Packing Your Bags for Sundance
By Chris J. Russo (doddleNEWS) It’s January, and if you happen to be in the entertainment industry, you’re more than likely getting ready to pack your bags to make the annual pilgrimage to Park City to...
View Article2011 Grand Jury Winner – How to Die in Oregon: An Activist Looks Back, Pt. 1
By Kimberly Gadette (doddleNEWS) (Part 1 of 2) At last year’s Sundance, How to Die In Oregon was accorded the top award in its category, the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Documentary Competition. With...
View ArticleKicking Off U.S. Film Festival Season in the Big Apple
By Christina Kotlar (doddleNews) January 12, Thursday night across from the sentinel stone lions of the NY Public Library Bryant Park access on Fifth Avenue, a Sundance/Slamdance Kickoff Party in New...
View Article"Riches-to-rags" film on opulent family home prompts lawsuit
By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Time share mogul David Siegel welcomed a filmmaker's proposal in 2007 to document his construction of what was to be the nation's largest family home --...
View ArticleHollywood Northeast — or — Hey! Isn’t That Chris Rock?
By Kimberly Gadette (doddleNEWS) If the power ever failed during the two-week film-a-thon that takes place every January in Park City, Utah, it’s possible that no one would notice. What with all the...
View ArticleA Minute With: Sundance Film Festival director John Cooper
By Christine Kearney PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - The Sundance Film Festival kicks off on Thursday, starting ten days of movie screenings and providing the launching pad for some of the world's top The...
View ArticleIt’s Sundance Quiz Time … True or False?
By Kimberly Gadette (doddleNEWS) Sure, the Sundance Film Festival is located in Utah and yes, it’s considered the largest annual celebration of independent film in the U.S. But there may be a few facts...
View ArticleRobert Redford says Artist Services program shows Sundance’s commitment to...
By Steve Ramos (doddleNEWS) The 2012 Sundance Film Festival comes to life on an unseasonably warm Thursday afternoon and true to form, Sundance Institute and Founder Robert Redford takes the stage at...
View ArticleThe Celluloid Ceiling Remains a Tough Nut to Crack
By Christina Kotlar (doddleNEWS) The year 2012 will be a century of women in film and yet another study by Martha M. Lauzen, Ph.D. analyzing behind-the-scenes employment on the top 250 domestic...
View ArticleCatching Shuttles is Like Running with the Bulls
In my past Sundance life, I was granted accreditation and my work as a writer was much easier as the films I missed with audiences I was able to catch up on the Press & Industry screening schedule....
View Articledoddle@ Sundance 2012: Miami Oasis
One of the more popular destinations for celebrities at this year’s Sundance Film Festival is the Miami Oasis Suite. Step inside and let Larry Sims offer his VIP Salon Services courtesy of göt2b, snag...
View Article"Beasts of the Southern Wild" wins Sundance Producer’s Award
By Steve Pond PARK CITY, Utah, Jan 22 (TheWrap.com) - "Beasts of the Southern Wild," the narrative film that has stirred up the most attention at Sundance to date, was awarded the inaugural Sundance...
View ArticlePlaying the Wait List Game With New Friends
By Christina Kotlar (doddleNEWS) Yesterday afternoon’s game to get a Wait List number for the Power of Story: How Docs Changed Change at the Egyptian Theatre proved physically challenging between the...
View Articledoddle@ Sundance 2012: Artist Spotlight – Julia Nunes
Watch the fantastic Julia Nunes perform her soon to be smash hit “Stay Awake” at the Sundance Film Festival’s New York Lounge. Besides entertaining festival weary patrons as part of the Cider House...
View ArticleFox Searchlight buys "The Surrogate" for $6 million
By Kurt Orzeck and Sharon Waxman PARK CITY, Utah (TheWrap.com) - "The Surrogate," a drama starring Helen Hunt and John Hawkes as a man who hires a professional sex surrogate, has sold to Fox The post...
View ArticleTracy Morgan out of hospital, back at work on "30 Rock"
By Kimberly Potts LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - A little altitude isn't enough to keep "30 Rock" star Tracy Morgan in a Park City, Utah hospital. Morgan tweeted Monday that he had been released and The...
View Articledoddle@ Sundance 2012: Artist Spotlight – Natalie Gelman
What is becoming an annual event at the New York Lounge singer/songwriter Natalie Gelman once again entertains the Sundance Film Festival crowds with a powerful rendition of her original song “Laugh So...
View ArticleSundance Q&A’s get a B-
By Christina Kotlar (doodleNEWS) Film festivals are anamorphic entities. Their gradual progressions change the shape of things over time often becoming unrecognizable from what they started out to be....
View Article‘Beasts of the Wild Southern’ Takes Dramatic Jury Prize at Sundance Awards...
By Steve Ramos (doddleNEWS) James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot sat in the lobby outside The Yarrow Theatre after the final, Saturday afternoon screening of their documentary Indie Game: The Movie, about...
View ArticleMusic Performance in Film and on Main Street
By Christina Kotlar (doddleNEWS) Music in film is a passion of mine and Sundance usually has a slew of musicians coming through town. On Monday, January 23, I got a text message to get myself over to...
View ArticleSundance Diary: The Back Home in Michigan Debrief Session
By Nancy Johnston (doddleNEWS) Stirred, not shaken. Just because we’d never driven across country before, Robin and I decided to drive back from Utah to Michigan. On Friday, we left Deer Valley after...
View ArticleGhosts of Sundance Past, Present and Future
By Christina Kotlar (doddleNEWS) This was not my first Sundance and not by any means my last. I am fortunate to have been to a Sundance Film Festival a long time ago during one of my ski trips. The...
View ArticleSundance 2013: Austenland is Fantasyland
By Christina Kotlar (doddleNEWS) Belly laughs and slapstick abound as audiences at Sundance Film Festival screening venues for Austenland followed the adventures of an obsessive Jane Austen fan. Jane...
View ArticleWomen at Sundance On Top
By Christina Kotlar (doddleNEWS) On January 22, an early chilly, Tuesday morning Day 6 of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Women in Film & Television International (WIFTI) board members Kimberly...
View ArticleSundance 2015: Sundancing to a Different Tune
By Kimberly Gadette (doddleNEWS) Stretching out over 11 days, from January 22 through February 1, the 31st year of the Sundance Film Festival will be known as the year of the comedian. The joke?...
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