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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on February 17, 2009 under Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, Gasparilla Film Festival, Kara Film Festival, Philadelphia Film Festival (Philly Fest), Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival | Be the First to Comment

“Firaaq” Wins Pakistan’s Kara Film Festival

Bollywood actress Nandita Das’ directorial debut “Firaaq”, based on the 2002 sectarian violence in Gujarat, won the best feature film award at Pakistan’s Kara Film Festival. The list of winners. Read more …

Sundance Film Festival Director heads to Tribeca Film Festival

Tribeca announced on Tuesday morning that Geoffrey Gilmore, the long-time director of the Sundance Film Festival, has agreed to become the chief creative officer of Tribeca Enterprises, which owns and operates the Tribeca Film Festival, among other ventures. Mr. Gilmore, one of the independent film world’s best known executives, had been with Sundance for 19 years and helped turn it into what is arguably the defining annual event in the independent film world.  Read more …

Gasparilla International Film Festival to honor Armand Assante

Emmy Award winner and four-time Golden Globe nominee, Armand Assante, will receive the Gasparilla Career Achievement Award for Excellence in Film on March 1st at the Gasparilla International Film Festival.  The award will be presented at a reception held in his honor at the Dolce Vita Lounge at 5:00 p.m., immediately following the screening of one of his films, California Dreamin’ at Channelside Cinemas.  The long-time actor will also grace the screen in another film festival feature, The Steam Experiment, starring Val Kilmer, which is a first-time public screening of the film.

Actor Jon Voight to attend Beloit International Film Festival

Academy Award winning actor Jon Voight and actor Kevin Farley will be in Wisconsin at the Beloit International Film Festival. They appeared in “An American Carol,” a comedy directed by Milwaukee-native David Zucker.

Kevin Farley, brother of the late Chris Farley, will be at the showings Thursday at La Casa Grande and Saturday at Wilson Theater on the Beloit College Campus. Voight, the father of actress Angelina Jolie, will only be at the Wilson Theater showing. Read more …

TLA Entertainment and the Philadelphia Film Society Still Fighting Over Philadelphia Film Festival

A fight between TLA Entertainment owner Ray Murray, who has overseen the annual springtime festival since 2001, and members of the Philadelphia Film Society, a nonprofit that co-promotes the festival, has led to Murray booking his own festival. Called Philadelphia CineFest, the event will run March 26 through April 5. The PFS is hoping to stage a festival under the original name either in the spring or fall.  Read more …

FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival returns  to the Hippodrome State Theatre In Gainesville, Florida, from February 20-26

FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, returns with its fifth annual international film festival at the Hippodrome State Theatre In Gainesville, Florida, from February 20-26, 2009.

The opening weekend of the festival (Feb. 20-22) will showcase 8 programs of experimental short films and video that comprise the competitive section of the festival. After that opening weekend, FLEX will shift gears for the remaining days of the festival (Feb. 24-26) with a series of special events and a number of feature-length films.  Read more …

2009 Sundance Film Festival Winners

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The jury and audience award-winners of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival were announced tonight at the Festival’s closing Awards Ceremony.

For the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, 118 feature-length films were selected including 91 world premieres, 16 North American premieres, and 5 U.S. premieres representing 21 countries with 42 first-time filmmakers, including 28 in competition. These films were selected from 3,661 feature- length film submissions composed of 1,905 U.S. and 1,756 international feature-length films.

The 2009 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners:

The Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Documentary was presented to We Live in Public, directed by Ondi Timoner. The film portrays the story of the Internet’s revolutionary impact on human interaction as told through the eyes of maverick web pioneer, Josh Harris, and his transgressive art project that shocked New York.

The Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Dramatic was presented to Push (pictured): Based on the novel by Sapphire, directed by Lee Daniels and written by Damien Paul. The film tells the redemptive story of Precious Jones, a young girl in Harlem struggling to overcome tremendous obstacles and discover her own voice.

The World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary was presented to Rough Aunties, directed by Kim Longinotto. Fearless, feisty and unwavering, the ‘Rough Aunties’ protect and care for the abused, neglected and forgotten children of Durban, South Africa. United Kingdom

The World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to The Maid (La Nana), directed by Sebastián Silva. When her mistress brings on another servant to help with the chores, a bitter and introverted maid wreaks havoc on the household. Chile

The Audience Awards are presented to both a dramatic and documentary film in four Competition categories as voted by Sundance Film Festival audiences. The 2009 Sundance Film Festival Audience Awards are presented by Honda.

The Audience Award presented by Honda: U.S. Documentary was presented to The Cove, directed by Louie Psihoyos. The horrors of a secret cove nestled off a small, coastal village in Japan are revealed by a group of activists.

The Audience Award presented by Honda: U.S. Dramatic was presented to Push: Based on the novel by Sapphire, directed by Lee Daniels and written by Damien Paul. The film tells the redemptive story of Precious Jones, a young girl in Harlem struggling to overcome tremendous obstacles and discover her own voice.

The World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary was presented to Afghan Star, directed by Havana Marking. After 30 years of war and Taliban rule, Pop Idol has come to television in Afghanistan: millions are watching and voting for their favorite singer. Marking’s film follows the dramatic stories of four contestants as they risk their lives to sing. Afghanistan/United Kingdom

The World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic was presented to An Education, directed by Lone Scherfig from a screenplay by Nick Hornby. In the early 60s, a sharp 16-year-old with sights set on Oxford meets a handsome older man whose sophistication enraptures and sidetracks both her and her parents. United Kingdom

Directing Awards recognize excellence in directing for dramatic and documentary features.

The Directing Award: U.S. Documentary was presented to El General and director Natalia Almada. As great-granddaughter of President Plutarco Eliás Calles, one of Mexico’s most controversial revolutionary figures, the filmmaker paints an intimate portrait of Mexico.

The Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic was presented to Sin Nombre, written and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. Filmmaker Fukunaga’s first-hand experiences with Mexican immigrants seeking the promise of the U.S. form the basis of this epic Spanish-language dramatic thriller.

The World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary was presented to Afghan Star, directed by Havana Marking. After 30 years of war and Taliban rule, Pop Idol has come to television in Afghanistan: millions are watching and voting for their favorite singer. Marking’s film follows the dramatic stories of four contestants as they risk their lives to sing. Afghanistan/United Kingdom

The World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic was presented to Five Minutes of Heaven,United Kingdom/Ireland directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel from a screenplay by Guy Hibbert. Two men from the same town but from different sides of the Irish political divide discover that the past is never dead.

The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award was presented to Nicholas Jasenovec and Charlyne Yi for Paper Heart. Even though performer Charlyne Yi doesn’t believe in love, she bravely embarks on a quest to discover its true nature - a journey that takes on surprising urgency when she meets unlikely fellow traveler, actor Michael Cera.

The World Cinema Screenwriting Award was presented to Five Minutes of Heaven, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel from a screenplay by Guy Hibbert. Two men from the same town but from different sides of the Irish political divide discover that the past is never dead. United Kingdom/Ireland

The U.S. Documentary Editing Award was presented to Sergio. Directed by Greg Barker and edited by Karen Schmeer, the film examines the role of the United Nations and the international community through the life and experiences of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the U.N.’s High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The World Cinema Documentary Editing Award was presented to Burma VJ. Directed by Anders Østergaard and edited by Janus Billeskov Jansen and Thomas Papapetros. The film takes place in September 2007 as Burmese journalists risk life imprisonment to report from inside their sealed-off country. Denmark

The Excellence in Cinematography Awards honor exceptional cinematography in both dramatic and documentary categories.

The Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Documentary was presented to The September Issue. With unprecedented access, director R.J. Cutler, cinematographer Bob Richman and their crew shot for nine months to capture editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and her team preparing the 2007 Vogue September issue, widely accepted as the “fashion bible” for the year’s trends.

The Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Dramatic was presented to Sin Nombre, written and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. Cinematographer: Adriano Goldman. Filmmaker Fukunaga’s first-hand experiences with Mexican immigrants seeking the promise of the U.S. form the basis of this epic Spanish-language dramatic thriller.

The World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary was presented to Big River Man,U.S.A./United Kingdom John Maringouin’s documentary about at an overweight, wine-swilling Slovenian world-record-holding endurance swimmer who resolves to brave the mighty Amazon in nothing but a Speedo.

The World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic was presented to An Education, directed by Lone Scherfig from a screenplay by Nick Hornby. Cinematographer: John De Borman. In the early 1960s, a sharp 16-year-old girl with sights set on Oxford meets a handsome older man whose sophistication enraptures and sidetracks both her and her parents. United Kingdom

A World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Originality was presented to Louise-Michel, directed by Benoit Delépine and Gustave de Kervern, about a group of disgruntled female French factory workers who, after the factory abruptly closes, pool their paltry compensation money to hire a hit man to knock off the corrupt executive behind the closure. France

A World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Documentary was presented to Tibet in Song directed by Ngawang Choephel. Through the story of Tibetan music, this film depicts the determined efforts of Tibetan people, both in Tibet and in exile, to preserve their unique cultural identity. Choephel served six years of an 18-year prison sentence for filming in Tibet. Tibet

A World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Acting was presented to Catalina Saavedra for her portrayal of a bitter and introverted maid in The Maid (La Nana). Chile

A Special Jury Prize: U.S. Documentary was presented to Good Hair, directed by Jeff Stilson, in which comedian Chris Rock travels the world to examine the culture of African-American hair and hairstyles.

A Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Independence was presented to Humpday, Lynn Shelton’s farcical comedy about straight male bonding gone a little too far.

A Special Jury Prize for Acting was presented to Mo’Nique for her portrayal of a mentally ill mother who both emotionally and physically imprisons her daughter in Push: Based on the novel by Sapphire.

The 2009 Jury Prize in U.S. Short Filmmaking was awarded to: Short Term 12, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. The jury also presented the International Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking to Lies, directed by Jonas Odell. Honorable Mentions in Short FilmmakingThe Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5, directed by Chema Garcia Ibarra; Protect You + Me, directed by Brady Corbet; Western Spaghetti, directed by PES; Jerrycan, directed by Julius Avery; Love You More, directed by Sam Taylor-Wood, I Live in the Woods, directed by Max Winston, Omelette, directed by Nadejda Koseva; and Treevenge, directed by Jason Eisener. were presented to

Adam, directed by Max Mayer, is the recipient of this year’s Alfred P. Sloan Prize. The Prize, which carries a $20,000 cash award to the filmmaker provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is presented to an outstanding feature film focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character.

Sundance Institute and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) also announced the winners of the 2009 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards honoring and supporting emerging filmmakers-one each from the United States, Japan, Europe and Latin America. The winning filmmakers and projects for 2009 are Diego Lerman, Ciencias Morales (Moral Sciences) from Argentina; David Riker, The Girl, from the United States; Qurata Kenji, Speed Girl from Japan; and Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Evolution from France.

2009 Sundance Film Festival Jury Prizes in Shorts Filmmaking

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The 2009 Sundance Film Festival announced earlier this week the jury prizes in shorts filmmaking based on outstanding achievement and merit. The Sundance Film Festival runs January 15-25, 2009 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. Full awards will be announced the evening of January 24th at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony at the Park City Racquet Club. Actress Jane Lynch will serve as Master of Ceremonies.

The 2009 Short Film jurors are Gerardo Naranjo (Director/Writer/Producer: Voy a explotar, Malachance, Perro Negro); Lou Taylor Pucci (Actor: Thumbsucker); and Sharon Swart (Variety).

The Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking was awarded to Short Term 12, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. The Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking was given to Lies, directed by Jonas Odell.  The Shorts Jury awarded Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking to The attack of the robots from Nebula-5, directed by Chema Garcia Ibarra; Protect You + Me, directed by Brady Corbet; Western Spaghetti, directed by PES; Jerrycan, directed by Julius Avery; Love You More, directed by Sam Taylor-Wood, I Live in the Woods, directed by Max Winston, Omelette, directed by Nadejda Koseva; and Treevenge, directed by Jason Eisener.

Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking

Short Term 12 (Director: Destin Daniel Cretton)-A film about kids and the grown-ups who hit them.

Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking

Lies/Sweden (Director: Jonas Odell)-Three perfectly true stories about lying. In three episodes based on documentary interviews we meet the burglar who, when found out, claims to be a moonlighting accountant, the boy who finds himself lying and confessing to a crime he didn’t commit and the woman whose whole life has been a chain of lies.

Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking

The attack of the robots from Nebula-5/Spain (Director: Chema García Ibarra)-”Almost” everybody is going to die very soon.

I Live In The Woods (Director: Max Winston)-A Woodsman’s fast-paced journey, fueled by happiness, slaughter, and a confrontation with America’s God.

Jerrycan/Australia (Director and Screenwriter: Julius Avery)-While attending a party, five bored kids decide to blow something up. A childhood game seals the fate of Nathan, who risks everything after he is bullied, and is forced to make a life and death decision.

Love You More/UK (Director: Sam Taylor-Wood; Screenwriter: Patrick Marber)-Two teenagers are drawn together by the Buzzcocks’ single ‘Love You More’ during the summer of 1978.

Omelette/Bulgaria (Director: Nadejda Koseva; Screenwriter: Georgi Gospodinov)-While a woman makes an omelette we learn how difficult it is to make ends meet.

Protect You + Me (Director: Brady Corbet)-A reminder of a long-forgotten event, combined with a challenging situation, provokes a man to extreme action.

Treevenge/Canada (Director: Jason Eisener; Screenwriter: Rob Cotterill)-Sometimes Christmas is worth crying over.

Western Spaghetti (Director: PES)-Everyday objects become delicious ingredients as we learn how to cook spaghetti through stop-motion.

This year the Festival’s Short Film Program was comprised of a record 96 short films from 5,632 submissions, from U.S. and international filmmakers. Submissions grew by 10% over last year.  Due to the strong submissions this year, the Shorts Program was expanded to accommodate the quality of work submitted.  The 2009 award winners and honorable mentions exemplify Sundance’s commitment to discovering new talent and accomplished storytelling and filmmaking.

Sundance Film Festival …. In The News

Posted by editor@vimooz.com on January 22, 2009 under Sundance Film Festival | Be the First to Comment

IFC Films acquires ‘Dead Snow’

IFC Films acquired U.S. distribution rights to the tongue-in-cheek Nazi zombie comedy “Dead Snow” at the Sundance Film Festival Wednesday. The Norwegian horror pic about medical student co-eds on a ski holiday who meet up with evil Nazi zombies premiered in the international narrative feature section.  Read more …

Rapper Lil Wayne bares his addiction to prescription cough syrup in “Tha Carter”

In “Tha Carter,”  the shockingly intimate documentary about him that premiered Saturday night at Sundance, superstar rapper Lil Wayne is laid bare in several different ways including his addiction to prescription cough syrup. Read more …

Comedian Amy Poehler’s “Spring Breakdown”

Comedian Amy Poehler’s film “Spring Breakdown” lightens the economic gloom shadowing the Sundance Film Festival, premiering despite itself having been rocked by the financial crisis. The comedy about three 30-something women who go on spring break — the wild annual vacation taken by U.S. college students — was made in 2006 but languished after its studio home Warner Independent shut down last year.  Read more …

IFC Films gets “In the Loop”

IFC Films has bought U.S. rights to Armando Iannucci’s comedy “In the Loop” hours before its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. “In the Loop” follows a British government minister who inadvertently supports a war on prime-time television. Read more …

Sundance Film Festival …. In The News

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Chris Rock’s “Good Hair”

“Good Hair,” one of 16 films in Sundance’s U.S. documentary competition, follows comedian Rock and his hilarious examination of the cultural pressures that prod blacks into costly, often painful methods to care for their hair.  Read more …

Sony Pictures Classics Gets “An Education”

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North American and Latin American rights for under $3 million to Lone Scherfig’s “An Education” after a heated bidding war. Written by Nick Hornby from a memoir by Lynn Barber, “An Education” stars Sundance “It Girl” Carey Mulligan as a 16-year-old British schoolgirl who falls hard for a charming older man played by Peter Sarsgaard. Dominic Cooper and Alfred Molina also star.  Read more …

Lionsgate goes for “The Winning Season”

Lionsgate has picked up North American and U.K. rights to James Strouse’s comedy “The Winning Season.”  The film stars Sam Rockwell as an alcoholic who becomes a high school basketball coach as part of his recovery.  Read more …

Fox Searchlight grabs “Adam”

Fox Searchlight acquired worldwide rights Monday to rookie writer-director Max Mayer’s “Adam” following the New York romance’s Sundance debut. Hugh Dancy (”Savage Grace”) plays a man with Asperger syndrome who falls in love with his neighbor, played by Rose Byrne (”Damages”). Read more …

Visit Films buys “The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle”

Visit Films has purchased worldwide rights to Sundance Spectrum film “The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle” - a surreal comedy about a male computer programmer who gets laid-off, begins working as a janitor, and becomes “quasi-pregnant” thanks to a bizarre experiment. Seattle filmmaker David Russo’s film premiered at Sundance on Monday.  Read more …

Mariah Carey’s “Push” is Getting Positive Reviews

Mariah Carey is getting positive reviews from critics who saw “Push” last weekend at the  Sundance Film Festival. Mariah Carey threw out her glamorous image to play a supporting role as a social worker who helps a sexually abused teen in the indie film “Push.”  “Push” was directed by Lee Daniels and based on the controversial, best-selling book by Sapphire (real name Ramona Lofton). Read more …

Sundance Film Festival …. In The News

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Sony Pictures picks up “Black Dynamite”

Sony Pictures scooped up the blaxploitation movie “Black Dynamite” for an estimated $2 million. The 1970s-set picture centers on a campy story of drugs, violence and a powerful, mysterious figure who goes by the name Black Dynamite.  Read more …

Magnolia Pictures goes for “Humpday”

Magnolia Pictures has reportedly spent mid-six figures for worldwide rights to Lynn Shelton’s “Humpday,” a lo-fi buddy comedy that stars Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard as two straight best friends who decide to film themselves having sex for an art project.  Read more …

IFC to Partner With the SXSW Film Festival

Maybe not the best place to do this… At the Sundance Film Festival, IFC, Independent Film Channel, announced a partnership with the South By Southwest film festival.   The channel announced that it was partnering with SXSW to show five of that festival’s films on an IFC on-demand service. Read more …

Rapper 50 Cent Launches film company “Cheetah Vision”

Rapper 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, announced at Sundance Film Festival, the launch of his film production company, Cheetah Vision.  He said Cheetah Vision had already bought eight scripts and among the first to be produced would be “The Dance,” starring himself and Nicolas Cage.  Read more …

“Y Tu Mamá También’s” Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna reunite in “Rudo y Cursi”

Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna - the teens from the 2001 “Y Tu Mamá También”- are together again as brothers in “Rudo y Cursi,” a Spanish-language comedy about the pitfalls of fame  is reportedly winning over the  Sundance Film Festival crowd. Recognizing “Rudo’s” commercial potential, Sony Pictures Classics grabbed it up before the festival’s start.  Read more …

Vogue Magazine’s “The September Issue” to air on A&E

A documentary about the fashion world is causing some of the biggest buzz at Sundance Film Festival. “The September Issue,” R.J. Cutler’s two-year-long project about the making of Vogue’s September 2007 edition, oversold at its Friday premiere and three public screenings.  The 89-minute film will air this year on A&E at a yet to be determined date.  Read more …

Jim Carrey goes gay in “I Love You Phillip Morris”

Carrey plays Steve, a Texas family man and lawman who bolts out of the closet into a life of, well, everything. He makes up for the lost years of a straight-arrow, heterosexual life by plunging headfirst into multiple lives as con man and lover. Based on a real-life character, Steve was abandoned at birth, and in the film’s glib psychology, he’s undertaking to find his real identity.  Read more …

Sundance Film Festival …. In The News

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Senator grabs “Brooklyn’s Finest”

Senator Distribution snapped up North American rights to Antoine Fuqua’s cop drama “Brooklyn’s Finest” on Saturday evening in the first major deal at Sundance Film Festival.  Read more …

Vogue Magazine documentary “The September Issue”

If you’re really very curious as to what happens day to day at Vogue magazine, you’re in luck. “The September Issue,” a documentary chronicling eight months inside Vogue’s offices working on Vogue’s biggest issue of the year (that would be the September issue), premiered last weekend at the Sundance Film Festival. Read more …

“Prom Night in Mississippi”

In 1997, Morgan Freeman offered to pay for all the arrangements if the high school in Charleston would integrate the prom. No one took him up on the offer until a decade later, when Saltzman approached Freeman to see if the offer was still on the table. It was, and a documentary about Charleston’s first integrated prom was created. Prom Night in Mississippi, directed by Paul Saltzman, competes in the World Documentary Competition.  Read more …

2009 Sundance Film Festival Announces Jury Members

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The 2009 Sundance Film Festival announced the members of the six juries awarding prizes at the Festival, which runs January 15-25, 2009 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.  Awards will be announced the evening of January 25 at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony at the Park City Racquet Club.

The six juries for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival are:

Dramatic Jury

• Virginia Madsen - (Actress: Sideway, Number 23, The Rainmaker, David Lynch’s Dune)
• Scott McGehee - (Producer/Director/Writer: Uncertainty, The Deep End, Suture)
• Maud Nadler - (Producer/HBO Films: Relative Values)
• Mike White - (Writer/Director/Producer: Year of the Dog)
• Boaz Yakin - (Director/Writer/Producer: Fresh, Remember the Titans, Hostel)

Documentary Jury

• Patrick Creadon - (Cinematographer/Director/Writer: Wordplay, I.O.U.S.A., Flow: For the Love of Water)
• Carl Deal - (Director/Producer: Trouble the Water)
• Andrea Meditch - (Executive Producer/Producer: Man on Wire, In the Shadow of the Moon)
• Sam Pollard - (Editor: When the Levees Broke, Jungle Fever, Mo’ Better Blues)
• Marina Zenovich - (Director/Producer/Writer: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired)

World Dramatic Jury

• Colin Brown (New York) - (Editor: Screen International)
• Christine Jeffs (New Zealand) - (Director/Writer: Rain, Stroke; Director: Sunshine Cleaning)
• Vibeke Windelov (Denmark) - (Producer: Dogville, Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark)

World Documentary Jury

• Gillian Armstrong (Australia) - (Director: Death Defying Acts, Oscar & Lucinda, Little Women)
• Thom Powers (New York) - (Documentary Programmer, Toronto International Film Festival)
• Hubert Sauper (France) - (Director/Producer: Darwin’s Nightmare)

Shorts Jury
The Short Film Jury will present the Jury Prizes in Short Filmmaking to one U.S. and one international short film playing at the Festival, as well as Honorable Mentions based on outstanding achievement and merit. Shorts Awards will be announced at the Sundance Film Festival Shorts Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, January 20th.

• Gerardo Naranjo - (Director/Writer/Producer: Voy a explotar, Malachance, Perro Negro)
• Lou Taylor Pucci - (Actor: Thumbsucker)
• Sharon Swart - (Reporter: Variety)

Alfred P. Sloan Jury
Provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Prize is presented to the writer and director of an outstanding feature film focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer, or mathematician as a major character.

• Fran Bagenal - (Professor of Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado)
• Rodney Brooks - (Panasonic Professor of Robotics, MIT Computer Science & AI Lab)
• Ray Gesteland - (Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah)
• Jeffrey Nachmanoff - (Writer: The Day After Tomorrow; Writer/Director: Traitor)
• Alex Rivera - (Director/Writer/Editor: Sleep Dealer)

Jury Awards
The competitive categories of the Sundance Film Festival have introduced audiences to some of the most intriguing independent films and filmmakers of the past 25 years. At the 2009 Festival, Grand Jury Prizes will be awarded to one U.S. dramatic film and one U.S. documentary film screening in competition; World Cinema Jury Prizes will be awarded to one world dramatic film and one world documentary film screening in competition.
In addition to the top jury prizes, all films in Competition are eligible to receive a range of awards, including: Directing Awards, Excellence in Cinematography Awards, and Documentary Editing Awards. The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award will be presented to a U.S. film by the Dramatic Competition Jury, with the World Cinema Dramatic Competition Jury presenting the World Cinema Screenwriting Award. All films in Competition are eligible for Sundance Film Festival Audience Awards as selected by Film Festival audiences.

Special Jury Prizes
The documentary and dramatic juries may, at their discretion, select films from each of the Festival’s four competitions to receive special recognition for their unique vision or excellence.

2009 Sundance Film Festival Adds “The Winning Season” to the Lineup

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Sundance Institute announced today the addition of THE WINNING SEASON to the films screening at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival in the out-of-competition Premieres section. THE WINNING SEASON will have its world premiere on Monday, January 19 at 8:30 p.m. at the Library Center Theatre in Park City. The 25th Sundance Film Festival runs January 15-25, 2009 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah.

Directed by Jim Strouse (Lonesome Jim, Grace is Gone), The Winning Season stars Sam Rockwell (pictured) as an adult misfit brought on to coach his local girl’s high school basketball team. Cast: Emma Roberts, Rob Corddry, Shareeka Epps and Emily Rios.

“We are thrilled to welcome back to the Festival Jim Strouse who once again displays his talent for storytelling in this superbly witty film,” said Geoffrey Gilmore, Director, Sundance Film Festival. “The Winning Season is a completely gratifying cinematic drama marked by sharp dialogue and perfectly toned performances.”

For the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, 118 feature-length films were selected including 91 world premieres, 16 North American premieres and 5 U.S. premieres representing 21 countries with 42 first-time filmmakers, including 28 in the non-competition categories. These films were selected from 3,661 feature film submissions composed of 1,905 U.S. and 1,756 international feature-length films. [via]

2009 Sundance Film Festival Announce the Festival’s Short Film Program

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Sundance Institute announced today the program of short films selected to screen at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. This year the Festival’s Short Film Program comprises a record 96 short films from 5,632 submissions, from U.S. and international filmmakers. Submissions grew by 10% over last year. The 2009 Sundance Film Festival runs January 15-25 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah.

“The shorts program at Sundance has long been a place to discover new talent, and this year’s directors are no exception,” said John Cooper, Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming. “We are seeing very accomplished filmmaking, with some of the most entertaining and engaging films in the Festival.”

“It is indicative of the quality of the work that we programmed a record 96 films this year. The program is terrific from top to bottom, with a nice balance of different genres, tones and styles,” said Trevor Groth, Sundance Film Festival Senior Programmer. “From clever animation and really funny performances to provocative subject matters and completely bizarre imagery and stories, this year’s filmmakers are truly original storytellers. We are thrilled to be able to present thi in theatres at the Festival and a selection of thi online through iTunes for those who can’t make it to Park City.”

Short films screen in Festival theatres prior to a feature film or as part of one of the Festival’s eight short film programs. During the Festival, a Short Film Jury awards prizes based on outstanding achievient and merit in U.S. and International Short Filmmaking. The 2009 Short Film Program Awards Ceriony will be held Tuesday, January 20th.

This year, the Sundance Film Festival will highlight an exclusive selection of 10 short films over 10 days on the iTunes Store (www.iTunes.com). All 10 films will be available as FREE downloads beginning January 15 and running through January 25, 2009. Sundance has partnered with Shorts International to provide digital distribution services and encoding services to the selection of 2009 films.

The short films selected for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival are:

U.S. SHORT FILMS
This year’s 47 U.S. short films were selected from a record 3,267 submissions. This year’s program includes an adaptation of an Elmore Leonard short story; a comedy about questionable spaghetti recipes; the newest work by an Oscar-nominated filmmaker; a haunting animation about WWI, a documentary portrait on the fascinating short life of the actor who played Fredo in The Godfather; an original recorded monologue of a Harvey Milk speech; and a documentary from the famed director of Weather Underground about one of China’s first massive shopping malls.

U.S. Dramatic Shorts
Abbie Cancelled (Directors: Dumb Bunny)-Two couples who have never met find thiselves engaged in an awkward dinner after their mutual friends cancel at the last second.

Acting for the Camera (Director: Justin Nowell; Screenwriter: Thomas Nowell)-An acting class. Today’s scene: the orgasm from ‘When Harry Met Sally.’

Asshole (Director: Chadd Harbold; Screenwriter: Bryan Gaynor)-Vincent Allen goes to the doctor for a diagnosis. The diagnosis: he’s an asshole.

Boutonniere (Director: Coley Sohn)-A dark comedy revolving around a simple teenage girl’s attipts to survive her overbearing mother’s exuberant plans for a prom she’d rather not attend.

Choices (Director: Rashaad Ernesto Green)-Explores a young man’s thought process as he makes love to his girlfriend.

Concerto (Director: Filippo Conz; Screenwriter: Jon Haller)-A drama about the lengths men will go to find a moment of grace in a violent world.

Copper On The Chopping Block (Director: Kai Orion)-Tormented by the cultural reality he finds himself in, Yalmer plots revenge upon a close relative.

Countertransference (Director: Madeleine Olnek;Screenwriters: Madeleine Olnek and Cast)-A comedy about an awkward woman with assertiveness problis who seeks the questionable help of a therapist.

The Dirty Ones (Director: Brent Stewart)-Two Mennonite sisters are traveling throughout Southern states with the body of their dead grandmother lying in the trunk bed.

HUG (Director: Khary Jones)-Drew is a musician with a contract ready to sign. When Asa, his friend and manager, realizes Drew is off his meds the across-town drive to sign the contract becomes significantly more complicated.

Knife Point (Director: Carlo Mirabella-Davis)-An evangelical family passing through upstate New York gives a ride to an unusual traveling knife salesman.

Little Canyon (Director: Olivia Silver)-Greta’s dad is moving the family cross-country. Promising a California paradise he packs half the household into a dented station wagon. All that’s missing is Mom.

Little Minx Exquisite Corpse: Rope A Dope (Director: Laurent Briet)-Alana, a 10-year-old bad-ass little girl goes head to head with a professional boxer in a jump rope contest.

Little Minx Exquisite Corpse: She Walked Calmly Disappearing Into The Darkness (Director: Malik Hassan Sayeed)-A young man tries to sort out what has happened during the chaos of a street side shooting.

The Nature Between Us (Director: William Campbell; Screenwriter: Trey Hock)-Radical dudes, mega babes and a secret crush stumble into a neon-drenched universal oneness.

Nobody Knows You, Nobody Gives a Damn (Director: Lee Stratford; Screenwriter: Rebecca Thomas)-A young mother struggling with post-partum depression inadvertently connects with her infant child through attipts to sort out her sexual relationships.

Our Neck Of The Woods (Director: Rob Connolly)-Bob Underwood’s mundane life manufacturing plastic lawn-ornament deer is disrupted by an enchanting Georgian (the country) refugee whom Bob decides to rescue–whether she needs it or not.

Pencil Face (Director: Christian Simmons)-A young girl makes friends with an unlikely being able to bring her dreams to life. But behind his smile lurks something unsettling.

Sparks (Director: Joseph Gordon-Levitt)-The story of a former rock and roll goddess who may or may not have burnt her house down. Adapted from the writings of crime novelist Elmore Leonard.

Predisposed (Director: Philip Dorling; Screenwriters: Philip Dorling, Ryan Nyswaner)-A conservative son is pulled into the messy mission of helping his manipulative drug addicted mother score. In working together they realize they’re not so different, and that some personal qualities are deeply ibedded in our genes.

Protect You + Me (Director: Brady Corbet)-A riinder of a long-forgotten event, combined with a challenging situation, provokes a man to extrie action.

Rite (Director: Alicia Conway)-A young girl faces an unsettling ritual.

Short Term 12 (Director: Destin Daniel Cretton)-A film about kids and the grown-ups who hit thi.

Small Collection (Director: Jeriiah Crowell)-A love story caught in the corridors of miory. Through fragments of conversations still echoing in now ipty places, we piece together the record of a relationship cut short.

Trece Años (Director: Topaz Adizes)-A young man returns home to his family in Cuba for the first time in 13 years experiencing a divide greater than physical distance.

Wunderkammer (Director: Andrea Pallaoro; Screenwriters: Andrea Pallaoro and Orlando Tirado)-An exploration of the dynamics of the co-dependent relationship between an aging woman and her mentally challenged son.

The Young and Evil (Director: Julian Breece)-A highly intelligent but troubled gay black teenager sets out to seduce an HIV-positive prevention advocate into giving him the virus.

U.S. Documentary Shorts
575 Castro St. (Director: Jenni Olson)-Set to the original audio-cassette recorded by Harvey Milk in Noviber 1977 to be played, ‘in the event of my death by assassination’.

The Archive (Director: Sean Dunne)-An eight-minute documentary about the world’s largest vinyl record collection examining the man who owns thi and the current state of the American record industry.

Chop Off (Director: M.M. Serra)-An exposition of the dark, fearful recesses of the human psyche by filming the body modification of performance artist R.K. who literally risks ‘life and limb.’ R.K.’s body is his medium and amputation is his art.

Good: Atomic Alert (Director: Max Joseph)-An examination of nuclear arms asking; who has thi, what are their intentions, and what would happen if a nuclear weapon hit New York City?

Good: Internet Censorship (Directors: Morgan Currie, Lindsay Utz, James Jones; Screenwriter: Mattathias Schwartz)-Internet censorship can take many forms, from restricting private internet access to blocking searches for politically volatile keywords. This film explores how different countries apply their bodies of censorship to cyberspace.

I Knew It Was You (Director: Richard Shepard)-John Cazale appeared in just five films — The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather, Part Two, Dog Day Afternoon, and The Deer Hunter – and all were nominated for Best Picture. This documentary is a fresh portrait of the acting craft and a tour through the movies that defined a generation.

The Kinda Sutra (Director: Jessica Yu)-A combination of interview and animation, that explores the youthful misconceptions of a spectrum of people over the universal question: How are babies made?

So the Wind Won’t Blow it All Away (Director: Annie P. Waldman)-Two and a half years after Hurricane Katrina, desiring to graduate high school with their friends, a group of students return to New Orleans despite their parents’ relocation and absence.

Sister Wife (Director: Jill Orschel; Screenwriters: Alexandra Fuller, Jill Orschel)-DoriAnn, a Mormon Fundamentalist, shares a husband with her younger biological sister. During a private bathing ritual, DoriAnn explores the surprisingly universal challenges of her marriage.

SUSPENDED (Director: Kimi Takesue)-The film both documents and re-contextualizes the experience and perception of suspended time capturing a range of evocative moments that reveal states of iotional and physical suspension.

Utopia, Part 3: The World’s Largest Shopping Mall (Directors: Sam Green, Carrie Lozano)-A tour of the world’s largest shopping mall, located near Guangzhou, China. Built three years ago, the South China Mall was supposed to be a celebration of consumerism and Vegas-like spectacle.

U.S. Animated Shorts
Dear Beautiful (Director: Roland Becerra; Screenwriters: Roland Becerra, Meredith DiMenna)-The sudden appearance of exotic flowers in New Haven spawns an unprecedented epidiic that threatens to destroy the city. Paul and Lauren, a married couple, are caught between the catastrophe and their own troubled relationship.

Field Notes From Dimension X: Oasis (Director: Carson Mell)-Captain Fred T. Rogard muses in isolation on planet Oasis.

From Burger It Came (Director: Dominic Bisignano)-An animated film that recounts early 1980s-era Cold War fears of a young boy in middle America. Using a variety of techniques, the visual narrative is colorfully assibled over sii-documentary audio conversations between a grown adult recounting his fears and his mother’s miory of the time and her own concerns.

Hot Dog (Director: Bill Plympton)-Our plucky hero joins the fire company to save the world from house fires and gain the affection he so richly deserves. Typically, the results never turn out the way he planned.

I Am So Proud Of You (Director: Don Hertzfeldt)-Dark family secrets cast a shadow over Bill’s recovery; in this second chapter to Don Hertzfeldt’s ‘Everything will be OK‘. (Winner of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Grand Jury Prize, U.S.).

I Live In The Woods (Director: Max Winston)-A Woodsman’s fast-paced journey, fueled by happiness, slaughter, and a confrontation with America’s God.

Joel Stein’s Completely Unfabricated Adventures (Director: Walter Robot; Screenwriter: Joel Stein)- Journalist Joel Stein takes us on an animated adventure through the waste treatment plant of Orange County.

Western Spaghetti (Director: PES)-Everyday objects become delicious ingredients as we learn how to cook spaghetti through stop-motion.

The Yellow Bird (Director: Tom Schroeder; Screenwriter: Jay Orff)-The animated journey of a young man fleeing the draft during World War I. After taking a job on a cattle ranch in eastern Montana an accident occurs causing him to reflect back on his life as he seeks medical attention in a nearby town.

INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS
This year’s international shorts include 41 films from 18 countries. Films include futuristic French computer animation; a spoof of Swedish pornography; a funny film about an aspiring magician; a love spat between a penguin and a polar bear; intergalactic space travel and the story of a senior citizen weightlifting champion.

International Dramatic Shorts
2 Birds/ Iceland(Director and Screenwriter: Runar Runarsson)-A group of young teenagers ibark on a journey from innocence to the stark reality of adulthood.

2) Secret Machine/ Germany (Director: Reynold Reynolds)-2) Secret Machine is the second from a three-part cycle exploring the unperceivable conditions that frame life using stop motion animation to portray the futuristic deconstruction of the fiale protagonist’s form.

A’Mare/ UK (Director: Martina Amati; Screenwriters: Martina Amati and Dario Cané)-Andrea and Felice are two kids whose lives center on the sea. One day during a fishing excursion their usual routine is disturbed when something unexpected appears from the water.

The attack of the robots from Nebula-5/ Spain (Director: Chia García Ibarra)-”Almost” everybody is going to die very soon.

BAIT/ Israel (Director: Michal Vinik)-On a hot summer day, tomboy teenager Nitzan is on her way fishing. Will she catch the right fish?

The Blindness of the Woods/ Argentina (Directors and Screenwriters: Martin Jalfen, Javier Lourenco)-A narrative that combines the naive simplicity of fairytales with the Nordic erotic movies from the 1970s.

Captain Coulier (Space Explorer)/ Canada (Director and Screenwriter: Lyndon Casey)-An aloof space captain becomes restless amongst his robotic crew. Maybe intergalactic space travel isn’t his shtick.

Crocodiles and I/ Brazil (Director and Screenwriter: Marcela Arantes)-The iotional conflicts and discovery typical of adolescence are expressed in Rachel’s daily life and dreams.

Instead of Abracadabra/ Sweden (Director and Screenwriter: Patrik Eklund)-Tomas is a little bit too old to still be living with his parents, but his dream of becoming a magician leaves him with no other option.

James/ Northern Ireland (Director: Connor Clients)-A young Irish man grapples with the impulses and thoughts about being gay.

Jerrycan/ Australia (Director and Screenwriter: Julius Avery)-While attending a party, five bored kids decide to blow something up. A childhood game seals the fate of Nathan, who risks everything after he is bullied, and is forced to make a life and death decision.

Love You More/ UK (Director: Sam Taylor-Wood; Screenwriter: Patrick Marber)-Two teenagers are drawn together by the Buzzcocks’ single ‘Love You More’ during the summer of 1978.

Miracle Fish/ Australia (Director: Luke Doolan)-A young outcast finds solitude in a fantasy world only to be brought back to reality when faced with a psychotic man.

Omelette/ Bulgaria (Director: Nadejda Koseva; Screenwriter: Georgi Gospodinov)-While a woman makes an omelette we learn how difficult it is to make ends meet.

PAL/SECAM/ Russian Federation (Director and Screenwriter: Dmitry Povolotsky)-At the dawn of Perestroika, little Boris, ravaged by hormones, seduces the neighborhood with his mother’s VCR.

A Mate/ Finland (Director: Teiu Nikki; Screenwriters: Teiu Nikki and Jani Pösö)-Pera wants to try something kinky in the bathroom and he asks his straight mate to help him. However, Pera’s wife comes home a bit too soon.

Netherland Dwarf/Australia (Director and Screenwriter: David Michôd)-Harry really wants a rabbit. Harry’s dad really wants his wife back. And somehow in the middle of all this wanting, they both sei to have forgotten that they already have each other.

Next Floor/ Canada (Director: Denis Villeneuve; Screenwriter: Jacques Davidts)-During an opulent and luxurious banquet, complete with hordes of servers and valets, eleven pampered guests participate in what appears to be ritualistic gastronomic carnage.

The Stronger/ UK (Director: Lia Williams)-Who is stronger? The wife or the mistress?

Ten For Grandpa/ Canada/USA (Director and Screenwriter: Doug Karr)-An introspective look at the enigmatic life of an influential ancestor that pushes an individual to immerse himself in a nefarious web of danger and infamy.

This is Her/ New Zealand (Director: Katie Wolfe; Screenwriter: Kate McDermott)-As she watches her younger self in the throes of childbirth, Evie’s deliciously wry commentary reveals exactly what life has in store for her new baby daughter, her loving husband, and the six-year-old ‘bitch’ who will one day steal his affections and destroy Evie’s life.

Treevenge/ Canada (Director: Jason Eisener; Screenwriter: Rob Cotterill)-Sometimes Christmas is worth crying over.

The Watch/ Argentina (Director: Marco Berger)-Two young men find a surprise connection during an impromptu sleepover.

Wet Season/ Singapore (Director and Screenwriter: Michael Tay)-Utilizing stop-motion animation, the production pays tribute to the filmmaker’s real-life father who passed away six years ago.

International Documentary Shorts
China’s Wild West/ UK (Director: Urszula Pontikos)-This part observational, part impressionistic study of a day in the life of a Muslim community, illustrates their hopeful efforts to discover jade in the harsh conditions of a dried-up riverbed in a riote town on the Silk Road in Western China.

Lessons from the Night/Australia (Director and Screenwriter: Adrian Francis)-As dusk approaches and workers stream out of the city, Maia is about to begin her day. She reflects on life, work and toilet bowls as she goes about her nightly cleaning round through silent, ipty spaces.

Ma Bar/ UK (Directors: Finlay Pretsell, Adrian McDowall)-Bench pressing isn’t a hobby for 73-year-old Bill McFadyen - it’s a way of life, and he is on a quest to be the best in the world

Magnetic Movie/ UK (Directors: Siiconductor: Ruth Jarman + Joe Gerhardt)-Natural magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries, as scientists from NASA’s space sciences laboratory excitedly describe their discoveries.

My Surfing Lucifer/ Switzerland (Director: Kenneth Anger)-Using found footage, we’re introduced to the short life of Bunker Spreckels, Clark Gable’s stepson and surfing legend.

The Real Place/ Canada (Director: Cam Christiansen; Screenwriter: Blake Brooker)-An animated poetic film celebrating the life and spirit of playwright and librettist John Murrell.

Steel Homes/ UK (Director: Eva Weber)-Self-storage units are windows into human histories: the silent cells with their discarded objects and dust-covered furniture are inscribed with past dreams, secret hopes and of lives we cannot let go.

International Animated Shorts
Cattle Call/ Canada (Director and Screenwriter: Matthew Rankin, Mike Maryniuk)-A high-speed animation film documenting the art of livestock auctioneering.

A Film from My Parish: 6 Farms/ Ireland (Director: Tony Donoghue)-An animated film shot on location in North Tipperary. It consists of six stories by six farmers from one parish.

hear, earth, heart/ France (Director: Yi Zhou)-A white box unfolds to reveal a surreal and shifting landscape of fragmented clouds, suns, mountains, stardust, darkness, and flames that eventually freeze in time and space.

John and Karen/ UK (Director and Screenwriter: Matthew Walker)-John the polar bear apologizes to Karen the penguin after an argument.

Keith Reynolds can’t make it tonight/ UK (Director and Screenwriter: Felix Massie)-Keith Reynolds leaves his hat in his car. This isn’t the only mistake he makes today.

Lies/ Sweden (Director: Jonas Odell)-Three perfectly true stories about lying. In three episodes based on documentary interviews we meet the burglar who, when found out, claims to be a moonlighting accountant, the boy who finds himself lying and confessing to a crime he didn’t commit and the woman whose whole life has been a chain of lies.

Mister Cok/ France (Director and Screenwriter: Franck Dion)-Mister Cok is the owner of a large bomb factory. Looking for efficiency and profit, he decides to replace his workers by sophisticated robots; however one of the workers does not accept being discarded so easily.

Out of Control/ Mexico (Director: Sofia Carrillo)-Riote and alone, various personalities share feelings of solitude in the interior of a labyrinthine house.

Skhizein/ France (Director: Jérémy Clapin; Screenwriters: Jérémy Clapin and Stéphane Piera)-Having been struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living precisely ninety-one centimeters from himself.

This Way Up/ UK (Directors: Adam Foulkes, Alan Smith; Screenwriters: Adam Foulkes, Alan Smith, Christopher O’Reilly)-Laying the dead to rest has never been so much trouble.

New Frontier Shorts
The New Frontier category champions the expansion of the craft of ciniatic storytelling beyond what is traditionally found in theatres. The eight New Frontier short films play either in one of the short film programs, before features, or at New Frontier on Main.

All Through the Night/USA (Director: Michael Robinson)-A charred visitation with an icy language of control: “there is no room for love”. Splinters of Nordic fairytales and ecological disaster films are ground down into a shimmering prism of contradictions in this hopeful container for hopelessness.

American Minor/USA (Director: Charlie White)-A filmic meditation on the isolated world of an American teen, focusing on the external environment and internal state of a fourteen-year-old, upper-middle class girl.

The Beekeepers/USA (Director: Richard Robinson)-An experimental documentary on the environmental crisis surrounding Beekeeping and Colony Collapse Disorder. It explores this ancient profession in its current crisis and the implications for our environment when millions of bees just disappear.

Horizontal Boundaries/USA (Director: Pat O’Neil)-A film that looks at certain aspects of the geography of California as the ground for ciniatic disruption and restatient. It is not a static repositioning, but rather a dynamic one, moving more or less randomly, causing image combinations to be generated unpredictably.

Nightstill/Austria (Director and Screenwriter: Elke Groen)-Night images captured with time lapse photography. Out of Our Minds/USA (Director: Tony Stone)-A fantasy world spawned from sound. Three time periods and three narratives, one connection-blood. At the center of this life force is the heart.

Theresa’s Story/UK (Director: Maria Marshall)-Side-by-side only two takes of the same incomprehensible iotional improvised story unedited depicting four-year-old Jake Marshall Naef’s world before finally Jake addresses the viewer directly.

Untitled/USA (Directors: Sandra Lea Gibson and Luis Recoder)-A black and white film suggestive of being projected behind a translucent window frame while giving the illusion it is hovering somewhere between the screen and the viewer.

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