How I Learned To Stop Suppressing And Love the Chainsaw
The director of this year s Chainsaw Awards reveals what went on behind the curtain.
By Xanthe Pajarillo · @xanthepajarillo · April 20, 2021, 4:45 PM EDT The fearless leader, Xanthe Pajarillo!
“What was it like directing the Chainsaw Awards?”
Upon hearing this question, I’m flooded with a slew of images: all-nighters with editor Shaman Marya and sound designer/post mixer Saranya Nayak for editing and sound, rehearsing over Zoom with Smiling Beth and host David Dastmalchian, shot listing with DP Tara Jenkins… it all felt like a swirling dream, as if everything happened yesterday. But there’s one moment that sits vividly among the others. The morning of our first test day, my mother received a call from the Philippines. She turned and said, “Your Auntie Maripe has died.”
Here s All 13 LGBTQ+ Films Premiering at Sundance 2021
By Mey Rude
The Sundance Film Festival, which starts today, is one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world. While this year no one’s flying to Utah and having to bundle up for all the snow, there are still several great looking LGBTQ+ films debuting in its virtual iteration. Everything from
Call Me By Your Name has screened here. Will any of this year’s films join the history of great queer movies to debut at the festival? From documentaries and shorts, to exciting queer thrillers and a dramatic lesbian period romance, here are the LGBTQ+ films and projects debuting at Sundance this year.
Sundance Film Festival will let you hang out in space next to the ISS (apparently)
The fest s New Frontier program always packed with virtual reality and other tech-driven storytelling is pulling out all the stops next month during Sundance s mostly virtual festival. Listen - 08:13
Sundance typically takes place in Park City, Utah. Getty Images
The Sundance Film Festival is going more virtual than ever, which is saying something for the fest that helped put virtual reality on Hollywood s radar.
Running for eight days starting Jan. 28, Sundance will take place both on custom online platforms and through in-person events, including satellite screenings across the US as permitted by COVID-19 public-health protocols. But no part is going more virtual than New Frontier, the fest s branch focused on cutting-edge storytelling. In recent years, New Frontier s emphasis on tech-driven
Together
Together starring Ed Helms
are among 72 features selected for 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which runs online and in select US arthouse venues from January 28-February 3.
The line-up, announced on Tuesday (December 15), includes
One For The Road, Thai filmmaker Baz Poonpiriya’s follow-up to
Bad Genius; Edgar Wright’s music documentary
The Sparks Brothers
Land; Ben Wheatley’s virus horror
In The Earth; The Roots drummer Questlove’s documentary
Summer Of Soul; and Kevin Macdonald’s Special Screenings selection
Life In A Day 2020.
A features roster representing 29 countries and 38 first-time feature filmmakers includes three films from Cannes Label 2020:
Pascual Sisto’s
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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.