Exclusive: Some of the greatest documentary talents in the world will be descending on coastal Maine for the 21st edition of the Camden International Film Festival.
Ciff announced its lineup today ahead of the event running September 11-14, a roster featuring new work from Oscar winners Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Love+War); a masterclass with Oscar winner Alex Gibney and Oscar nominee Raoul Peck pegged to their collaboration on Orwell: 2+2=5, which Peck directed and Gibney produced; Nuestra Tierra, the first documentary feature from acclaimed Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel; the world premiere of Sama Waham’s multimedia personal essay Ki-Bé -Giš; the world premiere of Robert and June (and all the time in the world), a short directed by Jem Cohen, and much more. Scroll for the full lineup.
Andrea Gibson (left) and Meg Falley in ‘Come See Me in the Good Light’ Apple TV+
Ciff officially opens with the...
Ciff announced its lineup today ahead of the event running September 11-14, a roster featuring new work from Oscar winners Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Love+War); a masterclass with Oscar winner Alex Gibney and Oscar nominee Raoul Peck pegged to their collaboration on Orwell: 2+2=5, which Peck directed and Gibney produced; Nuestra Tierra, the first documentary feature from acclaimed Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel; the world premiere of Sama Waham’s multimedia personal essay Ki-Bé -Giš; the world premiere of Robert and June (and all the time in the world), a short directed by Jem Cohen, and much more. Scroll for the full lineup.
Andrea Gibson (left) and Meg Falley in ‘Come See Me in the Good Light’ Apple TV+
Ciff officially opens with the...
- 8/18/2025
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Danielle Spencer, the actress best known for playing the quick-witted little sister Dee Thomas on the 1970s sitcom “What’s Happening!!” died on Monday at a hospital in Richmond, Va., her brother announced on Instagram. She had previously been diagnosed with breast cancer and undergone a double mastectomy and emergency surgeries. She was 60.
Born in Trenton, N.J. in 1965, Spencer started acting after her family relocated to New York City early in her life. At the age of 11, she was cast as Dee Thomas in “What’s Happening!!,” an ABC sitcom created by Eric Monte and executive produced by “All In The Family’s” Bud Yorkin.
Based on of the 1975 coming-of-age film “Cooley High,” “What’s Happening!!” chronicled the lives and teenage antics of Raj Thomas (Ernest Thomas), Dwayne Nelson (Haywood Nelson) and Freddy “Rerun” Stubbs (Fred Berry). Dee was Raj’s younger sister with a sharp tongue and even sharper attitude, quick...
Born in Trenton, N.J. in 1965, Spencer started acting after her family relocated to New York City early in her life. At the age of 11, she was cast as Dee Thomas in “What’s Happening!!,” an ABC sitcom created by Eric Monte and executive produced by “All In The Family’s” Bud Yorkin.
Based on of the 1975 coming-of-age film “Cooley High,” “What’s Happening!!” chronicled the lives and teenage antics of Raj Thomas (Ernest Thomas), Dwayne Nelson (Haywood Nelson) and Freddy “Rerun” Stubbs (Fred Berry). Dee was Raj’s younger sister with a sharp tongue and even sharper attitude, quick...
- 8/12/2025
- by Andrew McGowan
- Variety Film + TV
On Monday August 4 2025, History broadcasts Life After People!
Sands of Time Season 3 Episode 4 Episode Summary
The upcoming episode of “Life After People,” titled “Sands of Time,” promises to take viewers on a fascinating journey through a world where humans no longer exist. This episode will explore how deserts, once controlled and developed, begin to reclaim their territory. Iconic cities like Las Vegas and the towering Burj Khalifa in Dubai will be featured as they succumb to the relentless forces of nature.
As the episode unfolds, the focus will be on how sand, salt, and sun work together to dismantle these once-thriving urban landscapes. The story will highlight the gradual process of decay and destruction, showing how nature reasserts itself in the absence of human activity. Viewers can expect stunning visuals of the changing environment, as familiar landmarks become engulfed by the encroaching desert.
“Sands of Time” will delve into the...
Sands of Time Season 3 Episode 4 Episode Summary
The upcoming episode of “Life After People,” titled “Sands of Time,” promises to take viewers on a fascinating journey through a world where humans no longer exist. This episode will explore how deserts, once controlled and developed, begin to reclaim their territory. Iconic cities like Las Vegas and the towering Burj Khalifa in Dubai will be featured as they succumb to the relentless forces of nature.
As the episode unfolds, the focus will be on how sand, salt, and sun work together to dismantle these once-thriving urban landscapes. The story will highlight the gradual process of decay and destruction, showing how nature reasserts itself in the absence of human activity. Viewers can expect stunning visuals of the changing environment, as familiar landmarks become engulfed by the encroaching desert.
“Sands of Time” will delve into the...
- 8/4/2025
- by US Posts
- TV Regular
After five years away from the sparkling ballroom floor of Dancing With the Stars, longtime host Tom Bergeron is opening the door—just a crack—for a potential return.
It’s a surprising shift, especially for a man who once said “never” when asked about coming back. But as DWTS prepares for its 34th season, Bergeron’s recent comments reveal a man who still cares deeply about the show he helped shape for nearly three decades.
A Catch-Up Over Lunch and a Hint at a Comeback
In a recent interview with USA Today, Bergeron shared that he has been in contact with DWTS executive producer Conrad Green—someone he credits for helping steer the show back to form. “He’s been largely responsible for getting the show back on track,” Bergeron said.
The two recently met for lunch, and during that meeting, the idea of a return came up—not as a full-time host,...
It’s a surprising shift, especially for a man who once said “never” when asked about coming back. But as DWTS prepares for its 34th season, Bergeron’s recent comments reveal a man who still cares deeply about the show he helped shape for nearly three decades.
A Catch-Up Over Lunch and a Hint at a Comeback
In a recent interview with USA Today, Bergeron shared that he has been in contact with DWTS executive producer Conrad Green—someone he credits for helping steer the show back to form. “He’s been largely responsible for getting the show back on track,” Bergeron said.
The two recently met for lunch, and during that meeting, the idea of a return came up—not as a full-time host,...
- 7/23/2025
- by Chijioke Chukwuemeka
- Celebrating The Soaps
Every good noir begins with a missing person, a ghost haunting the periphery of an unsolved case. For Reid Davenport’s Life After, that ghost is Elizabeth Bouvia. Archival footage, grainy and saturated with the haze of 1980s broadcast news, shows us a fiercely articulate young woman demanding her own death in a California courtroom. Then, she vanishes.
Into this vacuum steps Davenport, a filmmaker whose shared diagnosis of cerebral palsy makes him less a director and more a hardboiled detective with skin in the game. His camera, unsteady and intimate, begins a search not just for Bouvia’s whereabouts but for an answer to a profoundly unsettling question.
In a world of institutional shadows and bureaucratic indifference, who gets to define a life’s quality? The film sets its hook deep, pulling us into a moral labyrinth where the path to an answer is anything but clear.
The Canadian...
Into this vacuum steps Davenport, a filmmaker whose shared diagnosis of cerebral palsy makes him less a director and more a hardboiled detective with skin in the game. His camera, unsteady and intimate, begins a search not just for Bouvia’s whereabouts but for an answer to a profoundly unsettling question.
In a world of institutional shadows and bureaucratic indifference, who gets to define a life’s quality? The film sets its hook deep, pulling us into a moral labyrinth where the path to an answer is anything but clear.
The Canadian...
- 7/17/2025
- by Marcus Thorne
- Gazettely
Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Multitude Films releases “Life After” in select theaters Friday, July 18, before it premieres on PBS Independent Lens later this year.
About midway through his new documentary “Life After,” director Reid Davenport announces, “This film is not about suicide.” It’s a statement that runs counter to the easiest a logline for the Sundance premiere, which would say that the project is an exploration of assisted suicide in the disabled community.
At the center of that study is the story of Elizabeth Bouvia, whose case became a national sensation in the ’80s. But as Davenport articulates both in his statement referenced above and throughout his passionate and persuasive film, the question of whether disabled people deserve the right to die is also a question of whether they are afforded the ability to live.
Davenport himself speaks from a place of experience,...
About midway through his new documentary “Life After,” director Reid Davenport announces, “This film is not about suicide.” It’s a statement that runs counter to the easiest a logline for the Sundance premiere, which would say that the project is an exploration of assisted suicide in the disabled community.
At the center of that study is the story of Elizabeth Bouvia, whose case became a national sensation in the ’80s. But as Davenport articulates both in his statement referenced above and throughout his passionate and persuasive film, the question of whether disabled people deserve the right to die is also a question of whether they are afforded the ability to live.
Davenport himself speaks from a place of experience,...
- 7/16/2025
- by Esther Zuckerman
- Indiewire
One of the most significant talents to emerge in documentary film in recent years is Reid Davenport, who broke through in 2022 with his debut feature film I Didn’t See You There. It chronicled his experience as a disabled person attempting to navigate a society that typically meets disability with fear, ignorance and loathing.
“I have cerebral palsy. I would like people to see that my diagnosis is not my biggest obstacle,” he has said. “My biggest obstacle is people’s response to my diagnosis.”
Davenport says he makes documentaries “from an overtly political perspective.” That’s true of his latest film Life After, which won a Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival where it premiered earlier this year. The film produced by Colleen Cassingham opens at Film Forum in New York City on Friday, with additional in-person and virtual screenings in other cities in the coming weeks.
“I have cerebral palsy. I would like people to see that my diagnosis is not my biggest obstacle,” he has said. “My biggest obstacle is people’s response to my diagnosis.”
Davenport says he makes documentaries “from an overtly political perspective.” That’s true of his latest film Life After, which won a Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival where it premiered earlier this year. The film produced by Colleen Cassingham opens at Film Forum in New York City on Friday, with additional in-person and virtual screenings in other cities in the coming weeks.
- 7/16/2025
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Reid Davenport’s Life After is about bodies, specifically the inconvenient bodies that society is seemingly bent on eliminating rather than accommodating. Case in point is Elizabeth Bouvia, the quadriplegic portal through which Davenport dives deep into a topic that both liberals and libertarians love to champion: assisted dying.
The documentary opens with early-’80s footage of the fiercely determined California woman navigating her electric wheelchair through a courtroom where she fights for her “right to die.” It’s a battle she would ultimately lose, and one imagines that her subsequent disappearance from public view was partially informed by her having to endure condescending questions from the likes of a “creepy Mike Wallace,” as Davenport spot-on notes at one point.
What happened to the media-friendly, if reluctant, activist had been a mystery nagging at Davenport, who likewise has cerebral palsy, for a decade. Which in turn launched this very personal...
The documentary opens with early-’80s footage of the fiercely determined California woman navigating her electric wheelchair through a courtroom where she fights for her “right to die.” It’s a battle she would ultimately lose, and one imagines that her subsequent disappearance from public view was partially informed by her having to endure condescending questions from the likes of a “creepy Mike Wallace,” as Davenport spot-on notes at one point.
What happened to the media-friendly, if reluctant, activist had been a mystery nagging at Davenport, who likewise has cerebral palsy, for a decade. Which in turn launched this very personal...
- 7/13/2025
- by Lauren Wissot
- Slant Magazine
In recent years, hard-hitting, timely films have taken the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature: No Other Land this past year; 20 Days in Mariupol the year before, and Navalny in 2023.
Will it be another urgent, political or war-themed film that takes the prize when the next Academy Awards roll around? Or perhaps it will be a film whose social import comes with a rhythmic beat, like 2022 winner Summer of Soul? It’s early to be discussing Oscar contenders – but not too early, at least in the collective wisdom of John Ridley and Matt Carey, hosts of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast. In today’s episode, we dive in where others fear to leap, joined by journalist and film critic Lauren Wissot, contributing editor of Filmmaker magazine and Documentary magazine.
Two recent Oscar winners have emerged as early contenders: Mstyslav Chernov, the 20 Days in Mariupol director who returns with 2000 Meters to Andriivka,...
Will it be another urgent, political or war-themed film that takes the prize when the next Academy Awards roll around? Or perhaps it will be a film whose social import comes with a rhythmic beat, like 2022 winner Summer of Soul? It’s early to be discussing Oscar contenders – but not too early, at least in the collective wisdom of John Ridley and Matt Carey, hosts of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast. In today’s episode, we dive in where others fear to leap, joined by journalist and film critic Lauren Wissot, contributing editor of Filmmaker magazine and Documentary magazine.
Two recent Oscar winners have emerged as early contenders: Mstyslav Chernov, the 20 Days in Mariupol director who returns with 2000 Meters to Andriivka,...
- 7/8/2025
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
"Doctors encouraged me to pull the plug." Multitude Films has revealed an official trailer for Life After, an excellent documentary film made by Reid Davenport as his second doc feature following I Didn't See You There. This time he takes on a tricky topic and handles it gracefully. Life After is a gripping investigative film that exposes the tangled web of moral dilemmas and profit motives surrounding assisted dying and the legal "right to die". Davenport uncovers shocking abuses of power while amplifying all the voices of the disability community fighting for justice and dignity in an unfolding matter of life and death. Back in 1983, disabled Elizabeth Bouvia sought right to die, sparking national debate. After legal battles, she vanished. Disabled director Reid Davenport explores her fate & story's relevance today. I wrote in my positive review from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival that this film is remarkably fascinating. "He wants us to have a real discussion.
- 7/7/2025
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Movie score aficionados rejoice! The Future Ruins Music & Arts Festival is assembling a line-up of film & TV composers to perform their most celebrated themes, as the credo of the festival is “The Music Tells the Story.” Musical acts like John Carpenter, Danny Elfman, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Questlove and Goblin are among those included on the list of performances for the event. The Future Ruins Festival is scheduled to take place on November 8 and will be held at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center. You can get tickets at their official website Here.
The official festival description reads,
“Future Ruins is a first-of-its-kind music festival: a day-long event where the world’s most influential film and television composers step out from behind the screen and onto the stage.
Set across three stages at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center, Future Ruins is designed to feel thoughtful and immersive, bringing this music to...
The official festival description reads,
“Future Ruins is a first-of-its-kind music festival: a day-long event where the world’s most influential film and television composers step out from behind the screen and onto the stage.
Set across three stages at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center, Future Ruins is designed to feel thoughtful and immersive, bringing this music to...
- 5/14/2025
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
Nine Inch Nails have announced Future Ruins, a new one-day music festival taking place at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center on Saturday, November 8th, 2025.
Created and curated by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Future Ruins is billed as “a first-of-its-kind of music festival: a day-long event where the world’s most influential film and television composers step out from behind the screen and onto the stage.”
Get Nine Inch Nails Tickets Here
“It’s about giving people who are, literally, the best in the world at taking audiences on an emotional ride via music the opportunity to tell new stories in an interesting live setting,” explained Reznor in a statement.
“There’s no headliner. There’s no hierarchy. This is a stacked lineup of visionaries doing something you might not see again,” added Reznor and Ross.
Alongside Reznor and Ross, the lineup features such composing luminaries as John Carpenter, Danny Elfman,...
Created and curated by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Future Ruins is billed as “a first-of-its-kind of music festival: a day-long event where the world’s most influential film and television composers step out from behind the screen and onto the stage.”
Get Nine Inch Nails Tickets Here
“It’s about giving people who are, literally, the best in the world at taking audiences on an emotional ride via music the opportunity to tell new stories in an interesting live setting,” explained Reznor in a statement.
“There’s no headliner. There’s no hierarchy. This is a stacked lineup of visionaries doing something you might not see again,” added Reznor and Ross.
Alongside Reznor and Ross, the lineup features such composing luminaries as John Carpenter, Danny Elfman,...
- 5/14/2025
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
Nine Inch Nails principals and veteran film composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have announced “Future Ruins,” a festival featuring some of the top film and TV composers in the business, taking place on Saturday, November 8 in Los Angeles. John Carpenter, Questlove (performing the soundtrack work of Curtis Mayfield), Danny Elfman, Mark Mothersbaugh and Hildur Guðnadóttir are among the participants; the complete lineup and highlights of their careers appears below.
Presented by Live Nation, the event is “a first-of-its-kind of music festival: a day-long event where the world’s most influential film and television composers step out from behind the screen and onto the stage,” according to the announcement. Tickets are available starting Wednesday, May 21 at 12 p.m. Pt.
“It’s about giving people who are, literally, the best in the world at taking audiences on an emotional ride via music the opportunity to tell new stories in an interesting live setting,...
Presented by Live Nation, the event is “a first-of-its-kind of music festival: a day-long event where the world’s most influential film and television composers step out from behind the screen and onto the stage,” according to the announcement. Tickets are available starting Wednesday, May 21 at 12 p.m. Pt.
“It’s about giving people who are, literally, the best in the world at taking audiences on an emotional ride via music the opportunity to tell new stories in an interesting live setting,...
- 5/14/2025
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
Some of the biggest names in nonfiction film are heading to Poland for the 22nd edition of Millennium Docs Against Gravity, one of the largest documentary festivals in the world.
The event running from this Friday until May 18 (and online from May 20-June 2) will welcome Oscar winners Asif Kapadia and Alex Gibney, Oscar nominees David France, Rémi Grellety, and Guy Davidi, and fellow award-winning filmmakers Lauren Greenfield, Mark Cousins, Andres Veiel, Alexis Bloom, Chester Algernal Gordon, Mads Brügger, Zackary Drucker, Brandon Kramer, Rachel Elizabeth Seed, among many others.
The festival, which runs simultaneously in seven cities including Warsaw, Łódź, and Gdynia, will showcase almost 180 films from around the world, a number of which are very likely to wind up in the next Oscar race.
“I think it’s going to be amazing,” says artistic director Karol Piekarczyk. “These films are absolutely incredible, and I can’t wait for people to see them.
The event running from this Friday until May 18 (and online from May 20-June 2) will welcome Oscar winners Asif Kapadia and Alex Gibney, Oscar nominees David France, Rémi Grellety, and Guy Davidi, and fellow award-winning filmmakers Lauren Greenfield, Mark Cousins, Andres Veiel, Alexis Bloom, Chester Algernal Gordon, Mads Brügger, Zackary Drucker, Brandon Kramer, Rachel Elizabeth Seed, among many others.
The festival, which runs simultaneously in seven cities including Warsaw, Łódź, and Gdynia, will showcase almost 180 films from around the world, a number of which are very likely to wind up in the next Oscar race.
“I think it’s going to be amazing,” says artistic director Karol Piekarczyk. “These films are absolutely incredible, and I can’t wait for people to see them.
- 5/8/2025
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
"This movie is not about suicide, which would mean it would be about death. Rather, it’s about life, life that is far more complex than the soundbite clips from the past can give." One of the better documentaries hidden in the 2025 Sundance Film Festival line-up is this fascinating, contemplative new film called Life After from filmmaker Reid Davenport. This is his second feature to premiere at the festival - Davenport was also at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival with his autobiographical doc titled I Didn't See You There. This time around he focuses on a whole other intriguing topic – the right to die. Davenport's Life After film is about the story of a disabled woman who, in the 1980s, went to court to fight for her right to choose to die on her own. In 1983, disabled Elizabeth Bouvia sought right to die, sparking national debate. After legal battles, she vanished.
- 2/9/2025
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
As Sundance 2025 gave us the weekend to continue watching films online after announcing its prizewinners, I took the opportunity to cram in some last-minute movies to my festival deep dive. Though many of the films covered in my dispatches from this year were middle-of-the-road, there was always the chance that...
- 2/4/2025
- by Jacob Oller
- avclub.com
February 2 Update: Ryan White’sCome See Me in the Good Light won theFestival Favorite Award on Sunday, marking the final piece of business for the festival, which endedon February 2.
The US film charts two poets’ “journey through love, life and mortality”.
Original January 31 Report:Sundance Film Festival announced its awards winners on Friday, with grand jury prizes going to Atropia, Seeds, Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears), and Cutting Through Rocks.
In the audience awards, Twinless, André Is An Idiot, DJ Ahmet, and Prime Minister prevailed.The Next Innovator Award went to Zodiac Killer Project and Next Audience Award was presented to East Of Wall.
The US film charts two poets’ “journey through love, life and mortality”.
Original January 31 Report:Sundance Film Festival announced its awards winners on Friday, with grand jury prizes going to Atropia, Seeds, Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears), and Cutting Through Rocks.
In the audience awards, Twinless, André Is An Idiot, DJ Ahmet, and Prime Minister prevailed.The Next Innovator Award went to Zodiac Killer Project and Next Audience Award was presented to East Of Wall.
- 2/2/2025
- ScreenDaily
Ahead of the final weekend of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, the annual event in Park City, Utah, announced its big winners on Friday, with Atropia, Seeds, and Twinless among those taking the biggest prizes.
“Arriving at our awards ceremony after seven days of connection and discovery is especially rewarding this year,” said Eugene Hernandez, director, Sundance Film Festival and Public Programming. “We are thrilled to honor these filmmakers fore their inventiveness, generosity, and for their valuable conversations, moments of levity, and deep insights their work has offered.”
See: ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman,’ ‘Sorry, Baby’ and other 2025 Sundance titles that could shape the awards conversation this year
Written and directed by Hailey Gates, Atropia earned the Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Film, Sundance’s top award. Alia Shawkat stars as an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility who falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, and...
“Arriving at our awards ceremony after seven days of connection and discovery is especially rewarding this year,” said Eugene Hernandez, director, Sundance Film Festival and Public Programming. “We are thrilled to honor these filmmakers fore their inventiveness, generosity, and for their valuable conversations, moments of levity, and deep insights their work has offered.”
See: ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman,’ ‘Sorry, Baby’ and other 2025 Sundance titles that could shape the awards conversation this year
Written and directed by Hailey Gates, Atropia earned the Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Film, Sundance’s top award. Alia Shawkat stars as an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility who falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, and...
- 1/31/2025
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
Top L–R: Zodiac Killer Project. Mad Bills to Pay, Mr. Nobody Against Putin, Coexistence, My Ass!, 2000 Meters to Andriivka, Cutting Through Rocks; Second Row L-r: DJ Ahmet, Two Women, The Things You Kill, Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears), Plainclothes, Twinless; Third Row L-r: Sorry, Baby, Ricky, Atropia, Selena y Los Dinos, Life After, André is an Idiot; Bottom L–R: The Perfect Neighbor, Seeds, East of Wall, Prime Minister Photo: Sundance Institute
The Sundance Film Festival has announced its winners from this year's festival, with the US Grand Jury prizes going to Atropia and Seeds.
In the World section, the Grand Jury prizes went to Cactus Pears (sabar Bonda) and Cutting Through Rocks. The Next award went to UK director Charlie Shackleton for Zodiac Killer Project.
Atropia, written and directed by Hailey Gates stars Alia Shawkat as an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility, who falls in love...
The Sundance Film Festival has announced its winners from this year's festival, with the US Grand Jury prizes going to Atropia and Seeds.
In the World section, the Grand Jury prizes went to Cactus Pears (sabar Bonda) and Cutting Through Rocks. The Next award went to UK director Charlie Shackleton for Zodiac Killer Project.
Atropia, written and directed by Hailey Gates stars Alia Shawkat as an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility, who falls in love...
- 1/31/2025
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The 2025 Sundance Film Festival awards were announced today at The Ray Theatre in Park City, Utah.
See the list of 2025 winners below, and congrats to all the winners.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Grand Jury Prize
Atropia (USA) – Hailey Gates
Directing Award
Ricky (USA) – Rashad Frett
The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
Sorry, Baby (USA) – Eva Victor
Special Jury Award for Acting
Twinless (USA) – Dylan O’Brien
Dylan O’Brien and James Sweeney appear in Twinless by James Sweeney, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Greg Cotten.
Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble
Plainclothes – Carmen Emmi
Audience Award
Twinless – James Sweeney
U.S. Documentary Competition
Grand Jury Prize
Seeds (USA) – Brittany Shyne
Directing Award
The Perfect Neighbor (USA) – Geeta Gandbhir
Special Jury Award
Life After (USA) – Reid Davenport
Special Jury Award for Archival Storytelling
Selena y Los Dinos (USA) – Isabel Castro
Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award...
See the list of 2025 winners below, and congrats to all the winners.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Grand Jury Prize
Atropia (USA) – Hailey Gates
Directing Award
Ricky (USA) – Rashad Frett
The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
Sorry, Baby (USA) – Eva Victor
Special Jury Award for Acting
Twinless (USA) – Dylan O’Brien
Dylan O’Brien and James Sweeney appear in Twinless by James Sweeney, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Greg Cotten.
Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble
Plainclothes – Carmen Emmi
Audience Award
Twinless – James Sweeney
U.S. Documentary Competition
Grand Jury Prize
Seeds (USA) – Brittany Shyne
Directing Award
The Perfect Neighbor (USA) – Geeta Gandbhir
Special Jury Award
Life After (USA) – Reid Davenport
Special Jury Award for Archival Storytelling
Selena y Los Dinos (USA) – Isabel Castro
Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award...
- 1/31/2025
- by Prem
- Talking Films
Atropia, Seeds, Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears) and Cutting Through Rocks were among the key winners at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
During a ceremony held Friday in Park City, Atropia won the Grand Jury prize for U.S. Dramatic Competition, while Seeds picked up the U.S. Documentary Competition award. Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears) prevailed for the jury prize for the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section, while Cutting Through Rocks nabbed the award for World Cinema Documentary Competition.
Among the audience awards, Twinless won in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, and André Is an Idiot topped the U.S. Documentary Competition. DJ Ahmet collected the audience award for World Cinema Dramatic Competition, with Prime Minister prevailing for the World Cinema Documentary Competition.
Additionally, Zodiac Killer Project landed the Next innovator award, with East of Wall receiving the audience award for the Next section.
Sundance Institute acting CEO Amanda Kelso said in a statement,...
During a ceremony held Friday in Park City, Atropia won the Grand Jury prize for U.S. Dramatic Competition, while Seeds picked up the U.S. Documentary Competition award. Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears) prevailed for the jury prize for the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section, while Cutting Through Rocks nabbed the award for World Cinema Documentary Competition.
Among the audience awards, Twinless won in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, and André Is an Idiot topped the U.S. Documentary Competition. DJ Ahmet collected the audience award for World Cinema Dramatic Competition, with Prime Minister prevailing for the World Cinema Documentary Competition.
Additionally, Zodiac Killer Project landed the Next innovator award, with East of Wall receiving the audience award for the Next section.
Sundance Institute acting CEO Amanda Kelso said in a statement,...
- 1/31/2025
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As the Sundance Film Festival heads into its final weekend, the Park City event handed out trophies this morning to this year’s best. See the full list below.
Hailey Gates’ war satire Atropia took the marquee U.S. Grand Jury Prize for dramatic features. Alia Shawkat stars as an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility who falls in love with a soldier (Callum Turner) cast as an insurgent, but their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.
The Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic went to Twinless, James Sweeney’s film about two young men (Dylan O’Brien and Sweeney) who meet in a twin bereavement support group and form an unlikely bromance.
Georgi M. Unkovski’s DJ Ahmet won the Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic and also nabbed the Special Jury Award for Creative Vision. It follows Ahmet (Arif Jakup), a 15-year-old boy from a remote Yuruk village in...
Hailey Gates’ war satire Atropia took the marquee U.S. Grand Jury Prize for dramatic features. Alia Shawkat stars as an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility who falls in love with a soldier (Callum Turner) cast as an insurgent, but their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.
The Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic went to Twinless, James Sweeney’s film about two young men (Dylan O’Brien and Sweeney) who meet in a twin bereavement support group and form an unlikely bromance.
Georgi M. Unkovski’s DJ Ahmet won the Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic and also nabbed the Special Jury Award for Creative Vision. It follows Ahmet (Arif Jakup), a 15-year-old boy from a remote Yuruk village in...
- 1/31/2025
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
The snow from this year’s Sundance Film Festival has mostly melted off of Hollywood’s Dior boots, and as the Utah event draws to a close the time has come to crown a new class of indie filmmaking stars.
Multiple pedigreed juries will hand out prizes to movies in competition on Friday at Park City’s The Ray Theater — where buzzy titles will duke it out for honors including directing, acting, screenwriting and the most coveted honors, the audience award and the grand jury prize.
“Storytelling is important, part of human continuity,” Sundance interim CEO Amanda Kelso said at the top of the ceremony, quoting its founder Robert Redford.
This year’s U.S. dramatic jury consists Reinaldo Marcus Green, Arian Moayed (“Succession”) and Celine Song. Steven Bognar, Vinnie Malhotra, and Marcia Smith are presiding over the domestic documentary section. Actor Elijah Wood is the sole juror for the Next section,...
Multiple pedigreed juries will hand out prizes to movies in competition on Friday at Park City’s The Ray Theater — where buzzy titles will duke it out for honors including directing, acting, screenwriting and the most coveted honors, the audience award and the grand jury prize.
“Storytelling is important, part of human continuity,” Sundance interim CEO Amanda Kelso said at the top of the ceremony, quoting its founder Robert Redford.
This year’s U.S. dramatic jury consists Reinaldo Marcus Green, Arian Moayed (“Succession”) and Celine Song. Steven Bognar, Vinnie Malhotra, and Marcia Smith are presiding over the domestic documentary section. Actor Elijah Wood is the sole juror for the Next section,...
- 1/31/2025
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
This year's awards season is wrapping up, which means it's time to look forward to the films we'll be discussing this time next year. Some of those hopefuls just premiered in Park City during the Sundance festival, which generally provides one of our first glimpses at next year's landscape. If...
- 1/31/2025
- by Emma Keates
- avclub.com
Six documentaries that have premiered in competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival are among the 46 recipients of The Ford Foundation’s $4.2 million donation as part of the organization’s commitment to social justice stories, Variety has exclusively learned.
The Sundance documentaries chosen include “Free Leonard Peltier,” “Heightened Scrutiny,” “How to Build a Library,” “Seeds,” “Life After” and “Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore.” Collectively, these films cover topics such as Native American rights, media reporting on transgender issues, decolonization, disabled communities and navigating Hollywood as a deaf actor.
The Ford Foundation’s JustFilms program provides production grants as well as deepens the organization’s commitment to supporting historically marginalized voices and adjusting to distribution challenges in the industry.
In a statement to Variety, program officer of JustFilms’ Creativity and Free Expression programs Paulina Suárez said that “we are committed to supporting independent filmmakers as central agents of narrative power.
The Sundance documentaries chosen include “Free Leonard Peltier,” “Heightened Scrutiny,” “How to Build a Library,” “Seeds,” “Life After” and “Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore.” Collectively, these films cover topics such as Native American rights, media reporting on transgender issues, decolonization, disabled communities and navigating Hollywood as a deaf actor.
The Ford Foundation’s JustFilms program provides production grants as well as deepens the organization’s commitment to supporting historically marginalized voices and adjusting to distribution challenges in the industry.
In a statement to Variety, program officer of JustFilms’ Creativity and Free Expression programs Paulina Suárez said that “we are committed to supporting independent filmmakers as central agents of narrative power.
- 1/30/2025
- by Matt Minton
- Variety Film + TV
Reid Davenport’s groundbreaking doc “I Didn’t See You There,” which explored how disabled people are often seen but never heard — was either shot hand-held from his wheelchair or mounted on it — eventually winning him the well-deserved Directing Award at the 2022 Sundance. With “Life After” Davenport pledges to continue his conquest with the invisible, and in this specific case going into a much darker corner of the ableism that clogs the representation of disability on the celluloid.
Taking the mysterious story of Elizabeth Bouvia, a disabled woman whose decision to have “the right to die” in a much-publicized 1983 trial, Davenport is again seen taking his camera as a weapon to marry his approach of representation with a more covert political angle. The result is a constantly engaging, moving, and personal look at the numerous cracks in the healthcare and bureaucratic system.
‘Assisted dying’ from my very myopic vision doesn...
Taking the mysterious story of Elizabeth Bouvia, a disabled woman whose decision to have “the right to die” in a much-publicized 1983 trial, Davenport is again seen taking his camera as a weapon to marry his approach of representation with a more covert political angle. The result is a constantly engaging, moving, and personal look at the numerous cracks in the healthcare and bureaucratic system.
‘Assisted dying’ from my very myopic vision doesn...
- 1/28/2025
- by Shikhar Verma
- High on Films
As the Sundance Film Festival nears its conclusion on Day 5, the buzz on Main Street in Park City continues with premieres ranging from Rachael Abigail Holder’s; Love, Brooklyn to Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet.
The premiere of Rachael Abigail Holder’s directorial debut, featuring Roy Wood Jr., Nicole Beharie, Cassandra Freeman, DeWanda Wise, and Andre Holland himself, was attended by the cast and crew of Love, Brooklyn. The film chronicles the lives of three lifelong Brooklyn residents as they grapple with careers, love, loss, and the enduring bonds of friendship amidst the city’s ever-evolving urban landscape.
Related: Sundance Film Festival 2025: All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews
Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet, starring Bowen Yang, Youn Yuh-jung, Han Gi-chan, Kelly Marie Tran, Joan Chen, and Lily Gladstone followed at the Eccles Theater. The remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 rom-com follows Angela and her partner Lee who have...
The premiere of Rachael Abigail Holder’s directorial debut, featuring Roy Wood Jr., Nicole Beharie, Cassandra Freeman, DeWanda Wise, and Andre Holland himself, was attended by the cast and crew of Love, Brooklyn. The film chronicles the lives of three lifelong Brooklyn residents as they grapple with careers, love, loss, and the enduring bonds of friendship amidst the city’s ever-evolving urban landscape.
Related: Sundance Film Festival 2025: All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews
Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet, starring Bowen Yang, Youn Yuh-jung, Han Gi-chan, Kelly Marie Tran, Joan Chen, and Lily Gladstone followed at the Eccles Theater. The remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 rom-com follows Angela and her partner Lee who have...
- 1/27/2025
- by Robert Lang
- Deadline Film + TV
Life After is an investigation into the whereabouts of Elizabeth Bouvia, whose request for medically assisted in dying in 1983 kicked off a debate that still rages today. The film is Reid Davenport’s follow-up to the 2022 Sundance film I Didn’t See You There and screens as part of the festival’s U.S. Documentary Competition. The film is also the first producer credit for Colleen Cassingham. Below, she talks about being challenged by her film’s subject matter, navigating conundrums of documentary ethics, and the overlapping crises in the industry. See all responses to our annual Sundance first-time producer interviews here. Filmmaker: How […]
The post “The Onus Always Comes Back to Producers’ Creativity”: Producer Colleen Cassingham on Life After first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “The Onus Always Comes Back to Producers’ Creativity”: Producer Colleen Cassingham on Life After first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/27/2025
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Life After is an investigation into the whereabouts of Elizabeth Bouvia, whose request for medically assisted in dying in 1983 kicked off a debate that still rages today. The film is Reid Davenport’s follow-up to the 2022 Sundance film I Didn’t See You There and screens as part of the festival’s U.S. Documentary Competition. The film is also the first producer credit for Colleen Cassingham. Below, she talks about being challenged by her film’s subject matter, navigating conundrums of documentary ethics, and the overlapping crises in the industry. See all responses to our annual Sundance first-time producer interviews here. Filmmaker: How […]
The post “The Onus Always Comes Back to Producers’ Creativity”: Producer Colleen Cassingham on Life After first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “The Onus Always Comes Back to Producers’ Creativity”: Producer Colleen Cassingham on Life After first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/27/2025
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Reid Davenport, whose documentary Life After is at Sundance, thinks euthanasia has ‘a lot to do with cost savings’
In 1983, Elizabeth Bouvia, a 26-year-old woman in California with a disability, tried to starve herself to death in a hospital. “I’ve made a confident, rational decision,” she said.
Doctors began force-feeding her, which she resisted. The ensuing legal case turned her into a focus of intense public attention. A headline declared: “Elizabeth Bouvia is young, pretty, smart – and ready to die.”...
In 1983, Elizabeth Bouvia, a 26-year-old woman in California with a disability, tried to starve herself to death in a hospital. “I’ve made a confident, rational decision,” she said.
Doctors began force-feeding her, which she resisted. The ensuing legal case turned her into a focus of intense public attention. A headline declared: “Elizabeth Bouvia is young, pretty, smart – and ready to die.”...
- 1/27/2025
- by J Oliver Conroy
- The Guardian - Film News
1497 Returns to Sundance Film Festival with South Asian Lodge Programming Nonprofit 1497 will continue as an Official Partner of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival with the return of their 1497 South Asian Lodge, a dynamic space designed to celebrate inclusivity, creativity, and community. With programming scheduled for Friday, January 24th, and Sunday, January 26th, 1497 promises a unique blend of events and partnerships, reinforcing their commitment to uplifting South Asian voices in the entertainment industry. ShivHans Pictures, who have Andrew Ahn’s “The Wedding Banquet” at this year’s festival, is lending its support as a sponsor, reaffirming their alignment with 1497’s mission to uplift South Asian talent in the industry.
This year, 1497 is teaming up with Onyx Collective to highlight their forthcoming show “Deli Boys,” premiering March 6 on Hulu, in a panel featuring creator Abdullah Saeed, showrunner Michelle Nader, stars Asif Ali, Saagar Shaikh and Poorna Jagannathan, Vice President of Scripted Series for Onyx Collective Anil Kurian,...
This year, 1497 is teaming up with Onyx Collective to highlight their forthcoming show “Deli Boys,” premiering March 6 on Hulu, in a panel featuring creator Abdullah Saeed, showrunner Michelle Nader, stars Asif Ali, Saagar Shaikh and Poorna Jagannathan, Vice President of Scripted Series for Onyx Collective Anil Kurian,...
- 1/22/2025
- by IndieWire Staff
- Indiewire
The penultimate Sundance Film Festival held in Park City, Utah—and the first held since the fest announced that it was shopping around for a new home—2025’s edition begins a two-year farewell to the slopes by rolling out a familiar slate of documentaries, daring Next selections, indie dramas with exactly one high-profile star,...
- 1/22/2025
- by Jacob Oller
- avclub.com
UK-based sales firm Together Films has boarded international sales on Reid Davenport’s assisted dying documentary Life After (2025)[/link]Life After, ahead of its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival.
Life After investigates what happened to Elizabeth Bouvia, a disabled Californian woman who sought the ‘right to die’ in a notable 1983 court case; and the relevance of Bouvia’s case to today. The film examines the political ideologies surrounding death and disability, amplifying the voices of the disabled community in the debate around medically assisted dying.
The film will have its world premiere on Monday, January 27 in the US Documentary Competition at Sundance.
Life After investigates what happened to Elizabeth Bouvia, a disabled Californian woman who sought the ‘right to die’ in a notable 1983 court case; and the relevance of Bouvia’s case to today. The film examines the political ideologies surrounding death and disability, amplifying the voices of the disabled community in the debate around medically assisted dying.
The film will have its world premiere on Monday, January 27 in the US Documentary Competition at Sundance.
- 1/9/2025
- ScreenDaily
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