Next Weekend
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Kumiko, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Warpaint Highlight Sundance Next Festival
It’s rare that I can recommend nearly every program at a film festival, but that’s the case with this weekend’s Sundance Next Festival in Los Angeles. With events taking place tonight at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery and then this weekend at the theater at the Ace Hotel, the Next Festival is intimate, very cool and with a strong multidisciplinary bent. Alongside several artistic feature highlights from this year’s Sundance Film Festival are shorts, panels and bands, making each program something of an event. Check out the complete line-up at the festival’s site, and here are a few picks of mine: […]
by Scott Macaulay on Aug 7, 2014 -
Sundance Announces Next Weekend, New L.A.-based Mini Festival
Today the Sundance Institute announced the full program for Next Weekend, the L.A.-based mini festival spun off from Sundance’s NEXT strand, which spotlights emerging filmmakers. Running August 8 – 11 at the Sundance Sunset Cinemas and other venues throughout the city, Next Weekend’s lineup is mostly culled from the Park City program, but there are also new additions from Tribeca (Stand Clear of the Closing Doors) and SXSW (12 O’Clock Boys). There are also a couple of world premieres: Madeline Olnek’s The Foxy Merkins and Chadd Harbold’s How to be a Man, the directors’ followups to Codependent Lesbian Space Alien […]
by Nick Dawson on Jul 16, 2013
