The United States has not passed a major federal law to regulate the safety of ingredients in personal care products since 1938. This has led to more than 80,000 chemicals allowed on the market in the products we use every day—sunscreen and bubble bath for our children, men’s shaving […]
It’s been five years since the Future Filmmakers Forum was initiated at the Sun Valley Film Festival. Since its inception, the Forum has seen a great deal of lights, camera, and action from burgeoning young filmmakers attending schools in the Wood River Valley and across the nation. Peter Burke […]
It’s no wonder the Sun Valley Film Festival committee bestowed its Rising Star Award on Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. Presented to a burgeoning artist whose dynamic body of work positions them as a breakthrough talent in film and television, the 31-year-old artist fits the description to a tee. Since graduating Yale […]
The Vision Award is presented annually to an artist and visionary whose creative body of work carves out an exceptional place in the media landscape. It’s hard to find anyone who fits this bill better than Paltrow. For a short list of her accomplishments: in 1998, she starred in the […]
When Sun Valley Film Festival founders and organizers Teddy Grennan and Emily Granville put their heads together to devise the Screenwriters Lab, this year presented by Variety, the couple created the hidden crown jewel IN the Festival experience. Bringing award-winning and talented film directors, producers, writers, and actors as well […]
Being a woman today, particularly in Hollywood, can often be polarizing, resulting in the cognitive dissonance of trying to be beautiful without being overly sexual, smart without being a know-it-all, powerful without being perceived as bossy or difficult. Kate Bosworth—actress, producer, and activist—manages to be completely badass, honest, and outspoken […]
Two nights before I interviewed Chris Douridas, I found myself at a local watering hole that has a reputation, at times, for an infuriatingly long jukebox queue. When this happens, all you can do is pray that the people ahead of you know their music. On this particular night, I’d […]
From an adrift 20-something on Girls to an ageless boy who can fly in Peter Pan to the lead in the horror film Get Out, actress Allison Williams has certainly shown range in the short span of her career. It is this range that has made 28-year-old Allison the Sun […]