Sundance
Faithful Viewer: Biopic about black preacher is toast of Sundance
By Kimberly Winston — January 27, 2016
(RNS) "The Birth of a Nation," a biopic about the 19th-century black preacher, slave and revolutionary Nat Turner, was picked up by Fox Searchlight Pictures for a record $17.5 million on Tuesday (Jan. 26).
COMMENTARY: The prophets of Sundance
By Dick Staub — January 30, 2014
PARK CITY, Utah (RNS) The annual Sundance Film Festival is like a tribe huddled around a campfire listening to the stories. These stories function like burning bushes, as prophetic calls to action.
Sundance Diary: Imagining the world as it ought to be
By Dick Staub — January 24, 2013
PARK CITY, Utah (RNS) It's said that Hollywood films comfort the afflicted while Sundance films afflict the comfortable. Film offers a vicarious entry to the world the way it is, and the films I saw at Sundance 2013 left me longing for the world as it ought to be.
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