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SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 11 Park City Utah 20 - 30 January 2011
FILMS IN PREMIERES: SUNDANCE 2011 :
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MUSIC IN FILMS: 81 Short Films from 21 Countries Selected from a Record 6,467 Submissions Festival Launches Indigenous Shorts Showcase PAGES: /
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SHORT FILM PROGRAM: Filmmakers from Australia, Poland, Spain, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Canada and the United States Celebrated for their Documentary and Narrative Work SHORTS AWARDS: Eclectic Mix of Music Legends and Fresh Indie Talent will Appear in Film and Live Performances Lou Reed to perform at the annual CELEBRATION OF MUSIC IN FILM Artists Include Adam Yauch of Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Guster, Harry Belafonte, K’NAAN, Lou Reed, Robert Randolph and the Family Band and St. Vincent PAGES: /
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cinema Documentary Premieres Section Debuts Dito Montiel’s Highly Anticipated The Son of No One to Close Festival PAGES: /
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U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION Sundance Film Festival Announces Films In Competition This year’s 16 films were selected from 841 submissions. Each is a world premiere.
Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest (Director: Michael Rapaport), BEING ELMO: A Puppeteer’s Journey (Director: Constance Marks),
Buck (Director: Cindy Meehl), Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology (Director: Tiffany Shlain; Screenwriters: Tiffany Shlain, Ken Goldberg, Carlton Evans and Sawyer Steele), Crime After Crime (Director: Yoav Potash), Hot Coffee (Director: Susan Saladoff),
How to Die in Oregon (Director: Peter D. Richardson), If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (Director: Marshall Curry), The Last Mountain (Director: Bill Haney; Screenwriters: Bill Haney and Peter Rhodes), Miss Representation (Director: Jennifer Siebel Newsom; Screenwriters: Jennifer Siebel Newsom and Jessica Congdon), Page One: A year inside the New York Times (Director: Andrew Rossi; Screenwriters: Kate Novack and Andrew Rossi), The Redemption of General Butt Naked (Directors: Eric Strauss and Daniele Anastasion), Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Director: Jon Foy), Sing Your Song (A film by Susanne Rostock), Troubadours (Director: Morgan Neville) and We Were Here (Director: David Weissman).
JURY MEMBERS: Sundance Alum Tim Blake Nelson to Host 2011 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony on January 29 Susanne Bier, Jeffrey Blitz, America Ferrera, Matt Groening, Clark Gregg, Bong Joon-Ho, Jose Padilha, Kim Peirce, Jason Reitman, and Lucy Walker Among This Year’s Jurors NEXT (<=>), SPOTLIGHT, NEW FRONTIER AND PARK CITY AT MIDNIGHT: Festival Adds New Native Showcase As Previously Announced, Slacker to Screen From the Collection PAGES: /
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ALFRED P. SLOAN PRIZE: WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION Sundance Film Festival Announces Films In Competition This year’s 14 films were selected from 1,073 international narrative feature submissions. Abraxas / Japan (Director: Naoki Kato; Screenwriters: Dai Sako and Naoki Kato), All Your Dead Ones (Todos Tus Muertos ) / Colombia (Director Carlos Moreno; Screenwriters: Alonso Torres and Carlos Moreno), The Cinema Hold Up (Asalto Al Cine) / Mexico (Director: Iría Gómez Concheiro; Screenwriters: Iria Gómez Concheiro and Juan Pablo Gómez), A Few Days of Respite (Quelque Jours de Repit) / Algeria, France (Director and screenwriter: Amor Hakkar),
The Guard / Ireland (Director and screenwriter: John Michael McDonagh),
Happy, Happy (Sykt Lykkelig) / Norway (Director: Anne Sewitsky; Screenwriter: Ragnhild Tronvoll),
Kinyarwanda / Rwanda, USA (Director and screenwriter: Alrick Brown), Lost Kisses (I Baci Mai Dati) / Italy (Director: Roberta Torre; Screenwriters: Roberta Torre and Laura Nuccilli), Mad Bastards / Australia (Director: Brendan Fletcher; Screenwriters: Brendan Fletcher in collaboration with Dean Daley-Jones, Greg Tait and John Watson), Restoration (2011) (Boker Tov Adon Fidelman) / Israel (Director: Yossi Madmoni; Screenwriter: Erez Kav-El), The Salesman (Le Vendeur) / Canada (Director and screenwriter: Sébastien Pilote), Ticket to Paradise (Boleto al Paraiso) / Cuba (Director: Gerardo Chijona Valdes; Screenwriters: Gerardo Chijona Valdes, Francisco Garcia Gonzalez and Maykel Rodriguez Ponjuan), Tyrannosaur / United Kingdom (Director and screenwriter: Paddy Considine) and Vampire / Canada, U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Iwai Shunji).
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION Sundance Film Festival Announces Films In Competition This year’s 12 films were selected from 796 international documentary submissions. An African Election / Switzerland, U.S.A. (Director: Jarreth Merz and screenwriters Erika Tasini, Shari Yantra Marcacci, Jarreth Merz), The Bengali Detective / India, U.S.A., United Kingdom (Director: Phil Cox),
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 / Sweden, U.S.A. (Director: Göran Olsson), Family Portrait in Black and White / Canada (Director: Julia Ivanova), The Flaw / United Kingdom (Director: David Sington), The Green Wave (Irans grüner Sommer) / Germany, Iran (Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi),
Hell and Back Again / U.S.A., United Kingdom (Director: Danfung Dennis), KNUCKLE / Ireland, United Kingdom (Director: Ian Palmer), Position Among the Stars (Stand Van De Sterren) / Netherlands (Director: Leonard Retel Helmrich),
Project Nim / United Kingdom (Director: James Marsh),
Senna / United Kingdom (Director: Asif Kapadia; Screenwriter: Manish Pandey) and Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure / Australia (Director: Matthew Bate).
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize Awarded To Mike Cahill’s Another Earth At 2011 Sundance Film Festival Sundance Institute/Alfred P. Sloan Commissioning Grants and Lab Fellow Also Announced PAGES: /
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2011 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL AWARD WINNERS: U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION Sundance Film Festival Announces Films In Competition This year’s 16 films were selected from 1,102 submissions. Each is a world premiere.
Another Earth (Director: Mike Cahill; Screenwriters: Mike Cahill and Brit Marling), Benavides Born (Director: Amy Wendel; Screenwriters: Daniel Meisel and Amy Wendel),
Circumstance / U.S.A., Iran (Director and screenwriter: Maryam Keshavarz),
Gun Hill Road (Director and screenwriter: Rashaad Ernesto Green), HERE (Director: Braden King; Written By: Braden King and Dani Valent),
Higher Ground (Director: Vera Farmiga; Screenwriters: Carolyn S. Briggs and Tim Metcalfe),
Homework (Director and screenwriter: Gavin Wiesen),
The Ledge (Director and screenwriter: Matthew Chapman),
Like Crazy (Director: Drake Doremus; Screenwriters: Drake Doremus and Ben York Jones),
Little Birds (Director and screenwriter: Elgin James),
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Director and screenwriter: Sean Durkin), On the Ice (Director and screenwriter: Andrew Okpeaha MacLean),
Pariah (Director and screenwriter: Dee Rees),
Take Shelter (Director and screenwriter: Jeff Nichols),
Terri (Director: Azazel Jacobs; Screenwriters: Patrick deWitt) and The Untitled Sam Levinson Project (Director and screenwriter: Sam Levinson).
2011 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FILMS IN COMPETITION: 2011 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES AWARDS
Happy, Happy,
Hell and Back Again,
How to Die in Oregon and
Like Crazy Earn Grand Jury Prizes Audience Favorites Include
Buck,
Circumstance,
Kinyawaranda and
Senna to.get.her Awarded Best of
NEXT! Audience Award Park City, UT–The Jury, Audience,
NEXT! and other special award-winners of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival were announced tonight at the Festival’s Awards Ceremony hosted by Tim Blake Nelson (star of Flypaper which premiered in this year’s Premieres section) in Park City, Utah. Highlights from the Awards Ceremony can be seen on the Festival website,
www.sundance.org/festival.