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Kate Lyn Sheil
With the first day of Sundance underway, there will definitely be plenty of studio deals, bidding wars, trailers, clips and news during the festival — and we’re here to give you a daily wrap up of all the big developments from Park City. Read about what deals were made before the festival started and watch some trailers and clips from the most anticipated films.
With Sundance just around the corner, we’re bringing you our picks for what’s worth watching at the festival. The contenders for the U.S. Documentary Competition are varied, from religious cults to political sex scandals. Here are handful that you should put on your list.
Explores the relationships of the most exclusive courtesans who provide their clients with far more than just sex. These purveyors – or GFEs (Girlfriend Experience) – share intimacies more common to romantic partners or husbands and wives, becoming quasi-lovers and confidants who are richly paid for their time.
Rami Malek has been cast in the lead role of indie mind-bending thriller Buster’s Mal Heart. He joins Kate Lyn Sheil, DJ Qualls, and Toby Huss. Sarah Adina Smith is directing.
When two women go to a beach house to retreat from the pressures of daily life, they find they have become disconnected from each other and their suspicions begin to color reality.
Logline: During the Civil War, two brothers fight for separate sides of the country after they get into a feud. Now, the brothers must face the coming challenges of the war alone.
A man in a long-distance online relationship with a girl he’s never met begins to suspect that she’s been living in the same city the entire time and starts to investigate.
She joins Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart for the project.
Due take leading roles in indie.
Logline: Centers around a future society where emotions have been eradicated and a new breed of humans live in peace until a disease starts to re-activate people’s emotions, causing chaos on a global scale.
Logline: A man in a long-distance online relationship with a girl he’s never met begins to suspect that she’s been living in the same city the entire time and starts to investigate.
Two best friends compete for the affections of a woman they both love.
A hipster ingratiates himself to friends and strangers in an attempt to find the meaning to his own existence.
An unknown third party hires a group of misfits to burglarize a house in the country and acquire a rare VHS tape. Soon, they stumbled upon a dead body and an endless supply of cryptic footage.
An unknown third party hires a group of misfits to burglarize a house in the country and acquire a rare VHS tape. Soon, they stumbled upon a dead body and an endless supply of cryptic footage.
An unknown third party hires a group of misfits to burglarize a house in the country and acquire a rare VHS tape. Soon, they stumbled upon a dead body and an endless supply of cryptic footage.
Logline: Two best friends compete for the affections of a woman they both love.
Logline: An unknown third party hires a group of misfits to burglarize a house in the country and acquire a rare VHS tape. Soon, they stumbled upon a dead body and an endless supply of cryptic footage.
A handful of castings you may have missed from this past week!
Logline: Follows a couple who is sent on a mysterious trip to Florida.
Logline: A hipster ingratiates himself to friends and strangers in an attempt to find the meaning to his own existence.