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next weekend WHAT’S NEXT? CONTENTS An offshoot of the NEXT <=> section at the Sundance Film Festival, <=><=><=><=><=><=><=><=> 20SPONSORS ><=><=><=><=><=><=><=>< NEXT WEEKEND is a showcase for pure, bold filmmaking distinguished by an <=><=><=><=><=><=><=><=> ><=><=><=><=><=><=><=>< 30MEMBERSHIP INFO innovative, forward-thinking approach to storytelling. Films from the <=><=><=><=><=><=><=><=> 2013 Sundance Film Festival are presented alongside new discoveries. ><=><=><=><=><=><=><=>< <=><=><=><=><=><=><=><=> 40KICK-OFF EVENT ><=><=><=><=><=><=><=>< NEXT WEEKEND is your chance to catch the next generation of American cinema. 60FILMS 16 NEXT SHORTS NEXT WEEKEND 17 YOUTUBE SHORTS @ NEXT WEEKEND With ten films, two world premieres, two shorts programs, and a healthy dose of 18 SHORTSLAB: LA related events, Sundance Institute presents a four-day line up that celebrates the originality and tenacity of the filmmakers driving American cinema’s next 19 PANELS wave. With Sundance Cinemas as our central hub, NEXT WEEKEND screenings and events also take place throughout L.A. 20 NEXT SUNDAY 21 TICKETING INFO 22 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 22 NOW PLAYING 23 EVENT TIMES nextweekend nextweekend # # Graphic DESIGN: Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and KARYN JACOBSEN development of independent artists and audiences. Through its programs, the next Institute seeks to discover, support, and inspire independent film and theatre next G/ COVER PHOTOGRAPHY: G/ or artists from the United States and around the world, and to introduce audiences or . JereMY raLL . to their new work. BACK COVER PHOTOGRAPHY: Larry HAMMerness Share your NEXT WEEKEND experience using #NEXTWEEKEND sundance sundance 1 A SPECIAL THANK you to OUR FOUNDING SPONSORS Principal sponsors Join us MEDIA sponsors BECOME A SUNDANCE INSTITUTE MEMBER Join Sundance Institute to become a part of a community committed to developing the independent and original stories that shape our lives and our world. Become a member today for special perks at NEXT WEEKEND: • Buy tickets before the general public on July 16th SUPPORTING sponsors • Enjoy a members-only line at the opening night screening at Hollywood Forever Cemetery • Receive an invitation to NEXT FRIDAY, our kick-off party at CB2 West Hollywood Sundance.org/membership Sound of My Voice, Directed by Zal Batmangli Official Selection, 2011 Sundance Film Festival 2 3 KICK-OFF EVENT American movie Thursday, August 8, 9:00 P.M. Hollywood Forever Cemetery, 6000 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA TICKETS: $12. Doors open at 7:30 P.M. cinespia.org hollywoodforever.com Director: Chris Smith U.S.A., 1999, 107 min., color Inspired by such films asThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Night of the Living Dead, Mark Borchardt has been making movies since he was a teenager. He has all the passion and drive it takes; but what he sorely lacks is money. In a questionable business move, he decides to finish and peddle his short film, Coven, in order to finance his dream picture, Northwestern. Join us to kick off NEXT WEEKEND with a double bill of the hilarious documentary, American Movie; a film that exemplifies what NEXT <=> is all American Movie premiered at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, where it won about—an undying passion to make films against all odds and with limited the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary. It was named by The New York Times resources; and a special bonus screening of Coven, the short film whose as one of “The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made.” production is chronicled in the preceding documentary. Held in collaboration with Cinespia at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. followed by: Sundance Institute members enjoy Members-Only entrance at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. COVEN Director: Mark Borchardt nextweekend # KICK-OFF EVENT KICK-OFF U.S.A., 1999, 36 min., b/w In Coven, an alcohol/drug abuser re-examines his life until he nearly dies from an overdose. Then a friend convinces him to join a self-help group which next turns out to be demonic. next G/ G/ OR or . sundance sundance 4 5 FILMS 12 O’Clock Boys A Teacher documentary Director: Lotfy Nathan Director/Screenwriter: Hannah Fidell U.S.A., 2013, 75 min., color Cast: Lindsay Burdge, Will Brittain, Jennifer Prediger, Jonny Mars, Julie Phillips, Chris Doubek Pug, a bright 13-year-old boy living on a dangerous, west-side block in U.S.A., 2013, 75 min., color Baltimore, dreams of joining the 12 O’Clock Boys – a notorious Urban dirt bike pack who invade the streets, popping wheelies and cruising at high speeds A popular young high school teacher in a wealthy suburban Texas high school through traffic while clashing with police. has an affair with one of her students. Her life begins to unravel as the relationship comes to an end. S Saturday, August 10, 4:30 P.M. – NTWELV101A LM FI Sundance Sunset Cinema 1, West Hollywood, CA Friday, August 9, 9:45 P.M. – NTEACH092N #NEXTWEEKEND Sundance Sunset Cinema 2, West Hollywood, CA NEXT SUNDAY Screening Time: Sunday, August 11, 7:30 P.M. – PAGE 20 sunday, August 11, 7:00 P.M. – NTEACH111E next next G/ The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Sundance Sunset Cinema 1, West Hollywood, CA G/ OR or . 250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA . sundance sundance 6 7 FILMS Blue CAPRICE Cutie and the Boxer documentary Director: Alexandre Moors Director: Zachary Heinzerling ScreenwriterS: R. F I. Porto, Alexandre Moors U.S.A., 2012, 81 min., color Cast: Isaiah Washington, Tequan Richmond, Joey Lauren Adams, Over the course of the chaotic 40-year marriage between New York-based Tim Blake Nelson, Cassandra Freeman, Leo Fitzpatrick Japanese artists Ushio and Noriko Shinohara, their headstrong, yet U.S.A., 2012, 94 min., color complementary personalities form a graceful rumination on companionship, An abandoned boy is lured to America and drawn into the shadow of a dangerous sacrifice and the creative spirit. father figure in this film inspired by the real life events that led to the 2002 S Friday, August 9, 10:00 P.M. – NCUTIE091L LM Beltway sniper attacks. FI Sundance Sunset Cinema 1, West Hollywood, CA #NEXTWEEKEND Saturday, August 10, 10:00 P.M. – NBLUEC101L NEXT SUNDAY Screening Time: Sundance Sunset Cinema 1, West Hollywood, CA Sunday, August 11, 7:30 P.M. – page 20 next next G/ NEXT SUNDAY Screening Time: UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television at the Hammer Museum, G/ OR or . Sunday, August 11, 7:00 P.M. – PAGE 20 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA . Cinefamily, 611 N Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA sundance sundance 8 9 FILMS How TO BE A MAN IT Felt LIKE Love Director: Chadd Harbold Director/Screenwriter: Eliza Hittman ScreenwriterS: Bryan Gaynor, Chadd Harbold, Gavin McInnes Cast: Gina Piersanti, Giovanna Salimeni, Ronen Rubinstein, Cast: Gavin McInnes, Liam Aiken, Paulo Costanzo, Jesse Cordasco, Nick Rosen, Case Prime Megan Neuringer, Nigel DeFriez, Nicole Balsam U.S.A., 2013, 82 min., color U.S.A., 2013, 70 min., color On the outskirts of Brooklyn, a 14-year-old’s sexual quest takes a dangerous When former comedian Mark is faced with a rare form of cancer, he hires turn when she pursues an older guy and tests the boundaries between an impressionable cameraman to document his crude and comical lessons obsession and love. S LM on what it means to be a man for his unborn son. But when Mark nearly loses FI Saturday, August 10, 4:00 P.M. – NITFEL102A #NEXTWEEKEND everything, he realizes he has the most to learn. Sundance Sunset Cinema 2, West Hollywood, CA Saturday, August 10, 7:30 P.M. – NHOWTO101E NEXT SUNDAY Screening Time: Sundance Sunset Cinema 1, West Hollywood, CA next next G/ Sunday, August 11, 7:30 P.M. – page 20 G/ OR or . Sunday, August 11, 12:45 P.M. – NHOWTO112D The American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre, . Sundance Sunset Cinema 2, West Hollywood, CA 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica, CA sundance sundance 10 11 FILMS Newlyweeds Stand CLEAR OF THE Closing DOORS Director/Screenwriter: Shaka King Director: Sam Fleischner Cast: Amari Cheatom, Trae Harris, Tone Tank, ScreenwriterS: Rose Lichter-Marck, Micah Bloomberg Colman Domingo, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Adrian Martinez Cast: Andrea Suarez Paz, Jesus Sanchez-Velez, Azul Zorrilla, U.S.A., 2012, 87 min., color Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Marsha Stephanie Blake U.S.A., 2013, 107 min., color A Brooklyn repo-man and his globetrotting girlfriend forge an unlikely romance. But what should be a match made in stoner heaven turns into a love When a young, autistic Mexican boy runs away from his undocumented family triangle gone awry in this dark ballad of chemical dependency—part coming- on the outskirts of New York City, he embarks on an 11-day odyssey in the S LM of-age romance, part hallucinatory adventure. city’s subway system, forcing his splintered family to reconcile their FI #NEXTWEEKEND differences in order to bring him home. Saturday, August 10, 9:45 P.M. – NNEWLY102N Sundance Sunset Cinema 2, West Hollywood, CA Friday, August 9, 7:00 P.M. – NSTAND092E Sundance Sunset Cinema 2, West Hollywood, CA next next G/ Sunday, August 11, 1:00 P.M. – NNEWLY111D G/ OR or . Sundance Sunset Cinema 1, West Hollywood, CA Saturday, August 10, 1:30 P.M. – NSTAND101D . Sundance Sunset Cinema 1, West Hollywood, CA sundance sundance 12 13 FILMS THE Foxy Merkins This IS Martin Bonner Director: Madeleine Olnek Director/Screenwriter: Chad Hartigan ScreenwriterS: Madeleine Olnek, Jackie Monahan, Lisa Haas Cast: Paul Eenhoorn, Richmond Arquette, Cast: Lisa Haas, Jackie Monahan, Alex Karpovsky, Sam Buchanan, Robert Longstreet, Demetrius Grosse Susan Ziegler, Sally Sockwell, Deb Margolin U.S.A., 2012, 83 min., color U.S.A., 2013, 90 min., color In this 2013 Sundance Film Festival award-winning film we discover two men, Two lesbian hookers work the streets of New York. One is a down-on-her-luck each searching in their quiet solitude to begin a new life amidst an unspoken newbie; the other is a beautiful – and straight – grifter who is an expert on need for encouragement and support.