Two Must See Films from Sundance Film Festival!

History is often made at Sundance as well as documented on screen, and it was a personal thrill this year to be in the audience for the premiere of PRIME MINISTER, a film documenting the transformative tenure of New Zealand’s former Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. Plus: Free Leonard Peltier is another standout at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

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Reflections on the 2024 Sundance Film Festival

Having just returned from my 30th year of the Sundance Film Festival, I am sharing some thoughts about how this festival, widely respected as the premiere festival for launching new work and discovering new talent, reflects an ever evolving global ecosystem of independent films, and how this impacts what you and I are viewing on our screens, big and small.

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The Sundance Film Festival: My Sofa Perspective

Resistance and accountability were the themes of this year's Sundance Film Festival. I want to point out two films, one narrative and one documentary, about a group of women who came together in the late 1960s in Chicago to help nearly 11,000 desperate women get safe abortions in the years before legal abortions were possible.

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