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It would have been topical enough to make a movie about child molestation involving a sports coach, given, among other things, the recent revelations of the abuse suffered by dozens of young gymnasts which have roiled the US Olympic team. But Jennifer Fox’s The Tale (US Dramatic Competition) is also an amazingly layered, nuanced and powerful film on a difficult and painful subject.

This weekend Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle brushed off new comers 12 Strong and Den of Thieves, taking the domestic top spot one more time with $20. 4 million.

In 2012 British filmmaker Bart Layton presented his documentary The Imposter at Sundance. It ended up winning a BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut later that year.

Gus Van Sant, director of Golden Globe winning films Good Will Hunting (screenplay for Matt Damon and Ben Affleck) and To Die For (best actress for Nicole Kidman) and Milk.

Festival goers packed the Sundance TV lounge on Main Street as the HFPA hosted the Women Breaking Barriers panel in association with Sundance Institute and Sundance TV Saturday. HFPA journalist Elisabeth Sereda moderated the discussion and opened the proceedings announcing a $50.

As part of the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Golden Globe Awards, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) will continue to host special events, this time at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. The HFPA will host a special “Women Breaking Barriers” panel featuring accomplished women from various fields in the film industry, moderated by HFPA member Elisabeth Sereda.

The 75th anniversary of the Golden Globes will not only be remembered in years to come for Oprah Winfrey’s show-stopping Cecil B. deMille acceptance speech, but also for the solidarity on the red carpet and inside the Beverly Hilton ballroom for the #TimesUp movement, espousing equal rights for women.

Going into the 75th Golden Globe Awards, the race seemed wide open for Best Motion Picture, Drama. Coming out of the evening, however, it was a different story as the surprisingly comic but dark drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri captured four major awards: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (Sam Rockwell.

Sundance 2018 officially got underway with that time-honored ritual: the opening day press conference with founder and figurehead Robert Redford was joined on stage by Sundance Festival programmer John Cooper and Sundance Institute director Keri Putnam. Some of the proceedings were familiar to anyone who has trekked up Heber Pass to attend the festival before.

A trusted bellwether of the year in independent cinema, the 2018 Sundance Film Festival starts today, with a strong and diverse line-up – 38% from female directors, 32 % non-white- ready to repeat last year’s stellar performance, which yielded award-worthy titles such as Call Me By Your Name, Get Out and Mudbound, plus a roster of critically acclaimed films – The Big Sick, Patti Cake$, A Ghost Story and the documentaries An Inconvenient Documentary, Chasing Coral and Last Men in Aleppo. The 2018 vintage includes several titles already attracting attention from distributors – a direct result of the fierce competition between traditional channels like HBO and the new streaming, ever-expanding streaming platforms such as Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu.