Miranda July News

Kicking off the 40th edition of the Sundance Film Festival, the evening will honor trailblazing and breakout storytellers, as well as celebrate 40 years of Sundance's commitment to elevating independent storytelling. Christopher Nolan will be honored with the first-ever Sundance Institute Trailblazer Award.

The song debuted with a hauntingly intimate music video for lead single “Hell”, directed by Ashley Connor and starring Miranda July. Recorded at Flora Recording and Playback in Portland, Oregon with Grammy-winning producer John Congleton, Little Rope is a powerfully honest and soul-baring album. Check out tour dates!

The nonprofit Sundance Institute has announced 10 producers selected to participate in the Producers Lab, taking place July 24–28 at Utah's Sundance Mountain Resort, as well as 11 producers for the fall Producers Intensive.

BWW catches up with Dahlia Wilde and Mick Perrin to chat about bringing OH MY GOD PARTICLE SHOW! to the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Written, sung, and arranged by Mosseri, Heaven Hunters sees him looking inwards, using his distinctive sound and gift for musical storytelling for his most personal work. Produced by Bobby Krlic (aka The Haxan Cloak), Heaven Hunters explores the weight of choosing one path in life, putting to death every other possible future.

​​​​​​​Chicago Humanities Spring Festival is returning to stages across the city from April to June with over 40 must-see conversations, rare experiences, and one-night-only performances from some of the biggest names you know—and some that you don't know… yet.

On February 11, 2023 at 3:45pm, Samantha Shay's short film Mother Melancholia will screen as part of the 51st edition of the Dance on Camera Festival at Film at Lincoln Center's Francesca Beale Theater.

The album includes a sweeping range of contributors including Julia Holter alongside members of Pixies, indefinable 4AD sound manipulators Gang Gang Dance, fabled, afrofuturist ensemble Sun Ra Arkestra with King Khan, Geneva Jacuzzi and more. New single “Death” by Jennifer Herrema of Royal Trux has been released alongside a video.

BroadwayWorld sat down with Raúl Castillo to discuss how Victor I. Cazares' american (tele)visions and its characters are 'familiar' to him, what audiences can expect from his upcoming film The Inspection, starring Jeremy Pope and Gabrielle Union, and what he looks for in future projects after thinking he was done with theatre.

National Geographic Documentary Films and Neon announced that they will bring their hit film FIRE OF LOVE, directed by Sara Dosa, to IMAX screens for special screenings. These IMAX screenings offer an eye-opening new way to view the jaw-dropping footage of Katia and Maurice Krafft in Dosa’s lyrical film.

This fall, the Chicago Humanities Festival is bringing some of the biggest names in film, politics, music, literature, and activism to stages across Chicago for entertaining, inspiring, and provocative conversations addressing the theme of “PUBLIC” and how we are all re-imagining our public lives.

Los Angeles cult icon known for pulsing synth-pop and elaborate live performance art visuals, Mexican Summer artist Geneva Jacuzzi’s colorful planet is pulled momentarily to earth with the electrifying new single “Nagual,” arriving alongside a video directed by and starring actress Paz de la Huerta.

The Gallery at CCA starts the new year with an exhibition from Tucson based artist, Lex Gjurasic. Radical Happiness will be on display from January 15 through April 9.

Visual artist Constance Hockadaya??s Artists-In-Presidents: Fireside Chats for 2020 began with a 'Welcome Episode' on Friday, September 18th and shared the first two weekly transmissions Friday, September 25 and October 2. Transmissions to the Nation will continue weekly through Friday, November 13. 

Miranda July talks about how the punk-youth phase of her life impacted the movie Kajillionaire, her monograph that was written with the help of several friends and family members and what it was like to interview Rihanna for the New York Times.

UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) presents Constance Hockaday's Artists-In-Presidents: Fireside Chats for 2020 from Tuesday, September 14, through Friday, November 13, 2020 over radio, podcast and social media.

The official trailer has been released for the upcoming film Kajillionaire! From acclaimed writer/director Miranda July comes a profoundly moving and wildly original comedy.

Chicago Humanities Festival is hosting an all-star line-up of speakers this spring season, including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, legendary screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, musicians Tori Amos and Makaya McCraven, and groundbreaking filmmaker Miranda July all coming together around CHF's annual theme, a?oeVision,a?? exploring how a shifting global perspective could push us all toward a better world.

Focus Features will release KAJILLIONAIRE on Friday June 19, 2020 and COME PLAY on Friday, July 24, 2020 domestically in North America.