The 2023 Sundance Film Festival officially announced the Shorts and Indie Episodic programs.
Notable artists and talent in the shorts program include Paul Feig, Angela Sarafyan, Kate Flannery, Yalitza Aparicio Martinez, Angela Trimbur, Ken Marino, Bi Gan, and Shannon Plumb. Selections range from more than 23 countries, including Iran and Ukraine.
The Sundance Institute will offer in-person premieres for the Indie Episodic works, with Shorts screened in curated programs. Beginning January 24, all Indie Episodic projects and selected Shorts will also be available to stream online through the end of the festival. The 2023 festival will take place January 19 through 29, 2023, in person in Park City, Salt Lake City, and the Sundance Resort, along with a selection of films available online across the country January 24–29.
This upcoming year’s Short Film program includes work from 23 countries, and the Indie Episodic represents works from five countries. Forty-six percent of the filmmakers identify as women, and filmmakers...
Notable artists and talent in the shorts program include Paul Feig, Angela Sarafyan, Kate Flannery, Yalitza Aparicio Martinez, Angela Trimbur, Ken Marino, Bi Gan, and Shannon Plumb. Selections range from more than 23 countries, including Iran and Ukraine.
The Sundance Institute will offer in-person premieres for the Indie Episodic works, with Shorts screened in curated programs. Beginning January 24, all Indie Episodic projects and selected Shorts will also be available to stream online through the end of the festival. The 2023 festival will take place January 19 through 29, 2023, in person in Park City, Salt Lake City, and the Sundance Resort, along with a selection of films available online across the country January 24–29.
This upcoming year’s Short Film program includes work from 23 countries, and the Indie Episodic represents works from five countries. Forty-six percent of the filmmakers identify as women, and filmmakers...
- 12/13/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
The Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday revealed its 2023 lineup of episodic projects and 64 shorts, the latter culled from the fest’s highest number of submissions at 10,981.
The shorts span 23 countries, including projects from Iran (Azheh) and Ukraine (Liturgy of anti-tank obstacles), with works from such artists as Paul Feig (Help Me Understand producer), Westworld actress Angela Sarafyan (Power Signal), The Office‘s Kate Flannery (Help Me Understand), Roma‘s Yalitza Aparicio Martinez (Sweatshop Girl), The Feels’ Angela Trimbur (Mirror Party), Party Down‘s Ken Marino (Help Me Understand), Bi Gan (director of Cannes Certain Regard title A Long Days Journey Into Night director) and Shannon Plumb (Walk of Shame) to name a few.
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The shorts span 23 countries, including projects from Iran (Azheh) and Ukraine (Liturgy of anti-tank obstacles), with works from such artists as Paul Feig (Help Me Understand producer), Westworld actress Angela Sarafyan (Power Signal), The Office‘s Kate Flannery (Help Me Understand), Roma‘s Yalitza Aparicio Martinez (Sweatshop Girl), The Feels’ Angela Trimbur (Mirror Party), Party Down‘s Ken Marino (Help Me Understand), Bi Gan (director of Cannes Certain Regard title A Long Days Journey Into Night director) and Shannon Plumb (Walk of Shame) to name a few.
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- 12/13/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Derek Cianfrance, the writer and director of HBO’s “I Know This Much Is True,” said he quickly sparked to two aspects of the project: It was a family story, and it was a tragic story.
“It just fell in line with so much of what I feel like my mission as a filmmaker has been, which is to explore stories of family,” Cianfrance said in an interview with IndieWire. “Stories of these intimate connections that we don’t necessarily choose in our lives, but that we’re bound to.”
“Bound to” is a choice of words as apt as it is revealing, given the trademark sorrow infused in so much of Cianfrance’s work. Watching films like “Blue Valentine” and “The Place Beyond the Pines,” can feel like you’re trapped — forcing you to confront your grief, ready or not.
“I always understood that to experience a tragedy — to witness,...
“It just fell in line with so much of what I feel like my mission as a filmmaker has been, which is to explore stories of family,” Cianfrance said in an interview with IndieWire. “Stories of these intimate connections that we don’t necessarily choose in our lives, but that we’re bound to.”
“Bound to” is a choice of words as apt as it is revealing, given the trademark sorrow infused in so much of Cianfrance’s work. Watching films like “Blue Valentine” and “The Place Beyond the Pines,” can feel like you’re trapped — forcing you to confront your grief, ready or not.
“I always understood that to experience a tragedy — to witness,...
- 6/8/2020
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
At the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, TV is invading the schedule in a whole new way. The Park City film fest has previously dabbled in what’s possible on the small screen, but this year marks the launch of the Indie Episodics section — which will spotlight TV pilots that mostly lack mainstream distribution.
The selections include “America to Me,” a new docu-series by “Hoop Dreams” director Steve James; as well as “The Mortified Guide,” a screen adaptation of the popular stage show “Mortified,” spotlighting the most embarrassing true stories of adolescence. There’s also “This Close,” showcasing star/creators Josh Feldman and Shoshannah Stern (both of whom are deaf), and “Franchesca,” featuring digital star and “The Nightly Show” writer/contributor Franchesca Ramsey.
This marks a major change for Sundance, and a renewed commitment to independent television. While Sundance has featured TV programming since the premiere of “Top of the Lake” in...
The selections include “America to Me,” a new docu-series by “Hoop Dreams” director Steve James; as well as “The Mortified Guide,” a screen adaptation of the popular stage show “Mortified,” spotlighting the most embarrassing true stories of adolescence. There’s also “This Close,” showcasing star/creators Josh Feldman and Shoshannah Stern (both of whom are deaf), and “Franchesca,” featuring digital star and “The Nightly Show” writer/contributor Franchesca Ramsey.
This marks a major change for Sundance, and a renewed commitment to independent television. While Sundance has featured TV programming since the premiere of “Top of the Lake” in...
- 12/4/2017
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
Every week, the CriticWire Survey asks a select handful of film and TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday morning. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?” can be found at the end of this post.)
In a recent piece for The Talkhouse, Shannon Plumb — wife of “The Light Between Oceans” director Derek Cianfrance, as well as a filmmaker in her own right — wrote a candid piece about her reaction to the reviews of Cianfrance’s latest movie, and how it informed her opinion about critics in general. Some of her more pointed comments included:
“Critics can be like horseflies sucking blood from thoroughbreds.
People are losing their ability to be romantic… And the critics, like lemmings, are jumping off the cliff with all the other unsentimental rodents.
Anthony Lane, like so many other critics, seem to be watching movies with his head,...
In a recent piece for The Talkhouse, Shannon Plumb — wife of “The Light Between Oceans” director Derek Cianfrance, as well as a filmmaker in her own right — wrote a candid piece about her reaction to the reviews of Cianfrance’s latest movie, and how it informed her opinion about critics in general. Some of her more pointed comments included:
“Critics can be like horseflies sucking blood from thoroughbreds.
People are losing their ability to be romantic… And the critics, like lemmings, are jumping off the cliff with all the other unsentimental rodents.
Anthony Lane, like so many other critics, seem to be watching movies with his head,...
- 9/26/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Derek Cianfrance’s wife, Shannon Plumb, wrote a detailed essay on The Talkhouse about their experience premiering “The Light Between Oceans” at the Venice Film Festival. Excited about finally debuting the film Cianfrance had passionately worked on for years, she was heartbroken when early negative reviews of the drama were posted online.
“No one was supposed to post a review until a few hours before its premiere,” Plumb wrote. “But there were five reviews up, one by Variety, and it was two more days till the premiere. The critics had broken the embargo.”
Detailing that Cianfrance felt like “someone stomped on his brain,” she added, “The critics are not a voice for the people, yet they can affect the reputation and success of the movie. By writing early and with vehemence against ‘The Light Between Oceans,’ it probably lost a couple million dollars in its first weekend. The first weekend...
“No one was supposed to post a review until a few hours before its premiere,” Plumb wrote. “But there were five reviews up, one by Variety, and it was two more days till the premiere. The critics had broken the embargo.”
Detailing that Cianfrance felt like “someone stomped on his brain,” she added, “The critics are not a voice for the people, yet they can affect the reputation and success of the movie. By writing early and with vehemence against ‘The Light Between Oceans,’ it probably lost a couple million dollars in its first weekend. The first weekend...
- 9/16/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Derek Cianfrance and Jeff Nichols share more than a laugh Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Jeff Nichols, who is at Cannes with Loving, inspired Derek Cianfrance's method for his latest, The Light Between Oceans, starring Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander and Rachel Weisz.
Alicia Vikander will star in The Light Between Oceans Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At the 21 Club tea, honoring Nichols' Midnight Special, hosted by Michael Shannon with Kirsten Dunst (Cannes jury member) and Jaeden Lieberher, The Place Beyond The Pines director Derek Cianfrance spoke to me about Steven Spielberg's "pile of stuff" at Dreamworks, Ryan Gosling and Ben Mendelsohn, childhood memories of Martin Scorsese, John Cassavetes, Pier Paolo Pasolini and George Romero films, Shannon Plumb's Towheads and The Narcissist, but not Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse. Erin Benach, Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon costume designer, will be dressing the stars in Cianfrance's latest. She also worked with...
Jeff Nichols, who is at Cannes with Loving, inspired Derek Cianfrance's method for his latest, The Light Between Oceans, starring Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander and Rachel Weisz.
Alicia Vikander will star in The Light Between Oceans Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At the 21 Club tea, honoring Nichols' Midnight Special, hosted by Michael Shannon with Kirsten Dunst (Cannes jury member) and Jaeden Lieberher, The Place Beyond The Pines director Derek Cianfrance spoke to me about Steven Spielberg's "pile of stuff" at Dreamworks, Ryan Gosling and Ben Mendelsohn, childhood memories of Martin Scorsese, John Cassavetes, Pier Paolo Pasolini and George Romero films, Shannon Plumb's Towheads and The Narcissist, but not Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse. Erin Benach, Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon costume designer, will be dressing the stars in Cianfrance's latest. She also worked with...
- 5/17/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
If Lucy Ricardo were alive today, she'd probably make no-budget shorts in her apartment. I Love Lucy was always sympathetic toward the creative aspirations of its untalented protagonist -- partly because the actress playing her was such a gifted performer, and partly because the show never minced words about how tedious life as a housewife could be.
In the often grim, often delirious comedy Towheads, Shannon Plumb picks up where Lucille Ball left off. The writer-director-star plays Penelope, an unhappy stay-at-home Brooklyn mom confined in a mid-century relationship with her successful stage-director husband (filmmaker Derek Cianfrance, Plumb's actual husband).
Like her TV predecessor, Penelope's artistic ambitions exceed her abilities, and she's inarticu...
In the often grim, often delirious comedy Towheads, Shannon Plumb picks up where Lucille Ball left off. The writer-director-star plays Penelope, an unhappy stay-at-home Brooklyn mom confined in a mid-century relationship with her successful stage-director husband (filmmaker Derek Cianfrance, Plumb's actual husband).
Like her TV predecessor, Penelope's artistic ambitions exceed her abilities, and she's inarticu...
- 1/29/2014
- Village Voice
O is for the Other Things: Plumb’s Debut an Idiosyncratic Exercise in Domestic Ennui
Video and performance artist Shannon Plumb makes her directorial debut with Towheads, which showcases her considerable talent for physical comedy and well executed gags, here nestled within the rather morbid framework of possible mental instability caused by the monotony of domestic life. Her film is a family affair, starring her two young sons and her husband, director Derek Cianfrance, which lends the proceedings a certain dramatic depth that the overtly light and comedic tone might otherwise sweep away.
Penelope (Shannon Plumb) is a rather distracted and harried mother of two young sun bleached blond boys, 4 year old Cody and 7 year old Walker (Cody and Walker Cianfrance). She’s sharing a seemingly functional marriage with her theater director husband, Matt (Derek Cianfrance), but not only is he largely absent while pursuing the dreams of his own profession,...
Video and performance artist Shannon Plumb makes her directorial debut with Towheads, which showcases her considerable talent for physical comedy and well executed gags, here nestled within the rather morbid framework of possible mental instability caused by the monotony of domestic life. Her film is a family affair, starring her two young sons and her husband, director Derek Cianfrance, which lends the proceedings a certain dramatic depth that the overtly light and comedic tone might otherwise sweep away.
Penelope (Shannon Plumb) is a rather distracted and harried mother of two young sun bleached blond boys, 4 year old Cody and 7 year old Walker (Cody and Walker Cianfrance). She’s sharing a seemingly functional marriage with her theater director husband, Matt (Derek Cianfrance), but not only is he largely absent while pursuing the dreams of his own profession,...
- 1/24/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The following interview first ran on this site in January 2013 to coincide with the world premiere of Towheads at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. It is republished here to mark the theatrical run of Plumb’s film at the Museum of Modern Art in New York between January 23 and 29. Premiering in Rotterdam, the disarming and oddly delightful Towheads is the feature debut of artist and experimental filmmaker Shannon Plumb. Exploring and extending aspects of her short-form Super-8 work within a feature context, Towheads is, on the surface, a familiar story of a bored housewife whose creative aspirations are […]...
- 1/22/2014
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The following interview first ran on this site in January 2013 to coincide with the world premiere of Towheads at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. It is republished here to mark the theatrical run of Plumb’s film at the Museum of Modern Art in New York between January 23 and 29. Premiering in Rotterdam, the disarming and oddly delightful Towheads is the feature debut of artist and experimental filmmaker Shannon Plumb. Exploring and extending aspects of her short-form Super-8 work within a feature context, Towheads is, on the surface, a familiar story of a bored housewife whose creative aspirations are […]...
- 1/22/2014
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
When we spoke with Derek Cianfrance for his latest drama, The Place Beyond the Pines, he said he was working on a series for HBO called Muscle, based on the life of bodybuilder Sam Fussell and was also writing a feature film script with his wife, Shannon Plumb, focusing on childbirth. Speaking with Jeff Goldsmith for his podcast, he now says [...]...
- 10/7/2013
- by Jack Cunliffe
- The Film Stage
Those who won't be at Toronto this week can still enjoy a taste of the film festival experience from home. Today, the New York Times launches its first ever Indie Online Film Festival, a free series of four films curated by the nonprofit Film Independent. The films are available to watch from September 3 to October 2. The online festival includes two feature length and two short form films from rising independent filmmakers who represent a broad range of styles. Each of these films has played festivals previously but this series marks their debut for a worldwide audience. One of the films is "Towheads" from director Shannon Plumb, wife of "The Place Beyond the Pines" director Derek Cianfrance, who also costars. The four films are: "Towheads" Dir. Shannon Plumb, USA The Brooklyn mother of two boys and the wife of a harried theater director, Penelope barely has time to stay sane, much less create art.
- 9/3/2013
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
In "The Place Beyond the Pines," Derek Cianfrance's time-spanning look at guilt and responsibility across multiple generations, Ryan Gosling plays a reckless stunt driver suddenly thrust into fatherhood and engaged in bank robberies to provide for the son he just learned about. Despite his apparent commitment to a worthy cause, Gosling's character engages in a recklessness that puts both himself and his family at risk: He's not only an absent father but a dangerous one. Cianfrance himself may not suffer from the same risky tendencies, but the battle to obtain a commanding role over familial stability is almost certainly a personal one, judging by the portrait of his household's interiors in "Towheads." Directed by Cianfrance's wife, the witty video performance artist Shannon Plumb, "Towheads" looks at the other side of the equation only glimpsed in "Pines": Whereas in that movie we follow the absent father, "Towheads" observes the world he leaves behind.
- 3/29/2013
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
The Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center will present the 42nd edition of New Directors/New Films from March 20-31 in New York. The festival will screen 25 features (19 narrative, six documentary) and 17 short films, representing 24 countries.
Matías Piñeiro's Viola, Shane Carruth's Upstream Color, Shannon Plumb's Towheads, Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell, Daniel Hoesl's Soldate Jeannette and Rachid Djaïdani's Rengaine are films to look out for on the conflicts from within and the contentions from without.
Alexandre Moors’ Blue Caprice will open the festival at MoMA on March 20. A new component this year is a mid-festival screening at the Vw Performance Dome at MoMA PS1, in Long Island City, on March 26, of Sophie Letourneur’s Les Coquillettes. Found-footage documentary, Our Nixon, directed by Penny Lane will close the film festival at the Film Society’s Walter Reade Theater on March 31.
Here are six standouts.
Matías Piñeiro's Viola, Shane Carruth's Upstream Color, Shannon Plumb's Towheads, Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell, Daniel Hoesl's Soldate Jeannette and Rachid Djaïdani's Rengaine are films to look out for on the conflicts from within and the contentions from without.
Alexandre Moors’ Blue Caprice will open the festival at MoMA on March 20. A new component this year is a mid-festival screening at the Vw Performance Dome at MoMA PS1, in Long Island City, on March 26, of Sophie Letourneur’s Les Coquillettes. Found-footage documentary, Our Nixon, directed by Penny Lane will close the film festival at the Film Society’s Walter Reade Theater on March 31.
Here are six standouts.
- 3/17/2013
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The current class of “25 New Faces” continues to make headlines, this time bagging opening and closing night spots at the upcoming New Directors/New Films being works by 2012 alums. Penny Lane and Brian L. Frye‘s archival doc Our Nixon kicks off the MoMA/Fslc-housed festival, while Alexandre Moors‘ Beltway sniper drama Blue Caprice closes the event. Other U.S. indies at the 2013 edition of Nd/Nf include Joshua Oppenheimer’s buzz doc The Act of Killing, Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color and Shannon Plumb’s Towheads, while additional standouts include festival favorites like Tobias Lindholm’s A Hijacking and Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell. The …...
- 2/22/2013
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Premiering in Rotterdam, the disarming and oddly delightful Towheads is the feature debut of artist and experimental filmmaker Shannon Plumb. Exploring and extending aspects of her short-form Super-8 work within a feature context, Towheads is, on the surface, a familiar story of a bored housewife whose creative aspirations are stifled by the pressures of domesticity and the disinterest of a work-obsessed husband. But these frustrations are just the catalyst for a charmingly playful series of episodes in which Plumb’s character adopts various guises — a drag king, a pole dancer and many more — in an attempt to explore alternative …...
- 1/24/2013
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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