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Jan 22, 2021 · For the fourth consecutive year, a movie filmed primarily in Oklahoma will make its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Along with that eagerly awaited thriller, titled "Wild Indian," the…
Jan 22, 2021 · Along with that eagerly awaited thriller, titled "Wild Indian," the latest movie from Oklahoma native and prolific producer Mickey Liddell and an animated short from University of Oklahoma alumnus Joe Cappa will be shown at Sundance, which launches Thursday and continues through Feb. 2.
- 'Summer of Soul'
- 'Holy Frit'
- 'Agnes'
- 'Skating Polly: Ugly Pop'
- Okie Shorts
- 'Pause The Game'
- Indigenous Short Films
- 'How It Ends'
- Kidsfest
- 'Sakthi Vibrations'
The Roots' drummer and co-frontman Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson made his acclaimed directorial debut with this music documentary, fully titled "Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised). In 1969, just 100 miles south of Woodstock and in the same summer, the Harlem Cultural Festival took place over six weeks, drew huge crowds ...
deadCenter 2021 will include about 30 films made by Oklahomans, including writer-director Justin Monroe's ("The Rock ‘n’ Roll Dreams of Duncan Christopher") feature doc about the high stakes involved in creating stained glass. Screening through deadCenter online, the film follows Tim Carey, a talented unknown artist based in Los Angeles who bluffs ...
Prolific Oklahoma filmmaker Mickey Reece’s convent-set horror moviewill make its online world premiere this month at New York's Tribeca Film Festival. But it also will screen at 8 p.m. June 19 at Rodeo Cinema as part of deadCenter, marking the OKC-based director’s fourth deadCenter appearance, Although "Agnes" will not be available via deadCenter's...
Showing through deadCenter online, director Henry Mortensen's rock doc will revisit the early years of Oklahoma punk-rockers Skating Polly. Multi-instrumentalist step-siblings Kelli Mayo and Peyton Bighorse were just 9 and 14 years old, respectively, when they started their "ugly pop" band in Edmond, eventually moving to Tacoma, Washington, and add...
deadCenter is known for its strong short film game, and the 2021 fest includes several intriguingly titled shorts blocks. But none will ever be as beloved as Okie Shorts, deadCenter's annual showcase of short films from the Sooner State. This year's selections include Cherokee-language "Totsu (Redbird),""Sardis," "Turtles," "Hope," Roots of Lacross...
The fourth OKC Thunder Film to premiere at deadCenterwill open for "Summer of Soul" at the free outdoor screening at 9 p.m. June 12 at Booker T. Washington Park. The short doc chronicles the events leading up to the fateful cancellation of the March 11, 2020, game between the Thunder and the Utah Jazz. What was supposed to be a pivotal home game fo...
New to deadCenter in 2021 is the addition of the Best Indigenous Short Film Award,complete with a cash prize of $1,000 sponsored by the Cherokee Nation Film Office. Films in competition for the inaugural award are "Blackwater," "San Diego," "The Writers Room," "Roots of Lacrosse," "Totsu (Redbird)," "Sardis" and "Inage’i (In the Woods)." Not surpri...
This year's opening-night feature includes familiar faces Fred Armisen ("Saturday Night Live"), Olivia Wilde ("TRON: Legacy") and Oscar winner Helen Hunt ("As Good as It Gets"). Zoe Lister-Jones (TV's "New Girl") stars as a woman who decides to go to one last party in the face of the apocalypse. Along with its online premiere at 8 p.m. Thursday thr...
The festival annually spotlights family-favorite cinematic selections, and the Downtown Library is again partnering with deadCenter for kidsFest, creating take-home activity kits for children to go with the online showcase.
Oklahoma filmmaker and University of Oklahoma professor of ethnomusicology Zoe Sherinian documents two radical Catholic nuns in India as they use the Tamil folk arts to develop self-esteem and economic skills in young Dalit women (untouchables) through music. Along with showing through the virtual platform, the documentary will screen in person at ...
Named one of the "20 Coolest Film Festivals in the World" by MovieMaker Magazine, the deadCenter Film Festival is Oklahoma’s largest and only Oscar-qualifying fest, with the winner of two short film categories eligible for an Academy Award. On June 6-9, the Film Festival draws in unique, groundbreaking films from around the world while ...
Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence and William H. Macy hit the road in this rollicking comedy-adventure about a group of middle-aged friends who decide to rev up their routine...
Dec 18, 2020 · The Oklahoma-produced thriller “Wild Indian” will make its world premiere at the prestigious 2021 Sundance Film Festival where it will screen in the U.S. Dramatic Competition category.
The Oklahoma City area is home to a handful of world-class film festivals. Along with a diverse roster of screenings, each festival offers a conference aspect with a variety of panels featuring prominent industry figures.
