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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 149–157.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Roya Rastegar Festivals not only select and exhibit films, they also call in audiences and shape the conditions in which these audiences engage with cinema. Drawing from the author's changing personal relationship to cinema culture, and engaging with eleven films that premiered at the 2012 Sundance...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 147–155.
Published: 01 May 2013
... by and about women in the world and helped hundreds of women get their films made through its Production Assistance Program. Films from WMM programs have won prizes at the last five Sundance Film Festivals and have been nominated for or won Academy Awards in five of the last six years. Zimmerman speaks around...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 153–162.
Published: 01 December 2009
..., such festivals as Sundance (held in  January) and the Toronto Inter- national Film Festival (TIFF, held in September) annually provide sound evidence of the ongoing relevance of the concept of women’s cinema — characterized by women’s access to the means of produc- tion, the commitment to telling...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 137–159.
Published: 01 May 2014
... Hershman Leeson, Nancy Savoca, and Rose Troche. Other writers and directors who showcase recognizable themes and players in their work and participate regularly in indie institutions such as the Sundance Film Festival and the Independent Spirit Awards include Lisa Cholodenko...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 145–151.
Published: 01 December 2006
... were showcased at Toronto in 2005. Sundance touted a record 25 percent women directors in the competition sections of the 2006 edition.12 The numbers game is of course not the most nuanced way to think about wom- en’s roles in cinema...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 181–183.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Sundance Film Festival. No. 81: pp. 149 – 157 Nadia Sophia Sanko Creolizing Carmen: Reading Performance in María Antonia, Cuba’s Overlooked Carmen Adaptation. No. 79: pp. 157 – 191 J. E. Smyth The Organization Woman behind The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. No. 80: pp. 61 – 91...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 63–87.
Published: 01 September 2023
... at the Sundance Institute, First Stories at the National Film Board of Canada (and the follow-up project, Second Stories), the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, and the Dreamspeakers International Indigenous Film Festival. In Barclay's own Aotearoa New Zealand, the Māoriland Film Festival began in 2014...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 157–165.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of status for a moment. Status confers confidence. We know this to be true — know it intimately, just as we know how to recognize the markers of success. You enhance your sta- tus if you get into Sundance, get tenure at Yale, are hired to write for The Confidence...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 111–135.
Published: 01 May 2014
... previous two feature films — High Art (US, 1998) and Laurel Canyon (US, 2002) — both premiered at Cannes and were critically acclaimed on the festival circuit. High Art won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival, and Ally Sheedy won the National Society of Film...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 141–166.
Published: 01 September 2008
.... In a Sundance Channel interview, Kwan describes the film as “an ordinary love story.”30 His agenda is clear in his use of the word ordinary: he wishes to deemphasize gay sexuality to highlight the ordinariness of gay relationships; they are like any heterosexual relationships. However, the term ordinary...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 145–177.
Published: 01 December 2022
... in the image of Shirin editing Tale of the Lost Fart late at night on a laptop ahead of a next-day screening for the “kidz” and their parents. Even after the success of Appropriate Behavior , which premiered at Sundance, Akhavan's television show The Bisexual (2016) got off the ground only after...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 143–177.
Published: 01 December 2011
... into Brothels  project and showcases the children’s photographs, contains several instances of this kind of discourse.42 The introduc- tion to this volume by the Sundance Documentary Film Program director, Diane Weyerman, chronicles the Born into Brothels  project and showcases the children’s photographs...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 57–91.
Published: 01 December 2004
... the National Short Film and Video competition; the San Francisco International Film Fes- tival, where it won the Golden Gate Grand Prize for Short Narra- tive; the United States Film Festival (renamed Sundance a few years later); and the Toronto International Film Festival. Concur- rent with the film’s...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 181–197.
Published: 01 May 2004
.... With the help of the Sundance screenwriter’s lab, she is currently working on a feature-length movie. We sat down with a tape recorder one chilly spring afternoon in Green- point, Brooklyn, to talk about her recent work and wandered into other, more tangential territories. Julia Bryan-Wilson: You move...
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Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (2 (38)): 116–131.
Published: 01 May 1996
..., Holland, Australia, and Africa. Within its first year in circulation, Daughters of the Dust already grossed over one million dollars at the box office.' In the United States, it received a number of prestigious awards, including the Sundance prize for best cinematography and The Black Filmmakers prize...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (1 (58)): 185–207.
Published: 01 May 2005
... by Maori but was adapted from Witi Ihimaera’s novel of the same name. The provocative short film Two Cars One Night (Taika Waititi, New Zealand, 2003), which screened at the Berlin and Sundance film festivals, is another example of contemporary Maori filmmaking. For more details...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 93–115.
Published: 01 December 2014
... beyond Argentina, collecting nominations and awards from all the major festivals in Latin America and the North Atlantic, from Cannes to Sundance and from Buenos Aires to Havana. At the same time, however, her films are finely tuned to the particular rhythms and values of provincial middle...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 41–66.
Published: 01 September 2008
... in the United States.1 Despite the seem- ingly massive impact of the New Queer Cinema and the culture of Sundance and independent film, this film’s anomalous status is a testament to how little has really changed in the power struc- tures of cinematic production.2 The anniversary of a film that stands...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 161–187.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., and Sundance festivals and won a spot in the International Critics’ Week at Cannes in 1998, while his Irreversible (Irréversible, France) premiered at Cannes in 2002, as did Claire Denis’s Trouble Every Day (France, Germany, and Japan) in 2001. Catherine Breillat’s Fat Girl (À ma soeur!, France...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 131–162.
Published: 01 September 2024
... importantly, it is one that has compelled us to reassess and develop new approaches to the wider genre of romantic comedy. Before delving deeper into that argument, an overview of Together Together —“one of the breakout hits” of the 2021 virtual Sundance—is in order. 3 Indie comedy darling Patti Harrison...
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