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Sundance Film Festival Follow Up: PARIAH

Michelle Byrnes-Carney — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:00:38 +0000

It’s hard to believe it has been almost a year since PARIAH premiered at Sundance. The Brooklyn based, coming-out story impressed audiences in Park City and is now in theaters (well, theaters in certain cities). It’s the end of an extensive Sundance cycle for writer/director Dee Rees, who premiered a short version of the semi-autobiographical story at the festival back in 2007 and was chosen as a 2008 Sundance Screenwriting & Directing Lab Fellow.

Sundance Film Festival Deals: PARIAH

Amy Reiter — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:26:36 +0000

Focus Features has acquired the worldwide rights to PARIAH, Dee Rees’ coming-of-age film about a lesbian teenager in Brooklyn struggling to find her identity and a sense of belonging, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. (The film was executive produced by Spike Lee.) The deal, reportedly under $1 million, [...]

PARIAH filmmaker starts donation campaign

Amy Reiter — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:40:38 +0000

Dee Rees, Director or PARIAH You might think a young filmmaker talented enough to have her first feature film selected to make its worldwide debut at the Sundance Film Festival would have it made in the shade. But, for Dee Rees, whose PARIAH, a coming-of-age story about a Brooklyn teenager juggling disparate identities in a [...]

A Sundance Channel Original Documentary : EVENTUAL SALVATION

Sundance Channel — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:09:36 +0000

Founded in 1847 as a home for former African-American slaves, the West African nation of Liberia has welcomed generations of expatriate Americans fleeing racism. One such immigrant was Earnestine "Amma" Smith, who settled in the capital, Monrovia, in 1958. An educator and landowner, Amma fled her new home during the recent deadly civil wars.