This year Ioncinema.com is covering the 2006 edition of the Sundance Film Festival LIVE from Park City, Utah. We’ll be on hand to cover the festival, and while we won’t be able to cover everything from A to Z: here is a comprehensive beforehand look at the selections in each of the festival’s sections. (Note: To access individual preview pages, simply click on the links below)
January 19th to the 28th, 2006
Counting Down:
“American Hardcore“/U.S. (Director: Paul Rauchman; screenwriter: Steven Blush) — Inspired by Steven Blush’s book “American Hardcore: A Tribal History,” Paul Rachman’s feature documentary debut is a chronicle of the underground hard-core punk years from 1979-86. World premiere
“Awesome, I Fuckin’ Shot That!“/U.S. (Director: Nathanial Hornblower) — On Oct. 9, 2004, the Beastie Boys handed out 50 HI 8 cameras to audience members at their sold-out performance in New York’s Madison Square Garden. This film is the result. World premiere
“The Descent“/U.S. (Director-screenwriter: Neil Marshall) — An all-female caving expedition goes horribly wrong as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators. North American premiere
“Destricted“/U.S. (Director-screenwriters: Mathew Barney, Larry Clark, Gaspar Noe, Marco Brambilla, Sam Taylor Wood) — Art meets sexuality in this unprecedented compilation of erotic art films made by the leading visual artists and filmmakers working today. World premiere
“The Foot Fist Way“/U.S. (Director-screenwriter: Jody Hill) — A Tae Kwon Do instructor who is king of his small kingdom tries to keep it together after his wife cheats on him, taking his anger out on everyone around him in the funniest way ever. World premiere
“Moonshine“/U.S. (Director: Roger Ingraham; screenwriters: Roger Ingraham, Lori Isbell Salvage) — In the rural Midwest, a young convenience store clerk burdened with new love and family troubles mysteriously begins to turn into a vampire. World premiere
“Salvage“/U.S. (Director-screenwriters: Josh Crook and Jeff Crook) — World College student Claire is stalked and murdered by serial killer Duke Desmond. Claire assumes it was a nightmare and wakes up to relive the day of her death over and over until she uncovers the terrifying mystery that guides her fate. World premiere
“Subject Two“/U.S. (Director-screenwriter: Philip Chidel) — A troubled medical student volunteers for resurrection experiments — and is killed over and over again by a reclusive doctor intent on reinventing life. World premiere
