High Tide is an Argentinean drama that premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. [1] It is directed by Veronica Chen and is about a middle-aged woman and the laborers who help build her barbeque pit. [2] It plays on working-class vs upper-class and feminist conflict at a seaside vacation setting. [3] [4] Its worldwide distribution rights were acquired by Buenos Aires–based FilmSharks. [5] It runs for 103 minutes.
In the Bedroom is a 2001 American independent drama film directed by Todd Field from a screenplay written by Field and Robert Festinger, based on the 1979 short story "Killings" by Andre Dubus. It stars Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, Nick Stahl, Marisa Tomei, and William Mapother. The film centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler (Wilkinson) is a doctor practicing in Maine and is married to Ruth Fowler (Spacek), a music teacher. Their son Frank (Stahl) is involved in a love affair with an older single mother, Natalie Strout (Tomei). As the beauty of Maine's brief and fleeting summer comes to an end, these characters find themselves in the midst of an unimaginable tragedy.
Katrina Bowden is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Cerie on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock (2006–2013) and as Flo Fulton on the CBS daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful (2019–2021). She has also appeared in the films Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, Sex Drive, Piranha 3DD, American Reunion, and Scary Movie 5.
The Shanghai International Film Festival, abbreviated SIFF, is one of the largest film festivals in East Asia.
The Sundance Film Festival is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with more than 46,660 attending in 2016. It takes place each January in Park City, Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah; and at the Sundance Resort, and acts as a showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The festival consists of competitive sections for American and international dramatic and documentary films, both feature films and short films, and a group of out-of-competition sections, including NEXT, New Frontier, Spotlight, Midnight, Sundance Kids, From the Collection, Premieres, and Documentary Premieres.
Andrew "Andrucha" Waddington is a Brazilian film director, producer, and screenwriter.
Gloria Andrea Curra better known as Gloria Carrá is an Argentine actress, singer and composer. She changed her real last name on the advice of the actor Darío Vittori.
Jordan Charles Vogt-Roberts is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter, and television director. His feature directorial debut, The Kings of Summer, screened at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The film also won the Narrative Feature Audience Award at the 2013 Dallas International Film Festival. In 2017, Vogt-Roberts directed the MonsterVerse film Kong: Skull Island.
Anthony Chen is a Singaporean film director, screenwriter and film producer. He is known for directing the feature films Ilo Ilo (2013) and Wet Season (2019).
Verónica Chen is an Argentine film director, film editor, and screenwriter.
Tony Montana is an American actor and film director.
The 2020 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 23 to February 2, 2020. The first lineup of competition films was announced on December 4, 2019. The opening night film was Miss Americana directed by Lana Wilson and produced by Morgan Neville, Caitrin Rogers, and Christine O'Malley.
Kibwe Tavares is a British film maker and architect. He is the co-founder of Factory Fifteen, a studio that uses animation and emerging technologies to understand and explain the built environment. His first short, Robots of Brixton, was awarded the 2011 Royal Institute of British Architects President's Medal. He is a 2020 TED Senior Fellow.
Matthew Puccini is an American filmmaker. He is known for his short films that deal with LGBT-related subject matters. These include The Mess He Made (2017), Marquise (2018), Dirty (2020) and Lavender (2019). His films have played at several festivals including Sundance, SXSW, Aspen Shortsfest, Palm Springs ShortsFest, and Outfest Los Angeles. His work has also been featured on Topic and The Huffington Post.
Beast Beast is a 2020 American coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Danny Madden. Based on a 2018 short film titled Krista, also directed by Danny Madden, the film stars Shirley Chen, Will Madden, and Jose Angeles as three young adults whose lives intersect in a suburban town.
Identifying Features is a 2020 Mexican-Spanish drama film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic and the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Screenplay. It was written and directed by Fernanda Veladez. The co-writer is Astrid Rondero. It is about the many immigrants who often go missing or die on their journeys. Most of the main characters are mothers trying to find their children.
Camila Fabbri is an Argentine writer, playwright and actress.
Sadaf Asgari is an Iranian actress. She is best known for her acting in Disappearance (2017), Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness (2019) and Squad of Girls (2022). She won the Short Film Special Jury Award for Acting at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival for her performance in Exam (2019).
Warsha is a 2022 French-Lebanese short film directed by Dania Bdeir. The fifteen-minute short stars multidisciplinary performer Khansa, who plays a migrant worker and crane operator in Beirut. After its premiere at Sundance Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Short Film, the film has been presented in numerous international film festivals, including the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival and the Seminci Valladolid Film Festival, where it won the Rainbow for Best Film. The short is now qualified for the 95th Academy Awards under the category of Best Live Action Short Film and is also competing for the 2023 César Awards.
Nothing Compares is a 2022 documentary feature film, directed by Kathryn Ferguson. It looks at the life and legacy of Sinéad O'Connor - focusing on the years 1987 - 1993.