The Sundance Institute has unveiled a dozen independent television series for the upcoming festival in the second year of its Indie Episodics section, including works by Nick Hornby and Kyra Sedgwick.
Sundance also announced on Monday that its Special Events section will include the new season of IFC’s documentary parody series “Documentary Now!” and Gregg Araki’s upcoming Starz show “Now Apocalypse,” executive produced by Steven Soderbergh. The shorts section will include 73 short films from 33 countries chosen from 9,443 submissions — 4,720 from the U.S. and 4,723 international.
Of the projects announced on Monday, 53% were directed or created by one or more women, 51% were directed or created by one or more filmmaker of color, and 26% by one or more people who identify as Lgbtqia. And 12 were supported by Sundance Institute in development.
Kim Yutani, the festival’s director of programming, said, “Our newly-expanded programming team took in a full spectrum of human...
Sundance also announced on Monday that its Special Events section will include the new season of IFC’s documentary parody series “Documentary Now!” and Gregg Araki’s upcoming Starz show “Now Apocalypse,” executive produced by Steven Soderbergh. The shorts section will include 73 short films from 33 countries chosen from 9,443 submissions — 4,720 from the U.S. and 4,723 international.
Of the projects announced on Monday, 53% were directed or created by one or more women, 51% were directed or created by one or more filmmaker of color, and 26% by one or more people who identify as Lgbtqia. And 12 were supported by Sundance Institute in development.
Kim Yutani, the festival’s director of programming, said, “Our newly-expanded programming team took in a full spectrum of human...
- 12/3/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Special Events include Gregg Araki’s Now Apocalypse.
The second year of the Indie Episodic section at Sundance Film Festival brings world premieres of the Nick Hornby marriage therapy comedy State Of The Union directed by Stephen Frears and starring Rosamund Pike and Chris O’Dowd, and Kyra Sedgwick’s Girls Weekend, about a queer daughter who returns for a family gathering in Las Vegas.
Festival programmers have lined up 12 Episodic works, alongside four special events, among them Gregg Araki’s half-hour Starz comedy series Now Apocalypse about the misadventures of four friends in Los Angeles. Steven Soderbergh is among the executive producers.
The second year of the Indie Episodic section at Sundance Film Festival brings world premieres of the Nick Hornby marriage therapy comedy State Of The Union directed by Stephen Frears and starring Rosamund Pike and Chris O’Dowd, and Kyra Sedgwick’s Girls Weekend, about a queer daughter who returns for a family gathering in Las Vegas.
Festival programmers have lined up 12 Episodic works, alongside four special events, among them Gregg Araki’s half-hour Starz comedy series Now Apocalypse about the misadventures of four friends in Los Angeles. Steven Soderbergh is among the executive producers.
- 12/3/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared is coming to television. An U.S. TV version of the British web series is in the works at Turner’s Super Deluxe Studio. It comes from Blink Industries, producers of the original shorts, and Conan O’Brien’s Conaco.
The TV series version was created by British filmmakers Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling, creators/executive producers of the original, and Baker Terry who was a writer on the British series of shorts alongside Sloan and Pelling.
A spec pilot has been produced with plans to shop it to streaming or cable networks.
Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared, described as a sociopolitical puppet show or Sesame Street if it were directed by David Lynch, produced six webisodes from 2011 to 2016 that have garnered more than 51 million viewers on its YouTube channel. The series parodies children’s shows — it features puppets and educational-sounding...
The TV series version was created by British filmmakers Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling, creators/executive producers of the original, and Baker Terry who was a writer on the British series of shorts alongside Sloan and Pelling.
A spec pilot has been produced with plans to shop it to streaming or cable networks.
Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared, described as a sociopolitical puppet show or Sesame Street if it were directed by David Lynch, produced six webisodes from 2011 to 2016 that have garnered more than 51 million viewers on its YouTube channel. The series parodies children’s shows — it features puppets and educational-sounding...
- 9/14/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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