Immersive Venice Artists Matthew Shaw and William Trossell are changing cinema with FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth. Do you think about the frame rate when you steady your smartphone before taking a picture or settle into a cinema seat just as the movie starts? Do you know what frame rate…

You’re ready to write a book (or two) when your creativity ignites. Business analysts, entertainment reporters, and publishers agree. Popularity for books continues to surge and drive reader growth. Publishers keep diversifying their media formats to audiobooks, eBooks, and physical books. Books remain a vibrant storytelling platform as the next…

You’re ready to launch a podcast (or two) when your creativity ignites. Business analysts, entertainment reporters, and podcast publishers agree. Popularity for podcasts continues to surge and drive listener growth. Advertisers keep moving their ad buys to podcasts as podcast audiences grow in diversity and size. Podcast communities are growing…

Are you inspired to craft stories using XR technologies? Check out these Frontier Storytellers impacting their industries. When asked why I regularly attend the Sundance Film Festival, I shared this with a Bay Area reporter. If you want to learn about the future of transportation, you head to the Detroit…

Sundance’s short ‘The Panola Project’ tracks the hero’s journey of Dorothy Oliver saving her Alabama neighbors from COVID-19. The canned goods and snack bags fill the store shelves from one end of the wide trailer to the other. An outdoor ice machine reminds customers they’re not entering some random trailer…

Sundance movies like The Janes present a powerful call to action supporting a woman’s right to an abortion. It’s the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court protecting a pregnant women’s liberty to choose to have an abortion without government restriction. Instead of…

‘Call Jane” delivers themes of equity, race, and women’s rights via an entertaining drama about a ’60s Chicago outfit providing safe abortions. Are you looking for movie inspiration to help drive the fight for women’s rights around reproduction freedom and equality? Call Jane, debuting in the Premieres section of Sundance…

The powerful documentary ‘The Janes’ unites the stories of the women who needed illegal abortions with the heroic female activists who provided them. Are you wondering what life will be like for women if conservative Supreme Court justices overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling protecting a…

Lily McInerny and Jonathan Tucker lift a coming-of-age story into unforgettable drama in ‘Palm Trees and Power Lines.’ “I miss you.” It’s a favorite movie line we hear in countless films, from comedies to musicals and adventures to dramas. I’ve never experienced that movie quote how first-time feature filmmaker Jamie…