True/False 2025: Seeds, River of Grass, How Deep Is Your Love | Festivals & Awards
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True/False 2025: Seeds, River of Grass, How Deep Is Your Love | Festivals & Awards

March 1, 2025
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Here at True/False Film Festival, documentary as a form reigns supreme. Located in the Midwestern college town of Columbia, Missouri, True/False always brings an assortment of non-fiction films world premiering at the festival, joined by others hailing from Sundance other prestige doc fests. This first dispatch is a replica of

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A Mathematical Explanation of What is Going to Win Best Picture This Year | Festivals & Awards
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A Mathematical Explanation of What is Going to Win Best Picture This Year | Festivals & Awards

February 27, 2025
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Everything changed about the Best Picture race in 2009, when the Academy adopted the preferential ballot as their Best Picture voting method. This was the same year the Best Picture field was expanded from five to ten nominees (as a response to “The Dark Knight” and “Wall-E” getting shut out

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“Anora,” “Shōgun” Win Big with Critics Choice Awards | Festivals & Awards
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“Anora,” “Shōgun” Win Big with Critics Choice Awards | Festivals & Awards

February 11, 2025
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California’s sunshiny 70-degree weather set the tone for the 30th Critics Choice Awards held February 7 at Santa Monica Airport’s Barker Hanger. In covering the awards for the last ten years, this Chicago-based critic always looks forward to the warm weather, although this year was the best as there was

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Navigating Sundance as a First Timer | Festivals & Awards
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Navigating Sundance as a First Timer | Festivals & Awards

February 9, 2025
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Sundance! As a creator, this iconic film festival once felt like an untouchable dream reserved for stars or those who had “made it.” But after boldly attending the Cannes Film Festival years ago, I realized Sundance wasn’t out of reach. With a push from my Chicago filmmaker friends, including Dashawna

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“El Norte” Screening Commemorates Sundance Institute History at Pivotal Moment  | Festivals & Awards
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“El Norte” Screening Commemorates Sundance Institute History at Pivotal Moment  | Festivals & Awards

February 5, 2025
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The Sundance Film Festival is at a crossroads. Within the next year, the organization may announce a new home, leaving behind the Park City vistas filmmakers have been flocking to for generations. Yet, in looking back at its storied history for this year’s From the Collection section, the festival selected

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Sundance 2025: The Things You Kill, Sukkwan Island, LUZ | Festivals & Awards
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Sundance 2025: The Things You Kill, Sukkwan Island, LUZ | Festivals & Awards

February 3, 2025
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The World Cinema Dramatic program of Sundance often leaves a bit to be desired as it feels like accomplished international cinema waits for Berlin, Rotterdam, or Cannes in the first half of the year. This is not to say that there’s never anything of value in this program, but the

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Sundance 2025: Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears), DJ Ahmet, André Is an Idiot | Festivals & Awards
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Sundance 2025: Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears), DJ Ahmet, André Is an Idiot | Festivals & Awards

February 2, 2025
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Unlike the rest of the dispatches I’ve written out of Sundance, the selections here are not defined by their competitive category. This one is a little bit more of a hodgepodge. “Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears)” and “DJ Ahmet,” for instance, are from the World Dramatic section, while “André Is an

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