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Sundance 2016: Nate Parker on The Birth of a Nation
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2016 Sundance Film Festival
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The Brisk Business of Sundance 2016: Let It Snow, Show Me The Money
It did snow on Sundance goers, but compared to those on the East Coast who bore the brunt of storm Jonas, Park City, Utah residents and guests braved a rather mild weather weekend. It wouldn’t be snow that would eventually blanket the 2016 Sundance Film Festival this year.
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Sundance Review: The Pure Joy of Sing Street
The Sundance Film Festival has always had a penchant for showcasing intimate dramas; bittersweet romances and a few peculiar narratives that can lead to quite heated cinematic discussions. But every so often a film bursts through the screen that engages the Park City audiences with nothing but pure joy and exuberance.
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Nate Parker’s Timely Birth of a Nation Takes Sundance By Storm
Actor/writer/director Nate Parker's The Birth of a Nation has emerged as the frontrunner of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Read our interview with Nate Parker our review of The Birth of a Nation and the journey of the film's production.
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Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation Emerges as Sundance’s Hottest Film
After a ferocious bidding war that burned through the night, Fox Searchlight acquired worldwide distribution rights to Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation for a record-setting $17. 5 million.
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The Birth of a Nation Reclaims A Painful Heritage In History And Film
Nate Parker’s harrowing, moving and ultimately stirring The Birth of a Nation brought audiences to their feet at the Sundance premiere with the tale of Nat Turner’s doomed slave rebellion of 1831, an American Spartacus story that resonates loudly with current events. The significance of showing a movie titled The Birth of a Nation 100 years after D.
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Sundance Review: The Birth of a Nation Addresses Old, Current Wounds
The Birth of a Nation. Directed by Nate Parker.
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Sundance Review: Kate Beckinsale Shines as the Beautiful, Cruel Anti-Heroine of Love & Friendship
Love & Friendship. Whit Stillman, director.
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Kerry Washington Brings Anita Hill and the Thorny Sexual Harassment Issue to Sundance
Kerry Washington flew into Park City for just a few hours on Saturday night for an exclusive HBO dinner at new restaurant Tupelo on Main Street to promote her upcoming HBO film Confirmation. The actress stars as attorney and law professor Anita Hill, the former assistant of Clarence Thomas, who testified against him for sexual harassment at his 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
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At Sundance, Actors Talk About Picking Roles, Leveraging Franchises and Loving Movie Screens
Actors talking about their craft can be either completely self-indulgent or wildly entertaining. This Sundance panel was luckily more the latter than the former thanks to the cast of characters participating in it: Viggo Mortensen, Thomas Middleditch, Diane Ladd, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rebecca Hall and John Krasinski.