Film Fatales at Sundance

Congratulations to all of the Film Fatales members whose films have been selected to screen at Sundance!

American Dream directed by Barbara Kopple
When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are forced to take a substantial pay cut, the local union takes a stand for its members. Their strike tests the fragile promise of the American ideal, revealing the cost of survival when the dream no longer feels shared.

Balloon Animals directed by Anna Baumgarten
Two grocery store employees have an unexpected, helium-fueled encounter with a late-night customer.

Birds of War co-directed by Janay Boulos
The love story of a London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman as told through 13 years of personal archives across revolutions, war, and exile.

Chasing Summer directed by Josephine Decker
After losing both her job and boyfriend, Jamie retreats to her small Texas hometown, where friends and flings from a fateful high school summer turn her life upside down.

Cookie Queens directed by Alysa Nahmias
It’s Girl Scout Cookie season, and four tenacious girls strive to be a top-selling “Cookie Queen,” navigating an $800 million business in which childhood and ambition collide.

Frank & Louis directed by Petra Volpe
Frank, serving a life sentence, takes a prison job caring for aging inmates with Alzheimer’s and dementia. What begins as a self-interested bid for parole becomes a profound, transformative bond with fellow inmate Louis, offering Frank a glimpse of redemption in an unforgiving place.

Humpday  directed by Lynn Shelton
Life choices are questioned and boundaries are tested as college buddies Ben and Andrew navigate their surprising reunion and make a spontaneous decision to pursue an unusual art project. It’s not quite what one might expect from two guys daring each other in a game of one-upmanship — and it sparks some challenging conversations about friendship, masculinity, and insecurity.

Josephine directed by Beth de Araújo
After 8-year-old Josephine accidentally witnesses a crime in Golden Gate Park, she acts out in search of a way to regain control of her safety while adults are helpless to console her.

La Tierra del Valor directed by Cristina Costantini
During a summer of grief and fear brought on by immigration raids in Los Angeles, one small act of bravery gives a community hope.

Rock Springs directed by Vera Miao
After the death of her father, a grieving young girl moves to an isolated house in a new town with her mother and grandmother, only to discover there is something monstrous hidden in the town’s history and the woods behind their new home.

Run Amok directed by NB Mager
A teenage girl stages an elaborate musical about the one day her high school wishes it could forget. In her striking debut feature, writer-director NB Mager boldly wades into the thorny aftermath of a school tragedy with thoughtfulness and a refreshing recentering of the young people most directly affected.

Saccharine directed by Natalie James
Hana, a lovelorn medical student, becomes terrorized by a hungry ghost after taking part in an obscure weight loss craze: eating human ashes.

Take Me Home directed by Liz Sargent
Anna, a 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a cognitive disability, cares for her aging parents in a fragile balance of meeting one another’s needs. When a Florida heat wave shatters their family and Anna’s routine, her future is uncertain until she creates a world where she can thrive.

The Brittney Griner Story directed by Alex Stapleton
Explores the circumstances that led to Brittney Griner playing basketball outside the U.S. despite being one of the best players in the sport, including her harrowing detainment, unwavering determination to secure her freedom, and her advocacy for the release of other wrongful detainees.

The Gallerist directed by Cathy Yan
A desperate gallerist conspires to sell a dead body at Art Basel Miami. Cathy Yan returns to the Sundance Film Festival (her debut, Dead Pigs, premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival) with this wickedly fun, corrosive satire of the contemporary art world.

The Lake directed by Abby Ellis
An environmental nuclear bomb looms in Utah. Two intrepid scientists and a political insider race the clock to save their home from unprecedented catastrophe. Urgency emanates from this sober record that local Utah filmmaker Abby Ellis logs in human history — a chapter of monumental ecological and social consequence unfolding in our shared home.