Steph Curry’s short film about Martin Luther King’s longtime speechwriter scores win at Sundance
On Tuesday night, the Golden State Warriors star earned Sundance Film Festival recognition when “The Baddest Speech Writer of All,” a short film he co-produced and co-directed, captured the Grand Jury Prize at the festival’s short film awards in Park City, Utah.
NBA Great Steph Curry Wins Top Prize At Sundance For Short Film Co-Directed With Two-Time Oscar Winner Ben Proudfoot
Four-time NBA title winner Steph Curry can now call himself a champion in another arena – filmmaking.
Steph Curry’s Directorial Debut Just Won a Short Film Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival
The Baddest Speech Writer of All — a short film co-directed and produced by Curry and directed by two-time Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot — picked up the grand jury prize Tuesday night during the festival’s short film awards ceremony and party in Park City, Utah.
‘Landline’ & Indie Distribution’s Changing Tides
When it comes to mounting quintessential auterish independent films on the big screen today, chances are that OddLot Entertainment is there. The company co-founded by Gigi Pritzker has produced and co-financed such titles as this year’s awards season contender Hell or High Water, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive and this year’s Sundance entry Landline from Obvious Child filmmaker Gillian Robespierre.
Tech Meets Storytelling: How Two Hollywood Players Are Marrying Movies, Theater, & VR
Favreau started developing Gnomes & Goblins with Jones and Jake Rowell, who directed theBlue. In the game, the player enters a magical forest, alight with fireflies and glowing candles, where tiny gnomes cautiously emerge from behind trees to interact–as they grow more comfortable with the player, they become more emboldened and start picking up and tossing fallen peaches (which the player can also pick up). Madison Wells became involved in the project through its partnership with Wevr, which came about after Kisker saw theBlue. “My first thought was, who did this? I need to find the people who did this because if they can do this with this circumstance then what else can they do?”