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  1. First-Person Reality: A New Breed of Personal Documentary
    by Mike Plante | Jan 26, 2008 | Focus On Film

    Documentary filmmakers in this year’s Festival lineup take stories into their own hands, using personal experience to explore subjects in new, intimate ways. Read more

  2. Stories of Change: Skoll and Sundance Help Connect True Stories to the Filmmakers Who Can Do Them Justice
    by Evany Thomas | Jan 25, 2008 | Focus On Film

    The Skoll Social Entrepreneurs meet-and-greet offers a fertile forum for documentary filmmakers to interact with people who had important stories to tell, from waste scavengers in Peru to the world’s at-risk fisheries. Read more

  3. Beyond Black and White: Direct and Indirect Approaches to Race Speak Volumes
    by Claiborne Smith | Jan 25, 2008 | Focus on Film

    A number of films in this year’s Festival tackle the thorny issue of race. Some explore the subject in less obvious ways, threading it in as a subtle undercurrent of a bigger story, while others confront the topic head-on. Read more

  4. Sundance en Español Highlights Latino Filmmaking
    by Claiborne Smith | Jan 24, 2008 | Focus On Film

    Sundance en Español presents both the Latin Resurgence panel and a collection of films from Hispanic and Latino directors selected from throughout the 2008 Festival program. Read more

  5. New Faces, Old Genre: Indie Filmmakers Re-examine the Gangster Flick
    by Sarah Keenlyside | Jan 24, 2008 | Focus On Film

    Gangsters reveal their human side in films throughout Sundance this year, including In Bruges, Transsiberian, The Merry Gentleman, Perro Come Perro from Columbian filmmaker Carlos Moreno, and the documentary Made in America. Read more

  6. Native Tongues: Musicians and Directors Share Ideas Despite Thinking in Different Languages
    by Sarah Keenlyside | Jan 23, 2008 | Focus on Film

    Composers, directors, and producers gather at BMI’s Roundtable Discussion (Music and Film, the Creative Process) to talk about how the eyes and ears of film manage to find ways to communicate. Read more

  7. The Political Becomes Personal: Docs Use Real People to Make Big Issues Easier to Tackle
    by Holly Willis | Jan 22, 2008 | Focus on Film

    Many of the documentaries in this year’s Festival eschew abstract statistics or opinions from outside experts and instead offer intimate portraits of individual life stories as a way of painting bigger pictures of larger political and social issues. Read more

  8. The Science of Storytelling: Inventors and Artists Share Inspiration in Common
    by Sarah Keenlyside | Jan 20, 2008 | Focus on Film

    Artists and scientists converge at the sixth annual Alfred P. Sloan Foundation panel to discuss the role of the mad scientist in film and literature, the addictive powers of invention, and other “Eureka” moments. Read more

  9. Natural Selection: Festival Programmers on Creating This Year’s Lineup
    by Cristy Lytal | Jan 21, 2008 | Focus on Film

    Learn what it takes to whittle 3,624 feature submissions and 5,107 shorts submissions down to the stellar list found in this year’s Sundance ’08 Film Guide. Read more

  10. Middle Eastern Filmmakers Make Stories out of Chaos
    by Holly Willis | Jan 20, 2008 | Focus on Film

    In the Middle East, the road to the silver screen can be a bumpy one. Sometimes equipment shortages slow progress, sometimes it’s the paperwork. And sometimes the challenges of working in war-torn countries are so profound, they detour the storyline altogether. Read more

  11. Nature, Art, Sundance: The Place That Started It All
    by Jessica Buzzard | Jan 20, 2008 | Focus on Film

    Things happen at Sundance Resort. Saturday, it provided the backdrop for a brunch honoring Festival filmmakers, hosted by Robert Redford; later that day, Bono and The Edge stopped by for a tour. Throughout the year, the Resort offers fertile ground for artistic programs, world problem-solving summits, and more. Read more

  12. Martin McDonagh Preaches on the Values of Travel, Collaboration, and Not Getting Screwed
    by Cristy Lytal | Jan 20, 2008 | Focus on Film

    "Anti-racist, anti-homophobic, pro-midget" Martin McDonagh (writer-director of Festival-opener In Bruges) takes the pulpit at Film Church, the Festival’s annual non-denominational forum for lessons in cinema. Read more

  13. This Year’s Producers Lunch Serves Up Good News
    by Sarah Keenlyside | Jan 20, 2008 | Focus on Film

    Producers nosh on pastries, quiche, and the toothsome announcement that Sundance Labs has added a new program to its ranks: Introducing the Creative Producing Initiative, a year-long fellowship for emerging American producers. Read more

  14. Point of View: Humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Dr. James Orbinski
    by Claiborne Smith | Jan 20, 2008 | Focus on Film

    Triage: Dr. James Orbinski’s Humanitarian Dilemma follows the former president of Doctors without Borders as he returns to Africa, where he witnessed atrocities beyond description 15 years before, and tries to make sense out of the senselessness. Read more

  15. Focus on Film: Finding New Ways to Tell True Stories
    by Sarah Keenlyside | Jan 19, 2008 | Focus on Film

    By making use of such unconventionalities as experimental voiceovers and morphing lizards, today’s documentary filmmakers are stretching the limits of non-fiction storytelling and discovering new, exciting ways to capture the essence of their subject matters. Read more

  16. Point of View: Tilda Swinton on the Man, the Myth, the Derek
    by Holly Willis | Jan 19, 2008 | Focus on Film

    The Insider talks one-on-one with actress Tilda Swinton, who returns to the Festival this year in Isaac Julien’s film Derek, a loving collage of rare home movies, film clips, and interviews that celebrates one of independent film’s most creative minds and great “magic motors,” Derek Jarman. Read more

  17. Seriously Funny
    by Sarah Keenlyside | Jan 19, 2008 | Focus on Film

    Dark comedies in this year’s lineup explore the lighter side of fun topics such as addiction, sexual abuse, and suicide. Read more

  18. Point of View: Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid
    by Mike Plante | Jan 11, 2008 | Focus on Film

    Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid performs his new, work-in-progress multimedia piece Terra Nova: The Antarctic Suite at the New Frontier on Main. Read more

  19. Film Takes Place
    by Jessica Buzzard | Jan 11, 2008 | Focus on Film

    Designing the Sundance Film Festival. Read more

  20. Eccles Theatre Celebrates Ten Years
    by Bridgette Bates | Jan 11, 2008 | Focus on Film

    More than 500 Sundance Films Screened in Theatre Since 1998. Read more

  21. Park City Primer
    by Bridgette Bates | Dec 27, 2007 | Focus on Film

    A Brief History of the Sundance Film Festival's Home Town. Read more

  22. Robert Redford Talks Docs
    By Cara Mertes | Dec 27, 2007 | Focus on Film

    The Sundance Film Festival's longstanding commitment to documentary has been driven by the personal connection that President and Founder Robert Redford feels for the form. Read more

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