For nearly four decades, New Yorkers have been turning to ND/NF to discover, well, the title pretty much says it all.. >>

Though it didn’t win a thing, one of the most impressive of the competition’s dramas was Tanya Hamilton’s NIGHT CATCHES US..>>

Interspersed with archival, almost mythical footage of the Black Panthers during their heyday, Tanya Hamilton’s drama, set in post-Panther Philadelphia, is a sober, surprisingly quiet look at how the past never really goes away..>>

I can’t tell if I’m grading on a curve here, because director Tanya Hamilton took a full decade to get this smoldering, low-budget tragic romance made and because its subject – urban America in the Jimmy Carter era — lies close to my own experience and my own heart..>>

“I wrote this thing in 1999,” says writer-director Tanya Hamilton, sitting in the back of the McCarthey Gallery on Main Street, of her observant, accomplished debut, NIGHT CATCHES US..>>

The King of Prussia-shot drama Blue Valentine, starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, was sold to the Harvey Weinstein Co., and the Philly-shot drama NIGHT CATCHES US, from first-time director Tanya Hamilton, won plaudits for its depiction of 1976 Philly and for its soundtrack, featuring The Roots..>>

It's always a pleasant surprise then to encounter a dramatic movie here that grapples with larger historical forces, that blends the personal and the political. That's precisely what THE IMPERIALISTS ARE STILL ALIVE! and NIGHT CATCHES US - two of this year's most interesting dramatic-competition titles - set out to do..>>

Writer-director Tanya Hamilton has spent over a decade working on the film, and the effort shows in her detailed recreation of a black Philadelphia neighborhood in 1976..>>

Here are the ones that captured my attention: In the Dramatic Competition: Tanya Hamilton’s feature film debut, NIGHT CATCHES US, peels back the intricately layered lives of former Black Panthers to reveal the personal contradictions tugging away at political convictions..>>

Hamilton conjures the period in vivid detail and it's an important time from African-American history that hasn't been overdone on film. Mackie and Washington, two of the best young actors working today, are exceptional, especially when they get a chance to share the screen..>>

This is a ’simple’ film in the most positive sense. The story is deep but easy to follow, the acting excellent, the direction impressive and the scripting tight..>>

NIGHT CATCHES US in some ways is a small movie, a quiet drama about two people trying to fall in love amid the fallout of the Black Panther movement. But for Tanya Hamilton, who developed this project as part of the Sundance Labs, it’s a 10-year labor of love that’s finally found a well-deserved premiere at the Sundance Film Festival..>>

And this weekend, the 31-year-old New Orleans native is heading to the Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of NIGHT CATCHES US, a drama about a former Black Panther (Mackie) who reunites with an old friend (Kerry Washington)..>>

The last year's been good to Anthony Mackie. Not only did he star in one of the most acclaimed and awarded movies of 2008, Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq War thriller The Hurt Locker, but he's got NIGHT CATCHES US at Sundance, where he acts opposite Kerry Washington as a former Black Panther..>>

The actress, who has not one - but two! - films debuting at this year's Sundance Film Festival, tells BettyConfidential about her Gossip Girl-style high school years, her ties to the White House, and which female celeb is dying to make out with her..>>

The writer-director’s debut feature film, about what’s left in the wake of the black
power movement, delves into her interest in ‘the price you pay for dedication to a
political movement.’..>>

NIGHT CATCHES US is part love story between two people with a complicated history, part examination of an era just after a surge of social change that was stymied, leaving its hopefuls adrift and uncertain..>>

No doubt writer and director Tanya Hamilton's film NIGHT CATCHES US, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this weekend, is going to be the film we are most anxious to see and discuss as Precious was a few months ago..>>

Bottom Line: An incisive look at a neglected piece of American history both informs and entertains..>>

Director Tanya Hamilton’s NIGHT CATCHES US is one of the many in the Sundance awards hunt under the U.S. Dramatic Competition banner..>>

The last two days have been a symphony of interviews and press meetings. The day of the premiere our PR firm (Fatdot - a great PR firm by the way!) shuffled Tanya (our director) and I off to TV interviews, photo shoots and a taping for the Sundance Channel, among others..>>

Also of interest is NIGHT CATCHES US, Tanya Hamilton's debut drama about former Black Panthers in 1976 Philadelphia. It looks gorgeous. It's deeply intelligent, and where Kerry Washington and Anthony Mackie are
concerned, it's sexy..>>

Critically-acclaimed actor Anthony Mackie tells us how he chooses a role and why, in particular, he wanted to star in Tanya Hamilton’s potent first feature NIGHT CATCHES US, about the Black Panthers in Philadelphia..>>

I talked to Mackie before the festival started (and before I’d seen NIGHT CATCHES US) about his ongoing career in indie films, his personal attachment to the history of the Black Panthers, and working with Matt Damon on his next movie, The Adjustment Bureau..>>

The Reviews Are In for Tanya Hamilton’s NIGHT CATCHES US, starring Anthony Mackie and Kerry Washington as reunited Black Panthers: Boston Globe’s Wesley Morris is disappointed, not by the film, but by the attendance for its premiere and calls it, “the movie I wanted — either a wildly ambitious work or an intensely intimate one. The movie we have is weighted with academic import.”..>>

I was disappointed to not see a mad press fest at the red carpet event for director Tanya Hamilton’s film NIGHT CATCHES US..>>

A politically driven, not to mention race driven, film like NIGHT CATCHES US comes at an all too perfect time in our nation, as many look to a future of hope and change in this Obama-age of living..>>

The past haunts two former soldiers in the Black Panther movement, in this soulful drama by writer-director Tanya Hamilton..>>

Producer Ron Simons and Director Tanya Hamilton discuss Tanya’s new film, Night Catches Us with Derrick Ashong..>>

Derrick will also be joined by actor Jamie Hector and director Tanya Hamilton of NIGHT CATCHES US..>>

Director and writer Tanya Hamilton has nabbed some big industry names for her debut NIGHT CATCHES US. The film stars Anthony Mackie (riding high on the success of "The Hurt Locker"), Independent Spirit Award nominee Kerry Washington, and features original music by The Roots..>>

It wouldn't be my Sundance list with some kind of period piece. This one is set in 1976, stars Anthony Mackie and Kerry Washington (two great young talents) and follows the story of a neighborhood where the Black Panthers
are thriving..>>

As the 2010 Sundance Film Festival beings today, Kerry Washington's accomplished the the indie cred-burnishing feat of having two buzzy films here. The first is Tanya Hamilton's Night Catches Us, where Washington reunites with her She Hate Me costar Anthony Mackie in the story of two ex-Black Panthers..>>

What a trip so far! At every stage of the process from casting to pre-production to wrapping to editing, I kept saying: "Well now at least, the hard part is done." I now realize the error of my ways and just shut the hell up!..>>

This is nothing more than a gut feeling. Director Tanya Hamilton has worked with the Sundance labs as a screenwriter, Mackie and Washington are both enormous talents, and the subject matter is both fascinating and
under-explored..>>

While I don’t expect Tanya Hamilton’s Sundance 2010 feature “Night Catches Us” - set in Philadelphia’s African-
American community, circa 1976 - to replicate the “Precious” phenomenon, I can guarantee it’ll get a lot of attention..>>

I have no idea how they found the time between playing for Jimmy Fallon, producing their heroes and working on their next album, but hometown boys The Roots wrote the soundtrack for this coming-of-age story set in race-torn Philadelphia in 1978..>>

Herwitz has picked up sales rights to Tanya Hamilton's Dramatic Competition film NIGHT CATCHES US starring Anthony Mackie as pivotal former figure in the Black Panther movement who returns to his neighbourhood to settle the past. Kerry Washington also stars..>>

Pulling off a successful period piece on a low budget is a tricky proposition, but that didn't dissuade first-time director Tanya Hamilton. Set in the Bicentennial summer of 1976, Hamilton's film concerns an ex-Black Panther who returns to his Philadelphia neighborhood in hopes of rebuilding his life..>>

I haven’t heard an awful lot about “Night Catches Us,” but researching it for this post has landed it squarely in the center of my radar..>>

And speaking of making out, that’s exactly what Washington got to do with hot stuff Hurt Locker star Anthony Mackie in NIGHT CATCHES US, an independent drama premiering later this month at the Sundance Film Festival..>>

Philly director TANYA HAMILTON dishes on her feature film debut NIGHT CATCHES US and the drama’s trek to the upcoming Sundance Film Festival..>>

“NIGHT CATCHES US” – Directed and written by Tanya Hamilton, which focuses on the eventful return of a young man to the race-torn Philadelphia neighborhood…>>

The film, from the first-time director Tanya Hamilton, is an ambitious period piece set in 1978 Philadelphia; a young man returns to the race-torn neighborhood where he had come of age during the Black Power movement…>>

This year, Philadelphia makes its presence known with Tanya Hamilton's NIGHT CATCHES US-previously known as STRINGBEAN AND MARCUS-starring Anthony Mackie and Kerry Washington…>>

While promoting his latest feature, THE HURT LOCKER, Anthony Mackie told Black Voices that he will reunite with Kerry Washington in his next film, NIGHT CATCHES US. The two starred in Spike Lee's 2004 film, SHE HATE ME. Tanya Hamilton, who developed the project with the Sundance Institute, wrote the script and will direct the project…>>

CBS affiliate Channel 3 interviewed Tanya Hamilton on location in Germantown, Pennsylvania, during the filming of NIGHT CATCHES US. "It's a very small film about a couple of former black panthers who are trying to pull their lives back together"… >>

SimonSays Entertainment, a new multi-faceted entertainment company based in New York, has just completed principal photography on its first project, the feature film NIGHT CATCHES US…>>

It's called NIGHT CATCHES US—previously known as STRINGBEAN AND MARCUS! It stars Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Jamie Hector, and Wendell Pierce…>>