feature that the wonderful offerings of the New Frontier section are not at the top of our priorities. A ...
A Sense of Space: The 32nd Sundance Film Festival & the 21st PanAfrican Film & Arts Festival Bérénice Reynaud March 2013 Festival Reports Fruitvale We were lucky. The cold front that had swept through most of the US in January receded on time, so we could enjoy the relatively mild weather, and even sunshine glittering on the snow, while waiti...
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...
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...