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Windrider Int’l Student Film Festival featured in VARIETY.

Posted by Monika Moreno-Lapp May 15, 2015 0 Comment 27 views

May 15, 2015 | 02:34PM PT Steve Chagollan Assistant Managing Editor, Features @SteveChagollan The Angelus Student Film Festival, an annual affair that took place at the Directors Guild in West Hollywood, has assumed a new identity as the Windrider International Student Film Festival. The live-action and documentary short showcase awards three prizes worth $10,000 each [...]

WINDRIDER ANNOUNCES STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL FOR WINDRIDER 2016

Posted by Monika Moreno-Lapp April 15, 2015 0 Comment 215 views

The Windrider International Student Film Festival (WISFF) will debut this January, 2016 during the Windrider Forum in Park City.  The Angelus Student Film Festival, widely touted as one of the top student film festivals for over 15 years, not only in the U.S., but also internationally, has re-emerged as the Windrider International Student Film Festival [...]

Hilla Medalia: Returns To Sundance and Brings Dancing Home to Windrider

Posted by Monika Moreno-Lapp January 24, 2015 0 Comment 352 views

When Hilla Medalia, the award winning, Peabody winning documentarian heard CENSORED VOICES was accepted to Sundance 2015, it truly felt like she was coming home. As a student filmmaker ten years ago from Southern Illinois University, Hilla accepted an invitation from Windrider Forum to bring her emotionally charged DAUGHTERS OF ABRAHAM to WR Park City, [...]

Barbara Stepansky: Tension & Suspense in Storytelling

Posted by Monika Moreno-Lapp January 5, 2015 0 Comment 627 views

Like many film school students, Barbara Stepansky looked to childhood events for a suitable thesis film for her graduate degree at American Film Institute. Only Barbara’s childhood was anything but ordinary.  The event she selected to illuminate was entrenched in the dark days of the Cold War, when her father’s involvement in the Solidarity Movement [...]

Windrider 2015: The Relevant and Timeless DEFACE

Posted by Monika Moreno-Lapp December 19, 2014 0 Comment 875 views

There’s another film with North Korean subject matter that will surely engender passionate discussion, and this one is a Windrider offering at Park City / Sundance 2015. The acclaimed award-winning short is DEFACE, and the filmmaker is Art Center College of Design MFA graduate John Arlotto. DEFACE tells the heartbreaking tale of Sooyoung, played by [...]

Sneak Preview: “Son of God” at Sundance

Posted by admin January 20, 2014 0 Comment 1923 views

After a week of dramatic premieres, highly acclaimed documentaries, and daily celebrity sightings, the Windrider Forum will top off a week full of cinematic highlights with a sneak preview of the soon to be released film, Son of God. From the award-winning producers of the record-breaking miniseries The Bible, Roma Downey and Mark Burnett, comes [...]

Dr. Craig Detweiler – 2014 Spirit of Windrider Recipient

Posted by Will Stoller-Lee January 16, 2014 0 Comment 2803 views

The Windrider Forum at the Sundance Film Festival has always been a model of radical collaboration, and example of how a myriad of partners can create something exponentially greater than their individual contributions. But without the vision and creative instincts of one person, Windrider might never have blown into Park City. On the 10th anniversary [...]

Windrider Forum @ Sundance – A Perfect 10

Posted by Will Stoller-Lee January 13, 2014 0 Comment 58724 views

Even before the lights dim and the curtain is raised, the Windrider Forum at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival is guaranteed to garner a perfect 10.  This will be the 10th anniversary of the annual event. The vision for Windrider was launced when co-founders John and Ed Priddy were joined in Park City by Will [...]

Rising from Ashes–March 10th 7:15pm at PCC

Posted by admin March 3, 2013 0 Comment 615 views

Creative Inspiration Lunch Lunch w/filmmaker T.C. Johnstone Sunday, March 10  |  12:15-2:30pm  |  PCC’s Room 20  |  Cost $10 Register Here T.C. is an award-winning filmmaker. He has traveled the world telling and documenting stories. Come learn about the epic undertaking, six years in making, which is Rising from Ashes.  With production covering three continents, [...]

WINDRIDER FORUM 2015: 11th Anniversary Jan 22 – Feb 1, 2015

Welcome to the Windrider Forum

The Windrider Forum was launched at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival as an immersive experience between filmmakers and film lovers designed to facilitate thoughtful conversation, awaken compassion, and inspire change. Since then we have hosted Forum events in a variety of local communities and other festivals. And, now the Windrider Web Fest will feature a new short film and interactive experience each week on this website and on our “Riding the Wind” Facebook page.

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