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Sundance 2014: young filmmakers in focus

A series focusing on young film makers at the 2014 Sundance film festival, produced with the support of Airbnb. Find out more about their contest for young filmmakers here

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  • Obvious Child

    Sundance festival 2014: five young film-makers to watch

    These young directors are turning heads with original scripts and winsome movies that manage to escape being twee (mostly)

  • Dear White People Simien

    Dear White People director – we're definitely not a post-racial society

    Justin Simien, director of Dear White People, tells the Guardian his film is a social commentary on the ‘new American black experience’
  • justin simien

    Dear White People director: promoting and crowdfunding

    Justin Simien tells the Guardian he would definitely use crowdfunding to fund another film
  • Dear White People Simien

    Dear White People director: every idea for a film will 'fail before it succeeds'

    Ahead of the Sundance premiere of his satire about black students at an Ivy League school, Justin Simien shares advice
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