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Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2014 Short Film Selections

A Portrait of Marina Abramović / U.S.A. (Director: Matthu Placek)

Sundance Film Festival unveiled the short films selected for the 2014 festival taking place January 16 to 26 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The 2014 Short Film program is comprised of 66 short films selected from a record 8,161 submissions (59 more than for the 2013 Festival). Trevor Groth, Director of Programming for the Sundance Film Festival, said, “The Short Film program for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival features an astonishing array of new stories, viewpoints and filmmaking talent, positioning it at the core of our work to discover and share independent perspectives on our culture and world.”

2014 Sundance Film Festival Announce Out-of-Competition Films Selected to Premiere; incl. William H. Macy RUDDERLESS

RUDDERLESS directed by William H. Macy

Sundance Film Festival revealed the films in the out-of-competition Premieres and Documentary Premieres sections of the festival taking place January 16 to 26, 2014, in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. Films include RUDDERLESS directed by William H. Macy and selected as the Closing Night film. RUDDERLESS features a star studded cast including Billy Crudup, Anton Yelchin, Felicity Huffman, Selena Gomez, Laurence Fishburne, and William H. Macy , and is about when a grieving father in a downward spiral stumbles upon a box of his deceased son’s original music, he forms a rock ‘n’ roll band, which changes his life.

Documentary-Musical About Indie Transgender Singer Rae Spoon to U.S. Premiere at 2014 Sundance Film Festival | WATCH Clips

MY PRAIRIE HOME, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentary-musical about indie singer Rae Spoon, directed by Chelsea McMullan, will have its U.S. premiere in January 2014, at the Sundance Film Festival, as part of the festival’s World Cinema Documentary Competition.

Films and Installations Selected for New Frontier at 2014 Sundance Film Festival

The Source (evolving) by artist Doug Aitken

The Sundance Film Festival unveiled the films and installations to be featured in the 2014 edition of New Frontier at the upcoming festival taking place January 16 to 26 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. New Frontier champions films that expand, experiment with, and explode traditional storytelling. The 2014 edition of New Frontier at the Sundance Film Festival will host the U.S. premiere of The Source (evolving) by renowned artist Doug Aitken. The Source (evolving) is a series of filmed conversations about creativity in the 21st Century in which Aitken conducts short candid conversations with groundbreaking pioneers in different artistic disciplines. The Festival will also include a Klip Collectives designed showcase of the Festival’s 30-year legacy as told through a pre-roll trailer showing 3D-mapped projections of clips from iconic Festival films on the façade of Park City’s legendary Egyptian Theatre. Featured film clips include Reservoir Dogs, Clerks, Little Miss Sunshine and Beasts of the Southern Wild.

New “Sundance Kids” Section Added to 2014 Sundance Film Festival

ERNEST AND CELESTINE (Directors: Benjamin Renner, Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar)

The Sundance Film Festival has added a new section for younger audiences called “Sundance Kids” to the 2014 festival. The inaugural “Sundance Kids” section features the World Premiere of the English-language version of the acclaimed ERNEST AND CELESTINE (Directors: Benjamin Renner, Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar) and the U.S. Premiere of ZIP & ZAP AND THE MARBLE GANG (Director: Oskar Santos), and will be part of the 2014 Festival, running from January 16-26 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.

2014 Sundance Film Festival Unveils Films in Spotlight, Park City at Midnight and New ‘Sundance Kids’ Section

Blue Ruin / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Jeremy Saulnier)

Sundance Film Festival announced the films selected to screen in the out-of-competition sections Spotlight, Park City at Midnight and new ‘Sundance Kids’ section of films for younger audiences at the upcoming 2014 festival. The Festival takes place January 16-26 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.

Trevor Groth, Director of Programming for the Sundance Film Festival, said, “The films in the sections announced today round out our 2014 Sundance Film Festival program and further reflect the depth and diversity of modern independent filmmaking that will satisfy everyone from festival fledglings to fanatics.”

Films in U.S. and World Competitions, NEXT Unveiled for 2014 Sundance Film Festival

Camp X-Ray / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Peter Sattler)

Sundance Film Festival, celebrating its 30th anniversary, unveiled the films selected for the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions and the out-of-competition NEXT <=> section of the 2014 festival taking place, January 16 to 26 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. For the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, 118 feature-length films were selected from 4,057 feature-length films submissions.

Robert Redford, President & Founder of Sundance Institute said, “That the Festival has evolved and grown as it has over the past 30 years is a credit to both our audiences and our artists, who continue to find ways to take risks and open our minds to the power of story. This year’s films and artists promise to do the same.”

Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Tops 2013 Sundance Film Festival Awards

The 2013 Sundance Film Festival announced the feature film winners at an Awards Ceremony, hosted by Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Saturday night in Park City, Utah. Fruitvale directed and written by Ryan Coogler was the big winner of the festival, winning both the U.S. Grand Jury Prize – Dramatic and Audience Award – U.S. Dramatic. The film is the true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family and strangers on the last day of 2008

The complete list of 2013 Sundance Film Festival Awards:

Kentaro Hagiwara Wins 2013 Sundance/NHK International Filmmaker Award

Kentaro Hagiwara, director of the upcoming film, Spectacled Tiger is the winner of the 2013 Sundance/NHK International Filmmaker Award. The award was presented at a private ceremony at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Spectacled Tiger, co-written by Kyohta Fujimoto, is a romantic, coming-of-age film about a high school trivia quiz wunderkind, Taiga Suzuki, who lives in a world where things are only black or white, correct or incorrect. But when Taiga finds […]

Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess Wins 2013 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at Sundance Film Festival

Computer Chess, directed and written by Andrew Bujalski, has been awarded the 2013 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize and will receive a $20,000 cash award by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Now in its tenth year, the Prize is selected by a jury of film and science professionals and presented to outstanding feature films focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character.

Computer Chess is an existential comedy about the brilliant men who taught machines to play chess – back when the machines seemed clumsy and we seemed smart. The cast includes Patrick Riester, Myles Paige, James Curry, Robin Schwartz, Gerald Peary and Wiley Wiggins. The jury presented the award to the film for its “off-beat and formalistically adventurous exploration of questions of artificial intelligence and human connections, unfolding during an early computer chess tournament.”

HBO Grabs TV Rights for Pussy Riot Documentary from 2013 Sundance Film Festival

HBO Documentary Films has snapped up the U.S. television rights for the documentary “Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer” which had its world premiere Friday night to a sold out crowd at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin, the film is expected to premiere on the HBO channel at a future date. “Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer” tells the incredible story of three young women: Nadia, Masha and Katia. As members of the […]

CBS Films to Release Toy’s House from 2013 Sundance Film Festival

CBS Films has grabbbed the coming-of-age comedy film TOY’S HOUSE, that premiered on Saturday at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. TOY’S HOUSE, directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts, from a screenplay by Chris Galletta,stars Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, Moises Arias, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Alison Brie, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Erin Moriarty, Marc Evan Jackson, Thomas Middleditch and Tony Hale. TOY’S HOUSE follows three teenage boys (Robinson, Basso and Arias) as they head into the wilderness with a […]

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