Sundance 2022 - Recap with Milton Guillén

[February 3, 2022] In this episode, we recap some of the films we encountered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival with special guest Milton Guillén - an award-winning filmmaker, a faculty member at CalArts, and a programmer at the Camden International Film Festival.

Films we discussed include:

4:58 FIRE OF LOVE by Sara Dosa
9:12 ALL THAT BREATHES by Shaunak Sen
15:53 WE MET IN VIRTUAL REALITY by Joe Hunting
25:38 DOS ESTACIONES by Juan Pablo Gonzalez
29:58 I DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE by Reid Davenport

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MILTON GUILLÉN, FEATURED FILMMAKER AND PROGRAMMER

Milton Guillén is an award-winning Nicaraguan filmmaker, editor, and the senior programmer for the Camden International Film Festival in Maine, USA. His work explores the cinematic intersections of radical collaborative non-fictions and political dreamscapes. Milton’s films have screened globally at CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, DOK Leipzig, Rooftop Films, DMZ, and more.

In 2017, his debut feature, an interactive choose-your-own-adventure film, The Maribor Uprisings, received the Society for Visual Anthropology’s Best Feature Award. Milton recently received support from the Tribeca Film Institute and ITVS.

He also was named a North Star fellow at the Points North Institute, a MediaMaker Fellow at Bay Area Video Coalition, a Kartemquin Diverse Voices in Documentary, and is the recipient of several international artists’ residencies and grants. He currently oscillates between Maine, Los Angeles, and Costa Rica.