EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance Institute and Peter Luo’s Stars Collective (Loopy Wealthy Asians, Halfway, Marshall, Scary Tales to Inform within the Darkish) have partnered on the brand new Creativeness Award that grants $25,000 every to 3 metaverse-based tasks that present innovation “in a rapidly evolving mediascape.” Candidates have been submitted to the Sundance …

MTV Documentary Films has acquired worldwide rights to Sundance world-premiering love story The Eternal Memory, director Maite Alberdi’s follow-up to Oscar nominated doc The Mole Agent. The movie, which screened within the Sundance Movie Pageant World Documentary Competitors part,  may have its worldwide premiere on the Berlinale subsequent month within …

Maryam Keshavarz, Noora Niasari and Sierra Urich have films at Sundance this year, two narrative features and a doc, wrenching and joyful family stories of the Iranian diaspora threaded with longing, regret and rebellion. None deal with ongoing civil unrest there, but it colors the filmmakers’ work and life.   …