Jordan Michael Blake: Mormonism, Self Reflection and Delta Safety Videos

Jordan Michael Blake: Mormonism, Self Reflection and Delta Safety Videos
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Jordan Michael Blake is a writer, director and founder of a spoof Taco Bell Film Festival (not at all sponsored by the actual chain). His short animated film Paradise Man (ii) is currently at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in the Animated Short Film Program. … read more

Kiss of The Spider Woman Spins a Tale, Sings a Song

Kiss of The Spider Woman Spins a Tale, Sings a...
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Kiss of The Spider Woman is a grand and powerful musical extravaganza that will be remembered both as the glossy, star-spangled spectacle of the festival. … read more

Scriver Brothers Balance Surrealism and Authenticity in Documentary Endless Cookie

Scriver Brothers Balance Surrealism and Authenticity in Documentary Endless Cookie
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A combination of Peter’s storytelling and Seth’s animation, Endless Cookie is a series of witty, wandering vignettes about Indigenous life in Canada and a rollicking family portrait. … read more

It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley: Producing a Passion Project

It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley: Producing a Passion Project
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It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley directed by Amy Berg was first conceived in 2007, and it marks the fifth Sundance appearance for Berg. … read more

Pathfinder: Reclaiming the Native Narrative with Winding Path

Pathfinder: Reclaiming the Native Narrative with Winding Path
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The team behind Sundance film Winding Path strives to offer a counternarrative to Native stereotypes and reclaim the Wind River Reservation as a place for positive stories to be told. … read more

Holding Space for First-Time Filmmakers: An Interview with Sundance

Holding Space for First-Time Filmmakers: An Interview with Sundance
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SLUG spoke with Heidi Zwicker, a Senior Programmer with the Sundance Institute, to speak on the 40th Edition Festival season and its intention to support a variety of artists. … read more

A.V. Rockwell on the Connective Tissue of A Thousand and One

A.V. Rockwell on the Connective Tissue of A Thousand and...
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The future looks bright for A Thousand And One and for Rockwell, who is filled with stories to tell and has a passion for her art form and her city. … read more

Sundance Film Review: Eileen

Sundance Film Review: Eileen
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Eileen is an engaging, pulpy diversion that plays like an old-fashioned dime novel you had never planned to read but find that you can’t put down. … read more

Sundance Film Review: Theater Camp

Sundance Film Review: Theater Camp
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The subject of Theater Camp is ripe for comedy, but it feels painfully forced if it’s not done right. Thankfully, this one more or less succeeds. … read more

Sundance Film Review: A Little Prayer

Sundance Film Review: A Little Prayer
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The family drama A Little Prayer is a reminder that the once-budding young playwright and filmmaker Angus MacLachlan has come a long way. … read more