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, [...]
Monika Moreno-Lapp – 2015 Spirit of Windrider Recipient
“I honestly don’t think I would be where I am today without Monika’s unwavering belief in me. Sometimes that’s all that it takes.”– Barbara Stepansky, filmmaker; Angelus Award winner Disruptor. Change Agent. Innovator. Nurturer. Mentor. Touchstone. All of these could be considered Monika Moreno’s monikers, according to those with whom she has collaborated or those whom [...]
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 [...]
Sundance Film Festival 2015: High Profile Documentaries Among Premieres
By Brooks Barnes, Reprinted from NY TIMES, Carpetbagger LOS ANGELES – The Sundance Film Festival’s more commercial noncompetition lineup in January will include a documentary expose about college rape, a roster of stalwart indie stars and eagerly awaited new features from Noah Baumbach and Jared Hess, among other directors. Sundance programmers on Monday said their [...]
Trailer Watch: Ava DuVernay’s Selma
The much anticipated SELMA, directed by “windy” filmmaker Ava DuVernay will debut in selected theaters December 25. SELMA chronicles three intense months in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King passionately fought for civil rights, culminating with the historic march through Alabama that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Windrider congratulates filmmaker and [...]
Ouachita grant allows students to experience Sundance Film Festival firsthand
Two years ago, Rebecca Jones, assistant professor of communications at Ouachita Baptist University, attended the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, as part of her doctoral work. Her class also participated in the Windrider Forum at Sundance, a gathering that brings together students and filmmakers to discuss the relationship between faith and film.
“Overwhelmed by the significance of the experience in my life,” Jones said, “I left Utah with the hope of one day returning with Ouachita students.” Two weeks ago, that goal became reality.