The official trailer for Alison Klayman’s Sundance Jury Prize-winning documentary AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY was launched yesterday, in addition to a special social media initiative designed to be an exciting tribute to the artist/activist’s incredible work promoting free speech and freedom of expression:
#RaiseYourFinger
Drawing inspiration from Weiwei’s famous photographs (from his exhibition “Fuck Off”) giving the bird …

JONATHAN CAOUETTE’S WALK AWAY RENEE TO HAVE EXCLUSIVE ONLINE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE VIA SUNDANCENOW’S NEWLY LAUNCHED DOC CLUB
Follow Up to TARNATION To Premiere Online Day and Date with North American Festival Premiere at BAMcinemaFest
New York, NY (May 17, 2012) – Jonathan Sehring, President of Sundance Selects and its digital sister, SundanceNOW and Thom Powers, curator …

SUNDANCE SELECTS TAKES US RIGHTS TO
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI’S LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE
CANNES, FRANCE (May 27, 2012) – Sundance Selects announced today from the 2012 Cannes Film Festival that the company is acquiring all US rights to LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE directed and written by former Palme d’Or winner Abbas Kiarostami (CERTIFIED COPY, THE TASTE OF CHERRY). …

WALTER SALLES’ ON THE ROAD TO BE JOINTLY DISTRIBUTED BY
IFC FILMS AND SUNDANCE SELECTS

FILM TO MAKE WORLD PREMIERE AT THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
IN THE COMPETITION SECTION

MAJOR THEATRICAL RELEASE SET FOR LATE FALL
New York, NY (May 8, 2012) – AMC Networks announced today the acquisition of all US rights to acclaimed filmmaker Walter Salles’ ON THE ROAD to be …

SUNDANCE SELECTS TAKES NORTH AMERICAN & LATIN AMERICAN RIGHTS TO ADAM LEON’S SXSW WINNER GIMME THE LOOT

Film to Have Its New York Premiere at New Directors/New Films
New York, NY (March 19, 2012) – Sundance Selects announced today that the company is acquiring North American and Latin American rights to GIMME THE LOOT which …

This weekend in New York and LA, Joshua Marston’s THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD opened to great numbers in New York and Los Angeles despite heavy competition at the box office. Director Joshua Marston and the film’s two young stars Sindi Lacej and Tristan Halilaj brought sold-out crowds to the Lincoln Plaza …

We are very proud to announce  that Wim Wenders’ PINA has been nominated for an Oscar in the Best Documentary category.
Congratulations to Wim and the entire cast and crew!
Read Wenders’ reaction to being nominated below:
“It’s fantastic to be nominated for Best Documentary for the second time after Buena Vista Social Club, especially as …

From SFGate.com
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/22/PKP41MOD1G.DTL

Valérie Donzelli’s dramatic ‘Declaration of War’

Pam Grady, Special to The Chronicle

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/19/PKP41MOD1G.DTL#ixzz1kPWr9Nqt
It is love at first sight when Juliette (Valérie Donzelli) locks eyes with a stranger across a crowded room in the French domestic drama “Declaration of War.”
The man’s name is Romeo (Jérémie Elkaim), and so …

Starting FRIDAY, OCT. 21! See some of the most anticipated new releases from IFC Films, now celebrating its 10th anniversary, and its label Sundance Selects before anyone else with new films by Wim Wenders and the Dardennes along with recent discoveries. This series features five New York premieres, …

The European Film Academy has announced its nominees for the 24th EFA Awards, including Wim Wenders PINA for Best Documentary!
The committee includes Nik Powell, director of the NFTS and deputy chairman of the EFA Board; EFA Board Member Despina Mouzaki; EFA Member Francine Brücher; Claas Danielsen (International Leipzig Festival for …