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2012 Sundance Film Festival Announces Short Film Program
Park City, UT — Sundance Institute announced today the program of short films selected to screen at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. This year’s Short Film program is comprised of 64 short films selected from a record 7,675 submissions, up 16% over submissions for the 2011 Festival. The Festival will be January 19 through 29 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
2012 Sundance Film Festival Announces Films in Premieres and Documentary Premieres Sections
Park City, UT — Sundance Institute announced today the films selected to screen in the out-of-competition Premieres and Documentary Premieres sections of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The Festival will be held January 19 through 29 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The complete list of films is available at www.
Andrew Berends on Why He Made His Documentary ‘Delta Boys’
Andrew Berends is a documentary filmmaker using Kickstarter to fund his project Delta Boys, a recipient of the 2008 Sundance Institute Documentary Film Grant. Click here to join the final push to complete production on this documentary.“Any time you wake up, it’s your morning.
Producer Danielle DiGiacomo on Raising Funds for the Autism Documentary Best Kept Secret
Danielle DiGiacomo is an independent film producer, consultant, and programmer based in New York City. She participated at the 2011 Sundance Institute Creative Producing Lab and is currently working on Elijah Rosenberg’s Ad Inexplorata, an FFP-supported project.On November 21, five days after the Best Kept Secret Kickstarter campaign was launched, I received the following Facebook message from a Hebrew school friend I haven’t seen since shortly after her bat mitzvah.
2012 Sundance Film Festival Announces Films in Spotlight, Park City at Midnight, Next and New Fr
Park City, UT — Sundance Institute announced today the films selected to screen in the 2012 Sundance Film Festival out-of-competition sections Spotlight, Park City at Midnight, NEXT <=> and New Frontier. The Festival takes place from January 19 through 29 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The complete list of films is available at www.
Producer Darren Dean on the Sundance Audience Award Winner ‘Kinyarwanda’
Darren Dean is a producer who worked on Kinyarwanda, winner of the 2011 World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival. We all think and say stupid things. I think one of the first things I thought when I got to Rwanda to work on Kinyarwanda was, “Gee, there really is no filmmaking infrastructure here.
2012 Sundance Film Festival Announces Films in Competition
Park City, UT – Sundance Institute announced today the films selected for the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
Placebo to Play Sundance London
London, Monday 28 November 2011, The O2 — Sundance Institute and The O2 today announced that musical act Placebo, who have released six studio albums and sold more than 10 million records worldwide, will perform at the first-ever Sundance London as part of the four-day festival’s music programme.
Sundance London takes place 26 – 29 April, 2012, and will feature the UK premieres of films fresh from the 2012 Sundance Film Festival which takes place in January 2012 in Park City, Utah. Daily live music performances, discussions, panels and other public events will round out the four-day festival.
Sundance Institute Announces Artists for 2012 Playwrights Retreat at Ucross Foundation
New York, NY — The Sundance Institute Theatre Program today announced the seven artists selected for its 2012 Playwrights Retreat at Ucross Foundation which takes place from February 6 through 24, 2012. The annual writing colony at the 20,000-acre working cattle ranch outside of Sheridan, Wyo. provides a supportive environment for artists to create new work and receive guidance and reactions to it at an early stage.
First-Ever Sundance London Kicks Off At The O2 With An Evening With Robert Redford And T Bone Burnet
London, Wednesday 23 November 2011, The O2 — Sundance founder Robert Redford and 12-time Grammy Award winner T Bone Burnett will open the first-ever Sundance London music and film festival on 26 April. Redford and Burnett in their first joint public appearance will explore the relationship between film and music. This event kicks off the new four-day, multi-disciplinary arts festival at The O2 which is a partnership between Robert Redford, Sundance Institute and AEG Europe.
Kick It: “ToasT” Takes The Leap of Faith
Lemon Andersen’s play “ToasT” is being presented in collaboration with Under The Radar Festival at the famed Public Theater in New York City. Elise Thoron (who helped to develop and directed County of Kings and Washi Tales) and street artists will be collaborating with set designers to help him bring it to life. “ToasT” is raising production funding on Kickstarter and was recently supported with a development grant from the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab.
29 Documentaries Receive $582,000 In Grants From Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program
Los Angeles, CA — Sundance Institute today announced the 29 feature-length documentary films that will receive $582,000 in grants from the Documentary Film Program, including two films selected to receive grants from the Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute and one Time Warner Foundation Fellow. The DFP celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2012 and since its inception has awarded grants to more than 300 documentary filmmakers in 61 countries.
“For many of these filmmakers, receiving a grant will be just the beginning of our relationship with them,” said Cara Mertes, Director of the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program.
Dispatches from the Indigenous Film Conference
In October, I journeyed far above the Arctic Circle to the Sápmi Region in Norway and was hosted by the Sami People. Their traditional territory runs across the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, and they’ve recently established the International Sámi Film Center, which hosted the Indigenous Film Conference. The conference had 125 participants from across Sápmi and around the world.
Kickstart When the Drum is Beating
Whitney Dow is an award-winning filmmaker whose directing credits include the 2002 Sundance Film Festival documentary Two Towns of Jasper and the Documentary Film Grant recipient When the Drum is Beating, among others. He is using Kickstarter to help fund global distribution of When the Drum is Beating. Click here to help the film reach its goal.
Tip of the Week: Festival from Home
Whether you’re Park City bound this January or stranded in a dark corner of the globe, we’ve got your back (though we can’t guarantee a Wi-Fi connection). Sundance Institute brings the Festival to you online each January with engaging content, from blogs to live streams, at www.sundance.