Release Rundown: What to Watch in July, From “Fire of Love” to “A Love Song”
By Vanessa Zimmer ‘Tis July and the heat is on, both in our sun-filled days and in at least one Sundance Film Festival alum coming
By Vanessa Zimmer ‘Tis July and the heat is on, both in our sun-filled days and in at least one Sundance Film Festival alum coming
By Stephanie Ornelas (Pictured: Frank and Lola) Las Vegas is a vibrant city full of secrets and glamor. It’s glitz and grit makes for a
By Vanessa Zimmer For Waldo Salt, writing a screenplay wasn’t about crafting a clever or witty piece of dialogue — although he could certainly do
By Vanessa Zimmer Welcome to part two of our four-part series introducing the short films and directors from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival Shorts Program.
Helen Shaver (second from left) portrays a New Yorker who travels to Reno, Nevada, to seek a divorce in 1959, in Donna Deitch’s Desert Hearts.
By Stephanie Ornelas We started this editorial series at the beginning of June 2022, looking at films that premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival
By Stephanie Ornelas Sometimes you have to let art speak for itself. As 2022 Sundance Film Festival favorites hit theaters and streaming sites, several new
By Stephanie Ornelas “When we organize and come together, we can change the world, but we need to take action to organize, and right now,
By Stephanie Ornelas “I can lead and grieve at the same time.” These powerful words spoken by Shawnee Benton Gibson during the 2022 Sundance Film
By Hajnal Molnar-Szakacs and Paola Mottura Five years ago, the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program partnered with the Kendeda Fund to cultivate, fund, and elevate
We’ve been conditioned to think that storytelling is a solo journey — the brooding writer, the singular genius director, etc — but it doesn’t need
Ever wonder why so many of the best coming-of-age stories in cinematic history are set during the summer? We expect it might have something to do with the wistfulness we adults tend to have for the long, unstructured days and cool, breezy nights that made up the summers of our youth — the ideal backdrop for plenty of thoughtful reflection, personal growth, and memories of ill-advised adventures we treasure to this day.
While the Sundance Film Festival takes place at the peak of winter in snowy Utah every January, over the years, we’ve had plenty of must-see coming-of-age stories come through Park City to heat things up a bit. Today we’re rounding up some of those key titles in a watchlist packed with formative first loves, first heartbreaks, and first jobs, starting with Joyce Chopra’s beloved drama Smooth Talk from the 1986 Festival and spanning the way up to Lucia Garibaldi’s The Sharks, a prize-winning film that was released just last year.
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