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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.
2012 Indie Spirits Noms: Artist leads Drive, Beginners, Take Shelter and MMMM with Five Noms
Fresh off a big double win at the Gothams (where it won Best Feature and Best Ensemble), Mike Mills' Beginners has nabbed four nominations for the 27th Indie Spirit Awards tying with three other Best Feature hopefuls in Jeff Nichol's Take Shelter, The Descendants and Cannes preemed, Drive. However the four were outmatched by Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist which garnered five noms in Best Feature, Best Director, Best Male Lead, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography categories.
