In one jam-packed day of filming, director Manhea Joey Kim got the opportunity to experience the real world of directing firsthand. Read more...

Photo: UCLA graduate producer Wesley Ambrecht helped Kim produce his short “No Doubt About It.”

"Ain't Them Bodies Saints,” as its honky-tonk title implies, is a sort of western. The film opts for a Terrence Malick-esque approach in order to assure skeptics that, at its core, it's just a good, old American art film pretending to be a western. Read more...

Photo: “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” is an independent drama fim directed by David Lowery, and follows the tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison.

In January, Zachary Heinzerling won the directing award for the U.S. documentary category at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival for his debut feature “Cutie and the Boxer.” Read more...

Photo: Director Zachary Heinzerling has been acclaimed for his innovative style.

The Sundance Film Festival, held every January in Park City, Utah, has become one of the most well-known celebrations of independent filmmaking in the world. This year, as an extension of the festival’s NEXT category, which exhibits independent films with innovative approaches to storytelling, the Sundance Institute hosted the inaugural NEXT WEEKEND program over the past four days at Sundance Cinemas in Los Angeles. Read more...

Photo: The Sundance Institute’s inaugural “NEXT WEEKEND” program featured a screening of artistic documentary “Cutie and the Boxer” at the Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater.

Los Angeles is often the setting of Hollywood hopefuls trying to make it big in the film industry. “In a World…,” Lake Bell’s comedic first feature film, breaks away from this mold to show the viciously competitive, male-dominated world of voice-over acting, which is apparently a big deal. Read more...

Look back on all the buddy cop movies through the years. Go ahead. There’s quite a long list of great ones: “Beverly Hills Cop,” “48 Hrs.,” “Lethal Weapon,” “Bad Boys” and (who could forget) “Rush Hour.” Well, “2 Guns” is the antithesis of all of them, taking the typical Laurel and Hardy odd-couple relationship that normally holds true in the buddy cop genre and turning it on its head. Read more...