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Three Yeehaws for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival Awards Winners

by The Daily Insider Staff | Jan 27, 2008 | Live@Sundance

Audiences and juries show their love for Frozen River, Trouble the Water, and a flood of other worthy films at this year’s wild West-themed Awards Ceremony, hosted by a spur-bejangled William H. Macy. Read more
A Tip of the Hat

by The Daily Insider Staff | Feb 11, 2008 | Live@Sundance

Over the weekend, Sundance-supported films including The Savages and Once took home Independent Spirit Awards and Oscars. Read more
Q & A: Matters of the Young@Heart

Bridgette Bates | Jan 27, 2008 | Live@Sundance

Filmmaker Stephen Walker and a rowdy chorus of Young@Heart singers answer questions about the inspirational doc, which follows a group of “seniors behaving badly” as they put an old spin on new punk, rock, and R&B numbers. Read more
Q & A: A Raisin in the Sun Basks in the Journey from Stage to Screen

by Cristy Lytal | Jan 26, 2008 | Live@Sundance

Once the audience recovered from the standing ovation it gave A Raisin in the Sun, director Kenny Leon and members of the cast fielded questions about the impact the project had on its actors, the challenges of transforming play into a film, and more. Read more
Q & A: Incendiary

by Sarah Keenlyside | Jan 26, 2008 | Live@Sundance

In a sharp departure from her previous feature, Bridget Jones’s Diary, director Sharon Maguire tackles Incendiary, a moving film about a young mother who loses her husband and son in a London suicide bombing. Read more
The Festival’s Salt Lake City Programs Involve the Entire Community

by Sarah Keenlyside | Jan 26, 2008 | Live@Sundance

The Sundance Institute has expanded the Festival to include more activities throughout Salt Lake City, creating a multi-town experience that builds on the interactive programming found in Park City. Read more
The Layers of Sundance: One Student’s Perspective

by Brittany Brumfield | Jan 26, 2008 | Live@Sundance

DePauw University senior Brittany Brumfield reflects on her first trip to the cold streets of Park City as part of the Festival High School program, which invites young film-focused students from high schools and colleges across the country to partake in the Festivities. Read more
Q & A: Go Ask Phoebe in Wonderland

by Sarah Keenlyside | Jan 25, 2008 | Live@Sundance

A little girl with Tourrette’s escapes reality with increasingly frequent trips down the rabbit hole into her own magical fantasies. Read more
The Learning Curve: Students Get Schooled in the Art of Filmmaking

by Sarah Keenlyside | Jan 25, 2008 | Live@Sundance

Each year, Sundance invites students from all over the country to come to the Festival for a crash course in all things filmmaking. Read more
Q & A: Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty

by Sarah Keenlyside | Jan 24, 2008 | Live@Sundance

A divorce, a demotion, and a missing cat cause a man’s mental health to take a downward turn in Goliath. Read more
Q & A: Power Up!

by Cristy Lytal | Jan 24, 2008 | Live@Sundance

In Adventures of Power, an air-drummer boy locks invisible sticks with his biggest rival in a Big Apple air-drum battle royale. Read more
Q & A: Dive In to Deep Water

by The Daily Insider Staff | Jan 23, 2008 | Live@Sundance

Filmmakers, producers, and survivors gather post-premiere to talk about Trouble the Water, the moving Hurricane Katrina doc that brought them all together. Read more
Q & A: Discover What Just Happened?

by Cristy Lytal | Jan 23, 2008 | Live@Sundance

Prima donnas, crazy artists, and shameless egotists play a leading role in this Barry Levinson film about the all-too-true trials of working in the Industry. Read more
Q & A: Just Add Sugar

by Cristy Lytal | Jan 22, 2008 | Live@Sundance

A Dominican pitcher gets picked up to play for the minor leagues and finds himself a stranger in a strange land: Iowa. Read more
Q & A: Go with the Flow

by Bridgette Bates | Jan 21, 2008 | Live@Sundance

Flow: For Love of Water follows the disturbing ebb and corruption of the world’s waning water supplies. Read more
Q & A: Wackness Pipes Up

by Cristy Lytal | Jan 21, 2008 | Live@Sundance

A recent high school graduate trades pot for therapy from the psychotherapist father of a girl he hopes to bed. Read more
Q & A: Hip Hop to It

by Jeff Hanson | Jan 20, 2008 | Live@Sundance

Director Jackie Reem Salloum and visiting rapsters from Slingshot Hip Hop take the stage for post-premiere Q & A and Arabic mic-rocking. Read more
Q & A: R U Ready 4 U2 3D?

by Sarah Keenlyside | Jan 20, 2008 | Live@Sundance

The latest just-like-being-there technology behind U2 3D transforms movie theatre into 80,000-seat stadium, cardboard-glasses-wearing moviegoers into screaming fans. Read more
Q & A: Meet the Cleaners

by The Daily Insider Staff | Jan 19, 2008 | Live@Sundance

Dark comedies in this year’s lineup explore the lighter side of addiction, sexual abuse, and suicide. Read more
The Sounds of Sundance

by Claiborne Smith | Jan 19, 2008 | Live@Sundance

Live music and multimedia events spotlight the harmonic relationship between cinema and song throughout the Festival. Read more
Q & A: Writer/Director Azazel Jacobs and His Parents

by Cristy Lytal | Jan 19, 2008 | Live@Sundance

Momma’s Man tells the story of a grown man who visits his childhood home and becomes waylaid by the comforts of his mother’s cooking, old comic books, and guitar. Filmmaker Azazel and his parents Flo and Ken, who also play his parents in the film, answer questions about the allure of arrested development. Read more
Live@Sundance: Festival Showcases Films by a Diverse Range of Artist

by Sarah Keenlyside | Jan 18, 2008 | Live@Sundance

Sundance Institute President and Founder Robert Redford introduces the opening night film, the darkly comic gangster pic In Bruges, and hints at one of the emerging themes of this year's festival: artists as agents of change. Read more

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