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Hi, this is Stacy Peralta, and I want to thank you for finding your way to this message about our film.I want to give you some background about Bones Brigade: An Autobiography how and why it came to be and why we are stoked you want to be part of it.Rewind to the fall of 2002—Tony Hawk, Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero, Tommy Guerrero and Mike McGill asked me if I would meet with them to talk about a project they had in mind.

Our latest installment in the “Five Things You Should Know” series probes perhaps the most inventive storyline from last year’s Festival. Robot & Frank is an audacious undertaking from first-time director Jake Schreier, who details below just some of the hindrances stemming from casting a robot as a lead. Lucky for Schreier (and audiences), do-it-all veteran Frank Langella, who charms as an aging father and former burglar, effortlessly stars opposite his new mechanical companion.

Actor and cool-guy Daniel Travis starred alongside Blanchard Ryan in Open Water—a monster hit from the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. He lives in Los Angeles and was tracked down by the Sundance.org team to help us celebrate SHARK WEEK.

Compliance may be the most difficult film to watch in the 2012 Sundance Film Festival program. No one gets their head gashed in during the movie; no one even peacefully dies. But if you don’t squirm at least once during Compliance, you might actually be a robot.

John Price is the former U.S. Ambassador to Mauritius, Seychelles, and Comoros and a founding board member of the Utah Committee for Sundance Institute.

Sundance Institute has announced the hiring of Royale Ziegler as Manager of Social Media, effective immediately. Ziegler will develop creative strategy and manage social media accounts for the nonprofit cultural organization, which currently include over half a million fans and followers across Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram. Ziegler is based in Los Angeles and reports to Director of Digital Initiatives Joseph Beyer.

It’s hard to imagine a more irreplaceable filmmaker than Chris Marker. The legendary filmmaker passed away last week on his 91st birthday—although he was so elusive about his own past, refusing interviews and even photos of himself, he could have just as easily been born the same day the camera was invented.In fact, that’s just the type poetic symmetry that might have found its way into one of Marker’s many short films, including La Jetee (1962), the gold standard of the form and the work for which he’ll best be remembered.

Howard Goldberg is a Sundance alumn who developed the screenplay “Eden” at the 1993 Screenwriters Lab. The completed film was in the Dramatic Competition at the 1996 Sundance Festival. His latest film, “Jake Squared,” starring Elias Koteas, Virginia Madsen, and Mike Vogel, is seeking funding through Kickstarter.

Last week was all at once the culmination and zenith of a journey for the audacious filmmaking team behind the Sundance Institute-supported documentary Semper Fi: Always Faithful. Sundance Institute received thrilling news from directors Rachel Libert and Tony Hardmon that Congress had passed the ‘Honoring America’s Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act’—which encompasses the Janey Ensminger Act—to provide health care benefits to veterans and family members exposed to contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune, a Marine base in North Carolina. The impetus for the legislation was Libert and Hardmon’s searing documentary exposé, which tracks former Marine Master Sgt.

Park City, Utah  — Sundance Institute in collaboration with the Chickasaw Nation and the Chickasaw Cultural Center in Sulphur, Oklahoma today announced two unique film events that will take place in Oklahoma September 6 to 8: A Native Filmmaker Summit and FILM FORWARD: Advancing Cultural Dialogue.
FILM FORWARD, a touring film program that offers screenings, workshops, and discussions designed to foster dialogue and cross-cultural understanding, is an Initiative of Sundance Institute and The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Filmmakers in Oklahoma are invited to a one-day Native Filmmaker Summit at 10 a.

Beyond the tape-delay broadcasts, ubiquitous spoilers, and compulsory diplomacy, I’ve always been rapt by the galvanizing powers of the Olympic Games. They’re a rare opportunity to revel in nationalism without condemnation, and better yet, the Games are always good for a generous helping of controversy. Really though, it’s like clockwork (see: Voula Pappachristou and Michel Morganella).