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Monsieur Lazhar, Wuthering Heights and Your Sister’s Sister: Tons of TIFF Items Moving to Sundance’s Spotlight Program
It'll be a TIFF does Sundance this year in the Spotlight Program as the majority of the films programmed in the section (which staffers state, "regardless of where these films have played throughout the world, the Spotlight program is a tribute to the cinema we love") are films that moved from Cannes to TIFF en route to Sundance or had their world premieres at TIFF and are moving into Park City.
Sundance 2012 World Cinema Docu Comp: Great Danes Headline Comp Section
Sundance's World Docu Comp section might come across as the olympics with strong representation from 3 countries dominated by the Danes (Mads Brügger, Lise Birk Pedersen, Malik Bendjelloul and docu team Omar Shargawi and Karim El Hakim). With several items being carried over from this past November's IFDA Doc Film Festival, the 12 film section includes three Israeli film and three World Premieres from Canadian documentarians. Here's the complete list.
Argott, Ewing and Grady, Silverbush, Kirby Dick, Greenfield and Eugene Jarecki Among Sundance’s U.S. Docu Comp
If you're a fan of the docu form especially those that genuinely begin their film festival life in Park City, then this group of 16 American documentary films that are the make up of the U.S. Documentary Competition appear to be docu gold. We've got some heavy hitters among docu filmmakers such as Don Argott, Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, Lori Silverbush, Kirby Dick, Lauren Greenfield and Eugene Jarecki. All docs are obviously world premieres.
Sundance 2012 World Cinema Dramatic Comp Includes Dupieux, Slama, Makridis and Kieran Darcy-Smith
Of all the fourteen films/filmmakers mentioned we see Quentin Dupieux return to screen fairly quick after his debut film Rubber, we have Blue Tongue Films team member (Animal Kingdom, Hesher and tons of awesome short films) Kieran Darcy-Smith who gets behind the camera for Wish You Were Here with (see pic) Joel Edgerton topling.
Sundance 2012 U.S. Dramatic Comp: Zeitlin, Yong Kim, Russo-Young, Ponsoldt and Campos Among 16 Selected
A pair of films from our favorite auteurs So Yong Kim's For Ellen and Antonio Campos' Simon Killer are finally making their long awaited world film fest debuts and items from an emerging talent base in the likes of Benh Zeitlin, Ry Russo-Young and James Ponsoldt are part of a handful of lucky filmmakers selected in Sundance's U.S. Dramatic Competiton section.
