Sundance 2010: Taqwacores, Mary Last Seen, Six Dollar Fifty Man

On my Park City’s main street reconnaissance mission where I mostly RE-familiarize myself with one portion of the festival’s surroundings, I noticed bits and pieces of the RE-juvenated film festival which comes with the Sex Pistols‘ album cover pink clashing with black…..

Besides Sundance’s organized coffee shop talks with directors and creators, among the cooler things on Swag street are the concerts and some book signing gigs – The Taqwacores will be well represented for the fest – here Michael Muhammad Knight co-writer for Eyad Zahra’s film going by the same name will do some Sharpie marker dedications sometime this week.

…The legendary 300 or so capacity theater is where I’ll be seeing the world premiere for David Michod’s Animal Kingdom (friday night) – a top 5 must see pic in my coverage this year – he was just nominated as Variety’s top 10 directors to look out for….

What looks like the mysterious object from Kubrick’s 2001 film is actually a mid-level main street places to post flyers for your Sundance/Slamdance film. I’ve ready a couple of do’s and dont’s and personally, its just extra eye candy which might help ticket sales – no harm to it and the cost is probably minimal.

While I’ll be officially beginning my festival with Shorts Program 1 (Spike Jonze’s I’m Here is part of the program) tonite, tomorrow I’ll wake up early for Shorts Program II with a pair of films that have caught my interest in 2nd place Cannes Best short in Mark Albiston & Louis Sutherland’s The Six Dollar Fifty Man and Sean Durkin’s Mary Last Seen – which comes from the same team that gave us Afterschool and which will give us Two Gates of Sleep (featured in my top 100 most anticipated films for 2010 list).