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Angelina Pivarnick is easily one of the more polarizing reality TV stars, as she is often involved in drama on Jersey Shore and its spin-offs.

Some fans have often criticized her for that, while others celebrate her as part of the show since she tends to make it entertaining.

However, the Family Vacation star recently talked about how she’s “misunderstood” while discussing her major plans away from the MTV show.

Her latest revelations come as Angelina’s castmate indicated she thinks Angelina needs time away from the show.

In addition, Angelina continues to deal with legal issues in her personal life, with charges stemming from an incident at her New Jersey home in June.

She opened up to her Um Hello? Podcast listeners about what she’s been working on outside of Jersey Shore, and it could become quite significant.

Angelina reveals big plan away from MTV’s Jersey Shore...

Angelina Pivarnick expressed concerns that people might try to “cancel” her based on some of her remarks.

The 38-year-old reality TV star is known for being central to much of MTV’s Family Vacation spinoff drama.

That’s included her ongoing feud with returning castmate Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola and her previous feud with Jenni “JWoww” Farley.

Some viewers might want to see her kicked off the show, while others may feel she makes the show more entertaining.

Earlier this year, she began podcasting alongside her friend Michael David, sharing additional details about Jersey Shore and her life.

However, the platform has given her a voice, and she maintains that she wants to tell her the “truth” despite constant fear of getting canceled.

Angelina shares concerns over her potential cancellation

On July 19, Angelina and her co-host Michael released a new podcast episode to answer fan questions.

They spoke about their Patreon...

Angelina Pivarnick commented about her drinking situation and the drama she’s watching back from MTV’s Jersey Shore: Family Vacation.

Her latest comments arrived days after she made headlines for an alleged incident at her home, which resulted in multiple charges for Angelina.

Earlier this week, fans also noticed she made a significant social media update, and they started speculating about Angelina’s situation with her fiance, Vinny Tortorella.

While she previously released a podcast episode featuring Vinny to discuss their relationship, her latest episode featured her co-host and friend, Michael David, whom she said she asked to be her co-host “weeks ago.”

During Angelina and Michael’s discussion, they mentioned Angelina’s drinking situation.

The Jersey Shore star also briefly commented about seeing some of what happened in Season 7 of Family Vacation.

Angelina updated fans about her situation with drinking

When Angelina was preparing to launch her new podcast,...

Following a successful world premiere at London’s FrightFest, Dark Sky Films today announced it has acquired North American distribution rights to Herd, an action-driven horror film and the directorial debut from Steven Pierce, co-written by Pierce and James Allerdyce. Herd stars Ellen Adair (Trick, Cryptid), Mitzi Akaha (Bashira), Jeremy Holm (The Ranger, Brooklyn 45, Black Mold), Amanda Fuller (Starry Eyes, All the Creatures Were Stirring) among others. The film, which premiered on IMAX at Cineworld to a sold-out crowd in Leicester Square, London, will be released in theaters and on VOD in October 2023.

The distribution arrangement was negotiated by Greg Newman, Executive Vice President of Dark Sky Films, and Bill Straus of Bridge Independent.

Herd tells the story of a woman trying to outrun a past complicated by an abusive father. When she and her wife end up trapped between a zombie outbreak and warring militia groups in her hometown,...

Two New York City policemen have been indicted on formal rape, kidnapping and bribery charges for allegedly forcing themselves on an 18-year-old woman who was in their custody for alleged marijuana possession, People confirms.

The alleged rape occurred on Sept. 15 in a police van in Brooklyn while the teen was handcuffed, an NYPD source tells People. Both officers have insisted the sex was consensual, according to the source.

Officers Eddie Martins and Richard Hall turned themselves in for arraignment on Monday, the source confirms. A grand jury returned indictments against the men on Thursday, according to a press release from...

Ms. Marianne (Official Video) by Levon on Vevo.

In 2003, Stacy’s mom had it goin’ on but now, it’s time for Ms. Marianne.

Two months after releasing their debut five-song Ep, Levon’s official music video to their song, “Ms. Marianne” is out now. Reminiscent of Fountains of Wayne’s hit, “Stacy’s Mom,” the infectious tune tells the story of a young waiter who fantasizes about getting pursued by an attractive older woman “celebrating 20 years of marriage to an ex she called Satan.”

Hailing from Nashville, Levon — which consists of friends Michael David Hall, Jake Singleton and Ryan...

Author: Samuel Spencer

Picture the 1970s in your head, and chances are a Mick Rock image has come to mind. David Bowie managing to be the sexiest man alive despite a red mullet, a business suit and a saxophone? That’s Mick Rock. Topless Iggy Pop bending over backwards in a moment of rock ’n’ roll abandonment? Mick Rock. Debbie Harry looking like the girl next door (if you live next door to CBGBs circa 1974)? That too was done by certain Mr Michael David Rock. Yes, Rock is his real last name.

With that sort of pedigree, ‘Shot! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock’, a new documentary on Rock’s life, would have probably got four stars if it had just been a few of those pictures on the big screen alongside a few anecdotes about doing drugs with David Bowie. However, director Barney Clay (husband of Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs...

Erin Andrews is a survivor.

The 39-year-old Dancing With the Stars co-host covers Health magazine's July/August cover, stunning in a red bikini. In the candid interview, Andrews opens up about getting diagnosed with cervical cancer last September, and how it turned her relationship with her now fiance, hockey pro Jarret Stoll, much more serious.

"It was a huge step for my relationship with my boyfriend at the time," Andrews says. "Because you don't know if a guy is going to want to sit in with an oncologist and see, 'Ok, so this is your cervix, and this is your uterus, and we are cutting out this part…'"

Watch: Erin Andrews Reveals Cervical Cancer Diagnosis That She Kept a Secret for 5 Months

"We hadn’t even been discussing marriage," she continues. "We hadn’t discussed babies! It really puts things on the fast track for you -- because you have an oncologist saying to you, 'We...

Erin Andrews was inconsolable after finding out that she had been secretly filmed while naked in her hotel room.

In an emotional interview on Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly, which aired in part on Friday's Today show, the 39-year-old Dancing With the Stars co-host recalls what it was like first telling her parents about the invasion of privacy and watching the videos that her stalker, Michael David Barrett, had filmed in 2008 and later posted on the Internet.

“I was just stunned. I was in shock. I was embarrassed," she says of her reaction to learning of the footage. "I was freaking out so much that when I called my parents, my dad thought I had been injured in a car accident because I was just screaming bloody murder on the other end."

Watch: Erin Andrews Tearfully Details How Life Has Changed Since Stalking Incident

Andrews remembers while watching the videos while in court during her civil lawsuit...

Erin Andrews has no plans to forgive her convicted stalker, Michael David Barrett.

In a sneak peek clip from an all-new episode of Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly, the 39-year-old Dancing With the Stars host opens up about the terrifying incident and why she'll never be able to give the man who secretly filmed her naked in a hotel room a "pass" for his actions.

Watch: Inside the Erin Andrews Trial: 7 Most Revealing Things We Learned

"I have to relive it all the time," she explains on camera. "It's shaped who I am as a person."

"It messed with my family. It hurt my mom and dad so bad and it still does," she continues. "And you don't get any sort of pass for doing that."

For the first time ever on TV, Andrews also opens up to Kelly about her cervical cancer scare. The sports journalist announced in January that she was diagnosed with the disease...

Legendary music photographer Mick Rock is the first to admit that he may have mistaken his surname for his destiny — or maybe it’s that his surname simply was his destiny. Of course, it wouldn’t have meant very much had he been born in another time, or even in another place, but that wasn’t how the cards were dealt. Michael David Rock was born in Britain in 1948, one year and a few miles away from a man who would eventually come to feel that “Bowie” suited him better than “Jones.” And so, from the very start, Mick Rock was on something of a collision course with rock and roll, a passenger waiting to make good on his one-way ticket to the soul of the 20th century.

If “Shot! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock” stands slightly above the recent onslaught of docs about people on the periphery of the music world (e.

Erin Andrews' stalker cannot avoid paying up. After being awarded $55 million in a civil lawsuit in March, the broadcaster was granted a motion to prevent Michael David Barrett from avoiding his part of the payment. According to court documents obtained by E! News, Judge Trish Brown of the Oregon bankruptcy court ruled that any financial damages awarded to Andrews are "non-dischargeable," meaning they cannot be avoided by declaring bankruptcy. Barrett pleaded guilty in 2009 to videotaping her through her hotel room's peephole and posting a video online of her naked while changing clothes—a clip that later accumulated millions of views. He was...

The man who secretly filmed Erin Andrews in a Nashville hotel room through a peephole in 2008 must pay the $28 million awarded to Andrews by a jury despite the fact that he is bankrupt, People confirms.

Judge Trish Brown of the U.S. Bankruptcy court in Oregon ruled that the damages owed by Michael David Barrett are "non-dischargeable," according to court documents obtained by People. Barrett was ordered to pay 51 percent of the $55 million awarded to Andrews in damages in March.

Barrett filed for bankruptcy in Oregon, where he lives, in 2012. Previously, he had served two years in prison after pleading...

The man who secretly filmed Erin Andrews in a Nashville hotel room through a peephole in 2008 must pay the $28 million awarded to Andrews by a jury despite the fact that he is bankrupt, People confirms. Judge Trish Brown of the U.S. Bankruptcy court in Oregon ruled that the damages owed by Michael David Barrett are "non-dischargeable," according to court documents obtained by People. Barrett was ordered to pay 51 percent of the $55 million awarded to Andrews in damages in March. Barrett filed for bankruptcy in Oregon, where he lives, in 2012. Previously, he had served two years in prison after pleading...

Erin Andrews has settled her lawsuit with a hotel chain and operator over a secret video recording that captured her naked during her stay. The terms of the agreement have not been disclosed. “This litigation is over,” Andrews’ attorney Randall Kinnard said in a statement Monday, according to the Tennessean. “Erin Andrews is satisfied with the settlement, the terms of which are confidential.” In a ruling last month, a Nashville, Tennessee, jury awarded the Fox Sports and “Dancing With the Stars” host $55 million in the lawsuit against West End Hotel Partners and Windsor Capital Group and Michael David Barrett, the...

Erin Andrews has reached a settlement with the Marriott Hotel in her peeping tom lawsuit. The sport reporter's attorney, Randall Kinnard, tells E! News, "The litigation is over. The terms of the settlement are confidential. Erin Andrews is satisfied with the settlement, and she was very courageous throughout this litigation." The lawsuit stems from a 2008 video of Andrews that was posted online where she appeared nude while changing clothes in a hotel room. Michael David Barrett pleaded guilty one year later to stalking the sportscaster and shooting the video through a peephole in an adjacent room. While Barrett was sentenced to 30 months in prison, Erin also eventually sued the hotel for $75...

[[tmz:video id="0_jvmzl285"]] Rick Hilton has sympathy for the enemy, as in Marriott ... because he thinks his family's rival hotel got the shaft when it was ordered to fork over $27 million to Erin Andrews. Rick and Kathy Hilton were at Lax when we asked what they thought about Monday's verdict -- Andrews was awarded $27 mil from the Nashville hotel and $28 mil from Michael David Barrett. The grandson of Hilton's founder didn't hesitate -- he says the number is way too high.

Sportscaster Hannah Storm says she is proud of colleague Erin Andrews for her "tenacity and strength to succeed" in the wake of a civil trial over a secretly recorded nude video of Andrews taken in 2008. Andrews was awarded $55 million in damages by a jury on Monday.

"My experience as one of the first women in the field of sports broadcasting taught me about the necessary tenacity and strength to succeed; Erin has displayed both of those traits in the years since her ordeal," Storm, an ABC and Espn sportscaster, says in a statement to People.

"Her trial, no doubt, will...

Sportscaster Hannah Storm says she is proud of colleague Erin Andrews for her "tenacity and strength to succeed" in the wake of a civil trial over a secretly recorded nude video of Andrews taken in 2008. Andrews was awarded $55 million in damages by a jury on Monday. "My experience as one of the first women in the field of sports broadcasting taught me about the necessary tenacity and strength to succeed; Erin has displayed both of those traits in the years since her ordeal," Storm, an ABC and Espn sportscaster, says in a statement to People. "Her trial, no doubt, will...

Sportscaster Hannah Storm says she is proud of colleague Erin Andrews for her "tenacity and strength to succeed" in the wake of a civil trial over a secretly recorded nude video of Andrews taken in 2008. Andrews was awarded $55 million in damages by a jury on Monday. "My experience as one of the first women in the field of sports broadcasting taught me about the necessary tenacity and strength to succeed; Erin has displayed both of those traits in the years since her ordeal," Storm, an ABC and Espn sportscaster, says in a statement to People. "Her trial, no doubt, will...

Sportscaster Hannah Storm said she was proud of colleague Erin Andrews for her "tenacity and strength to succeed" in the wake of a secretly recorded nude video of Andrews taken in 2008, for which the sportscaster was awarded $55 million in damages by a jury on Monday. "My experience as one of the first women in the field of sports broadcasting taught me about the necessary tenacity and strength to succeed; Erin has displayed both of those traits in the years since her ordeal," Storm, an ABC and Espn sportscaster, said in a statement to People. "Her trial, no doubt, will contribute...

Erin Andrews has a lot to be thankful for these days. Just yesterday the judge in her peeping tom lawsuit awarded her $55 million. The sportscaster sued Marriott Nashville for $75 million in 2008 after Michael David Barrett posted a video of her getting changed online that he had filmed through a peephole in an adjacent room. He pleaded guilty in 2009 to stalking Andrews and filming the video. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison. Now that the trial has come to an end, a source tells E! News that she is "surrounded by her friends and family at this time" and is trying to move on with her life. "She has so many mixed emotions inside, but mainly feels at peace with the verdict," the source...

Sportscaster Erin Andrews has been awarded $55 million in her lawsuit over a secretly videotaped recording that captured her naked, ABC News reports. Andrews had originally sought $75 million in the case. The Fox Sports host had sued the owner of the Nashville, Tennessee, hotel where she was taped via a peephole. She also sued Michael David Barrett, the man who recorded the video in 2008 by tampering with the peephole of Andrews’ room. Also Read: Erin Andrews Trial: Hotel Rep Denies Showing Peep-Hole Video at Restaurant The owners of the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University had contended that Barrett’s actions were his own,...

A verdict has been reached in the peeping tom case involving Erin Andrews. E! News has learned that the sportscaster was awarded $55 million by the judge. The jury went into deliberations this morning after roughly a week-long trial involving the celeb. In 2008, a video of her appearing nude while changing clothes in a hotel room was posted online after Michael David Barrett filmed it through a peephole in an adjacent room. He pleaded guilty in 2009 to stalking Andrews and shooting the video and was sentenced to 30 months in prison. Andrews sued the hotel for $75 million. During two emotional days of testimony, Andrews recounted the terrifying incident that occurred at the Marriott Nashville, where she was...

In his closing statement in Erin Andrews's $75 million civil suit for damages from a secretly recorded nude video taken of her at a Nashville Marriott, Andrews's attorney, Bruce Broillet, told jurors that Andrews is "living a nightmare." "On one hand she's living the dream - her dream," said Broillet, referring to Andrews's successful career as a sportscaster for Fox Sports. "And on the other hand she's living a nightmare. It's both. And they're side by side for the rest of her life." Andrews, sportscaster for Fox Sports who used to work for Espn, had sued the franchise owner of the Nashville Marriott,...

Sportscaster Erin Andrews will soon find out whether she is to be compensated by a Nashville hotel for the pain she's endured since she was filmed naked in 2008 by stalker Michael David Barrett through a peephole. On Friday, the case was thrown into a jury's hands upon the conclusion of closing arguments. Andrews is demanding $75 million in damages against West End Hotel Partners, the owner of the local Marriott near Vanderbilt University, and Windsor Capital Group, the company that managed the hotel. She alleges both were negligent for their behavior letting Barrett so close to her. Barrett, who pled guilty to interstate stalking charges in

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The major question for the jury in Erin Andrews's $75 million civil lawsuit is this:

Should the owners and managers of the Nashville Marriott be held liable for not doing more to protect the sportscaster in 2008, when a stalker, Michael David Barrett, gouged a peephole in her door and secretly recorded a nude video that later went viral?

Attorneys for Andrews, 37, and the Marriott's owners make their final arguments Friday, a day after the defense rested, and then the case will go to the jury.

Defense attorneys have argued that the incident was a freak occurrence that the hotel couldn't have prevented,...

The major question for the jury in Erin Andrews's $75 million civil lawsuit is this: Should the owners and managers of the Nashville Marriott be held liable for not doing more to protect the sportscaster in 2008, when a stalker, Michael David Barrett, gouged a peephole in her door and secretly recorded a nude video that later went viral? Attorneys for Andrews, 37, and the Marriott's owners make their final arguments Friday, a day after the defense rested, and then the case will go to the jury. Defense attorneys have argued that the incident was a freak occurrence that the hotel couldn't have prevented,...

Jesse Palmer, the Espn football analyst who formerly played in the NFL and starred on The Bachelor, testified on Thursday that Erin Andrews was "more reserved" after a secretly recorded nude video vent viral in 2009, but said her professional performance during broadcasts was "impressive."

"I remember thinking it was almost seamless," Palmer, who testified for the defense and worked with Andrews at Espn broadcasting college football games, said of Andrews's first time back on camera. He said he watched her do her job as a football sideline reporter "with amazement."

Andrews, who now works for Fox Sports, previously testified she...

Jesse Palmer, the Espn football analyst who formerly played in the NFL and starred on The Bachelor, testified on Thursday that Erin Andrews was "more reserved" after a secretly recorded nude video vent viral in 2009, but said her professional performance during broadcasts was "impressive." "I remember thinking it was almost seamless," Palmer, who testified for the defense and worked with Andrews at Espn broadcasting college football games, said of Andrews's first time back on camera. He said he watched her do her job as a football sideline reporter "with amazement." Andrews, who now works for Fox Sports, previously testified she...

Jesse Palmer, the Espn football analyst who formerly played in the NFL and starred on The Bachelor, testified on Thursday that Erin Andrews was "more reserved" after a secretly recorded nude video vent viral in 2009, but said her professional performance during broadcasts was "impressive." "I remember thinking it was almost seamless," Palmer, who worked with Andrews at Espn broadcasting college football games, said of Andrews's first time back on camera. He said he watched her do her job as a football sideline reporter "with amazement." Andrews previously testified she read from a script that first time back because the experience was so emotionally charged.

Defense attorneys in Erin Andrews's $75 million lawsuit against the Nashville Marriott have attempted to show that the 2008 secretly recorded nude video of Andrews taken in the hotel was a freak occurrence that couldn't have been prevented.

Earlier in the trial, Michael David Barrett, testified that his motivation for filming Andrews, 37, was financial and that he was "not proud."

On Thursday afternoon, the defense rested. Closing arguments will take place Friday morning before the case goes to the jury.

On Wednesday, defense witness Stephen Barth, a professor of hospitality law at Houston's Conrad N. Hilton College, said, "It's my opinion...

Defense attorneys in Erin Andrews's $75 million lawsuit against the Nashville Marriott have attempted to show that the 2008 secretly recorded nude video of Andrews taken in the hotel was a freak occurrence that couldn't have been prevented. Earlier in the trial, Michael David Barrett, testified that his motivation for filming Andrews, 37, was financial and that he was "not proud." On Thursday afternoon, the defense rested. Closing arguments will take place Friday morning before the case goes to the jury. On Wednesday, defense witness Stephen Barth, a professor of hospitality law at Houston's Conrad N. Hilton College, said, "It's my opinion...

Erin Andrews's civil trial over a secretly recorded nude video was delayed briefly Wednesday after allegations surfaced on Twitter that a witness for the defense had shown the video to friends at a dinner Tuesday night, according to reports. An employee of Margot Cafe and Bar in east Nashville claimed in a series of tweets that the witness, Neal Peskind - who works for West End Hotel Partners, which owns the Nashville Marriott, where the 2008 incident occurred - showed the video to friends, reports Wtvf-tv. The tweets, which have since been deleted, alleged that Peskind, who testified for the...

Erin Andrews has mild post-traumatic stress disorder because of the secretly filmed nude video of her from 2008 that was posted on the internet, a psychologist testified in court Wednesday. Dr. Kim Brown of Vanderbilt University appeared in court during the sportscaster's $75 million civil suit against the Marriott Nashville. Andrews was secretly taped in the hotel in 2008 by Michael David Barrett, a former delivery truck driver who earlier testified that his motivation was financial. Brown testified that based on three tests she administered, Andrews, 37, "is a resilient, stable person who functions fairly well psychologically despite the horrible experiences she has been through.

Erin Andrews has mild post-traumatic stress disorder because of the secretly filmed nude video of her from 2008 that was posted on the internet, a psychologist testified in court Wednesday. Dr. Kim Brown of Vanderbilt University appeared in court during the sportscaster's $75 million civil suit against the Marriott Nashville. Andrews was secretly taped in the hotel in 2008 by Michael David Barrett, a former delivery truck driver who earlier testified that his motivation was financial. Brown testified that based on three tests she administered, Andrews, 37, "is a resilient, stable person who functions fairly well psychologically despite the horrible experiences she has been through.

Defense attorneys for the Nashville Marriott suggested on Tuesday that sportscaster Erin Andrews's career has thrived since a stranger secretly filmed her nude in 2008 and posted the video online. Andrews, 37, is filing a civil suit against the Marriott for $75 million. A man in the adjacent room to hers, former delivery truck driver Michael David Barrett, shot the video. Andrews says that she would have called the police had she known Barrett requested a room next to hers. Defense attorney Marc Dedman, who led the cross-examination of Andrews on Tuesday, asked Andrews about the endorsements she has received since the...

The Erin Andrews civil case currently has more drama and curveballs than the sporting events the Fox Sports host covers. The 37-year-old sportscaster took to the stand in a Nashville, Tennessee, court this week to testify in the $75 million lawsuit against the Marriott at Vanderbilt University, Windsor Capital Group and Michael David Barrett — the man who pleaded guilty to recording videos of her in 2008 and posting them on the Internet. See the latest developments in the case below. Also Read: Erin Andrews Stalker Trial: Sportscaster Is 'Shell of Her Former Self' Andrews cries on the stand Recounting suggestions at the time that she staged.

[[tmz:video id="0_oipr2cw4"]] Erin Andrews wept openly on the witness stand as she described how the illegal peep hole video recording destroyed her professionally and personally. During her 2nd day of testimony, Erin talked about how the video -- secretly shot by Michael David Barrett -- made her distrusting and obsessed with checking the Internet. She broke down in tears when asked about how it's affected her relationship with NHL star Jarret Stoll. Erin said, "He didn't know me before this happened.

On the second day of her testimony in court, Erin Andrews described the thorough new process she carries out every time she checks into a hotel room.  The 37-year-old sportscaster has taken a far more rigorous approach to traveling after she became the target of a stalker while at the Marriott Nashville in 2008. Michael David Barrett, a former delivery truck driver, requested the room next to Andrew's at the hotel and filmed her through the peep hole of her room. The footage was later shared online and has been viewed millions of times. In March 2010, Barrett was sentenced to two and a half years in prison, three years of probation and thousands of dollars in fines and restitution. He was...

On Tuesday, sportscaster Erin Andrews testified for the second day a row in her $75 million civil suit against Marriott Nashville, saying she is still haunted by the nude video a stranger secretly filmed of her through a hotel peephole in 2008. "I think about it every day," Andrews testified. "One of the worst thoughts I have is when I walk around a stadium ... there's always that thought, as I walk right by the stands, and I think, 'My God, everyone in this stadium has seen that video.'" Andrews, 37, a former Espn sportscaster who has since moved to Fox Sports, is suing the hotel.

Erin Andrews took the stand today. The 37-year-old sportscaster testified in her $75 million civil suit against Marriott Nashville, and couldn't help but become emotional while recalling the horrific event when a stranger secretly filmed her in 2008 and posted the video of her naked on the Internet. "I'm so angry. This could have been stopped," she told the jury. "No one ever called me or told me when I checked in that he asked to be put next to me." Michael David Barrett, a former delivery truck driver, stayed in the room adjacent to Andrews during her stay at the hotel, and shot the video through a peep hole. Andrews says she would have called authorities had she known that Barrett...

Sportscaster Erin Andrews took the stand in her $75 million civil suit against Marriott Nashville, tearfully telling the jury she felt angry, alone and embarrassed when a stranger secretly filmed her in 2008 and posted the video of her in the nude. "I'm so angry. This could have been stopped," Andrews, 37, said. Andrews, a former Espn sportscaster who has since moved to Fox Sports, is suing the hotel. A man in an adjacent room, Michael David Barrett, shot the video of Andrews through a peep hole. Andrews contends that she would have called authorities had she known that Barrett requested a room next to hers.

[[tmz:video id="0_k1swj81x"]] Erin Andrews broke down on the stand Monday as she testified about how she learned she was secretly recorded through a peephole in her Nashville hotel room in 2008 by Michael David Barrett. Andrews' testimony was part of her $75 million lawsuit against the Nashville Marriott and Barrett ... who got a two-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to interstate stalking. Her father Steve testified last Wednesday, saying his daughter is "a shell of her former self" because of the video.

Erin Andrews’ father brought his daughter to tears Wednesday while testifying during the civil trial related to the sportscaster’s 2009 stalker case. Steve Andrews said on the stand that the 37-year-old is a shell of her former self ever since a man was caught spying on her while she was nude. “She’s afraid. She’s afraid of crowds, afraid of people. She doesn’t trust anymore,” he revealed, according to Espn. Michael David Barrett pleaded guilty to recording videos of Andrews through peepholes that he altered on the doors of her hotel rooms in Nashville, Tenn., while she was...

Erin Andrews broke down in court when her father took the stand in the trial of the man who secretly recorded her nude in her hotel room. Andrews is suing Michael David Barrett and Marriott hotels over the infamous videos he shot through a peep hole in an adjoining hotel room to Erin's. Her father, Steve Andrews, testified in a Nashville courtroom about how the recordings devastated his daughter. He said, "She's afraid. She's afraid of crowds,...

Erin Andrews‘ $75 million stalking lawsuit against the Nashville, Tenn., Marriott at Vanderbilt University heads to court Monday. Erin Andrews Lawsuit In the civil suit, Andrews has alleged that the Marriott was negligent in allowing her stalker Michael David Barrett to specifically request and reserve the room next to hers, reported the Washington Post. Barrett went on […]

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Fox sideline reporter and Dancing with the Stars host Erin Andrews wants Marriott International and others to pay $75 million in a lawsuit stemming from a 2008 incident in which she was secretly taped, nude, through a hotel room's peephole.

Andrews, 37, accused the hotel chain and Michael David Barrett of negligence and invasion of privacy in the suit, originally filed in 2011, after Barrett allegedly videotaped her and distributed the explicit footage online, ABC reported.

Andrews's attorney, Randall Kinnard, declined to comment on the matter.

Barrett eventually pleaded guilty to interstate stalking and was sentenced to two and a half years in prison...

Dancing With the Stars co-host Erin Andrews is seeking $75 million in damages for being secretly videotaped by a Peeping Tom while she was nude inside a hotel room in Tennessee in September 2008. Photos: Stars in court The Fox News correspondent filed an amended complaint in Nashville Circuit Court on Tuesday, Oct. 13, which includes the hefty amount, according to court papers obtained by The Smoking Gun. Michael David Barrett was found guilty of felony stalking in December 2009 and sentenced to 30 months in prison for filming [...]...

John Nein was not always a Senior Programmer at the Sundance Film Festival — it’s only been eight years. When he began at Sundance in 2002 he was always watching movies of course. More than that, like John Cooper said, he just didn’t shut up when he was in the room; he was opinionated and spoke his opinions. He also always liked international cinema as he was born in Ireland and grew up in The Netherlands, Belgium and London where his father worked for international companies. When he was 12 he came to the U.S.

The programmers at Sundance do not have a strict formal assignment of areas they program; they see all the films of all the sections, but like his father, international was always of great interest. The same is true for myself, although out of the 118 feature films selected out of 4,105 feature length submissions, many of the U.S. films look great to me as well. For instance, I am so happy that Matt Sobel’s “ Take Me To The River ” which won the prize at Us in Progress this past November in Wroclaw, Poland at The American Film Festival is in the Next section.

John: This year on Day One, January 22, 2015, the Festival will feature one of each type of film shown at the Festival: one shorts program, a U.S. documentary, a U.S. dramatic, an international documentary and an international dramatic which will be the first ever Lithuanian film in Competition, a lesbian love story that is stylish and smartly directed by Alanté Kavaïté with two fantastic actors, Julija Steponaitytė and Aistė Diržiūtė. Actually " The Summer of Sangaile” is a coproduction of Lithuania, France, and Holland . I think Alanté lives in France.

There ares 29 countries represented and 45 first-time filmmakers.

Sydney: I know the Chileans love Sundance. Last year Alejandro Fernández Almendras said in our interview about “To Kill a Man” that Sundance is very important for Chile. I am also a longtime fan of Sebastian Silva since “The Maid”. Two years ago he had two films, “Crystal Fairy” and “Magic, Magic” in Sundance, so why is this Chilean film not in World Competition but in Next?

John: I’m glad Alejandro said that. Yes we like Chile too. They make many good films. But “Nasty Baby” by Sebastian Silva is a U.S. film, about people living in Brooklyn.

He lives in U.S. and has spent a lot of time here. He knows Brooklyn and yet his curiosity and his view of it is that of an outsider. He knows these people because he watches and listens so well. “

Sydney: “Bridesmaids” star and co-writer Kristen Wiig stars. A short promo of “Nasty Baby” was shown to buyers while it was in post-production in Cannes and Toronto. The Chilean production company of Juan de Dios Larrain and Pablo Larrain, Fabula, produced “No” as well as Sebastian’s later films. Papi Boye and Violaine Pichon’s production and international sales agent Versatile out of France along with the film’s international sales agent Funny Balloons — also based in France – helped finance this U.S. Production.

John: World Cinema is now 10 years old. Overall, the Competition sections have evolved over the years. We have a sense of emerging directors here. We have come of age.

All our films are of emerging filmmakers. Either first time directors or highly anticipated second or third features. Of all the festivals worldwide, Sundance has the strongest program of emerging talent. Watch these filmmakers over the next years. Like “Homesick” by Anna Sewitsky. Her previous film “Happy, Happy” showed at Sundance in 2011 and took the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema. “Happy, Happy” also became the Norwegian Official entry for the Academy Awards® .

Sydney: TrustNordisk sold “Happy, Happy” to more than 50 countries, so they must be poised to sell this one as well.

John: But not all the second and third films are from filmmakers whose first films were at Sundance, although Canada’s “ Chorus” director Francois Delisle showed “The Meteor” at Sundance two years ago.

And “Glassland”, was a very anticipated second film. The first film by director and screenwriter, Gerard Barrett, "Pilgrim Hill” won the Galway Film Festival and was very sought after and was signed with a U.S. agent then. “Sangaile" is also a second feature.

Look at the international films in the Premieres section and you will see some international filmmakers there, like “ Brooklyn” which is an immigrant story directed by John Crowley and written by Nick Hornby whose film “Wild” is now playing .

Sydney: I see from IMDbPro that Hanway has already sold Middle Eastern rights to Front Row Entertainment who must have pre-bought “Brooklyn” in Cannes or Toronto.

John: Of the 12 films in World Cinema the less expected films come from Turkey, “Ivy” by the talented director Tolga Karacelik. This is his second film. His first was “Toll Booth” which Global Initiative distributed in the U.S. The Dp on this was Nuri Bilge Ceylan (“Winter’s Sleep”)’s Dp on “Winter’s Sleep”, Gökhan Tiryaki. It is about guys stuck on a freighter whose company goes bankrupt. Power dynamics play out.

Sydney: Have there been Oscar nominated films in Sundance (Aside from “Whiplash” and “Boyhood”)?

John: Yes, “Man on Wire” was not last year but it was foreign. “Ida” was in Spotlight last year and maybe Sundance increased its visibility. Three others were in Sundance last year:

“To Kill a Man” is Chile’s submission, “Difret” which won the Audience Award is Ethiopia’s submission this year and “Liar’s Dice” from India was in World Competition last year. It is a very artful film. We knew it would do well with the critics, but it did extremely well with the audience too. A couple of films in Spotlight will probably be nominated next year. Watch for them.

Sydney : We haven’t even discussed the World documentaries.

John : Are there any that stand out for you?

Sydney: Yes, “Chuck Norris vs. Communism”, from U.K., Romania and Germany. Chuck Norris?

John: How interesting it is that something like Chuck Norris means something very different to others. It is a sign of cultural differences between us. Chuck Norris shows how independent films built a community of counter culture against an authoritarian government.

Sydney: I also notice that there are six docs from the U.K. Out of 12 films.

John: Yes we noticed and discussed that. U.K. really supports documentary filmmaking. Great work is coming out of the U.K. And many of the films are about different countries, so it doesn’t fit so simply into a U.K. pigeon hole.

Sydney : Yes I see “Chuck Norris” is about Romania, “Dreamcatcher” is about teenage prostitution, “How to Change the World” is about Greenpeace, “Listen to Me Marlon” is about a famous U.S. actor, “The Russian Woodpecker” is about a Ukrainian survivor of Chernobyl.

Thank you John for your insights. I think we have a lot to look at here. Thank you for taking this time to talk with me. See you at Sundance!

For a full list thus far of Sundance films, see below.

U.S. Dramatic Competition

Advantageous / U.S.A. (Director: Jennifer Phang, Screenwriters: Jacqueline Kim, Jennifer Phang) — In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen and her daughter, Jules, do all they can to hold on to their joy, despite the instability surfacing in their world. Cast: Jacqueline Kim, James Urbaniak, Freya Adams, Ken Jeong, Jennifer Ehle, Samantha Kim.

The Bronze / U.S.A. (Director: Bryan Buckley, Screenwriters: Melissa Rauch, Winston Rauch) — In 2004, Hope Ann Greggory became an American hero after winning the bronze medal for the women's gymnastics team. Today, she's still living in her small hometown, washed-up and embittered. Stuck in the past, Hope must reassess her life when a promising young gymnast threatens her local celebrity status.Cast: Melissa Rauch, Gary Cole, Thomas Middleditch, Sebastian Stan, Haley Lu Richardson, Cecily Strong. Day One Film

The D Train / U.S.A. (Directors and screenwriters: Jarrad Paul, Andrew Mogel) — With his 20th reunion looming, Dan can’t shake his high school insecurities. In a misguided mission to prove he's changed, Dan rekindles a friendship with the popular guy from his class and is left scrambling to protect more than just his reputation when a wild night takes an unexpected turn. Cast: Jack Black, James Marsden, Kathryn Hahn, Jeffrey Tambor, Mike White, Kyle Bornheimer.

The Diary of a Teenage Girl / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Marielle Heller) — Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she's sleeping with her mother's boyfriend. Cast: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, Christopher Meloni, Kristen Wiig.

Dope / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Rick Famuyiwa) — Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the Sat. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself. Cast: Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons, Blake Anderson, Zoë Kravitz, A$AP Rocky.

I Smile Back / U.S.A. (Director: Adam Salky, Screenwriters: Amy Koppelman, Paige Dylan) — All is not right in suburbia. Laney Brooks, a wife and mother on the edge, has stopped taking her meds, substituting recreational drugs and the wrong men. With the destruction of her family looming, Laney makes a last, desperate attempt at redemption. Cast: Sarah Silverman, Josh Charles, Thomas Sadoski, Mia Barron, Terry Kinney, Chris Sarandon.

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl / U.S.A. (Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, Screenwriter: Jesse Andrews) — Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia. Cast: Thomas Mann, Rj Cyler, Olivia Cooke, Nick Offerman, Connie Britton, Molly Shannon.

The Overnight / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Patrick Brice) — Alex, Emily, and their son, Rj, are new to Los Angeles. A chance meeting at the park introduces them to the mysterious Kurt, Charlotte, and Max. A family "playdate" becomes increasingly interesting as the night goes on. Cast: Adam Scott, Taylor Schilling, Jason Schwartzman, Judith Godrèche.

People, Places, Things / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: James C. Strouse) — Will Henry is a newly single graphic novelist balancing being a parent to his young twin daughters and teaching a classroom full of college students, all the while trying to navigate the rich complexities of new love and letting go of the woman who left him. Cast: Jemaine Clement, Regina Hall, Stephanie Allynne, Jessica Williams, Gia Gadsby, Aundrea Gadsby.

Results / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Andrew Bujalski) — Two mismatched personal trainers' lives are upended by the actions of a new, wealthy client. Cast: Guy Pearce, Cobie Smulders, Kevin Corrigan, Giovanni Ribisi, Anthony Michael Hall, Brooklyn Decker.

Songs My Brothers Taught Me / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Chloé Zhao) — This complex portrait of modern-day life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation explores the bond between a brother and his younger sister, who find themselves on separate paths to rediscovering the meaning of home. Cast: John Reddy, Jashaun St. John, Irene Bedard, Taysha Fuller, Travis Lone Hill, Eléonore Hendricks.

The Stanford Prison Experiment / U.S.A. (Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez, Screenwriter: Tim Talbott) — This film is based on the actual events that took place in 1971 when Stanford professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo created what became one of the most shocking and famous social experiments of all time. Cast: Billy Crudup, Ezra Miller, Michael Angarano, Tye Sheridan, Johnny Simmons, Olivia Thirlby.

Stockholm, Pennsylvania / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Nikole Beckwith) — A young woman is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years. Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Cynthia Nixon, Jason Isaacs, David Warshofsky.

Unexpected / U.S.A. (Director: Kris Swanberg, Screenwriters: Kris Swanberg, Megan Mercier) — When Samantha Abbott begins her final semester teaching science at a Chicago high school, she faces some unexpected news: she's pregnant. Soon after, Samantha learns that one of her favorite students, Jasmine, has landed in a similar situation. Unexpected follows the two women as they embark on an unlikely friendship. Cast: Cobie Smulders, Anders Holm, Gail Bean, Elizabeth McGovern.

The Witch / U.S.A., Canada (Director and screenwriter: Robert Eggers) — New England in the 1630s: William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness. When their newborn son vanishes and crops fail, the family turns on one another. Beyond their worst fears, a supernatural evil lurks in the nearby wood. Cast: Anya Taylor Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Lucas Dawson, Ellie Grainger.

Z for Zachariah / U.S.A. (Director: Craig Zobel, Screenwriter: Nissar Modi) — In a post-apocalyptic world, a young woman who believes she is the last human on Earth meets a dying scientist searching for survivors. Their relationship becomes tenuous when another survivor appears. As the two men compete for the woman's affection, their primal urges begin to reveal their true nature. Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Margot Robbie, Chris Pine.

U.S. Documentary Competition

Sixteen world-premiere American documentaries that illuminate the ideas, people, and events that shape the present day.

3½ Minutes / U.S.A. (Director: Marc Silver) — On November 23, 2012, unarmed 17-year-old Jordan Russell Davis was shot at a Jacksonville gas station by Michael David Dunn. 3½ Minutes explores the aftermath of Jordan's tragic death, the latent and often unseen effects of racism, and the contradictions of the American criminal justice system.

Being Evel / U.S.A. (Director: Daniel Junge) — An unprecedented, candid portrait of American icon Robert "Evel" Knievel and his legacy.

Best of Enemies / U.S.A. (Directors: Morgan Neville, Robert Gordon) — Best of Enemies is a behind-the-scenes account of the explosive 1968 televised debates between the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and their rancorous disagreements about politics, God, and sex.

Call Me Lucky / U.S.A. (Director: Bobcat Goldthwait) — Barry Crimmins was a volatile but brilliant bar comic who became an honored peace activist and influential political satirist. Famous comedians and others build a picture of a man who underwent an incredible transformation.

Cartel Land / U.S.A., Mexico (Director: Matthew Heineman) — In this classic Western set in the 21st century, vigilantes on both sides of the border fight the vicious Mexican drug cartels. With unprecedented access, this character-driven film provokes deep questions about lawlessness, the breakdown of order, and whether citizens should fight violence with violence.

City of Gold / U.S.A. (Director: Laura Gabbert) — Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Jonathan Gold casts his light upon a vibrant and growing cultural movement in which he plays the dual roles of high-low priest and culinary geographer of his beloved Los Angeles.

Finders Keepers / U.S.A. (Directors: Bryan Carberry, Clay Tweel) — Recovering addict and amputee John Wood finds himself in a stranger-than-fiction battle to reclaim his mummified leg from Southern entrepreneur Shannon Whisnant, who found it in a grill he bought at an auction and believes it to therefore be his rightful property.

Hot Girls Wanted / U.S.A. (Directors: Jill Bauer, Ronna Gradus) — Hot Girls Wanted is a first-ever look at the realities inside the world of the amateur porn industry and the steady stream of 18- and 19-year-old girls entering into it.

How to Dance in Ohio / U.S.A. (Director: Alexandra Shiva) — In Columbus, Ohio, a group of teenagers and young adults on the autism spectrum prepare for an iconic American rite of passage — a spring formal. They spend 12 weeks practicing their social skills at a local nightclub in preparation for the dance.

Larry Kramer in Love and Anger / U.S.A. (Director: Jean Carlomusto) — Author, activist, and playwright Larry Kramer is one of the most important and controversial figures in contemporary gay America, a political firebrand who gave voice to the outrage and grief that inspired gay men and lesbians to fight for their lives. At 78, this complicated man still commands our attention.

Meru / U.S.A. (Directors: Jimmy Chin, E. Chai Vasarhelyi) — Three elite mountain climbers sacrifice everything but their friendship as they struggle through heartbreaking loss and nature’s harshest elements to attempt the never-before-completed Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru, the most coveted first ascent in the dangerous game of Himalayan big wall climbing.

Racing Extinction / U.S.A. (Director: Louie Psihoyos) — Academy Award-winner Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a unique team to show the world never-before-seen images that expose issues surrounding endangered species and mass extinction. Whether infiltrating notorious black markets or exploring humans' effect on the environment, Racing Extinction will change the way you see the world.

(T)Error / U.S.A. (Directors: Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe) — (T)Error is the first film to document on camera a covert counterterrorism sting as it unfolds. Through the perspective of *******, a 63-year-old Black revolutionary turned FBI informant, viewers are given an unprecedented glimpse of the government’s counterterrorism tactics, and the murky justifications behind them.

Welcome to Leith / U.S.A. (Directors: Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker) — A white supremacist attempts to take over a small town in North Dakota.

Western / U.S.A., Mexico (Directors: Bill Ross, Turner Ross) — For generations, all that distinguished Eagle Pass, Texas, from Piedras Negras, Mexico, was the Rio Grande. But when darkness descends upon these harmonious border towns, a cowboy and lawman face a new reality that threatens their way of life. Western portrays timeless American figures in the grip of unforgiving change.

The Wolfpack / U.S.A. (Director: Crystal Moselle) — Six bright teenage brothers have spent their entire lives locked away from society in a Manhattan housing project. All they know of the outside is gleaned from the movies they watch obsessively (and recreate meticulously). Yet as adolescence looms, they dream of escape, ever more urgently, into the beckoning world.

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Twelve films from emerging filmmaking talents around the world offer fresh perspectives and inventive styles.

Chlorine / Italy (Director: Lamberto Sanfelice, Screenwriters: Lamberto Sanfelice, Elisa Amoruso) — Jenny, 17, dreams of becoming a synchronized swimmer. Family events turn her life upside down and she is forced move to a remote area to look after her ill father and younger brother. It won't be long before Jenny starts pursuing her dreams again. Cast: Sara Serraiocco, Ivan Franek, Giorgio Colangeli, Anatol Sassi, Piera Degli Esposti, Andrea Vergoni. World Premiere

Chorus / Canada (Director and screenwriter: François Delisle) — A separated couple meet again after 10 years when the body of their missing son is found. Amid the guilt of losing a loved one, they hesitantly move toward affirmation of life, acceptance of death, and even the possibility of reconciliation. Cast: Sébastien Ricard, Fanny Mallette, Pierre Curzi, Genevieve Bujold. World Premiere

Glassland / Ireland (Director and screenwriter: Gerard Barrett) — In a desperate attempt to reunite his broken family, a young taxi driver becomes entangled in the criminal underworld. Cast: Jack Reynor, Toni Collette, Will Poulter, Michael Smiley. International Premiere

Homesick / Norway (Director: Anne Sewitsky, Screenwriters: Ragnhild Tronvoll, Anne Sewitsky) — When Charlotte, 27, meets her brother Henrik, 35, for the first time, two people who don't know what a normal family is begin an encounter without boundaries. How does sibling love manifest itself if you have never experienced it before?Cast: Ine Marie Wilmann, Simon J. Berger, Anneke von der Lippe, Silje Storstein, Oddgeir Thune, Kari Onstad. World Premiere. Isa: TrustNordisk

Ivy / Turkey (Director and screenwriter: Tolga Karaçelik) — Sarmasik is sailing to Egypt when the ship's owner goes bankrupt. The crew learns there is a lien on the ship, and key crew members must stay on board. Ivy is the story of these six men trapped on the ship for days. Cast: Nadir Sarıbacak, Özgür Emre Yıldırım, Hakan Karsak, Kadir Çermik, Osman Alkaş, Seyithan Özdemiroğlu. World Premiere

Partisan / Australia (Director: Ariel Kleiman, Screenwriters: Ariel Kleiman, Sarah Cyngler) — Alexander is like any other kid: playful, curious and naive. He is also a trained assassin. Raised in a hidden paradise, Alexander has grown up seeing the world filtered through his father, Gregori. As Alexander begins to think for himself, creeping fears take shape, and Gregori's idyllic world unravels. Cast: Vincent Cassel, Jeremy Chabriel, Florence Mezzara. World Premiere

Princess / Israel (Director and screenwriter: Tali Shalom Ezer) — While her mother is away from home, 12-year-old Adar’s role-playing games with her stepfather move into dangerous territory. Seeking an escape, Adar finds Alan, an ethereal boy that accompanies her on a dark journey between reality and fantasy. Cast: Keren Mor, Shira Haas, Ori Pfeffer, Adar Zohar Hanetz. International Premiere

The Second Mother / Brazil (Director and screenwriter: Anna Muylaert) — Having left her daughter, Jessica, to be raised by relatives in the north of Brazil, Val works as a loving nanny in São Paulo. When Jessica arrives for a visit 13 years later, she confronts her mother's slave-like attitude and everyone in the house is affected by her unexpected behavior. Cast: Regina Casé, Michel Joelsas, Camila Márdila, Karine Teles, Lourenço Mutarelli. World Premiere

Slow West / New Zealand (Director: John Maclean, Screenwriters: John Maclean, Michael Lesslie) — Set at the end of the nineteenth century, 16-year-old Jay Cavendish journeys across the American frontier in search of the woman he loves. He is joined by Silas, a mysterious traveler, and hotly pursued by an outlaw along the way. Cast: Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Rory McCann, Ben Mendelsohn, Brooke Williams, Caren Pistorius. World Premiere

Strangerland / Australia, Ireland (Director: Kim Farrant, Screenwriters: Fiona Seres, Michael Kinirons) — When Catherine and Matthew Parker's two teenage kids disappear into the remote Australian desert, the couple's relationship is pushed to the brink as they confront the mystery of their children's fate. Cast: Nicole Kidman, Joseph Fiennes, Hugo Weaving, Lisa Flanagan, Meyne Wyatt, Maddison Brown. World Premiere

The Summer of Sangaile / Lithuania, France, Holland (Director and screenwriter: Alanté Kavaïté) — Seventeen-year-old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. She meets a girl her age at the summer aeronautical show, nearby her parents’ lakeside villa. Sangaile allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret and in the process finds in her teenage love, the only person that truly encourages her to fly. Cast: Julija Steponaitytė, Aistė Diržiūtė. World Premiere. Isa: Films Distribution.

Umrika / India (Director and screenwriter: Prashant Nair) — When a young village boy discovers that his brother, long believed to be in America, has actually gone missing, he begins to invent letters on his behalf to save their mother from heartbreak, all the while searching for him. Cast: Suraj Sharma, Tony Revolori, Smita Tambe, Adil Hussain, Rajesh Tailang, Prateik Babbar. World Premiere

World Cinema Documentary Competition

Twelve documentaries by some of the most courageous and extraordinary international filmmakers working today.

The Amina Profile / Canada (Director: Sophie Deraspe) — During the Arab revolution, a love story between two women — a Canadian and a Syrian American — turns into an international sociopolitical thriller spotlighting media excesses and the thin line between truth and falsehood on the Internet. World Premiere

Censored Voices / Israel, Germany (Director: Mor Loushy) — One week after the 1967 Six-Day War, renowned author Amos Oz and editor Avraham Shapira recorded intimate conversations with soldiers returning from the battlefield. The Israeli army censored the recordings, allowing only a fragment of the conversations to be published. Censored Voices reveals these recordings for the first time. World Premiere

The Chinese Mayor / China (Director: Hao Zhou) — Mayor Geng Yanbo is determined to transform the coal-mining center of Datong, in China’s Shanxi province, into a tourism haven showcasing clean energy. In order to achieve that, however, he has to relocate 500,000 residences to make way for the restoration of the ancient city. World Premiere

Chuck Norris vs Communism / United Kingdom, Romania, Germany (Director: Ilinca Calugareanu) — In 1980s Romania, thousands of Western films smashed through the Iron Curtain, opening a window to the free world for those who dared to look. A black market VHS racketeer and courageous female translator brought the magic of film to the masses and sowed the seeds of a revolution. World Premiere. Producers Rep: UTA

Dark Horse / United Kingdom (Director: Louise Osmond) — Dark Horse is the inspirational true story of a group of friends from a workingman's club who decide to take on the elite "sport of kings" and breed themselves a racehorse. World Premiere

Dreamcatcher / United Kingdom (Director: Kim Longinotto) — Dreamcatcher takes us into a hidden world seen through the eyes of one of its survivors, Brenda Myers-Powell. A former teenage prostitute, Brenda defied the odds to become a powerful advocate for change in her community. With warmth and humor, Brenda gives hope to those who have none. World Premiere

How to Change the World / United Kingdom, Canada (Director: Jerry Rothwell) — In 1971, a group of friends sails into a nuclear test zone, and their protest captures the world’s imagination. Using rare, archival footage that brings their extraordinary world to life, How to Change the World is the story of the pioneers who founded Greenpeace and defined the modern green movement. World Premiere. Day One Film

Listen to Me Marlon / United Kingdom (Director and screenwriter: Stevan Riley, Co-writer: Peter Ettedgui) — With exclusive access to previously unheard audio archives, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career and extraordinary life away from the stage and screen, the film fully explores the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely in Marlon’s own voice. World Premiere

Pervert Park / Sweden, Denmark (Directors: Frida Barkfors, Lasse Barkfors) — Pervert Park follows the everyday lives of sex offenders in a Florida trailer park as they struggle to reintegrate into society, and try to understand who they are and how to break the cycle of sex crimes being committed. International Premiere

The Russian Woodpecker / United Kingdom (Director: Chad Gracia) — A Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and must decide whether to risk his life by revealing it, amid growing clouds of revolution and war. World Premiere

Sembene! / U.S.A., Senegal (Directors: Samba Gadjigo, Jason Silverman) — In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a Senegalese dockworker and fifth-grade dropout, began dreaming an impossible dream: to become the storyteller for a new Africa. This true story celebrates how the “father of African cinema,” against enormous odds, fought a monumental, 50-year-long battle to give Africans a voice. World Premiere

The Visit / Denmark, Austria, Ireland, Finland, Norway (Director: Michael Madsen) — “This film documents an event that has never taken place…” With unprecedented access to the United Nations' Office for Outer Space Affairs, leading space scientists and space agencies, The Visit explores humans' first encounter with alien intelligent life and thereby humanity itself. "Our scenario begins with the arrival. Your arrival." World Premiere

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Pure, bold works distinguished by an innovative, forward-thinking approach to storytelling populate this program. Digital technology paired with unfettered creativity promises that the films in this section will shape a “greater” next wave in American cinema. Presented by Adobe.

Bob and the Trees / U.S.A., France (Director: Diego Ongaro, Screenwriters: Diego Ongaro, Courtney Maum, Sasha Statman-Weil) — Bob, a 50-year-old logger in rural Massachusetts with a soft spot for golf and gangsta rap, is struggling to make ends meet in a changed economy. When his beloved cow is wounded and a job goes awry, Bob begins to heed the instincts of his ever-darkening self. Cast: Bob Tarasuk, Matt Gallagher, Polly MacIntyre, Winthrop Barrett, Nathaniel Gregory. World Premiere

Christmas, Again / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Charles Poekel) — A heartbroken Christmas tree salesman returns to New York, hoping to put the past year behind him. He spends the season living in a trailer and working the night shift, until a mysterious woman and some colorful customers rescue him from self-destruction. Cast: Kentucker Audley, Hannah Gross, Jason Shelton, Oona Roche. North American Premiere

Cronies / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Michael Larnell) — Twenty-two-year-old Louis doesn’t know whether his childhood friendship with Jack will last beyond today. Cast: George Sample III, Zurich Buckner, Brian Kowalski. World Premiere

Entertainment / U.S.A. (Director: Rick Alverson, Screenwriters: Rick Alverson, Gregg Turkington, Tim Heidecker) — En route to meeting with his estranged daughter, in an attempt to revive his dwindling career, a broken, aging comedian plays a string of dead-end shows in the Mojave Desert. Cast: Gregg Turkington, John C. Reilly, Tye Sheridan, Michael Cera, Amy Seimetz, Lotte Verbeek. World Premiere

H. / U.S.A., Argentina (Directors and screenwriters: Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia) — Two women, each named Helen, find their lives spinning out of control after a meteor allegedly explodes over their city of Troy, New York. Cast: Robin Bartlett, Rebecca Dayan, Will Janowitz, Julian Gamble, Roger Robinson. World Premiere

James White / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Josh Mond) — A young New Yorker struggles to take control of his reckless, self-destructive behavior in the face of momentous family challenges. Cast: Chris Abbott, Cynthia Nixon, Scott Mescudi, Makenzie Leigh, David Call. World Premiere

Nasty Baby / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Sebastian Silva) — A gay couple try to have a baby with the help of their best friend, Polly. The trio navigates the idea of creating life while confronted by unexpected harassment from a neighborhood man called The Bishop. As their clashes grow increasingly aggressive, odds are someone is getting hurt. Cast: Sebastian Silva, Tunde Adebimpe, Kristin Wiig, Reg E. Cathey, Mark Margolis, Denis O'Hare. World Premiere

The Strongest Man / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Kenny Riches) — An anxiety-ridden Cuban man who fancies himself the strongest man in the world attempts to recover his most prized possession, a stolen bicycle. On his quest, he finds and loses much more. Cast: Robert Lorie, Paul Chamberlain, Ashly Burch, Patrick Fugit, Lisa Banes. World Premiere

" Take Me To The River " / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Matt Sobel) — A naive California teen plans to remain above the fray at his Nebraskan family reunion, but a strange encounter places him at the center of a long-buried family secret.Cast: Logan Miller, Robin Weigert, Josh Hamilton, Richard Schiff, Ursula Parker, Azura Skye. World Premiere. Producer rep: Cinetic Media

Tangerine / U.S.A. (Director: Sean Baker, Screenwriters: Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch) — A working girl tears through Tinseltown on Christmas Eve searching for the pimp who broke her heart. Cast: Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian, Mickey O'Hagan, Alla Tumanyan, James Ransone. World Premiere

Spotlight

Regardless of where these films have played throughout the world, the Spotlight program is a tribute to the cinema we love.

6 Desires: Dh Lawrence and Sardinia / United Kingdom, Italy (Director: Mark Cousins) — In winter 1921, Dh Lawrence and his wife journeyed to Sardinia, and he chronicled their experiences in Sea and Sardinia. Now, Mark Cousins retraces Lawrence’s footsteps. The film is conceived partly as a letter to Lawrence — or “Bert” — a detail that’s typical of the film’s inviting sense of conversational intimacy.International Premiere

'71 / United Kingdom (Director: Yann Demange, Screenwriter: Gregory Burke) — ‘71 takes place over a single night in the life of a young British soldier accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the streets of Belfast in 1971. Unable to tell friend from foe, he must survive the night alone and find his way to safety. Cast: Jack O'Connell, Paul Anderson, Richard Dormer, Sean Harris, Barry Keoghan, Martin McCann.

99 Homes / U.S.A. (Director: Ramin Bahrani, Screenwriters: Ramin Bahrani, Amir Naderi, Bahareh Azimi) — A father struggles to get back the home that his family was evicted from by working for the greedy real-estate broker who's the source of his frustration. Cast: Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon, Laura Dern, Tim Guinee, Cullen Moss, J.D. Evermore.

Aloft / Spain, France, Canada (Director and screenwriter: Claudia Llosa) — Aloft tells the story of a struggling mother, Nana, and her evolution to becoming a renowned healer. When a young artist tracks down Nana's son 20 years after she abandoned him, she sets in motion an encounter between the two that will bring the meaning of their lives into question. Cast: Jennifer Connelly, Cillian Murphy, Mélanie Laurent, William Shimell. North American Premiere

Eden / France (Director: Mia Hansen-løve, Screenwriters: Mia Hansen-løve, Sven Hansen-løve) — Mia Hansen-løve's electronic-dance-music epic follows the rise and fall of a DJ (based on her brother, Sven, a contemporary of Daft Punk) who gets into the rave scene in 1994 and spends the next 20 years navigating the French club scene. Cast: Félix de Givry, Pauline Etienne, Greta Gerwig, Brady Corbet, Arsinee Khanjian, Vincent Macaigne.

Girlhood / France (Director and screenwriter: Céline Sciamma) — Oppressed by her family, dead-end school prospects, and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of free-spirited girls. She changes her name and dress, and quits school to be accepted in the gang, hoping to find a way to freedom. Cast: Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh, Mariétou Touré, Idrissa Diabaté, Simina Soumaré.

The Tribe / Ukraine (Director and screenwriter: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy) — Set at a Ukrainian boarding school for the deaf, the film’s narrative unfolds purely through sign language without the need for employing subtitles or voiceover, resulting in a unique, never-before-seen cinematic experience that engages the audience on a new level. Cast: Grigoriy Fesenko, Yana Novikova, Rosa Babiy, Alexander Dsiadevich.

White God / Hungary (Director: Kornél Mundruczó, Screenwriters: Kata Wéber, Kornél Mundruczó, Viktória Petrányi) — When young Lili is forced to give up her beloved dog, Hagen, because its mixed-breed heritage is deemed “unfit” by The State, she and the dog begin a dangerous journey back toward each other. Cast: Zsófia Psotta, Sandor Zsótér, Szabolcs Thuróczy, Lili Monori, László Gálffi, Lili Horváth. U.S. Premiere

Wild Tales / Argentina, Spain (Director and screenwriter: Damián Szifrón) — Inequality, injustice, and the demands of the world cause stress and depression for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This is a movie about those people. Vulnerable in the face of an unpredictable reality, the characters of Wild Tales cross the thin line dividing civilization and barbarism. Cast: Ricardo Darín, Julieta Zyberberg, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Darío Grandinetti, Erica Rivas, Oscar Martínez.

Park City At Midnight

From horror flicks to comedies to works that defy any genre, these unruly films will keep you edge-seated and wide awake.

Cop Car / U.S.A. (Director: Jon Watts, Screenwriters: Christopher D. Ford, Jon Watts) — Two 10-year-old boys steal an abandoned cop car. Cast: Kevin Bacon, James Freedson-Jackson, Hays Wellford, Shea Whigham, Camryn Manheim. World Premiere

The Hallow / Ireland, United Kingdom (Director: Corin Hardy, Screenwriters: Corin Hardy, Felipe Marino) — When a London-based conservationist is sent to Ireland to survey an area of ancient forest believed by the superstitious locals to be hallowed ground, he unwittingly disturbs a horde of terrifying beings and must fight to protect his family. Cast: Joseph Mawle, Bojana Novakovic, Michael McElhatton, Michael Smiley. World Premiere

Hellions / Canada (Director: Bruce McDonald, Screenwriter: Pascal Trottier) — Teenage Dora Vogel must survive a Halloween night from hell when malevolent trick-or-treaters come knocking at her door. Cast: Chloe Rose, Robert Patrick, Rossif Sutherland, Rachel Wilson, Peter DaCunha, Luke Bilyk. World Premiere

It Follows / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: David Robert Mitchell) — After a strange sexual encounter, a teenager finds herself haunted by nightmarish visions and the inescapable sense that something is after her. Cast: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary, Olivia Luccardi, Lili Sepe.

Knock Knock / U.S.A. (Director: Eli Roth, Screenwriters: Eli Roth, Nicolas Lopez, Guillermo Amoedo) — Two beautiful young girls walk into a married man's life and turn a wild fantasy into his worst nightmare. Cast: Keanu Reeves, Lorenza Izzo, Ana De Armas, Aaron Burns, Ignacia Allamand, Colleen Camp. World Premiere

The Nightmare / U.S.A. (Director: Rodney Ascher) — A documentary-horror film exploring the phenomenon of sleep paralysis through the eyes of eight people. They (and a surprisingly large number of others) often find themselves trapped between the sleeping and awake realms, unable to move but aware of their surroundings while subject to disturbing sights and sounds. World Premiere

Reversal / U.S.A. (Director: J.M Cravioto, Screenwriters: Rock Shaink, Keith Kjornes) — A gritty psychological thriller about a young woman chained in a basement of a sexual predator and manages to escape. However, right when she has a chance for freedom, she unravels a hard truth and decides to turn the tables on her captor. Cast: Tina Ivlev, Richard Tyson, Bianca Malinowski. World Premiere

Turbo Kid / Canada, New Zealand (Directors: Anouk Whissell, Francois Simard, Yoann-Karl Whissell, Screenwriters: Anouk Whissell, Francois Simard, Yoann-Karl Whissell) — In a post-apocalyptic future, The Kid, an orphaned outcast, meets a mysterious girl. They become friends until Zeus, the sadistic leader of the Wasteland, kidnaps her. The Kid must face his fears, and journey to rid the Wasteland of evil and save the girl. Cast: Munro Chambers, Laurence Leboeuf, Michael Ironside, Aaron Jeffery, Edwin Wright. World Premiere

New Frontier Films

The Forbidden Room / Canada (Directors: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Screenwriters: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Robert Kotyk) — A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love. Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, Caroline Dhavernas, Roy Dupuis, Udo Kier, Charlotte Rampling, Karine Vanasse. World Premiere

Liveforever / Colombia, Mexico (Director: Carlos Moreno, Screenwriters: Alberto Ferreras, Alonso Torres, Carlos Moreno) — Driven by the music and dancing she finds along the way, a teenager leaves home willing to try anything her provocative and tolerant city has to offer, even if she burns out in the process. Inspired by the best-selling novel "Que viva la música" by Andres Caicedo. Cast: Paulina Davila, Alejandra Avila, Luis Arrieta, Juan Pablo Barragan, Nelson Camayo, Christian Tappan. World Premiere

The Royal Road / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Jenni Olson) — This cinematic essay, a defense of remembering, offers up a primer on the Spanish colonization of California and the Mexican American War alongside intimate reflections on nostalgia, butch identity and Alfred Hitchcock'sVertigo — all against a contemplative backdrop of 16mm urban California landscapes. Cast: Jenni Olson, Tony Kushner. World Premiere

Sam Klemke's Time Machine / Australia (Director: Matthew Bate) — Sam Klemke has filmed and narrated 50 years of his life, creating a strange and intimate portrait of what it means to be human. World Premiere

Station to Station / U.S.A. (Director: Doug Aitken) — Station to Station is composed of 60 individual one-minute films featuring different artists, musicians, places, and perspectives. This revolutionary feature-length film reveals a larger narrative about modern creativity. World Premiere

Things of the Aimless Wanderer / Rwanda, United Kingdom (Director and screenwriter: Kivu Ruhorahoza) — A white man meets a black girl, then she disappears. The white man tries to understand what happened to her while also trying to finish a travelogue. Things of the Aimless Wanderer is a film about the sensitive topic of relations between “locals” and Westerners, about paranoia, mistrust, and misunderstandings. Cast: Justin Mullikin, Grace Nikuze, Ramadhan Bizimana, Eliane Umuhire, Wesley Ruzibiza, Matt Ray Brown. World Premiere

New Frontier Installations

1979 Revolution Game

Artists: Navid Khonsari, Vassiliki Khonsari

1979 Revolution Game presents an innovative approach to non-fiction storytelling. Designed to engage players with an immersive "on the ground" experience of the Iranian Revolution, the game integrates an emotionally impactful narrative with interactive moral choices and intuitive touchscreen gameplay while remaining true to history.

Assent

Artist: Oscar Raby

This immersive documentary uses virtual reality technology to put the user in the footsteps of Director Oscar Raby's father, who in 1973 was a 22-year-old army officer stationed in the north of Chile, on the day when the Caravan of Death came to his regiment.

Birdly

Artist: Max Rheiner

Flying is one of the oldest dreams of humankind. Birdly is an experiment to capture this dream, to simulate the experience of being a bird from a first-person perspective. This embodiment is conducted through a full-body virtual reality setup.

Dérive

Artist: François Quévillon

This interactive installation uses the audience’s body motions and positions to explore 3-D reconstructions of urban and natural spaces that are transformed according to live environmental data, including meteorological and astronomical phenomena.

Evolution of Verse

Artist: Chris Milk

Chris Milk, working with visual effects powerhouse Digital Domain and virtual reality production company Vrse.works, has created this photo-realistic CGI-rendered 3-D virtual reality film that takes the viewer on a journey from beginning to new beginning.

Kaiju Fury!

Artist: Ian Hunter

A dark energy experiment leads to a devastating attack by monstrous Kaiju, and you are standing at ground zero — all in 360-degree, stereoscopic 3-D cinematic virtual reality. You will "be there" as the beasts lay waste to a crumbling city and humanity makes its last stand. Cast: Susie Abromeit, Bill Lippincott, Daniel Martin, Brian Dodge, Vincient Chiantelli.

Paradise

Artist: Pleix

Paradise is certainly not paradisiacal if you look at it through our eyes. But neither is it totally devoid of humor, melancholy and absurdity. Perhaps it is first and foremost life as it is, and then a touch exaggerated in the digital overdrive.

Perspective; Chapter I: The Party

Artists: Rose Troche, Morris May

A young college woman attends a party with the intention of shedding her "shy girl" persona. At the same party, a young man is after a similar reinvention. They meet, drink, and misinterpreted signals turn into things that cannot be undone. Virtual reality simulators let viewers experience both characters. Cast: Tabitha Morella, Caleb Thomas, Zachary Zagoria, Anna Grace Barlow.

Possibilia

Artists: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

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