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20 Jan 2011 13:05

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Culture: Fred Phelps will give funerals a break, protest a movie

  • the man Kevin Smith, director and tireless New Jersey promoter, who’s taking his latest work to the Sundance Film Festival.
  • the film “Red State,” about three high-schoolers in middle America who run afoul of a fundamentalist priest with murderous intent.
  • the resultFred Phelps, real-life fundamentalist and head of the hateful Westboro Baptist Church, will picket Sundance. source

17 Jan 2009 17:20

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Culture: Numbers that don’t favor the filmmakers at Sundance

  • 118 feature-length dramas and documentaries will show
  • one of last year’s big Sundance hits (“Slumdog Millionaire”) was a hit at the box office source

17 Jan 2009 17:13

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Culture: Sundance celebrates a landmark anniversary

  • 25th annual Sundance Festival starts this weekend source