Amanda Kim is a Korean American director and producer. A former creative director at Vice Media, she led U.S. video direction for i-D, Creators, and Garage magazine. Kim also worked on Viceland, Vice’s TV channel, as a creative producer in an experimental incubator where she directed a production crew to test out pilots and innovative content formats.

“Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV” is screening at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, which runs from January 19-29.

W&H: Describe the film for us in your own words.

AK: It’s a playful and emotional story about video artist Nam June Paik’s artistic and personal odyssey.

Though he’s most famously known

Adrienne Warren will follow up Gina Prince-Bythewood’s “The Woman King” with another woman-directed project. Deadline reports that the Tony winner will return to the stage with the Broadway American premiere of “Room,” Emma Donoghue’s stage adaptation of her 2010 novel. Donoghue also adapted the book into a 2015 film led by Brie Larson, who went on to win an Oscar for her performance.

“Room” centers on Ma (Warren), a woman who was kidnapped as a teenage girl. She’s spent seven years locked up by her captor. Now a mother to a five-year-old son who has never experienced the outside world, Ma builds an imaginary world for him — and plots

Michèle Stephenson is a filmmaker, artist, and author who pulls from her Haitian and Panamanian roots to think radically about storytelling and disrupt the imaginary in non-fiction spaces. She tells emotionally-driven personal stories of resistance and identity that center the lived experiences of communities of color in the Americas and the Black diaspora. Grounded in a Black Atlantic lens, Stephenson tells stories that intentionally reimagine and provoke thought about how we engage with and dismantle the internalized impact of systemic oppression. Her feature documentary “American Promise” was nominated for three Emmys and won the Jury Prize at Sundance. Her work “Stateless” was nominated for a Canadian Academy Award for

Women took home the honors for Best Director at the last two editions of the Academy Awards. Now, after riding the high of seeing Jane Campion and Chloé Zhao take home the biggest honor in their industry, we’re confronted by another year with zero women nominees in the category. Just seven women have received nominations for best director, but the news still stings. Contenders like Gina Prince-Bythewood (“The Woman King”) and Sarah Polley (“Women Talking”) have been shut out.

“Women Talking,” the story of an isolated religious community reeling in the aftermath of a series of sexual assaults, is up for Best Picture. It’s the sole woman-helmed title in the

Phoebe Dynevor may be adding another smash success to her resume. The “Bridgerton” star toplines “Fair Play,” a psychological thriller exploring gender dynamics that’s been the toast of Sundance 2023. Variety reports that Chloe Domont’s feature debut just scored a $20 million deal from Netflix out of the fest, making it the second-biggest sale in Park City history. Sian Heder’s “CODA,” which went on to win Best Picture at the Oscars, scored a record-breaking $25 million deal at Sundance 2021.

Penned by Domont, “Fair Play” tells the story of a couple (Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich) who work in the world of finance. Their relationship is “put to the test when

Alejandra Vasquez is a Mexican-American filmmaker and producer. Raised in rural Texas, she tells stories about the lives of immigrants and activists, typically from rural communities similar to her own. She’s at work on a multi-year project about her hometown with support from the International Women’s Media Foundation and Latino Public Broadcasting. Vasquez directed the short films “Folk Frontera,” winner of the SXSW Texas Shorts Jury Award, and “When It’s Good, It’s Good,” co-produced with Latino Public Broadcasting. “Going Varsity in Mariachi” is her first feature film. She’s worked on the award-winning features “Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.” (2018) and “Us Kids” (2020), along with co-producing Nanfu Wang’s upcoming feature. As a Series

You may not have been able to catch the world premiere of “Little Richard: I Am Everything” at Sundance last week, but it looks like we won’t have to wait too long to watch Lisa Cortés’ latest doc. Deadline reports that Magnolia Pictures snagged worldwide rights to the portrait of the “Tutti-Fruitti” singer with plans to release the film in April. HBO Max holds domestic and international SVOD streaming rights.

Exec produced by “Mudbound” writer-director Dee Rees, “Little Richard: I Am Everything” “tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock ‘n’ roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator –

Chloe Domont is a writer and director whose short films “Haze” and “All Good Things” have been included in the Official Selection of BAMcinemaFest, AFI FEST, LA Film Festival, and AFI DOCS, among others. She’s written and directed on the hit HBO show “Ballers” and has directed episodes of “Shooter” for Netflix and “Billions” for Showtime.

“Fair Play” is screening at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, which runs from January 19-29.

W&H: Describe the film for us in your own words.

CD: “Fair Play” is a thriller about power dynamics. It follows a relationship put to the test when an unexpected shift in power occurs. This shift exposes true natures,

“Are you happy?” a pregnant woman is asked in a new trailer for “Huesera: The Bone Woman.” Michelle Garza Cervera’s Tribeca winner tells the story of Valeria (Natalia Solián), a young woman who claims to be “delighted” to be expecting her first child. Inwardly, she’s in crisis. She’s cursed by “a sinister entity and plunged into a terrifying and dangerous world,” per the film’s synopsis.

No one else seems to pick up on the danger Valeria facing. She’s told that what’s happening to her is “quite normal.” An older woman confides, “When you become a mother you feel like you are split in two.” But Valeria may be in danger

Sarah Snook is stepping away from Waystar RoyCo and making her mark on the health care industry: the two-time Emmy-nominated “Succession” actress plays a fertility doctor in “Run Rabbit Run,” a horror/thriller that Netflix just snagged rights to. A press release announced the news.

From Emmy-nominated “Handmaid’s Tale” director Daina Reid, the film sees Snook playing a woman “who believes firmly in life and death, but after noticing the strange behavior of her young daughter, must challenge her own values and confront a ghost from her past.” Hannah Kent penned the script.

Snook will reprise her role as Shiv Roy in the upcoming fourth season of “Succession,” due later this