2013 Sundance Film Festival Catalog by Sayf Khidir

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Staying within the boundaries of conventional thinking has never been my strongest suit. Instead, I prefer to navigate for myself. Whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open terrain or a single moment, I love the adventure and the discoveries that come from forging a different path. I hope youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll approach our 2013 Sundance Film Festival in this same spirit. As always, our intent is to provide a strong platform for a diverse group of fiercely independent films. In doing so, we also hope to provide audiences with an abundance of choice. Rather than giving you clear directions, what we offer is a program for you to navigate and an experience for yourselves.

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Robert Redford President and Founder Sundance Institute

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Among the many things I love about the Sundance Film Festival is its increasing reflection of the global community. The stories and characters in this year’s films are as diverse as ever, showing us what life is like for a broad range of people in very different places and situations. But just as important as what’s onscreen is what’s behind it. It’s encouraging to see this year’s films hail from a remarkable 32 countries and from filmmakers representing the full spectrum of experience—well-known filmmakers are screening their work alongside more than 50 first-time filmmakers, and for the first time ever, half of the filmmakers in our U.S. Dramatic Competition are female. Sundance Institute believes that independent film is at its best when it mirrors and engages the many communities in our world. That’s why we work throughout the year to support diversity in filmmaking across all of our programs. When those films complete production, we support our filmmakers in delivering them to audiences both near and far. With all of this in mind, I encourage you to be bold in your film selections. Think of each film as a trip to somewhere you wouldn’t normally visit or a conversation with someone you may not otherwise meet. More than ever, independent film is an adventure. Let’s start exploring.

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Keri Putnam Executive Director Sundance Institute

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Meeting the new crop of filmmakers each year is one of the most rewarding parts of my job. In New York and Los Angeles, we hold filmmaker orientations to share a few insider secrets about how to best navigate the impending Festival. It may seem obvious, but year after year the most helpful tip we offer is also the simplest: If you find yourself stressed out about your film or overwhelmed by the prospect of debuting to eager Sundance audiences, the one surefire way to put it all into perspective is to see a film. And if you really want to level your perspective, see a documentary. This always gets a laugh, but the point resonates. We are all here for the films—for the love of films, and for the wonder of experiencing them together. For those of you experiencing the Festival for the first time, I’d take it one step further. If you find yourself overwhelmed by the wonderful films onscreen (and I hope you do), do yourself a favor and engage with independent film culture in another way. Check out the panels, Cinema Café, concerts and music events, filmmaker interviews and other content on sundance.org, and of course New Frontier, where you can literally immerse yourself in the future of storytelling.

John Cooper Director Sundance Film Festival

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And when you leave the mountain, track the films you see here. Become an advocate for the power of the moving image to change the world. Share your Sundance stories with anyone who will listen because what we see and experience during these 10 days will inform the year ahead and become part of our collective histories.

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Along with our founder, board, staff, and volunteers, I am proud of the way the Sundance Film Festival has evolved. What originated in the 1980s as a small annual gathering for a burgeoning movement has become a fully realized cultural event that celebrates the artists, artistry, and community of independent film. You are at the center of this, and it is your engagement with the program that makes the Festival the dynamic event that it is. This year I urge you to participate once again to the fullest extent possible. See the films, of course. Talk to each other about the films you’ve seen and those still on your list. Most importantly, talk to the filmmakers, whom you’ll surely encounter during a Q&A or while on a shuttle.

Greetings! It is my pleasure to welcome you to Utah and the Sundance Film Festival. For more than a quarter of a century, Utah has been honored to support and host this yearly event that attracts film enthusiasts and artists from around the globe. We applaud Sundance Institute and Robert Redford for their work in organizing this event, which is known internationally as the premier festival for both American and international independent filmmakers. As governor, I hope you enjoy your time in Utah. Park City offers a wide variety of exciting activities, from the films themselves to the magnificent scenery and recreation opportunities that surround the distinctive venues. I also urge you to experience some of our other outstanding destinations—from downtown Salt Lake City, to the snow-capped mountains and ski resorts, to the many visually stunning state and national parks and recreation areas. Whether it’s winter or summer, Utah is the perfect destination for a vacation or, perhaps, a more permanent location for business. With its crisp mountain air, friendly people, and easy, affordable lifestyle, our state has become one of America’s best places for business and careers according to Forbes magazine, Pollina, Gallup, and other forward-thinking institutions. As part of a tight-knit community, our economic-development partners work efficiently and effectively to help companies expand in the state. So whether you’re considering a vacation spot or an opportunity to start, relocate, or expand a business, Utah is the place to do it! I wish to extend my thanks to Sundance Institute’s staff and the countless volunteers who offer their time and talents to make the Sundance Film Festival so successful. Best wishes for a “Life Elevated” experience here in Utah. Sincerely, Gary R. Herbert Governor

Welcome to the 2013 Sundance Film Festival! For the past 11 years, it has been my great honor to welcome all of you to both the Festival and the Park City community. As someone who has witnessed this event since its inception, I can say without hesitation that this has become the premier gathering in a community that hosts events throughout the year. The annual Sundance Film Festival is the largest collaboration that the city undertakes, and we take pride in our partnership with Sundance Institute in ensuring that it is always successful and one of the highlights of our year. If possible, I hope you will take in the rest of what Park City has to offer. This is the best week of the year to get in some skiing—no lines or crowds on the mountains. We also have world-class restaurants and great shopping. Please take the bus! Several years ago we were dubbed “No-Park City,” and this is still apt. Dozens of extra bus routes are made available to you during the film festival, so please take advantage of them. Park City and the surrounding area continue to provide great locations for all aspects of the film industry. A large range of films, television shows, and commercials are made here each year. The local population loves to support these activities just as they enjoy being part of the Sundance Film Festival. We continue to be a proud partner of the Sundance Film Festival and hope you enjoy this year’s events. All my best,

Dana Williams Mayor

The Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED), which includes the Utah Office of Tourism and the Utah Film Commission, would like to extend a warm welcome to all those attending the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. This premier international festival gives us the opportunity to honor the best of independent filmmaking from around the world. Utah is delighted to be the host state, supporting the world’s finest independent film festival. For more than 25 years, Utah has not only been the home of the Sundance Film Festival, but it has also provided filming locations, crew, talent, and services for previous Sundance Film Festival selections such as The Maldonado Miracle, Dark Matter, Edge of America, Adventures of Power, and Frozen. This year once again, Utah was a prime location for filmmakers: 40 feature film and television projects were shot here. From Antarctica in National Treasure to the city streets of Salt Lake City in SLC Punk!, Utah’s stunning locations have served as the backdrop for more than 900 films. During the golden age of westerns, Utah helped create the “look of the West,” which extends into the present day with Walt Disney Pictures’ The Lone Ranger, filmed in Moab and Monument Valley this past year. Complementing the diversity of Utah’s locations, we have more than 1,600 experienced film professionals and support-service providers who live and work here. Utah maintains an extensive selection of highquality production equipment and offers a competitive film-incentive program. Our air, road, and broadband infrastructure supports logistics efficiently for productions of any size. Not only is Utah a versatile and memorable filming environment, but it’s also a cost-effective choice. As good a place as it is for filming, Utah is also a great place to visit and to expand a business. Our three websites—film.utah.gov, business.utah.gov, and visitutah.com—are great places to find more information. We hope you enjoy your time in Utah, and we look forward to your return in the future. Sincerely,

Spencer P. Eccles Executive Director Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development DAVID WILLIAMS MARSHALL MOORE Acting Director Director Utah Office of Tourism Utah Film Commission

About SUNdance Institute Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences. Through its programs, the Institute seeks to discover, support, and inspire independent film and theatre artists from the United States and around the world, and to introduce audiences to their new work. Founded by Robert Redford in 1981 in the mountains of Sundance, Utah, the Institute has grown into an internationally recognized resource for thousands of independent artists. With its Sundance Film Festival and artistic development programs for filmmakers, screenwriters, documentarians, composers, editors, producers, playwrights, and theatre artists, the Institute advances originality, authenticity, and innovation in storytelling. The original values of independence, creative risk taking, and discovery continue to define and guide the work of Sundance Institute, both with U.S. and international artists.

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Lynn Nottage

George White

Sean Bailey

Heather Rae

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Jeanne Donovan Fisher

Stanley Tucci

Robert J. Frankenberg

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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George Gund

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Sundance Institute recognizes critical support from the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development and the State of Utah as Festival Host State.

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Everyone has a story to tell. In our 11th year as the Presenting Sponsor and Technology Partner of the Festival, HP will provide attendees—whether filmmakers or consumers, students or CEOs—the opportunity to get closer to the things that matter to them. HP extends the power of filmmaking, expands the boundaries of film production, opens up new channels for audiences to share and enjoy the final creations, and provides the technology that enables everyone to tell their own stories.

At Acura, we believe in independence and ingenuity. Which is why we constantly push the boundaries of automotive luxury and innovation with advanced technologies like Lane Keeping Assist, Forward Collision Warning and GPS-linked climate control. It’s also why we’re proud to sponsor events like the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Visit us at the Acura Studio on Main Street.

Sundance Channel and AMC Networks are proud partners in the continuing support of Sundance Institute and in furthering our shared mission to cultivate free expression, original thinking, and the power of creativity. Sundance Channel is the place for bold stories with a fresh point of view. As the network for independent television, Sundance Channel is dedicated to showcasing the creative community and distinctive stories that emerge from the Festival.

Chase Sapphire PreferredSM is a premier travel rewards card. We provide exclusive benefits, unique offers, and access to events that let our cardmembers enjoy more every day. So why not seize the opportunity to experience the perks and rewards of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival? As the official credit card of this year’s festival, Chase Sapphire is proud to offer cardmembers and attendees the best of the Festival both on and off screen.

DIRECTV, the world’s most popular television service, is proud to be a Leadership Sponsor of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. By providing consumers with more movies in 1080p HD than any other TV provider, DIRECTV provides a platform to showcase films in the highest possible image quality. DIRECTV is encouraging content providers, including filmmakers from across the globe, to explore the clarity and detail of high-definition filmmaking.

Entertainment Weekly is the leading brand dedicated to showcasing the very best in entertainment. With our sharp insight and trusted voice, we keep our audience plugged into pop culture. As a 22-year sponsor, we deliver all the excitement, the news, and the stories behind the Festival’s films and filmmakers. We are proud to lend our longstanding support to the world’s most influential film festival. Please join us in celebration of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

In its 42nd year of service, Dallasbased Southwest Airlines continues to differentiate itself from other carriers with exemplary customer service delivered by nearly 46,000 employees to more than 100 million customers annually. Southwest is the nation’s largest carrier in terms of originating passengers boarded, and including whollyowned subsidiary AirTran Airways, it operates the largest fleet of Boeing aircraft in the world to serve 97 destinations in 41 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and six nearby international countries.

While most carriers have ditched their unlimited data plans, Sprint has bucked the trend—remaining the only national carrier to still offer unlimited data. We salute those filmmakers who share the passion of sticking to their guns and doing what they feel is right. It’s their unwavering dedication that makes us a proud sponsor of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe. We’re proud to support innovative filmmaking and creative storytellers as an official sponsor of the Sundance Film Festival and the exclusive presenter of the Shorts Programs. Discover more remarkable short films and emerging artists all year long in The Screening Room, a new YouTube channel curated by Sundance Institute, at youtube.com/screeningroom.

FOCUS FORWARD - Short Films, Big Ideas, a partnership between GE and Cinelan, is a series of 30 three-minute films about innovative people who are rereshaping the world through act or invention, directed by the world’s most celebrated documentary filmmakers. FOCUS FORWARD films have educated and inspired global audiences over the past 18 months. Films by Morgan Spurlock and Albert Maysles will premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and the five winners of the FOCUS FORWARD $200,000 Filmmaker Competition will be showcased at events during the Festival. www.focusforwardfilms.com

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Contributors The following contributors provide a broad range of support for Sundance Institute. The Industry Alliances are populated with leaders in the film industry who are valued members of the Sundance Film Festival Industry Office and whose support helps to sustain the work of the Institute’s artist programs. Institute Associates maintain a year-round working relationship with the Institute, characterized by mutually aligned missions that nurture independent vision and thought. Through their donations of in-kind goods and services, Official Providers help sustain Festival operations, keeping expenses at a minimum and directing more funds to the Institute’s core programs. Industry Alliances

Official Providers

A&E IndieFilms BET Networks Big Beach Focus Features Millennium Entertainment Sony Pictures Classics Stage 6 Films UTA WME

90.9 FM KRCL Community Connection All Seasons Resort Lodging AWEARNESS, The Kenneth Cole Foundation Ballard Spahr LLP Barco, Inc. Bill White Enterprises Canyons Resort CDS—A Consolidated Graphics Company CTI Solutions Cuisine Unlimited Catering & Special Events Dolby Laboratories Inc. Done To Your Taste Catering and Events Evans & Sutherland Express Shuttle Film Independent The Hollywood Reporter Identity Properties image.net/WireImage/Getty Images Independent Filmmaker Project Industrial Light & Magic Infinite Scale Design Group Jupiter Bowl Entertainment KXRK “X96” 96.3 FM LaCroix Sparkling and Shasta Beverages Laser Exhibitor Service Livestream Miderra Transportation Management The Nation O’Melveny & Myers LLP O.C. Tanner Jewelers Ola Loa “Fizzy” Vitamins Park City Lodging Inc. Park City Marriott Park City Rental Properties Peery’s Egyptian Theater at the Ogden Eccles Conference Center

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A3 Foundation American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) The Blackhouse Foundation BMI Carnegie Mellon University: Master of Entertainment Industry Management CNN Films Comcast and Universal Studios Consulate General of Canada Creative America Directors Guild of America Fusion-io Impact Partners NYU Tisch School of the Arts Outdoor Retailer Panama Film Commission ro*co films and the International Documentary Association SAGIndie The Vladar Company Women In Film Los Angeles Writers Guild of America, West Zions Bank

Rastar, Inc ResortQuest by Wyndham Vacations Resorts West Luxury Lodging Ruckus Wireless, Inc Salt Lake Marriott City Center Scala Digital Signage Software THE SHOP Yoga Studio Silver Restaurant Sixteen19 The Sky Lodge Smith’s Tix Sony Electronics Stewart Filmscreen StorSimple, a Microsoft Company Sundance Catalog Talisker Taylor Creative Inc. Technicolor—PostWorks, New York Todd Oldham Studio Trolley Square VARIETY Visit Salt Lake Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging Wilshire Screening Room Beverly Hills, California The Yarrow Resort Hotel & Conference Center

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$1,000,000 and Above The Annenberg Foundation Ford Foundation Open Society Foundations The Skoll Foundation

$500,000–$999,999 National Endowment for the Arts

$100,000 and Above Anonymous B.Co Philip Fung—A3 Foundation Sheila C. Johnson Lyn and Norman Lear The Steve Tisch Foundation

$500,000–$999,999 Bertha Foundation Cinereach Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art The Charles Engelhard Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Time Warner Foundation $250,000–$499,999 The James Irvine Foundation The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $100,000–$249,999 George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation Wallace Global Fund $50,000–$99,999 Hollywood Foreign Press Association The Shubert Foundation, Inc. $25,000–$49,999 LUMA Foundation Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund / Dolby Family Foundation Theatre Communications Group Zygmunt and Audrey Wilf Foundation

$250,000–$499,999 Governor’s Office of Economic Development $100,000–$249,999 National Endowment for the Humanities Summit County Restaurant Tax $50,000–$99,999 Institute of Museum and Library Services Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts, and Parks Program Summit County Recreation, Arts and Parks $10,000–$24,999 President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities Visit Salt Lake Special thanks to the State of Utah, Park City Municipal Corporation, the Park City Visitors Bureau, and the Park City Film Commission.

Corporations Candescent Films The Creators Project, a partnership between Intel and VICE Hilton Worldwide Indian Paintbrush Mumbai Mantra Media, LTD NHK Enterprises, Inc. RT Features Skywalker Sound Sundial Pictures, LLC

$50,000–$99,999 Robert J. Abernethy—Chairman, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Dwight and Julie Anderson Sean and Charmaine Bailey Kenneth and Maria Cole Jeanne Donovan Fisher The J. A. & H. G. Woodruff Jr. Charitable Trust Robert and Linda Frankenberg George Gund Mellody Hobson Cindy Harrell Horn and Alan Horn Anuradha and Anand Mahindra Pat Mitchell and Scott Seydel Ruth Mutch Joan and Lewis Platt Foundation Geoff and Elena Sands Jim and Susan Swartz Byron and Tina Trott Stanley Tucci John and Marva Warnock Sheila and Wally Weisman The Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Foundation $25,000–$49,999 Anonymous Katherine and Paul Bettner Dr. Jan Broberg Carter Chris and Sarah Carter Jack and Marianne Ferraro Green Family Foundation William and Ruth Ann Harnisch— William F. Harnisch Foundation Margaret and Ken Jacobs Wes Swenson—C7 Data Centers Mike Kaeske Chris Kelly and Jennifer Carrico Hank Louis Nion McEvoy Mr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Myers Anne O’Shea and Brian Quattrini— Minerva Productions LLC Doug Phelps Susanne Preissler—Independent Media, Inc. Rose-Lee and Keith Reinhard Burton and Stephanie Ritchie Fred Rosen and Nadine Schiff-Rosen David Wanek and Maribeth Portz David and Christine Watson

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Throughout the past year, generous program support received from the following donors helped sustain Sundance Institute’s ability to serve independent film and theatre artists in numerous ways. We are deeply grateful to each of them.

ABOUT SUNDANCE INSTITUTE Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization that discovers, develops, and presents original stories year-round and worldwide for the screen and stage. The Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artist-support programs provide independent artists with the opportunity to explore their stories free from commercial and political pressures. Through the Sundance Film Festival and other public programs, the Institute takes those stories to global audiences. From strategic and creative resources for artists, to opportunities for audiences to experience the best new work in film and theatre, to arts education and advocacy, the Institute continually seeks out ways to advance the impact of independent storytelling throughout the world.

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The Sundance Film Festival brings the most original storytellers together with the most adventurous audiences for its annual program of dramatic and documentary films; shorts; New Frontier films, installations, and performances; a series of panel discussions; and dynamic music events. Since 1985, hundreds of films launched at the Festival have gained critical recognition, received commercial distribution, and reached worldwide audiences eager for fresh perspectives and new voices.

On January 31, after the Festival has ended, Sundance Film Festival U.S.A. takes 10 films and filmmakers directly from Park City to 10 cities nationwide. During the Festival, a selection of short films from the official Festival program will debut in the YouTube Screening Room, with two new shorts curated by Sundance programmers added every week throughout the year. Year after year, the Festival pursues new ways to introduce more people to the most original and authentic storytelling currently available.

FEATURE FILM PROGRAM

DOCUMENTARY FILM PROGRAM

The Feature Film Program provides year-round support for emerging filmmakers and their projects, focusing on authentic voices and deeply human stories that push the creative boundaries of cinematic storytelling. Each year, up to 25 filmmakers from the U.S. and around the world participate in a continuum of support, including Screenwriters and Directors Labs, artist grants, and ongoing creative and business advice and resources. To develop and support the next generation of independent producers, the Creative Producing Initiative offers labs, fellowships, and networking opportunities.

The Documentary Film Program identifies and nurtures innovative nonfiction storytelling globally, supporting 30–50 documentary film projects annually that surface stories of human rights, social justice, freedom of expression, civil liberties, and other pressing issues for global audiences. The Documentary Film Program includes the Sundance Documentary Fund, labs, workshops, and convergences worldwide, a Creative Producers Lab focused on documentaries, and other initiatives. The program comprises one of the world’s foremost resources for nonfiction filmmakers, reflecting the Institute’s commitment to independent documentary as an increasingly global art form and a critical cultural component of the twenty-first century.

The 2013 Sundance Film Festival includes the following projects supported by the Feature Film Program: • Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (Director and screenwriter: David Lowery) • Blue Caprice (Director: Alexandre Moors, screenwriters: R. F. I. Porto, Alexandre Moors) • Concussion (Director and screenwriter: Stacie Passon) • E.m-bed.de/d, Datamosh, and Augmented Real (Artist: Yung Jake) • Fill the Void (Director and screenwriter: Rama Burshtein) • Fruitvale (Director and screenwriter: Ryan Coogler) • It Felt Like Love (Director and screenwriter: Eliza Hittman) • May in the Summer (Director and screenwriter: Cherien Dabis) • Mother of George (Director: Andrew Dosunmu, screenwriter: Darci Picoult) • A Teacher (Director and screenwriter: Hannah Fidell) • This Is Martin Bonner (Director and screenwriter: Chad Hartigan)

The 2013 Sundance Film Festival includes the following projects supported by the Documentary Film Program: • 99%—The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (Directors: Audrey Ewell, Aaron Aites, Lucian Read, Nina Krstic) • After Tiller (Directors: Martha Shane, Lana Wilson) • American Promise (Directors: Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson) • ANITA (Director: Freida Mock) • Citizen Koch (Directors: Carl Deal, Tia Lessin) • Dirty Wars (Director: Richard Rowley) • Fallen City (Director: Zhao Qi) • Gideon’s Army (Director: Dawn Porter) • God Loves Uganda (Director: Roger Ross Williams) • The Square (Al Midan) (Director: Jehane Noujaim) • When I Walk (Director: Jason DaSilva) • Who Is Dayani Cristal? (Director: Marc Silver)

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The Native and Indigenous Program reflects the commitment to Native cinema that is woven throughout the Institute’s history. Recognizing the creative and artistic power inherent in Indigenous artists, this initiative supports the development of Native artists and the exhibition of their work across all of the Institute’s programs. The Sundance Film Festival programs Indigenous films in all of its major categories.

The Film Music Program enhances the tone of independent film by bringing composers together with emerging filmmakers and seasoned advisors to explore the different ways that music works in film. During the Festival, film and music lovers are brought together through A Celebration of Music in Film, a concert event celebrating the music of Festival films. BMI presents a roundtable discussion on the creative process of putting music to film as well as the BMI Snowball Music Showcase. During the Festival, ASCAP presents the Sundance Music Café, a dynamic showcase for live performances by emerging and established artists and bands. And when the sun goes down, night sessions at the Music Café offer music with connections to the Festival program. Also—new for 2013—KCRW presents three special nights at the Music Café.

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THEATRE PROGRAM

The Theatre Program identifies and assists emerging and established theatre artists and supports the development of new work through distinct labs and retreats. With these and other comprehensive avenues of support for artists, the program has helped bring to fruition some of the most compelling American theatre of recent years, including Pulitzer Prize– and Tony Award–winning I Am My Own Wife, Tony Award–winning A Light in the Piazza, Spring Awakening, Grey Gardens, Passing Strange, and many others. Its East Africa Lab creates opportunities for creative exchange and opportunities between American artists and East African writers, directors, and performers.

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Film Forward is an international touring program designed to create greater cultural understanding, collaboration, and dialogue around the globe by engaging audiences through the exhibition of films, workshops, and conversations with filmmakers. Film Forward is an initiative of Sundance Institute and the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. In 2013, the program heads to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Taiwan, Colombia, and Jordan with domestic locations including California’s Imperial Valley/Mexicali, Mexico, Maine, Puerto Rico, and Washington state.

As the newest of Sundance Institute’s major programs, the #ArtistServices initiative is a groundbreaking collection of partnerships that enable alumni filmmakers to achieve more creative, independent, and strategic distribution solutions for their work. As a companion to the Institute’s programs focused on creative development of the highest-quality films, #ArtistServices provides tactical support to engage audiences and track that engagement using a wide array of tools available exclusively through partnerships developed by Sundance Institute. Access to digital distribution is available to all Institute-supported feature-length films via partnerships with iTunes, Amazon VOD, Hulu, Netflix, SnagFilms, Sony Entertainment Network, SundanceNOW, Vudu, Xbox, Fractured Atlas, WatchIt, and YouTube. The exclusive aggregation partner for distribution across all portals participating in the #ArtistServices program is Cinedigm Entertainment Group. #ArtistServices maintains the Institute’s curated pages on Kickstarter.com, the world’s largest platform for funding creative projects online. Additionally, an arrangement with Topspin Media provides alumni with marketing and sales solutions.

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The Sundance Collection at UCLA is a unique archive devoted to preserving independent film, with the goal of saving important works and making them accessible to new audiences as they were intended to be seen: on the big screen. Formed in partnership with the UCLA Film and Television Archive and growing through the support of donor companies and individual filmmakers, the Collection now contains more than 800 films. The Institute’s newly launched Collector’s Circle is comprised of a group of donors with a specific commitment to preserving independent cinema.

Sundance Institute Archives is dedicated to preserving and facilitating access to the history of Sundance Institute, and to the creative processes of the film and theatre artists supported by the Institute since its founding by Robert Redford in 1981. Holdings include a wide range of photographs, films and videos, documents, and more. Selections of archival material are occasionally featured in temporary exhibitions in conjunction with the Sundance Film Festival, Labs, and other Institute activities.

This year, the Collection presents a special screening of director Robert Rodriguez’s El Mariachi, followed by a Q&A with Rodriguez and cast members.

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27 An Artist at the Table

232 Power of Story

28 Designing the Sundance Film Festival

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79 THE FILMS

235 Cinema Café

80 U.S. Dramatic Competition

236 Music at the Festival

97 U.S. Documentary Competition

263 Gone but Not Forgotten

114 World Cinema Dramatic Competition

264 Utah Advisory Board

127 World Cinema Documentary Competition

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159 Documentary Premieres 172 Spotlight 180 NEXT 191

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201 From the Collection 217 Shorts Programs 226 Shorts Filmmakers

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203 NEW FRONTIER 204 New Frontier: Immersive Screenings 205 New Frontier: Art 208 New Frontier: Connect 209 New Frontier: Films

273 Screeners, Consultants, and Vendors 274 Festival Volunteers 283 Contributors 285 Indices

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The Sundance Film Festival expands to audiences across the country for one special night of film and dialogue. On January 31, the Sundance Film Festival dispatches 10 filmmakers to 10 cities across the country to screen and discuss their direct-fromFestival films with audiences. Southwest Airlines is the Official Airline of Sundance Film Festival U.S.A.

Ann Arbor, MI

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Chicago, IL

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La Vida Es Silbar Fernando Pérez Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her Rodrigo Garcia La Ciénaga Lucrecia Martel

Waiting for the Clouds Yesim Ustaoglu Me and You and Everyone We Know Miranda July

May in the Summer: 2011 Sundance Institute / NHK Award winner

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The Clone Returns Home Kanji Nakajima

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La Mirada Invisible Diego Lerman

Sleep Dealer Alex Rivera

Lake Tahoe Fernando Eimbcke

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Awards and competition juries 2013 Sundance Film Festival Awards and Award Sponsors The culmination of the Sundance Film Festival is the Awards Ceremony. The competition juries, comprised of individuals from the worldwide film community with original and diverse points of view, select films from both the documentary and dramatic categories to receive a range of awards. Decided by Festivalgoers’ ballots, Audience Awards are bestowed upon films in each of the Festival’s four competition categories.

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Documentary Editing Award The Documentary Competition jury and the World Cinema Documentary Competition jury both choose a film to receive this specific award, which honors excellence in editing.

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Audience Awards Audience Awards are bestowed upon films based on the results of ballots cast by Festivalgoers at the theatres after screenings. Audience Awards are presented to films in the Festival’s Dramatic Competition, Documentary Competition, World Cinema Dramatic Competition, and World Cinema Documentary Competition.

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Jury, U.S. Dramatic Competition Ed Burns

Writer/director/actor Ed Burns gained international recognition for his first feature film, The Brothers McMullen, which won the dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. The film became the most profitable film of the year and won the award for best first feature at the 1996 Independent Spirit Awards. Other writing, directing, and acting credits include She’s the One (1996); Sidewalks of New York (2001); Purple Violets (2007), which won the best film award at the Savannah Film and Video Festival; Nice Guy Johnny (2010), Newlyweds (2011), and The Fitzgerald Family Christmas (2012), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. His acting credits include Saving Private Ryan (1998), Confidence (2003), Friends with Kids (2011), and Man on a Ledge (2012).

wesley morris

Wesley Morris writes about movies, culture, and sports style for Grantland. He won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for criticism for his film and culture writing for the Boston Globe, which included essays on the films of Sydney Lumet, the legacy of Steve Jobs, and the complexities of race in The Help and The Fast and the Furious series. His work has also appeared in Slate, Film Comment, and Ebony. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

rodrigo prieto

Rodrigo Prieto is a cinematographer from Mexico City. His feature film work includes Sobrenatural, which garnered him Mexico’s Ariel Award in 1996, and Un Embrujo (Under a Spell), which won the Concha de Plata for best cinematography at the San Sebastían International Film Festival along with another Ariel Award. Amores Perros brought him to the attention of the world film community. For his work on Brokeback Mountain, Prieto was nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA, and an American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) award. Babel earned a second BAFTA nomination. His work on Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution merited the Golden Osella award for best cinematography at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Recent work includes Water for Elephants, We Bought a Zoo, and Argo.

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tom rothman

Tom Rothman is one of the most experienced executives in the modern media business. He recently departed as chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment after 18 years, second in tenure only to Darryl Zanuck in the company’s history. Previously he worked at the Samuel Goldwyn Company, at Columbia Pictures, and as a lawyer and independent producer. Under his leadership, Fox earned more than 30 billion dollars, received more than 150 Academy Award nominations, won three best picture awards, and produced the two highest-grossing films ever: Avatar and Titanic. Rothman founded Fox Searchlight and has overseen the company throughout its existence. As a pioneer of independent film, he coproduced Jim Jarmusch’s Down by Law (1986) and Robert Frank’s Candy Mountain (1988). Rothman is an emeritus board member of Sundance Institute and attended the very first Sundance Film Festival.

clare stewart

Clare Stewart has been head of exhibition at the British Film Institute (BFI) since October 2011. She is responsible for the cultural and commercial performance of BFI Southbank and BFI’s festivals, including acting as the director of the BFI London Film Festival. Previously Stewart’s 17-year programming career has included roles as director of the Sydney Film Festival from 2006 to 2011 and the inaugural head of film programs at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne from 2002 to 2006. She worked at the Australian Film Institute from 1996 to 2001, where she was the exhibition manager and a programmer, and served as a committee member of the Melbourne Cinémathèque from 1995 to 2002.

Jury, U.S. documentary Competition liz garbus

Academy Award–nominated, Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus’s latest film, Love, Marilyn, premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and was acquired by HBO. In 2011, her Bobby Fischer Against the World premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, earned an Emmy nomination for best nonfiction special, and won Great Britain’s prestigious Grierson Award for best documentary. Garbus’s first documentary film, The Farm: Angola, USA, won the documentary Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, received 10 other festival and critics’ awards, and was nominated for an Academy Award. Garbus is also executive producer of the Academy Award–nominated film Street Fight and producer of the Academy Award–nominated short, Killing in the Name. She is a fellow of the Open Society Institute’s Center on Crime, Communities, and Culture.

davis guggenheim

Davis Guggenheim is a critically acclaimed, Academy Award–winning director and producer, whose work includes Waiting for “Superman,” which won the documentary Audience Award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival; It Might Get Loud, which screened at the Festival in 2009; and An Inconvenient Truth, featuring former vice president Al Gore, which played at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and won the Academy Award for best documentary feature in 2007. In 2008, Davis produced and directed President Barack Obama’s biographical film, A Mother’s Promise, and followed that in 2012 with The Road We’ve Traveled, a short film for Obama’s campaign. Guggenheim has also directed many television series, including Deadwood, NYPD Blue, and 24.

gary hustwit

Gary Hustwit is an independent filmmaker based in New York and London. He worked with punk label SST Records in the late 1980s, ran the independent book-publishing house Incommunicado Press during the 1990s, and was vice president of the media website Salon.com in 2000. Hustwit has produced nine documentaries, beginning with I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (2002) about the band Wilco. In 2007, he made his directorial debut with Helvetica, a documentary about graphic design and typography that became the first of a trilogy on design: Objectified, about product design, followed in 2009, and Urbanized, about the design of cities, premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. Hustwit is a longtime advocate of self-distribution, direct audience engagement, and truly independent filmmaking.

diane weyermann

Diane Weyermann is Participant Media’s executive vice president for documentary films, where she oversees such current projects as A Place at the Table and State 194 plus earlier releases like An Inconvenient Truth; Food, Inc.; and Waiting for “Superman.” In 1996, she launched the Soros Documentary Fund, which later became the Sundance Documentary Fund. Prior to working at Participant Media, Weyermann was the director of the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program, where she was responsible for administering the Sundance Documentary Fund, overseeing two annual documentary film labs, and working closely with Sundance Film Festival programmers on world documentaries.

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Brett Morgen is a director and writer. His credits include Crossfire Hurricane (2012); 30 for 30: June 17, 1994 (2010); Chicago 10, which opened the 2007 Sundance Film Festival; Nimrod Nation (2007); The Kid Stays in the Picture, which screened at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival; and On the Ropes, which won a Special Jury Prize at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, earned the DGA award for outstanding directorial achievement and the IDA award for best feature documentary, and was nominated for an Academy Award. Morgen’s films have also garnered two Peabody Awards. He is currently working on the first authorized documentary about Kurt Cobain and is in preproduction on When the Street Lights Go On, his feature dramatic debut.

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Jury, world cinema Dramatic Competition anurag kashyap

Anurag Kashyap was born in Gorakhpur, India, and studied zoology at the University of Delhi. His features as director include Paanch (2003), Black Friday (2004), No Smoking (2007), Dev. D (2009), That Girl in Yellow Boots (2010), and the two-part Gangs of Wasseypur (2012), which is screening in the Spotlight section of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. His screenwriting credits include Deepa Mehta’s Genie Award–winning Water (2005). His films have made him a representative of the new wave of Indian cinema at various prestigious places across the globe.

nadine labaki

Born in Lebanon, Nadine Labaki is an acclaimed filmmaker and actress. In 2005, she took part in the Cannes Résidence du Festival program to write Caramel, her first feature film, which premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. In 2008, Variety included Labaki on its “10 Directors to Watch” list. In the same year, she also received the insignia of Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Ministry of Culture and Communications. Her second feature film, Where Do We Go Now?, premiered in Un Certain Regard at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and won the Cadillac People’s Choice Award at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. Where Do We Go Now? also played at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for best foreign film at the Critics’ Choice Awards.

joana vicente

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Joana Vicente is an award-winning producer. She has been the executive director of the non-profit IFP—the Independent Filmmaker Project—since December 2009. Prior to this, she produced or executive-produced more than 40 features by such acclaimed directors as Jim Jarmusch, Brian De Palma, Hal Hartley, Miguel Arteta, Nicole Holofcener, and Todd Solondz. In 2007, she received the Made in NY Award for individuals who have made outstanding contributions to New York City’s entertainment industry. Vicente has produced 20 films that have screened at the Sundance Film Festival, including two Grand Jury Prizewinners: Welcome to the Dollhouse in 1996 and Three Seasons in 1999.

Jury, world cinema documentary Competition sean farnel

Sean Farnel specializes in festivals and digital distribution, primarily for creative documentaries. Prior to working independently, he was director of programming at Hot Docs in Toronto—North America’s largest documentary festival, market, and conference. He started his career at the Toronto International Film Festival, where he became a staff programmer specializing in documentaries and learning programs. Farnel is a graduate in cinema studies from one of Canada’s most respected film programs at Concordia University. Upon graduation he received the Motion Picture Foundation of Canada Award for Most Outstanding Achievement.

robert hawk

Robert Hawk is a longtime consultant/advisor to filmmakers and film festivals. He has had his own business, filmhawk.com, for 20 years and been a part of the indie film scene for 30, beginning as a researcher on Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s The Times of Harvey Milk and The Celluloid Closet, both of which screened at the Sundance Film Festival. He has served on festival juries and panels from Orlando to Oberhausen, curated film programs from the Kennedy Center to the Hanoi Cinematheque, and was on the Sundance Film Festival’s Competition Selection Advisory Board for its entire existence (1987–1998). His producer credits include Ballets Russes, Paul Goodman Changed My Life, and Prodigal Sons, and his consultant credits (among hundreds) include Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, My Architect, and The Laramie Project.

enat sidi

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Born and raised in Tel Aviv, Enat Sidi is very active as an editor in the American documentary film world. She is a frequent collaborator with directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady and has edited most of their nonfiction feature films, including the 2005 Emmy nominee, The Boys of Baraka; the 2006 Academy Award nominee Jesus Camp; the HBO Peabody Award winner 12th & Delaware, which screened at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival; and most recently Detropia, for which Sidi won the Documentary Editing Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Sidi recently acted as the consulting editor on Bully, the high-profile documentary released in 2012 by the Weinstein Company.

Jury, shorts competition mike farah

Mike Farah is the president of production for Funny or Die (funnyordie.com), overseeing the creative day-today operations for the premiere comedy website, along with its television and feature projects. He produced the award-winning videos “Prop 8: The Musical”; “Presidential Reunion,” which was directed by Ron Howard; and Marion Cotillard’s “Forehead Tittaes,” among many others. He is an executive producer of Funny or Die’s Billy on the Street, which airs on Fuse, and also produced the feature film Answer This!, written and directed by his brother, Chris Farah, in 2011. In 2010, The Hollywood Reporter named Farah one of the top 35 Hollywood executives under 35.

don hertzfeldt

Don Hertzfeldt is an American independent filmmaker whose animated films have screened around the world, collectively receiving more than 200 awards. He has had six films play in competition at the Sundance Film Festival—It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012), Wisdom Teeth (2010), I Am So Proud of You (2009), The Meaning of Life (2005), and Rejected (2001), which was nominated for an Academy Award. His animated short film, Everything Will Be OK, received the Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. His most recent project, It’s Such a Beautiful Day, is his first animated feature film.

magali simard

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Magali Simard is a short film programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and works in programming at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. She has been with the Lightbox since 2006, working on its new release program, Canada’s Top Ten, the Student Film Showcase, the Canadian Open Vault, and the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. She has hosted film discussions for Ryerson University, the National Screen Institute of Canada, the Canadian Film Centre, and the National Film Board of Canada and has written for various online publications. Simard also frequently hosts screenings at TIFF’s film trivia evenings.

the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film prize Jake Schreier and Christopher D. Ford’s Robot and Frank and Musa Syeed’s Valley of Saints (2012); Mike Cahill’s Another Earth (2011); Diane Bell’s Obselidia (2010); Max Mayer’s Adam (2009); Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer (2008); Chen Shi-Zheng’s Dark Matter (2007); Andrucha Waddington’s The House of Sand (2006); Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man (2005); Shane Carruth’s Primer (2004); and Mark Decena’s Dopamine (2003) are the Sundance Film Festival entries that have received the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize. Created to recognize and celebrate an outstanding feature film addressing ideas or characters central to science or technology, the juried prize is awarded through a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Sundance Institute’s Science in Film Initiative.

Jake Schreier and Christopher D. Ford

Celebrating its tenth anniversary at Sundance Institute this year, the initiative supports emerging filmmakers whose work heightens public awareness of science in our culture, illustrates the vital and unique role of scientists and their work in our society, and highlights the special possibilities of communicating through independent film. In addition to the prize, this Initiative also underwrites the development of projects with science and technology themes through the Sloan Commissioning Grant and the Sloan Fellowship in the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program at the Sundance Labs, as well as expanding public discourse about science and cinema through a dedicated forum at the Sundance Film Festival. Panelists and jurors over the past 10 years include Darren Aronofsky, Lawrence Krauss, Ann Druyan, Rodney Brooks, Antonio Damasio, Brian Greene, Alan Alda, Sean Carroll, Marvin Minsky, Mike Cahill, John Underkoffler, Alex Rivera, Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Nicholas Meyer, Jon Amiel, Clark Gregg, and Margaret Lamone. A committee of film and science professionals will select this year’s prizewinner from among the films screening at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, based on the artistic quality of the film as well as the dramatization of science and technology themes and/or characters. These jurors include the following:

Scott Burns is screenwriter, director, and producer whose screenplays include Contagion, The Informant!, The Bourne Ultimatum, and Pu-239, which he also directed. He was a producer on the Academy Award–winning An Inconvenient Truth. Dr. André Fenton, professor at New York University’s Center for Neural Science, is a neuroscientist, biomedical engineer, and entrepreneur whose work relates to memory, electrical brain activity, and cognitive dysfunction. Dr. Lisa Randall studies theoretical particle physics and cosmology at Harvard University, where she is a Frank J. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science. She is also the author of Warped Passages and Knocking on Heaven’s Door and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees.

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Paula Apsell, director of the WGBH Science Unit and senior executive producer of the nation’s most watched science series, PBS’s NOVA, has overseen hundreds of acclaimed, award-winning science documentaries, including The Fabric of the Cosmos with Brian Greene.

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OffScreen

Presenting the world premieres of 16 narrative feature films, the Dramatic Competition offers a first look at groundbreaking new voices in American independent film.

Pure, bold works distinguished by an innovative, forward-thinking approach to storytelling. Digital technology paired with unfettered creativity promises that the films in this section will inform a “greater” next wave in American cinema. < = >

Round out your Festival experience with music, art, and conversation. From solo acts and bands performing throughout the Festival to panels and discussions that bring emerging and veteran filmmakers together with industry leaders, Offscreen offers a cultural outlet for Festivalgoers outside the theatre.

U.S. Documentary Competition Sixteen world-premiere documentaries that illuminate the ideas, people, and events that shape the present day.

World Cinema Dramatic Competition Twelve films from emerging filmmaking talents offer fresh perspectives and inventive styles.

World Cinema Documentary Competition Twelve documentaries by some of the most courageous and extraordinary filmmakers working today.

Premieres A showcase of world premieres of some of the most highly anticipated dramatic films of the coming year. Presented by Entertainment Weekly.

Documentary Premieres Renowned filmmakers and films about huge subjects comprise this section highlighting our ongoing commitment to documentaries. Each is a world premiere.

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Spotlight

Regardless of where these films have played throughout the world, the Spotlight program is a tribute to the cinema we love.

Park City at midnight From horror flicks to comedies to works that defy any genre, these unruly films will keep you edgeseated and wide awake. Each is a world premiere.

New Frontier With media installations, multimedia performances, transmedia experiences, panels, films, and more, New Frontier highlights work that celebrates experimentation and the expansion of cinema culture through the convergence of film, art, and new media technology.

Shorts Intensely personal, outrageously funny, fantastically abstract...the possibilities within the short film form are limitless. Our Shorts Programs put exciting talent on display with work that takes risks and explores our world. We strive to find films that tell vibrant tales—vivid fiction, powerful true stories, and inspired animation all have a home here. Presented by YouTube.

From the Collection Rediscover classic works of independent cinema as the Sundance Film Festival presents a film from the vaults of the Sundance Institute Collection at UCLA. A unique archive devoted to preserving indie film, the Collection exists not only to save important works that would otherwise disappear but also to make them accessible to new audiences and show them as they were intended to be seen: on the big screen. Formed in partnership with the UCLA Film and Television Archive and growing through the support of donor companies and individual filmmakers, the Collection now contains more than 800 films.

Sundance Film Festival U.S.A. The Sundance Film Festival expands to audiences across the country for one special night of film and dialogue. On January 31, the Sundance Film Festival dispatches 10 filmmakers to 10 cities across the country to screen and discuss their direct-fromFestival films with audiences. Southwest Airlines is the Official Airline of Sundance Film Festival U.S.A.

Festival On the Go 2013 Mobile App presented by HP Put the entire Festival experience into your pocket—download the iPhone, iPad, or Android version of our ozfficial 2013 mobile app presented by HP. Explore the full Festival program, discover films and events, research Festival history, read exclusive articles and blogs, locate venues using GPS and maps, browse photo galleries, and connect to other Festivalgoers on social media sites. Apps are available in the iTunes App Store and Android Marketplace. Also be sure to catch complete round-the-clock Festival coverage with videos, filmmakers’ blogs, and photos at sundance.org. Enjoy exclusive live streams throughout the 10 days at sundance.org — including the opening day press conference, Cinema Cafés, and closing night Awards Ceremony.

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Films are generally followed by a Q&A with the director and selected members of the cast and crew. There are some exceptions.

Director of Programming Trevor Groth

All films are shown in 35mm, DCP, or HDCAM.

SENIOR PROGRAMMERS David Courier, Shari Frilot, Caroline Libresco, John Nein

Special thanks to Dolby Laboratories, Inc. for its support of our digital cinema projection.

PROGRAMMERS Charlie Reff, Kim Yutani

Director, Sundance Film Festival John Cooper

ASSOCIATE PROGRAMMERS Sudeep Sharma, Heidi Zwicker SHORTS PROGRAMMERS Emily Doe, Ernesto Foronda, Jon Korn, Katie Metcalfe, Lisa Ogdie, Mike Plante, Kim Yutani, Landon Zakheim

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Barbara Bannon, Toby Brooks, Christine Davila, Rebecca Katz, Shannon Kelley, Adam Montgomery, Cara Mertes, Owl Johnson, Adam Piron, Basil Tsiokos, Lisa Viola, Rosie Wong

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In a perfect storm of hilarious writing, performance, and direction, first-timer Jill Soloway pinpoints the ambivalence of privileged, educated women seduced by an idealized vision of marriage and motherhood, yet deadened by the stultifying realities of preschool auctions, lackluster sex lives, and careers that have gone kaput. Afternoon Delight compassionately revels in the existential trials of a Peter Pan generation battling too many choices, resisting adulthood, and distractedly tapping their iPhones instead of tuning in to what matters. —C.L.

Director/Screenwriter: Jill Soloway Executive Producers: Julie Parker Benello, Allen Benello, James Burke, Chris Miller, Chris Kuenne, Rick Rosenthal, Nick Morton Producers: Jen Chaiken, Sebastian Dungan Cinematographer: Jim Frohna Editor: Catherine Haight Composer: Craig Wedren Music Supervisor: Bruce Gilbert Principal Cast: Kathryn Hahn, Juno Temple, Josh Radnor, Jane Lynch Monday, January 21, 9:45 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 8:30 a.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 9:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Thursday, January 24, 11:30 a.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 11:30 a.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Jill Soloway Jill Soloway has worked in television for more than a decade as the writer and coexecutive producer of the HBO series Six Feet Under and the writer and producer for Dreamworks Television’s United States of Tara and HBO’s How to Make It in America. Her short film Una Hora por Favora premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Afternoon Delight is Soloway’s debut narrative feature film. Sebastian Dungan 72 Productions www.72productions.com (310) 278-1221, ext. 32

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Rachel is a quick-witted and lovable, yet tightly coiled, thirtysomething steeped in the creative class of Los Angeles’s bohemian, affluent Silver Lake neighborhood. Everything looks just right—chic modernist home, successful husband, adorable child, and a hipster wardrobe. So why is she going out of her gourd with ennui? Plagued by purposelessness, Rachel visits a strip club to spice up her marriage and ends up meeting McKenna, a stripper whom she becomes obsessed with saving. She decides to adopt McKenna as her live-in nanny, and this bold move unleashes unimagined and colorful waves of change into her life and community. It becomes clear that Rachel is feverishly, desperately trying to save her own sense of who she is.

U.S.A., 2012, 99 min., color

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Ain’t Them Bodies Saints Bob Muldoon and Ruth Guthrie, an impassioned young outlaw couple on an extended crime spree, are finally apprehended by lawmen after a shootout in the Texas hills. Although Ruth wounds a local officer, Bob takes the blame. But four years later, Bob escapes from prison and sets out to find Ruth and their daughter, born during his incarceration.

David Lowery David Lowery is a filmmaker from Texas.

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The barren landscapes of David Lowery’s poetic feature evoke the mythology of westerns and saturate the dramatic space with fatalism and an aching sense of loss. Aided by powerfully restrained performances by Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, and Ben Foster, Lowery incorporates an unnerving tension into the film, teetering it at the edge of violence. The beautiful, irreconcilable dilemma of the story is that Ruth— compelled by the responsibilities of motherhood and her evolving relationship with the deputy she shot—remains haunted by her intense feelings for Bob. Each of them longs for some form of peace. Ironically, it’s Bob, the unrepentant criminal trapped in the romantic image of a bygone past, who is driven by an almost righteous sense of clarity. Following in the footsteps of Badlands and Bonnie and Clyde, Lowery’s humanism transcends the genre. —J.N.

U.S.A., 2012, 90 min., color Director/Screenwriter: David Lowery Executive Producers: Logan Levy, Jesse Kennedy, Fredrik Malmberg, Mark Burg Producers: Toby Halbrooks, James M. Johnston, Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Amy Kaufman, Cassian Elwes Coproducer: Michael Sledd Cinematographer: Bradford Young Production Designer: Jade Healy Costume Designer: Malgosia Turzanska Principal Cast: Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Nate Parker, Keith Carradine Sunday, January 20, 12:15 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Monday, January 21, 6:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Tuesday, January 22, 6:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 8:30 p.m.

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Thursday, January 24, 6:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Friday, January 25, 8:30 a.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Will fantasy and reality merge for Jane? A wickedly funny, irreverent comedy, featuring a malapropism-peppered performance by Jennifer Coolidge and an impeccable cast of archetypal characters, Austenland hits all the right notes of the Regency era and our curious infatuation with it. —C.L.

Director: Jerusha Hess Screenwriters: Jerusha Hess, Shannon Hale Executive Producers: Robert Fernandez, Dan Levinson Producers: Stephenie Meyer, Gina Mingacci Coproducer: Jane Hooks Associate Producers: Meghan Hibbett, Shannon Hale, Jared Hess Cinematographer: Larry Smith Production Designer: James Merifield Principal Cast: Keri Russell, JJ Feild, Bret McKenzie, Jennifer Coolidge, Georgia King, James Callis Friday, January 18, 12:15 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 8:30 a.m.

Jerusha Hess As a film student at Brigham Young University, Jerusha Hess cowrote her first screenplay for Napoleon Dynamite, which was one of the sleeper hits of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. She was also the film’s costume designer. Since then she has cowritten the screenplays for Nacho Libre (2006) and Gentlemen Broncos (2009) with her husband, Jared Hess. Jerusha lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with Jared and their two children. Austenland marks her directorial debut.

Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Monday, January 21, 6:30 p.m. Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden

Tuesday, January 22, 8:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Thursday, January 24, noon Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 3:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Meghan Hibbett Fickle Fish Films mhibbett@yahoo.com (513) 344-1054

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Jane’s life-size paper doll of Mr. Darcy and her “I Love Darcy” tote may be tattered, but even in her thirties, she hasn’t grown out of her obsession with all things Jane Austen. Careworn by love, she saves enough to fulfill her dream of stepping into Austen’s world and heads to Austenland for an “immersive” vacation to eschew all things modern. And it couldn’t be more perfect. There’s an imposing manor with verdant grounds for afternoon promenades, rosy-faced servants, trusty steeds for hunting expeditions, gilded drawing rooms for evenings spent in polite conversation, and, yes, gallant young suitors. Unfortunately, due to limited funds, she’s relegated to lesser quarters and drearier costumes than fellow bachelorette guests, but her cares melt away as she catches the eye of a young footman, and she’s swept into a romantic adventure she could never have imagined.

U.S.A./United Kingdom, 2012, 97 min., color

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Kyle Patrick Alvarez In 2010, Kyle Patrick Alvarez won the Someone to Watch Award at the Independent Spirit Awards for his debut film, Easier with Practice. The film was also nominated for best first feature. Alvarez graduated from the University of Miami with degrees in film and English. He spent his first year in the film industry working for Warren Beatty. C.O.G. is his second feature film. Cookie Carosella forty second productions cookiecarosella@mac.com (310) 297-9440

David has it all figured out. His plan—more a Steinbeckian dream—is to spend his summer working on an apple farm in Oregon with his best friend, Jennifer. When she bails out on him, David is left to dirty his hands alone, watched over by Hobbs, the old farm owner and the first in a series of questionable mentors he encounters. First there’s Curly, the friendly forklift operator with a unique hobby, and then Jon, the born-again rock hound who helps David in a time of need. This first film adaptation of David Sedaris’s work tells the story of a prideful young man and what’s left of him after all he believes is chipped away piece by piece. With such beloved source material come great advantages and immense pressure. Writer/director Kyle Patrick Alvarez proves more than up to the challenge as he delivers a finely wrought story that remains true to both the author’s voice and his own. Jonathan Groff perfectly embodies David and imbues him with abundant wit that masks the uncertainty that he hides. C.O.G. is a funny and poignant portrait of a lost soul searching for himself among the amusing characters in life’s rich pageant. —T.G.

U.S.A., 2013, 92 min., color Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez Screenwriter: Kyle Patrick Alvarez, based on the story by David Sedaris Producers: Cookie Carosella, Stephen Nemeth, Kyle Patrick Alvarez Coproducer: Lauren Bratman Cinematographer: Jas Shelton Production Designer: Gary Barbosa Costume Designer: Julie Carnahan Casting Director: Nicole Arbusto Principal Cast: Jonathan Groff, Denis O’Hare, Corey Stoll, Dean Stockwell, Casey Wilson, Troian Bellisario Sunday, January 20, 8:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 11:30 a.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 9:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library, SLC

Friday, January 25, noon Eccles Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 9:00 a.m.

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In an auspicious debut effort, director Stacie Passon draws out a pitch-perfect performance from her lead actor, Robin Weigert, as a sexy, shut-down family woman stretching to bloom again. Palpably sensual and deliciously contained, Concussion is a keen observation of the complicated contours of midlife crisis. —S.F.

Director/Screenwriter: Stacie Passon Executive Producers: Anthony Cupo, Cliff Chenfeld Producer: Rose Troche Cinematographer: David Kruta Production Designer: Lisa Myers Casting Director: Anne Davison Principal Cast: Robin Weigert, Maggie Siff, Johnathan Tchaikovsky, Julie Fain Lawrence, Emily Kinney, Laila Robins Saturday, January 19, 2:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Monday, January 21, 8:30 a.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, noon Eccles Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 6:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC

Saturday, January 26, 11:30 a.m. The MARC, Park City

Stacie Passon Concussion is Stacie Passon’s first feature film as writer/ director. In 2012, Concussion was chosen for the Independent Feature Project’s narrative lab. Also in 2012, Passon received the Adrienne Shelly Director’s Grant and the Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers Live the Dream Grant at the Gotham Awards for Concussion. She began as a commercial producer and director, creating media for dozens of clients, including Warner Music Group, Donna Karan, IBM, and Sony Music Entertainment. Most recently Passon produced Elliot King Is Third for director Rose Troche. Rose Troche Producer trotroche@me.com

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Abby is a fortysomething, wealthy, married, lesbian housewife who— after getting smacked in the head by her son’s baseball—walks around every corner of her suburban life to confront a mounting desire for something else. She takes on a new project and purchases a pied-àterre in Manhattan. Walking around the city streets reminds Abby what it feels like to be sexy, and her pent-up libido shakes off its inhibitions. Her desire is not a take-home item for the minivan ride back home, so Abby inaugurates a double life that draws her deeply into a world of prostitution for women.

U.S.A., 2012, 93 min., color

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Concussion

Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes

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Francesca Gregorini

Raised in Rome, the English countryside, and Los Angeles, writer/director Francesca Gregorini brings a worldly and passionate sensibility to her filmmaking. Her character-driven films are visceral, darkly humorous, and stylistically bold and have touches of the magical and surreal. A Brown University graduate with a major in theatre arts, Gregorini sold scripts to both HBO and Paramount Pictures before cohelming her directorial debut, Tanner Hall, with Tatiana von Furstenberg. The film was an official selection at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2009. Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes is Gregorini’s first solo directing effort.

Emanuel, an acerbic but sensitive teen, lives with her father and stepmother. She’s on the verge of another birthday—a day she has never cared for since her mother died giving birth to her—when the mysterious Linda, a young and hip mother, moves in next door. Intrigued by Linda’s striking resemblance to her late mother, Emanuel begins to babysit for Linda’s newborn daughter. As Emanuel and Linda spend more time together, they develop a bond that becomes deeply entwined in a surprising secret Linda harbors.

Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes is a hyperstylized and often darkly humorous film that vacillates between surrealism and realism while it incorporates suspenseful drama. Writer/director Francesca Gregorini’s tightly constructed script fuses pain with poetry and explores the complexity of being complicit in the lives of our loved ones. In a breakout performance, Kaya Scodelario is the heart of the film as Emanuel, who must take a courageous journey to enter her dream and help extract Linda from hers. —K.Y.

U.S.A., 2012, 96 min., color Director/Screenwriter: Francesca Gregorini Executive Producers: Jonathan Gray, Paul Schiff, Kenny Goodman, Kevin Iwashina, Michael Sackler, Julia Godzinskaya, Alice Bamford Producers: Matthew R. Brady, Francesca Gregorini Coproducers: Rooney Mara, Tatiana Von Furstenberg, Luke Watson, Sarah Thorp Cinematographer: Polly Morgan Editor: Antony Langdon Principal Cast: Kaya Scodelario, Jessica Biel, Alfred Molina, Frances O’Connor, Jimmi Simpson, Aneurin Barnard Friday, January 18, 5:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 9:30 p.m. Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden

Sunday, January 20, 9:15 p.m. Salt Lake City Library, SLC

Monday, January 21, 11:30 a.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 12:15 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Gray, Krauss, Stratford Des Rochers LLP gray@gksd-law.com (212) 966-6700

Friday, January 25, 8:30 a.m. The MARC, Park City

Director Ryan Coogler makes an extraordinary directorial debut with this soulful account of the real-life event that horrified the nation. Featuring radiant performances by Melonie Diaz and Michael B. Jordan as Grant, a young man whose eyes were an open window into his soul, Fruitvale offers a barometer reading on the state of humanity in American society today. —S.F.

Director/Screenwriter: Ryan Coogler Executive Producers: Michael Y. Chow, Lisa Kleiner Chanoff, John Kwok, Octavia Spencer Producers: Nina Yang Bongiovi, Forest Whitaker Coproducer: Sev Ohanian Cinematographer: Rachel Morrison Editors: Michael P. Shawver, Claudia S. Castello Production Designer: Hannah Beachler Principal Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer, Melonie Diaz, Ahna O’Reilly, Kevin Durand, Chad Michael Murray Saturday, January 19, 5:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Sunday, January 20, 8:30 a.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 20, 9:30 p.m.

Ryan Coogler Ryan Coogler is a 26-year-old filmmaker from the Bay Area and a graduate of the MFA program at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. While at USC, Coogler made several short films, including Locks, Gap, and Fig, which won the 2011 HBO Short Film Award at the American Black Film Festival. His feature script for Fruitvale was selected for the 2012 Sundance Screenwriters Lab. Coogler also works as a counselor at the juvenile hall in San Francisco.

Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Wednesday, January 23, 3:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Thursday, January 24, 6:30 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 1:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

Nina Yang Bongiovi nina@significantproductions.com (323) 512-7988

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Oscar Grant was a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who loved his friends, was generous to strangers, and had a hard time telling the truth to the mother of his beautiful daughter. He was scared and courageous and charming and raw, and as human as the community he was part of. That community paid attention to him, shouted on his behalf, and filmed him with their cell phones when BART officers, who were strong, intimidated, and acting in the way they thought they were supposed to behave around people like Oscar, shot him in cold blood at the Fruitvale subway stop on New Year’s Day in 2009.

U.S.A., 2013, 90 min., color

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Fruitvale

In a World...

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Lake Bell

Writer/director Lake Bell’s short film Worst Enemy premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Since then, Bell has directed several episodes of adultswim. com’s Emmy-winning Children’s Hospital, in which she is a series regular. Her acting credits include No Strings Attached (2011), It’s Complicated (2009), What Happens in Vegas (2008), and HBO’s How to Make It in America (2010–11). Bell also costars in Katie Aselton’s Black Rock, which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in the Park City at Midnight program. 3311 Productions info@3311productions.com (323) 319-5060

Carol Solomon is a struggling vocal coach. Propelled by the hubris of her father, Sam Sotto, the reigning king of movie-trailer voice-over artists, Carol musters the courage to pursue her secret aspiration to be a voice-over star. Her fiery sister, Dani, becomes a trusted confidante, and Carol engages the skills of a charming sound techie named Louis. Armed with renewed confidence, Carol lands her first voice-over gig—a primo spot—nabbing the job from industry bad boy Gustav Warner. And then the real trouble begins. Carol becomes entangled in a web of dysfunction, sexism, unmitigated ego, and pride. Lake Bell returns (her short film Worst Enemy played at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival) with her enchanting feature directorial debut. The multitalented Bell also wrote and stars in this hilarious comedy. With the help of a captivating ensemble cast that includes Fred Melamed, Demetri Martin, Michaela Watkins, Ken Marino, and Rob Corddry, In A World… brings its viewer into an idiosyncratic world where one woman fights the odds and finally finds her voice. —D.C.

U.S.A., 2012, 93 min., color Director/Screenwriter: Lake Bell Executive Producers: Ross Jacobson, Sean O’Grady Producers: Lake Bell, Mark Roberts, Jett Steiger, Eddie Vaisman Cinematographer: Seamus Tierney Editor: Tom McArdle Production Designer: Megan Fenton Composer: Ryan Miller Principal Cast: Lake Bell, Demetri Martin, Rob Corddry, Michaela Watkins, Ken Marino, Fred Melamed Sunday, January 20, 5:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Monday, January 21, 9:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Tuesday, January 22, 2:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 3:30 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 9:00 a.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Daniel Radcliffe fearlessly takes on the role of the young Ginsberg on a journey of discovery—to find his sexuality and his voice as a writer. Cowriter/director John Krokidas takes on this less-explored early chapter of the Beats and captures the period with visual flair, kinetic energy, and imagination. Kill Your Darlings is the riveting true story of a crime, a friendship, and the nexus that spawned a cultural movement. —K.Y.

Director: John Krokidas Screenwriters: Austin Bunn, John Krokidas Producers: Michael Benaroya, Christine Vachon, Rose Ganguzza, John Krokidas Cinematographer: Reed Morano Editor: Brian A. Kates Production Designer: Stephen H. Carter Composer: Nico Muhly Costume Designer: Christopher Peterson Principal Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Ben Foster, Michael C. Hall, Jack Huston, Elizabeth Olsen Friday, January 18, 3:30 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 10:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

Sunday, January 20, 3:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Wednesday, January 23, 9:00 a.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 8:45 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

John Krokidas John Krokidas received his BA in theatre and American studies from Yale University before attending NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts graduate film program. He wrote and directed two short films while at NYU. The first, Shame No More (1999), played at more than 70 film festivals, and the second, Slo-Mo, screened at the Telluride Film Festival and the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. Krokidas has written screenplays for Universal Studios, Miramax, and producers Bruce Cohen (Milk) and Alan Poul (The Newsroom). Kill Your Darlings marks his feature directorial debut. Rena Ronson United Talent Agency ronson_r@unitedtalent.com (310) 273-6700

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While he is attending Columbia University in 1944, the young Allen Ginsberg’s life is turned upside down when he sets eyes on Lucien Carr, an impossibly cool and boyishly handsome classmate. Carr opens Ginsberg up to a bohemian world and introduces him to William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Repelled by rules and conformity in both life and literature, the four agree to tear down tradition and make something new, ultimately formulating the tenets of and giving birth to what became the Beat movement. On the outside, looking in, is David Kammerer, a man in his thirties desperately in love with Carr. When Kammerer is found dead, and Kerouac, Burroughs, and Carr are arrested in conjunction with the murder, the nascent artists’ lives change forever.

U.S.A., 2012, 95 min., color

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Kill Your Darlings

The Lifeguard

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Liz W. Garcia

Writer/director Liz W. Garcia is a native of Connecticut. She has written feature films for Fox Searchlight, Disney, and Alcon, among others. Her feature script, “One Percent More Humid,” was blacklisted. Garcia and her husband, Joshua Harto, cocreated the TNT drama Memphis Beat for television. She was named one of Variety’s “Top 10 Television Writers to Watch” in 2010. Garcia is a graduate of Wesleyan University’s film studies program and the mother of a one-year-old. Mike Landry www.cpluspictures.com landry@cpluspictures.com (718) 288-2599

Leigh, a whip-smart former valedictorian on the verge of 30, is living a seemingly perfect life in New York. When her work aspirations and love life suddenly come crashing down, she hightails it back to the cocoon of the Connecticut suburb where she grew up. Picking up right where her teen halcyon days left off, she moves into her old room with her parents, reunites with her bosom buddies who never left town, and steps back into her high school job as a condo-complex lifeguard. As she takes a transgressive journey back to adolescence, including entering into a forbidden affair, Leigh’s bold flirtation with disaster triggers a ripple effect all around her. Wry, sexy, entertaining, and bittersweet, The Lifeguard revels in the fantasy of reverting to a responsibility-free time and cleverly coaxes its characters into the realization that safety can sometimes be a trap. With her witty, emotionally persuasive script, first-time director Liz Garcia invents a delectable coming-of-age story for our times. —C.L.

U.S.A., 2012, 94 min., color Director/Screenwriter: Liz W. Garcia Producers: Mike Landry, Carlos Velazquez, Joshua Harto, Milan Chakraborty, Liz W. Garcia Cinematographer: John Peters Editors: Elizabeth Kling, Jenny Cook Production Designer: Chris Trujillo Composer: Fred Avril Music Supervisor: David Ablanalp-Estime Principal Cast: Kristen Bell, Mamie Gummer, Martin Starr, Alex Shaffer, Amy Madigan, Joshua Harto, David Lambert Saturday, January 19, 5:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 20, 3:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library, SLC

Monday, January 21, 8:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 9:00 a.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 3:15 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

As with her debut feature, Amreeka, Cherien Dabis lovingly breathes life into a world rarely depicted on screen. She takes us to contemporary Jordan, where ancient traditions, burgeoning modernity, and Western imitation deliciously collide, and nothing is quite what it seems. Taking a star turn in the title role, Dabis expertly captures the knotty dynamics of a household of women, mining the inherent humor and pathos as her irresistible characters stumble through rocky familial and romantic terrain. —C.L.

Director/Screenwriter: Cherien Dabis Executive Producers: Rick Rosenthal, Nicholas Morton Producers: Cherien Dabis, Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Chris Tricarico Coproducers: Sabine Sidawi, Joy Goodwin, Alexandre Mallet-Guy, Beau Genot Cinematographer: Brian Rigney Hubbard Editor: Sabine Hoffman Production Designer: Ola Maslik Principal Cast: Cherien Dabis, Hiam Abbass, Bill Pullman, Alia Shawkat, Nadine Malouf, Alexander Siddig, Ritu Singh Pande Thursday, January 17, 6:00 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 18, 8:30 a.m. The MARC, Park City

Friday, January 18, 6:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Sunday, January 20, 12:15 p.m. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Tuesday, January 22, 7:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 6:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Cherien Dabis Cherien Dabis received her MFA in film from Columbia University. Her short film Make a Wish screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007 and won more than a dozen international awards. Her feature debut, Amreeka, made its world premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival before heading off to the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. It went on to win the Humanitas Prize and receive multiple 2010 Independent Spirit and Gotham Award nominations. May in the Summer, a 2010 Sundance Screenwriters Lab project, is Dabis’s second feature film. Alix Madigan amadigan@Anonymouscontent.com (310) 558-6084

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May has it all—a celebrated book, a sophisticated New York life, and a terrific fiancé to match. But when she heads to Amman, Jordan, to arrange her wedding, she lands in a bedlam of family chaos she thought she’d transcended long before. Her headstrong, born-again Christian mother so disapproves of her marrying a Muslim that she threatens to boycott the wedding. Her younger sisters lean on her like children, and her estranged father suddenly comes out of the woodwork. Meanwhile, doubts about her marriage surface, and May’s carefully structured life spins out of control.

U.S.A./Qatar/Jordan, 2013, 100 min., color English and Arabic with English subtitles

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May in the Summer

Mother of George

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Andrew Dosunmu

Andrew Dosunmu was raised and educated in Nigeria and began his career as a design assistant at Yves Saint Laurent, where he eventually became a creative director and photographer. Dosunmu’s first narrative feature, Restless City, premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in the NEXT program. His documentary Hot Irons (1999) won the best documentary award at FESPACO, the Panafrican Film and Television Festival at Ouagadougou, and the Reel Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Dosunmu has also directed episodes of the widely acclaimed South African television show Yizo Yizo and many music videos. Parts and Labor Films info@partslaborfilm.com (718) 599-5244

At long last, handsome Ayodele Balogun, owner of a small Nigerian restaurant in Brooklyn, will wed his beautiful fiancée, Adenike, and they will start a new life together in the United States. Their traditional Yoruba wedding culminates in a ceremony where Adenike is named for her yet-to-be-conceived son, George. But as the months pass without pregnancy, Ma George is torn between her Yoruba culture and her new life in America as she faces uncomfortable and unfamiliar choices in her struggle to save her marriage. Director Andrew Dosunmu returns to the Sundance Film Festival (his film, Restless City, screened in 2011) with this astonishingly radiant portrait of Nigerian immigrant family life. Featuring soulful performances by Isaach De Bankolé and Danai Gurira, and opulent cinematography by the award-winning Bradford Young, Mother of George is a singular cinematic accomplishment that elevates this illustration of the complicated challenges of African immigrant life to a place of beauty and reverence. —S.F.

U.S.A., 2012, 90 min., color Director: Andrew Dosunmu Screenwriter: Darci Picoult Producers: Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, Matt Parker, Carly Hugo, Darci Picoult, Chris Maybach, Saemi Kim, Patrick Cunningham, Tony Okungbowa Cinematographer: Bradford Young Editor: Oriana Soddu Production Designer: Lucio Seixas Composer: Philip Miller Costume Designer: Mobolaji Dawodu Principal Cast: Isaach De Bankolé, Danai Gurira, Tony Okungbowa, Yaya Alafia, Bukky Ajayi Friday, January 18, 2:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 12:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Sunday, January 20, 8:30 a.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Monday, January 21, noon Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Tuesday, January 22, 3:30 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 9:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Adapted from Tim Tharp’s novel, The Spectacular Now captures the insecurity and confusion of adolescence without looking for tidy truths. Young actors rarely portray teens with the maturity that Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley display, and they are phenomenal together. Funny, compassionate, and poignant, James Ponsoldt’s third feature again demonstrates his ability to lay bare the souls of his characters. —J.N.

Director: James Ponsoldt Screenwriters: Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber, based on the novel by Tim Tharp Executive Producers: Scott Neustadter, Michael H Weber, Matthew Medlin, Marc Shmuger Producers: Tom McNulty, Shawn Levy, Andrew Lauren, Michelle Krumm Coproducers: Billy Rosenberg, Dan Cohen Cinematographer: Jess Hall Editor: Darrin Navarro Composer: Rob Simonsen Principal Cast: Miles Teller, Shailene Woodley, Brie Larson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kyle Chandler Friday, January 18, 8:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 20, 3:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, noon

James Ponsoldt James Ponsoldt was raised in Athens, Georgia, and graduated from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Film. His first feature, Off the Black, premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, and his second feature, Smashed, won a Special Jury Prize for its producers at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, and lead actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead received an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Ponsoldt is an alumnus of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab. He also writes for Filmmaker magazine and coauthored the award-winning graphic novel Refresh, Refresh.

Eccles Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 6:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, SLC

Friday, January 25, 5:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Bec Smith United Talent Agency Smithb@unitedtalent.com

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Sutter Keely lives in the now. It’s a good place for him. A high school senior, charming and self-possessed, he’s the life of the party, loves his job at a men’s clothing store, and has no plans for the future. A budding alcoholic, he’s never far from his supersized, whisky-fortified 7UP cup. But after being dumped by his girlfriend, Sutter gets drunk and wakes up on a lawn with Aimee Finicky hovering over him. Not a member of the cool crowd, she’s different: the “nice girl” who reads science fiction and doesn’t have a boyfriend. She does have dreams, while Sutter lives in a world of impressive self-delusion. And yet they’re drawn to each other.

U.S.A., 2012, 99 min., color

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The Spectacular Now

Touchy Feely

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Lynn Shelton

Lynn Shelton is best known as the director of the acclaimed comedy Your Sister’s Sister, starring Rosemarie DeWitt, Emily Blunt, and Mark Duplass, which screened at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Shelton’s hit film Humpday won a Special Jury Prize at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and the John Cassavetes Award at the 2010 Independent Spirit Awards. Her first narrative feature, We Go Way Back, won the Grand Jury Prize at Slamdance in 2006. Her second film, My Effortless Brilliance, earned her the Someone to Watch Award at the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards. Steven Schardt Most Favored Nations info@mfnations.com

What happens when a family’s delicate psychic balance suddenly unravels? Abby is a free-spirited massage therapist. Her brother, Paul, an emotional zombie, owns a flagging dental practice, where he enlists the assistance of his equally emotionally stunted daughter, Jenny. Suddenly, transformation touches everyone. Abby develops an uncontrollable aversion to bodily contact, which seriously hinders her chosen profession and the passionate love life she once shared with her boyfriend. Meanwhile, rumors of Paul’s “healing touch” begin to miraculously invigorate his practice. As Abby navigates through an identity crisis, her brother discovers a whole new side of himself. Boasting superb performances from an ensemble cast that includes Rosemarie DeWitt, Josh Pais, Ellen Page, Scoot McNairy, Allison Janney, Ron Livingston, and newcomer Tomo Nakayama, Touchy Feely is about learning to live in your own skin—literally and figuratively. Written and directed by talented Sundance alumnus Lynn Shelton (Humpday, Your Sister’s Sister), Touchy Feely bristles with originality, coupled with Shelton’s trademark sensitivity to the foibles of human nature. —D.C.

U.S.A., 2012, 90 min., color Director/Screenwriter: Lynn Shelton Producer: Steven Schardt Coproducers: Mel Eslyn, Lacey Leavitt Cinematographer: Benjamin Kasulke Editor: Lynn Shelton Production Designer: John Lavin Composer: Vinny Smith Principal Cast: Rosemarie DeWitt, Allison Janney, Ron Livingston, Scoot McNairy, Ellen Page, Josh Pais Saturday, January 19, noon Eccles Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 9:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Sunday, January 20, 6:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Monday, January 21, 9:00 a.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 5:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 8:45 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Jordan Vogt-Roberts, director of the short Successful Alcoholics, which screened at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, returns with a feature film debut fueled by teenage angst and childlike imagination. Anchored by the comedic performances of newcomers Nick Robinson, Moises Arias, and Gabriel Basso, Vogt-Roberts and screenwriter Chris Galletta create a humorous coming-of-age tale that deftly combines moments of heartfelt rebellion and complete lunacy. —C.R.

Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts Screenwriter: Chris Galletta Executive Producers: Richard Rothfeld, Jordan Vogt-Roberts Producers: Tyler Davidson, Peter Saraf, John Hodges Coproducer: Robert Ruggeri Cinematographer: Ross Riege Editor: Terel Gibson Production Designer: Tyler Robinson Principal Cast: Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, Moises Arias, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Alison Brie, Mary Lynn Rajskub Saturday, January 19, 8:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Monday, January 21, 11:30 a.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 3:00 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 9:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, SLC

Saturday, January 26, 11:30 a.m.

Jordan Vogt-Roberts Jordan Vogt-Roberts is the cocreator and director of the Comedy Central television show Mash Up and the director of the acclaimed short film Successful Alcoholics, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and subsequently screened at more than 30 festivals worldwide. His award-winning work on the Web and with branded content has reached millions of viewers and launched a career in commercials. Hailing from the ruins of Detroit but currently living in Los Angeles, Vogt-Roberts also loves dachshunds.

Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Drew Sykes Low Spark Films drew@lowsparkfilms.com (323) 382-0000

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Joe Toy, on the verge of adolescence, finds himself increasingly frustrated by his single father, Frank’s, attempts to manage his life. Declaring his freedom once and for all, he escapes to a clearing in the woods with his best friend, Patrick, and a strange kid named Biaggio and announces that they are going to build a house there—free from responsibility and parents. Once their makeshift abode is finished, the three young men find themselves masters of their own destiny, alone in the woods.

U.S.A., 2013, 93 min., color

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Toy’s House

Upstream Color

Shane Carruth Shane Carruth’s first film, Primer, premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. Upstream Color is his second feature film.

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Kris is derailed from her life when she is drugged by a small-time thief. But something bigger is going on. She is unknowingly drawn into the life cycle of a presence that permeates the microscopic world, moving to nematodes, plant life, livestock, and back again. Along the way, she finds another being—a familiar, who is equally consumed by the larger force. The two search urgently for a place of safety within each other as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of their wrecked lives. Shane Carruth’s sensuously directed and much anticipated sophomore effort (his feature debut, Primer, won the Sundance Film Festival 2004 Grand Jury Prize) is a truly remarkable film that lies beyond the power of language to communicate while it delivers a cohesive sensory experience. With its muscular cinematic language rooted in the powerful yearnings felt before words can be formed, Upstream Color is an entirely original, mythic, romantic thriller that goes in search of truths that lie just beyond our reach. —S.F.

U.S.A., 2012, 96 min., color Director/Screenwriter: Shane Carruth Producers: Shane Carruth, Casey Gooden, Ben LeClair Coproducers: Meredith Burke, Toby Halbrooks Cinematographer/ Music: Shane Carruth Editors: David Lowery, Shane Carruth Production Designer: Thomas Walker Principal Cast: Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig, Thiago Martins Monday, January 21, 12:15 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 8:30 a.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, noon Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Thursday, January 24, 2:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 6:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, SLC

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Saturday, January 26, 2:30 p.m.

Library Center Theatre, Park City

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Sixteen world-premiere documentaries that illuminate the ideas, people, and events shaping the present day.

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100

Audrey Ewell, Aaron Aites, Lucian Read, Nina Krstic

99%—The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film

In 2009, Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites’s first feature documentary collaboration, Until the Light Takes Us, won several audience and jury awards at scores of international film festivals before being widely released and was acquired for broadcast on Sundance Channel.

In 2011, seemingly overnight, Occupy captured the imagination of our nation—and the world. The sweeping story of the birth of a movement, 99%—The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film follows a disparate group of activists who converge on lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park to build a society organized by nonhierarchical decision-making structures. Inspired by the idea that wealth and political power are dangerously concentrated, grassroots groups from Minneapolis to Mississippi to Oakland soon follow suit, converging to focus on issues crucial to their own communities. After confrontations, expulsions, and mass arrests, the movement finds itself at a crossroad. What’s next?

Lucian Read is a news producer, photojournalist, and cinematographer. His work appears regularly on Dan Rather Reports, including the Emmy-nominated “Excerpts from Afghanistan.”

Designed in part as an experiment modeled on Occupy’s process, the film employs multiple cameras around the country to capture the kinetic, immediate experience on the ground, peppered with a comprehensive range of viewpoints from activists, experts, and detractors. In an era of hopelessness and resignation, this film is a reminder that another world order is still possible. —S.S.

U.S.A., 2012, 92 min., color Directors: Audrey Ewell, Aaron Aites, Lucian Read, Nina Krstic Codirectors: Katie Teague, Peter Leeman, Aric Gutnick, Abby Martin, Doree Simon Executive Producers: Brian Devine, Brooke Devine, Tyler Brodie Producers: Audrey Ewell, Aaron Aites, Williams Cole Coproducer: Stephen Dotson Editors: Jeffrey K. Miller, Brad Comfort Sunday, January 20, 9:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 4:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 6:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Nina Krstic studied the effects of new media on revolutions at NYU and directed a short documentary called Grannies Against the War. Audrey Ewell Field Pictures contact@99percentfilm.com

Thursday, January 24, 11:30 a.m. The MARC, Park City

Friday, January 25, 3:00 p.m.

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30% (Women and Politics in Sierra Leone)

Director: Anna Cady United Kingdom/Sierra Leone, 2012, 11 min., color Oil-painted animation brings to life the stories of three powerful women in postconflict Sierra Leone, revealing the violence and corruption women face as they fight for fairer representation in governing their country. Tessa Lewin, Pathways for Women’s Empowerment t.lewin@ids.ac.uk +44 127 360 6261

Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Saturday, January 26, 3:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Offering audiences an unprecedented perspective, After Tiller is an intimate look into each of the four physicians’ private and professional struggles. Wrenching moments in the clinics, when they gently counsel distraught patients facing grievous losses, force us to step into the shoes of both practitioner and patient and confront the full complexity of each decision. Decades after Roe v. Wade legalized abortion, the issue remains one of the most volatile in our public sphere. After Tiller sensitively and artfully extricates the controversy from the ideological realm and humanizes those who have been demonized. —C.L.

Directors/Producers: Martha Shane, Lana Wilson Screenwriters: Lana Wilson, Martha Shane, Greg O’Toole Cinematographers: Hillary Spera, Emily Topper Editor: Gregory O’Toole Composers: Andy Cabic, Eric D. Johnson Sound Design: Peter Levin, Barbara Parks Titles: Mike Nicholson Friday, January 18, 3:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 8:30 a.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 9:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library, SLC

Tuesday, January 22, noon Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Wednesday, January 23, 8:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 9:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Martha Shane, Lana Wilson Brooklyn-based filmmaker Martha Shane produced and codirected Bi the Way, which screened at SXSW in 2008. Shane recently completed a short called Make the People Happy and is now making the feature Island of Destruction. After Tiller is her directorial debut. Filmmaker and curator Lana Wilson is also based in Brooklyn. As the film and dance curator for Performa, she has produced performances by artists including Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin and French choreographer Boris Charmatz. After Tiller is her first film. Linzee Troubh www.cineticmedia.com sales@cineticmedia.com (212) 204-7979

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Since the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in 2009, only four doctors in the United States continue to perform third-trimester abortions. These physicians, all colleagues of Dr. Tiller, sacrifice their safety and personal lives in the name of their fierce, unwavering conviction to help women. But for some in the pro-life movement, these doctors are “murderers” who must be stopped.

U.S.A., 2012, 85 min., color

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American Promise

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Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson

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Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson’s first feature film, The Keeper, premiered at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival and garnered an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Brewster is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist, and Stephenson is a Columbia Law School graduate. Together they founded the Rada Film Group to create compelling documentaries about the complexities of multicultural America. American Promise’s longitudinal experiment was conceived as a compromise to continue the film group’s mission while simultaneously raising a family. Gregory S. Jones www.americanpromise.org (718) 222-4041

In 1999, filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson turned the camera on themselves and began filming their five-year-old son, Idris, and his best friend, Seun, as they started kindergarten at the prestigious Dalton School just as the private institution was committing to diversify its student body. Their cameras continued to follow both families for another 12 years as the paths of the two boys diverged—one continued private school while the other pursued a very different route through the public education system.

American Promise is an epic and groundbreaking documentary charged with the hope that every child can reach his or her full potential and contribute to a better future for our country. It calls into question commonly held assumptions about educational access and what factors really influence academic performance. Stephenson and Brewster deliver a rare, intimate, and emotional portrait of black middle-class family life, humanizing the unique journey of AfricanAmerican boys as they face the real-life hurdles society poses for young men of color, inside and outside the classroom. —S.F.

U.S.A., 2012, 142 min., color Directors/Producers: Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson Executive Producers: Simon Kilmurry, Dan Cogan Associate Producer: Nicole London Cinematographers: Errol Webber, Alfredo Alcantara, Margaret Byrne, Jon Stuyvesant Editors: Erin Casper, Mary Manhardt, Andrew Siwoff Composer: Miriam Cutler Monday, January 21, 6:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 7:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 2:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC

Friday, January 25, 11:15 a.m. The MARC, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 3:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Shocking, never-before-seen footage and riveting interviews with trainers and experts manifest the orca’s extraordinary nature, the species’ cruel treatment in captivity over the last four decades, and the growing disillusionment of workers who were misled and endangered by the highly profitable sea-park industry. This emotionally wrenching, tautly structured story challenges us to consider our relationship to nature and reveals how little we humans have learned from these highly intelligent and enormously sentient fellow mammals. —C.L.

Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite Executive Producers: Judy Bart, Erica Kahn Producers: Gabriela Cowperthwaite, Manuel Oteyza Associate Producer: Tim Zimmermann Cinematographers: Jonathan Ingalls, Chris Towey Editor: Eli Despres Saturday, January 19, 9:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 20, 9:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Monday, January 21, 11:15 a.m. The MARC, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 10:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 9:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Saturday, January 26, 2:45 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Gabriela Cowperthwaite Gabriela Cowperthwaite is a documentary filmmaker who, for more than 12 years, has directed, produced, and written a wide variety of real-life stories for ESPN, DirecTV, National Geographic, and the Discovery and History channels. The innercity gang documentary City Lax: An Urban Lacrosse Story, which she also wrote, directed, and produced, was recently acquired by ESPN and DirecTV. Cowperthwaite is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their six-year-old twin sons. Gabriela Cowperthwaite www.blackfishthemovie.com gabrielacowper@gmail.com (310) 435-2513

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Many of us have experienced the excitement and awe of watching 8,000-pound orcas, or “killer whales,” soar out of the water and fly through the air at sea parks, as if in perfect harmony with their trainers. Yet, in our contemporary lore this mighty black-and-white mammal is like a two-faced Janus—beloved as a majestic, friendly giant yet infamous for its capacity to kill viciously. Blackfish unravels the complexities of this dichotomy, employing the story of notorious performing whale Tilikum, who—unlike any orca in the wild—has taken the lives of several people while in captivity. So what exactly went wrong?

U.S.A., 2012, 80 min., color

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Blood Brother

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Steve Hoover Steve Hoover has been directing commercials and music videos for the past six years. His work has been shown on virtually every media outlet and has amassed more than 100 million YouTube views. Hoover is a director at Animal, a production and visualeffects facility in Pittsburgh. Blood Brother, which he wrote, directed, produced, and narrated, is his first feature film.

The unmistakable power of love is celebrated in this story of one man’s decision to move to India and restart his life among the dispossessed. “Rocky Anna,” as the children living at an orphanage for those infected with HIV know him, was dissatisfied with his life in America. Having grown up without a close-knit family of his own, he found his calling living and working with kids in need. Unlike others who simply passed through their lives, Rocky stayed, dedicating himself to their health and well-being. Despite formidable challenges, his playful spirit and determination in the face of despair proves to be an invaluable resource. Director Steve Hoover—who is best friends with his subject—ventured to India to chronicle Rocky’s newfound life in this beautifully crafted and personal film. The bond Rocky forges with his friend and the deep connection he makes with the children he serves is Blood Brother’s testament to one person’s ability to create a meaningful life. —L.V.

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Director: Steve Hoover Executive Producers: Steve Hoover, Leigh Blake, John Carlin Producer: Danny Yourd Cinematographer: John Pope Editors: Steve Hoover, Tyson VanSkiver, Claude LaVallee Sound Design: Defacto Sound Sunday, January 20, 11:30 a.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 9:00 a.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 9:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 3:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Saturday, January 26, 1:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

Danny Yourd www.bloodbrotherfilm.com dannyyourd@gmail.com Preceded by

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U.S.A., 2012, 93 min., color English and Tamil with English subtitles

You Don’t Know Jack

Director: Morgan Spurlock U.S.A., 2012, 3 min., color Jack Andraka, a high school sophomore, has developed a revolutionary new test for pancreatic cancer, proving the future of science is in the hands of our youth. Nelly Petit www.focusforwardfilms.com (212) 537-5041

Among a million outraged Wisconsinites, we meet individuals struggling with their Republican political loyalties as they decide whether to join the grassroots-fueled recall of Walker, a GOP rising star and Tea Party favorite. Meanwhile, on a national level, former Louisiana governor Buddy Roemer watches his Republican presidential campaign fizzle as he refuses, on principle, donations of more than a hundred dollars and gets outspent and drowned out by Super PAC–funded opponents. Combining intimate vérité scenes and a big-picture–style investigative exposé, Citizen Koch probes behind the headlines to penetrate one of the core issues of our time: Who really has the power in America—private donors or the voting public? —C.L.

Directors: Carl Deal, Tia Lessin Executive Producers: Abigail Disney, Gini Reticker, Farhad Ebrahimi Producers: Carl Deal, Tia Lessin, Gillian Caldwell Cinematographers: Joan Churchill, Nadia Hallgren, Bill Turnley Editor: Lisa Palattella Composer: Neil Davidge Sunday, January 20, 3:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 11:30 a.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 8:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Friday, January 25, 12:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 3:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, SLC

Carl Deal, Tia Lessin Carl Deal and Tia Lessin were nominated for an Academy Award in 2009 for Trouble the Water, winner of the documentary Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and the Gotham Independent Film Award for best documentary. They coproduced Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 and Capitalism: A Love Story and have contributed to many other films. Their work has been generously supported by the Ford, MacArthur, and Bertha foundations, Cinereach, Creative Capital, and the Sundance Documentary Film Program. Carl Deal carl@elsewherefilms.org (347) 693-2192

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The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010 lifted a centurylong ban on restricted corporate election spending, unleashing a new era of unbridled special-interest campaign finance. Citizen Koch examines the mushrooming struggle between money and democracy through the dramatic lens of the 2011 standoff in Wisconsin when Governor Scott Walker, bankrolled by out-of-state billionaires, stripped state employees of their union rights.

U.S.A., 2012, 110 min., color

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Cutie and the Boxer Zachary Heinzerling’s remarkable debut is an indelible portrait of art, companionship, and the 40-year love story between Ushio and Noriko Shinohara, two Japanese artists who meet and marry in New York in the early 1970s. Surviving decades of hardship, resentment, financial anxiety, thwarted aspirations, and Ushio’s chronic alcoholism, they are a study in artistic symbiosis.

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Zachary Heinzerling

106

New York–based Zachary Heinzerling is a director and cinematographer who has worked on several films for HBO, including three Emmy Award–winning documentaries as a field producer and camera operator. In 2011, he attended the Berlinale Talent Campus, a six-day creative summit sponsored by the Berlin International Film Festival, and was selected as one of 25 filmmakers for the New York Film Festival’s Emerging Visions program that same year. This is Heinzerling’s first feature film as director. Mark Steele cutieandtheboxer@gmail.com

Now 80 years old and finally sober, Ushio is preparing a joint exhibit with Noriko, yet he still treats her as a de facto assistant. Ushio’s mixed-media sculptures and “boxing” paintings, infused with chaotic energy, have brought notoriety—but rarely income. Meanwhile, Noriko, emerging from her husband’s shadow, creates intimate comic-styled watercolor and ink drawings that tell the story—a muted empowerment fantasy—of their alter egos, Cutie and Bullie. Skillfully photographed and crafted, Cutie and the Boxer moves fluidly between past and present, employing a vérité aesthetic, archival footage, and beautifully animated sequences of Noriko’s drawings. Heinzerling seamlessly inhabits their space, observing its rhythms and textures, their complex dynamic, and the creative vitality that fuels their lives. —J.N.

U.S.A., 2012, 81 min., color English and Japanese with English subtitles Director/Cinematographer: Zachary Heinzerling Executive Producers: Lydia Dean Pilcher, Kiki Miyake Producers: Sierra Pettengill, Patrick Burns, Zachary Heinzerling Editor: David Teague Composer: Yasuaki Shimizu Saturday, January 19, 6:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Monday, January 21, 6:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Tuesday, January 22, noon Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 2:45 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, noon Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Director Richard Rowley takes us on a chilling ride with fearless whistle-blower Scahill. Dirty Wars is a battle cry for the soul and conscience of an America few of us know exists. —D.C.

Director/Editor: Richard Rowley Screenwriter: Jeremy Scahill, David Riker Executive Producers: Jess Search, Sandra Whipham, Scott Roth Producers: Anthony Arnove, Brenda Coughlin, Jeremy Scahill Music: Kronos Quartet Music Supervisor: David Harrington Researcher: Lauren Sutherland Friday, January 18, 9:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 3:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Sunday, January 20, noon Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Monday, January 21, 9:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library, SLC

Thursday, January 24, 11:30 a.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 11:45 a.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Richard Rowley Big Noise Films cofounder Richard Rowley has made multiple awardwinning documentary features, including The Fourth World War and This Is What Democracy Looks Like. His shorts and news reports are regularly featured on and commissioned by outlets including Al Jazeera English, BBC Newsnight, Canada’s CBC, CNN International, Democracy Now!, and PBS. Rowley is also a cofounder of the Independent Media Center and has been a Pulitzer, Rockefeller, and Jerome Foundation fellow. Josh Braun Submarine info@submarine.com (212) 625-1410

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It’s the dirty little secret of the War on Terror: all bets are off, and almost anything goes. We have fundamentally changed the rules of the game and the rules of engagement. Prior to 9/11, it was customary for America to sound a formal declaration of war on a given country before attacking. Today drone strikes, night raids, and U.S. government–condoned torture occur in hidden corners across the globe, generating unprecedented civilian casualties. Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill traces the rise of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), the most secret and elite fighting force in U.S. history, exposing covert operations carried out by men who do not exist on paper and will never appear before Congress. No target is offlimits for the JSOC “kill list,” even if the person is a U.S. citizen.

U.S.A., 2012, 87 min., color

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Dirty Wars

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Gideon’s Army Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately. —Elie Wiesel

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Dawn Porter

108

In addition to directing and producing Gideon’s Army, Dawn Porter has worked in narrative features as an executive producer for films including Serious Moonlight, which premiered in 2009 at the Tribeca Film Festival, and Showtime’s The Green. Previously she was director of standards and practices at ABC News and vice president of standards at A&E. Porter is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Georgetown University Law Center. She was an attorney at ABC Television before beginning her film career. Julie Goldman info@mottopictures.com

In 1963, the landmark Supreme Court decision Gideon v. Wainwright guaranteed all defendants facing imprisonment the right to a lawyer. Now, every year millions of Americans facing trial rely on fewer than 15,000 public defenders, and the country’s justice system hangs in the balance. Gideon’s Army confronts this crisis head-on, tracking a group of young southern public defenders hell-bent on protecting the sanctity of human liberty.

U.S.A., 2012, 96 min., color Director: Dawn Porter Producers: Dawn Porter, Julie Goldman Coproducer: Summer Damon Cinematographer: Chris Hilleke Editor: Matthew Hamachek Composer: Paul Brill Monday, January 21, 2:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 9:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Taut, visceral filmmaking plunges us into the unbelievably demanding lives of three fledgling public defenders in Georgia and Mississippi. Not only are they juggling hundreds of cases independently, but their offices don’t have adequate resources, and their salaries barely cover personal expenses—including six-figure law-school debts.

Thursday, January 24, 2:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Friday, January 25, 8:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 3:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library, SLC

As all three lawyers harness ingenuity, perseverance, and adrenaline to fight for their indigent clients, we wonder, How long can they keep working in a constant state of emergency? Will they find the moral support to sustain this higher calling? And if not, what happens to our democracy? —C.L.

Filmmaker Roger Ross Williams exposes the missionary movement in Uganda as an outgrowth of Africa’s colonialist past and a twentyfirst century crusade to recreate a continent of people in the image and likeness of America’s most extreme fundamentalists. Williams captures vérité footage so shocking that viewers may be squirming in their seats. Masterfully crafted and astonishingly provocative, God Loves Uganda may be the most terrifying film of the year. —D.C.

Director: Roger Ross Williams Producers: Julie Goldman, Roger Ross Williams Cinematographer: Derek Wiesehahn Editors: Richard Hankin, Benjamin Gray Composer: Mark De Gli Antoni Friday, January 18, 11:30 a.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 4:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

Monday, January 21, 3:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Wednesday, January 23, 6:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 9:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, SLC

Friday, January 25, 6:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Roger Ross Williams Roger Ross Williams directed and produced Music by Prudence, winner of the 2010 Academy Award for documentary short subject, making him the first African American to win an Academy Award for directing and producing a film. He has produced and directed dozens of hours of nonfiction programming for major television networks and cable channels. Currently Williams has several projects in development, including a feature narrative film about the AfricanAmerican Baptist church titled Black Sheep. Julie Goldman www.godlovesuganda.com info@mottopictures.com

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A battle rages in East Africa, where crosses replace guns and shouts of prayer roar louder than missiles. American evangelical Christians have chosen Uganda, with Africa’s youngest and most vulnerable population, as their ground zero in a battle for the soul of a continent. American missionaries and religious leaders are working with African pastors in a radical campaign to eradicate sin through the most extreme measures. The stakes are nothing less than life and death.

U.S.A., 2013, 90 min., color English and Swahili with English subtitles

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Inequality for All In lectures, books, and years of commentary, former labor secretary and current UC Berkeley Professor Robert Reich has argued passionately that widening income inequality poses one of the most severe threats to our economy and democracy.

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Jacob Kornbluth

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Award-winning director Jacob Kornbluth has premiered films at the Sundance Film Festival before with Haiku Tunnel (2001) and The Best Thief in the World, which was part of the Dramatic Competition in 2004. Kornbluth has been a fellow of the Sundance Directors Lab and the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and was also a finalist for the Sundance Institute/NHK International Filmmakers Award. He conceived a successful Web video series with Robert Reich for moveon.org and The Nation that was the genesis of his current feature, Inequality for All. Jen Chaiken jen@72productions.com (415) 292-7100, ext. 21

Filmmaker Jacob Kornbluth, inspired by Reich’s book Aftershock, tackles this massive topic by effectively adapting Reich himself into documentary form. Asking how we got here and what happens if we don’t act, Kornbluth and Reich dissect countless issues—among them wage stagnation, consolidated wealth, manufacturing, financial instruments, capital markets, globalization, and election politics—with an uncanny ability to render complex principles digestible. In addition to interviews with other economists, politicians, and experts, Kornbluth documents the struggles of regular working people for whom the American dream is increasingly untenable. In this An Inconvenient Truth for the economy, Reich presents a compelling, intellectually rigorous narrative bolstered by abundant research and graphics. In upholding rational inquiry over ideological prisms, he encourages us (as he does his students) not to share his opinion, but to challenge our own assumptions. —J.N.

U.S.A., 2012, 88 min., color Director: Jacob Kornbluth Producers: Jen Chaiken, Sebastian Dungan Associate Producer: Sara Dosa Cinematographers: Svetlana Cvetko, Dan Krauss Editor: Kim Roberts Composer: Marco d’Ambrosio Animation: Brian Oakes Saturday, January 19, 2:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 20, 12:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 11:30 a.m. The MARC, Park City

Friday, January 25, 9:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Saturday, January 26, noon Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

With Life According to Sam, directors Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine return to the Sundance Film Festival (War Dance won the Documentary Directing Award in 2007) with a deeply touching account of one family’s courageous fight, reminding us to make the most of our lives in the time we are given. —A.M.

Directors: Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins Cinematographer: Sean Fine Editor: Jeff Consiglio Composer: Keegan DeWitt Sound Recordist: Pablo Durana Monday, January 21, noon Temple Theatre, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 5:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 1:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

Friday, January 25, 6:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Saturday, January 26, 8:30 a.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine Academy Award–nominated and three-time Emmy award–winning directors Sean and Andrea Fine premiered their film War Dance at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, taking home the documentary Directing Award. Their most recent release, the short documentary Inocente, won awards at three festivals in 2012. Additional awards that have honored their unique style include the Sundance Film Festival’s Haskell Wexler Award for Cinematography and the Hot Docs Film Festival’s Audience Award. The Fines are currently in development with Rabbit Content on three narrative feature films. Sean Fine info@fine-films.com

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Progeria is an extremely rare and fatal disease, exemplified by accelerated aging in the children who are afflicted by it. There is no treatment. There is no cure. Enter Doctors Leslie Gordon and Scott Berns. When their son, Sam, was diagnosed with progeria at age two, the prognosis was grim—the couple were simply told to enjoy the few years they had left with their only son—but they weren’t willing to give up that easily. They spearheaded a campaign to save Sam and the other children in the world who share this devastating illness. In a little more than a decade, their extraordinary advances have led not only to identifying the gene that causes progeria and testing the first experimental drug to treat it but also to the amazing discovery that it is linked to the aging process in all of us.

U.S.A., 2012, 90 min., color

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Life According to Sam

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MANHUNT On May 2, 2011, Osama bin Laden, America’s public enemy number one, was killed by Navy SEALs in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The raid, a watershed moment that gripped most of the world, lasted a mere 40 minutes. But the hunt for bin Laden took two decades.

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Greg Barker

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The New York Times described Greg Barker as “a filmmaker of artistic and political consequence.” A former warcorrespondent-turned filmmaker, Barker has worked in more than 50 countries across six continents. His previous films include Sergio, winner of the Documentary Editing Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, as well as Koran by Heart and Ghosts of Rwanda. MANHUNT is the culmination of Barker’s 10-year interest in America’s conflict with Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. Julie Goldman info@mottopictures.com

The search began with a team of mostly female CIA analysts, known in intelligence circles as the Sisterhood. These women were trying to take down bin Laden before most of us even knew his name. Piecing together scraps of intelligence, they uncovered a secret terrorist organization, Al Qaeda, and warned Washington of this new impending threat. Their warnings were repeatedly ignored…until the 9/11 attacks, when all the rules changed.

MANHUNT unfolds like a thriller. Renowned filmmaker Greg Barker garners unfettered access to the inner circle of a clandestine war on terror and creates a riveting tale of espionage and the moral choices of war. —D.C.

U.S.A./United Kingdom, 2013, 100 min., color English and Arabic with English subtitles Director: Greg Barker Producers: John Battsek, Julie Goldman Cinematographer: Frank Peter Lehmann Editor: Joe Bini Composer: Philip Sheppard Sunday, January 20, 11:30 a.m. The MARC, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 8:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 6:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library, SLC

Thursday, January 24, 4:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 9:00 a.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Artfully lensed, Narco Cultura exquisitely manages to capture the horrific devastation wreaked by the drug cartels. Focusing on certain disparate individuals impacted by them, including a narco-corridos singer in the U.S. and a crime scene investigator in Juarez, the film vividly portrays both the allure and the human cost of it all. Photographer/filmmaker Shaul Schwarz has crafted a dazzling, yet harrowing, examination of the viral effect of the violence that has reshaped the face of a country and created an entire subculture that celebrates corruption. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;T.G.

Director/Cinematographer: Shaul Schwarz Producers: Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, Todd Hagopian Associate Producers: Lauren Haber, Juan BertrĂĄn Editors: Bryan Chang, Jay Arthur Sterrenberg Composer: Jeremy Turner Monday, January 21, 8:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 11:45 a.m. The MARC, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 9:15 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC

Friday, January 25, 9:00 a.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 3:30 p.m.

Shaul Schwarz Shaul Schwarz was born in Israel in 1974. An award-winning photographer and filmmaker, he started his photographic career in the Israeli Air Force. Schwarz is a contract photographer for Time magazine, and his work has also appeared in major international publications such as National Geographic, the New York Times Magazine, Geo, Paris Match, Stern, El Pais, GQ, Marie Claire, and Newsweek, among others.

Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Parts and Labor Films info@partslaborfilm.com

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To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, narcotraffickers have become iconic outlaws and the new models of fame and success. They represent a pathway out of the ghetto, nurturing a new American dream fueled by the war on drugs. Narco Cultura looks at this explosive phenomenon from within, exposing cycles of addiction to money, drugs, and violence that are rapidly gaining strength on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

U.S.A., 2012, 90 min., color English and Spanish with English subtitles

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Twenty Feet from Stardom

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Morgan Neville

114

Morgan Neville is an awardwinning documentary filmmaker specializing in music. He has been nominated for three Grammy Awards for his films Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story, Muddy Waters Can’t Be Satisfied, and Johnny Cash’s America. Over the past 18 years, Neville has created films about many of the musicians who have helped shape twentieth-century music. Recent productions include Pearl Jam Twenty (2011); Troubadours, which screened at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival; Beauty Is Embarrassing (2012); and Crossfire Hurricane (2012). Caryn Capotosto Tremolo Productions caryn@tremoloproductions.com (213) 413-9200

What would a pop song be without the riffs, refrains, and harmonies of its backup vocalists? Although these singers are usually relegated to the margins, and few, if any, become household names, their work has defined countless songs that remain in our hearts and collective consciousness. Twenty Feet from Stardom juxtaposes interviews with industry legends (Bruce Springsteen, Bette Midler, and others) and the relative unknowns who support them like Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, and Judith Hill as they illuminate the art of melding their own distinct voices with lead vocals and reveal their desires for careers as solo artists.

Twenty Feet from Stardom traces the backup singers’ history—from those Phil Spector–produced pop tunes and soul-inspired British Explosion acts (Joe Cocker, the Rolling Stones) of the 1960s, to their reversal of fortune when the recording industry changed in the 1990s, and into today. Filmmaker Morgan Neville’s unprecedented look at the moving personal journeys of these normally uncelebrated artists pays tribute to their indelible role in popular music. —K.Y.

U.S.A., 2012, 89 min., color Director: Morgan Neville Producers: Gil Friesen, Caitrin Rogers Associate Producer: Caryn Capotosto Cinematographers: Graham Willoughby, Nicola Marsh Editors: Jason Zeldes, Kevin Klauber, Douglas Blush Thursday, January 17, 9:30 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 18, 9:00 a.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 18, 9:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Saturday, January 19, 3:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Monday, January 21, 11:45 a.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 8:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Looking beyond all the copious news coverage of this tragic event, Valentine Road tells the story of two victims: the deceased and the murderer. With keen insight, the film connects the human wreckage of Larry’s and Brandon’s troubled lives—both physically abused, both from broken homes, and both searching for a sense of belonging. Filmmaker Marta Cunningham puts a human face on a critical issue challenging communities everywhere. Namely, how do we help kids like Brandon and Larry before tragedy happens? Haunting, infuriating, and powerful, Valentine Road shakes us to our core as it calls to question our very notion of justice. —D.C.

Director: Marta Cunningham Executive Producers: Jon Murray, Gil Goldschein Producers: Sasha Alpert, Eddie Schmidt Cinematographer: Arlene Nelson Editors: Tchavdar Georgiev, Yana Gorskaya Music Supervisors: Dave Stone, Justin Gage Saturday, January 19, noon Temple Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 20, 5:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 1:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

Friday, January 25, 9:00 a.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 12:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Marta Cunningham Marta Cunningham was born in northern California and attended San Mateo High School, where she was active in its performing arts program. At the age of 14, she was dancing with the company at the Peninsula Ballet Theatre. At Georgetown University, Cunningham studied English literature and was awarded the prestigious Baker Scholarship. She then moved to Los Angeles and found work as an actress, writer, dancer, and choreographer before focusing on directing and producing. Valentine Road is her first film. Sasha Alpert www.bunim-murray.com

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On February 12, 2008, in Oxnard, California, eighth-grade student Brandon McInerney shot his classmate Larry King twice in the back of the head during first period. When Larry died two days later, his murder shocked the nation. Was this a hate crime, one perpetrated by a budding neo-Nazi whose masculinity was threatened by an effeminate gay kid who may have had a crush on him? Or was there even more to it?

U.S.A., 2012, 89 min., color

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Twelve films from emerging filmmaking talents offer fresh perspectives and inventive styles.

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Circles unfolds as a triptych, exploring the moral convolutions and complex story strands that emerge from one fateful moment. Marco, a Serbian soldier on leave during the war, returns to his Bosnian hometown. When three fellow soldiers accost Haris, a Muslim shopkeeper, Marco intervenes, but it costs him his life. Twelve years later the war is over, but the wounds remain open. Marco’s father is rebuilding a church when Bogdan, the son of one of Marco’s killers, appears looking for work. Meanwhile in Belgrade, Marco’s friend Nabobs, a renowned surgeon, debates whether or not to operate on another of Marco’s killers. And in Germany, Haris—now married with a family—strives to repay his debt when Marco’s widow arrives seeking refuge. With its gorgeous cinematography and simmering tension, Srdan Golubovic’s third feature (The Trap, 2007, garnered great acclaim) employs a multifaceted, yet simple, structure that contemplates revenge, redemption, and reconciliation. Aware of how easily hatred and violence can create life-shattering ripples, Golubovic looks at the consequences of moral courage, asking whether a heroic act can generate ripples of another kind. —J.N.

Director: Srdan Golubovic Screenwriters: Srdjan Koljevic, Melina Pota Koljevic Producers: Jelena Mitrovic, Alexander Ris, Emilie Georges, Boris T. Matic, Danijel Hocevar Cinematographer: Alexsander Ilic Production Designer: Goran Joksimovic Composer: Mario Schneider Sound Designer: Julij Zornik Costume Designer: Ljiljana Petrovic Principal Cast: Aleksandar Bercek, Leon Lucev, Nebojsa Glogovac, Hristina Popovic, Nikola Rakocevic, Vuk Kostic Friday, January 18, 6:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, noon Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 20, noon

Srdan Golubovic Srdan Golubovic was born in 1972 in Belgrade. Absolute Hundred, his first feature film, screened at more than 60 international film festivals, including the San Sebastián, Toronto, and Busan festivals, and won 10 awards. His second feature film, The Trap, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2007, won 23 international awards, and was short-listed for an Academy Award for best foreign film. Golubovic is a professor of film directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade.

Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC

Wednesday, January 23, 2:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 9:15 a.m. Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City

Tanja Meissner Memento Films International tanja@memento-films.com +33 1 53 34 90 29

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Krugovi

Serbia/Germany/France/Croatia/ Slovenia, 2012, 112 min., color Serbian with English subtitles

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Circles

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Crystal Fairy

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Sebastián Silva

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Sebastián Silva is a Chilean writer and director based in New York. He has made a comedy series and five feature films, including The Maid, which won the dramatic Jury Prize at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, and Old Cats, which screened at the Festival in 2011. He has two films screening at the Festival this year—Magic Magic in the Park City at Midnight program and Crystal Fairy in the World Dramatic Competition. He is also an all right painter, a mediocre musician, an enthusiastic dancer, and a phony mystic. Juan de Dios Larraín Fabula www.fabula.cl juandedios@fabula.cl +569 9162 2850

Jamie is a boorish, insensitive American twentysomething traveling in Chile, who somehow manages to create chaos at every turn. He and his friends are planning on taking a road trip north to experience a legendary shamanistic hallucinogen called the San Pedro cactus. In a fit of drunkenness at a wild party, Jamie invites an eccentric woman—a radical spirit named Crystal Fairy—to come along. What is meant to be a devil-may-care journey becomes a battle of wills as Jamie finds himself locking horns with his new traveling companion. But on a remote, pristine beach at the edge of the desert, the magic brew is finally imbibed, and the true adventure begins. Preconceived notions and judgments fall away, and the ragtag group breaks through to an authentic moment of truth. With his signature flair, maverick writer/director Sebastián Silva returns (The Maid won the dramatic Jury Prize in 2009) to unearth the deadpan comedy that results from the archrivalry between his egoclashing characters. Culminating in a profound audience experience, Crystal Fairy is about the gifts we can receive when we stop reaching for them. —K.Y.

Chile, 2012, 100 min., color Director/Screenwriter: Sebastián Silva Producers: Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín Cinematographer: Cristián Petit Laurent Editors: Diego Macho, Sofía Subercaseaux, Sebastián Silva Art Director: Mark Grattan Sound Designer: Roberto Espinoza Principal Cast: Michael Cera, Gaby Hoffmann, Juan Andrés Silva, José Miguel Silva, Agustín Silva Thursday, January 17, 8:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Friday, January 18, 9:00 a.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 18, 6:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, SLC

Saturday, January 19, 6:30 p.m. Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden

Wednesday, January 23, 2:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 4:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

Alicia Scherson’s striking third feature uses the streets of Rome to create a world both richly beautiful and unapologetically provocative— the very aesthetic reflecting Bianca’s disorientation as the future becomes her present. Even the unsettling score morphs with her, growing bigger and bolder as she does. Il Futuro’s lead actor, Manuela Martelli, fearlessly embodies Bianca’s confusion and vulnerability, capturing her slow climb to maturity through a series of subtle shifts and revelations. —H.Z.

Director: Alicia Scherson Screenwriter: Alicia Scherson, based on the novel by Robert Bolaño Executive Producer: Bruno Bettati Producers: Christoph Friedel, Claudia Steffen, Mario Mazzarotto, Emanuele Nespeca Coproducers: Luis Angel Ramirez, Alvaro Alonso Cinematographer: Ricardo de Angelis Music: Eduardo Henriquez, Caroline Chaspoul Sound Designer: Miguel Hormazabal Principal Cast: Manuela Martelli, Rutger Hauer, Luigi Ciardo, Nicolas Vaporidis, Alessandro Giallocosta Saturday, January 19, 5:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Monday, January 21, 4:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 3:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC

Thursday, January 24, 8:30 a.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 4:00 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City

Alicia Scherson Alicia Scherson was born in Santiago de Chile in 1974. After graduating as a biologist, she studied filmmaking in the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television and then received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her first feature film, Play, was shot in Chile and premiered in 2005 at the Tribeca Film Festival, where it received an award for best director. Augusto Matte Jirafa www.jirafa.cl augusto@jirafa.cl +56 9 9235 3207

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When her parents die in a car accident, adolescent Bianca’s universe is upended. Staying alone in the family’s Rome apartment and entrusted with the care of her younger brother, Tomas, she struggles to hold things together as her place in her surreal new world becomes blurry. Life is further complicated when Tomas’s gym-rat friends invite themselves to stay indefinitely. Using Bianca as a lure for a heist they’ve concocted, they convince her to initiate a sexual relationship with enigmatic blind hermit Maciste, played by Rutger Hauer. But as the two spend time together, Bianca unexpectedly finds normalcy and acceptance in the aging B-movie star and former Mr. Universe’s rococo mansion.

Chile/Germany/Italy/Spain, 2012, 94 min., color English and Italian with English subtitles

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il futuro (THE FUTURE)

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Houston Clemens Trunschka is not doing so well. With spotty employment and a shaky marriage, he’s pretty much lost any claim to being a “functional alcoholic.” The more accurate term for him would probably be “lousy drunk.” So when an opportunity arises to help a German company recruit an American candidate as its CEO, Trunschka seizes the chance to get back in the black—with both his finances and his family.

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Bastian Günther

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Born in 1974 in Hachenburg, Germany, Bastian Günther studied directing at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. The short film he made there, End of a Trip, won a First Steps award in 2006. Autopilots, which he wrote and directed in 2007, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and went on to screen at festivals worldwide, winning the MFG-Star award for young directors at the MFG Festival in Baden-Baden. He divides his time between Berlin and Austin, Texas.

Showing a deftness for handling such emotional material, writer/ director Bastian Günther expands Trunschka’s headhunting expedition into a captivating and subtle examination of failure. He’s aided by lead actor Ulrich Tukur, who delivers a fearless portrayal of a man searching for new ways to hit bottom as he flings himself down the slopes of self-loathing with all the gusto of a certain cartoon coyote. Houston dives unflinchingly deep into the heart of Texas and comes up with something as surprising as it is precious: hope. —J.K.

Germany, 2012, 107 min., color English and German with English subtitles Director/Screenwriter: Bastian Günther Producers: Martin Heisler, Joachim Ortmanns, Anne Walker-McBay Cinematographer: Michael Kotschi Editor: Anne Fabini Production Designers: Christiane Krumwiede, Jeff Hartmann Music: Michael Rother, NEU! Principal Cast: Ulrich Tukur, Garret Dillahunt, Wolfram Koch, Jenny Schily, Jason Douglas, Jens Münchow Tuesday, January 22, 5:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 3:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 3:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Martin Heisler Lichtblick Media simon@lichtblick-media.com +49 307 6239 7370

Friday, January 25, 9:15 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 2:30 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 1, Park City

The absurdity-of-war theme has been explored in many films, but rarely in such exquisite detail as in this offering from writer/director Muel O. Striking black-and-white cinematography captures the texture of the region as well as the humanity of its inhabitants. The film doesn’t condemn anyone but rather focuses on the heart of the story—real people living in fear. Powerful and tender, Jiseul is at certain times hard to watch because of the content and at others extremely engaging because of the authentic human emotion. O has crafted a potent and poetic requiem for a people and a place close to his heart. —T.G.

Director/Screenwriter: Muel O Producer: Hyuk-jin Ko Cinematographer: Jung-hoon Yang Editor: Do-hyun Lee Music: Song-e Jeon Sound: Sang-min Lee Principal Cast: Min-chul Sung, Jung-won Yang, Young-soon Oh, Soon-dong Park, Suk-bum Moon, Kyung-sub Jang Saturday, January 19, 3:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Monday, January 21, 6:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 9:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC

Wednesday, January 23, 11:45 a.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 12:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Friday, January 25, 10:00 a.m.

Muel O As a representative of the Jeju-based independent culture project, Terror J, director Muel O chooses to direct films set on his native Jeju Island. Born in 1971, O has directed several feature films—most recently Nostalgia in 2009—in addition to various plays and performances. He also organized a street art festival called Flower for a Jeju Head, is codirector at the Jeju Independent Film Society, and acts as artistic director of the Japari Research Center.

Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City

Kate Won Indiestory Inc. www.indiestory.com kate@indiestory.com +82 2 722 6051

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Set during the 1948 Jeju Massacre in Korea, Jiseul tells the story of some 120 villagers who hid in a cave for 60 days from soldiers who were under shoot-to-kill orders. They suffer from severe cold and hunger but retain their sanity by making jokes and holding on to the hope that their wait is almost over. Eventually their endurance wanes, and fear begins to test the group’s mettle.

South Korea, 2012, 108 min., b/w Korean with English subtitles

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Lasting Nieulotne

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Jacek Borcuch

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Jacek Borcuch is a director, screenwriter, actor, and musician. Born in 1970, he studied philosophy at the University of Warsaw and drama at the Music Theatre in Gdynia, Poland. He has written and directed four feature films, including Tulips and Kallafiorr. His third film, All That I Love, won the Audience Award at the Polish Film Festival in 2009, screened at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, and was Poland’s official Academy Award entry in 2011.

Michał and Karina fall head over heels in love during their summer holiday in Spain. Under the warm sun-soaked vineyards in the ecstasy of their thrilling new romance, everything feels carefree and innocent. But when Michał has a threatening encounter with an unsavory property owner while scuba diving, an impulsive act leads to a devastating turn. Michał covers up what happened and suddenly returns to Poland without telling Karina the truth. Soon Karina also has something she keeps from Michał. With their secrets looming over them, their onceunbridled affection begins slipping through their hands, and their bright, innocent faces turn dark with worry. With an immersive touch, Jacek Borcuch effortlessly captures the couple’s youthful spirit and rapture, amplifying the weight of the emotionally sobering drama that ensues. Marking a welcome return to the Sundance Film Festival (All That I Love screened in 2010), Lasting is an exploration of that rare species of love that can endure life’s pitfalls, and a terrifying reminder that one fateful minute can upend everything. —C.D.

Poland/Spain, 2012, 95 min., color Spanish/Polish with English subtitles Director/Screenwriter: Jacek Borcuch Producers: Piotr Kobus, Agnieszka Drewno Cinematographer: Michal Englert Editor: Beata Walentowska Art Director: Elwira Pluta Music: Daniel Bloom Sound: Maria Chilarecka Principal Cast: Jakub Gierszal, Magdalena Berus, Ángela Molina Sunday, January 20, 5:30 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 9:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 9:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Thursday, January 24, 3:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 8:30 a.m. Holiday Village Cinema 1, Park City

Piotr Kobus Manana www.lasting.pl international@manana.pl +48 22 851 1097

Director Sean Ellis’s return (The Broken premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival) vividly captures the desperation of life amongst the squalid Manila slums, then ratchets up the tension, creating an intense thriller with a poignant humanity and palpable dramatic stakes. In the role of Oscar, Jake Macapagal brings emotional depth to the wrenching choices he must make to sustain his family. —H.Z.

Director/Cinematographer: Sean Ellis Screenwriters: Sean Ellis, Frank E. Flowers Executive Producers: Sean Ellis, Enrique Gonzalez, Celine Lopez Producers: Mathilde Charpentier, Sean Ellis Editor: Richard Mettler Production Designer: Ian Traifalgar Composer: Robin Foster Principal Cast: Jake Macapagal, John Arcilla, Althea Vega Sunday, January 20, 8:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Monday, January 21, 3:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Tuesday, January 22, 5:15 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, midnight Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 12:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Sean Ellis Academy Award– and BAFTAnominated director Sean Ellis started taking pictures when he was 11 years old. At the age of 26, he became a sought-after fashion photographer before crossing over into film. After writing and directing three successful short films, Ellis expanded his Academy Award–winning short, Cashback, into the feature film of the same name. His psychological thriller The Broken premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008. Metro Manila is Ellis’s third feature and a world premiere. Karina Gechtman-Harroch Independent Film Company www.independentfilmcompany.com karina@independentfilmcompany.com +44 207 257 8734

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Seeking a brighter future in megacity Manila, Oscar Ramirez and his family flee their impoverished life in the rice fields of the northern Philippines. But the sweltering capital’s bustling intensity quickly overwhelms them, and they fall prey to the rampant manipulations of its hardened locals. Oscar catches a lucky break when he’s offered steady work for an armored truck company and gregarious senior officer Ong takes him under his wing. Soon, though, the reality of his work’s mortality rate and the murky motives of his new partner force Oscar to confront the perils he faces in his new job and life.

United Kingdom/Philippines, 2012, 114 min., color Tagalog with English subtitles

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Metro Manila

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Shopping

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Mark Albiston, Louis Sutherland

124

Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland have always collaborated on their films. Along with earning a special distinction at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009 and a special mention at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2010, their short The Six Dollar Fifty Man won the Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010 and was long-listed for an Academy Award in 2011. Run, Albiston and Sutherland’s second short film, received an honorable mention in 2007 at the Cannes Film Festival. James Thompson www.nzfilm.co.nz james@nzfilm.co.nz +644 382 7680

Living in New Zealand in 1981 amid high racial tension, Willie, a halfSamoan teenager, is coming into his own. With an unpredictable father, Willie spends most of his time working at a department store or taking care of his little brother, Solomon. A chance encounter at work with an eccentric and charming “shopper” named Bennie lures Willie into a world without rules. As Willie begins to find a place in Bennie’s reckless nest of criminals, Solomon grows increasingly vulnerable to their father’s violent tendencies. Filmmakers Louis Sutherland and Mark Albiston have masterfully conjured brilliant performances from Kevin Paulo and Julian Dennison to portray an authentic and powerful story of brotherly love in a harsh world. After awarding them the Jury Prize for International Short Filmmaking in 2010 for The Six Dollar Fifty Man, the Sundance Film Festival is happy to welcome back Sutherland and Albiston for their feature film debut. —O.J., A.P.

New Zealand, 2013, 98 min., color Directors: Mark Albiston, Louis Sutherland Screenwriters: Louis Sutherland, Mark Albiston Producers: Sarah Shaw, Anna McLeish Cinematographer: Ginny Loane Editor: Annie Collins Production Designer: Josh O’Neill Composer: Grayson Gilmour Costume Designer: Lucy McLay Principal Cast: Kevin Paulo, Julian Dennison, Jacek Koman, Alistair Browning Friday, January 18, 3:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 9:00 a.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 20, 6:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, SLC

Thursday, January 24, 5:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Friday, January 25, noon Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Whether in crocodile heels and pearls or manure-covered overalls, Fanni’s nerves-of-steel character is superbly inhabited by Johanna Orsini-Rosenberg. In his striking debut, director Daniel Hoesl’s exacting compositions and visual style places man-made wealth in stark contrast to nature’s bounty, while leaving intact the fierce core of transgression and powerful engine of rebellion beneath his main character’s surface. With a subversive tone, this punk parable revels in the notions of relinquishing materialism and reclaiming unfettered liberty while savoring the sweet taste of revolt and reconstruction. —C.D.

Director/Screenwriter: Daniel Hoesl Producer: Katharina Posch Coproducers: Daniel Hoesl, Gerald Kerkletz Cinematographer: Gerald Kerkletz Editor: Natalie Schwager Music: Bettina Köster Sound: Klaus Kellermann Principal Cast: Johanna Orsini-Rosenberg, Christina Reichsthaler, Josef Kleindienst, Aurelia Burckhardt, Julia Schranz, Ines Rössl Friday, January 18, 9:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 1:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

Sunday, January 20, 3:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC

Thursday, January 24, 3:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 1:00 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City

Daniel Hoesl Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1982, Daniel Hoesl got his start blasting buildings on the art circuit. Soon after, he founded A European Film Conspiracy to make films in his unique, low-budget, collective style. While assistant-directing Ulrich Seid’s Paradise trilogy, he contracted malaria, then found Jesus. Elephants are now his favorite animals. Hoesl is best known for his controversial interpretation of Franz Schubert’s Winter Journey. His predilection for progressive concepts gave way to his feature directorial debut, Soldate Jeannette. Kasia Karwan Premium Films kasia.karwan@premium-films.com +33 1 42 77 06 39

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Even though the walls are crumbling around Fanni’s opulent lifestyle, one could never tell due to her poker face and unflappable etiquette. No longer moved by the beautiful objects money can buy, and on the verge of being discovered for her conniving ways, Fanni sheds her bourgeois identity and decides to trek her way through the alpine mountains. She reaches a remote farm and meets Anna, a young woman shackled by circumstances of her own. Anna has had enough of pigs, and Fanni has had enough of money. Their mutual, yet opposing, quests toward a redefined freedom spark a newfound transformation.

Austria, 2012, 80 min., color German/French with English subtitles

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Soldate Jeannette

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There Will Come a Day

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Giorgio Diritti

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Director, screenwriter, and editor Giorgio Diritti was born in Bologna, Italy. His debut feature film, The Wind Blows Round (2005), was shown at more than 60 film festivals worldwide, winning numerous awards. The Man Who Will Come, Diritti’s second feature-length film, premiered at the Rome Film Festival in 2009, where it won the Grand Jury Prize, an Audience Award, and a Special Jury Award.

A personal crisis sends Augusta, a young Italian woman, far from home on a search for faith and meaning in her life. True to her devout Catholic background, she decides to accompany a nun as she ministers to Indigenous Brazilian villages along the Amazon River. Gradually disillusioned with the hierarchical nature of the work, Augusta opts to stay in the port city of Manaus, where she joins a favela community and works alongside the family she adopts there. Tragedy strikes, and she embarks on a bold journey of self-realization—in utter isolation, where she can finally face herself completely. A feast for the eyes, There Will Come a Day captures the grandeur of the Amazon with gorgeous aerial shots and contrasts them with intimate, textured moments among characters in close quarters, inspiring us to reflect on scale and perspective. Toggling between hushed moments with Augusta’s religious mother in Italy and the more colorful, energized world of Brazil, this layered, meditative film subtly explores how spiritual questions materialize at different stages of life, how destabilizing experiences yield new insight, and how our postcolonial era reframes the very notion of altruism. —C.L., K.Y.

Italy/France, 2012, 109 min., color Portuguese/Italian with English subtitles Director: Giorgio Diritti Screenwriters: Giorgio Diritti, Fredo Valla, Tania Pedroni Producers: Lionelle Cerri, Giorgio Diritti, Simone Bachini, Valerio De Paolis Cinematographer: Roberto Cimatti Editor: Esmeralda Calabria Music: Marco Biscarini, Daniele Furlati Set Designers: Jean-Louis Leblanc, Paola Comencini Costume Designers: Hellen Crysthine Bentes Gomes, Lia Morandini Principal Cast: Jasmine Trinca, Anne Alvaro, Pia Engleberth Monday, January 21, 9:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Angeline Nicolai Elle Driver www.elledriver.fr angeline@elledriver.eu +33 1 56 43 48 75

Tuesday, January 22, 1:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 3:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC

Friday, January 25, 6:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 4:00 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City

Wajma (An Afghan Love Story) offers us a more complex and nuanced portrait of contemporary dating and the role of women in middle-class Afghanistan than we’ve been permitted to see before onscreen. Wajma Bahar’s dynamic intensity in the title role is matched by the powerful work of Hadji Gul as her foreboding but conflicted father. Beginning his story as an intimate romance, filmmaker Barmak Akram shifts the focus to the volatility in Wajma’s home after her secret is divulged, ultimately revealing an Afghan family just as capable of cruelty—and forgiveness—as any in the world. —H.Z.

Director/Screenwriter: Barmak Akram Producer/Cinematographer: Barmak Akram Editors: Barmak Akram, Herve de Luze, Isabelle Ingold Composers: Barmak Akram, Matthieu Chedid, Susheela Raman Sound Design: Pascal Villard, Jean-Paul Hurier Principal Cast: Wajma Bahar, Mustafa Habibi, Hadji Gul, Breshna Bahar Sunday, January 20, 9:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 9:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Wednesday, January 23, 9:00 a.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 5:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, noon Temple Theatre, Park City

Barmak Akram Barmak Akram was born in 1966 in Kabul. He received diplomas from three major art schools in France, including the École nationale supérieure des Beaux Arts. Besides directing several short films and documentaries and two full-length features (Kabuli Kid premiered in 2008 at the Venice Film Festival), Akram is also a musician, songwriter, and composer. He is an autodidact with a deep knowledge of two very different cultures and works between his distinct worlds—Kabul, where he runs his production agency, Kabuli Film, and Paris. Barmak Akram Kabuli Film—Afghanistan kabulifilm@gmail.com barmakakram@yahoo.fr +33 6 22 14 54 23

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It’s snowing in Kabul, and gregarious waiter Mustafa charms a pretty student named Wajma. The pair begin a clandestine relationship— they’re playful and passionate but ever mindful of the societal rules they are breaking. After Wajma discovers she is pregnant, her certainty that Mustafa will marry her falters, and word of their dalliance gets out. Her father must decide between his culturally held right to uphold family honor and his devotion to his daughter.

Afghanistan, 2012, 86 min., color Persian with English subtitles

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Wajma (An Afghan Love Story)

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What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love Yang Tidak Dibicarakan Ketika Membicarakan Cinta

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Mouly Surya

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Indonesian filmmaker Mouly Surya has always had a passion for stories, books, and films. She earned a BA in media studies and literature from Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia. In 2008, Surya won an award for best direction at the Jakarta International Film Festival for her debut feature, Fiksi, and gained recognition nationwide as one of the country’s most promising female filmmakers. In addition to making films, she teaches a directing class at her local film school. Cinesurya Pictures www.cinesurya.com +62 217 200 037

At a high school for the visually impaired in Jakarta, Indonesia, the students are like any other teenagers: they attend classes, pursue artistic endeavors, and fall in love. The most privileged of the bunch, Diana, patiently awaits signs of womanhood and humors her mother’s attempts to mold her into the perfect girl. The beautiful Fitri has no shortage of male attention and enters into a passionate affair with, unbeknownst to her, a hearing-impaired punk rocker who is masquerading as a doctor. Meanwhile, Maya, blind since birth, aspires to be an actress and performer. Regardless of physical barriers, the students find ways to communicate and collaborate, enabling them to connect—with each other and to the outside world.

Indonesia, 2012, 106 min., color Indonesian with English subtitles Director/Screenwriter: Mouly Surya Producers: Rama Adi, Fauzan Zidni, Tia Hasibuan Associate Producer: John Badalu Cinematographer: Yunus Pasolang Editor: Kelvin Nugroho Art Director: Rita Yossy Composer: Zeke Khaseli Principal Cast: Nicholas Saputra, Ayushita Nugraha, Karina Salim, Anggun Priambodo, Lupita Jennifer Saturday, January 19, 11:30 a.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 20, 6:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Writer/director Mouly Surya elegantly employs the language of cinema to evoke the sensory experience of her protagonists through deliberate silences, languid tracking shots down corridors, and highly choreographed movement. With gentle humor, playfulness, and heightened realism, What They Don’t Talk About… draws out the poetry in its characters, highlighting the magic in their lives and respecting who they are. —K.Y.

Monday, January 21, 10:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 3:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 10:00 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City

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Zhao Qi

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Zhao Qi was the Chinese producer for the feature documentary Last Train Home by Lixin Fan, which screened at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and China Heavyweight by Yung Chang, which played at the Festival last year. He is also a documentary filmmaker based in Beijing. Zhao worked at China Central Television (CCTV) as a director and producer for 15 years and made more than 150 television documentaries. Fallen City is his first featurelength documentary film. Catherine LeClef CAT&Docs www.catndocs.com cat@catndocs.com +33 1 83 97 05 46

The 2008 earthquake in China utterly destroyed not only physical structures but also human lives in mountain cities like Beichuan. Through the gracefully interwoven stories of three survivors from the town, Fallen City documents the struggle to rebuild amidst ruin. Meanwhile, down the road, a new Beichuan is rising. The Chinese government’s solution to the devastation of the earthquake is a completely new town where the survivors can live a better, more prosperous life in spacious flats among manicured landscapes. As the physical structures appear at a breakneck pace, we see that people’s hearts cannot be repaired as easily. First-time director Zhao Qi gives us an intimate look at Chinese life by focusing on the people’s unshakable familial love and commitment—values not seen as often in the West. Through surprising turns, haunting visuals, and the personal and political drive to forget, Fallen City becomes a testimony to the universal human will to persevere and remember. —S.S.

China, 2012, 90 min., color Chinese with English subtitles Director/Producer: Zhao Qi Executive Producers: Zhao Qi, Michelle Ho, Fan Lixin, Peter Wintonick Cinematographer: Sun Shaoguang Editors: Matthieu Laclau, Meng Peicong Sound: Fan Liming Friday, January 18, 9:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Monday, January 21, 9:15 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 3:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 6:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Friday, January 25, 6:15 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 9:15 a.m. Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City

Gray uses the response to the AIDS crisis in Africa to reveal the power of the drug companies and the impact of their lobby on the federal government. The implications of their ability to effectively deny critical treatment based on economic inequities are more far reaching than any single disease. —B.T.

Director/Screenwriter/Producer: Dylan Mohan Gray Executive Producer: Christopher Hird Coproducer: Rumana Gray Cinematographer: Jay J. Odedra Editors: Dylan Mohan Gray, Christopher Seward, Hugh Williams Composer: Ashutosh Phatak Friday, January 18, 3:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Saturday, January 19, 3:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Sunday, January 20, 3:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 6:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 6:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Friday, January 25, 7:00 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City

Dylan Mohan Gray Trained as a historian, Dylan Mohan Gray has worked as first assistant director and secondunit director on feature films in more than two dozen countries with numerous leading directors, including Fatih Akin, Peter Greenaway, Paul Greengrass, Deepa Mehta, and Mira Nair. He lives in Mumbai, India. Fire in the Blood is his first feature-length film as writer/director. Dylan Mohan Gray Sparkwater India office@sparkwater.com (888) 229-9548

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In 1996, the development of antiretroviral drug therapies may not have cured AIDS, but the breakthrough made the disease treatable— if patients could afford the hefty price tag. For millions in the developing world, the cost kept essential medicines out of reach and meant they would continue to die. Hope came in the form of low-cost generic drugs manufactured in India and elsewhere, but pharmaceutical companies—favoring patents over patients and profits over the prevention of unnecessary deaths—threatened legal action against any company that dared circumvent their control of the market. The struggle to overcome this inconceivably greedy blockade— with literally life or death stakes—is at the heart of Dylan Mohan Gray’s absorbing documentary.

India, 2012, 84 min., color English and Hindi/Manipuri/Xhosa with English subtitles

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Google and the World Brain

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Director Ben Lewis gained international recognition with his documentary films and cultural series for television. The controversial documentary The Great Contemporary Art Bubble (2009) dealt with speculation in the art market. The television series Art Safari was broadcast worldwide and won several international prizes. His film, Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty (2012), will be broadcast on more than 70 television channels. Carles Brugueras www.polarstarfilms.com carles@polarstarfilms.com +34 932 004 777 +34 610 225 513

The goal of accumulating all human knowledge in one repository has been a dream since ancient times. Only recently, however, has that dream become a reality. Quietly and behind closed doors, Google has been executing a project to scan and digitize every printed word on the planet. Working with the world’s most prestigious libraries, the webmasters are reinventing the limits of copyright in the name of free access to anyone, anywhere. What can possibly be wrong with this picture? As Google and the World Brain reveals, a whole lot. Some argue that Google’s actions represent aggressive theft on an enormous scale, others see them as an attempt to monopolize our shared cultural heritage, and still others view the project as an attempt to flatten our minds by consolidating complex ideas into searchable “extralong tweets.” At first slowly, and then with intensifying conviction, a diverse coalition mobilizes to stop the fulfillment of this ambitious dream. Incisive and riveting as it uncovers a high-stakes multinational heist, Ben Lewis’s film voices an important alternative to the technological utopianism of our time. —S.S.

Spain/United Kingdom, 2012, 89 min., color Director: Ben Lewis Executive Producer: Carles Brugueras Producer: Bettina Walter Cinematographer: Frank Lehmann Music: Lucas Ariel Vallejos Picture Editor: Simon Barker Friday, January 18, 6:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Monday, January 21, 5:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 9:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 8:30 a.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 3:15 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City

The story begins with an experiment. A filmmaker in the country of Georgia posts an ad inviting youth to audition for her film. Facing the camera, the hopefuls confess their struggles and dreams. These raw interviews unfold seamlessly into cinematic slivers of Georgian life. A teenager awaits news of his father’s surgery. A girl anticipates her wedding. The governor of a tiny village faces a monumental decision. A soldier attempts to link his imprisoned brother to the world outside, and a young woman confronts the mother who abandoned her. These threads form a fluid Altman-esque collage of characters—and a nation—teetering on the brink of change. It’s a world where tradition and modernity subtly intermingle: singing traditional ballads is as common a self-expression as listening to hip-hop or playing online poker.

Director/Screenwriter: Tinatin Gurchiani Executive Producer: Tamar Gurchiani Producers: Tinatin Gurchiani, Kakha Macharashvili Cinematographer: Andreas Bergmann Editors: Nari Kim, Doreen Ignaszewski Music: Mahan Mobashery, Marian Mentrup Sound Design: Michał Krajczok, Marian Mentrup

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Mixing metanarrative with heightened visual aesthetics, The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear intuitively penetrates individual lives to conjure a richly layered, indelible portrait of a society, brilliantly becoming more than the sum of its parts. —C.L.

Friday, January 18, noon Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Saturday, January 19, 11:30 a.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 20, 3:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Monday, January 21, 3:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 3:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 8:30 a.m.

Tinatin Gurchiani Tinatin Gurchiani was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, where she studied painting, dance, and psychology. After receiving her diploma with honors at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, she pursued postgraduate study in psychology at Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany, and the University of Graz in Austria. She studied directing at the University of Film and Television Konrad Wolf (HFF) in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany, and graduated with honors in 2010. In 2007, Gurchiani won the DAAD Award for artistic and social engagement in film. The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear is her first film.

Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Ina Rossow www.deckert-distribution.com

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Georgia/Germany, 2012, 97 min., color Georgian with English subtitles

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The Moo Man

Andy Heathcote is an independent filmmaker based in southern England. He studied photography, then trained as an assistant film editor in London before concentrating on film direction at the Polish Film School. He is a visiting lecturer in filmmaking at various United Kingdom universities. In 2008, he successfully released his first feature documentary, The Lost World of Mr. Hardy, in British cinemas.

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Andy Heathcote, Heike Bachelier

Heike Bachelier is a writer/ director living and working in both Germany and the United Kingdom. In 2010, she made her debut feature, Feindberührung, for ZDF, the German television network. The film won the 2011 PRIX EUROPA for best feature documentary.

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In the bucolic English countryside, Stephen Hook runs the family dairy farm, Hook and Son, a lo-fi anomaly resisting a hi-fi world. Farming is a hard life and an even harder business, but Stephen and his family make it work by staying small and offering services like home delivery. And it’s not just a profession for Stephen: each cow has a name and is lovingly cared for, especially the farm’s resident “cover girl,” Ida. It becomes quite clear that Stephen’s unconventional and heartwarming friendship with his herd is what really enables the farm to survive. Director Andy Heathcote and codirector Heike Bachelier offer a glimpse of an endangered way of life. Their quiet and subdued approach allows their subjects—both human and bovine—to captivate and charm the audience. In this age when life seemingly rushes by at breakneck speed, it’s nice to see that some people can still sustain a simpler existence. —R.W.

United Kingdom, 2012, 98 min., color Director/Cinematographer/Sound: Andy Heathcote Codirector/Editor: Heike Bachelier Producers: Andy Heathcote, Heike Bachelier Composer: Stephen Daltry Sound Designer: Peter Hodges Monday, January 21, 6:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 9:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 9:00 a.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 3:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC

Saturday, January 26, 4:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

British filmmaker Mike Lerner and Russian Maxim Pozdorovkin collaborate to chronicle the way one small act of protest captured a nation’s attention and grew to become an international story of human-rights abuse. Putting a personal face on a rebellion, they track three bewildered women who are imprisoned by jail bars and cameras but prepared to defend their actions no matter what it may cost them. This film tells their epic story. —C.R.

Directors/Producers: Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin Executive Producers: Martin Herring, Havana Marking, Nick Fraser, Kate Townsend, Maxyne Franklin Associate Producers: Xenia Grubstein, Janet Knipe Cinematographer: Antony Butts Editor: Esteban Uyarra Composer: Simon Russell Friday, January 18, 8:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 6:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Sunday, January 20, 1:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 9:00 a.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 6:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin Academy Award–nominated producer Mike Lerner has been a documentary filmmaker for 25 years. His previous work includes Afghan Star, which won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival; Hell and Back Again, which won the documentary Jury Prize at the 2011 Festival; and Smash and Grab. Pussy Riot—A Punk Prayer is his first feature as director. Maxim Pozdorovkin’s first feature, Capital, is a modern-day symphony about the utopian city of Astana, Kazakhstan. He is currently creating a documentary about the international arms dealer Viktor Bout. www.roastbeeftv.com +44 207 240 2885

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In the winter of 2011, after a controversial election, Vladimir Putin was reinstalled as president of Russia. In response, hundreds of thousands of citizens rose up all over the country to challenge the legitimacy of Putin’s rule. Among them were a group of young, radicalfeminist punk rockers, better known as Pussy Riot. Wearing colored balaclavas, tights, and summer dresses, they entered Moscow’s most venerated cathedral and dared to sing “Mother Mary, Banish Putin!” Now they have become victims of a “show” trial.

Russian Federation/United Kingdom, 2012, 90 min., color Russian with English subtitles

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A River Changes Course

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Kalyanee Mam

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Having escaped war-torn Cambodia in 1979, lawyer-turnedfilmmaker Kalyanee Mam seeks to combine human rights and law in creating documentaries that are both captivating and inspiring. Mam’s past work includes the 2011 Academy Award–winning documentary about the global financial crisis, Inside Job, where she served as cinematographer, associate producer, and researcher, and her first documentary short, Between Earth & Sky. She directed, produced, and shot this film, which follows the hopes and struggles of three young Iraqi refugees. Kalyanee Mam kalyaneem@migrantfilms.com

In her feature directorial debut, Kalyanee Mam, the cinematographer for the Academy Award–winning documentary Inside Job, explores the damage rapid development has wrought in her native Cambodia on both a human and environmental level. Rural communities, used to reaping the bounty of their mountainous jungles and lush rivers, have witnessed their forests being cleared, land becoming scarce and costly, and fishing stocks rapidly depleting. No longer able to provide for their families, and often accruing massive debt as a result, many Cambodians have been forced to leave their rural lives behind to seek employment in the industrial factories of Phnom Penh. Following her subjects for more than two years, Mam achieves a profound intimacy with them as they confront these challenges in this stunningly shot vérité portrait. Unable to pursue an education, and forced to separate from their families, they find it hard to imagine a better future when they can barely survive in the present. —B.T.

Cambodia/U.S.A., 2012, 83 min., color Cambodian with English subtitles Director/Cinematographer: Kalyanee Mam Executive Producer: Youk Chhang Producers: Kalyanee Mam, Ratanak Leng Editor: Chris Brown Composer: David Mendez Sound: Zach Martin, Angie Yesson Monday, January 21, 9:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 3:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Wednesday, January 23, 8:30 a.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 1:00 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 11:30 a.m. Holiday Village Cinema 1, Park City

As with her other work (Pink Saris, Rough Aunties), master documentarian Kim Longinotto trains her camera on an iconoclastic woman. Salma’s extraordinary story is one of courage and resilience, and Longinotto follows her on an eye-opening trip back to her village. Salma has hopes for a different life for the next generation of girls, but as she witnesses, familial ties run deep, and change happens very slowly. —K.Y.

Director/Producer/Cinematographer: Kim Longinotto Screenwriter/Editor: Ollie Huddleston Executive Producers: Hamish Mykura, Anna Miralis Composer: Samuel Sim Sound Recordist: Sara Lima Interpreter/Associate Producer: Samyuktha PC Sunday, January 20, 6:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Monday, January 21, 6:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC

Tuesday, January 22, 10:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 10:00 a.m. Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City

Friday, January 25, 9:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Saturday, January 26, 3:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Kim Longinotto Kim Longinotto studied at the National Film School in London. For more than two decades, she has been making films that explore issues relevant to women in such diverse places as Japan, Iran, Africa, and India. The Day I Will Never Forget, about Kenyan girls challenging female circumcision, premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Sisters in Law, set in Cameroon, won the C.I.C.A.E. Award at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Rough Aunties, about a group of brave women in South Africa, won the documentary Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. Kristen Fitzpatrick www.wmm.com kf@wmm.com

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When Salma, a young Muslim girl in a south Indian village, was 13 years old, her family locked her up for 25 years, forbidding her to study and forcing her into marriage. During that time, words were Salma’s salvation. She began covertly composing poems on scraps of paper and, through an intricate system, was able to sneak them out of the house, eventually getting them into the hands of a publisher. Against the odds, Salma became the most famous Tamil poet: the first step to discovering her own freedom and challenging the traditions and code of conduct in her village.

United Kingdom/India, 2013, 90 min., color Tamil with English subtitles

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The Square (Al Midan) In February 2011, Egyptians—particularly young ones—showed the world the way people demanding change can drive an entire nation to transformation. The result was a profound movement toward democracy that is still evolving across the Arab world.

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Jehane Noujaim

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Egyptian-American filmmaker Jehane Noujaim has directed documentaries in the Middle East and the United States. Her critically acclaimed Control Room screened at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and won several awards, including ones from the Directors Guild of America and the International Documentary Association. Noujaim’s other documentaries as cinematographer and director include Born Rich, Only the Strong Survive, Down from the Mountain, and Startup.com, which appeared at the 2001 Festival. She won the TED Prize in 2006. Noujaim also codirected Egypt: We Are Watching You and Rafea: Solar Mama. Dina Amer Jehane Noujaim Productions dina6620@gmail.com +201 000 592 160

The Square, a new film by Jehane Noujaim (Control Room; Rafea: Solar Mama), looks at the hard realities faced day-to-day by people working to build Egypt’s new democracy. Catapulting us into the action spread across 2011 and 2012, the film provides a kaleidoscopic, visceral experience of the struggle. Cairo’s Tahrir Square is the heart and soul of the film, which follows several young activists. Armed with values, determination, music, humor, an abundance of social media, and sheer obstinacy, they know that the thorny path to democracy only began with Hosni Mubarek’s fall. The life-and-death struggle between the people and the power of the state is still playing out. —S.S.

Egypt/U.S.A., 2012, 90 min., color English and Arabic with English subtitles Director: Jehane Noujaim Executive Producers: Mike Lerner, Geralyn Dreyfous, Maxyne Franklin Producer: Karim Amer Associate Producer: Virginia Cromie Cinematographer: Muhammad Hamdy Editors: Stefan Ronowicz, Mohammed El Manisterly, Christopher Delatorre Friday, January 18, 6:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 9:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Monday, January 21, 9:00 a.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, noon Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 3:15 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City

Filmmaker John Akomfrah uses the rich and complex mood created by Miles Davis’s trumpet to root a masterful tapestry of newly filmed material, archival imagery, excerpts from television programs, home movies, and family photographs to create this lyrical and emotionally powerful portrait of the life and philosophy of this influential theorist. Like a fine scotch, The Stuart Hall Project is smooth, complicated, and euphorically pleasing. It taps into a singular intelligence to extract the tools we need to make sense of our lives in the modern world. —S.F.

Director: John Akomfrah Producers: Lina Gopaul, David Lawson Cinematographer: Dewald Aukema Editor: Nse Asuquo Sound Designer: Trevor Mathison Sound Design: Robin Fellows Friday, January 18, 3:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 12:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Sunday, January 20, 9:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Wednesday, January 23, 6:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 12:15 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 3:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

John Akomfrah John Akomfrah is an artist, writer, director, and influential figure in the black British film movement. His documentaries and features have won more than 30 international awards, and his body of work is considered among the most distinctive and innovative in the United Kingdom. His extensive filmography includes The Nine Muses (2010), Oil Spill: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (2009), Riot (1999), Martin Luther King: Days of Hope (1997), and Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993). Lina Gopaul www.smokingdogsfilms.com lina@smokingdogsfilms.com +44 207 249 6644

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A person’s culture is something that is often described as fixed or defined and rooted in a particular region, nation, or state. Stuart Hall, one of the most preeminent intellectuals on the Left in Britain, updates this definition as he eloquently theorizes that cultural identity is fluid—always morphing and stretching toward possibility but also constantly experiencing nostalgia for a past that can never be revisited.

United Kingdom, 2012, 95 min., color

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The Summit Although K2 is only the second-highest peak in the world, it is renowned as the most dangerous and revered by mountaineers as their ultimate challenge. In August 2008, 18 of 24 climbers reached the summit of K2. Forty-eight hours later, 11 people were dead. What happened on that fateful day has never been resolved.

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Nick Ryan

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Director/producer Nick Ryan is a founding director of Image Now Films. In 2006, Ryan wrote, directed, and produced the awardwinning short film A Lonely Sky. He followed it with the award-winning short film The German in 2008, which he wrote and directed. Ryan also produced Ruairi Robinson’s short films The Silent City, Blinky, and Imaginary Forces. Olivia Leahy Image Now Films www.imagenow.ie olivia@imagenow.ie nick@imagenow.ie +353 1 411 3310

Utilizing found footage, interviews with survivors, and seamlessly realistic reenactments, The Summit zigzags back and forth in time, interweaving multiple narrative threads and piecing together events, hoping to solve the mystery of what actually happened on that day—the deadliest in mountain-climbing history. At the heart of the mystery is the story of Ger McDonnell, one extraordinary man who chose to risk his own life to save others. With the help of breathtaking cinematography by Robbie Ryan and Stephen O’Reilly, director Nick Ryan creates a tension-filled, experiential film that will have viewers on the edge of their seats. The Summit pits Man against Mother Nature in her most majestic and terrifying extreme. —D.C.

Ireland/United Kingdom, 2012, 104 min., color English and Italian/Basque/Nepalese with English subtitles Director/Producer: Nick Ryan Screenwriter: Mark Monroe Executive Producers: John Battsek, Pat Falvey, Darrell Kavanagh, John McDonnell Cinematographers: Robbie Ryan, Stephen O’Reilly Editor: Ben Stark Composer: Nick Seymour Friday, January 18, 9:00 a.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 9:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 20, 9:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC

Tuesday, January 22, 3:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Wednesday, January 23, 2:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Friday, January 25, 6:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Marc Silver’s masterful documentary assembles the answers to these questions using beautifully realized dramatic sequences with famed actor Gael García Bernal. Silver and Bernal reconstruct this John Doe, denied an identity at his point of death, into a living and breathing human being with a full and deeply engaging life story. Unfolding like a thrilling crime drama, the film builds to an emotionally devastating climax. Who Is Dayani Cristal? tells the story of one migrant who found himself in that deadly stretch of desert known as “the corridor of death” and how one life becomes testimony to the tragic results of the U.S. war on immigration. —D.C.

Director: Marc Silver Screenwriter: Mark Monroe Executive Producers: Dan Cogan, Lilly Hartley, Jeffrey Tarrant, Jess Search, Teddy Leifer, Marc Silver Producers: Lucas Ochoa, Thomas Benski, Gael García Bernal Cinematographers: Marc Silver, Pau Esteve Birba Editors: Martin Singer, James Smith-Rewse Composers: Leo Heiblum, Jacobo Lieberman Principal Cast: Gael García Bernal Thursday, January 17, 5:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Friday, January 18, 8:30 a.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 18, 6:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library, SLC

Sunday, January 20, 3:30 p.m. Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden

Wednesday, January 23, 4:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

Friday, January 25, 3:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Marc Silver Marc Silver works as a filmmaker, director of photography, and social-impact producer. His rich portfolio includes short and feature-length documentaries, visuals for concerts, art installations, and branding. He has created content for the BBC, Great Britain’s Channel 4, Universal Music, The Guardian, Amnesty International, the United Nations Refugee Agency, and The Global Fund and has collaborated with artists such as Nitin Sawhney, Michael Nyman, Jamie Cullum, and Cirque du Soleil. Silver is currently developing a new project about the psychedelic ayahuasca and the Amazon. Kurban Kassam www.pulsefilms.com Kurban@pulsefilms.co.uk +44 207 426 5700

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August 3, 2010, Pima County, Arizona—Deep in the sun-blistered Sonora desert beneath a cicada tree, border police discover a decomposing male body. Lifting a tattered T-shirt, they expose a tattoo that reads “Dayani Cristal.” Who is this person? What brought him here? How did he die? And who—or what—is Dayani Cristal?

United Kingdom, 2012, 80 min., color English and Spanish with English subtitles

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A showcase of world premieres of some of the most highly anticipated dramatic films of the coming year. Presented by Entertainment Weekly.

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Carter has spent much of his life mediating fights between his acrimoniously divorced, ill-behaved mother and father and taking on the role of designated authority figure to his carefree younger brother, Trey. Inspired by Trey’s sudden engagement, Carter resolves to negotiate a truce between his parents, a process that nearly unhinges him. Adding insult to injury, a frantic sprint back to his childhood therapist, Dr. Judith, reveals he was a prime subject in her self-help book on the “least-parented, least-nurtured generation” ever. Dr. Judith may not be able to help him, but she’s delighted he’s come back and inspired a sequel. Adam Scott’s increasingly befuddled everyman is flanked by vivacious comic performances from Catherine O’Hara and Amy Poehler as his stubborn mom and sassy stepmom, respectively. Stuart Zicherman’s charming feature debut explores the joys and frustrations of life in a modern family, allowing that romance is never impossible, even for a hopelessly scarred adult child of divorce. —H.Z.

U.S.A., 2012, 95 min., color Director: Stuart Zicherman Alvarez Screenwriters: Ben Karlin, Stuart Zicherman Executive Producers: Adam Scott, George Paaswell Producers: Teddy Schwarzman, Ben Karlin, Tim Perell Cinematographer: John Bailey Editor: Jeffrey Wolf Composer: Nick Urata Principal Cast: Adam Scott, Richard Jenkins, Catherine O’Hara, Amy Poehler, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clark Duke Wednesday, January 23, 6:30 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 9:00 a.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 6:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Saturday, January 26, 6:30 p.m.

Stuart Zicherman Stuart Zicherman is a New York– based screenwriter who makes his directorial debut with A.C.O.D. Zicherman began his career writing action movies and has worked on more than 15 studio films, including Elektra, starring Jennifer Garner, and Rush Hour 2, starring Jackie Chan. He also cocreated the J. J. Abrams television series Six Degrees and was recently a writer/producer on the FX series Lights Out. He is an adult child of divorce.

Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Black Bear Pictures www.blackbearpictures.com info@blackbearpictures.com

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Before midnight We meet Celine and Jesse nine years after their last rendezvous. Almost two decades have passed since their first encounter on a train bound for Vienna, and we now find them in their early forties in Greece. Before the clock strikes midnight, we will again become part of their story.

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Richard Linklater

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Screenwriter/filmmaker Richard Linklater has directed 17 feature films. He also serves as artistic director for the Austin Film Society, which he founded in 1985 to showcase films from around the world that are not typically shown in Austin. The Austin Film Society has given out more than a million dollars in grants to Texas filmmakers. In 1999, it was honored by the Directors Guild of America in recognition of its support of the arts. Before Midnight marks Linklater’s third collaboration with Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke: Before Sunrise was the Opening Night film at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, and its successor, Before Sunset, was nominated for an Academy Award for its screenplay in 2005. Kirsten McMurray Laura Yates Detour Filmproduction (512) 322-0031

Director Richard Linklater continues his enchanting tale of a chance meeting between two strangers, bringing to it a nuanced perspective only gained by years lived. As it does in each film in the series, life carries with it new responsibilities and attitudes, forcing the two dreamers to reassess what they want next. Bolstered by an increasingly refined onscreen chemistry between lead actors Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight is a fitting third chapter in one of the great love stories of American independent cinema. —C.R.

U.S.A., 2012, 108 min., color Director: Richard Linklater Screenwriters: Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater Executive Producers: Jacob Pechenik, John Sloss, Martin Shafer, Liz Glotzer Producers: Richard Linklater, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Sara Woodhatch, Kostas Kefalas Coproducers: Vincent Palmo Jr., Athina Rachel Tsangari Cinematographer: Christos Voudouris Editor: Sandra Adair Composer: Graham Reynolds Principal Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Ariane Labed, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick Sunday, January 20, 9:45 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Monday, January 21, 8:30 a.m. The MARC, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 6:30 p.m. Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden

Thursday, January 24, 9:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library, SLC

Friday, January 25, noon Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Saturday, January 26, 8:30 a.m. The MARC, Park City

Big Sur focuses on a moment in Jack Kerouac’s life when, overwhelmed by the success of his opus On the Road and struggling with alcoholism, he retreats to his publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s cabin in the small, coastal California town of Big Sur, which eventually inspires his 1962 novel of the same name. Kerouac’s time begins with quiet moments of solitude and communing with nature. But, struck by loneliness, he hightails it to San Francisco, where he resumes drinking heavily and gets pushed into a relationship with his best friend Neal Cassady’s mistress, Billie. While writer/director Michael Polish (Twin Falls Idaho) explores a less glamorous moment in Kerouac’s legacy—one of alienation and mental breakdown—Big Sur equally examines the beauty of this time in the writer’s life, witnessed in the romance of friendship and the purity of nature. Jean-Marc Barr embodies Kerouac’s intelligence and masculinity, but also portrays him at his most contemplative and vulnerable. Luscious and breathtaking, Big Sur approaches a religious cinematic experience. —K.Y.

U.S.A., 2012, 100 min., color Director/Screenwriter: Michael Polish Executive Producers: Mark Roberts, Eddie Vaisman, Jim Sampas Producers: Ross Jacobson, Orian Williams, Adam Kassen, Michael Polish Cinematographer: M. David Mullen Production Designer: Max Biscoe Sound Designer: Chris Sheldon Costume Designer: Bic Owen Principal Cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Kate Bosworth, Josh Lucas, Radha Mitchell, Anthony Edwards, Henry Thomas Wednesday, January 23, 9:45 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 8:30 a.m. The MARC, Park City

Friday, January 25, 9:30 p.m. Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden

Saturday, January 26, 9:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Michael Polish Filmmaker and actor Michael Polish burst onto the independent film scene in 1999 with his first feature, Twin Falls Idaho, which made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival. His 2000 follow-up, Jackpot, garnered the coveted Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award and the 2001 Seattle International Film Festival’s New American Cinema Award. His other credits include Northfork, which premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival; Hot Bot; and The Astronaut Farmer. Polish is a native of El Centro, California, and studied visual communications and animation at California Institute of the Arts. Sean O’Grady 3311 Productions info@3311productions.com (323) 319-5060

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Breathe In

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Drake Doremus

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Drake Doremus, a graduate of the American Film Institute, has made a feature film each year for the past four years. Breathe In marks his third premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Doremus’s second feature, Douchebag, made its world premiere in the U.S. Dramatic Competition in 2010, and his last film, Like Crazy, won the dramatic Grand Jury Prize in 2011. His unique approach to shooting encourages actors to improvise while being guided by an extensive outline.

As summer turns to fall, music teacher Keith Reynolds privately reminisces about his days as a starving artist in the city. While his wife, Megan, and daughter, Lauren, look forward to Lauren’s final year of high school, Keith clings to those evenings he’s asked to sub as a cellist with a prestigious Manhattan symphony. When Megan decides the family should host foreign exchange student Sophie, the British high school senior soon rekindles an impetuous aspect of Keith’s personality. Drake Doremus, winner of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Like Crazy, reunites with actress Felicity Jones and cowriter Ben York Jones for this passionate ensemble drama of family dysfunction. Ditching the hand-held aesthetic of his past works, Doremus conceives a grander story of love and heartache, only heightened by his lead character’s symphonic avocation, while maintaining his keen eye for intimate performance. —C.R.

U.S.A., 2012, 98 min., color Director: Drake Doremus Screenwriters: Drake Doremus, Ben York Jones Producers: Jonathan Schwartz, Andrea Sperling, Steven Rales, Mark Roybal Coproducers: Kathryn Dean, Michael Pruss Cinematographer: John Guleserian Editor: Jonathan Alberts Production Designer: Katie Byron Composer: Dustin O’Halloran Principal Cast: Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Amy Ryan, Mackenzie Davis Saturday, January 19, 3:00 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 20, 8:30 a.m. The MARC, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 6:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Friday, January 25, 2:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Andrea Sperling andreasperling@gmail.com (213) 434-2045

Saturday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library, SLC

Jon Martello objectifies everything in his life: his apartment, his car, his family, his church, and, of course, women. His buddies even call him Don Jon because of his ability to pull “10s” every weekend without fail. Yet even the finest flings don’t compare to the transcendent bliss he achieves alone in front of the computer watching pornography. Dissatisfied, he embarks on a journey to find a more gratifying sex life, but ends up learning larger lessons of life and love through relationships with two very different women. Crass, funny, and startlingly sincere, Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Don Jon’s Addiction resonates with its utterly authentic realization of people and place, transcending New Jersey stereotypes by infusing its characters with tantalizing complexities. Gordon-Levitt’s chemistry with costars Scarlett Johansson and Julianne Moore ignites the screen with heat and emotion. With abundant charm and formidable wit, Don Jon’s Addiction marks the evolution of an incredibly talented actor into a truly gifted writer/director. —T.G.

U.S.A., 2013, 90 min., color Director/Screenwriter: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Executive Producer: Nicolas Chartier Producer: Ram Bergman Cinematographer: Thomas Kloss Editor: Lauren Zuckerman Production Designer: Meghan C. Rogers Composer: Nathan Johnson Principal Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza, Glenne Headly, Rob Brown Friday, January 18, 6:30 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 9:00 a.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 6:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Monday, January 21, 6:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Saturday, January 26, 12:15 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt makes his feature directorial debut with Don Jon’s Addiction, which he wrote and stars in alongside Scarlett Johansson and Julianne Moore. He has previously attended the Sundance Film Festival with the films Hesher, (500) Days of Summer, Brick, Mysterious Skin, and Manic, as well as with his open-collaboration production company hitRECord. His additional film credits include Lincoln, Looper, The Dark Knight Rises, 50/50, Inception, and The Lookout, among others. www.voltagepictures.com sales@voltagepictures.com (323) 606-7630

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The East

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Zal Batmanglij

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In 2012, Variety ranked Zal Batmanglij one of its “10 Directors to Watch” as a result of his directorial debut, Sound of My Voice, which screened at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. His follow-up feature, The East, stars longtime collaborator Brit Marling alongside Alexander Skarsgård and Ellen Page. Batmanglij grew up in Washington, D.C., and studied anthropology at Georgetown University. He was a directing fellow at the American Film Institute, where his peers elected him to speak at graduation. Fox Searchlight www.foxsearchlight.com

Someone is attacking big corporate CEOs and forcing them to consume harmful products they manufacture. An elite private intelligence firm is called into action and contracts ex-FBI agent Sarah Moss to infiltrate a mysterious anarchist collective, The East, suspected to be responsible. Skilled, focused, and bent on success, Sarah goes undercover and dedicates herself to taking down the organization. She soon finds, however, that the closer she gets to the action, the more she sympathizes with the group’s charismatic leaders. After the warm reception he received for 2011’s Sound of My Voice, director Zal Batmanglij returns to the Sundance Film Festival with this stunning sophomore effort, which marks his second collaboration with the irresistibly alluring, multitalented Brit Marling. Featuring a fantastic supporting cast, including Patricia Clarkson, Ellen Page, and Alexander Skarsgård, The East is a taut and timely thriller that resonates deeply with the complexity of today’s explosive socioeconomic landscape. —S.F.

U.S.A, 2012, 116 min., color Director: Zal Batmanglij Screenwriters: Zal Batmanglij, Brit Marling Executive Producer: Tony Scott Producers: Ridley Scott, Michael Costigan, Jocelyn Hayes-Simpson, Brit Marling Cinematographer: Roman Vasyanov Editors: Andrew Weisblum, Bill Pankow Production Designer: Alex DiGerlando Costume Designer: Jenny Gering Principal Cast: Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgård, Ellen Page, Toby Kebbell, Shiloh Fernandez, Patricia Clarkson Sunday, January 20, 3:30 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Monday, January 21, 8:30 a.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 6:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library, SLC

Saturday, January 26, 3:30 p.m. Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden

Sunday, January 27, 10:00 a.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

During a sweltering summer in New York City, 14-year-old Mister’s hardliving mother is apprehended by the police, leaving the boy and nineyear-old Pete alone to forage for food while dodging child protective services and the destructive scenarios of the Brooklyn projects. Faced with more than any child can be expected to bear, the resourceful Mister nevertheless feels he is an unstoppable force against seemingly unmovable obstacles. But what really keeps the pair in the survival game is much more Mister’s vulnerability than his larger-than-life attitude.

The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete is a beautifully observed and tremendously moving film about salvation through friendship and the way transformation sometimes can happen just by holding on long enough. Director George Tillman, Jr. draws indelible performances from a fantastic cast, which includes Jennifer Hudson, Anthony Mackie, Jeffrey Wright, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, and Jordin Sparks, all led by Skylan Brooks in a stunning breakout performance as Mister. —S.F.

U.S.A., 2012, 120 min., color Director: George Tillman, Jr. Screenwriter: Michael Starrbury Executive Producers: Alicia Keys, Susan Lewis, Clay Floren, Aimee Shieh, Julio Depietro, Keith Kjarval, Mary Vernieu, Amy Nauiokas Producers: Jana Edelbaum, Rachel Cohen, Bob Teitel Cinematographer: Reed Morano Editor: Jamie Kirkpatrick Production Designer: Jane Musky Composer: Alicia Keys Principal Cast: Skylan Brooks, Ethan Dizon, Jennifer Hudson, Jordin Sparks, Anthony Mackie, Jeffrey Wright Friday, January 25, 9:45 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 8:30 a.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 27, 3:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, SLC

George Tillman, Jr. Milwaukee native George Tillman, Jr., made his directorial debut with the critically acclaimed Soul Food. After the success of his next directorial effort, Men of Honor, he produced Barbershop. Tillman then returned to the director’s chair for Notorious and Faster. After falling in love with Michael Starrbury’s script for The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, he spent three years trying to get the film made. Tillman resides with his family in Los Angeles. Sheri Goldberg sgoldberg@id-pr.com

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closing night

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Joshua Michael Stern

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Director/writer Joshua Michael Stern’s debut feature, Neverwas, starring Aaron Eckhart, Ian McKellen, and Nick Nolte, premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival. For his follow-up, Swing Vote, he directed Kevin Costner, Stanley Tucci, and Dennis Hopper. JOBS is his third feature film. Stern has an impressive familial connection to movies and TV— his grandmother was a studio executive who worked with legendary Hollywood producer David O. Selznick, and his grandfather was the original executive producer and creator of The Tonight Show. info@thejobsmovie.com

In 1976, college dropout Steve Jobs heralded a revolution within the confines of his parents’ garage. Jobs, along with friend and technical wizard Steve Wozniak, unleashed the “homebrew” Apple I personal computer kit onto an unsuspecting public, producing 200 units by hand and shipping each one themselves (monitor and keyboard not included). Apple Inc. was born, and the world would never be the same. Today hundreds of millions of users around the world remain tethered to the remarkable products that Jobs championed—his impact on the world of technology was undoubtedly colossal, but his effect on our culture was simply immeasurable. Although the road that Jobs traveled to become CEO of the company he cofounded was a tumultuous one, director Joshua Michael Stern unfurls his story with relative ease, and Ashton Kutcher’s highly nuanced portrayal of the technology icon adroitly captures the essence of a man who changed the way we live. —A.M.

U.S.A., 2012, 122 min., color Director: Joshua Michael Stern Screenwriter: Matt Whiteley Executive Producers: Ronald Bulard, Jacob Pechenik, Marcos Rodriguez, David Traub Producer: Mark Hulme Coproducer: Gil Cates, Jr. Cinematographer: Russell Carpenter Editor: Robert Komatsu Composer: John Debney Principal Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad, Lukas Haas, J. K. Simmons, Matthew Modine Friday, January 25, 6:15 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 9:00 a.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 27, 12:15 p.m. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Welcome to the scandalous world of Paul Raymond, entrepreneur, impresario, and the “king of Soho.” Seeing mediocrity in the smutty sex parlors of London, Raymond unveils his first “gentlemen’s club” in 1958 and gradually builds an empire of clubs and erotic magazines that brings him vast wealth while affronting British sexual mores. It also brings a litany of obscenity charges, a failed marriage, troubled children, and personal tragedy. From a layered script by Matt Greenhalgh, Michael Winterbottom’s creative approach is energetic and inspired. Starting in black and white, the film’s aesthetic transforms over time, mirroring the cinema styles of each period (with a soundtrack that follows suit). After struggling for years to bring Raymond’s story to the screen, Steve Coogan delivers a remarkable performance in a dramatic role sure to reframe his career. Was the man who railed against social hypocrisies simply a hypocrite himself? Coogan fully inhabits this complicated and contradictory man who seems almost tragic, invoking Oscar Wilde’s remark, “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” —J.N.

United Kingdom, 2013, 105 min., color & b/w Director: Michael Winterbottom Screenwriter: Matt Greenhalgh Executive Producers: Andrew Eaton, Jenny Borgars, Katherine Butler, Norman Merry, Danny Perkins, Piers Wenger Producer: Melissa Parmenter Cinematographer: Hubert Taczanowski Editor: Mags Arnold Production Designer: Jacqueline Abrahams Composers: Antony Genn, Mark Slattery Principal Cast: Steve Coogan, Anna Friel, Imogen Poots, Tamsin Egerton Saturday, January 19, 6:00 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 20, 9:00 a.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 6:30 p.m.

Michael Winterbottom Michael Winterbottom’s films include 24 Hour Party People, In This World (winner of the Golden Bear at the 2003 Berlin International Film Festival), Road to Guantanamo (winner of the Silver Bear at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival), A Mighty Heart, A Summer in Genoa (winner of the Silver Seashell award at the 2008 San Sebastián International Film Festival), and Everyday, which received the coveted FIPRESCI Prize at the 2012 Stockholm International Film Festival.

Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Thursday, January 24, 9:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Saturday, January 26, 8:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Assistant to Michael Winterbottom Revolution Films +44 207 566 0700

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Lovelace In 1972—long before the Internet porn explosion of today—Deep Throat became a cultural phenomenon. As the first pornographic feature film to be embraced by mainstream audiences, Deep Throat took a multitude of risks: it boasted a plot, humor, and an unknown and unlikely star named Linda Lovelace.

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Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

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Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman directed the 2010 Sundance Film Festival’s Opening Night selection, HOWL, starring James Franco. Epstein’s documentary The Times of Harvey Milk won an Academy Award for best documentary feature in 1984, and Epstein and Friedman’s first directorial collaboration, Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, won the same coveted prize in 1989. Their other directing credits include The Celluloid Closet, which won the nonfiction directing Emmy in 1996, and Paragraph 175, which received the Sundance Film Festival’s Documentary Directing Award in 2000. infor@tellingpictures.com

Lovelace tells the story behind the phenomenon. Fleeing her strict religious family, Linda Boreman falls for charismatic hustler Chuck Traynor, who launches her pornography career. Reborn as “Linda Lovelace,” the charming girl next door skyrockets to international sensation with her uncanny capacity for fellatio. Fully inhabiting this new identity, Linda becomes a spokesperson for sexual freedom and hedonism. But six years later, she reveals a far more sinister narrative—the dark secrets of her own life story. Lovelace sizzles with honest, daring performances by Amanda Seyfried as Linda and Peter Sarsgaard as Chuck. As they demonstrated with their previous feature, 2010’s HOWL, filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, Academy Award–winning masters of the documentary form, have become experts at using true stories to make magical fiction. —D.C.

U.S.A., 2012, 92 min., color Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman Screenwriter: Andy Bellin Producers: Heidi Jo Markel, Laura Rister, Jason Weinberg, Jim Young Cinematographer: Eric Edwards Editors: Robert Dalva, Matthew Landon Production Designer: William Arnold Music: Stephen Trask Costumes: Karyn Wagner Principal Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Hank Azaria, Adam Brody, James Franco, Sharon Stone Tuesday, January 22, 9:45 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 9:00 a.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 6:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Saturday, January 26, 11:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Obeying the last wish of his deceased mother, young American Charlie travels to Eastern Europe with no plans. He lands in a truly unknown place—wilder, weirder, and more foreign than he could have ever imagined. Committed to spontaneous, explosive, and instinctive acts, Charlie now finds himself pursuing an equally lost soul named Gabi, a mysterious Romanian woman unable to shake her dark, violent past. Fredrik Bond’s stylistically assured debut feature spins a euphoric fable of high-stakes romance, where wearing your heart on your sleeve will leave you a bloody mess. A dynamic lead performance by Shia LaBeouf sees him pummeled at every turn as he desperately fights for the magnetic Evan Rachel Wood. The couple squares off against a dream pairing of movie bad guys: Mads Mikkelsen and Til Schweiger. This gorgeously shot adventure, with a hard-charging score setting its pace, provides a truly unique vision of the pain and ecstasy of love. —C.R.

U.S.A., 2013, 108 min., color Director: Fredrik Bond Screenwriter: Matt Drake Executive Producers: Nicolas Chartier, Patrick Newall, Dean Parisot Producers: Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa, Craig J. Flores, William Horberg Cinematographer: Roman Vasyanov Editor: Hughes Winborne Production Designer: Joel Collins Costume Designer: Jennifer Johnson Principal Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen, Til Schweiger, Rupert Grint, James Buckley Monday, January 21, 6:30 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 9:00 a.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 9:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Saturday, January 26, midnight Library Center Theatre, Park City

Fredrik Bond After becoming obsessed as a child with British advertising and American films from the 1970s, Swedish-born Fredrik Bond relocated to London in 1999 to work in commercials. For his Heineken “Entrance” and “Date” commercials, he received prestigious Gold Lion awards at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and his fourth Directors Guild of America nomination. The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman is his first feature. He lives in Venice, California, with his very patient wife and two kids. Kevin Hosieth Voltage Pictures kevin@voltagepictures.com

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Prince Avalanche

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David Gordon Green

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Since his acclaimed feature debut, George Washington, David Gordon Green has directed All the Real Girls, which received two jury awards at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival; Undertow; Snow Angels, which played at the Festival in 2007; Pineapple Express; Your Highness; The Sitter; and multiple episodes of the HBO series Eastbound and Down. He is currently in postproduction on his film Joe, starring Nicolas Cage. The Arkansas-born Green is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Adam Kersh Brigade Marketing adam@brigademarketing.com (646) 862-3122

An odd couple of sorts, meditative and stern Alvin and his girlfriendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brother, Lance, dopey and insecure, leave the city behind to spend the summer in solitude repainting traffic lines down the center of a country highway ravaged by wildfire. As they sink into their job in the remarkable landscape, they learn more than they want to about each other and their own limitations. An unlikely friendship develops through humor and nasty exchanges, leading to surprising affection. Adapted from Icelandic film Either Way, Prince Avalanche is driven by wonderful performances by Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, and Lance LeGault. Writer/director David Gordon Green gets back to his independent roots with this character study, which shows his knack for realistically capturing people and finding meaning in their lives and dreams. With a soundtrack by Explosions in the Sky and David Wingo and gorgeous cinematography by Tim Orr, Prince Avalanche bucks convention by exploring male bonding in a refreshingly genuine way. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;M.P.

U.S.A., 2012, 94 min., color Director/Screenwriter: David Gordon Green Producers: Lisa Muskat, Derrick Tseng, Craig Zobel, James Belfer, David Gordon Green Cinematographer: Tim Orr Editor: Colin Patton Production Designer: Richard Wright Music: Explosions in the Sky, David Wingo Costume Designer: Jill Newell Principal Cast: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch Sunday, January 20, 2:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Monday, January 21, 3:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 8:30 a.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 9:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library, SLC

After India’s father dies in an auto accident, her Uncle Charlie, whom she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her emotionally unstable mother, Evelyn. Soon after his arrival, India begins to suspect this mysterious, charming man has disturbing ulterior motives, but instead of feeling outrage or horror, the friendless girl becomes increasingly infatuated with him. Visionary filmmaker Park Chan-Wook, whose Old Boy and Three… Extremes both played at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005, returns with another macabre story, one that marks his first venture into English-language cinema. Armed with an inspired script, a worldclass cast, and a wickedly playful nature, he subverts audience expectations by employing delightful visual trickery and placing a magnet over the moral compass of the film, giving complex and sympathetic motivations for the characters’ violent actions. Featuring a gasp-inducing performance from Nicole Kidman, Stoker is a haunting, Hitchcockian tale as unsettling as it is stunning. —T.G.

U.S.A., 2012, 98 min., color Director: Park Chan-Wook Screenwriter: Wentworth Miller Executive Producers: Steven Rales, Mark Roybal Producers: Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Michael Costigan Coproducers: Wentworth Miller, Bergen Swanson, Wonjo Jeong Cinematographer: Chung-Hoon Chung Editor: Nicholas De Toth Production Designer: Thérèse DePrez Principal Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Dermot Mulroney, Jacki Weaver, Nicole Kidman Sunday, January 20, 6:30 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Monday, January 21, 9:00 a.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 9:00 p.m.

Park Chan-Wook

Park Chan-Wook is a Korean film director, screenwriter, producer, and former film critic who has emerged as one of the most significant talents in cinema in recent years. He is best known for his films Joint Security Area, Thirst, and what has become known as “The Vengeance Trilogy”: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance; Oldboy, which screened at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival; and Lady Vengeance. Stoker is his first English-language film.

Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Friday, January 25, 6:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Saturday, January 26, 6:30 p.m. Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden

Fox Searchlight (310) 729-8593

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Sweetwater

Logan Miller, Noah Miller Identical twins from West Marin, California, Logan and Noah Miller cowrite, coproduce, codirect, and even act together in their films. Usually referred to simply as “the brothers,” they appear almost indistinguishable and often complete each other’s sentences.

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Against the backdrop of the American Old West, newlyweds Miguel and Sarah struggle to make a living cultivating their small patch of land. Soon a much bigger struggle arises as powerful landowner and community preacher Prophet Josiah makes a play for their property. As he launches his diabolical plot to take their land, an eccentric big-city sheriff comes to town. Things soon go from bad to worse, culminating in a jaw-dropping, hell-hath-no-fury showdown.

Sweetwater boldly establishes its own identity while remaining true to the tenets of the Western genre. Wonderfully cinematic, this expressive tale is superbly directed by the Miller brothers, who extract strong performances from the ensemble cast. Ed Harris is especially striking in a bravura role as the sheriff. With the magnificent New Mexico countryside as their canvas, the Miller brothers imaginatively stroke their cinematic brush across an intense but humorous film. —T.G.

U.S.A., 2012, 95 min., color Directors: Logan Miller, Noah Miller Screenwriters: Logan Miller, Noah Miller, Andrew McKenzie, based on a story by Andrew McKenzie Executive Producers: Trevor Drinkwater, Tucker Moore, Steve Bannon Producer: Jason Netter Cinematographer: Brad Shield Principal Cast: Ed Harris, January Jones, Jason Isaacs, Eduardo Noriega, Jason Aldean, Steven Root Thursday, January 24, 9:45 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 9:00 a.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Sunday, January 27, 3:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Twenty-three years after screening her first feature, Sweetie, in Park City, Jane Campion returns to the Sundance Film Festival with Top of the Lake, a chilling six-hour saga about a detective tasked with uncovering hidden secrets in a tiny New Zealand town. When Tui Mitcham, the pregnant 15-year-old daughter of a local drug king, refuses to reveal the identity of her child’s father and tries to drown herself in the freezing waters of Lake Top, Robin Griffin, a tenacious detective specializing in juveniles, is brought in to handle the case. But when Tui suddenly disappears, Robin embarks on a search that forces her to dissect not only the tangled drama of Lake Top’s town folk, but also her own convoluted past. Transporting us to the hauntingly beautiful, isolated mountains of New Zealand, Campion’s riveting series captures the silent despair plaguing a secluded town and tells an astonishing tale of rediscovered identities and the limits of the human condition. —T.B.

Australia/New Zealand, 2012, 353 min., color Directors: Jane Campion, Garth Davis Screenwriters: Jane Campion, Gerard Lee Executive Producers: Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Jane Campion Producer: Philippa Campbell Cinematographer: Adam Arkapaw Editors: Alexandre De Franceschi, Scott Gray Composer: Mark Bradshaw Production Designer: Fiona Crombie Principal Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Holly Hunter, Peter Mullan, David Wenham Sunday, January 20, 9:00 a.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Jane Campion, Garth Davis Jane Campion’s films include Sweetie; An Angel at My Table; The Piano, which was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won three, including best screenplay; The Portrait of a Lady; Holy Smoke, which she cowrote with her sister, Anna Campion; In the Cut; and Bright Star. Campion won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival twice: for her short film Peel and her feature The Piano. Garth Davis is renowned for directing some of the most memorable and awarded television commercials. His recent work has garnered the prized Gold Lion at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and a finalist nomination from the Directors Guild of America. Davis’s dramatic work includes the documentary P.I.N.S., the award-winning short film Alice, and the highly acclaimed television series Love My Way. Suzy Berkowitz-Weksel, Sundance Channel suzy.berkowitz-weksel@ sundancechannel.com (646) 273-3541

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Two Mothers

Anne Fontaine Director/writer Anne Fontaine’s previous features include Dry Cleaning (1997), How I Killed My Father (2001), Nathalie (2003), In His Hands (2005), The Girl from Monaco (2008), Coco Before Chanel (2009), and My Worst Nightmare (2011). Ariane Buhl abuhl@gaumont.fr +33 1 46 43 21 80

A gripping tale of love, lust, and the power of friendship, Two Mothers charts the unconventional and passionate affairs embarked upon by two lifelong friends, Lil and Roz, who fall in love with each other’s sons. Afraid of facing the ire and judgment of their insular seaside community, they continue the relationships in secret over the years. Once the affairs are discovered, the revelation threatens to tear apart their lives and those of the young men, who must eventually choose between following a well-worn path or their true desires. Adapted from a Doris Lessing novel by Christopher Hampton and directed by Anne Fontaine, Two Mothers boasts a truly impressive international pedigree. Beautifully acted and meticulously composed, it features riveting performances by Naomi Watts and Robin Wright, whose fearless engagement with both the physical and psychological components of the story is breathtaking. Under the precise gaze of Fontaine’s camera, Two Mothers radiates with sweltering sensuality while wading into the dark waters of forbidden love. —T.G.

Australia/France, 2012, 100 min., color Director: Anne Fontaine Screenwriter: Christopher Hampton, based on the novel by Doris Lessing Executive Producer: Troy Lum Producers: Philippe Carcassonne, Francis Boespflug, Andrew Mason Editors: Luc Barnier, Ceinwen Berry Production Designer: Annie Beauchamp Principal Cast: Naomi Watts, Robin Wright, Xavier Samuel, James Frechevile Friday, January 18, 9:45 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 8:30 a.m. The MARC, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 9:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

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Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Saturday, January 26, 6:30 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Best friends—introspective Lilly and free-spirited Gerry—spend their last summer at home in New York City before parting ways for college. The girls meet Brooklyn boy David, whom they both fall for, and Lilly soon begins a secret relationship with him. As Lilly’s home life falls apart after she discovers her father’s affair and Gerry becomes more obsessed with David, Lilly seeks solace in her first romance. However, a tragedy in Gerry’s family catapults Lilly back into reality, and she must face the consequences of her actions.

Very Good Girls is a refreshing representation of contemplative, smart, and curious teenage girls, who experience their everyday lives with a sophistication and grace that most of their peers lack. Naomi Foner’s intimate story emanates a raw nostalgia for that painful time when we waver precariously between adolescence and young adulthood. —R.K.

U.S.A., 2013, 120 min., color Director/Screenwriter: Naomi Foner Executive Producers: Hawk Koch, Gale Anne Hurd, Lee Clay Producers: Norton Herrick, Michael London, Mary Jane Skalski, Janice Williams Cinematographer: Bobby Bukowski Production Designer: Sharon Lomofsky Composer: Jenny Lewis Principal Cast: Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen, Boyd Holbrook, Demi Moore, Richard Dreyfuss, Ellen Barkin Tuesday, January 22, 6:15 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 8:30 a.m. The MARC, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 9:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Saturday, January 26, 9:30 p.m.

Naomi Foner Naomi Foner has been a working screenwriter for more than 30 years. She received an Academy Award nomination, a Golden Globe, and a Pen West award for her screenplay for Running on Empty (1988). She has amazing friends and remarkable children and grandchildren, and is extremely grateful for the ways they enrich her life. Very Good Girls is her first film as a director, and she could never have done it without their support.

Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden

Marian Koltai pmk bnc www.pmkbnc.com marian.koltai@pmkbnc.com (212) 582-1111

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The Way, Way Back

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Jim Rash and Nat Faxon are the writers of The Descendants, for which they received the Academy Award for best adapted screenplay in 2011 along with the film’s director, Alexander Payne. They are also both accomplished comedic actors: Rash currently stars in the hit NBC series Community, and Faxon plays the titular Ben in Fox’s new comedy series Ben and Kate. They are currently collaborating on an action comedy for Indian Paintbrush featuring fellow Groundlings comedy troupe alumnus Kristen Wiig, as well as a project for Payne’s production company, Ad Hominem. Tom Rice Sycamore Pictures www.sycamorepictures.com info@sycamorepictures.com

The Way, Way Back tells the story of 14-year-old Duncan’s awkward, funny, and sometimes painful summer vacation with his mother, Pam, her overbearing boyfriend, Trent, and his daughter, Steph. Although Duncan has a tough time fitting in and finding his place, he does find an unlikely ally and mentor in Owen, a carefree employee at the local water park where Duncan gets a job. Over the course of the summer, as his mother drifts further away, Duncan—with encouragement from Owen—begins to open up and come into his own. Mining the caverns of human vulnerability for the humor necessary to make life bearable, first-time directors Nat Faxon and Jim Rash have transformed their terrific screenplay into a bittersweet comedy that is both charming and insightful. Boasting an extraordinary ensemble of some of the most revered actors working today, as well as a young actor destined to join their ranks, The Way, Way Back brims with nostalgia for the magical time of adolescence, as well as the great coming-of-age films of the 1980s that captured its wide-eyed confusion and wonder. —T.G.

U.S.A., 2013, 96 min., color Directors/Screenwriters: Nat Faxon, Jim Rash Executive Producers: Ben Nearn, Gigi Pritzker, George Parra Producers: Kevin J. Walsh, Tom Rice Cinematographer: John Bailey Editor: Tatiana S. Riegel Production Designer: Mark Ricker Costume Designers: Ann Roth, Michelle Matland Principal Cast: Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, Sam Rockwell, Maya Rudolph, Liam James Monday, January 21, 3:30 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 8:30 a.m. The MARC, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 9:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Thursday, January 24, 6:30 p.m. Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden

Saturday, January 26, 5:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 27, 1:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

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Renowned filmmakers and films about huge subjects comprise this section highlighting our ongoing commitment to documentaries. Each is a world premiere.

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ANITA You know who you are—don’t ever doubt yourself. —Erma Hill to her daughter, Anita

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Freida Mock is an Academy Award–winning filmmaker, director, writer, and producer of feature-length and short documentary films. Her films include Maya Lin: A Strong Vision, about the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which won an Academy Award in 1995; Sing! (2001); and Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember (1990). Mock’s films typically have strong social, historical, and political themes—her films that previously screened at the Sundance Film Festival: Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner (2006) and Return with Honor (1999) about fighter pilots surviving as POWs—are good examples. www.facebook.com/anitahillmovie am.film@verizon.net (310) 459-2116

On October 11, 1991, a poised young law professor sent shock waves through the nation as she sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee intrepidly testifying to the lewd behavior of a Supreme Court nominee. Twenty years later, Academy Award winner and Sundance veteran Freida Mock (Wrestling with Angels screened at the 2006 Festival) brings us ANITA, which crystallizes the sexist power dynamics in the room that day and unravels the impact of that lightning-rod moment on Anita Hill’s life and the broader discussion of gender inequality in America. Contemporary interviews with Hill and her allies and unsettling archival footage reveal the way her attempt to report confidentially on Clarence Thomas’s conduct quickly became a perverse and vicious public attack on her character and credibility. With Thomas playing the race card and a bevy of male senators lobbing ideological bombs, Hill’s hearing became a charade of justice. Yet her audacity to speak truth detonated a national debate about sexual harassment that revolutionized gender politics. As girls and women express what Hill’s sacrifice has meant to them, we’re moved to shout, “We believe you, Anita.” —C.L.

U.S.A., 2013, 85 min., color Director/Producer: Freida Mock Executive Producers: Geralyn Dreyfous, Regina Kulik Scully, Freada Klein Cinematographers: Bestor Cram, Don Lenzer, Erik Daarstad, Jesse Beecher, Hiroki Miyano Editor: Brian Johnson Composer: Lili Haydn Saturday, January 19, 11:30 a.m. The MARC, Park City

Sunday, January 20, 9:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Monday, January 21, 6:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library, SLC

Saturday, January 26, 9:15 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City

This eye-popping, yet intimate, story of U.S. champion snowboarder Kevin Pearce uses years of vérité footage to expose the excitement and appeal, as well as the high stakes, of participating in extremeaction sports. Training to compete against longtime rival Shaun White at the 2010 Winter Olympics, Kevin suffered severe traumatic brain injury from a 2009 accident in Park City, Utah. His tight-knit Vermont family flew to his side, and together they began an intensive process of trying to rehabilitate him and help him rebuild his permanently damaged life. Kevin’s determination and the tireless support of family and friends kept him focused on recovery. But when he insisted he wanted to return to the sport he loved, his family objected. As an elite athlete, Kevin was a professional risk taker, but as a brain-injury survivor, his skills were now impaired, and even a small blow to the head could kill him. Academy Award–nominated director Lucy Walker’s latest film (Waste Land won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival) sheds light on the alarming trend of athletes pushing the boundaries of their sports past the limit. How much risk is too much? Her thoughtful and probing treatment of her subject enables us to share one family’s remarkable journey. —L.V.

U.S.A., 2013, 108 min., color Director: Lucy Walker Screenwriters: Pedro Kos, Lucy Walker Executive Producers: Dan Cogan, Geralyn Dreyfous, Sheila Nevins Producers: Julian Cautherly, Lucy Walker Cinematographer: Nick Higgins Editor: Pedro Kos Music: Chemical Brothers, Underworld, M83, Jose Gonzalez, Moby, Sigur Ros, Lykke Li Friday, January 18, 6:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Friday, January 18, 9:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Saturday, January 19, 2:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Monday, January 21, 9:00 a.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 9:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library, SLC

Friday, January 25, 6:30 p.m. Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden

Saturday, January 26, 5:15 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Lucy Walker The Crash Reel is director/ producer Lucy Walker’s fifth film at the Sundance Film Festival. Devil’s Playground screened in 2002, Waste Land won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award in 2010 and was nominated for an Academy Award, Countdown to Zero also screened in 2010, and her short The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom earned a Jury Prize last year and was nominated for an Academy Award. Blindsight (2006) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Walker grew up in London, England, and graduated from Oxford before winning a Fulbright to attend NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. julian@goodnproper.com

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History of the Eagles Part One Alison Ellwood’s intimate, meticulously crafted patchwork of rare archival material, concert footage, and unseen home movies explores the evolution and enduring popularity of one of America’s truly defining bands.

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Alison Ellwood

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Alison Ellwood is an awardwinning documentary director, producer, and editor. She made her feature-length directorial debut in 2011 with the psychedelic documentary Magic Trip, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Ellwood has collaborated extensively with filmmaker Alex Gibney, acting as producer/editor of the Academy Award–nominated Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, My Trip to Al Qaeda, Casino Jack and the United States of Money, and Catching Hell. She also directed the Emmy Award–winning series American High for television. Larry Solters Scoop Marketing (818) 761-6100

Inspired by the vibrant Los Angeles music scene, Glenn Frey and Don Henley left Linda Ronstadt’s backup band to team with Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner and form the Eagles in 1971. While personal stories from band members (later including Don Felder, Joe Walsh, and Timothy Schmit), managers, and music-industry luminaries frame the narrative, it’s the unexpected moments—recording sessions, backstage interactions, and even a whimsical sequence from the Desperado cover shoot—that convey the inexplicable rapport linking artists, music, and the times (an era when country-tinged rock and pristine harmonies spoke to a nation still reeling from unrest).

U.S.A., 2012, 123 min., color Director: Alison Ellwood Executive Producer: Blair Foster Producer: Alex Gibney Coproducer: Karim Karmi Line Producer: Erin Edeiken Cinematographers: Maryse Alberti, Sam Painter Editors: Alison Ellwood, Ben Sozanski Saturday, January 19, 9:30 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 20, 6:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library, SLC

Monday, January 21, 7:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

But the band was not impervious to its own unrest, and its conflicts prompted several departures and ultimately led to its demise (or long vacation). This History of the Eagles Part One skips neither a beat nor a hit song, and we’re reminded why the band’s Their Greatest Hits collection remains one of the best-selling albums in U.S. history. —J.N.

Tuesday, January 22, 6:30 p.m. Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden

Saturday, January 26, 7:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

U.S.A., 2012, 88 min., color

In February 2012, an entire nation of basketball fans unexpectedly went “Linsane.” Stuck in the mire of a disappointing season, the New York Knicks did what no other NBA team had thought about doing—they gave backup point guard Jeremy Lin an opportunity to prove himself. He took full advantage, scoring more points in his first five NBA starts than any other player in the modern era, and created a legitimate public frenzy in the process. Prior to this now-legendary run, Lin had faced adversity in his career at every turn. He wasn’t offered a scholarship by any major university, nor was he drafted by any NBA team after a standout collegiate career at Harvard.

Director/Cinematographer: Evan Jackson Leong Executive Producers: James D. Stern, Patricia Sun, Sam Kwok Producers: Christopher Chen, Brian Yang, Allen Lu Editor: Greg Louie Composer: Newton Brothers Sound Editor: Wildfire Post

Director Evan Jackson Leong embarked on this documentary before Jeremy Lin was a household name, following the future star as he struggled to find his place in a league where Asian American players are few and far between. More than just a film for basketball addicts, Linsanity serves as an insightful study of the way we perceive race in America and shows what is possible if someone believes in himself. —A.M.

Sunday, January 20, 2:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 8:30 a.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 6:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 27, 6:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Evan Jackson Leong Evan Jackson Leong is a sixthgeneration Chinese-American native of San Francisco. Leong has worked with his mentor, director Justin Lin, on Better Luck Tomorrow, which screened at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, and The Fast and the Furious. He also served as coproducer of Lin’s Finishing the Game, which screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Leong directed two half-hour, nationally broadcast films: Him Mark Lai: The People’s Historian and Forging a Feature: The Journey of Better Luck Tomorrow. He recently completed his first feature-length documentary, 1040: Christianity in the New Asia. Brian Yang brian@408films.com (646) 526-6059

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Linsanity

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Greg “Freddy” Camalier makes his directorial debut with Muscle Shoals. The film was inspired by a magical happenstance visit to the town of the same name in Alabama. Camalier is a self-taught filmmaker who expresses his passion using his instinct, sensibility, and great appreciation of the art form. His original approach to this music documentary is apparent in the mystical and evocative way he tells the story of Muscle Shoals. Kate Lee www.freud.com kate@freud.com +44 203 003 6300

Muscle Shoals

U.S.A., 2012, 102 min., color & b/w

In a tiny Alabama town with the curious name of Muscle Shoals, something miraculous sprang from the mud of the Tennessee River. A group of unassuming, yet incredibly talented, locals came together and spawned some of the greatest music of all time: “Mustang Sally,” “I Never Loved a Man,” “Wild Horses,” and many more. During the most incendiary periods of racial hostility, white folks and black folks came together to create music that would last for generations and gave birth to the incomparable “Muscle Shoals sound.”

Director/Screenwriter: Greg “Freddy” Camalier Executive Producers/Producers: Stephen Badger, Greg “Freddy” Camalier Cinematographer: Anthony Arendt Editor: Richard Lowe Music Supervisor: Jill Meyers

At the heart of the story is Rick Hall; overcoming crushing hardship, he managed to entice talent like Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett to come and record what became their hit albums, backed up by the funkiest white men ever—the homegrown house band, the Swampers. As the word spread about the electrifying musical chemistry in this unexpected place, the likes of Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, the Staples Singers, the Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Simon and Garfunkel magnetically followed suit. Interviewing an incredible roster of musicians, director Greg Camalier unearths a rich history of this unheralded gold mine of American music. —C.L., C.R.

Saturday, January 26, 3:30 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City

The atomic bomb, the specter of a global nuclear holocaust, and disasters like Fukushima have made nuclear energy synonymous with the darkest nightmares of the modern world. But what if everyone has nuclear power wrong? What if people knew that there are reactors that are self-sustaining and fully controllable and ones that require no waste disposal? What if nuclear power is the only energy source that has the ability to stop climate change? Prolific documentarian Robert Stone and environmentalists, scientists, and energy experts share the reasons why they have changed their minds from being fiercely anti– to strongly pro–nuclear energy. The film directly attacks popularly held reasons to oppose nuclear energy, including fear of another disaster like Chernobyl, the problem of waste, and the weakness of clean alternatives like wind and solar energy. Whatever your stance, Stone’s compelling film opens Pandora’s box and promises to change the conversation for years to come. With the world’s unquenchable thirst for energy and its resulting threat to our environment, the stakes may be nothing less than the survival of the planet. —S.S.

U.S.A., 2012, 89 min., color Director: Robert Stone Executive Producers: Dan Cogan, Gavin Dougan, Diana Lady Dougan, Steve Kirsch, Ross Koningstein, Eric Dobkin Producers: Robert Stone, Jim Swartz, Susan Swartz Cinematographers: Robert Stone, Howard Shack Editor: Don Kleszy Composer: Gary Lionelli Sound Designer: Coll Anderson Friday, January 18, 2:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, noon Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Sunday, January 20, 9:00 a.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 8:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 6:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, SLC

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The Secret of Trees

Director: Albert Maysles U.S.A., 2012, 4 min., color What do trees know that we don’t? Thirteen-year-old inventor Aidan has discovered that trees use a mathematical formula to gather sunlight in crowded forests. Now he wonders why we don’t collect solar energy the same way. Nelly Petit www.focusforwardfilms.com (212) 537-5041

Robert Stone Robert Stone is an internationally acclaimed documentary filmmaker. Born in Britain and raised in the United States, he first rose to prominence in 1988 with his antinuclear documentary, Radio Bikini, which premiered at Sundance and earned an Academy Award nomination for best documentary feature. Since then he has created such multiaward-winning and critically acclaimed feature documentaries as Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, which screened at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, Oswald’s Ghost (2006), and his environmental epic, Earth Days, which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival as the closing night film. Robert Stone www.robertstoneproductions.com robert@robertstoneproductions.com (845) 876-0550

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Pandora’s Promise

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Running from Crazy

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Barbara Kopple is the two-time Academy Award–winning director and producer of Harlan County U.S.A. (1976) and American Dream (1991), which remains the only film to sweep the Sundance Film Festival’s documentary award categories. Her other documentaries include Gun Fight (2011), The House of Steinbrenner (2010), Woodstock: Now & Then (2009), Shut Up & Sing (2006), My Generation (2000), A Conversation with Gregory Peck (1999), Wild Man Blues (1997), and Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson (1993). She also directed Havoc, a narrative feature film starring Anne Hathaway, in 2005. Barbara Kopple Cabin Creek Films www.cabincreekfilms.com cabincreekfilms@aol.com (212) 343-2545

Hailed as one of the most distinguished families in American literature, the Hemingways have always exposed both their bright brilliance and their harrowing secrets. Two-time Academy Award winner and the only person to sweep all three of the Sundance Film Festival’s documentary awards for American Dream, Barbara Kopple focuses her newest film on Mariel Hemingway, a granddaughter of the legendary writer Ernest, as she explores her family’s disturbing history of mental illness and suicide. As a youngster, Mariel followed her supermodel sister, Margaux, into the acting world. Critics immediately praised Mariel’s natural talent, which created a deep rift between the sisters. Kopple’s bold portrait of the Hemingways intertwines haunting archival footage from Margaux’s personal family documentary with scenes from Mariel’s life today as she advocates for suicide prevention and strives to live a rigorously healthy lifestyle to combat what appears to be her birthright. Mariel’s courageous journey of acceptance and introspection allows her to view her family and turbulent upbringing through new eyes and, for the first time, accept them with a peaceful heart. —R.K.

U.S.A., 2013, 105 min., color Director: Barbara Kopple Executive Producers: Barbara Kopple, Erica Forstadt, Lisa Erspamer, Oprah Winfrey Producers: Barbara Kopple, David Cassidy Associate Producers: Madeleine Akers, Kelly Brennan Cinematographers: Andrew Young, Boone Speed, Michael Call Editors: Michael Culyba, Mona Davis Sound: Alan Barker Sunday, January 20, 8:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Monday, January 21, 1:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

Friday, January 25, noon Temple Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, SLC

Multitalented musician Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters and Nirvana fronts a mission to resurrect the rapidly vanishing human touch behind the creation of music. When Sound City, a fabled recording studio, opened in 1969, it boasted a one-of-a kind recording console. Tucked away behind train tracks and dilapidated warehouses in the sunburnt San Fernando Valley, Sound City became rock ’n’ roll hallowed ground where music’s megastars captured their magic on analog tape for three decades. The advent of the digital age ultimately sounded the death knell of Sound City. Grohl cobbles together a troupe of iconic musicians and singers who once called the studio home. Stevie Nicks, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Trent Reznor, Rick Springfield, and Paul McCartney are just some of the legends who jam with Grohl and create a brand-new album on that revered soundboard. Fasten your seat belts. Sound City, Grohl’s outstanding filmmaking debut, rocks the silver screen, not only unearthing music history but making it as well. —D.C.

U.S.A., 2012, 106 min., color & b/w Director: Dave Grohl Screenwriter: Mark Monroe Executive Producers: John Silva, John Cutliffe, Gaby Skolnek, Kristen Welsh Producers: John Ramsay, James A. Rota, Dave Grohl Cinematographers: Kenny Stoff, Jessica Young Editor: Paul Crowder Animators: John Cranston, Ryan McNeely Friday, January 18, 2:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 8:30 a.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 6:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Tuesday, January 22, 6:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library, SLC

Thursday, January 24, 11:45 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 27, 6:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, SLC

Dave Grohl Dave Grohl is one of the most respected figures on the international music scene. He began his career at the age of 17 and became the drummer for Nirvana, playing on now-classic albums that include Nevermind and In Utero. Grohl formed the Foo Fighters in 1995; the band’s seven albums won 11 Grammy Awards and sold more than 25 million copies. Sound City marks his debut as a feature documentary director and producer. www.sammusicbiz.com

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We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

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Alex Gibney is the winner of the 2008 Academy Award for best documentary feature for Taxi to the Dark Side. Gibney also wrote, produced, and directed the 2006 Academy Awardâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;nominated film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, which received an Independent Spirit Award and an award from the Writers Guild of America and screened at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. His most recent films as director include Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Magic Trip, The Last Gladiators, and Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God. Grace Fardella www.jigsawprods.com asst.gibney@jigsawprods.com (212) 352-3010

Julian Assange. Bradley Manning. Collateral murder. Cablegate. WikiLeaks. These people and terms have exploded into public consciousness by fundamentally changing the way democratic societies deal with privacy, secrecy, and the right to information, perhaps for generations to come. We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is an extensive examination of all things related to WikiLeaks and the larger global debate over access to information. Having exposed institutions like Enron, the U.S. Army, and Congress, Academy Award winner Alex Gibney now tells the gripping story of what happens when an incredibly small group of people decide to break open the intelligence vaults of the most powerful nation on the planet. Eschewing the simplicity of heroes and villains, Gibney unearths a tangled web of incredible bravery, high ideals, questionable ethics, and stunning hypocrisy. Through it all, We Steal Secrets proves the power of individuals to shape our world. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;S.S.

U.S.A., 2012, 127 min., color Director: Alex Gibney Producers: Alex Gibney, Marc Shmuger, Alexis Bloom Associate Producer: Javier Botero Supervising Producer: Sam Black Cinematographer: Maryse Alberti Editor: Andy Grieve Composer: Will Bates Monday, January 21, 5:15 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 3:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 6:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC

Saturday, January 26, 10:00 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City

U.S.A./Canada, 2012, 80 min., color

It all started on a family vacation. In 2006, the 25-year-old, vital, handsome, talented Jason DaSilva was on a beach with his family when, suddenly, he fell down and couldn’t get back up. Doctors told him he had multiple sclerosis, and it could lead to loss of vision and muscle control, as well as a myriad of other problems. Jason decided to exercise more, but the problem just got worse. So he turned to his mom. She reminded him that he was a fortunate, privileged North American kid who had the opportunity to pursue the things he loved most—art and filmmaking. So Jason picked up the camera, turned it on himself, and began filming the slow, difficult decline of his body and the miracles he encountered along the way.

Director: Jason DaSilva Screenwriters/Producers:

An emotional and inspirational documentary that is a pleasure to watch, When I Walk is an energizing and self-generating film experience whose creative engine is its young filmmaker’s determination to live and his ability to make sense of being plagued by a devastating disease through the art of cinematic storytelling. —S.F.

Monday, January 21, 3:00 p.m.

Jason DaSilva, Alice Cook

Executive Producers: Stanley Nelson, Yael Melamede Cinematographers: Leigh DaSilva, Karin Hayes, Alice Cook Editors: Jason DaSilva, Keiko Deguchi, Alice Cook Composer: Jeff Beal Animation: Mihai Wilson

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Tuesday, January 22, 9:00 a.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 9:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 9:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Jason DaSilva Jason DaSilva is a documentary filmmaker and transmedia producer. His films include Lest We Forget and the shorts First Steps, Twins of Mankala, A Song for Daniel, and Olivia’s Puzzle, which screened at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and qualified for an Academy Award. Three of his films have had national broadcasts on PBS, HBO, and CBC. In 2012, he launched a mobile application called AXS Map, funded by Google charitable giving. Alice Cook www.wheniwalk.com alice.cook@gmail.com

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Which Way Is The Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington

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New York–based writer and journalist Sebastian Junger first ventured into film with the documentary Restrepo, which he shot and directed with colleague Tim Hetherington. The film won the 2010 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for best documentary and was nominated for an Academy Award. Junger’s accompanying book, War, spent more than a month on the New York Times best-seller list; his other books include The Perfect Storm, Fire, and A Death in Belmont. As a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, Junger has reported from war zones across the world. Gretchen McGowan www.goldcrestfilms.com gmcgowan@goldcrestfilms.com (212) 897-3935

Photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington was always searching for the humanity within wartime conflict, as evidenced in his awardwinning body of work. When he and Sebastian Junger spent a year filming a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan in their Academy Award–nominated and Sundance Grand Jury Prizewinning film Restrepo, they weren’t simply looking for action; instead, they chose to focus on the many small moments that make war real. Hetherington’s footage of time he spent with the rebel army during Liberia’s civil war and in Libya prior to his untimely death from a mortar blast in 2011 conveys a rare sense of intimacy in sharp contrast to the violence surrounding him. Although he spent most of his time traveling to the epicenter of war zones, he was seeking the truth, rather than adventure. That is Hetherington’s enduring gift.

U.S.A., 2012, 79 min., color Director: Sebastian Junger Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins Producers: James Brabazon, Nick Quested Supervising Producer: Sara Bernstein Cinematographers: James Brabazon, Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger Editors: Geeta Gandbhir, Maya Mumma Composer: Joel Goodman Sunday, January 20, 2:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 9:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Director Sebastian Junger gracefully weaves together footage of Hetherington at work and moving interviews with his family, friends, and colleagues to capture his compatriot and friend’s unique perspective, compassion, and intense curiosity about the human spirit. —L.V.

Friday, January 25, 3:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 6:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

How did a college dropout who was arrested for a DUI twice in the same year become the single-most-powerful nonpresidential political figure in American history? Filmmakers R. J. Cutler (whose The September Issue screened at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival) and Greg Finton answer that question and others in what is sure to be the definitive film about the fascinating life and legacy of Dick Cheney. Featuring exclusive interviews with Cheney, his closest allies, and his fiercest critics, The World According to Dick Cheney charts the former vice president’s journey from a jailhouse in small-town Wyoming to the inner sanctums of the White House. Revered by his supporters and loathed by his detractors, Cheney enjoyed a career that spanned four decades, culminating in his eight years as the most controversial and, in his words, “most consequential” vice president ever.

U.S.A., 2012, 90 min., color Directors: R. J. Cutler, Greg Finton Producers: R. J. Cutler, Francis Gasparini Coproducers: Ryan Gallagher, Trevor Smith Line Producer: Sarah Anthony Editor: Greg Finton Composer: Craig Richey Music Supervisor: Margaret Yen Friday, January 18, 5:30 p.m.

Director/producer R. J. Cutler’s work includes The September Issue, which screened at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival; A Perfect Candidate; and The War Room, which was nominated for an Academy Award. This year Cutler executive-produced and directed Nashville, which is currently airing on ABC. He has won an Emmy, a Peabody, and the Television Academy’s Honor Award.

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Saturday, January 19, 9:00 a.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 6:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library, SLC

Cutler and Finton’s brilliant film unfolds like a chess game, carefully balancing the illuminating philosophy, complex psychology, arrogance, and dedication of this family man, fisherman, and staunch patriot. —D.C.

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Tuesday, January 22, 6:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Saturday, January 26, 6:15 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Director/editor Greg Finton has worked for 25 years in television and film documentaries. His collaboration with R. J. Cutler began in 2000 with the unscripted television series American High. He also edited Waiting for “Superman” and It Might Get Loud for director Davis Guggenheim; both films screened at the Sundance Film Festival. The World According to Dick Cheney marks his directing debut. Trevor Smith info@cutlerproductions.com (310) 202-8166

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Regardless of where these films have played throughout the world, the Spotlight program is a tribute to the cinema we love.

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Developed at the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab, Fill the Void captivated audiences at last year’s Jerusalem, Venice, and New York film festivals. And it’s no wonder why. An exquisite debut from director Rama Burshtein, it transports the viewer inside a restrained, yet heightened, hermetically sealed world few would otherwise enter. Watching Fill the Void is like stepping into a Charlotte Brontë novel set in Tel Aviv’s ultra-Orthodox community. Strict social codes, rabbinical decrees, and subtle signifiers govern the way all members interact— especially men and women. This is the universe of taciturn, 18-year-old Shira, whose cloistered life takes a dramatic turn when her sister dies suddenly, leaving behind a newborn and a bereaved husband. As the camera gently infiltrates Shira’s family’s hushed quarters, so, too, does it keenly observe her private evolution from innocence to self-awareness as she decides whether to take her sister’s husband as her own. The tension between Shira and her brother-in-law is palpable as their vulnerabilities stir under the surface of an emotional chess game neither is prepared for. Burshtein’s universal story of tortured love—told with enormous specificity, nuance, and depth—is transfixing. —C.L.

Israel, 2012, 90 min., color Hebrew with English subtitles Director/Screenwriter: Rama Burshtein Producer: Assaf Amir Cinematographer: Asaf Sudry Editor: Sharon Elovic Art Director: Ori Aminov Composer: Yitzhak Azulay Principal Cast: Hadas Yaron, Yiftach Klein, Irit Sheleg, Chaim Sharir, Razia Israeli, Hila Feldman Sunday, January 20, noon Temple Theatre, Park City

Monday, January 21, 9:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Wednesday, January 23, 5:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 10:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC

Rama Burshtein Rama Burshtein was born in New York in 1967 and graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem. During her years in Israel, Burshtein became deeply religious and dedicated herself to promoting film as a tool for self-expression in the Orthodox community. Burshtein wrote, directed, and produced films for that community, some for women only. She also taught directing and scriptwriting in film and television institutions, including the Ma’ale Film School, the Yad Benjamin Film School for Women, and Ulpena Arts School in Jerusalem. Fill the Void is her first feature film. Donna Daniels Donna Daniels Public Relations ddprllc.wordpress.com ddaniels@ddanielspr.net (347) 254-7054, ext. 101

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Gangs of Wasseypur This captivating epic premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Directors’ Fortnight program. Filmmaker Anurag Kashyup has created a roller coaster of brutal intensity and wicked humor through decades of criminal enterprise. He remains one of the most exciting voices in independent Indian cinema and sits on this year’s Sundance Film Festival World Dramatic Competition jury.

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Anurag Kashyap was born in Gorakhpur, India, and studied zoology at the University of Delhi. His directorial efforts include Paanch (2003), Black Friday (2004), No Smoking (2007), Dev. D (2009), That Girl in Yellow Boots (2010), and the two-part Gangs of Wasseypur (2012). His screenwriting credits include Deepa Mehta’s Genie Award–winning Water (2005). Kashyap has represented the new wave of Indian cinema at various prestigious festivals and events across the globe. Elle Driver www.elledriver.eu +33 6 20 49 18 12

Impersonating the much-feared Quershi bandits, Shahid Khan loots British trains until his identity is revealed and he’s banished to labor in the coal mines of the ruthless Ramadhir Sing. Shahid’s son, the philandering Sardar Khan, vows to restore his father’s honor and becomes the most feared man in Wasseypur. It is Fazal Khan, the marijuanaabusing grandson, who stirs up his family’s long-simmering feud with the Quershi clan. This is a story of vengeance between two warring families in Wasseypur, India, that spans three generations. —C.R.

India, 2012, 320 min., color English and Hindi with English subtitles Director: Anurag Kashyap Screenwriters: Anurag Kashyap, Zeishan Quadri Producers: Guneet Monga, Sunil Bohra, Anurag Kashyap Cinematographer: Rajiv Ravi Editor: Shweta Venkat Music: Sneha Khanwalkar Principal Cast: Manoj Bajpai, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Richa Chadda, Huma Qureshi, Tigmanshu Dhulia Tuesday, January 22, 6:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 7:00 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City

Saturday, January 26, noon Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

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Since its North American debut at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals, The Gatekeepers has inspired passionate debate. Its insider view of Israeli national security and the Palestinian question will no doubt make it one of the most talked-about documentaries of the year. Director Dror Moreh filters the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 1967’s Six-Day War through the keen perspectives of all six living former heads of the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency. In remarkably candid one-on-one interviews, the men reflect on lessons learned and reveal the lasting impact of their actions on the peace process—for better or for worse.

Israel/Germany/Belgium/France, 2012, 97 min., color Hebrew with English subtitles Director: Dror Moreh Producers: Dror Moreh, Estelle Fialon, Philippa Kowarsky Coproducer: Anna Van Der Wee Cinematographer: Avner Shahaf Editor: Oron Adar Production Designer: Doron Koren Friday, January 18, noon Temple Theatre, Park City

With unprecedented access to these key figures—the only Israeli intelligence officials whose identities are publicly known—Moreh poses challenging questions that shed light on the inner workings of the government and its counterterrorism activities. Their pragmatic answers, born of hard-fought battles against extremists on both sides, offer a provocative path forward for Israel if it ever hopes to find lasting peace. —B.T.

Saturday, January 19, noon Salt Lake City Library, SLC

Monday, January 21, 9:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 9:00 a.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 6:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Dror Moreh Dror Moreh began his career as a director of photography and became one of Israel’s leading cinematographers. Moreh has shot many award-winning documentaries in Israel, including One Shot, Asesino, and Underdog: A War Movie. He began working as a full-time director several years ago. In addition to The Gatekeepers, his projects include The Rose, To Be Mayumana, Under Cove, Sharon, Occupational Hazard, and Caesarea: From the Dream to Reality. Donna Daniels Donna Daniels Public Relations ddprllc.wordpress.com ddaniels@ddanielspr.net (347) 254-7054, ext. 101

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Mud Direct from the Cannes Film Festival, consummate storyteller Jeff Nichols, whose Take Shelter premiered to great acclaim at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, returns to Park City with this homespun fable set on the banks of the mighty Mississippi.

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Jeff Nichols is a writer and director from Little Rock, Arkansas. His feature-film debut, Shotgun Stories, premiered at the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival. His second feature, Take Shelter, premiered in competition at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and was part of Critics’ Week at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where it was awarded the Grand Prix. Mud, Nichols’s most recent film, premiered last May in official competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

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Ellis and Neckbone are best friends approaching the twilight of their youth. While exploring, they stumble upon the hiding place of charismatic outlaw Mud (played with controlled charm by a well-cast Matthew McConaughey), who takes a quick liking to the boys and recruits them to his cause: the search for true love and a clean getaway. Illustrating a vibrant imagination, sumptuous attention to detail, and a remarkable gift for extracting magnetic performances from a talented ensemble, Nichols hurtles us into the middle of a lush adventure, ensnaring the excitement every youngster feels when trouble lurks everywhere and anything is possible. Steeped in the vanishing myth of the Deep South, a place that Nichols dearly loves, Mud’s handcrafted vision shines through in each richly textured frame and proves a tall tale for the ages. —L.Z.

U.S.A., 2012, 130 min., color Director/Screenwriter: Jeff Nichols Producers: Sarah Green, Aaron Ryder, Lisa Maria Falcone Cinematographer: Adam Stone Editor: Julie Monroe Principal Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland, Reese Witherspoon Saturday, January 19, 8:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Sunday, January 20, 6:30 p.m. Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden

Tuesday, January 22, 9:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, SLC

Wednesday, January 23, 6:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 8:45 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Pablo Larrain is at the forefront of a growing wave of thrilling Chilean directors. His latest film, No, wowed festivalgoers at Cannes, Toronto, and New York and establishes him as a true force in international cinema. No attests that the arc of the universe can bend toward justice. The multitalented Gael García Bernal portrays René Saavedra, a brilliant young ad man who, against all odds, engineers a successful 1988 voter campaign to oust brutal Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. His song-and-dance, feel-good strategy causes rancor among the activists who have spent years building a more serious grassroots movement focused on the government’s infamous human rights abuses. A tense, blow-by-blow examination of office politics, political alignments, and interpersonal drama, No flawlessly interweaves fact and fiction, in part through Larrain’s brilliant choice to shoot in 1980s-era videotape, which allows him to interweave historical source material and newly shot footage. He manages to surmount video’s ugly reputation to create a gorgeously directed drama with the ring of historical truth that will leave you feeling inspired about the promise of cinema and the resilience of the human spirit. —C.M.

Chile/U.S.A., 2012, 110 min., color Spanish with English subtitles Director: Pablo Larraín Screenwriter: Pedro Peirano Executive Producers: Jonathan King, Jeff Skoll Producers: Daniel Dreifuss, Juan de Dios Larrain Associate Producer: Niv Fichman Cinematographer: Sergio Armstrong Editor: Andrea Chignoli Production Designer: Estefania Larrain Principal Cast: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Luis Gnecco, Marcial Tagle, Néstor Cantillana Friday, January 18, 8:30 a.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 18, 8:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 5:45 p.m. Tower Theatre, SLC

Saturday, January 26, 6:30 p.m.

Pablo Larraín Santiago-born Pablo Larraín directed his first feature-length film, Fuga, in 2005. His second film, Tony Manero, premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight program at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Post Mortem, his third feature, premiered in official competition at the Venice Film Festival in 2010. That same year, Larraín directed Profugos, HBO’s first television series produced in Chile. He is currently shooting its second season. He is one of the founding members of the Fabula production company.

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Jessica Uzzan Sony Pictures Classics www.sonyclassics.com/no jessica@hookpublicity.com (212) 833-8833

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Sightseers Heralding a bold new voice in British genre filmmaking, Ben Wheatley’s third feature continues his recent tear of pitch-black comedies full of violent repercussions (Kill List, Down Terrace). Sightseers premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Directors’ Fortnight program and remains one of our favorite comedies of the year.

Ben Wheatley Ben Wheatley is the director of Down Terrace, Kill List, and Sightseers, all of which have won numerous awards. He has worked as a commercial director, winning Gold, Silver, and Bronze Lions at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. He has also directed many television shows, including Modern Toss and the BBC’s cult hits Ideal and The Wrong Door.

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Chris wants to finally show sheltered Tina the world, and he wants to do it his way—on a journey through the British Isles in his beloved Abbey Oxford Caravan, visiting such illustrious sites as the National Tramway Museum, the Ribblehead Viaduct, the Cumberland Pencil Museum, and the rolling countryside in between. But it doesn’t take long for the dream to fade. Litterbugs, noisy teenagers, and prebooked caravan sites soon conspire to shatter Chris’s dreams and send him, and anyone who rubs him the wrong way, over a very jagged edge. —C.R.

United Kingdom, 2012, 98 min., color Director: Ben Wheatley Screenwriters: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram Executive Producers: Jenny Borgars, Katherine Butler, Matthew Justice, Danny Perkins, Edgar Wright Producers: James Biddle, Andrew Starke, Claire Jones, Nira Park Cinematographer: Laurie Rose Editors: Robin Hill, Amy Jump, Ben Wheatley Music: Jim Williams Principal Cast: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram Friday, January 18, 11:30 a.m. The MARC, Park City

Friday, January 18, 9:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, SLC

Sunday, January 20, midnight Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, midnight Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC

Saturday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

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Actor/director Sarah Polley previously attended the Sundance Film Festival as a filmmaker with her shorts Don’t Think Twice and I Shout Love and her first feature film, 2007’s Away From Her. Her latest is a riveting and joyful personal documentary that has screened at the Venice, Telluride, and Toronto film festivals. Polley turns the camera on her own family and creates an essay/ love letter to her actor parents: Diane, who passed away when she was 11, and Michael. In the process, she investigates a mystery she initially wasn’t even sure existed. When Polley pulls back the layers of the stories told by her siblings and close family friends, differing perceptions and buried secrets rise to the surface—with some very surprising revelations. In pursuit of truth through art, Polley creates and recreates the past by using home movies and original footage, enfolding it in a rich, spellbinding, and emotionally affecting narrative. Five years in the making, Stories We Tell is about the stories told within Polley’s own family, but also the ones we all tell—and the way everybody’s truth is the truth. —K.Y.

Canada, 2011, 108 min., color Director/Screenwriter: Sarah Polley Producer: Anita Lee Cinematographer: Iris Ng Editor: Mike Munn Friday, January 18, 9:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library, SLC

Monday, January 21, 2:15 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 8:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, noon Temple Theatre, Park City

Sarah Polley Writer/director Sarah Polley’s dramatic features include Away From Her, which screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay, and won the 2008 Genie Award for best motion picture and achievement in direction; and Take This Waltz, starring Seth Rogen, Michelle Williams, and Sarah Silverman. Stories We Tell is her third feature film as director. Stephanie Northen Roadside Attractions www.roadsideattractions.com stephanien@roadsideattractions.com (323) 882-8490

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Blue Caprice is inspired by the Beltway sniper attacks during which two men, John Muhammed and Lee Malvo, conducted a siege of terror on the Washington, D.C., area. Their method: a series of random shootings in public places. Their weapon: a sniper rifle, fired from the trunk of a blue Chevrolet Caprice. The film investigates the genesis of those horrific events from the point of view of the two shooters, whose distorted father-son relationship facilitated their long and bloody journey across America. Marked by captivating performances, lyrical camerawork, and a fractured structure, Blue Caprice documents the mechanisms that lead its subjects to embrace physical violence. Eschewing the conventional approach familiar to the genre, director Alexandre Moors utilizes a formidable cinematic lexicon to concoct a harrowing psychological exploration of the two cold-blooded killers, making a forceful impact on audiences that remains long after the lights come up. —T.G.

U.S.A., 2012, 93 min., color Director: Alexandre Moors Screenwriters: R. F. I. Porto, Alexandre Moors Executive Producers: Hilary Stabb, Jonathan Gray, Isaiah Washington, Charles Parlato Producers: Isen Robbins, Aimee Schoof, Ron Simons, Stephen Tedeschi, Kim Jackson, Alexandre Moors, Will Rowbotham, Brian O’Carroll Cinematographer: Brian O’Carroll Principal Cast: Isaiah Washington, Tequan Richmond, Joey Lauren Adams, Tim Blake Nelson, Cassandra Freeman, Leo Fitzpatrick Saturday, January 19, 11:30 a.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 9:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, SLC

Monday, January 21, 11:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 6:00 p.m.

Alexandre Moors Growing up in the suburbs of Paris, Alexandre Moors was active in the graffiti scene while studying fine art at the renowned École nationale supérieur des Arts Décoratifs. After moving to New York in 1998, Moors began directing high-concept short films and music videos. He recently codirected, with Kanye West, the experimental short film Cruel Summer, which premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife, two daughters, and countless cats.

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Thursday, January 24, noon Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Isen Robbins isen@intrinsicvaluefilms.com (212) 989-7200 Stephen Tedeschi stephen@tdorg.com (914) 471-2497

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Computer Chess

Andrew Bujalski Andrew Bujalski was born in Boston in 1977 and studied film at Harvard’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. He wrote and directed the films Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Appreciation, and Beeswax. His first three films all appeared on the New York Times’s “Best of the Year” lists. He types 89 words per minute. Houston King houstonbking@gmail.com (213) 925-7535

“Is there a computer program in the house which can stand up against a human chess master?” That’s the question posed by mastermind of the game Pat Henderson, head of an annual computer chess tournament. Set in 1980 in a nondescript hotel, Computer Chess follows several young geniuses as they try to make the ultimate chess program to beat a human player. As the nerdy guys sweat through various social situations (especially with the one girl there), and the convention overlaps with a group of New Age couples in therapy, things get really strange. Writer/director Andrew Bujalski has created a playful, emotionally resonant period piece bolstered by keen aesthetics, which launches us back into the awkward and uncertain time when the hopeful wave of the ’60s and ’70s was about to crest into the Reagan ’80s. As highdefinition video tries to replicate film while threatening to lose all of its original nuances, Bujalski brings the beauty and contrast of early PortaPak video techniques back from the landfill. As his characters mind-meld over one weekend, the humorous film captures a deeper feeling of a bygone era that is nevertheless extremely relevant in today’s technology-obsessed world. People just want to connect with one another, even if they are trying to make an artificial brain. —M.P.

U.S.A., 2013, 91 min., color & b/w Director/Screenwriter: Andrew Bujalski Producers: Houston King, Alex Lipschultz Coproducers: Scott Colquitt, Morgan Coy, Andrew Finnigan, Brooke Finnigan, Carlyn Hudson, Gary Stewart Cinematographer: Matthias Grunsky Production Designer: Michael Bricker Costume Designer: Colin Wilkes Principal Cast: Patrick Riester, Myles Paige, James Curry, Robin Schwartz, Gerald Peary, Wiley Wiggins Monday, January 21, 5:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 9:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 9:00 p.m.

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Friday, January 25, 2:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Jim White is an average American family man, mostly content to exist within his humdrum reality. At the tail end of a theme park vacation with his loving wife and two beautiful children, he is awakened by an unsettling phone call from his boss, who tells him that he has lost his job. Unwilling to disturb their sabbatical, Jim holds off on breaking the news to his family so they can enjoy their last day at the idyllic and beloved tourist destination. In desperate need of a distraction, he finds one amidst the long lines at the park—two attractive and fun-loving teenage girls. In his fractured state, Jim falls obsessively in love, making any excuse he can to follow them everywhere. Along the way, his paranoid psyche spirals even further downward, and the fine line between fantasy and reality becomes blurred. First-time writer/director Randy Moore takes a bold and creative step into uncharted territory, inviting viewers on a surreal, postmodern voyage into the seedy underbelly of family entertainment. —A.M.

U.S.A., 2012, 104 min., b/w Director/Screenwriter: Randy Moore Producers: Soojin Chung, Gioia Marchese Cinematographer: Lucas Lee Graham Editor: Soojin Chung Production Designers: Sean Kaysen, Lawrence Kim Composer: Abel Korzeniowski Sound Design: Paul André Fonarev, David Lankton Principal Cast: Roy Abramsohn, Elena Schuber, Katelynn Rodriguez, Annet Mahendru, Danielle Safady, Alison Lees-Taylor Friday, January 18, 5:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 11:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 20, 12:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Thursday, January 24, 5:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 3:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC

Randy Moore Randy Moore was born in Lake Bluff, Illinois, a small town known for Scooters—its famous hot dog joint—and for being a center for alcohol smuggling during Prohibition. He studied filmmaking at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Columbia College in Chicago, and Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida, where he graduated valedictorian. Moore has worked as a story editor in Los Angeles. Escape from Tomorrow is his first feature film. Soojin Chung soojin@forerunnerfilms.com (213) 703-6105

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It Felt Like Love

Eliza Hittman Award-winning filmmaker Eliza Hittman was born in New York City and is still based there. In 2010, she received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts’s School of Film/Video and has been a guest artist and lecturer at Columbia University. Her short film Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011 and appeared on Indiewire’s list of “The Best of the Best.” It Felt Like Love is Hittman’s first feature film.

Fourteen-year-old Lila is experiencing an ennui-filled Brooklyn summer. She awkwardly wears a Kabuki-esque mask of sunscreen at the beach and plays third wheel to Chiara, her more experienced friend, and Chiara’s boyfriend, Patrick. Determined to have a love interest of her own, a bravado-filled Lila pursues Sammy, a tough but handsome older boy. Though Sammy doesn’t respond to her overtures, he doesn’t reject her, either, and Lila—unable to resist spinning delusional fables of a relationship with him—manipulates herself deeper into his world. When her desperation and posturing carry her too far into unfamiliar territory, her inexperience is exposed, and she is forced to confront reality. In this film shot from Lila’s point of view and constructed with precise—sometimes startling—imagery and intimate moments, firsttime feature writer/director Eliza Hittman confidently constructs a viewing experience that is completely subjective. Bolstered by a perfectly modulated lead performance from Gina Piersanti, It Felt Like Love unflinchingly reveals some of the rawest moments of girlhood in an authentic story of burgeoning identity and sexual awakening. —K.Y.

U.S.A., 2013, 82 min., color Director/Screenwriter: Eliza Hittman Executive Producers: Tyler Brodie, Hunter Gray, Gill Holland Producers: Eliza Hittman, Shrihari Sathe, Laura Wagner Cinematographer: Sean Porter Editors: Carlos Marques-Marcet, Scott Cummings Production Designer: James Boxer Casting Director: Henry Russel Bergstein Principal Cast: Gina Piersanti, Giovanna Salimeni, Ronen Rubinstein, Jesse Cordasco, Nick Rosen, Case Prime Saturday, January 19, 6:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 20, 9:00 a.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 9:00 p.m.

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Visit Films info@visitfilms.com (718) 312-8210

Friday, January 25, 11:30 a.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

When Taryn, a Northern Irish runaway, finds herself in trouble in Ocean City, Maryland, she seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore. But Kim and Bill have problems of their own: they are trying to handle the end of their marriage gracefully for the sake of their daughter, Abby, just home from her first year of college. I Used to Be Darker is a story of people finding each other and letting each other go; of looking for love where they have found it before; and, when that does not work, figuring out where they might find it next. With his third feature, writer/director Matthew Porterfield focuses his delicate eye on this rip in a family’s fabric and the emotional fallout it causes. Cinematographer Jeremy Saulnier beautifully tracks the bubbling revelations and suburban Baltimore landscape in this quiet story that is vitalized by live performance. —C.R.

U.S.A., 2013, 90 min., color Director: Matthew Porterfield Screenwriters: Amy Belk, Matthew Porterfield Executive Producers: Jane Brown, Dan Carey, Jack Dwyer, Walter S. Hall, Laura Heberton, Celia Mingus-Zaentz Producers: Eric Bannat, Steve Holmgren, Ryan Zacarias Cinematographer: Jeremy Saulnier Editor: Marc Vives Production Designer: Bart Mangrum Sound Design: Danny Meltzer, Gene Park Principal Cast: Deragh Campbell, Hannah Gross, Kim Taylor, Ned Oldham, Geoff Grace, Nick Petr Saturday, January 19, 3:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 20, 6:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Monday, January 21, 9:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC

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The Event

Director: Julia Pott U.S.A./United Kingdom, 2012, 3 min., color Love and a severed foot at the end of the world. Julia Pott www.juliapott.com julia.pott1@gmail.com

Friday, January 25, 9:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Matthew Porterfield Matthew Porterfield wrote and directed Hamilton, for which he was named best new filmmaker at the Boulder International Film Festival in 2007, and Putty Hill. He studied at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, lives in Baltimore, and teaches screenwriting, theory, and production at Johns Hopkins University. In 2012, Porterfield was a featured artist in the Whitney Biennial, a Creative Capital grantee, and the recipient of a Wexner Center Artist Residency Award. He has two feature scripts in development— “Sollers Point” and the IFP No Borders project “Metal Gods.” Steve Holmgren Hamilton Film Group www.hamiltonfilmgroup.org steve.holmgren@gmail.com (917) 406-4669

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David Andalman Writer and director David Andalman is an alumnus of Oberlin Collage with several short films to his credit, including The Braggart and Takoma Park, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008 and was the inspiration for Milkshake. Andalman received an LEF Moving Image Fund grant for both of his shorts. Milkshake is his first feature film.

While O.J. Simpson stands trial and a big beef brews between Tupac and Biggie, Al Jolson’s great-great-grandson Jolie Jolson reaches for a dream he will never achieve. What this white, well-to-do, magnet high school student wants with all his being is to be like the cool kids from the Maple Avenue projects. He wants to be a gangsta like Henrietta, his pregnant-with-someone-else’s-baby girlfriend on the down-low. So when Jolie makes the basketball team, he jumps for joy. In his mind, he has finally made it; he is practically black. David Andalman’s clever dark comedy Milkshake takes aim at teen sex and racial identity during a time when Netscape was on the rise and the definition of cool morphed from big hair and skinny ties to gang tattoos and baggy pants. Acutely observed and hilariously performed, Andalman’s debut feature sheds light on a mentality that has now gone epidemic. —S.F.

U.S.A., 2012, 90 min., color Director: David Andalman Screenwriters/Editors: David Andalman, Mariko Munro Executive Producers: Vinay Singh, Jason Sosnoff Producer: Mariko Munro Cinematographer: Ian Bloom Production Designer: Naomi Munro Composer: Kieran Magazul Principal Cast: Tyler Ross, Shareeka Epps, Georgia Ford, Eshan Bay, Leo Fitzpatrick, Danny Burstein Sunday, January 20, 11:30 a.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Monday, January 21, 9:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, SLC

Wednesday, January 23, 6:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

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Friday, January 25, 10:00 p.m.

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David Andalman david.b.andalman@gmail.com Mariko Munro marikomunro@mac.com

Saturday, January 26, noon Salt Lake City Library, SLC

Newlyweeds Lyle and Nina are in love—with each other and with getting high, but not necessarily in that order. Wafting through aimless days in New York smoking weed whenever possible, Lyle makes his living repossessing rented furniture from the destitute before heading home to be with his girl. Though caught in a loop of self-medication, Nina yearns for more. When mistakes in judgment escalate out of control, the happy couple find the life they have built is quickly evaporating, and the hole they have dug for themselves is growing beyond repair. Director Shaka King’s feature debut provokes a thoughtful meditation on the habits that hinder modern relationships, navigating through the perilous and comedic with natural ease and restraint. Craftily luring the stoner-comedy into a meaningful examination of dependency in all its forms, King confronts a community that refuses to grow up and asks the audience what it really means to be an adult. —L.Z.

U.S.A., 2012, 87 min., color Director/Screenwriter: Shaka King Producers: Jim Wareck, Michael Matthews, Shaka King, Gbenga Akinnagbe Cinematographer: Daniel Patterson Editor: Kristan Sprague Production Designers: Kevin Kedroe, Yvette Granata Composer: Scott Krupnick Casting Directors: Kerry Barden, Paul Schnee Principal Cast: Amari Cheatom, Trae Harris, Tone Tank, Colman Domingo, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Adrian Martinez Friday, January 18, 11:30 a.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 3:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library, SLC

Sunday, January 20, 7:00 p.m.

Shaka King Shaka King is a writer, director, and producer whose films Cocoa Loco and Herkimer DuFrayne 7th Grade Guidance Counselor have screened at festivals and on networks internationally. Newlyweeds, King’s first feature, was developed in the Emerging Narrative workshop at IFP and was awarded a postproduction grant from Rooftop Films/Edgeworx Studios. He lives in Brooklyn, where he was born and raised.

Tuesday, January 22, 9:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

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What Do We Have in Our Pockets?

Director: Goran Dukic U.S.A./Israel, 2012, 4 min., color A most unusual love story unravels when the objects in a young man’s pockets come to life. Mikal Lazarev mikallazarev@gmail.com

Wednesday, January 23, 5:45 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 12:15 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City

Shaka King shaka.king@gmail.com (917) 974-1652

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Pit Stop Recovering from an ill-fated affair with a married man, Gabe finds solace in the relationship he maintains with his ex-wife and daughter. On the other side of town, Ernesto evades life at home with his current live-in ex-boyfriend by spending much of his spare time in the hospital with an ailing past love. Impervious to the monotony of their bluecollar world, they maintain an unwavering yearning for romance.

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Malaysian-born, Austin-based Yen Tan is a writer, director, and graphic designer. His previous film, the award-winning Ciao, was released theatrically. He was profiled on the cover of the Austin Chronicle for his film poster designs. Pit Stop participated in the Outfest Screenwriting Lab and was awarded grants by the Austin Film Society, Vilcek Foundation, and United States Artists. The film is Tan’s third feature.

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Far from the gay centers of the world, director Yen Tan explores the complex and oft-forgotten lives of gay men in small-town America. The understated, contemplative nature of Ernesto and Gabe’s stories is told from the perspective of an observer, allowing us—even if just for a moment—to understand what it means to be an outsider. The emotional isolation the two men have grown accustomed to is captured in a subtle, optimistic, poetic fashion while avoiding melodrama. In a refreshingly quiet film, Tan’s protagonists never try to run away from their relatively hollow surroundings, but opt to fill life’s deepest voids with their tenacious confidence. —T.B.

U.S.A., 2013, 80 min., color Director: Yen Tan Screenwriters: Yen Tan, David Lowery Executive Producers: Bala Shagrithaya, Vilcek Foundation Producers: Kelly Williams, Jonathan Duffy, James M. Johnston, Eric Steele Associate Producers: Emily Ting, Whurley, Lawrence S. Dickerson Cinematographer: HutcH Editor: Don Swaynos Composer: Curtis Heath Principal Cast: Bill Heck, Marcus DeAnda, Amy Seimetz, John Merriman, Alfredo Maduro, Corby Sullivan Monday, January 21, 2:45 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 9:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 3:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Friday, January 25, 9:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC

Saturday, January 26, 10:00 a.m. Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City

Diana, a young, attractive teacher at a suburban Texas high school, is well-liked by her students and colleagues. Her life seems to be following the status quo, but in reality she’s having a secret affair with her student Eric. She confides in no one but him, reveling in the teenage terrain of sexting and backseat quickies. Even when the risk of discovery looms over their relationship, her investment in the fantasy remains stronger than reality. Unable to control herself, she heads down a reckless path of self-destruction. The subject of a teacher-student affair may be tabloid fodder, but writer/director Hannah Fidell resists sensationalism or the temptation to pathologize her protagonist. At its core, Diana’s affair with her student is the manifestation of her avoidance of responsibility, and the film lets us in on her internal struggle. With bold vision, Fidell uses highly controlled pacing, silky camera movements, and a tense percussive sound aesthetic to free her narrative from the confines of convention, while a fascinating performance by Lindsay Burdge transports us into Diana’s head, where her unabated obsession lives. —K.Y.

U.S.A., 2012, 75 min., color Director/Screenwriter: Hannah Fidell Producers: Kim Sherman, Hannah Fidell Cinematographer: Andrew Droz Palermo Editor: Sofi Marshall Production Designer: Elana Farley Composer: Brian McOmber Sound Designer: Pete Horner Principal Cast: Lindsay Burdge, Will Brittain, Jennifer Prediger, Jonny Mars, Julie Phillips, Chris Doubek Sunday, January 20, 5:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Monday, January 21, 3:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC

Tuesday, January 22, 3:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 11:30 a.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, noon Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Hannah Fidell Hannah Fidell is a director, writer, and producer based in Brooklyn and was recently named one of Filmmaker magazine’s annual “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Two of her short films, The Gathering Squall and Man & Gun, screened at SXSW in 2012. A Teacher, which she wrote, directed, and coproduced with Kim Sherman, is her first feature film. In May, Fidell attended the Champs-Elysees Film Festival, where A Teacher was awarded the U.S. In-Progress Grand Prize. Ryan Kampe Visit Films rk@visitfilms.com

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This Is Martin Bonner Chad Hartigan’s moving second feature has an air of simplicity but proves a subtle meditation on friendship, faith, and human connection.

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Chad Hartigan was born in Nicosia, Cyprus, and graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts. In 2008, he wrote and directed his first feature, Luke and Brie Are on a First Date, which had its world premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival before screening at several others. A Latin-American remake entitled Luna en Leo is set for release in 2013. This Is Martin Bonner is Hartigan’s second feature film.

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In his fifties, Martin Bonner leaves his old life behind and relocates to Reno, where he finds work for a church-based program that helps released prisoners transition to life on the outside. Divorced with two adult children, he tries speed dating and passes time as a soccer referee on weekends. Meanwhile Travis Holloway has just been released from a 12-year prison stint. His program mentor, Steve, is charitable and helps him adjust, but Travis finds Steve’s Christian devotion uncomfortable and reaches out to Martin instead. The two men form an unlikely friendship that offers them unspoken support and understanding. In this quiet observational film, Hartigan affects naturalism but hints at unnerving disquietude as both Martin and Travis struggle in an unfamiliar place—looking for a second chance at life. The storytelling is intimate, witty, and personal, while Paul Eenhoorn (as Martin) and Richmond Arquette (as Travis) offer standout performances, approaching their characters with a low-key restraint that evokes the awkwardness of starting life afresh, well into middle age. —J.N.

U.S.A., 2012, 83 min., color Director/Screenwriter: Chad Hartigan Executive Producer: Nick Cucinella Producer: Cherie Saulter Cinematographer: Sean McElwee Editor: Julio C. Perez IV Production Designer: Margaret Kaiser Composer: Keegan DeWitt Principal Cast: Paul Eenhoorn, Richmond Arquette, Sam Buchanan, Robert Longstreet, Demetrius Grosse Sunday, January 20, 9:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 3:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Friday, January 25, 5:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City

Saturday, January 26, noon Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC

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Ass Backwards

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Chris Nelson Chris Nelson started his career directing commercials for clients that included HBO, Budweiser, Reebok, MTV, and ESPN. The HBO Voyeur Project that he codirected with Jake Scott won the 2008 Promotion Grand Prix award at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. He recently completed the feature Gay Dude for Lionsgate and Laurence Mark Productions. Nelson graduated from Brown University with honors in modern culture and media. Ass Backwards is his first feature film.

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Director Chris Nelson takes us on a raucous and wacky road trip that includes a rescued wild rabbit, a feminist wilderness commune, and amateur night at a strip club. Lead actresses June Diane Raphael and Casey Wilson have great laugh-out-loud chemistry, and their brand of stiletto-clad physical comedy brings an amusing and unique charm to the female version of the buddy movie. —R.K.

Director: Chris Nelson Screenwriters: June Diane Raphael, Casey Wilson Executive Producers: Paul L. Woodring, Elysa Koplovitz, Paull Cho, Chad Burris, Ky Chaffin, Jeff Steen, Dori Sperko Producers: Heather Rae, Molly Conners Coproducers: Laura Mehlhaff, Mike Romero Cinematographer: Andre Lascaris Editor: Joshua Salzberg Production Designer: Ola Maslik Principal Cast: June Diane Raphael, Casey Wilson, Vincent D’Onofrio, Alicia Silverstone, Jon Cryer, Brian Geraghty Monday, January 21, midnight Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 11:45 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 6:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, SLC

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Kate and Chloe have been best friends since childhood, when they both tied for dead last in their hometown beauty pageant. Now they are all grown up and living in New York City, where Chloe works as a “girl in a box” at a nightclub and Kate is a CEO…of her own one-woman egg-donor “corporation.” Their past humiliation remains long forgotten until they receive an invitation to the pageant’s milestone anniversary celebration. The unpleasant memories come flooding back, but Kate and Chloe decide to redeem themselves by winning the elusive crown.

U.S.A., 2013, 90 min., color

Saturday, January 26, 6:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Bec Smith Smith_B@unitedtalent.com (310) 776-8143 Hailey Wierengo Wierengoh@unitedtalent.com (310) 776-8169

Revered as two of the minds behind the hilarious sketch television shows Reno 911!, The State, and Viva Variety and the screenwriters of big-budget comedies like the Night at the Museum films, comedians Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant finally unleash their codirectorial debut. Featuring a seasoned comedic ensemble, including scene stealers Leslie Bibb and Keegan Michael Key, this raucous horror spoof sics the devilish humor of its creators on the most sacred of genre conventions: the haunted house, an exorcism, and one pissy demon child. —C.R.

Directors/Screenwriters: Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon Executive Producers: Edward H. Hamm, Jr., John D. Lynch, David Lincoln Producers: Sean McKittrick, Jeff Culotta, Peter Principato, Paul Young, Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon Cinematographer: Charles Papert Editor: Kevin Oeser Composer: Michael Farrell Costume Designer: Shauna Leone Principal Cast: Rob Corddry, Leslie Bibb, Keegan Michael Key, Riki Lindhome, Paul Scheer, Rob Huebel Sunday, January 20, 11:45 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Monday, January 21, 6:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, SLC

Wednesday, January 23, midnight Egyptian Theatre, Park City

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The Cub

Director: Riley Stearns U.S.A., 2012, 5 min., color Wolves make the best parents. Jaime Kaye Wheeler jaimekwheeler@gmail.com (323) 401-3608

Saturday, January 26, 5:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

robert ben garant, Thomas Lennon Robert Ben Garant’s television credits include The State, Viva Variety, and Reno 911!, which he wrote, directed, and acted in (sorta). He’s written many films, including Night at the Museum, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, and the upcoming horror film Jessabelle. Garant also cowrote and directed Balls of Fury and Reno 911!: Miami. Thomas Lennon is a writer, director, and comedian from Oak Park, Illinois. He is a member of the comedy group The State and has written, created, and starred in the television series The State, Viva Variety, and Reno 911! He and Robert Ben Garant have written nine feature films together. Creative Artists Agency filmsales@caa.com (424) 288-2000

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Expectant couple Jack and Vanessa move into the most haunted fixer-upper in New Orleans—a house with a deadly demonic curse. When things soon spiral out of control, it’ll take the help of Vanessa’s Wiccan sister, a nosey “neighbor” who lives in their crawl space, two local detectives, and a pair of elite Vatican exorcists to save them— or is it already too late?

U.S.A., 2012, 98 min., color

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In Fear In Jeremy Lovering’s chilling debut, a young couple fights to survive one night-turned-nightmare. Driving to a music festival, Tom and Lucy have plans to stay at a countryside hotel. But with hotel signs leading them in circles and darkness falling, they soon become lost in a maze of country roads…and the target of an unknown tormentor.

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Jeremy Lovering After unofficially attending film school and working as a film production runner, Jeremy Lovering graduated to directing award-winning short films, television series (including spy drama MI5 and an adaptation of Martin Amis’s Money with Nick Frost), television movies (Miss Austen Regrets with Tom Hiddlestone, Imogen Poots, and Olivia Williams), and documentaries such as The Ultimate Bullet, where he filmed the first American soldier to return to Iraq. Melanie Vazeux melanie.vazeux@studiocanal.com +33 1 71 35 51 39

Reminiscent of vintage psychological thrillers and bolstered by newcomers Iain De Caestecker and Alice Englert in its main roles, In Fear plays out in real time and hinges on a claustrophobic, unrelentingly tense visual style. Looking to shed pretense and genuinely scare his actors, Lovering withheld the script and often concealed what was about to happen to the characters. Add a dark forest, and the fear became real. Though propelled by visceral thrills, the film transcends genre and offers a study in fear itself, creating a cerebral fable in which fear— of the dark, of the unknown, of ourselves—governs our nature, compels our choices, and may well seal Tom and Lucy’s fate. —J.N.

Director: Jeremy Lovering Story by: Jeremy Lovering Executive Producers: Matthew Justice, Danny Perkins, Jenny Borgars, Katherine Butler Producers: Nira Park, James Biddle Associate Producer: Celia Richards Art Director: David Crewdson Production Designer: Jeff Sherriff Principal Cast: Alice Englert, Iain De Caestecker, Allen Leech Sunday, January 20, midnight Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 6:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC

Wednesday, January 23, 11:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 7:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

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Broken Night

Director: Guillermo Arriaga U.S.A., 2012, 9 min., color A young woman and her four-year-old daughter drive across desolate hills. Everything looks fine, and they seem to enjoy the ride, until an accident sends them into the nightmare of darkness. Susanne Preissler

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Director/cinematographer Christina Voros’s feature debut ventures behind the scenes with the Kink creative team and the models for a frank look at the professional side of sexual exploration. Voros discovers a charming band of outsiders full of humor and insight working in a fantasyland of graphic sexual imagery. Finally, a “feel-good” documentary with enough screams to play in our Park City at Midnight program! —C.R.

Director: Christina Voros Screenwriters: Christina Voros, Ian Olds Executive Producer: James Franco Producers: James Franco, Miles Levy, Vince Jolivette, Christina Voros Associate Producer: Tim Lewis Cinematographers: Christina Voros, Dave Malloure, Kim Parker Editor: Ian Olds Saturday, January 19, midnight Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, noon Temple Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 11:45 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, midnight Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC

Christina Voros Brooklyn-based director and cinematographer Christina Voros studied literature and theatre at Harvard University and received her MFA in film from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2010. Her directorial debut, The Ladies, received 15 festival Grand Jury Prizes in 2008, and she completed the documentary short 127 Hours: An Extraordinary View in 2010. As a cinematographer, her collaborations with James Franco include As I Lay Dying, Child of God, Sal, and The Broken Tower. Miles Levy miles@jameslevymanagement.com (818) 955-7070 (818) 919-5555

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Kink tells the true story of sex, submission, and big business as seen through the eyes of the unlikely pornographers whose nine-to-five workdays are spent within the confines of the San Francisco Armory building, home to the sprawling production facilities of Kink.com, the world’s largest producer of pornography with BDSM themes—for the uninitiated, that stands for bondage and discipline/dominance and submission/sadism and masochism.

U.S.A., 2012, 80 min., color

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Sebastián Silva is a Chilean writer and director based in New York. He has made five feature films, including The Maid, which won the dramatic Jury Prize at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival; Old Cats, which screened at the Festival in 2011; and a comedy series. He has another film screening at the Festival this year, Crystal Fairy, in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. He is also an all right painter, a mediocre musician, an enthusiastic dancer, and a phony mystic.

If Alicia could just get some sleep, everything would be all right. As she and her close friend Sarah make their way through rural Chile with Sarah’s boyfriend, his sister, and their strange American friend Brink, Alicia’s insomnia slowly takes control. The difference between what is happening in reality and what is happening in her own mind becomes less and less clear to her. After she takes a stab at hypnosis to help solve the problem, things only get worse. As her waking nightmare continues, will her “friends” be her salvation or her downfall? Writer/director Sebastián Silva crafts an unsettling film that examines sexual repression and the fear of loss. With vivid characters in conflict, evocative landscapes, and Christopher Doyle and Glenn Kaplan’s fluid cinematography, Silva shows how the smallest choices we make can have significant and insurmountable consequences. —M.P.

U.S.A./Chile, 2012, 97 min., color English and Spanish with English subtitles Director/Screenwriter: Sebastián Silva Executive Producers: Giovanna Randall, Eric Laufer, William Winget, Joe Healey, Todd Remis Producers: Frida Torresblanco, Christine Vachon, Mike White, David Bernad Cinematographers: Christopher Doyle, Glenn Kaplan Editors: Alex Rodriguez, Jacob Craycroft Composer: Stenfert Charles Principal Cast: Michael Cera, Juno Temple, Emily Browning, Catalina Sandino, Agustín Silva Tuesday, January 22, 11:45 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Wednesday, January 23, 11:30 a.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Frida Torresblanco Braven Films info@bravenfilms.com (646) 619-1247

Thursday, January 24, 6:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library, SLC

Saturday, January 26, midnight Egyptian Theatre, Park City

In this expansion of his short film of the same name, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008, writer/director Calvin Lee Reeder absorbs the audience into his surreal universe, complete with a rich visual palette and an immersive soundscape. Anchored by Dermot Mulroney’s brilliantly laconic lead performance, The Rambler is a seminal road movie, filled with bizarre supernatural hallucinations, shocking episodes of violence, and enough dark humor that some twisted minds may even call it a comedy. No matter how you attempt to categorize this film, you’re not likely to find anything quite like it for miles around. —A.M.

Director/Screenwriter: Calvin Lee Reeder Producers: Nate Bolotin, Roger M. Mayer, Christo Dimassis, James Lejsek, Clayton Young Coproducers: Carl W. Lucas, Alan Trever Cinematographer: David McFarland Editor: Buzz Pierce Production Designer: Geoff Flint Music: Heather McIntosh, Scott Honea, Jed Maheu Principal Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Lindsay Pulsipher, Natasha Lyonne, James Cady, Scott Sharot Monday, January 21, 11:45 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 6:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, SLC

Thursday, January 24, midnight Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, 2:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Calvin Lee Reeder Calvin Lee Reeder’s work is a mix of underground horror shock and existential atmosphere. He made a name for himself with the short films Piledriver; Little Farm, which screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival; and The Rambler, which appeared at the Festival the following year. His feature debut, The Oregonian, divided Sundance Film Festival audiences in 2011 just as his shorts had before it. Reeder specializes in turning lo-fi splatter pics into art films by meshing high-concept thought and design with genre story lines. Nate Bolotin www.xyzfilms.com

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Upon release from prison, a solitary man known only as “the Rambler” embarks on a mysterious journey en route to reconnecting with his long-lost brother. Traversing treacherous back roads, lost highways, and isolated small towns, he unearths a multitude of bizarre and wickedly depraved slices of Americana.

U.S.A., 2012, 97 min., color

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S-VHS, the sequel to V/H/S, which screened at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, brings together another stellar lineup of indie horror veterans: Simon Barrett (You’re Next, Dead Birds, Red Sands), Adam Wingard (You’re Next, A Horrible Way to Die, Pop Skull), Edúardo Sanchez (The Blair Witch Project, Altered, Seventh Moon), Gregg Hale (The Blair Witch Project, Seventh Moon, Say Yes Quickly), Timo Tjahjanto (The ABCs of Death, Killers), Gareth Huw Evans (The Raid: Redemption, Berandal), and Jason Eisener (Hobo with a Shotgun, Treevenge). George Rausch george@thecollective-la.com

Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static—white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil. From the demented minds that brought you last year’s V/H/S comes S-VHS, an all-new anthology of dread, madness, and gore. This followup ventures even further down the demented path blazed by its predecessor, discovering new and terrifying territory in the genre. This is modern horror at its most inventive, shrewdly subverting our expectations about viral videos in ways that are just as satisfying as they are sadistic. The result is the rarest of all tapes—a second generation with no loss of quality. —J.K.

U.S.A./Canada, 2012, 95 min., color English and Indonesian with English subtitles Directors: Simon Barrett, Adam Wingard, Edúardo Sanchez, Gregg Hale, Timo Tjahjanto, Gareth Huw Evans, Jason Eisener Screenwriters: Simon Barrett, Jamie Nash, Timo Tjahjanto and Gareth Huw Evans, John Davies and Jason Eisener Executive Producers: Zak Zeman, Tom Owen, Simon Barrett, Adam Wingard Producers: Brad Miska, Roxanne Benjamin, Gary Binkow, Jamie Nash Cinematographers: Tarin Anderson, Seamus Tierney, Stephen Scott, Abdul Dermawan Habir, Jeff Wheaton Principal Cast: Adam Wingard, Lawrence Levine, L. C. Holt, Kelsy Abbott, Hannah Hughes Saturday, January 19, 11:45 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 20, 9:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, SLC

Tuesday, January 22, midnight Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 5:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 6:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library, SLC

Virtually Heroes

U.S.A., 2012, 84 min., color

A sarcastic, self-aware character in a video game, Sgt. Books, becomes frustrated by the screwy logic of his universe: the pointless battles, superpowerful bosses, and an endless supply of virtual Vietcong. He can’t get the girl who appears at the end of each level, and he can’t get through to his gung-ho partner. To find answers to the questions posed by his odd existence, Books abandons his mission and seeks help from a straight-talking monk, delightfully played by another onscreen hero who also once received words of wisdom from a man in a robe.

Director/Producer/Editor: G. J. Echternkamp Screenwriter: Matt Yamashita Executive Producer: Roger Corman Coproducer: Dwjuan Fox Cinematographer: James Mann Principal Cast: Robert Baker, Brent Chase, Katie Savoy, Mark Hamill, Ben Messmer

The first Roger Corman production to screen at the Sundance Film Festival, Virtually Heroes is a war picture, a satire of video-game culture, a buddy comedy, and an existential mind-trip wrapped up into one outrageous film that works on many surprising levels. Injecting the low-budget/high-concept film with a full dose of razor-sharp wit, director G. J. Ecthernkamp embraces the base and the profound as he seeks to unlock the cheat codes of life. —T.G.

Friday, January 18, midnight Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, midnight Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC

Tuesday, January 22, 11:30 p.m.

G. J. Echternkamp is an actor and director living in Los Angeles. He is best known for the feature documentary Frank and Cindy, which was featured on the This American Life series on Showtime. Virtually Heroes is his first narrative feature.

Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, midnight Tower Theatre, SLC

Cynthia Brown cynthiab@concorde-newhorizons.com (310) 820-6733 PARK CITY AT MIDNIGHT

Thursday, January 24, 9:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

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Director: Jason Willis U.S.A., 2012, 7 min., color Catnip is all the rage with today’s modern feline, but do we really understand it? This film frankly discusses the facts about this controversial substance. Jason Willis www.JasonWillis.com (520) 275-2463

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We Are What We Are

PARK CITY AT MIDNIGHT

Jim Mickle New York–based Jim Mickle graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and spent his early years as a film editor, storyboard artist, and animator before making his debut DIY feature, Mulberry Street. His sophomore film, Stake Land, premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, where it took home the Midnight Madness Audience Award. We Are What We Are is his third film with cowriter Nick Damici. Jack Turner jt@wearethezoo.net

A seemingly wholesome and benevolent family, the Parkers have always kept to themselves, and for good reason. Behind closed doors, patriarch Frank rules the roost with a rigorous fervor, determined to keep his ancestral customs intact at any cost. As a torrential rainstorm moves into the area, tragedy strikes and his daughters Iris and Rose are forced to assume responsibilities that extend beyond those of a typical family. The most important task the girls face is putting meat on the table—but not the kind that can be found at the local supermarket. As the unrelenting downpour continues to flood their small town, local authorities begin to uncover clues that bring them closer to the secret that the Parkers have held closely for so many years. In this reimagining of the 2010 Mexican film of the same name, director Jim Mickle paints a gruesome portrait of an introverted family struggling to keep their macabre traditions alive, giving us something we can really sink our teeth into. —A.M.

U.S.A., 2013, 100 min., color Director: Jim Mickle Screenwriters: Nick Damici, Jim Mickle Executive Producers: René Bastian, Brett Fitzgerald, Mo Noorali, Emilie Georges, Tanja Meissner Producers: Andrew D. Corkin, Jack Turner, Linda Moran, Nicholas Shumaker, Rodrigo Bellot Cinematographer: Ryan Samul Editor: Jim Mickle Production Designer: Russell Barnes Costume Designer: Elisabeth Vastola Principal Cast: Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner, Michael Parks, Wyatt Russell, Kelly McGillis Friday, January 18, 11:45 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, midnight Tower Theatre, SLC

Tuesday, January 22, 6:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

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Saturday, January 26, 6:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC

Rediscover classic works of independent cinema as the Sundance Film Festival presents a film from the vaults of the Sundance Institute Collection at UCLA. A unique archive devoted to preserving indie film, the Collection exists not only to save important works that would otherwise disappear but also to make them accessible to new audiences and show them as they were intended to be seen: on the big screen.

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Formed in partnership with the UCLA Film and Television Archive and growing through the support of donor companies and individual filmmakers, the Collection now contains more than 800 films.

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A native of San Antonio, Texas, Robert Rodriguez began his career filming high school football games but was fired for making them too “cinematic.” He shot his first feature, El Mariachi, for $7,000 and described that experience in his book, Rebel Without a Crew. El Mariachi won the Audience Award at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival and was recently added to the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress. Since its humble beginnings, Rodriguez’s career has produced more than 16 films, including Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Machete, Sin City, Grindhouse, and the popular Spy Kids series.

El Mariachi, Robert Rodriguez’s debut feature, sneaked into the 1993 Sundance Film Festival completely unheralded and emerged with the dramatic Audience Award…and cult film status. Rodriguez’s tale of an itinerant musician who is mistaken for a Mexican hit man manages to skewer the action/adventure/thriller genre at the same time that it incorporates its elements to propel the plot. Like a character out of a Hitchcock film, the naïve mariachi is thrown into a corrupt world he cannot control or understand and is gradually sucked into its evil labyrinth, where everything and everyone is for sale. Filmed over just two weeks in Ciudad Acoma, Mexico, for about $7,000 with a handheld 16mm camera, El Mariachi has the look of a true independent with its grainy film, mix of speeded-up and slow motion, handmade tracking shots, quick cuts, and disorienting angles. Rodriguez shot and edited the film himself, and Carlos Gallardo cowrote the screenplay as well as playing the confused but charming mariachi. Twenty years after its appearance, El Mariachi celebrates the exciting early years of indie filmmaking when anything was possible. Thanks to Sony Pictures Entertainment for making this print, restruck from preserved elements, available for this screening. —B.B.

U.S.A., 1992, 81 min., color Spanish with English subtitles Director/Cinematographer/Editor: Robert Rodriguez Screenwriters: Carlos Gallardo, Robert Rodriguez Producers: Carlos Gallardo, Carmen M. De Gallardo, Robert Rodriguez Associate Producer: Elizabeth Avellan Music: Alvaro Rodriguez, Cecillo Rodriguez, Eric Guthrie, Juan Suarez, Mark Trujillo Principal Cast: Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gomez, Jaime De Hoyos, Peter Marquardt, Reinol Martinez Saturday, January 19, 6:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

1251 KEARNS BLVD., PARK CITY FRIDAY, JANUARY 18 2:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. SATURDAY, JANUARY 19 – FRIDAY JANUARY 25 Noon – 8:00 p.m. SATURDAY, JANUARY 26 Noon – 3:00 p.m. Technology provided by HP. Open to all Festival credential holders and the general public as space permits unless otherwise noted.

New Frontier exhibition curated by Shari Frilot New Frontier designed and produced by Jamie McMurry

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New Frontier champions films that expand, experiment with, and explode traditional storytelling. Recognizing the crossroads of film, art, and media technology as a hotbed for cinematic innovation, New Frontier is also a venue showcasing media installations, multimedia performances, transmedia experiences, and panel discussions that engage the expansion of cinema culture in today’s rapidly changing landscape.

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CORAL: REKINDLING VENUS

NORTH OF SOUTH, WEST OF EAST

Full-dome projection, augmented-reality installation, 60 min. Inspired by the first collaboration among the international science community to witness the celestial transit of Venus in 1761, Lynette Wallworth’s visually stunning CORAL: Rekindling Venus is an augmented-reality and full-dome planetarium presentation designed to nurture an emotional connection between a global audience and the planet’s endangered coral reefs. Presented in a 10-seat planetarium at New Frontier, CORAL: Rekindling Venus will also be shown in Salt Lake City’s Clark Planetarium, New York City’s Hayden Planetarium, and numerous planetariums across the nation. This epic project features original deep-sea photography, augmented-reality artwork, and music by Antony and the Johnsons. Rekindling Venus: In Plain Sight augmented-reality artwork is produced by Sue Maslin.

Four-channel film, 85 min. North of South, West of East enhances narrative storytelling by wrapping the film around the entire room. Presented in a 20-seat theatre with swivel chairs, Meredith Danluck’s remarkable four-channel narrative feature deftly unspools a darkly humorous tale of small-town folks as they try to make sense of a posthope America. Shot on location in Detroit, Michigan, and Marfa, Texas, this unique film features fantastic performances by Ben Foster, Stella Schnabel, and Sue Galloway, and a soundtrack by Marfa local punk band Solid Waste.

Lynette Wallworth

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John Maynard www.felixmedia.com.au johnmaynard@me.com +61 419 303 899

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Producer: John Maynard Editor: Elliott Magen Music and Songs: Max Richter, Gurrumul Yunupingu, Antony and the Johnsons, Tanya Tagaq Gillis, Fennesz, Sakamoto Sound Design and Mix: Liam Egan Principal Cinematographer: David Hannan

Wallworth’s installation is intimately affecting, yet deals with issues that pertain to the universal community at large—extracting beautiful, awe-inspiring brightness from the dark depths of the sea and the most distant outer space. —Lupe Nunez-Fernandez, Saatchi Gallery Online Lynette Wallworth is an Australian artist whose immersive video installations reflect the connections between people and the natural world. Always experimenting with the newest technologies, she possesses a startling ability to build a sense of community and compassion with these tools. Her work celebrates beauty, revelation, and wonder.

Meredith Danluck

Leslie Fritz www.renwickgallery.com leslie@lesliefritzgallery.com (212) 609-3535

Producer: Matt Shattuck Cinematographer: Jake Burghart Editor: Eileen Kennedy Production Designer: James Maher Principal Cast: Meredith Danluck, Ben Foster, Stella Schnabel, Sue Galloway, James Penfold and Solid Waste Produced by Ballroom Marfa and Exvivo Productions Meredith Danluck is an artist and filmmaker working in New York and Los Angeles. She has exhibited at the Liverpool Biennial, Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, and Venice Biennale and has a major film installation coming up at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit (MOCAD). She has also screened films at a number of festivals, including the Toronto International Film Festival, SXSW, Byron Bay International Film Festival, Hamburg International Short Film Festival, and Margaret Mead Film Festival.

Cityscape 2095

Eyjafjallajokull

Audiovisual installation, painting, layer of projected light, 6 min. AntiVJ artists Yannick Jacquet, Mandril, and Thomas Vaquié blend painting with light projection to transform the walls of New Frontier into a luminous, threedimensional cityscape that feels strangely familiar yet impossible to locate. With its disorienting sense of time and space, Cityscape 2095 places spectators on the observatory deck of a skyscraper, where they take in a sprawling, imaginary city as it glitters over the course of one day.

Audiovisual installation, painting, layer of projected light, 16 min. Inspired by the 2010 Icelandic volcanic eruption that wreaked travel havoc across Europe, Eyjafjallalokull is a stunning, three-dimensional, audiovisual mapping installation that challenges audiences’ perception of space by creating an optical illusion that transforms the walls of New Frontier into a sweeping digital vista that artistically recreates the seismic event.

Nicolas Boritch / AntiVJ; nico@antivj.com

Producer: Nicolas Boritch Technical Team: Adrien Boulanger Inspired by animated films, Web design, Russian constructivism, and experimental cinema, Yannick Jacquet explores video-projection techniques to try and break away from the standard four-by-three screen format. His work, often site specific, always has a strong relationship with architecture. A former student of philosophy, art history, anthropology, and theology, hyperactive illustrator Marc Ferrario (Mandril) finds inspiration in science and mysticism in nature. Using an acute drawing technique (stroke and perspective) and his eye for extreme details, he creates multilayered utopian urbanizations. Musician and producer Thomas Vaquié composes for film and documentaries. Since 2007, he has focused on experimental audiovisual work and sound/music research, producing music and sound design for most of AntiVJ’s installations.

Joanie Lemercier [AntiVJ]

Nicolas Boritch / AntiVJ; nico@antivj.com

Producer: Nicolas Boritch Music Extracts: Emptyset, Monolake Additional Visual Production: Simon Geilfus An artist and a founding member of the European visual label AntiVJ, Joanie Lemercier has showcased work at CTM Theaterkassen in Berlin, eARTS in Shanghai, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy, New York, onedotzero in London, Lux Norge AS in Oslo, the Elektra Festival in Montreal, and Songdo in South Korea, among many other places.

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Yannick Jacquet, Mandril, Thomas Vaquié [AntiVJ]

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Pulse Index

Yung Jake

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

HTML5 and augmented-reality app, streaming music videos, live performance, artist magazine pages.

Interactive media installation

Rap artist Yung Jake is Net art incarnate, flowing lyrics about tweet culture, datamoshing, hashtags, and memes as he blows up on Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, and Instagram in his HTML5 music video, E.m-bed.de/d. This rapper drops unexpectedly into your browser sessions, streams into Festival screenings, and pops out of walls and magazines in augmented-reality music videos. Experience an IRL sighting at the live performances at New Frontier.

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Music: Max Barbaria Programmer: Vince McKelve Cinematographer: Temra Pavlovic Yung Jake came alive on the Internet in 2011, where he released his first rap video, “Max Moyer,” on YouTube. Since then, he has been shamelessly attempting to gain a following by using video and other forms of digital communication. Most recently, with the help of programmer Vince McKelvie, he broke though the third wall of Internet user experience with E.m-bed.de/d. A very recent Cal Arts graduate, Jake continues to create stuff on the Internet.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s beautifully resonant, interactive media installation swaths the central lounge of New Frontier with images of the warm, breathing flesh of its visitors. Pulse Index records the heart rates and fingerprints of participants and exhibits them in a beautiful Fibonacci pattern. Place your finger into the custom-made sensor, and your fingerprint appears on the largest cell of the display, pulsating to your heartbeat. Your print then travels down the sequence to join those of all the others who have visited the room, immersing the community space with the radiant glow of the human touch.

Julie Bourgeois julie@antimodular.com

Antimodular Research Production Team: Conroy Badger, Stephan Schulz, David Lemieux, Guillaume Tremblay, Karine Charbonneau, Julie Bourgeois, Susie Ramsay, Pierre Fournier. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was born in Mexico City in 1967. As an electronic artist, he develops interactive installations that are at the intersection of architecture and performance art. His work has been commissioned for events ranging from the millennium celebrations in Mexico City (1999) to the fiftieth anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2009) and the Winter Olympics in Vancouver (2010). His kinetic sculptures, responsive environments, video installations, and photographs have been shown in museums in four dozen countries.

THE PIXELATED PAVILION 2013 Edition of New Frontier

We dedicate our retinas, wrists, and the lion’s share of our time to cultivating our digital reality. The rest of our body is left behind by the digital revolution, disoriented and dragged across bustling crosswalks by a gadget-driven world. What would life be like if we could experience a digitally enhanced existence with the body as a full participant, rather than being tethered to a single screen?

What’s He Building In There? Klip Collective 3-D projection mapping

A veteran of the inaugural 2007 edition of New Frontier, Ricardo Rivera and the Klip Collective return to Sundance to transform the entire front of the New Frontier venue into an interactive, 3-D projection-mapped parable, inspired by the Tom Waits song. Sip a hot beverage in the outdoor lounge and watch the walls and windowpanes dissolve into a story about a man on a mysterious mission inside the building. Use the X-ray flashlight to peek at what he is up to.

The Pixelated Pavilion is an exhibition of works that immerse our physical bodies within moving-image environments. The Internet becomes a site of subversion as cinematic stories dissolve the surrounding architecture and invite the entire body to enter and engage with various forms of digital artistic expression, creativity, and storytelling. The 2013 edition of New Frontier features full-dome and wrap-around films, augmented-reality experiences, 3-D projection-mapped environments, and datamoshed hip-hop performances. The works by this year’s artists disorient time and space and provoke a reconsideration of ways we may integrate the fibers of our bodies with the realities of life on the digital frontier. – Shari Frilot

Installation Director: Josh James Animation and Post: Monogram Head Animator:Masa Wakabayashi Interactive Designer: Cristobal Mendoza Cinematographer: Kevin Ritchie Executive Producer: Marie Patriarca Producer: Natalie Weiss Principal Cast: John Luna Klip Collective was founded in 2003 in Philadelphia by video artist Ricardo Rivera and photographer Pier Nicola D’Amico to create immersive visual experiences through large-scale video-projection mapping installations. Today Klip is an award-winning creative and production shop with projects ranging from permanent architectural commissions to integrated experiential advertising campaigns.

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Jeffrey Perkins Klip Collective r@klip.tv 215-733-0776 www.klip.tv

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NEW FRONTIER PANELS

(These panels do not require a ticket.)

Corporate Presentation

Adobe Presents From Script to Screen, the Fusion of Technology and Storytelling in Film Friday, January 18, 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. New Frontier Microcinema From storyboard to distribution, the proliferation of digital technology is changing the way filmmakers create high-quality productions, redefining how movies are made. This new breed of filmmaker is transforming the industry by using digital technology to enhance his or her stories, simplify workflows, and bring content online. Join Adobe and a panel of prestigious filmmakers and artists to discuss how the latest trends in technology are helping them produce exceptional content. Panelists include Tyler Nelson, Bill Yukich, and Bayan Joonam.

Tupac, Elvis, and Benjamin Button Walk Into a Bar…

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Saturday, January 19, 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. #Digillusion When a digital version of Tupac Shakur did a surprise performance at Coachella, people lost their minds…then rushed to tweet about it (of course). Digital Tupac wasn’t so far removed from similar work in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button or TRON: Legacy, so why the collective gasp? Ed Ulbrich, CEO of Digital Domain, discusses the impact of digital characters on filmmaking, live performance, and intellectual property.

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The Magic of MIT

Sunday, January 20, Noon – 1:30 p.m. #MagicMIT When you think about the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, filmmaking, civic activism, and cultural criticism are probably not what come to mind. A visiting crew of MIT professors and students present some of their story-oriented and story-enabling work. This panel is moderated by Kamal Sinclair, senior manager of the New Frontier Story Lab, and features projects from the Object-Based Media Group and the Open Documentary Lab.

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Canon Spotlights Cinematography Monday January 21, 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. New Frontier Microcinema Just one year ago, Canon introduced the Cinema EOS line of professional digital cinema cameras, offering storytellers a new set of tools for capturing compelling visuals and emotional reality onscreen. Join Canon in a discussion with filmmakers about how the Cinema EOS line has helped bring their stories to life. Come experience firsthand the newest cameras and lenses that are changing the landscape of motion picture production. Visit the Festival website for participant updates.

Social Hour: Meet the artists Monday, January 21, 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. #SocialHour Come meet the artists, designers, filmmakers, and funky people with work in this year’s New Frontier program. Creative teams will be hovering by their installations to answer your questions. So swing by since no credentials are needed, buy a hot toddy, and check out the free show. Hosted by the New Frontier Story Lab.

Crafting a Web Series that Won’t Embarrass Your Mother

Monday, January 21, 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. #WebSerious What’s essential for creating a quality Web series? Is it blue-chip talent like Rodrigo Garcia, Jon Avnet, Julia Stiles, or Topher Grace? An entrepreneurial spirit? Or corporate sugar daddies? Moderator Darrien Gipson, national director of SAGIndie, asks Drake Doremus (The Beauty Inside, Like Crazy, Breathe In), Effie Brown (WIGS, the leading YouTube channel for scripted drama), and Issa Rae (The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl) to share their mixes.

Tablet Storytelling Takes Off

Tuesday, January 22, Noon – 1:30 p.m. #TabletTales When multimedia tablets popped up a few years ago, many of us wondered why we’d ever need a second, “dumber” computer. Filmmakers and artists saw something else entirely and started hacking together DSLR rigs, shooting interactive documentaries, and inventing new formats such as album apps and RGBD. This panel is moderated by Wendy Levy, executive director of the New Arts Axis, and features Scott Snibbe (Björk’s Biophilia, Beck’s Rework: Philip Glass Remixed), Greg Pak (Vision Machine), Eli Horowitz (Silent History), and Loc Dao (Circa 1948).

When you board an airplane, who are those people in uniform to whom you entrust your life? What do they really do when things go horribly wrong? Derived entirely from the “black box” transcripts of six major airline emergencies, Charlie Victor Romeo puts the audience inside the tension-filled cockpits of actual flights in distress, offering a fascinating portrait of the psychology of crisis and a person’s will to live to the last second. Codirectors Robert Berger and Karlyn Michelson’s chilling and groundbreaking production stretches the boundaries of film, theatre, and the traditional documentary with this stereoscopic 3-D film of a stage play that recreates transcripts word for word. Charlie Victor Romeo transports film audiences into the best seats of the theatre and delivers the intensity and gut-wrenching emotion of these emergencies via the unique approach of live performance. Berger and Michelson not only serve up raw cinematic tension but also set the stage for future collaborations with theatrical productions. -S. F.

U.S.A., 2012, 80 min., color Directors: Robert Berger, Karlyn Michelson Screenwriters: Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels, Irving Gregory Executive Producers: Patrick Daniels, Collective Unconscious NYC, 3 Legged Dog Producers: Caterina Bartha, Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels Editor: Karlyn Michelson Sound: Jamie Mereness, Kevin Reilly, Joel Hamilton Principal Cast: Patrick Daniels, Irving Gregory, Noel Dinneen, Sam Zuckerman, Debbie Troche, Nora Woolley Monday, January 21, 8:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 24, 11:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 8:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Robert Berger, Karlyn Michelson Bob Berger is a founding member of the Collective: Unconscious (C:U) performance space in New York City and has served as its technical director and new media director. Berger worked for CNN in New York as a studio engineer and field cameraman before pursuing a master’s degree in interactive telecommunications at NYU. As an original creator of Charlie Victor Romeo, the award-winning theatrical documentary, this evolution of his work to the screen is his first film. Karlyn Michelson is an Emmy Award–winning multimedia storyteller and video journalist. Her documentary work has aired on PBS and HBO and screened at dozens of film festivals worldwide. Michelson has also produced, directed, shot, and edited news segments and multimedia pieces for a multitude of outlets, including Time magazine and Turkish public television. Caterina Bartha www.charlievictorromeo.com producer@charlievictorromeo.com

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Fat Shaker

Mohammad Shirvani

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Born in Tehran in 1973, Mohammad Shirvani started to study fine art but eventually left it to follow his true love…the cinema. His first short, The Circle, was in competition at the 1999 Critics’ Week section of the Cannes Film Festival. Since then, he has made seven short films, seven documentaries, and two feature films.

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Mohammad Shirvani’s captivating feature reveals an intensely personal vision as it explores gendered and generational conflicts. The film introduces us to a father and his son; the older man is obese, unwell, and oppressive in his dealings with the younger, who is also deaf and mute. A series of cryptic, spellbinding episodes reveals a tyrannical paternalism at work that has long since hardened into a closed circuit of mutual pain. Enter a mysterious and beautiful woman of unspecified identity, who becomes an agent of change, embodying both an evolved consciousness and the power of the female as a rebuke to bankrupt patriarchy. Characteristically experimenting with film form, Shirvani is rigorous and masterful in his storytelling here, introducing situations and behaviors without qualification so that minute details surge with symbolic weight. Sensitively modulated sound and searching camerawork extract telling clues from myriad strata while the implied narrative attaches to the powerfully realized, archetypical characters like a vapor. -S. K.

Iran, 2013, 85 min., color English and Farsi/Dari with English subtitles Director/Screenwriter/ Cinematographer: Mohammad Shirvani Editors: Mohammad Shirvani, Pouya Parsamagham Sound Designer: Bahman Ardalan Sound: Vahid Moghadasi Principal Cast: Levon Haftvan, Maryam Palizban, Hassan Rostami, Navid Mohammadzadeh Friday, January 18, noon Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 7:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

Monday, January 21, 9:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Thursday, January 24, 6:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

Beto, a security guard in a Mexico City gym, quietly observes the healthy bodies of the muscle-bound patrons, which contrast sharply with his own physical deterioration. Afflicted with a strange illness, the scared and ashamed Beto surrenders to his condition and holes up in his apartment, injecting himself with embalming fluid to stem his increasing decay. Beto’s melancholy grows as he realizes—in the words of an affable morgue attendant—that “the diseased become the disease.” Through the friendly advances of the gym’s female owner, Beto dances with the illusory promise of feeling alive again. Sebastian Hofmann’s increasingly surrealistic feature debut subverts genre conventions and audience expectations, treating its livingdead protagonist with sensitivity and compassion. Hofmann’s camera boldly exposes the grotesque details of Beto’s physical condition while artfully depicting his isolated existence. Captivating lead actor Alberto Trujillo appears to waste away before our eyes, making his fumbling attempts to cling to life all the more haunting. -H. Z.

Mexico, 2012, 84 min., color Spanish with English subtitles Director: Sebastian Hofmann Screenwriters: Sebastian Hofmann, Julio Chavezmontes Associate Producers: Jorge Fong, Rune Hansen, Monica Reina, Joakim Ziegler Music: Gustavo Mauricio Hernandez Davila Sound Design: Uriel Esquenazi, MCO Studios Sound Recording: Raul Locatelli Principal Cast: Alberto Trujillo, Lourdes Trueba, Hugo Albores Friday, January 18, 9:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Saturday, January 19, 12:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Monday, January 21, 12:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Saturday, January 26, 5:30 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 1, Park City

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Reindeer

Director: Eva Weber United Kingdom, 2011, 3 min., color A lyrical and haunting portrait of reindeer herding in the twilight expanses of the Lapland wilderness. Eva Weber www.reindeer-film.com eva@oddgirlout.co.uk

Sebastian Hofmann Sebastian Hofmann was born in Mexico in 1980. He is a distinguished film editor with six feature films to his credit. Hofmann has written, produced, and directed numerous experimental short films as well as music videos for some of Mexico City’s most acclaimed “underground” musicians. His work as a visual artist has been shown internationally in galleries and museums in New York, Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, Athens, Berlin, Santiago de Chile, Pasadena, Mexico City, and Prague. Silva has a BFA from the prestigious Pasadena Art Center College of Design.

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Travis Mathews, James Franco

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James Franco’s life has become multifaceted as he pursues his interests as a student, artist, writer, director, and actor. He earned accolades for his performances in James Dean, Milk, and 127 Hours and also starred in Rise of the Planet of the Apes and the Spider-Man trilogy. Additionally, Franco wrote and directed The Broken Tower and directed Sal and Saturday Night. Upcoming films as an actor are Oz: The Great and Powerful, Child of God, As I Lay Dying, The End of the World, and Homefront. Jeffrey Winter www.thefilmcollaborative.org jeffrey@thefilmcollaborative.org (323) 207-8321

Interior. Leather Bar. The 1980 film Cruising, starring Al Pacino as an undercover cop investigating a murder in the New York City gay, leather, bar scene, was plagued with controversy, and its director was forced by the Motion Picture Association of America to cut 40 minutes of sexually explicit material. Those 40 minutes have never been screened publicly. Filmmakers James Franco and Travis Mathews set out to reimagine what might have transpired in those lost scenes in this intriguing film about the making of a film. The cameras roll as Franco assembles a mix of gay and straight men, including the likeable Val Lauren in the lead role. What emerges is a portrait of the fascinating dynamics that drive the filmmakers’ need to challenge normalcy, the interplay of celebrity and experimentation, and the dilemma faced by actors struggling to reconcile who they are with the idea of performing in a sexually explicit, gay, S&M film. The result is a provocative exploration of the importance of the radical and transgressive in society and the value of engaging with things that scare us. —S.F.

U.S.A., 2012, 60 min., color Directors: Travis Mathews, James Franco Screenwriter: Travis Mathews Executive Producer: Rabbit Bandini Productions Producers: James Franco, Iris Torres, Michael Lannan Cinematographer: Keith Wilson Editor/Music Supervisor: Travis Mathews Costume Designer: Lane Stewart Principal Cast: Val Lauren, James Franco, Travis Mathews, Christian Patrick, Brenden Gregory Saturday, January 19, 8:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Sunday, January 20, noon Salt Lake City Library, SLC

Wednesday, January 23, noon Temple Theatre, Park City

Friday, January 25, midnight Tower Theatre, SLC

Saturday, January 26, 10:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

Le météore A man in prison, a wife carrying on a new life, a mother getting older: three lives connected and warped by a single event. As fortysomething Pierre is serving a 14-year prison sentence, his wife and mother are adjusting to their new everyday life, forced into revisiting the past because of Pierre’s violent act. As we watch all three characters grow, making choices on the best way to move forward in love and life, the sublime visual language of the film explores our compassionate connection to each other and the natural world around us. Using elegant images of nature, animals, and the actors, François Delisle visually establishes the characters as their off-screen dialogue deepens them. Textures and color play as important a role as the dialogue in this film and depict both the visceral and literary journey this family makes to deal with guilt. With its precise style, The Meteor illuminates the trails that a massive life event leaves behind. —M.P.

Canada, 2012, 85 min., color Director/Screenwriter: François Delisle Cinematographer/Editor: François Delisle Music: Suzie Leblanc, The States Project Sound: Simon Gervais, Martin Allard, Bruno Bélanger, Stéphane Bergeron Principal Cast: Noémie Godin-Vigneau, François Delisle, Laurent Lucas, Brigitte Pogonat, François Papineau, Andrée Lachapelle Saturday, January 19, 9:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Monday, January 21, 6:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Tuesday, January 22, 6:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

Saturday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

François Delisle In 1994, François Delisle’s first feature, Ruth, was named best feature and won the best screenplay award at the RendezVous du cinéma québécois. His second feature, Happiness Is a Sad Song (2004), won the award for best feature at the Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie and was named the best film of the year by the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma. In 2007, You, Delisle’s third feature, premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival. In 2010, Twice a Woman, his fourth film, was featured at the Festival du nouveau cinéma and earned two nominations for a Prix Jutra. Francis Ouellette www.funfilm.ca/fr/funfilm surveiller-dvd.php fouellette@cinemaginaire.com (514) 272-5505 (514) 272-9841

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Wrong Cops: A new, in progress feature by quentin dupieux

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Famous as a musician under the name Mr. Oizo, Quentin Dupieux shot a medium-length movie, Nonfilm, in 2001, and his first feature, Steak, in 2006. In 2010, Rubber was selected to screen in Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival. His film WRONG screened in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and inspired the chaptered movie Wrong Cops. Dupieux’s most recent film is Réalité, which he shot in Los Angeles in November 2012. Kevin Van Der Meiren kev.vdm@gmail.com

Imagine a Los Angeles where crime is so low that a bored cop (Mark Burnham) sells drugs and harasses a teenager (Marilyn Manson) to pass the time. Shot in stand-alone chapters as it is being financed, screened, and released, Wrong Cops is gonzo filmmaking with a unique online strategy. Audiences are invited to watch the first 45 minutes, and join a conversation with the cast and creative team. —S.F.

U.S.A., 2013, 45 min., color Director/Cinematographer: Quentin Dupieux Producer: Grégory Bernard Coproducers: Josef Lieck, Diane Jassem Associate Producer: Kevos Van Der Meiren Composer: Mr. Oizo Sunday, January 20, 11:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Monday, January 21, 8:00 p.m. New Frontier Microcinema, Park City

New Frontier Shorts Program

Total running time: 89 min. Each year in the New Frontier Shorts Program, we show films that push expectations in style and meaning. This year’s program also explores the importance of the image and the source of its motivation, whether it’s seeing something in a new way or getting to watch a secret world. These filmmakers consider who is watching, too, and create ways to facilitate visual communication.

Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari Greece, 2012, 35 min., color French with English subtitles Seven young women. A mansion perched on a Cycladic rock. A series of lessons on discipline, desire, discovery, and disappearance. A melancholy, inescapable cycle on the brink of womanhood—infinitely.

Century

Director: Kevin Jerome Everson U.S.A., 2012, 7 min., color Filmed in Charlottesville, Virginia, and starring a General Motors automobile—the titular brown Buick Century—meeting its fate.

Kevin Everson www.keverson.net

Datamosh

Director: Yung Jake U.S.A., 2011, 5 min., color Rap artist Yung Jake is Net art incarnate, flowing lyrics about tweet culture, datamoshing, hashtags, and memes as he blows up on Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, and Instagram.

Yung Jake yungjake1@gmail.com

www.haosfilm.com

Primate Cinema: Apes as Family Director: Rachel Mayeri U.S.A./Scotland, 2012, 11 min., color Chimpanzees, our closest relatives, like to watch television. What would a film made expressly for chimps look like? A primatologist and actors in chimp suits present a primate drama for chimpanzees at the Edinburgh Zoo.

Rachel Mayeri primatecinema@gmail.com

Iyeza

Director: Kudzanai Chiurai South Africa, 2012, 11 min., color An allegory of the Last Supper depicting the establishment of a new nation-state, Kudzanai Chiurai’s Iyeza explores the African condition by juxtaposing the past and the present of a continent in the grip of violent civil wars.

Londiwe Nzimande Goodman Gallery www.goodman-gallery.com londiwe@goodman-gallery.com +27 117 881 113

Sirocco

Director: Hisham Bizri U.S.A., 2012, 16 min., color & b/w Arabic with English subtitles A detective is sent to the desert to investigate a murder only to find out he’s been investigating his own death.

Hisham Bizri www.hishambizri.com (651) 340-3522

Until the Quiet Comes

Director: Kahlil Joseph U.S.A., 2012, 4 min., color Shot in the Nickerson Gardens housing projects in Watts, Los Angeles, this film deals with themes of violence, camaraderie, and spirituality through the lens of magical realism.

Omid Fatemi omid@the-most.com

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Intensely personal, outrageously funny, fantastically abstract...the possibilities within the short film form are limitless. Our Shorts Programs put exciting talent on display with work that takes risks and explores our world. We strive to find films that tell vibrant talesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; vivid fiction, powerful true stories, and inspired animation all have a home here. Presented by YouTube.

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Saturday, January 19, 6:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Monday, January 21, 3:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 23, 3:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Saturday, January 26, 7:00 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City

Benjamin’s Flowers

Director: Malin Erixon Sweden, 2012, 12 min., color Lovelorn and lonely, Benjamin lives on the blurry borderline between fantasy and reality.

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Bite of the Tail

Feral

In Hanford

Director: Song E. Kim South Korea/U.S.A., 2012, 9 min., color Life is a constant struggle for a husband and wife. She is suffering from stomach pain, and the doctor has no clue about a cure. Meanwhile, her husband is on his own journey of hunting a snake.

Director: Daniel Sousa U.S.A., 2012, 13 min., color A solitary hunter finds a wild boy in the woods and brings him back to civilization. Alienated by his strange new environment, the boy tries to adapt by using the same strategies that kept him safe in the forest.

Director: Chris Mars U.S.A., 2012, 5 min., b/w This heartbreaking true story of a town poisoned by Cold War–era nuclear-arms manufacture is told through firsthand accounts and fantasy scenes, which empathize with the victims’ plight.

Song E. Kim songekim.com

Daniel Sousa www.danielsousa.com ddansousa@hotmail.com

Oh Willy...

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Directors: Marc James Roels, Emma de Swaef Belgium/France/Netherlands, 2012, 17 min., color Willy returns to his naturalist roots as he bungles his way into noble savagery.

Director: Dash Shaw Directors: Pendleton Ward, U.S.A., 2012, 7 min., color Tom Herpich A boy’s childhood scars his life. U.S.A., 2011, 11 min., color A pack of fire wolves attack a Dash Shaw snow golem in the forest and dash@dashshaw.com accidentally leave a cub behind (917) 837-0563 after their retreat. The golem’s life is thrown into chaos as he attempts to reunite the cub with its family.

Dorien Schetz dorien@beastanimation.be +324 8508 8249

Brooke Keesling (818) 729-4000

Sally Mars chrismarspublishing.com

Tram Director: Michaela Pavlátová France/Czech Republic, 2012, 8 min., color The humdrum daily routine of a tram conductress is jolted when the vibrations and rhythm of the road turn her on and take her on an erotic and surrealistic fantasy journey.

Camille Condemi distribution@ sacrebleuprod.com

Marcel, King of Tervuren

Director: Tom Schroeder U.S.A., 2012, 6 min., color In this Greek tragedy—as acted out by Belgian roosters—Marcel survives the bird flu, alcohol, sleeping pills, and his son, Max.

Tom Schroeder tschroeder@mcad.edu

Documentary Shorts Program I Total running time: 101 min.

Friday, January 18, 6:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Sunday, January 20, noon Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 23, 3:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 26, 9:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Endless Day

Outlawed in Pakistan

Paraíso

Skinningrove

Director: Anna Frances Ewert Germany, 2012, 11 min., b/w German with English subtitles For most people, sleep comes naturally, but for others, the night turns into an ongoing struggle to drift off into oblivion. This film explores what it’s like to be awake involuntarily and the feelings that accompany the passing of sleepless time.

Directors: Habiba Nosheen, Hilke Schellmann Pakistan/U.S.A., 2013, 39 min., color English and Urdu with English subtitles Kainat Soomro, a Pakistani teenager, accuses four men from her village of gang-raping her. She takes her case to the Pakistani courts and faces a deeply flawed criminal-justice system.

Director: Nadav Kurtz U.S.A., 2012, 10 min., color Spanish with English subtitles Three immigrant window cleaners risk their lives every day rappelling down some of Chicago’s tallest skyscrapers. Paraíso reveals the danger of their job and what they see on the way down.

Director: Michael Almereyda U.S.A., 2012, 15 min., color Photographer Chris Killip shares unpublished images chronicling time spent among the fiercely independent residents of a remote English fishing village.

Isabelle Bertolone Isabelle.Bertolone@gmx.de

Habiba Nosheen info@h2hfilms.com (917) 291-0296

When the Zombies Come

The Whistle

Jon Hurst jonhurst0@gmail.com (678) 895-7297

Nadav Kurtz nadavkurtz@gmail.com

Director: Grzegorz Zariczny Poland, 2012, 17 min., color English and Polish with English subtitles Marcin, a lowest-leagues football referee who lives in a small town near Krakow, dreams of better times. At his mother’s urging, he decides to change his life and find himself a girlfriend and a more satisfying job.

Zofia Scislowska Krakow Film Foundation www.kff.com.pl zofia@kff.com.pl +481 2294 6945

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Director: Jon Hurst U.S.A., 2012, 9 min., color At a remote hardware store, fans of the walking dead have turned their love of zombies into an obsession, warping the way they see the store and its customers.

Michael Almereyda almereyda@aol.com

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Documentary Shorts Program II Total running time: 88 min.

Friday, January 18, 9:00 a.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 19, 3:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 20, 3:00 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort Wednesday, January 23, 6:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Saturday, January 26, 8:30 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 1, Park City

The Battle of amfAR Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman U.S.A., 2013, 40 min., color & b/w When AIDS strikes, two very different women— Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor and research scientist Dr. Mathilde Krim—join forces to create America’s first AIDS research foundation. The fight against HIV/AIDS has never been the same.

Sharon Wood www.tellingpictures.com sw@tellingpictures.com (415) 864-6714

Fall to Grace Director: Alexandra Pelosi U.S.A., 2012, 48 min., color Former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey famously resigned from office after declaring himself “a gay American.” Since then, he has been working as a spiritual advisor to women in prison.

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Shorts Program I

Total running time: 99 min. Thursday, January 17, 8:30 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City Friday, January 18, 11:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 19, 3:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Wednesday, January 23, 11:30 a.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 24, noon Screening Room, Sundance Resort

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Scrubber

Director: Kibwe Tavares Tanzania/United Kingdom, 2012, 17 min., color When two young men photograph a gigantic fish leaping from the sea, their small town becomes a tourist attraction in this story about the old and the new.

Director: Michelle Morgan U.S.A., 2012, 17 min., color A guilt-ridden but well-intentioned yuppie goes to great lengths to prove she is a decent person.

Director: Romola Garai United Kingdom, 2012, 21 min., color A mysterious and disturbing suburban narrative about a listless young mother who is torn between family duty and self-serving fantasies.

Whiplash

Director: Sergio Oksman Spain, 2012, 26 min., color The tale of Elmer Modlin, who, after appearing in Rosemary’s Baby, fled with his family to a far-off country and shut himself away in a dark apartment for 30 years.

Director: Damien Chazelle U.S.A., 2012, 18 min., color An aspiring drummer enters an elite conservatory’s top jazz orchestra.

Sergio Oksman Dok Films soksman@gmail.com

Kelly O’Malley estabrookasst@rightofwayfilms.com

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A Story for the Modlins

Shona Kerr shona@labelpictures.net

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Ivana Mackinnon Stray Bear Productions mackinnonivana@gmail.com

Geoff Morley United Talent Agency morleyg@unitedtalent.com (310) 273-6700

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Shorts Program II Total running time: 95 min.

Friday, January 18, noon Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Friday, January 18, 9:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Sunday, January 20, 10:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Friday, January 25, 3:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Le Futur Proche Director: Sophie Goyette Canada, 2012, 18 min., color French with English subtitles A French immigrant pilot receives an unexpected phone call that changes his life forever. He must deal with the emotional consequences of the call while still completing his work duties in this impressionistic depiction of an all-but-ordinary day.

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Director: Robert Machoian U.S.A., 2013, 4 min., color Debbie is good at playing hide and seekâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so good she is often hard to find.

Director: Robert Machoian U.S.A., 2013, 4 min., color Robert attempts to keep himself healthy and fit so he can live as long as possible, unaware of what that really means.

Robert Machoian www.433pictures.com

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Christian Morissette www.videographe.qc.ca cmorissette@videographe.qc.ca (514) 521-2116, ext. 225

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Social Butterfly

Today and Tomorrow

Volume

Director: Lauren Wolkstein France/U.S.A., 2013, 14 min., color English and French with English subtitles When a 30-year-old American woman attends a teenage party in the South of France, guests wonder who she is and what she is doing there.

Director: Aaron Douglas Johnston Netherlands, 2011, 15 min., color English and Farsi/Dari with English subtitles Iranian and Afghani political refugees make a life for themselves in Holland as they anxiously await word if they will be granted political asylum or sent back to their native countries.

Director: Mahalia Belo United Kingdom, 2012, 27 min., color Samâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perfectly polished world is upended when Georgina goes missing. As everyone acts like nothing has happened, Sam drifts back into his memories of Georgina and realizes he may know more than he wants to remember.

Aaron Douglas Johnston aarondjohnston@gmail.com

Casey Herbert www.volumethefilm.com casey@brightcoldday.com +44 207 229 1226

Lauren Wolkstein lwolkstein@gmail.com

Skin Director: Jordana Spiro U.S.A., 2012, 13 min., color A young taxidermist and small-town loner is entranced by a girl who finds his work beautiful. Just as their relationship begins to progress, he does something that drastically changes everything.

Alvaro Riccardo Valente alvaro.r.valente@gmail.com (310) 600-2067

Shorts Program III Total running time: 96 min.

Friday, January 18, 6:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Saturday, January 19, noon Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Tuesday, January 22, 11:30 a.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 24, 9:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

#PostModem Directors: Jillian Mayer, Lucas Leyva U.S.A., 2012, 13 min., color A comedic, satirical, sci-fi pop musical based on the theories of Ray Kurzweil and other futurists, #PostModem is the story of two Miami girls and the way they deal with technological singularity, as told through a series of cinematic tweets.

www.mayerleyva.com

The Companion

The Date

Director: Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio Peru, 2012, 23 min., color Spanish with English subtitles On the outskirts of Lima, a young prostitute tends to his father, a fallen-from-grace artisan. However, the young man feels that his efforts are never enough. He tries to break free, but his father’s dependence is stronger than his son’s will.

Director: Jenni Toivoniemi Finland, 2012, 8 min., color Finnish with English subtitles Tino’s manhood is put to the test in front of two women when he has to host a date for Diablo, the family’s stud cat.

El Acompañante

Threffit

Karaoke! Director: Andrew F. Renzi U.S.A., 2013, 14 min., color On a night out in New York City, a young man tries to avoid his problems.

Garrett Fennelly garrettfennelly@gmail.com (646) 319-9665

www.tuffifilms.com

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The Roper

Director: Sam de Jong Netherlands, 2012, 21 min., color Dutch with English subtitles A talented gymnast makes a lifechanging discovery as she prepares for an important tournament, which is her last chance to reach the top.

Director: Jesse Atlas U.S.A., 2012, 11 min., color English/Bosnian War, fate, and a broken Walkman transcend time and space in this sci-fi love story.

Director: Ewan McNicol Codirector: Anna Sandilands U.S.A., 2012, 6 min., color A black man with hip-hop and zydeco roots hard-grafts through the local, all-white rodeo circuits in the Deep South as he dreams of competing in the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas.

Alexander Van Damme www.magnesiumdefilm.nl vdsander@gmail.com +32 484 114 114

Josh Turner McGuire Underground Films josh@undergroundfilms.net (323) 930-2435

Eli Martin lucidinc.com (206) 604-1090

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Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio alvaro@apoyo.com.pe +511 513 3030 +519 986 70585

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Shorts Program IV Total running time: 95 min.

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Saturday, January 19, 6:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Sunday, January 20, 6:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Wednesday, January 23, 8:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 24, 4:00 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City

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Black Metal

Boneshaker

The Captain

The Curse

Director: Kat Candler U.S.A., 2013, 9 min., color After a career spent mining his music from the shadows, one fan creates a chain reaction for the lead singer of a black metal band.

Director: Frances Bodomo U.S.A., 2013, 13 min., color An African family, lost in America, travels to a Louisiana church to find a cure for its problem child.

Directors: Nash Edgerton, Spencer Susser Australia/U.S.A., 2012, 6 min., color A man wakes up with a hangover, only to discover the consequences of his actions.

Director: Fyzal Boulifa United Kingdom, 2012, 16 min., color Arabic with English subtitles Fatine has ventured far from the village to meet her older lover. When a small boy catches her, all she wants to do is go home.

Kelly Williams kellygwilliams@gmail.com

Frances Bodomo info@boneshakerfilm.com (646) 321-5334

GUN

On Suffocation

Director: Spencer Gillis U.S.A., 2012, 17 min., color Roy purchases a handgun to protect his wife and newborn baby after a terrifying home invasion. The newfound sense of power Roy feels carrying the weapon becomes an obsession, leading him down a reckless path that may have tragic consequences.

Director: Jenifer Malmqvist Sweden, 2012, 7 min., color This dialogue-free film about an execution describes what happens when the system becomes more important than human life.

Spencer Gillis gunshortfilm@gmail.com (310) 360-1983

Mirja Hildbrand Wester SFI www.anagram.se mirja.hildbrand@sfi.se +46 8 665 1136

Benjamin Gilovitz ben@gilovitz.com (323) 420-9307

You Are More Than Beautiful Director: Tae-yong Kim China, 2012, 27 min., color Korean with English subtitles A man arrives in beautiful Jeju Island and pays a woman to act as his partner while he visits his ill father in this tale of beauty among base human acts.

Savita Lam +852 2102 7379

Gavin Humphries Quark Films Ltd. +44 790 447 7620

Shorts Program V Total running time: 97 min.

Friday, January 18, 9:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Saturday, January 19, 9:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Tuesday, January 22, 2:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Friday, January 25, 1:00 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City

The Apocalypse

Irish Folk Furniture

Night Shift

Palimpsest

Director: Andrew Zuchero U.S.A., 2012, 6 min., color Four uninspired friends try to come up with a terrific idea for ways to spend their Saturday afternoon.

Director: Tony Donoghue Ireland, 2012, 9 min., color In Ireland, old hand-painted furniture is often associated with hard times, with poverty, and with a time many would rather forget. In this animated documentary, 16 pieces of traditional folk furniture are repaired and returned home.

Director: Zia Mandviwalla New Zealand, 2012, 14 min., color Salote, an airport cleaner, starts another long night shift. She keeps her head down, does her job, and gleans the means for her survival from what others leave behind.

Director: Michael Tyburski U.S.A., 2012, 18 min., color A successful house tuner provides clients with a unique form of therapy that examines subtle details in their living spaces.

Tony Donoghue tonydonoghue@gmail.com +353 672 2984

The Song of the Mechanical Fish

Summer Vacation

Director: Philipp Yuryev Russian Federation, 2012, 28 min., color Russian with English subtitles A fisherman who lives in a deserted village in the far north receives an invitation to the wedding of a son he has never seen and decides to make a redemptive journey.

Directors: Sharon Maymon, Tal Granit Israel, 2012, 22 min., color Hebrew with English subtitles The family summer vacationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sea, sun, and sandâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and all Yuval wants is to get the heck out of there.

Polina Suprun Rockfilms Studio psuprun.rockfilms@gmail.com +7 499 238 08 59 +7 926 621 25 46

Lisa Chatfield International Sales New Zealand Film Commission lisa@nzfilm.co.nz

Michael Tyburski michael@michaeltyburski.com www.palimpsestfilm.info

Tal Granit tal_granit@yahoo.com +972 54 5766822

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Emily Wiedemann www.greencardnewyork.com (212) 260-5715

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Michael Almereyda

Guillermo Arriaga

Jesse Atlas

Mahalia Belo

Hisham Bizri

Skinningrove

Broken Night

Record/Play

Volume

Sirocco

Frances Bodomo

Fyzal Boulifa

Anna Cady

Kat Candler

Damien Chazelle

Boneshaker

The Curse

30% (Women and Politics in Sierra Leone)

Black Metal

Whiplash

Kudzanai Chiurai

Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio

Sam de Jong

Emma de Swaef

Tony Donoghue

Iyeza

The Companion

Magnesium

Oh Willy...

Irish Folk Furniture

Goran Dukic

Nash Edgerton

Rob Epstein

Malin Erixon

Kevin Jerome Everson

What Do We Have in Our Pockets?

The Captain

The Battle of amfAR

Benjaminâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Flowers

Century

Anna Frances Ewert

Jeffrey Friedman

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At the Festival, the Native Forum brings attention to films supported by the Native American and Indigenous Program and those written, directed, or produced by Indigenous filmmakers.

Native Forum Following President and Founder Robert Redford’s original vision, Sundance Institute has remained committed to supporting Indigenous filmmaking. From Sundance Institute’s support of Greg Sarris’s (Coast Miwok) Grand Avenue at the 1992 June Screenwriters Lab to Andrew Okpeaha MacLean (Iñupiaq) winning the Berlin International Film Festival’s 2011 Crystal Bear and the award for the best first feature for his film On The Ice, the Institute has established a rich legacy of work. The Native American and Indigenous Program has built and sustained an Indigenous film circle, which begins by scouting for and identifying Native American and Indigenous artists, then bringing them under Institute support to get their projects made and shown, and finally taking the filmmakers and their work back to Native lands. The Native American and Indigenous Program has made strategic investments to help emerging Native American filmmakers through the Native Lab Fellowship and the Native Producers Fellowship. In 2012, the Native American and Indigenous Program deepened its commitment to Native artists by launching a new Native Producers Initiative, which identifies emerging Native producers and supports their professional development and the development of their projects. At the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Native American and Indigenous artists are represented in several programs, including the World Cinema Dramatic Competition: Shopping (Louis Sutherland [Samoan]); Park City at Midnight: Ass Backwards (Heather Rae [Cherokee], Chad Burris [Chickasaw Nation]); and the Shorts Competition: The Captain (Taika Waititi [Te Whanau Apanui]), and Night Shift (Chelsea Winstanley [Ngati Ranginui]). The role that these talented Native producers are playing in mainstream, non-Native films at this year’s Festival signifies an important shift in the landscape to include Native artists among the wider Indie production community.

Films Events The Native Forum at the Sundance Film Festival provides a platform for Indigenous filmmakers to share their expertise and knowledge with each other and the independent film community.

WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION

PARK CITY AT MIDNIGHT

Shopping

Ass Backwards

New Zealand Codirector and coscreenwriter: Louis Sutherland

U.S.A. Producer: Heather Rae Executive Producer: Chad Burris

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Monday, January 21, 10:00 a.m. The Mustang, 890 Main St. Ticket or RSVP required

Native Forum Reception

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Thursday, January 24, 10:00 p.m. Downstairs, 625 Main St. Ticket or RSVP required

The Captain

Australia/U.S.A. Coscreenwriter: Taika Waititi

Night Shift

New Zealand Producer: Chelsea Winstanley

Power of Story: Independence Unleashed

Power of Story: Measure for Measure

Saturday, January 19, 3:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City #PowerofStory Ticket required

Friday, January 25, 3:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City #PowerofStory Ticket required

Edgy stories, complex characters, distinctive voices, and formal freedom…these were once the hallmarks of independent film. But seeing creative opportunity in other forms, filmmakers have been spreading the wealth, looking toward serialized narratives—on television and online— that allow complex characters and stories to develop over time. Have mainstream outlets, once notorious for dulling the edge of “edgy,” found room in their schedule for original auteur perspectives?

Cinema history without music is unimaginable. Even during the silent era, movie theatres were hardly silent. The film score is a uniquely visceral tool of storytelling, able to engage emotion and enhance characters, themes, and narratives. How many memorable moments owe their lasting power to music? Who can imagine Gone with the Wind without Max Steiner or Lawrence of Arabia without Maurice Jarre? In this panel, some of today’s most admired composers explore the creative process—from inspiration to the final score.

Jess Cagle (moderator) is managing editor of Time Inc.’s Entertainment Weekly. He helped launch the magazine in 1990 and continues to play a key role in defining its voice. One of the most recognizable entertainment journalists, Cagle has interviewed Hollywood’s biggest stars and made television appearances on every major entertainment news program. Jane Campion’s films include Sweetie, An Angel at My Table, The Piano (winner of three Academy Awards, including best screenplay), Portrait of a Lady, Holy Smoke, In the Cut, and Bright Star. Campion won the Palme d’Or in Cannes for her short film Peel and feature The Piano.

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Justin Lin earned his MFA in film directing at UCLA. His critically acclaimed Better Luck Tomorrow premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. He has gone on to direct such blockbuster films as Fast and Furious and Fast Five. Lin is a principal and founder of Perfect Storm Entertainment, Barnstorm Pictures, and the YouTube channel YOMYOMF.

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Richard Linklater has directed 17 feature films, including Slacker, Before Sunrise, and School of Rock, as well as the Hulu series Up to Speed. The recipient of a DGA award for his support of the arts, he is currently artistic director of the Austin Film Society, which he founded in 1985 and which continues to distribute grants to Texas filmmakers. Mike White is an American writer, director, actor, and producer for television and film, and the winner of the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award for Chuck & Buck. White made his directorial debut in 2007 with Year of the Dog. He is the cocreator, coexecutive producer, and writer of the HBO series Enlightened, in which he also appears.

Terence Blanchard, a five-time Grammy Award winner and one of the most influential jazz musicians and composers of his generation, has scored more than 50 films, including Eve’s Bayou, Inside Man, Barbershop, and the Golden Globe–nominated 25th Hour. Commissioned by Opera Theatre Saint Louis, his opera on boxing legend Emile Griffith premieres in June 2013. Chris Douridas (moderator) hosted KCRW-FM’s daily music program “Morning Becomes Eclectic” and was music director at the station throughout most of the 1990s. He continued discovering and sharing new talent at Geffen, DreamWorks, AOL Music, and iTunes, where Steve Jobs hired him as a creative programming consultant. He has also worked as a music supervisor and consultant on movies and television, including Northern Exposure, the Austin Powers series, One Hour Photo, and American Beauty. Mark Isham is a pioneer of electronic music and a world-renowned film composer whose work—Crash, A River Runs Through It, and Nell—has earned him Grammy, Emmy, Academy Award, and Golden Globe recognition in addition to ASCAP’s Henry Mancini Award for Career Achievement. Acclaimed for his solo recordings, he has also graced albums from Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, The Rolling Stones, and many others. Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, who started composing for theatre after relocating to the U.S. from Poland, has written scores for more than 50 films, including Unfaithful, Total Eclipse, The Visitor, and Finding Neverland, for which he won an Academy Award. In his native country, he established the Transatlantyk Poznan International Film and Music Festival and the Instytut Rozbitek, which is aimed at developing new talent in the arts.

SCIENCE IN FILM FORUM

Once Upon a Quantum Symmetry: Science and Cinema Presented by Sundance Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Tuesday, January 22, 2:30 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City #Sloan Ticket required Ever since Méliès shot a rocket to the moon, cinema has had a wondrous fascination with science and technology. Movies can show us the working science of today, and with surprising prescience, the science of tomorrow. During our 10-year collaboration with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which aims to encourage more realistic and compelling stories about science and technology themes and characters, we’ve traveled from synapses in the brain to distant universes—hitting an infinite number of galaxies along the way, and proving that both scientists and filmmakers are creative, imaginative, speculative, and adventurous. Paula Apsell (moderator), director of the WGBH Science Unit and senior executive producer of the nation’s most watched science series, PBS’s NOVA, has overseen hundreds of acclaimed, award-winning science documentaries, including The Fabric of the Cosmos with Brian Greene.

Darren Aronofsky won the 1998 Sundance Film Festival Directing Award for his first feature, Pi. His other films— Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler, The Fountain, and Black Swan—have garnered numerous Academy Award, Scott Burns is screenwriter, director, and producer whose screenplays include Contagion, The Informant!, The Bourne Ultimatum, and Pu-239, which he also directed. He was a producer on the Academy Award–winning An Inconvenient Truth. Dr. André Fenton, professor at New York University’s Center for Neural Science, is a neuroscientist, biomedical engineer, and entrepreneur whose work relates to memory, electrical brain activity, and cognitive dysfunction. Dr. Lisa Randall studies theoretical particle physics and cosmology at Harvard University, where she is a Frank J. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science. She is also the author of Warped Passages and Knocking on Heaven’s Door and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees.

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Filmmaker Lodge Elks Building, 550 Main St. (second floor), Park City Friday, January 18 – Saturday, January 26 9:30 a.m. – 6:O0 p.m. Sunday, January 27, 9:30 a.m. – noon Open to all Festival credential holders and the general public on a space-available basis. All events are held at the Filmmaker Lodge unless otherwise indicated.

Turning the Tide Friday, January 18 1:00 p.m. #TideTurning

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Sunday, January 20 1:00 p.m. #TakeAStand

Her Infinite Variety Wednesday, January 23 1:00 p.m. #HerStories

What’s Research Got to Do with It? Friday, January 25 1:00 p.m. #WomenWorkforce

Changing the direction of a national discourse can seem like an impossible task, but sometimes new narratives inspire a surprising sea-change. From immigration to the economy to democratic values, this year’s films suggest how storytelling can reset the discourse around hot-button issues. What happens when change itself gets a PR campaign? Artists and activists Pablo Larraín (No), Gael García Bernal (Who Is Dayani Cristal?, No), Jehane Noujaim (The Square), and Robert Reich (Inequality for All) join moderator Orlando Bagwell (Ford Foundation | JustFilms) to explore the ways creative approaches to storytelling can alter the course of history. Supported by the Ford Foundation.

Behavioral research tells us that people who are called upon to act are less inclined to do so if they are part of a large group. But some individuals choose to act on principle, no matter what the cost. Join lawyer Brandy Alexander (Gideon’s Army), Rev. Kapya Kaoma (God Loves Uganda), author and environmentalist Mark Lynas (Pandora’s Promise), and moderator Jennifer Robinson (Bertha Foundation) to explore what happens when your sense of justice changes your life.

What’s exciting about the work of women directors in the Festival this year is the range of narratives and storytelling styles. Many are pushing boundaries; others look to recover our humanity. Sexuality abounds, as do coming-of-age stories (by both youth and adults). But these women’s films are distinguished by their fully realized, contemporary, selfpossessed female characters. Join Eliza Hittman (It Felt Like Love), Jerusha Hess (Austenland), Lake Bell (In a World…), Lynn Shelton (Touchy Feely), Naomi Foner (Very Good Girls), Stacie Passon (Concussion) and moderator Sharon Swart to see what unites them, if anything.

Now Playing: Two Release Models for the New World

Imitation of Life

Out of Sight (and Outside the Law)

Pandora, for Better or Worse

Whether covering ground wars, drug wars, or a war on terror, journalists undertake enormous risks to uphold Americans’ right to know what’s done in the name of democracy, revealing the human costs and truths veiled in secrecy. Sebastian Junger (Which Way Is The Front Line From Here?), Jeremy Scahill (Dirty Wars), Peter Bergen (MANHUNT), Shaul Schwarz (Narco Cultura), James Ball (We Steal Secrets), and moderator Stephen Engelberg (ProPublica) walk us through the war zones and the corridors of power.

It’s hard to depict the dawn of the digital era without some nostalgia or even loss of innocence. That watershed moment unleashed an overwhelming deluge of technology, innovation, and fundamental changes in the way we live, not to mention our relationship with nature and our spirituality. Join Ben Lewis and Evgeny Morozov (Google and the World Brain), Andrew Bujalski (Computer Chess), and Joshua Stern (jOBS) for this panel that reflects on the ways this technology revolution has both advanced our civilization and imperiled it.

Saturday, January 19 1:00 p.m. #CreativeDistro

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Taking a Stand

The majority of indie releases come through digital aggregators with short-term distribution deals and limited marketing budgets. How then do producers utilize windowing, marketing, publicity, and audience engagement to maximize revenue over a short period? In case studies that demystify the process, the teams behind Middle of Nowhere and BONES BRIGADE present their release models, outlining their strategy and supplying the data to back it up, while our panel of executives debates the results.

Tuesday, January 22 1:00 p.m. #LifeArtImitation

In fiction and documentary, filmmakers wrestle with the means of expressing truth, often the truths that derive from real life, real people, actual events, and memory. How they shape those truths is as reflective of the storyteller as the story. So what’s in a true story? Can warping reality be the truest method of conveying it? Join Sarah Polley (Stories We Tell), Michael Polish (Big Sur), and Sergio Oksman (A Story for the Modlins), with moderator B. Ruby Rich (film critic and culture theorist) for a reflection on how art mirrors life.

Thursday, January 24 1:00 p.m. #NeedToKnow

If women comprise roughly 50 percent of the labor force, why are only 2–to–5 percent of directors helming top Hollywood movies female? This shocking statistic had us wondering how women fare behind the camera in independent film. Learn about a landmark study and see what comes up when the world’s foremost researcher on women and media, USC’s force of nature, Professor Stacy Smith, discusses her fascinating findings with another force of nature, Academy Award–winning Producer Cathy Schulman.

Saturday, January 26 1:00 p.m. #OutOfTheBox

Cinema Café

PRESENTED BY CHASE SAPPHIRE PREFERRED SM Every day at 10:00 a.m. Friday, January, 18–Saturday, January 26 #CinemaCafe These panels do not require a ticket. Tuesday, January 22, 10:00 a.m.

TimesTalks at Cinema Café Dave Grohl (Sound City) and David Gordon Green (Prince Avalanche, George Washington, All the Real Girls) with Melena Ryzik (the New York Times). Wednesday, January 23, 10:00 a.m.

TimesTalks at Cinema Café Juno Temple (Afternoon Delight, Lovelace, Magic, Magic) and Robin Weigert (Concussion, Deadwood) with Melena Ryzik (the New York Times).

Friday, January 18, 10:00 a.m. David Seidler (The King’s Speech, The King and I) and Robin Swicord (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Matilda, Little Women) with Erin Cressida Wilson (Stoker, Chloe, Secretary). Saturday, January 19, 10:00 a.m. Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale), Paul Eenhoorn (This Is Martin Bonner), Kathryn Hahn (Afternoon Delight), Danai Gurira (Mother of George) and Kaya Scodelario (Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes) with Sharon Swart. Sunday, January 20, 10:00 a.m. Ben Wheatley (Sightseers), Edúardo Sanchez (S-VHS), Jeremy Lovering (In Fear), and Roger Corman (Virtually Heroes) with Tim League. Monday, January 21, 10:00 a.m. Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon (Hell Baby), Casey Wilson and June Diane Raphael (Ass Backwards).

Friday, January 25, 10:00 a.m. John Akomfrah (The Stuart Hall Project), Kim Longinotto (Salma) and Zachary Heinzerling (Cutie and the Boxer) with Caroline Libresco. Saturday, January 26, 10:00 a.m. Randy Moore (Escape from Tomorrow), David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints), and Jill Soloway (Afternoon Delight).

Film Church

Sunday, January 27, 10:00 a.m. #FilmChurch What could be more divine than 10 days of film watching? Finish off your Sundance Film Festival experience by sharing a near-spiritual moment with Festival Director John Cooper and Director of Programming Trevor Groth, who will offer nondenominational tales of the Festival that was. Joining us for the sermon will be a variety of special guests, including a few who took home awards the night before (if they can be found the morning after!). Come confess your likes and dislikes. All will be forgiven.

SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL OFFSCREEN: CINEMA CAFE

Strange things are afoot at Cinema Café. Each morning at 10:00 a.m. in the Filmmaker Lodge, Cinema Café invigorates the culture of conversation. With all your favorite stimulants on hand—coffee, tasty treats, and delectable dialogue—our daily series of informal chats rounds up special guests for some thought-provoking discussions. Sometimes the most fascinating are the ones you didn’t expect. So bring your questions and an open mind. How does the song go? “Start your day at Cinema Café.”

Thursday, January 24, 10:00 a.m. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (Lovelace, The Times of Harvey Milk, Howl), Barbara Kopple (Running from Crazy, Harlan County U.S.A., Shut Up & Sing) and Freida Mock (ANITA, Maya Lin: A Stong Clear Vision, Return with Honor) with Cara Mertes.

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sundance ascap music Cafe Friday, January 18–Friday, January 25, 1:30 –6:00 p.m.

751 main st. Lights. Camera. Music. Every great film needs great music. For 15 years, Sundance and ASCAP have celebrated the connection of sound and screen at the Sundance ASCAP Music Café. Stop by during the day to hear an eclectic mix of songwriters and artists, some legendary and some on their way there, all hand-picked by ASCAP. Looking for that perfect music for your movie, or vice-versa? Find an indie filmmaker, composer, or songwriter to chat with. The Sundance ASCAP Music Café is your hub for music throughout the Festival. Green room provided by Prudential Utah Real Estate. Please check the ASCAP website for daily updates at www.ascap.com. Open to all Festival credential holders (21 and up) on a space-available basis. This venue has limited capacity.

Jill Barber

Friday, JANUARY 18 2:00 p.m. 2:40 p.m. 3:20 p.m. 4:15 p.m.

TBA Jill Barber Melanie Fiona Blue Sky Riders

(Kenny Loggins, Georgia Middleman, and Gary Burr)

5:15 p.m.

Kat Edmonson

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2:00 p.m. 2:40 p.m. 3:20 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 4:40 p.m.

TBA Jill Barber Kat Edmonson Ramy Essam TBA

Paul Kelly

sunday, JANUARY 20 2:00 p.m. 2:40 p.m. 3:20 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 4:55 p.m.

Greg Holden Kat Edmonson Dave Berg Paul Kelly Sea Wolf

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Sea Wolf

monday, JANUARY 21 Greg Holden Dave Berg Sea Wolf Paul Kelly Andrew Bird

tuesday, JANUARY 22 2:00 p.m. 2:40 p.m. 3:20 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 4:40 p.m.

Kim Taylor MoZella TBA Drake White Dave Mason

MoZella

wednesday, JANUARY 23 2:00 p.m. Jonathan Baptiste and Stay Human 2:40 p.m. Here We Go Magic 3:20 p.m. MoZella 4:00 p.m. Drake White 4:45 p.m. TBA

MUSIC AT THE FESTIVAL

2:00 p.m. 2:40 p.m. 3:20 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 4:55 p.m.

Drake White

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The Head and the Heart

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Nataly Dawn Eric Hutchinson The Head and the Heart Frankmusik TBA

Frankmusik

friday, JANUARY 25 2:00 p.m. 2:40 p.m. 3:20 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 4:30 p.m.

TBA The Head and the Heart Eric Hutchinson Frankmusik TBA

film music events

Twenty Feet from Stardom

A Celebration of Music in Film

Featuring performances by Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, and Lisa Fischer from the film Twenty Feet from Stardom. Stay tuned to sundance.org/festival for other guest performers, to be announced.

Sunday, January 20 8:00 p.m.–midnight Sundance House presented by HP 638 Park Ave. (corner of Main St. and Heber Ave.), Park City A Celebration of Music in Film is one of the most anticipated annual events of the Festival. This year we tip our hat to the power of the almighty music documentary, showcasing the spirited journey of background singers as highlighted in Twenty Feet from Stardom, featuring performances by Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, and Lisa Fischer, who are featured in the film. Stay tuned for other guest performers to be announced. This not-to-be-missed event is open to all credential holders. No tickets are required.

Anne Litt

Jason Bentley

Music Café and KCRW Friday, January 18–Sunday, January 20, 9:00 p.m.-midnight Music Café 751 main st. Join KCRW for three nights of live music at the Sundance Music Café, featuring emerging composers, singer-songwriters, and beatmakers. The LA public radio station will celebrate the role of music in movies with programming led by DJs— and music supervisors—Jason Bentley and Anne Litt. Follow us on Twitter @sundancefestnow or check out the website for more exciting details. This event is open to all credential holders—no tickets are required. Made possible by support from Acura.

Roundtable Discussion: Music and Film, the Creative Process Produced by BMI Wednesday, January 23, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Sundance House presented by HP

Produced by BMI Wednesday, January 23, 8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m. Sundance House presented by HP

BMI invites you to an intimate evening of music featuring some of its most celebrated singer/songwriters. Historically this music event has partnered inspiring up-and-comers with legendary music makers, and this year’s surprise lineup promises to be one of the best yet. This event is open to all credential holders as space permits. No tickets are required.

Monday, January 21, 8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m. Music Café Maya Beiser, dubbed the “cello goddess” by The New Yorker, creates radical works for her instrument, reimagining its boundaries. Celebrating the release of her latest album, Time Loops, a collaboration with composer Michael Harrison, Maya will perform “Just Ancient Loops,” the epic and meditative centerpiece of the album, with a film created by Bill Morrison. Also on the program is music by David Lang with a film by Irit Batsry. This performance is presented by Sundance Institute Film Music Program. Follow us on Twitter @sundancefestnow or check out the website for more exciting details. This event is open to all credential holders. No tickets are required.

MUSIC AT THE FESTIVAL

Music Showcase: BMI Snowball

Maya Beiser: Time Loops

SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

What goes into creating a successful film score? What makes for an effective director–composer relationship? We partner filmmakers and the composers they work with to answer these and other questions in this inspired roundtable discussion moderated by Doreen Ringer Ross, BMI vice president of film/TV relations. Panelists include Abel Korzeniowski (composer) and Randy Moore (director) of Escape from Tomorrow; Dustin O’Halloran (composer) and Drake Doremus (director) of Breathe In; Miriam Cutler (composer) and Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster (directors) of American Promise; Ilan Eshkeri (composer) and Jerusha Hess (director) of Austenland; Ludwig Goransson (composer) and Ryan Coogler (director) of Fruitvale; Craig Wedren (composer) and Jill Soloway (director) of Afternoon Delight; Mark De Gli Antoni (composer) and Roger Ross Williams (director) of God Loves Uganda; Gary Lionelli (composer) and Robert Stone (director) of Pandora’s Promise; Marco d’Ambrosio (composer) and Jacob Kornbluth (director) of Inequity for All; Rob Simonsen (composer) and James Ponsoldt (director) of The Spectacular Now; and Mark Isham (composer lab advisor), Blake Neely (composer lab advisor), and Peter Golub (composer and director of Sundance Composers Lab). This event is open to all Festival credential holders and the general public as space permits.

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Whitney Chaney Manager, Volunteer Program

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Deborah Asiimwe Specialist, Theatre Program—East Africa Joseph Beyer Director, Digital Initiatives Karen Bono Manager, Human Resources—Utah Office Toby Brooks Assistant to Director, Sundance Film Festival; Coordinator, Public Programming Heidi Bruce Manager, Ticketing Operations Jessica Buzzard Director, Marketing John Cardellino Labs and Artist Support Coordinator, Documentary Film Program

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Gus Curletto Coordinator, Helpdesk Laurent Dahan Receptionist Tanya De Angelis Archivist Casey De La Rosa Assistant Director, Media Relations Ignacia Delgado Manager, Theatre Program Robert Dick Associate Director, Corporate Development Evan Dillon Associate Director, Web and Database Development Andrew Eastwick Grants Manager Sarah Eaton Director, Media Relations

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Emily Eichhorn-Nye Membership Coordinator

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Paul Federbush International Director, Feature Film Program

Rebecca Green Manager, Creative Producing Initiatives

Todd Croak-Falen Receptionist

Kristin Feeley Labs and Artist Support Director, Documentary Film Program

Elizabeth Greenway Director, Foundation and Government Giving

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institute staff Trevor Groth Director of Programming, Sundance Film Festival

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Ligita Henry Assistant Controller

June Kim Assistant, Film Forward

Christopher Hibma Producing Director, Theatre Program

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Philip Himberg Artistic Director, Theatre Program

Anne Lai Creative Producing Initiatives Director, Feature Film Program

Laurie Hopkins Comanaging Director, Administration Chris Horton Associate Director, #ArtistServices Paul Howiler Development Analyst Jared Hurst Web Specialist Karyn Jacobsen Senior Graphic Designer

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Jacqueline Landry Senior Manager, Theatre Operations Missy Laney Assistant, #ArtistServices Leah Langan Executive Assistant, Managing Director’s Office Elizabeth Latenser Manager, Media Relations Meredith Lavitt Director, Film Forward Initiative Ashley Lent Alumni Relations

Laura Leonard Manager, Labs Caroline Libresco Senior Programmer, Sundance Film Festival Christina Martin Manager, Corporate Development Brooke McAffee Chief Financial Officer

Elizabeth O’Malley Assistant to Director, External Relations; Coordinator, Individual Giving Sarah Pearce Comanaging Director, Operations, Utah Community Relations Nate Pennington Coordinator, Helpdesk

Josie McGuinn Events Manager, Sundance Film Festival

Richard Ray Perez Producer, Creative Partnerships, Documentary Film Program

Ilyse McKimmie Labs Director, Feature Film Program

Linda Pfafflin Associate Director, Ticketing and Customer Service

Cara Mertes Director, Documentary Film Program

Mike Plante Programmer, Short Film

Hajnal Molnar-Szakacs Film Fund Coordinator, Documentary Film Program Adam Montgomery Senior Manager, Programming Department Sara Mouser Membership Coordinator John Nein Senior Programmer, Sundance Film Festival Oli Olafsson Database Analyst

Max Posner Assistant, Theatre Program Jamie Powell Senior Manager, Individual Giving Keri Putnam Executive Director Charlie Reff Programmer, Sundance Film Festival Eva Rinaldi Associate Director, Lab Operations Velissa Robinson Film Fund Coordinator, Documentary Film Program

Jarom Rowland Manager, Film Music Program

Jordan Stein Receptionist

Jackie Rucker Manager, Human Resourcesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Los Angeles Office

John Stevenson Senior Manager, Production

Lauren Sadowski Manager, External Relations Michelle Satter Director, Feature Film Program Emel Shaikh Coordinator, Media Relations Jean Shin Coordinator, Documentary Film Program

Jason Storbeck Coordinator, Corporate Development Matthew Takata Manager, Feature Film Program International Rahdi Taylor Film Fund Director, Documentary Film Program Morgan Vidakovich Assistant Director, Marketing Nate von Zumwalt Editorial Coordinator

Justin Simmons Associate Director, Systems and Network Administration

Sarah West Director, Utah Community Development

Kamal Sinclair Senior Manager, New Frontier Story Lab

Rosie Wong Senior Manager, Sundance Industry Office

Shannon Singer Receptionist

Kim Yutani Programmer, Sundance Film Festival

Jenny Song Senior Manager, Corporate Development

Royale Ziegler Social Media Manager

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David Sabour Manager, Ticketing Systems

Brad Stewart Web and Database Developer

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festival staff Josephine Agricola Ticket Agent, Salt Lake City Box Office

Sonja Blume Assistant Coordinator, Press Office

Jessie Cohen Publicist, New Frontier and NEXT

Nicki Doyamis Coordinator, Corporate Development Accounts

Julia Avery-Shapiro Regional Manager, Theatres

Jenna Bonenfant Coordinator, Publicity Materials

Steve Coleman Assistant, Production

Natalie Eakin Ticket Agent, Call Center and Park City Box Office

Bruce Bakker Assistant Coordinator, Salt Lake City and Ogden Theatre Box Offices Adam Ball Assistant, Ticketing Systems and Credentials

Shaun Boyd Coordinator, Merchandise Warehouse

Amanda Baltzley Coordinator, Environmental Graphics and Signage Production

Whitney Brinton Assistant, Production

Barbara Bannon Senior Editor, Special Projects Rob Barbieri Coordinator, Network Logistics Jen Barnett Coordinator, Events Jay Bascom Coordinator, Publicity Materials Jillian Bath Ticket Agent, Call Center and Park City Box Office

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Katie Bormaster Coordinator, Alumni Relations

Burchie Benton Associate Manager, Production Vendors Sara Beresford Assistant, Internal Ticketing Jason Berger Publicist, Spotlight and Midnight Al Bialick Manager, Headquarters April Bindock Coordinator, Tech Services Logistics Danese Blackwell Ticket Agent, Salt Lake City Box Office

Christina Bryant Assistant, Pass and Package Sales Matt Burke Coordinator, Events Chalena Cadenas Publicist, Premieres Kellie Call Associate Manager, Festival Co-op Matthew Campbell Manager, Publications Production Sean Campe Assistant, Production Fabian Castillo Ticket Agent, Salt Lake City Box Office Ruzelle Castillo Coordinator, Headquarters Nasheda Caudle Ticket Agent, Park City Box Office Raquel Chapa Ticket Agent, Park City Box Office Peggy Chastain Ticket Agent, Call Center Rachel Cheney Ticket Agent, Salt Lake City Box Office Chelsea Christensen Coordinator, Headquarters Store

Morgan Collins Ticket Agent, Call Center and Park City Box Office Sommer Connaughton Ticket Agent, Salt Lake City Box Office Michael Conner Coordinator, MARC Store Aly Constine Ticket Agent, Park City Box Office Ashley Cope Assistant, Human Resources Francis Cordero Associate Manager, Filmmaker Lodge Glee Corsetti Regional Manager, Theatres Courtney Cox Coordinator, Film Office: Jury Joe Crnich Ticket Agent, Call Center and Park City Box Office Terra Cronshey Coordinator, Accounting Delilah Dasilva Assistant, Internal Ticketing Jackie Dearborn Assistant, Credentials Michelle Devereaux Editor Kayce Dewey Assistant Coordinator, Park City Box Office Rachael Dimmock Assistant Coordinator, Pass and Package Sales Siobhan Doheny Coordinator, Print and Digital Production

Becky Eisinger Associate Manager, Volunteer Training and Communication Brook Elison Ticket Agent, Call Center and Salt Lake City Box Office Kristopher Everts Ticket Agent, Park City Box Office Buddy Eyre Assistant Coordinator, Park City Box Office Katie Felten Assistant Coordinator, Park City Box Office Tommy Fitzgerald Receptionist Beth Follmer Coordinator, Development Events Pam Ford Ticket Agent, Call Center and Park City Box Office Kylie Fraser Coordinator, Film Office: International Shorts Kim Froscheiser Ticket Agent, Salt Lake City Box Office Vania Fuentes Associate Manager, Main Street Store Charde Fuller Coordinator, Graphic Design Elizabeth Gilliland Ticket Agent, Call Center and Park City Box Office Gina Gioiello Associate Manager, Customer Service

Kimberly Klabel Assistant Coordinator, Salt Lake City Box Office

Max Gonzales Assistant Coordinator, Salt Lake City Box Office

Alya Hopkins Ticket Agent, Salt Lake City Box Office

Amy Kovacs Ticket Agent, Call Center and Salt Lake City Box Office

Megan Gorman Coordinator, Film Office: U.S. Shorts

Gillian Horvat Film Screener

Josie Kovash Coordinator, Logistics

Katie Ichtertz Coordinator, Film Office: U.S. Dramatic Competition

Jessica Landolfo Coordinator, Film Office: Spotlight

James Gottfredson Ticket Agent, Park City Box Office Tiffany Grayson Editor

Gayathri Iyer Assistant, Internal Ticketing

Judd Greener Assistant, Internal Ticketing

Jenny Jacobi Manager, Sundance House

Mary Grimes Associate Manager, Theatre Box Offices

Elliott Jarman Assistant, Production

Jason Gutierrez Coordinator, Film Office: World Dramatic Competition and New Frontier Features Nell Gwynn Manager, Merchandise Nasrene Haj-Yehia Ticket Agent, Park City Box Office Frances Hall Associate Manager, Information Booths and Festival Insiders

Yvonne Jimenez Coordinator, Helpdesk Emily Johnson Coordinator, Events Kaylyn Johnson Associate Manager, Salt Lake City Box Office Kerri Johnson Assistant Coordinator, Press Information Travicia Jordan Assistant Coordinator, Customer Service

Christina Halverson Assistant Coordinator, Theatre Volunteers

Annastasia Kaessner Ticket Agent, Park City Box Office

Rebecca Hanks Assistant Coordinator, Salt Lake City Box Office

Kevin Kane Manager, Technical Production

Kimball Hansen Coordinator, Eccles Theatre Store

Matthew Katte Coordinator, Customer Service

Kevin Harman Assistant Coordinator, Logistics Andy Hecht Associate Manager, Warehouse

Jackie Katz Assistant, Internal Ticketing Sayf Khidir Manager, Publications Design Max Kibrick Coordinator, Merchandise Warehouse

Heather Lashaway Ticket Agent, Call Center and Park City Box Office Rudy Lehfeldt-Ehlinger Coordinator, Ticketing Systems Kerith Lemon Publicist, U.S. Documentary and Dramatic Competition Kara Leslie Assistant Coordinator, Theatre Volunteers Kelsey Lew Ticket Agent, Park City Box Office Eric Lindeman Coordinator, Works Crew Angela Long Coordinator, Media Production Office Jennifer Lowe Associate Manager, Credentials Peter Lowe Coordinator, Theatre Operations

Samantha Marier Assistant, Customer Service Scott Marshall Regional Manager, Theatres Natalie Martens Coordinator, Film Office: U.S. Documentary Competition Mandy McBroom Assistant, Internal Ticketing Sean McCoy Associate Manager, Internal Ticketing Mike McCrann Assistant, Production J. T. McCreary Coordinator, Festival Operations Megan Meier Coordinator, Events Administration Sian Melton Regional Manager, Theatres Jordan Menashe Coordinator, Volunteers Ticketing and Offices Jacqueline Miller Associate Manager, Films Database Laura Molinari Publicist, World Cinema Documentary and Dramatic Competition

Kristin Lyles Receptionist

James Montoya Ticket Agent, Salt Lake City Box Office

Megan Lynch Coordinator, Graphic Design

Grace Mosqueda Associate Manager, Festival Volunteers

Victoria Lyon Ticket Agent, Call Center and Park City Box Office

Adi Navon Assistant Coordinator, Credentials

Bonnie MacKay Coordinator, Music CafĂŠ

Andrew Nealon Assistant, Production

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Samantha Herndon Coordinator, Internal Ticketing

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festival staff Melinda Nebeker Coordinator, Community and Student Programs

Jenny Perkins Ticket Agent, Call Center

Matt Ross Assistant Coordinator, Ticketing Systems

Sophie Ngeth Coordinator, Corporate Development Administration

Aaron Peterson Coordinator, Vehicles

Kate Roughan Festival Panels Producer

Julianne Peterson Ticket Agent, Park City Box Office

Chelsea Rowe Coordinator, Film Office: Midnight and NEXT

Vera Petukhova Ticket Agent, Park City Box Office

Chelsea Rugg Assistant, Student and Community Programs

Berenice Odriozola Assistant, Customer Service

Chealy Phoung Ticket Agent, Park City Box Office

Mary Ann Ryan Ticket Agent, Salt Lake City Box Office

Jac Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Grady Coordinator, Sundance Industry Office

Chhouk Phoung Ticket Agent, Park City Box Office

Zach Sadoff Assistant, Production

Cory Oldweiler Assistant Coordinator, Park City Box Office

Adam Piron Assistant, Native American and Indigenous Program

Veronica Sanchez Ticket Agent, Salt Lake City Box Office

Kenny Noble Associate Manager, Transportation Hannah Nydam Ticket Agent, Salt Lake City Box Office

Lindsay Olson Ticket Agent, Park City Box Office Lee Osborne Coordinator, Helpdesk Matt Ostasiewski Coordinator, Production

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Ari Papanikolas Coordinator, Foundations and Government Giving Steve Parkinson Assistant, Production

Meredith Potter Manager, Logistics and Safety Kathleen Purkiss Ticket Agent, Park City Box Office Matt Reid Assistant, Pass and Package Sales Zoe Reiniger Assistant Coordinator, Sundance Industry Office Regina Riccitelli Coordinator, Volunteers Venues and Labor

Emily Pasterchick Ticket Agent, Salt Lake City Box Office

Kiran Rishi Ticket Agent, Call Center and Park City Box Office

Michelle Patrick Associate Manager, Park City Box Office

Lindsey Robinson Associate Manager, Publicity

Meredith Peltier Coordinator, Sundance Resort Main Box Office

Catherine Rolling Ticket Agent, Park City Box Office

James Sawaya Coordinator, Pass and Package Sales Jesse Schaefer Manager, Production Services Kate Schlauch Associate Manager, Pass and Package Sales Neha Shah Associate Manager, The Shop Venue and Events Sudeep Sharma Associate Programmer, Documentary Eric Sherman Coordinator, Media Accreditation Sara Shives Manager, New Frontier Sarah Simonds Associate Manager, Theatre Operations Hadley Smith Ticket Agent, Salt Lake City Box Office

Mickell Smith Assistant Coordinator, Artist at the Table Administration Bryan Sommer Ticket Agent, Salt Lake City Box Office Jennifer Sommers Coordinator, Corporate Development Accounts Jenny Stamenson Associate Manager, Events Ryan Stoker Ticket Agent, Park City Box Office Susan Szotyori Publicist, Shorts Heather Taekman Coordinator, Artist at the Table Event Mark Tauscher Assistant, Production Joe Taylor Coordinator, Transportation Brian Thayer Coordinator, Film Office: Panels and Collection Sarah Thompson Ticket Agent, Sundance Resort Box Office Christina Tinucci Assistant, Merchandise Warehouse Marietta Torriente Coordinator, Development Lisa Trifone Associate Manager, Press Office Holly Tuckett Ticket Agent, Call Center Betty Tweedy Assistant Coordinator, Park City Theatre Box Offices

Michael Volk Coordinator, Accommodations Maryann Wang Coordinator, Marketing Production Sarah Warburg Manager, Accommodations Vanessa Wardy Associate Manager, Film Office Rachel Weaver Ticket Agent, Salt Lake City Box Office Mara Webster Coordinator, Film Office: Premieres Elise West Coordinator, Gateway Store Sarah Williams Coordinator, Corporate Development Logistics and Venues Joshua Wilmott Assistant Coordinator, Events and Beverage Logistics Kirby Yardley Web Coordinator Landon Zakheim Coordinator, Programming and Shorts Programmer Heidi Zwicker Coordinator, World Cinema and Programming Associate

CONTRACTORS

Tasha Curtis Intern, New Frontier

Justine Barda Programming Associate, International Narrative Features

Charles Crane Intern, Programming

Travis Dunlap Intern, Feature Film Program Ghazaleh Gol Bakhsh Intern, Documentary Film Program Priscilla Gonzalez Intern, Feature Film Program International

Matthew Antaky Scenic and Lighting Designer

Michael Bodie Video Producer Kathleen Broyles Operations and Casting Services Bruni Burres Senior Consultant, Documentary Film Program

Carlos Hatcher Intern, Programming

Ian Calderon Senior Advisor, Digital Initiatives

Jeremy Hersh Intern, Theatre program

Rachel Chanoff Feature Film Program Consultant

Ayo Kepher-Maat Intern, Executive Directorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office

Matt Cornell Programming Associate, U.S. Narrative Features

Jennifer Koreny Intern, Documentary Film Program

Christine Davila Programming Associate, International Narrative Features

Marian Mathias Intern, Feature Film Programâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; International Paola Mottura Intern, Documentary Film Program William Seidman Intern, Feature Film Program Hannah Skolnick Intern, Graphic Design Katie Wright Intern, Programming

Emily Doe Programmer, Short Films Sam Dunn Film Screener and Technical Services Michael Fodera Photo Editor Ernesto Foronda Programmer, Short Films Brian Gordon Programming Associate, U.S. Documentary Features Sarah Harris Programming Associate, U.S. Narrative Features

Fred Hayes Photographer Jonathan Hickerson Photographer Eric Hynes Writer Ryan Johnson Photographer Laura Kim Marketing and Distribution Consultant Jeremy Kinser Writer Calvin Knight Photographer Jon Korn Programmer, Short Films Wendy Levy Senior Consultant, Documentary Film Program and Fund Andrew Lush Video Motion Graphics Designer Heath Markovetz Security Contractor Tracy McKnight Consultant, Film Music Program Katie Metcalfe Programmer, Short Films Jill Miller Film Forward Initiative Consultant Ian Momsen Assistant Photo Editor Jay Nolan Photographer Lisa Ogdie Programmer, Short Films Lisa Osborne New Frontier Programming Consultant

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE AND FILM FESTIVAL STAFF

Chris Van-Oijen Assistant, Production

INTERNS

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Jordi Valdes Coordinator, Film Office: World Documentary Competition and Documentary Premieres

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festival staff Chad Owen Print Shipping Consultant Anne Peters Consultant, Merchandising Program Andrew Peterson Film Screener Tiffany Roohani Photographer Gail Silva Programming Associate, International Documentary Features Stephen Speckman Photographer Rebecca Sterling Ticket Agent, Salt Lake City Box Office David Tompkins Awards Night Stage Manager Basil Tsiokos Programming Associate, U.S. Documentary Features Lisa Viola Programming Associate, U.S. Documentary Features Carla Woodmansee Ogden Theatre and Box Office Operational Consultant

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April Wright Programming Associate, U.S. Narrative Features

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SCREENERS, CONSULTANTS, AND VENDORS

FILM SCREENERS

Alessandro Ago Dana Archip Brittany Ballard Chris Boeckmann Tom Brueggemann Charles Crane Laurent Dahan Samuel Dunn Alonso Duralde Kimberlee Granholm Gillian Horvat D. Owl Johnson Adam Montgomery Roya Rastegar Theresa Schwartzman Paul Sturtz Roxy Toporowych Guinevere Turner Harrison Vaughn Kelly Williams

PROJECTION AND REVISION Hilltop Productions Bill Hill Manager Keith Arnold Greg Babush Frank Baird Bob Battley Al Celich Joaquin de la Puente James Faller Carolyn Funk John Gajda Andrei Gravelle Peter Halter Rob Holibaugh Mark Irwin Adrianne Jorge Yorgo Karakostas Kahlil Karn Herb Kelley Damian Lopez-Gaston Keith Madden Omar Mansour Brianne Merkel Michelle Puetz John Quackenbush Joel Rice Shane Richins William C. Taggart Katie Trainor Scott Woodruff

TECHNICAL CREW

Boston Light & Sound Chapin Cutler Technical Director DJ Babb Mike Babb Dan Beedy Leah Boelman Erik “Viking” Cooper Wendy Gesler Bill Gillette Carolyn Kaylor Clyde McKinney Greg Nuismer Vincent Pagliaro Charles Phillips Brady Richards Michael Rome Chris Romilly Jon Sharpe Jeffrey Thompson Rocky Mountain Speaker Greg Nuismer Dolby Laboratories, Inc. Dave Berti Tom “Coach” Elhe Kurt Macfarlane Ron Surbuts

TRANSPORTATION Brian Cambria

NEW FRONTIER

Jamie McMurry Producer and Designer Matt McLane Production Manager Richard Quezada Technical Manager

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

3rd St. R&D Production Services Greg Carttar Char Harner

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Oasis Stage Werks Gary “Frog” Justesen Justin Mora

IN-THEATRE BUMPER MUSIC Aaron Arntz Thomas Broderick

FILM EDITORS

Jonathan Fletcher Alexander O’Flinn

FEATURE FILM COMPETITION DINNER Chef Susan Feniger

AWARDS CEREMONY

Mathew Antaky Andrew Lush Jared Porter Ben Rabner Dave Tomkins Basin Recreation Field House

ONLINE CONTENT AND PRODUCTION Cat Deakins Alex DeMille Michael Mohan Will Roegge Vanessa Rojas

SPECIAL THANKS

350 Main Allied Waste ALSCO Ampco System Parking Automated Business Products Back Beats Barricade Services Barrymore Wines Beezwax Eyde Belasco Bilco Safes Blue Iguana Blue State Digital Cache Valley Electric Café Terigo Calls Design CDW Centennial Management Group Colin Chambers Chesley Electric Closed System CORT Event Furnishings Coyote Road Curb It Recycling Dangerbird Records Davis Audio Visual Diamond Rental The Downstairs Enterprise Car Rental Fischer Productions Lori Francoise Fresh Market Fusion Imaging Linda Galindo Good Karma Grub Steak Restaurant High West Distillery Inside Park City and Monique Abbott Java Cow Café & Bakery Legacy Lodge (PCMR) Leger’s Sandwiches

Lewis Stages Tracy McKnight Meld Design and Gary Vlasic Modern Display Mustang Nature’s Wraps Park Audio Park City Mountain Resort Park City Roasters Peak Alarm Performance Audio Pierpont Place Poll Sound Pratt Sound Prudential Utah Real Estate PSAV Royal Restrooms Samak Smoke House & Country Store Spectrum Press Eric Stoddard Tea Forte Titan Technology Group Top Shelf Bar Services UDABC UDOT Utah Barricade Visual Elements VLCM Water Specialties Webb AV Wintzer Wolfe Properties Withoutabox Worldwide TicketCraft Xomo Your Handyman

SCREENERS, CONSULTANTS, AND VENDORS

Justine Barda Matthew Cornell Christine Davila Sarah Harris Brian Gordon Gail Silva Basil Tsiokos Lisa Viola April Wright

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VOLUNTEERS Gayle Stevens Volunteer Award

Names in bold indicate 10 years or more of volunteer service. An asterisk (*) indicates 20 years or more.

The recipient is also recognized with a special credential allowing express access to films and is listed in the catalog the year following receipt of the award.

Justin Abbott Julie-Anne Abubo Amy Elizabeth Adams Melissa Addaway Bethany Addington Jennie-Marie Adler Elizabeth Aghajanian Andrea Aguero Jeffery Aguirre* Dagne Aiken Quinton Aiken Michael Akers Oyebola Akinmulero Carlos Alarco Jill Albano Sarah Albano Iris Albert Miriam Albert Sobrino Sonia Albert Sobrino Cindy Albrecht Joshua Albrechtsen Kevin Albrechtsen Yvette Albrechtsen Matt Alexander Audrey Allen Geoff Allen Joshua Allen Julia Allen Maria Allgood Michael Allgood Ashton Allison Randy Allmon Maria Allocco Wendy Allred Alfonso Alvarez Byron Alvarez Jeff Alvari Morgan Alvari Kathie Amann Lauren Andersen Amanda Anderson Chris Anderson Erlinda Anderson Kathy Anderson Tami Anderson Hector Andrade Dee Andrews Mary Beth Andrews Anthony Angelo Charissa Anne Shirley April Jane Archer

This award is given annually to a volunteer who has demonstrated a long-standing passion for and commitment to the work of Sundance Institute. The recipient is announced at a volunteer screening on Day One of the Festival.

Gayle Stevens

Gayle Stevens was a dedicated volunteer and passionate support of Sundance Institute. As an active Utah Advisory Board member for more than 18 years and chair for four years, Gayle’s leadership and enthusiasm generated many successes for the Institute. She played an active role in shaping the organization’s involvement in the Utah community and loved visiting the summer artist labs and attending the Sundance Film Festival. Gayle’s passion for the arts and her remarkable spirit live on in the work of the Institute.

SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL FESTIVAL VOLUNTEERS

2012 Gayle Stevens Volunteer Award Winner: Kelly Rusk

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For more than 10 years, Kelly Rusk has been a compassionate and dedicated volunteer for the Institute. Beginning her volunteer career in the Sundance Film Festival box office, Kelly has served as a theatre manager at both the Yarrow Theatre and, most recently, the Holiday Village Cinemas. Her service extends far beyond her outstanding work at the Festival; she has been on the Volunteer Council for three years and has helped the continuing growth and success of the volunteer program through her valuable insight and suggestions. Kelly always keeps things moving along with that signature smile on her face at the Holiday Village Cinemas. Those who have had the pleasure to work with her appreciate her focus as theatre manager and the professionalism she brings to the table. She serves as a great role model for both new and alumni volunteers and embodies the true spirit of what it means to be a Festival volunteer. The Sundance Film Festival is grateful to Kelly Rusk for her continued service and passion for its mission. Previous Gayle Stevens Volunteer Award winners are Jeff Aguirre (2011), Cindy Lund (2010), and Debbie Read (2009).

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Sundance Institute is pleased to thank the supporters of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival for their generosity, vision, and support for the independent film community.

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of directors and artists

Aites, Aaron Akomfrah, John Akram, Barmak Albiston, Mark Almereyda, Michael Alvarez, Kyle Patrick Andalman, David Arriaga, Guillermo Atlas, Jesse Bachelier, Heike Barker, Greg Barrett, Simon Batmanglij, Zal Bell, Lake Belo, Mahalia Berger, Robert Bizri, Hisham Bodomo, Frances Bond, Fredrik Borcuch, Jacek Boulifa, Fyzal Brewster, Joe Bujalski, Andrew Burshtein, Rama Cady, Anna Camalier, Greg “Freddy” Campion, Jane Candler, Kat Carruth, Shane Chazelle, Damien Chiurai, Kudzanai Coogler, Ryan Cowperthwaite, Gabriela Cunningham, Marta Cutler, R. J. Dabis, Cherien Danluck, Meredith DaSilva, Jason Davis, Garth Deal, Carl De Jong, Sam Delgado-Aparicio, Alvaro Delisle, François De Swaef, Emma Diritti, Giorgio Donoghue, Tony Doremus, Drake Dosunmu, Andrew Dukic, Goran Dupieux, Quentin Echternkamp, G. J Edgerton, Nash Eisener, Jason Ellis, Sean Ellwood, Alison Epstein, Rob Erixon, Malin Evans, Gareth Huw Everson, Kevin Jerome Ewell, Audrey Ewert, Anna Frances

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Faxon, Nat Fidell, Hannah Fine, Andrea Nix Fine, Sean Finton, Greg Foner, Naomi Fontaine, Anne Franco, James Friedman, Jeffrey Garai, Romola Garant, Robert Ben Garcia, Liz W. Gibney, Alex Gillis, Spencer Golubovic, Srdan Gordon-Levitt, Joseph Goyette, Sophie Granit, Tal Gray, Dylan Mohan Green, David Gordon Gregorini, Francesca Grohl, Dave Günther, Bastian Gurchiani, Tinatin Gutnick, Aric Hale, Gregg Hartigan, Chad Heathcote, Andy Heinzerling, Zachary Herpich, Tom Hess, Jerusha Hittman, Eliza Hoesl, Daniel Hofmann, Sebastian Hoover, Steve Hurst, Jon Jacquet, Yannick Jake, Yung Johnston, Aaron Douglas Joseph, Kahlil Junger, Sebastian Kashyap, Anurag Kehrwald, Kyle Kim, Song E. Kim, Tae-yong King, Shaka Klip Collective Kopple, Barbara Kornbluth, Jacob Krokidas, John Krstic, Nina Kurtz, Nadav Larraín, Pablo Leeman, Peter Lemercier, Joanie Lennon, Thomas Leong, Evan Jackson Lerner, Mike Lessin, Tia Lewis, Ben Leyva, Lucas

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Linklater, Richard Longinotto, Kim Lovering, Jeremy Lowery, David Lozano-Hemmer, Rafael Machoian, Robert Malmqvist, Jenifer Mam, Kalyanee Mandril, Mandviwalla, Zia Mars, Chris Martin, Abby Mathews, Travis Mayer, Jillian Mayeri, Rachel Maymon, Sharon Maysles, Albert McNicol, Ewan Michelson, Karlyn Mickle, Jim Miller, Logan Miller, Noah Mock, Freida Moore, Randy Moors, Alexandre Moreh, Dror Morgan, Michelle Nelson, Chris Neville, Morgan Nichols, Jeff Nosheen, Habiba Noujaim, Jehane O, Muel Oksman, Sergio Park Chan-Wook Passon, Stacie Pavlátová, Michaela Pelosi, Alexandra Polish, Michael Polley, Sarah Ponsoldt, James Porter, Dawn Porterfield, Matthew Pott, Julia Pozdorovkin, Maxim Rash, Jim Read, Lucian Reeder, Calvin Lee Renzi, Andrew F. Rodriguez, Robert Roels, Marc James Rowley, Richard Ryan, Nick Sanchez, Edúardo Sandilands, Anna Schellmann, Hilke Scherson, Alicia Schroeder, Tom Schwarz, Shaul Shane, Martha Shaw, Dash

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Shelton, Lynn Shirvani, Mohammad Silva, Sebastián Silver, Marc Simon, Doree Soloway, Jill Sousa, Daniel Spiro, Jordana Spurlock, Morgan Stearns, Riley Stephenson, Michèle Stern, Joshua Michael Stone, Robert Surya, Mouly Susser, Spencer Sutherland, Louis Tan, Yen Tavares, Kibwe Teague, Katie Tillman Jr, George Tjahjanto, Timo Toivoniemi, Jenni Tsangari, Athina Rachel Tyburski, Michael Vaquié, Thomas Vogt-Roberts, Jordan Voros, Christina Walker, Lucy Wallworth, Lynette Ward, Pendleton Weber, Eva Wheatley, Ben Williams, Roger Ross Willis, Jason Wilson, Lana Wingard, Adam Winterbottom, Michael Wolkstein, Lauren Yuryev, Philipp Zariczny, Grzegorz Zhao Qi Zicherman, Stuart Zuchero, Andrew

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#PostModem 30% (Women and Politics in Sierra Leone) 99%—The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film A.C.O.D. Afternoon Delight After Tiller Ain’t Them Bodies Saints American Promise ANITA Apocalypse, The Ass Backwards Austenland Battle of amfAR, The Before Midnight Benjamin’s Flowers Big Sur Bite of the Tail Blackfish Black Metal Blood Brother Blue Caprice Boneshaker Breathe In Broken Night Capsule, The Captain, The Catnip: Egress to Oblivion? Century Charlie Victor Romeo Circles Citizen Koch Cityscape 2095 C.O.G. Companion, The Computer Chess Concussion CORAL: Rekindling Venus Crash Reel, The Crystal Fairy Cub, The Curse, The Cutie and the Boxer Datamosh Date, The Dirty Wars Don Jon’s Addiction East, The Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes E.m-bed.de/d and Augmented Real Endless Day Escape from Tomorrow Event, The Eyjafjallajokull Fallen City Fall to Grace Fat Shaker Feral

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Fill the Void Fire in the Blood Fruitvale FUTURO, IL (THE FUTURE) Futur Proche, Le Gangs of Wasseypur Gatekeepers, The Gideon’s Army God Loves Uganda Google and the World Brain GUN Halley Hell Baby History of the Eagles Part One Houston In a World… Inequality for All Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, The In Fear In Hanford Interior. Leather Bar. Irish Folk Furniture It Felt Like Love I Used to Be Darker Iyeza Jiseul jOBS Jonah Karaoke! Kill Your Darlings kink K.I.T. Lasting Life According to Sam Lifeguard, The Linsanity Look of Love, The Lovelace Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear, The Magic Magic Magnesium MANHUNT Marcel, King of Tervuren Mariachi, El May in the Summer Meteor, The Metro Manila Milkshake Moo Man, The Mother of George Movies Made from Home #6 Movies Made from Home #15 Mud Muscle Shoals Narco Cultura Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman, The Newlyweeds

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Night Shift No North of South, West of East Oh Willy... On Suffocation Outlawed in Pakistan Palimpsest Pandora’s Promise Paraíso Pit Stop Primate Cinema: Apes as Family Prince Avalanche Pulse Index Pussy Riot—A Punk Prayer Rambler, The Record/Play Reindeer River Changes Course, A Roper, The Running from Crazy Salma Scrubber Secret of Trees, The Seraph Shopping Sightseers Sirocco Skin Skinningrove Social Butterfly Soldate Jeannette Song of the Mechanical Fish, The Sound City Spectacular Now, The Square (Al Midan), The Stoker Stories We Tell Story for the Modlins, A Stuart Hall Project, The Summer Vacation Summit, The S-VHS Sweetwater Teacher, A Thank You There Will Come a Day This Is Martin Bonner Today and Tomorrow Top of the Lake Touchy Feely Toy’s House Tram Twenty Feet from Stardom Two Mothers Until the Quiet Comes Upstream Color Valentine Road Very Good Girls Virtually Heroes Volume Wajma (An Afghan Love Story)

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158 Way, Way Back, The 200 We Are What We Are We Steal Secrets: 168 The Story of WikiLeaks What Do We Have in Our Pockets? 187 207 What’s He Building in There? What They Don’t Talk About 126 When They Talk About Love When I Walk 169 When the Zombies Come 219 Which Way Is The Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington 170 Whiplash 221 Whistle, The 219 Who Is Dayani Cristal? 139 World According to Dick Cheney, The 171 Wrong Cops 214 You Are More Than Beautiful 224 You Don’t Know Jack 102

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