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Sundance 2015 Newsletter 1
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> ROTTERDAM 21 January - 1 February 2015
Screenings: 26.1.15 | 18:45 | Pathe 4 27.1.15 | 12:15 | Pathe 2 28.1.15 | 21:45 | Pathe 2 29.1.15 | 15:00 | LantarenVenster 3 31.1.15 | 14:15 | Cinerama 2 ...
DREAMS REWIRED (Mobilisierung der Träume) World Premiere International Film Festival Rotterdam 2015 A creative scientific documentary written and directed by: Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart & Thomas Tode Narrated in voice-over by: Tilda Swinton DREAMS REWIRED (Mobilisierung der Träume) (Austria/Germany/UK, 2015, 85 min) Screenings as part of IFFR 2015’s Signals: Regained: Sat. 24 Jan, 16.15 h, Cinerama 2 (Press & Industry Scr...
The Festival Agency is delighted to announce the International Premiere of LE PARADIS directed by Alain Cavalier at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam. LE PARADIS By Alain Cavalier- France - 2014 - French. Written, directed and edited by Alain Cavalier / Produced by Michel Seydoux / Sales by...
New partner organisations from South Africa, Sweden and United Kingdom International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) will welcome 58 young film producers from 24 countries to the 15th edition of Rotterdam Lab, IFFR 2015. Rotterdam Lab is organised by IFFR’s co-production market CineMart, and entails a five-day training workshop for young ...
A good start to the year for cinema from Germany: a total of 43 German films and co-productions can be seen at the 44th Rotterdam International Film Festival which is one of the most important festivals in Europe. Five titles with German participation have been programmed in the competitions for feature films and shorts. The Hivos Tiger Awards Competition is reserved for first and second feature films. This is where the Swiss-German co-production ABOVE AND BELOW (Flying Moon Filmprodukt...
Programme to centre on theme of contemporary reality and includes Adam Curtis 'BITTER LAKE' and 'GERMAN ANGST' from Jorg Buttgereit, Michal Kosakowski and Andreas Marschall. International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has confirmed the first of two parts of its Signals programme. This section of Signals is to be broken down into four sections with the theme of ‘contemporary reality’ connecting all four, which are titled 24/7, EVERYDAY PROPAGANDA, WHAT THE F?! ...
Projects from award winning filmmakers from around the world including USA, India, UK, Spain and Argentina International Film Festival Rotterdam’s (IFFR) co-production market, CineMart, has completed its line-up of titles for the upcoming 2015 event. The line-up consists of titles from filmmakers from across the world including the Netherlands, India, United Kingdom, Brazil, France, Spain and the USA. The selection also includes three Art:Film projects. CineMa...
CreativeFuture and HP are partnering at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on a series of panels and workshops at The Sundance House Presented by HP, reflecting a shared commitment to technology that empowers artists to bring groundbreaking storytelling to audiences. CreativeFuture is also presenting the inaugural Horizon Award, along with co-sponsors The Black List, The Creative Mind Group, Indiegogo, The Sundance Institute, Twitter, Vimeo, and Women in F...
Netflix is pleased to announce that Oscar-nominated and nine-time Grammy-winning musician John Legend will pay special tribute to musical icon Nina Simone with a performance following the screening of WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE? at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Liz Garbus' epic documentary portrait of the legendary recording artist and civil rights activist will receive its world premiere as an Opening Night presentation of the festival at 5:4...
The film provides a detailed look at the troubled life of Kurt Cobain, with unseen footage and songs from the family’s personal archive featured throughout. We would be delighted to schedule an interview with you and the film’s director on our press day, which will take place on January 26, 2015 between 3pm-5pm at 501 Main Street. Please find full details regarding the film and additional screenings below: COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK Experience Kurt Cobain like never b...
Kodak Continues its Longstanding Support of Independent Filmmakers ROCHESTER, NY (January 19, 2015) – Kodak will once again support the independent filmmaking community at the Slamdance and Sundance Film Festivals, which run concurrently in Park City, Utah, beginning Jan. 21. At Slamdance, the inaugural KODAK Director’s Award will be pre...
Vernon Films, in association with Passion Pictures, is pleased to present Ilinca Calugareanu's documentary feature debut CHUCK NORRIS VS COMMUNISM, soon to receive its World Premiere in the World Cinema Documentary Competition section of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. John Battsek and Brett Ratner are among the producers of this wonderfully entertaining documentary that pulls back the curtain on how the arrival of VHS in 1980s Romania didn't just signal a media revolution...
With a singular cinematic perspective, directors Bill and Turner Ross (TCHOUPITOULAS, 45365) are known for capturing dreamy vérité images to create rich portraits of life in American landscapes. They open their latest tale before the storm hits: the people of Eagle Pass, Texas and Piedras Negras, Mexico are joined together to celebrate their harmonious past with a festival that all but throws open the international border. Welcoming the revelers are Chad Foster, the beloved mayor...
JAMES FRANCO'S I AM MICHAEL I AM MICHAEL is based on a True Story in the vein of MONSTER and DALLAS BUYER CLUB, a strong story with a not-necessary-compelling character that James Franco makes compelling, based on a NY Times article by Benoit Denizet-Lewis. A movie of 'identity and belief', 'desire to belong'. Screenings: P&I screening: Saturday Jan 24, 2015 at noon: Yarrow Theater. Public and Premiere screening: Thursday Jan 29, 2015 at 6.30pm: ...
THE FORBIDDEN ROOM Ewill also be the Opening Night of 'Forum' At Berlinale If Canadian wunderkind Guy Maddin (MY WINNIPEG, THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD) is Winnipeg's own living film legend, THE FORBIDDEN ROOM is his ultimate epic phantasmagoria. Honoring classic cinema while electrocuting it with energy, this Russian nesting doll of a film begins (after a prologue on how to take a bath) with the crew of a doomed submarine chewing flapjac...
WHITE GOD Receives North American Premiere at 2015 Sundance Film Festival Opens Nationally in April Magnolia Pictures is pleased to present Kornél Mundruczó's WHITE GOD, soon to receive its North American premiere in the Spotlight section of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. This staggering vision of dogs driven to rise up against their human masters was a sensation at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, ...
LISTEN TO ME MARLON, directed by Stevan Riley - a documentary that provides an in-depth look into the life of the renowned actor, Marlon Brando. Details for the film can be found below. We would love to schedule interviews with yourself and the filmmakers in Sundance. LISTEN TO ME MARLON Marlon Brando was one of the most acclaimed and influential actors of all time. He also was one of the most elusive and enigmatic. Featuring exclusive access to Brando’s previously unseen and unh...
IVY (Turkey, World Cinema) PRINCESS (Israel, World Cinema) THE LITTLE DEPUTY (Shorts Program 2) STARTING POINT (Documentary Shorts Program 1) OBJECT (Documentary Shorts Program 1) Munk Studios, Poland ( http://www.munkstudio.eu/en) ...
Content Media announced today that it has acquired international sales rights to Alex Gibney’s much anticipated Scientology documentary “Going Clear: Scientology and The Prison of Belief”. The film will have its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this month. Academy Award® winner Alex Gibney (“Taxi to the Dark Side”) wrote and directed the film based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright. Gibney profiles eigh...
HOT GIRLS WANTED, which will debut at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, January 24. Directed by the filmmaking team Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus (Sexy Baby), both former Miami Herald journalists, HOT GIRLS WANTED is one of the most anticipated documentaries at this year’s festival. Hot Girls Wanted is a first-ever look at the realities of the professional “amateur” porn world and the steady stream of 18-to-19-year old girls entering into it. Premi...
A film by Doug Aitken A high-speed road-trip through modern creativity, STATION TO STATION is a revolutionary feature comprised of 61 one-minute films highlighting an exciting and eclectic mix of artists, musicians, writers, places, and perspectives. In the summer of 2013, a train designed as a kinetic light sculpture by artist Doug Aitken traveled from New York City to San Fra...
Park City may not be ready for it, but writer/director Rick Alverson (The Comedy) returns with this nightmarish account of a traveling comedian lost on the brink. A broken, aging comedian tours the California desert, lost in a cycle of third-rate venues, novelty tourist attractions, and vain attempts to reach his estranged daughter. By day, he slogs through the barren landscape, inadvertently alienating every acquaintance. At night, he seeks solace in ...
The Amina Profile has its world premiere at Sundance. To view the film online or to request an interview, please contact me. Watch the trailer here http://youtu.be/JSMKXg0qSpU What began as a love story between two women turned into an international socio-political thriller―spotlighting media excesses and the thin line between truth and falsehood in the Internet age. Now, the story behind this incredible true-life drama is the subject of a new feature documentary. The Amina ...
SYNOPSIS A Nebraskan family reunion couldn’t seem more backwards to a Californian teenager. If Ryder (Logan Miller, THE BLING RING) had his way, he’d choose a moment just like this to show his conservative relatives his true colors, the bigger the scene the better. For his mother’s sake however, Ryder agrees to keep quiet, save parading around the picnic in his most audacious pair of short-shorts. Ryder’s antics raise dubious eyebrows from his hardened cowboy r...
What if you knew that every night when you went to sleep, you were not alone? That you were surrounded by dark forces watching you - and that you could wake up paralyzed, completely helpless, with these beings standing next to you? Welcome to the spine-tingling horror/documentary hybrid THE NIGHTMARE from Rodney Ascher, who last rocked Sundance with his portrait of Kubrick-obsessed fandom, ROOM 237. In this film, he uses atmospheric cinematic recreations to get the audience into t...
HEADS-UP: (T)ERROR premiering at Sundance Film Festival 2015 View this email in your browser ...
New Title - The Dairy of a Teenage Girl In Competition SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2015 www.k5international.com U.S. Dramatic Competition THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL directed ...
From the Producer of PUSSY RIOT and THE SQUARE THE RUSSIAN WOODPECKER A film by Chad Gracia Fedor Alexandrovich is a radioactive man. He was four years old in 1986, when he was exposed to the toxic effects of the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown and forced to leave his home. Now 33, he is an artist in Ukraine, with radioactive strontium in his bones and a singular obsession with the earth-changing catastrophe - why did it actually happen? Was ther...
presents Director Mia Hansen-Løve Serving On World Narrative Competition Jury OFFICIAL SELECTION - TORONTO INT'L FILM FESTIVAL 2014 OFFICIAL SELECTION - NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL 2014 OFFICIAL SELECTION - AFI FEST 2014 OFFICIAL SELECTION - SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2015 The exhilarating fourth feature from Mia Hansen-Løve (Father of My Children, Goodbye First Love), Eden is a 20-year journ...
TIG Kristina Goolsby and Ashley York's Portrait of Comedian Tig Notaro has World Premiere at 2015 Sundance Film Festival "Good evening, I have cancer," comedian Tig Notaro famously announced in 2012 during a set at a comedy club in Los Angeles. "Everyone having a good time? I have cancer." In just 30 minutes, Notaro used her grave prognosis to create revealed her grave prognosis with a disarming mixture o...
The six Angulo brothers have spent their entire lives locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Nicknamed "the Wolfpack," they're all exceedingly bright, are homeschooled, have no acquaintances outside their family and have practically never left their home. All they know of the outside world is gleaned from the films they watch obsessively and recreate meticulously, using elaborate homemade props and costumes...
BETA CINEMA ON BOARD TO REPRESENT INTERNATIONAL SALEOF SUNDANCE TITLE “UMRIKA” January 12, 2015 – Beta Cinema has come on board to handle all international markets in the sale of writer and director Prashant Nair’s “Umrika,” selected for the 2015 Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition. North America sales will be handled by ICM Partners. World premiering at Salt Lake City on Saturday, January 24th at The Egyptia...
CHUCK NORRIS VS COMMUNISM, Dir. Ilinca Calugareanu World Cinema Documentary Competition (World Premiere) John Battsek and Brett Ratner are among the producers of this wonderfully entertaining documentary that pulls back the curtain on how the arrival of VHS in 1980s Romania didn't just signal a media revolution—it helped overthrow a regime. Hidden from the scrutinizing eyes of the Secret Police, Irina Nistor dubbed thousands of foreign blockbusters that were smuggled into the co...
Director : Sebastián Silva (Magic Magic, Crystal Fairy, The Maid) Cast: Kristen Wiig, Sebastián Silva, Tunde Adebimpe, Reg E. Cathey, Agustín Silva, Mark Margolis, Alia Shawkat Please find below the screenings schedule: - Saturday, January 24, 9:00pm (Premiere) Egyptian Theatre, Park City - Sunday, January 25, 8:30am (Public) Prospector Square Theatre, Park City - Sunday January 25th, 4pm (P&I) Holiday Vill...
PRINCESS, a feature drama from Israel, will have its International Premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section (see screening times below). The film is full of outstanding performances and heralds the arrival of a fresh, innovative and provocative director, Tali Shalom-Ezer. PRINCESS will also have its market premiere in Berlin in February. PRINCESS is a deeply moving fi...
EDEN, Dir. Mia Hansen-Løve Spotlight The exhilarating fourth feature from Mia Hansen-Løve (Father of My Children, Goodbye First Love), Eden is a 20-year journey through the electronic dance music scene following a DJ whose love for the turntables stay strong even after the craze has ended. Based on the experiences of Hansen-Løve's brother (and co-writer) Sven, the film follows Paul (Félix de ...
Cop Car by Jon Watts - Park City at Midnight (World Premiere) Saturday 24th, 11:45 pm, Librabry Center Theatre, Park City (Public) Monday 26th, 9:00 pm, Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City (Press & Industry) Tuesday 27th, 9:00 pm, Yarrow Hotel, Park City (Public) Friday 30th, 9:00 pm, Redstone Cinema 7, Park City (Public) ...
RATTER / Narrative Features Competition / Slamdance RATTER – [rat-ter] noun A hacker that uses malware known...
WILDWOOD PRESENTS A WALK IN THE WOODS WORLD PREMIERE – SALT LAKE CITY GALA Cast: Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson, Mary Steenbu...
A Documentary By Laura Gabbert CITY OF GOLD chronicles Pulitzer Prize-winning restaurant critic Jonathan Gold’s deep and complex relationship with the food and culture of his city, Los Angeles. Gold has long been known for his robust writing about the hidden culinary treasures in LA; he was one of the first critics to review small family owned restaurants in far-flung ethnic enclaves with as much care as the haute cuisine establishments of Beverly Hills. With a stroke of his pen,...
SYNOPSIS It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee (newcomer Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend (James Ransone, STARLET, "Generation Kill") hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra (newcomer Mya Taylor), embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, ...
2015 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL Below please find the slate of the films that Brigade will be handling at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival THE OVERNIGHT (U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION) Written and Directed by Patrick Brice Starring Taylor Schilling, Adam Scott, Jason Schwartzman and Judith Godrèche In an attempt to acclimate to Los Angeles, a young couple spends an increasingly bizarre evening with the parents of their son's new friend. UN...
We have three U.S. Documentary Competition films at the festival. Those films are Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon’s BEST OF ENEMIES, Matthew Heineman’s CARTEL LAND, and Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s MERU. We also are handling the opening night film for World Cinema Documentary Competition, Jerry Rothwell’s HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD. Details are below. Please let us know if we can help you with interviews, press materials or ticket...
FIRST LOOK AT COBIE SMULDERS IN UNEXPECTED World Premiere at 2015 Sundance U.S. Dramatic Competition “I thought it could be just a very moving story about women, about the decision to have children,” Smulders told EW. “And from my side of the story, the decision of career versus motherhood, and trying to juggle those. At the same time, these two women are having the same experience, but under very different circumstances. The juxtaposition of that is very inter...
World Premiering at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival Sunday, January 25th at 6:30pm at the Eccles Theater in Park City Tye Sheridan as "The Boy" Ciarán Hinds as "The Father" Ayelet Zurer as "The Mother" And previously released photo of Ewan McGregor as Jesus ...
Prodigy PR is proud to represent the following films at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival (additional information on our slate included in this order below): · 99 HOMES – SPOTLIGHT Director: Ramin Bahrani Cast: Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon, Laura Dern, Noah Lomax Film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2891174/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 · ...
WAY TO GO is a walk in the woods. It is an astonishing interactive experience, a restless panorama, a mixture of hand-made animation, 360˚ video capture, music and dreaming and code; but mostly it is a walk in the woods, c’mon. WAY TO GO is ready for your web browser and willing to go VR, if you’re Rift-y. It is like a grey squirrel balanced on a branch, fearless. Made by Vincent Morisset, Édouard Lanctôt-Benoit, Caroline Robert and the studio AATOAA, v...
The NFB and Esperamos (Groupe Fair-Play) will world premiere Sophie Deraspe’s THE AMINA PROFILE at the Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Documentary Competition. SYNOPSIS - FILM Amina Arraf, a pretty Syrian-American revolutionary who’s having an online affair with Montrealer Sandra Bagaria, launches the provocatively named blog A Gay Girl in Damascus. As the Syrian uprising gains momentum, the blog attracts a huge following. But it’s Amina’s subsequent abduct...
Sundance Institute and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have announced French writer-director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre as winner of the 2015 Sundance Institute/NHK Award for her upcoming debut feature film, Mustang. The award will be presented at a private ceremony at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Clermont-Tonnerre is currently a screenwriting fellow at the 2015 Sundance Institute January Screenwriters Lab. Her short film Rabbit will premiere at the Festival in co...
TREVOR GROTH, DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING "In 1989, I was 17 and living in Salt Lake City when I drove my '79 Subaru Brat up the snowy canyon to Park City to experience Sundance for the first time. It truly felt like I'd gone to Oz. I’d found a magical place that would change my life forever. The films I saw and the people I met guided me down the yellow brick road towards programming for Sundance. I have the privilege of watching independent films and d...
JOHN COOPER, DIRECTOR, SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL “Finding a program of films you love every year is both an exhilarating and daunting task. I have put together an amazing staff that loves dialogue and discourse, understands the filmmaking community and is committed to building an audience for independent film. We trust each other and program from a place of passion for originality and excellence.” John Cooper has been a member of...
Meet the programming team JOHN COOPER, DIRECTOR, SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL TREVOR GROTH, DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING DAVID COURIER, SENIOR PROGRAMMER SHARI FRILOT, SENIOR PROGRAMMER, CURATOR OF NEW FRONTIER CAROLINE LIBRESCO, SENIOR PROGRAMMER JOHN NEIN, SENIOR PROGRAMMER CHARLIE REFF, SENIOR PROGRAMMER KIM YUTANI, SENIOR PROGRAMMER ADAM MON...
Donwload and Print the program....yes paper? FILMS U.S. DRAMATIC Presenting the world premieres of 16 narrative feature films, the Dramatic Competition offers Festivalgoers a first look at groundbreaking new voices in American independent film. U.S. Dramatic U.S. DOCUMENTARIES Sixteen world-premiere American documentaries...
Sundance Institute today announced that it will present Alejandro G. Iñárritu with its Vanguard Leadership Award at the fifth annual Sundance Institute benefit on June 2, 2015 in Los Angeles. The evening brings the creative community together to highlight both a great visionary in independent film as well as an emerging artist with unique talent and creative independence. Iñárritu will be honored for the originality and independent spirit of his films, including&nb...
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