BURN

Four independent films will be released on digital platforms on June 18, via the Sundance Institute’s Artist Services program. The films will be available on a variety of platforms, including iTunes , Amazon Instant Video,  Microsoft Xbox Sony Entertainment Network SundanceNOW VUDU and YouTube.  The upcoming releases include 3 documentaries – “HIGH TECH, LOW LIFE” “MISS GULAG,” and “BURN”; and “MY BEST DAY” which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in the NEXT section.

TITLES AVAILABLE JUNE 18

BURN (Directors: Tom Putnam and Brenna Sanchez) — BURN is an award-winning, action-packed documentary capturing a year in the lives of Detroit firefighters who are charged with the thankless task of saving a city that many have written off as dead. A portion of proceeds from each sale go to the Leary Firefighters Foundation. (Released through Artist Services collaboration with Film Independent)

High Tech, Low Life (Director: Stephen Maing) — High Tech, Low Life follows two of China’s first and most daring citizen reporters as they fight censorship, document the underside of the country’s rapid economic development, and challenge the boundaries of free speech. (2010 Documentary Edit and Story Lab)

Miss Gulag (Director: Maria Yatskova-Ibrahimova) — Through the prism of a beauty pageant staged by female inmates of a Siberian prison camp emerges a complex narrative of the lives of the first generation of women to come of age in Post-Soviet Russia. (2006 Documentary Film Grant)

My Best Day (Director: Erin Greenwell) — Karen has to work her receptionist gig on the Fourth of July. A call comes from her long-lost father. Enlisting her friend Meagan, Karen investigates her father’s trailer home. Karen’s journey sets in motion a chain of events that will change not just her but this one small town forever. (2012 Sundance Film Festival)

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