Netflix reportedly paid $10M for campaign documentary featuring Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Freshman Congresswomen and meme queen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is headed to Netflix. The streaming service said this week that it has snapped up ‘Knock Down the House,’ a Sundance award-winning documentary profiling the campaigns of four female progressive candidates, including Ocasio-Cortez, in the 2018 midterm election. The documentary raised money via a Kickstarter campaign last year and it […]

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Apple makes its first Sundance buy with coming-of-age film ‘Hala’ from Jada Pinkett Smith

Apple made its first deal at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival on Monday, with its acquisition of the global rights to a coming-of-age drama, Hala. The film, written and directed by Minhal Baig, and executive produced by Jada Pinkett Smith, tells the story of a 17-year old girl, Hala, raised in a conservative Muslim household, who […]

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Theranos documentary review: The Inventor’s horrifying optimism

A blood-splattered Theranos machine nearly pricks an employee struggling to fix it. This gruesome graphical rendering is what you’ll walk away from HBO’s “The Inventor” with. It finally gives a visual to the startup’s laboratory fraud detailed in words by John Carreyrou’s book “Bad Blood”. The documentary that premiered tonight at Sundance Film Festival explores […]

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‘The Inventor,’ a documentary about Theranos and the ‘psychology of deception,’ will premiere at Sundance

Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney “will tell a Silicon Valley tale that [is] too good to be true,” in one of two films in the works documenting the Theranos saga.

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Sundance doc Our New President presents psychedelic vision of US election through a fake news lens

 If the feeling at the fairly liberal leaning Sundance Film Festival — held last year after Trump’s election but before the inauguration —was one of impending doom, this year it’s all about prophecy fulfilled. Read More

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Facebook’s former Oculus Story Studio team isn’t done quite yet

 Today, Sundance Film Festival announced its lineup for next month. Included yet again were the entrants for the festival’s New Frontiers program, which hosts VR content. Virtual reality may not be the technology du jour in Silicon Valley as much as it was the past couple of years, but there are still plenty of milestones being traversed in the cinematic VR community. Read More

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2018 will be the year cinema starts responding to the Trump election

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Times being what they are, it’s been hard not to read topical commentary into just about every movie we saw this year. 

But even if the parallels were clearly there, most of those films weren’t, and couldn’t be, direct responses to Trump. Most of them were in production well before the 2016 election. (There are exceptions: Steven Spielberg’s The Post came together in the early months of this year.)

That changes right about … oh, now.

Next year’s Sundance may well be the first major film festival that is truly of the Trump era – in that it’s probably the first one with a significant number of films that were made and selected after the election. And it shows. Read more…

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2018 will be the year cinema starts responding to the Trump election

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Times being what they are, it’s been hard not to read topical commentary into just about every movie we saw this year. 

But even if the parallels were clearly there, most of those films weren’t, and couldn’t be, direct responses to Trump. Most of them were in production well before the 2016 election. (There are exceptions: Steven Spielberg’s The Post came together in the early months of this year.)

That changes right about … oh, now.

Next year’s Sundance may well be the first major film festival that is truly of the Trump era – in that it’s probably the first one with a significant number of films that were made and selected after the election. And it shows. Read more…

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