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  • Sundance Film Festival 2025: Rohan Kanawade’s Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears) is the silver lining queer cinema merits

    Sundance Film Festival 2025: Rohan Kanawade’s Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears) is the silver lining queer cinema merits

    Sundance Film Festival 2025: Rohan Parashuram Kanawade feature debut ‘Sabar Bonda’ is the first Marathi autofiction to wrest the tragic from queer narratives & give fleshed-out rural gay characters a safe space for tender romance.

  • Richa Chadha, Ali Fazal announce upcoming films as producers

    Richa Chadha, Ali Fazal announce upcoming films as producers

    After their critically acclaimed maiden production Girls will be Girls, actor-couple Richa Chadha, Ali Fazal’s Pushing Buttons Studio is gearing up for more shows, podcasts, animation and feature-length films.

  • Sundance to IFFLA 2023: Reema Maya on short film 'Nocturnal Burger' & her three alter egos

    Sundance to IFFLA 2023: Reema Maya on short film 'Nocturnal Burger' & her three alter egos

    Aka Reema Sengupta, a maker of advertisements, music videos and short films, the creative creature talks about her punch-in-the-gut short on child sexual abuse and shared female trauma, 'Nocturnal Burger', which premiered at 2023 Sundance Film Festival and screens at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles this week.

  • Sundance 2023 premiere | Delhi Crime director Richie Mehta on Poacher, starring Nimisha Sajayan, Roshan Mathew

    Sundance 2023 premiere | Delhi Crime director Richie Mehta on Poacher, starring Nimisha Sajayan, Roshan Mathew

    Richie Mehta, of the International Emmy-winning Delhi Crime Season One, is back with another compelling web-series, Poacher, three episodes of which premiered in the Indie Episode Program section of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Read about the making of the wildlife-crime-thriller series.

  • Jio MAMI 2023: How Chinese vessels & global warming impinge on Mumbai Koli economy in this Sundance winner

    Jio MAMI 2023: How Chinese vessels & global warming impinge on Mumbai Koli economy in this Sundance winner

    Sarvnik Kaur’s Against the Tide, the 2023 Sundance World Cinema Documentary Verite Filmmaking Special Jury Award winner, is the only documentary in South Asia Competition at Mumbai Film Festival next week.

  • Sundance 2023: Home is where the hesitance is, for 'White Ant' director Shalini Adnani

    Sundance 2023: Home is where the hesitance is, for 'White Ant' director Shalini Adnani

    In 'White Ant', her first short film set in India, premiering at Sundance Film Festival, the London-based Chilean-Indian director reflects on the emotions of homecoming.

  • Curtain raiser | Sundance 2023: Screen time for India's fears and frustrations

    Curtain raiser | Sundance 2023: Screen time for India's fears and frustrations

    Four titles set in India are travelling to the Utah-based Sundance Film Festival, from January 19-29. This edition of the event will highlight stories of personal strife and international wars.

  • 'Summer of Soul': The documentary that beat 'Writing With Fire' to win an Oscar

    'Summer of Soul': The documentary that beat 'Writing With Fire' to win an Oscar

    The story of 'Kabar Lahariya' Dalit women reporters lost a historic Oscar to the retelling of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival that celebrates Black music as American history.

  • Rise of the Indian documentary: Journey to the Oscar-nominated 'Writing With Fire'

    Rise of the Indian documentary: Journey to the Oscar-nominated 'Writing With Fire'

    Writing With Fire's Oscar nomination follows a strong documentary filmmaking movement in the last decade.

  • Grammy Awards indefinitely postponed, Sundance to go virtual amid Omicron surge

    Grammy Awards indefinitely postponed, Sundance to go virtual amid Omicron surge

    COVID-19: Citing "uncertainty" surrounding the Omicron variant, the Recording Academy indefinitely postponed the Grammy Awards, while Sundance organisers said the festival would go virtual.

  • Screening struggles: The most gripping films at the virtual Sundance festival

    Screening struggles: The most gripping films at the virtual Sundance festival

    Individual or collective struggles for a better life made for the most affecting movies at the 2021 edition of the festival.

  • Uber to partner with Airbus for on-demand helicopter rides

    Uber to partner with Airbus for on-demand helicopter rides

    California-based Uber has said that it will be partnering with France-based Airbus on a test programme to provide helicopter rides on demand through its application just as it currently does with car rides.

  • Sex, politics & Steve Jobs highlight Sundance Film Festival

    Sex, politics & Steve Jobs highlight Sundance Film Festival

    Movie executives and first-time directors trudging through the snow this year at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah will find tales of pornography and sex addiction awaiting them, in a trend to show more skin at Robert Redford's annual film showcase.

  • Kutcher's Steve Jobs, Gordon-Levitt top Sundance premieres

    Kutcher's Steve Jobs, Gordon-Levitt top Sundance premieres

    Ashton Kutcher's turn as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut about a modern day Don Juan are leading a slew of star-studded premieres unveiled on Monday for the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

  • 'Beasts,' 'The House I Live In' win top awards at Sundance

    'Beasts,' 'The House I Live In' win top awards at Sundance

    'Beasts of the Southern Wild' and 'The House I Live in' won the top awards at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, making them likely favorites for independent movie audiences in 2012.

  • Winners at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival

    Winners at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival

    Following is a list of winners at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, the top gathering for independent movies made outside of Hollywood's major studios.

  • Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Park City, Utah

    Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Park City, Utah

    Park City ski resort in Utah is the access spot for some of America's best skiing with three major ski resorts all alongside each other -- Deer Valley, Park City and The Canyons.

  • YouTube unveils 'Life in a Day' film at Sundance

    YouTube unveils 'Life in a Day' film at Sundance

    Long since video-sharing website YouTube became an Internet sensation, media watchers have wondered how it can take users' appetite for 2- or 3-minute videos and transform it into a hunger for full-length film and TV-style content.

  • A Minute With: director Miguel Arteta at Sundance

    A Minute With: director Miguel Arteta at Sundance

    Like other directors, Miguel Arteta borrowed money to make his first movie, 1997's "Star Maps, which shown at the Sundance Film Festival and launched a career that included independent hits, "The Good Girl" and "Chuck and Buck."

  • Tale of chimp `Nim` gains strong buzz at Sundance

    Tale of chimp `Nim` gains strong buzz at Sundance

    Steering clear of labeling it an animal rights film, 'Man on Wire' director James Marsh has returned to the documentary world by examining a chimpanzee famed in the 1970s for being raised like a human.

  • Sundance debuts with Harry Belafonte documentary

    Sundance debuts with Harry Belafonte documentary

    The Sundance Film Festival opened on Thursday night with a new look -- four feature films instead of only one, including a documentary about calypso singer Harry Belafonte and a teen lesbian drama.

  • A Minute With: Sundance festival director John Cooper

    A Minute With: Sundance festival director John Cooper

    The Sundance Film Festival kicks off on Thursday, starting 10 days of movie screenings at the largest gathering of the year for US independent filmmakers.

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