Category: News

Shorts Break: A Pair of Films for Dad

This week, we offer two very different takes on boys and their dads to remind you to call home on Father’s Day this Sunday. From the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, we have Long Distance Information. Consisting of a single straightforward scene of only a quick phone conversation between two static figures, this tightly packed short stars British stalwart and reliably grizzly-voiced Peter Mullan as a perfectly cast father figure receiving a call from a son.

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Filmmaker Jerry Rothwell Receives First Annual Sundance Institute | TED Prize Filmmaker Award

LOS ANGELES — Sundance Institute and TED, the nonprofit known for “ideas worth spreading,” announced that filmmaker Jerry Rothwell has been selected to receive the first-ever Sundance Institute | TED Prize Filmmaker Award — the centerpiece of which is a grant of $125,000 to make a documentary film about the 2013 TED Prize winner Sugata Mitra and his wish, A School in the Cloud. The prize was awarded during the TEDGlobal 2013 Conference, taking place June 10 to 14, 2013, in Edinburgh, Scotland.Selected from a highly competitive pool of outstanding global submissions, the UK-based Rothwell and his producers — Al Morrow and Dan Demissie — proposed a film, Like Whirlwinds, that will look at the development of Mitra’s latest and most ambitious project, ”A School in the Cloud.

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Perspectives on Climate Change from Chasing Ice

For the past two years, Film Forward has travelled to China as one of four international locations. This year unique in that the close of our time in China, we also travelled to Taiwan. Taiwan and China are currently facing significant growth and development, but they are handling these challenges in very different ways.

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Roger Ebert and Ryan Coogler Honored at Sundance Institute Los Angeles Benefit

On June 6 in Los Angeles, the Sundance community came out in force to celebrate two of its own at the third annual ‘Celebrate Sundance Institute’ benefit. Ryan Coogler, the first-time writer/director of the Sundance and Cannes Award-winning film Fruitvale Station, and Roger Ebert, the legendary advocate for authentic storytelling in film who passed away in April of this year, were honored with this year’s Vanguard Awards. Additionally, Sundance Institute Executive Director Keri Putnam announced the creation of the Roger Ebert Scholarship for Film Criticism, in memory of the revered journalist.

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Roger Ebert and Ryan Coogler Honored with Vanguard Awards at Sundance Institute Los Angeles Benefit

Los Angeles, CA — Last night, Wednesday, June 5, the third annual ‘Celebrate Sundance Institute’ benefit in Los Angeles honored the life and work of beloved journalist and film critic Roger Ebert with the Vanguard Leadership Award in Memoriam. The event also honored filmmaker Ryan Coogler – whose debut feature film, Fruitvale Station, was selected for Sundance Institute’s Screenwriters Lab and went on to win both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival – with the Vanguard Award, Presented by Tiffany & Co.
At the event, Sundance Institute also announced the establishment of the Roger Ebert Scholarship for Film Criticism, in memory of Roger Ebert.

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Shorts Break: Pol Pot’s Birthday and Dimmer

This week we turn the spotlight onto the diverse and talented short work of Talmage Cooley. His two short film played back-to-back editions of the Sundance Film Festival in 2004 and 2005. Though both are quality works, they two could not be more dissimilar.

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Kickstart The Moo Man

Directors Andy Heathcote and Heike Bachelier are using Kickstarter to bring their 2013 Sundance Film Festival selection The Moo Man to UK theaters. Click here to help them reach their goal.
As we write this, we have only seven days left on our Kickstarter campaign and still need to find more than £10,000 (appx.

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