She may not be a Quentin Tarantino, or a Steven Soderbergh, but director Dee Rees did not disappoint with her first Sundance Film Festival premiere Pariah. Nor was my first impression of Sundance Film Festival disappointed either. Pariah, which began as a short 3 years ago also played at Sundance, and was backed by Dee Rees NYU film professor, Spike Lee. Pariah defined as one that is despised or reject; an outcast opened with a powerful quote by Audre Lorde “Wherever the bird with no feet flew she found trees with no limbs. (more…)