Sundance Institute's Artist Services program, which provides resident artists with exclusive creative opportunities, will digitally debut 12 independent films this Spring. Beginning today, titles will roll out through June 3 across a variety of VOD platforms including iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Xbox, SundanceNOW, Vudu, Sony Entertainment Network and YouTube. The selection, as follows, includes both narrative features and documentaries from the Sundance Film Festival and Institute archives: Available April 15: "DeNadie" (Dir. Tin Dirdamal) tells the story of Maria, a Central American immigrant who is forced to leave her family in search for a better life. On her way to the United States, she has to cross the border in to Mexico, where she experiences her worst nightmare. (2006 Sundance Film Festival) "The Revolutionary Optimists" (Dirs. Nicole Newnham and Maren Grainger-Monsen) Children are saving lives in the slums of Calcutta. Amlan Ganguly doesn't rescue...
- 4/15/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Sure, Sunday tends to be overcrowded with high-end TV, including "Mad Men," "True Blood," "Family Tree," and more, but what to watch the rest of the time? Every Monday, we bring you five noteworthy highlights from the other six days of the week. "Love, Marilyn": Broadcast Premiere Monday, Jun 17 at 9pm on HBO Liz Garbus' documentary about Marilyn Monroe focuses on the screen icon's interior life versus how she was perceived, interspersing her papers, journals and poems, as interpreted by actresses like Elizabeth Banks, Glenn Close, Viola Davis and Uma Thurman, with readings from what Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, Elia Kazan and Billy Wilder wrote about her. "Independent Lens": "The Revolutionary Optimists" Monday, Jun 17 at 10pm on PBS Maren Grainger-Monsen and Nicole Newnham's film looks at a Kolkata school run by former lawyer Amlan Ganguly who seeks to empower slum children to become activists to fight...
- 6/17/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
Title: The Revolutionary Optimists Directors: Nicole Newnham and Maren Grainger-Monsen Unfolding in the urban slums of India, documentary “The Revolutionary Optimists” attacks the notion that where one is born should alone determine their prospects for health and happiness. If Whitney Houston’s soaring voice once awakened a populace to the notion that children are our future, “The Revolutionary Optimists” again highlights the fact that the best chances for change lie not in the simple rescue of adolescents, but in empowering them to become agents of change. The movie centers on Amlan Ganguly, an ex-lawyer and the charismatic founder of Prayasam, a Kolkata-based Ngo. Known as “Dada” to all the kids of the neighborhood, [ Read More ]
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- 4/28/2013
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
The forces at work in the India of The Revolutionary Optimists, an engaging documentary portrait of several children seeking to improve life in India's slums, appear overwhelming from almost every angle. Co-directors Nicole Newnham and Maren Grainger-Monsen lace their largely observational study with numbers: one clean-water tap for three neighborhoods; 9 million children working in brick mills; 47 percent of girls married by 18. How does change come to such odds? One answer emerges from the mission of Bengali community leader Amlan Ganguly: Start small. Ganguly, a former lawyer with a theatrical bent, teaches kids living in urban slums the power of dance, education, and leveraging information for local change. But his key emphasis is on attitude—encouraging those raised wi...
- 3/29/2013
- Village Voice
Skoll Foundation And Sundance Institute Present
Celebrating .Stories Of Change. Panel
At 2012 Sundance Film Festival
Fifth Stories of Change Convening for Filmmakers and Social Entrepreneurs
The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and the Skoll Foundation today announced a special Celebrating .Stories of Change. panel to be held at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The panel celebrates the fifth anniversary of the Stories of Change: Social Entrepreneurship in Focus Through Documentary initiative, dedicated to exploring film’s role in advancing knowledge about social entrepreneurship.
At this special event on Tuesday, January 24, 3:00 p.m. at the Egyptian Theatre, Skoll Foundation President and CEO Sally Osberg will moderate a thought-provoking dialogue between award-winning filmmakers (including clips from their work) and innovators who are impacting millions. Panelists include Joia Mukherjee (Partners in Health), Jehane Noujaim (Director, Control Room), Bunker Roy (Founder, Barefoot College) and Kief Davidson (Director, The Devil.s Miner). Ticket information is available atwww.
Celebrating .Stories Of Change. Panel
At 2012 Sundance Film Festival
Fifth Stories of Change Convening for Filmmakers and Social Entrepreneurs
The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and the Skoll Foundation today announced a special Celebrating .Stories of Change. panel to be held at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The panel celebrates the fifth anniversary of the Stories of Change: Social Entrepreneurship in Focus Through Documentary initiative, dedicated to exploring film’s role in advancing knowledge about social entrepreneurship.
At this special event on Tuesday, January 24, 3:00 p.m. at the Egyptian Theatre, Skoll Foundation President and CEO Sally Osberg will moderate a thought-provoking dialogue between award-winning filmmakers (including clips from their work) and innovators who are impacting millions. Panelists include Joia Mukherjee (Partners in Health), Jehane Noujaim (Director, Control Room), Bunker Roy (Founder, Barefoot College) and Kief Davidson (Director, The Devil.s Miner). Ticket information is available atwww.
- 1/23/2012
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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