With less than six months before the Sundance Film Festival cuts the ribbon on its new home, Boulder, Colorado, the event is hard at work, working with city and local officials, revitalizing cinema venues and bracing for the arrival of what typically attracts 85,000-plus attendees. “It’s a more…

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the landmark relocation of its Sundance Film Festival to Boulder, Sundance Institute has appointed Bloomerang PR as its Colorado Agency of Record, announcing new programming set for this summer. Jenny Bloom’s Denver-based Bloomerang will lead regional media strategy and…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Classics has taken its fourth Sundance Film Festival feature this year with the David Wain-directed comedy Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass. The deal for the pic’s global rights was negotiated between Sony Pictures Classics and WME Independent on behalf of the…

The Sundance Film Festival has set the 2027 dates for its first year in Boulder, CO: January 21–31. Last March, Boulder won a bidding battle to become the new home of the Sundance Film Festival after myriad cities were in consideration — including its longtime haunt Park City. The Colorado city…

EXCLUSIVE: Lithuanian filmmaker Andrius Blaževičius has signed with WME for representation in all areas. Blaževičius is coming off the Sundance premiere of his third feature, How to Divorce During the War, which won the World Dramatic Competition’s Directing Award. Set in Vilnius in 2022, the…

EXCLUSIVE, UPDATED: Magnolia Pictures has closed a 7-figure U.S. rights deal for I Want Your Sex, with a big theatrical released planned for later this year. One of the big buzz titles of the recent Sundance Film Festival, the Gregg Araki-directed erotically charged drama stars Olivia Wilde and…

Neon has picked up U.S. rights to Once Upon a Time a Harlem, which was conceived and filmed in 1972 by the late William Greaves and restored and directed by his son, David Greaves. Neon beat out Netflix, Mubi and Criterion Collection for the documentary. The pic, which captures the energy of the…

Sundance Film Festival world premiere documentaries are lining up their next festival appearances. Jaripeo, Who Killed Alex Odeh? and the docuseries The Story of Documentary Film are among the projects heading to the Berlinale next week. American Doctor, Closure, Soul Patrol, Nuisance Bear (win…

A reflective Nelson Mandela emerges in Troublemaker, the documentary about the late anti-Apartheid leader and first president of a new South Africa. It's based on the memoir Long Walk to Freedom that Mandela wrote while imprisoned by the white-dominated regime and supplemented with interviews he…

Scottish Irish filmmaker Mark Cousins isn't afraid to think big. "It’s always good to aim high," he tells Deadline. "I mean, we can nibble at life and take it gingerly or we can gorge." He gorges on nonfiction cinema in his 16-hour series The Story of Documentary Film, an encyclopedic…

“I don’t want to put the power into other people’s hands as to what can be made,” says director Jay Duplass, talking about the perseverance of indie filmmaking at a time when the motion picture industry is being squeezed by conglomerates. Duplass was joined by fellow filmmakers Tamra Davis…

The Sundance Film Festival is regarded as one of the most prestigious independent film festivals, where filmmakers have been premiering their movies and documentaries since 1984. However, this year's festivities are bittersweet; the festival is bidding a fond farewell to Park City—its home for over four…