Germany's Oliver Hirschbiegel and Denmark’s own Lone Scherfig and Nicolas Winding Refn are among those representing their latest works in the World Dramatic Competition. The selection committee had the crazy task of bringing down the total number 1,012 submissions down to 16.
Take my good word for it, nobody knows the real story. Everybody loves to imagine what these stories are. The natural human tendency is to imagine that these people are beyond the pail. They're not like you and me, they're in some deep sense sub human.
Call this a post-Oscars afterthought, but I think the inaugural 2005 blacklist for un-produced screenplays is working out to be a fairly good predictor/barometer in discriminating the output of quality films and misfires.
#48. Paranoid Park Director/Writer: Gus Van SantProducers: David Allen Cress, Charles Gilibert, Nathanaël Karmitz and Neil Kopp (Old Joy) Distributor: IFC First Take...