

Werner Herzog, 73, is an award-winning director from German who has always had questions about the Intenet and the way it all connects — and where it’s going in the future. We sat down with him at 2016 Sundance Film Festival to get some insight. And we learned that if there’s a day where cars drive themselves, he wants no part of it!
While virtual reality headsets have been around for awhile, two artists are upping the game on it with an intense new piece that follows an undercover officer into the dark and hidden world of factory farming. Called Condition One, the VR documentary shows that “it’s here where you really get to see first hand what the conditions are,” film maker Casey Brown shared about the controversial topic. And it was no easy task by any means, as she and her partner Danfung Dennis used a custom configuration of 16 cameras that are all recording at the same time, all on on a stationary tripod to do their work. Wow! Sounds pretty intense!
This sounds like it could be insane! Director David Farrier explains that his new documentary ‘Tickled’ is, “a documentary about the sport of competitive endurance tickling.” What?! We didn’t even know there was such a thing. David’s an entertainment journalist back home in his native New Zealand and was intrigued when he heard about a Los Angeles company that once a month flies 20 people into the city, gives them $2,000 cash, a hotel room and daily per diems, and all they have to do is tickle each other nonstop!
This sounds interesting! Frank and Lola is a love story where Michael Shannon – who plays the title character – plays a Las Vegas chef and one night a woman (Lola) comes into this restaurant and they get to talking and fall super hard for each other, only for him to learn that she has quite a checkered past. “When I read the script I was really taken back by the romanticism of it. It just seemed like a unique opportunity for me.” After so many gritty roles, we bet it was a fun change for him to be in a love story!
Co-Director Rita Coburn Whack explains that the film is the “First documentary done on her life story, and it really shows her ability to live history, participated in it and documented it herself,” and promises “there are a lot of things in the film that people will be surprised about,” when it comes to Maya Angelou‘s 86 years of life. She added that throughout the four years of working on the project, they gathered over 20 interviews, including three with the late author, poet and civil rights activist before her May 2014 passing. They also talked to both President Bill Clinton and Hillary, as well as close friends of Maya like Oprah Winfrey and Common.
How To Tell You’re A Douchebag seems like an odd title to give a movie, but it exists and this new film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, where the writer/director and cast came together to talk about their project. Watch the video here.
When James Redford arrived in Salt Lake City for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, he was ready to start a conversation. Before making his film Resilience, the director discovered that toxic stress — which results from facing violence, neglect, and abuse — has become a medical threat for children who experience it, so he wanted his next work to help change that. He’s clearly passionate about the issue, and he hopes his film will make viewers feel the same!
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