Windrider Int’l Student Film Festival featured in VARIETY.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, [...]