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Variety s 10 Directors to Watch and Creative Impact Awards Delves into Art of Moviemaking
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Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch and the Creative Impact Awards were hosted virtually this year.
The panel, moderated by chief film critic Peter DeBruge, included directors Prano Bailey-Bond (“Censor”), Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. (“Wild Indian”), Nia DaCosta (“Candyman”), Siân Heder (“CODA”), Philippe Lacôte (“Night of the Kings”), Roseanne Liang (“Shadow in the Cloud”), Pascual Sisto (“John and the Hole”), Ricky Staub (“Concrete Cowboy”) and Robin Wright (“Land”). Regina King (“One Night in Miami”) also made the list but was unable to participate in the conversation. The panelists discussed how they cast their lead roles, their genres of interest, future projects and telling stories about underrepresented communities with nuance.
Sundance Film Festival finally goes virtual
Every year, the transition week between January and February has allowed me the opportunity to do two things: live vicariously through coverage of the Sundance Film Festival and pine for the day when I will be able to experience it for myself. Unfortunately, reality suggests that day will not be arriving in the near or distant future. Neither financially nor physically, the average film lover cannot reasonably buy a pass, a plane ride and full accommodations for a less-than-week-long event in Utah. Which is why I never would have guessed this year I and the friends who joined me in buying a combined total of five $15 tickets for five films would be attending from the comfort of my living room couch.
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Variety to Honor Glenn Close With Creative Impact in Acting Award at 10 Directors to Watch Virtual Event
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Variety has announced it will be giving its Creative Impact in Acting Award to Glenn Close as part of their virtual 10 Directors to Watch and Creative Impact Awards event with the Palm Springs International Film Society on Feb. 26 at 10 a.m. PT.
As previously announced, Steve McQueen will be receiving the Creative Impact in Directing Award at the event. Close recently co-starred in the Netflix drama “Hillbilly Elegy” and has received nominations for a Golden Globe, SAG Award and Critics Choice Award for her portrayal of MaMaw in the film.
Charlie Shotwell in John and the Hole
Charlie Shotwell plays an intense teen who traps his family in a forest bunker in Pascual Sisto s disturbing first feature, also starring Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Ehle and Taissa Farmiga.
The minefield of early adolescence is a treacherous phase in Spanish visual artist Pascual Sisto s
John and the Hole, in which Charlie Shotwell gives a rivetingly affectless performance as an apathetic 13-year-old who holds his parents and sister captive in an underground bunker. The director has jokingly referred to his psychological coming-of-age thriller as a Michael Haneke version of
Home Alone, which isn t far from the truth. But it more specifically recalls the 2014 nail-biter by the Austrian auteur s compatriots Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala,