Kate Jean Hollowell’s “Say Hi After You Die” took home the Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. By Lucy

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PARK CITY, UTAH – JANUARY 20: (L–R) Erica Tremblay, Crystle Lightning, Isabel Deroy-Olson, and Lily Gladstone attend the 2023 Sundance Film Festival “Fancy Dance” Premiere

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By Lucy Spicer One of the most exciting things about the Sundance Film Festival is having a front-row seat for the bright future of independent

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“I am still processing what it means to be part of the Sally Menke Fellowship and the Sundance Directors Labs,” says Troy Lewis from a

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After premiering at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, Channing Godfrey Peoples’s debut feature is hitting digital platforms this Juneteenth—the day for which the film is named and which is very close to the director's heart. “I feel like I've been living Miss Juneteenth my whole life,” she says.The June 19 holiday—which commemorates the day slavery was finally abolished in Texas (more than two years after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation was issued)—is celebrated in her hometown of Fort Worth with a deep sense of reverence and community, with barbecues, a parade, and a scholarship pageant for young Black women.

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(L–R) Josh Margolin, Fred Hechinger, June Squibb, and Clark Gregg pose for a photo celebrating the premiere of “Thelma” on January 18, 2024, at the

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