Watch the 2020 Evermore Digital Summit, which features Casey Affleck here.
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Lindsey Whissel Fenton: Welcome to
Take Note. For WPSU, from my home studio, I m Lindsey Whissel Fenton. Joyal Mulheron is a Washington DC policy veteran who spent more than 15 years working for various governors, the White House, and a number of leading non-profits. But her life changed forever following the death of her daughter, Eleonora in 2010. Joyal is now the founder and executive director of the non-profit Evermore where she works to make the world a more livable place for bereaved families through research, policy and education. Her work has been featured in
True West Magazine
Johnny D. Boggs, the 2020 Owen Wister Award recipient for lifetime contributions to Western literature and inductee into Western Writers Hall of Fame, has won a record eight Spur Awards from Western Writers of America. A former newspaper journalist, he has been writing fiction and nonfiction full time since 1998. His books include A Thousand Texas Longhorns; Hard Winter; Buckskin, Bloomers, and Me; and Billy the Kid on Film, 1911-2012. His website is JohnnyDBoggs.com.
My mother and father… Songwriter Rodney Crowell wrote my life story in “Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper’s Dream)”: “But Mama kept the Bible read/and Daddy kept our family fed/ And somewhere in between I must have grown…”
Lee a Bafta outstanding British film nominee with his low-budget debut feature
God’s Own Country steps up to bigger scale and cast names with this 1840s-set drama about real-life English fossil hunter Mary Anning. Oscar and triple Bafta winner Kate Winslet stars opposite multiple Oscar and Bafta nominee Saoirse Ronan in a fictionalised romantic drama that was selected for Cannes, Telluride and Toronto, and released by Neon in the US. Producers Iain Canning and Emile Sherman of See Saw Films won the best picture Oscar for
The King’s Speech.
Another Round Awarded the Cannes 2020 official selection label before its Toronto world premiere,
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When the Sundance Film Festival kicks off on January 28, 2021, in Park City, Utah, there won’t be a long line of people standing outside the Eccles Theater, watching their breath catch in the cold winter air and Main Street surely won’t be packed with revelers and sponsor activations, either.
Instead, on account of the coronavirus pandemic, next year’s Sundance will actually expand amid the contraction of live events. Rather than relying solely on in-person experiences, the festival has plans that extend far beyond the theater: a digital platform where patrons around the world can watch this year’s lineup; drive-in screenings at venues around the country; in-person showings at independent art houses nationwide where indoor events can happen safely and in accordance with public health guidelines; and even a virtual reality space that includes live performances and a lobby where people can digitally congregate.