The Korean film Jiseul was awarded the highest award in its category, the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize in World Cinema at Sundance 2013. At its final screening on Sunday, January …
Lara Candland
Lara Candland
Lara Candland is a poet, librettist, screenwriter and blogger. She is widely published internationally in literary journals. She was a finalist for the Sundance Screenwriter’s Institute last year, and her opera Sunset with Pink Pastoral was shown at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London. She is also part of the duo Lalage, with her husband, composer Christian Asplund, featuring her poetry sung and read with live electronic voice manipulations. Candland is also an avid cook.
“You’re waaaaay more commercial than me! You’re blowing up!” Jerusha Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre) reported her husband and collaborator Jared Hess saying about her on the Saturday after the …
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Sundance 2013 preview: A plethora of directoresses, bolder sexuality & light showing for Canadians
The “wow” factor at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival is the strong presence of female directors in the program’s offerings–for the first time in the festival’s history, 50% of the …