The Daily Buzz from the Sundance Film Festival was an recurring series, recorded on-site in Park City, Utah during Sundance and featuring interviews with some of the most important voices in the entertainment industry, including directors, actors, producers, festival directors and journalists in the independent film world. It aired during Sundance from 2014-2020.
The martini of our Slamdance and Sundance coverage starts with an ambush film! Award-winning filmmaker Ondi Timoner joins the Daily Buzz to talk about COMING CLEAN with her producers David Turner and Zach Bidner. The director of indie hits like DIG! and WE LIVE IN PUBLIC (which both won Grand Jury Prize Awards at Sundance in previous years), Timoner brought COMING CLEAN sans official festival…
We’re almost at the end with our 2020 Slamdance and Sundance Film Festival coverage. First up on our fifth bonus episode is a conversation with filmmaker Patricia Vidal Delgado and lead actress, Monica Betancourt, about their film LA LAYENDA NEGRA. The film examines the life of an undocumented teenager and the battles she face while she tries to stay in America.…
Another bonus episode from Slamdance and Sundance Film Festival takes us first to an interview with filmmaker Maite Alberdi. Her documentary film, THE MOLE AGENT, finds an older private investigator staged as a mole inside a retirement home to watch over a concerned family’s mother. We also speak with the first female Saudi filmmaker (and Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Juror), Haifaa…
Our third bonus episode of the Daily Buzz from Slamdance and Sundance 2020 starts with interviews with seasoned documentary filmmaker Steve James and subjects Amara Enyia and Maze Jackson from his new episodic, CITY SO REAL. Hear about the kaleidoscope of voices collected during a heated mayoral election of America’s third largest city, Chicago. Next,…
Another day, another bonus episode from Slamdance and Sundance Film Festival 2020! Hear from filmmaker Michael Almereyda about his Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize winner, TESLA, starring Ethan Hawke, Hannah Gross, Kyle MacLachlan, and Eve Hewson. It’s not about the electric cars! It’s about the life of young Nikola Tesla. Then listen to Natasha Gregson…
It’s not over yet! We have more episodes from Sundance and Slamdance Film Festival. Topping off our first bonus episode, we have an industry roundtable with Melanie Addington, the Executive Director of the Oxford Film Festival, Shannon Franklin, Festival Producer of the Naples Film Festival, and Emily Clark, a local critic with Talking Pictures. We…
It’s here! Day ten brings a roundup of various films including WE ARE FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME. We speak with director Andrew Fried about the improv hip-hop group calledFreestyle Love Supreme where Lin Manuel Miranda started before making In The Heightsand Hamilton. We also sit down with longtime Utah resident, director Robert Machoian, and his cast Clayne…
Hear from two Sundance films and two Slamdance films this episode. Filmmakers Jason Loftus and Eric Pedicelli expose the story of a former Chinese insider and how he was held at a brainwashing camp in ASK NO QUESTIONS. We also talk to filmmaker Heather Young and producer Martha Cooley about MURMUR, the Slamdance special jury award…
Three stunning documentaries, two award-winning films, in one episode on day eight. From Latinx filmmakers Cristiina Costantini and Kareem Tabsch, learn about Puerto Rican astrologer, psychic, and all around amazing human being, Walter Mercado, who televised horoscopes for 30 years, in MUCHO MUCHO AMOR. We speak to filmmakers Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb about their…
We head into episode 7 with fun and controversy. Listen to our chat with Slamdance filmmaker Dan Wayne about his documentary, BIG FUR, about taxidermist Ken Walker on making his own Bigfoot. Did you see Dan and Ken walking around with Bigfoot on Main Street? In a scintillating roundtable with female composers Anne Nikitin, Tamar-kali,…
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