The Premieres program showcases some of the most highly anticipated films of the coming year. Catch world premieres and the latest work from established directors at the before they create a splash at local theatres.

Cedar Rapids DIRECTOR: : Phil Johnston U.S.A., 2010, 86 min., color Miguel Arteta returns to the Sundance Film Festival with a comedy about a group of Premieres insurance salesmen who use the opportunity PRESENTED BY to attend an annual convention in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as a way to escape their doleful existence . . . like Vegas but with corn. Tim Lippe has been living in a small town his whole life and gets a rude awakening when he arrives in the “giant” metropolis of Cedar Rapids. However, his boyish charm and innocence eventually win over his fellow conventioneers, but he becomes disheartened when he uncovers corporate corruption. When it seems his life—and chances to succeed—are completely topsy-turvy, he finds his own unjaded way to turn things around. Cedar Rapids deftly straddles that line between laughing at and with its subjects thanks to Arteta’s skilled direction and ’s hilarious, yet thoughtful, performance. John C. Reilly, , and Isiah Whitlock Jr. play off Helms perfectly to fashion characters that are eccentric, yet honest. Filled with quotable dialogue and unforgettable scenes, Cedar Rapids achieves the impossible: it makes insurance fun.—T.G.

Pr: Jim Burke, , Principal Cast: Ed Helms, John C. Reilly, Anne Heche, Isiah Whitlock Jr., ,

Sunday, January 23, 9:30 p.m. - CEDAR23CN Eccles Theatre, Park City Monday, January 24, 9:15 a.m. - CEDAR24CM Eccles Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 29, 6:30 p.m. - CEDAR29GE Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

36 2011 Sundance Film Festival Casting Ca: CoD: Costume Designer Music Mu: The Convincer The Details The Devil's Double

So: Sound DIRECTOR: DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Jacob Aaron Estes DIRECTOR: Lee Tamahori : Jill Sprecher, Karen Sprecher U.S.A., 2010, 91 min., color SCREENWRITER: Michael Thomas U.S.A., 2010, 114 min., color Belgium, 2010, 108 min., color It all started with the raccoons. After 10 years An insurance agent is looking for a way to of marriage, Jeff and Nealy have a young son, Based on actual events, The Devil’s Double ArD: Art Director jump-start his business, reunite with his an idyllic suburban life, and a marriage that’s recounts the remarkable tale of Latif Yahia, estranged wife, and escape the dismal stuck. Accordingly, Jeff decides to plant a an Iraqi army lieutenant who was summoned midwestern weather. This self-proclaimed perfect backyard lawn. Enter the raccoons, to Saddam Hussein’s palace in 1987 and master of duplicity believes that salesmanship who repeatedly tear up his grass. When Jeff ordered to become the fiday, or body double, is all about selling a story—all he needs is a tries to eradicate these meddlesome vandals, of his notorious eldest son, Uday. Many of sucker willing to buy it. He hits pay dirt with his efforts initiate a bewildering chain reaction his countrymen might have considered this a PrD: Production Designer a lonely retired farmer, who is sitting on involving a crazy cat lady, multiple infidelities, great honor, but it was merely the beginning something much bigger than an insurance extortion, organ donation, and somebody on of a hellish nightmare for Latif. Under the

Ed: Editor commission: a rare violin collecting dust in the wrong end of a bow and arrow. constant threat of harm to his family, he the corner of the farmhouse. His attempt to had no choice but to play the role of silent Devilish throughout, is both a con the old man spins out of control, however, The Details witness while his nefarious captor indulged love story and a horror story (of the trapping him in a web of deceit and in countless brutal and depraved fantasies existential kind). The root of Jeff’s dread moral ambiguity. with no regard for human life. Ci: Cinematographer (and subsequent misdeeds) is that he wants The A-team of the Sprecher sisters—director to love his wife but no longer knows how. In a brilliant turn, Dominic Cooper portrays Jill and cowriter Karen—know how to Filmmaker Jacob Aaron Estes plays with the both Uday and Latif with impressive ease, transform a tall tale into cinematic magic notion that the tiniest thing can unravel our transitioning seamlessly between the convincingly. The outstanding cast creates a lives. His narrative spontaneity and anarchic personae of ruthless madman and disgusted Associate Producer collection of oddball characters that are spirit allow characters to keep digging observer. Director Lee Tamahori (Once Were AsP: as charming as they are calculating. What themselves into deeper moral holes to see Warriors) makes his return to the Sundance seems simple turns complicated, and The if the universe will punish them. The result Film Festival with this unimaginable true story Convincer develops into a thoroughly is a darkly funny meditation on marital straight from Saddam’s Iraq.—A.M. satisfying romp.—J.C.

CoP: Coproducer malaise.—J.N. ExP: Harris Tulchin, Arjan Terpstra Pr: Paul Breuls, ExP: Alan Arkin Pr: Mary Frances Budig, ExP: Mickey Liddell, Jennifer Hilton Catherine Vandeleene, Michael John Fedun, Emjay Elizabeth Redleaf, Christine Walker Ed: Stephen Pr: Mark Gordon, Hagai Shaham, Bryan Zuriff Rechsteiner Ci: Sam McCurdy Ed: Luis Carballar Pr: Producer Mirrione Com: Bela Fleck Mu: Alex Wurman Ci: Sharone Meir Ed: Madeleine Gavin PrD: Paul Kirby CoD: Anna B. Sheppard Ph: Dick Pope Principal Cast: , PrD: Toby Corbett Mu: Principal Cast: Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier, Alan Arkin, , David Harbour Principal Cast: Tobey Maguire, , Mimoun Oaissa, Raad Rawi, Philip Quast , , , Tuesday, January 25, 6:15 p.m. - CONVI25CE Saturday, January 22, 9:30 p.m. - DEVIL22CN Eccles Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City ExP: Executive Producer

Wednesday, January 26, 8:30 a.m. - CONVI26LM Monday, January 24, 6:15 p.m. - DETAI24CE Sunday, January 23, 8:30 a.m. - DEVIL23LM Library Center Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 27, 6:00 p.m. - CONVI27SE Tuesday, January 25, 9:15 a.m. - DETAI25CM Monday, January 24, 9:00 p.m. - DEVIL24WN

Credit Legend Screening Room, Sundance Resort Eccles Theatre, Park City Tower Theatre, SLC Friday, January 28, 6:30 p.m. - CONVI28GE Saturday, January 29, 9:00 p.m. - DETAI29SN Saturday, January 29, 11:30 p.m. - DEVIL29PL Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Screening Room, Sundance Resort Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 30, 6:30 p.m. - DETAI30GE Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Premieres sundance.org/festival 37 The Future I Melt with You Life in a Day DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Miranda July DIRECTOR: Mark Pellington DIRECTOR: Kevin Macdonald Germany/U.S.A. , 2011, 91 min., color SCREENWRITER: Glenn Porter, based on the United Kingdom, 2011, 90 min., color story by Glenn Porter and Mark Pellington Multiple languages with English subtitles The Future begins one afternoon on a sofa. Canada, U.S.A., 2011, 125 min., color Sophie and Jason, a 30-something couple in Richard, Ron, Tim, and Jonathan are In May 2010, Sundance Institute was invited , realize that in one month, their to participate in a global cinematic experiment. lives will change dramatically when they pick from college who gather for a weekend each year to celebrate their friendship and catch Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald was up a terminally ill shelter cat they’ve adopted. planning to direct a feature-length Wanting to take advantage of their fleeting up with each other. On the surface, they look like other men going through life: they have documentary shot in a single day, July 24. freedom, they quit their jobs, disconnect their Supported by YouTube, the project enlisted careers and families and responsibilities. Internet, and pursue new interests. While a global community to capture a moment of But as with many people, there is more to Sophie plans to make a dance video a day, their lives on camera. We worked together them than meets the eye. As the weekend Jason knocks on doors for a tree-planting to spread the word, and the world responded environmental group. progresses, they go down the rabbit hole of excess. Fueled by sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, with more than 80,000 submissions; over Miranda July’s work slips and slides whenever their bacchanalian reunion drives them 5,000 hours of deeply personal, powerful film you try to pin it down. A truly original voice, to an unexpected place where they are forced clips came from contributors from Australia to she has an uncanny intuition for playful, to confront themselves and the choices Zambia, from the heart of the bustling cities figurative storytelling. The Future is narrated they’ve made. to the furthest and most remote reaches of by a cat. One night Jason freezes time and the Earth. talks with the moon. Sophie decides to settle Writer/director Mark Pellington returns to the Sundance Film Festival with a riveting and Life in a Day is a compilation of the most with an older man in suburbia as if she were compelling images honed by Macdonald, shopping for a potential future: trying it on to emotionally raw story that puts the modern male psyche under the knife, opening it up executive producer and his team, see if it fits. An exhilarating, funny, and wildly and a crew of talented editors from the vast inventive second feature, The Future reflects and exposing it for what it is. The four leads deliver crackling performances as they dig footage submitted. Their task was to create a a profound understanding of the existential unique cinematic experience: in beautiful and fears that accompany relationships.—J.N. deeply within themselves to portray painfully honest characters. What emerges is a visually harrowing honesty, what it is to be alive on Earth today.—J.C. ExP: Sue Bruce-Smith Pr: Gina Kwon, Roman Paul, dazzling, sonically charged exploration of Gerhard Meixner CoP: Chris Stinson Ci: Nikolai men on the brink of enlightenment . . . ExP: Ridley Scott, Tony Scott Pr: Liza Marshall von Graevenitz Ed: Andrew Bird Mu: Jon Brion whether they want it or not.—T.G. CoP: Jack Arbuthnott, Tim Partridge Ed: Principal Cast: Hamish Linklater, Miranda July, Mu: Harry Gregson-Williams, Matthew Herbert David Warshofsky, Isabella Acres, Joe Putterlik ExP: Aaron L. Gilbert, Glenn Porter, , So: Neil LaBute, Heidi Levitt Pr: Mark Pellington, Friday, January 21, 6:15 p.m. - FUTUR21CE Norman Reiss, Rob Cowan Ci: Eric Schmidt Thursday, January 27, 6:15 p.m. - LIFEI27CE Eccles Theatre, Park City Ed: Don Broida Mu: Tomandandy Eccles Theatre, Park City Live stream at sundance.org Saturday, January 22, 8:30 a.m. - FUTUR22LM Principal Cast: Thomas Jane, , Friday, January 28, 8:30 a.m. - LIFEI28LM Library Center Theatre, Park City , Christian McKay, Carla Gugino, Library Center Theatre, Park City Friday, January 28, 9:15 a.m. - FUTUR28CM Saturday, January 29, 9:30 p.m. - LIFEI29ON Eccles Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 26, 9:30 p.m. - IMELT26CN Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden Eccles Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 27, 9:00 a.m. - IMELT27CM Eccles Theatre, Park City Friday, January 28, 9:30 p.m. - IMELT28ON Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden Saturday, January 29, 5:30 p.m. - IMELT293E Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Sunday, January 30, noon - IMELT30GD Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

38 Premieres 2011 Sundance Film Festival Casting Ca: CoD: Costume Designer Music Mu: Margin Call The Music My Idiot Brother

So: Sound DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: J.C. Chandor DIRECTOR: Jesse Peretz U.S.A., 2010, 109 min., color Never Stopped SCREENWRITERS: Evgenia Peretz, David DIRECTOR: Jim Kohlberg Schisgall Set in the high-stakes world of the financial SCREENWRITERS: Gwyn Lurie, Gary Marks, U.S.A., 2010, 95 min., color industry, Margin Call is a thriller entangling based on the story "The Last Hippie" by ArD: Art Director the key players at an investment firm during Oliver Sacks Despite looking for the good in every situation one perilous 24-hour period in the early U.S.A., 2010, 105 min., color and the best in every person, Ned always stages of the 2008 financial crisis. When seems to find himself holding the short end Almost 20 years after their teenage son entry-level analyst Peter Sullivan (Zachary of the stick—being conned into selling pot to a Gabriel (Lou Taylor Pucci) ran away from Quinto) unlocks information that could prove uniformed cop, being dumped by his girlfriend, home, Henry (J.K. Simmons) and Helen Sawyer to be the downfall of the firm, a roller-coaster and worse yet, losing custody of his beloved PrD: Production Designer (Cara Seymour) learn that he has turned up ride ensues as decisions both financial and dog, . When he turns to family, in a hospital. Although benign, a brain tumor moral catapult the lives of all involved to the he is passed from sister to sister while he gets has damaged his memory, rendering past and Ed: Editor brink of disaster. Expanding the parameters back on his feet. Ned’s best intentions produce present indistinguishable. Sensing that Gabriel of genre, Margin Call is a riveting examination hilariously disastrous results, bringing the responds to music, Henry seeks out a music of the human components of a subject too family to the cusp of chaos and ultimately the therapist (Julia Ormand), who discovers that often relegated to partisan issues of black brink of clarity. when Gabriel listens to the rock music he and white. Ci: Cinematographer loved—The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Buffalo Director Jesse Peretz has a keen eye for Propelled by a stellar cast that includes Springfield—he reengages with the world. idiosyncratic human foibles, especially those , , , that make you laugh. My Idiot Brother rolls Based on Oliver Sacks’s case study “The Last , and , writer/director along with fine-tuned precision by enlisting Hippie,” Jim Kohlberg’s touching first feature JC Chandor’s enthralling first feature is a the talents of and a talented cast, Associate Producer explores a family divided by the culture stark and bravely authentic portrayal of the who can make uncomfortable moments AsP: clash of the 1960s. By deftly incorporating financial industry and its denizens as they delightful by infusing characters with the flashbacks, the film chronicles the souring confront the decisions that shape our global perfect balance of humor and pathos. My Idiot relationship between father and son— future.—D.C. Brother reminds us of something we know particularly Henry’s growing distaste for already: there is no such thing as a normal CoP: Coproducer ExP: , Laura Rister, Josh Blum the music he feels is poisoning his son’s mind. family. —J.C. Pr: , , Corey Moosa, The striking irony is that Henry’s only means Michael Benaroya, Robert Ogden Barnum, Joe to reconcile with his son is by embracing ExP: Caroline Jaczko, Stefanie Azpiazu, John Hodges, Pr: Producer Jenckes Ci: Frank DeMarco Ed: Pete Beaudreau the very music that divided them in the first Aleen Keshishian Pr: Anthony Bregman, Mu: Nathan Larson Principal Cast: Kevin Spacey, place. —J.N. Marc Turtletaub, Peter Saraf Ci: Yaron Orbach Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Ed: Andrew Mondshein, Jacob Craycroft Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci Pr: Julie W. Noll, Jim Kohlberg, Peter Newman, PrD: Inbal Weinberg CoD: Christopher Peterson Greg Johnson Ci: Steve Kazmeirski Principal Cast: Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Tuesday, January 25, 9:30 p.m. - MARGI25CN Ed: Keith Reamer Mu: Paul Cantelon , ExP: Executive Producer

Eccles Theatre, Park City Principal Cast: J.K. Simmons, , Wednesday, January 26, 9:00 a.m. - MARGI26CM Cara Seymour, Lou Taylor Pucci, Mia Maestro Saturday, January 22, 6:15 p.m. - IDIOT22CE Eccles Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City

Credit Legend Thursday, January 27, 6:30 p.m. - MARGI27GE Friday, January 21, 6:30 p.m. - MUSIC21GE Sunday, January 23, 9:00 a.m. - IDIOT23CM Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Eccles Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 29, 6:30 p.m. - MARGI29OE Friday, January 21, 9:30 p.m. - MUSIC21GN Monday, January 24, 6:30 p.m. - IDIOT24OE Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden Sunday, January 30, 1:00 p.m. - MARGI30SA Saturday, January 22, 3:15 p.m. - MUSIC22CA Saturday, January 29, 6:00 p.m. - IDIOT29WE Screening Room, Sundance Resort Eccles Theatre, Park City Tower Theatre, SLC Sunday, January 23, 9:00 a.m. - MUSIC23YM Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 25, 6:30 p.m. - MUSIC25OE Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden Saturday, January 29, 6:00 p.m. - MUSIC29YE Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

Premieres sundance.org/festival 39 Red State Salvation Boulevard DIRECTOR: David Mackenzie DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: DIRECTOR: George Ratliff SCREENWRITER: Kim Fupz Aakeson U.S.A., 2011, 95 min., color SCREENWRITERS: Doug Max Stone, George United Kingdom, 2011, 88 min., color Ratliff, based on the novel by Ever since Clerks (cowinner of the U.S.A., 2010, 95 min., color When Susan (), an epidemiologist, Filmmakers Trophy at the 1994 Sundance reemerges from an affair gone sour, she Film Festival), Kevin Smith has been known Reverend Dan is a charismatic preacher encounters a peculiar patient—a for his sharply subversive comedic writing. who has captivated a city with his charm. truck driver who experienced a sudden, He shifts from comedy to horror with Red Ex-deadhead and recovering hippie Carl is uncontrollable crying fit. Now he is calm, but State and aptly demonstrates that good one of the loyal sheep in his flock. When an he has lost his sense of smell. Susan learns writing transcends genre. antique firearms accident does in an atheistic there are 11 cases like him in Glasgow, 7 in novelist and Dan’s controversial antagonist, Aberdeen, 5 in Dundee, and 18 in . Red State begins by following three horny Carl is called into service in the most In fact, Great Britain has 100 cases, with high-school boys who come across an online unconventional way. The megachurch is additional ones reported in France, Belgium, ad from an older woman looking for a gang cast into shadow, and a hellish storm begins Italy, and Spain, and they all appeared in the bang. Boys being boys, they hit the road to brewing that could jeopardize its entire last 24 hours. Although Susan’s encounter satisfy their libidinal urges. But what begins existence. The road to hell—in this case, with Michael (Ewan McGregor), a local as a fantasy takes a dark turn as they come Salvation Boulevard—is paved with good restaurant chef, holds the promise of face-to-face with a terrifying “holy” force intentions—gone hysterically wrong. with a fatal agenda. new love, the world is about to change This material is perfectly suited for George dramatically. People across the globe begin Instead of relying on archetypes and Ratliff, who directed the award-winning to suffer strange symptoms, affecting the predictable formulas, Smith meticulously documentary Hell House and the 2007 emotions, then the senses. fashions all-too-real characters, utilizing Sundance Film Festival hit Joshua. Down Director David Mackenzie returns to the exceptional performances (notably by Michael to every detail, you feel you are in capable Parks) and an intelligent script. His realistic Sundance Film Festival (Spread played hands. In a situation ripe with possibilities, style gives the film an intimate feeling, in 2009) with Perfect Sense, a magnetic the gloriously talented cast push their heightening the terror to biblical proportions. romance/thriller that offers a deeply moving performances to the limit, spiraling this film is a shocking new kind of proposition about the way the human race Red State toward instant cult-comedy status. In that aggressively confronts higher powers and might weather a global pandemic.—S.F. Salvation Boulevard, Ratliff peels back the extreme doctrines with a vengeance.—T.G. onion to take a satirical look at Christian Pr: Gillian Berrie, Malte Grunert Ci: Giles Nuttgens fanaticism—one guilty pleasure at a time.—J.C. Ed: Jake Roberts PrD: Tom Sayer Mu: ExP: Elyse Seiden, Jason Clark Pr: Jonathan Gordon Ci: Dave Klein PrD: Cabot McMullen Ca: Shaheen Baig Principal Cast: Ewan McGregor, Pr: Cathy Schulman, Celine Rattray, Peter CoD: Beth Pasternak Ca: Deborah Aquila Eva Green, Ewen Bremner, , Fruchtman Lp: Peter Pastorelli Ci: Principal Cast: , Kerry Bishe, Denis Lawson, Connie Nielsen Ed: Michael LaHale PrD: Clark Hunter Mu: George Nicholas Braun, Kyle Gallner, , Melissa S. Clinton Principal Cast: , Jennifer Leo, Michael Parks, Kevin Pollack, Stephen Root Monday, January 24, 9:30 p.m. - PERFE24CN Connelly, , Greg Kinnear, Eccles Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 23, 6:30 p.m. - REDST23CE Tuesday, January 25, 8:30 a.m. - PERFE25LM Monday, January 24, 2:30 p.m. - SALVA24LA Eccles Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Monday, January 24, 8:30 a.m. - REDST24LM Wednesday, January 26, 6:30 p.m. - PERFE26GE Wednesday, January 26, 6:15 p.m. - SALVA26CE Library Center Theatre, Park City Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Eccles Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 27, 6:30 p.m. - PERFE27OE Saturday, January 29, 12:30 p.m. - SALVA29GD Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Saturday, January 29, 6:15 p.m. - PERFE29CE Eccles Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 30, 10:00 a.m. - PERFE30SM Screening Room, Sundance Resort

40 Premieres 2011 Sundance Film Festival Casting Ca: CoD: Costume Designer Music Mu: Win Win

So: Sound DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Tom McCarthy, U.S.A., 2010, 95 min., color based on the story by Tom McCarthy and Joe Tiboni The Sundance Film Festival is thrilled to U.S.A., 2010, 106 min., color welcome back a familiar face to close out its ArD: Art Director 2011 program. Dito Montiel won the directing Struggling attorney Mike Flaherty award for The Guide to Recognizing Your (), who volunteers as a Saints in 2006. He returns with another high-school wrestling coach, takes on gripping New York story. the guardianship of an elderly client in a desperate attempt to keep his practice The Son of No One is a police thriller about afloat. When the client’s teenage grandson PrD: Production Designer a young cop who is assigned to a precinct in runs away from home and shows up on his the Queens neighborhood where he grew up. grandfather’s doorstep, Mike’s life is turned To provide for his wife and ailing daughter, he Ed: Editor upside down as his win-win proposition turns works hard to keep his life on track. But this into something much more complicated than life is threatened when a dark secret bubbles he ever bargained for. to the surface. An anonymous source reveals new information about the unsolved murder Maybe because director Tom McCarthy is also

Ci: Cinematographer of two boys and a possible police cover-up, a skilled , he has an innate ability to mine setting off a chain of events that rattles his material for those nuances that expose the neighborhood. the delicate human conflicts that drive his characters. They struggle to be good as their Despite its studio-caliber cast, The Son of almost-understandable flaws put them to the Associate Producer No One remains fiercely independent, thanks test. You get the distinct feeling that his AsP: to Montiel’s passion and ability. He works love working for him because they do their within the cop-drama genre but fleshes jobs so well. Win Win could refer to the old out his characters and their world with an adage about how we play the game, but more authenticity that heightens the film’s impact. simply, it just means that doing right brings CoP: Coproducer You’ll remember it long after the Festival is out the best in all of us.—J.C. over.—T.G. Pr: Mary Jane Skalski, Michael , Pr: Producer ExP: Avi Lerner, Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short, Lisa Maria Falcone, Tom McCarthy Boaz Davidson, Cassian Elwes Pr: John Thompson, Principal Cast: Paul Giamatti, , Holly Wiersma Ci: Benoit Delhomme Ed: Jake , Jeffrey Tambor Pushinsky Mu: Jonathan Elias, David Wittman Principal Cast: , , Friday, January 21, 9:30 p.m. - WINWI21CN , Ray Liotta with and Eccles Theatre, Park City

ExP: Executive Producer Saturday, January 22, 9:15 a.m. - WINWI22CM Friday, January 28, 6:15 p.m. - SONOF28CE Eccles Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 23, 6:30 p.m. - WINWI23OE Credit Legend Saturday, January 29, 9:15 a.m. - SONOF29CM Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden Eccles Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 29, 2:30 p.m. - WINWI29LA Saturday, January 29, 9:30 p.m. - SONOF29GN Library Center Theatre, Park City Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Sunday, January 30, 3:30 p.m. - WINWI30GA Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Premieres sundance.org/festival 41 Reflecting the growing impact and popularity of documentaries in our world today, Documentary Premieres is a new program for 2011 that furthers our commitment to this important form of storytelling. Expect to see master filmmakers debuting their new documentaries about significant subjects. Becoming Chaz DIRECTORS: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato U.S.A., 2010, 92 min., color Against the World DIRECTOR: Liz Garbus Chaz Bono was a male trapped in a female U.S.A., 2010, 93 min., color shell for as long as he can remember. Growing Documentary up as Sonny and ’s adorable golden-haired English and Russian with English subtitles daughter in a body he felt wasn’t his own Considered by many to be the world’s was a crucible it took years to transcend. greatest chess player, Bobby Fischer Premieres Now, as he undertakes gender reassignment, personified the link between genius and he’s bravely decided to share the process on madness. His trajectory propelled him from camera. Becoming Chaz invites us along on child prodigy to world chess champion at age Chaz’s remarkable journey of transformation. 29 and then into a nosedive of delusions and As hormone shots give way to top surgery, paranoia. Fischer was a recluse for decades down-to-earth, unflappable Chaz beams with before resurfacing for a bizarre final chapter a sense of liberation and goes public with his as a fugitive. story to put a face on a misunderstood issue. Meanwhile, his gregarious girlfriend grapples As a loner with no familial support, Fischer with the realities of suddenly living with a had to defend his title while representing his man, and it’s clear sex change isn’t solely a country against the mighty Russians during physical transition. the cold war. The center of media attention, Fischer was never equipped for a life in Intimate and nakedly honest, the film reveals the spotlight. the humanity and courage it takes for Chaz to ultimately embrace his true self. His moving From veteran filmmaker Liz Garbus, and the struggle will reverberate profoundly for final project of late editor Karen Schmeer, anyone to whom authenticity matters.—C.L. Bobby Fischer Against the World exposes the disturbingly high price Fischer paid to achieve Pr: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Chaz Bono his legendary success and the resulting toll CoP: Mona Card AsP: Howard Bragman, Dina LaPolt it took on his psyche. Rare archival footage Ci: Mario Panagiotopoulos Ed: Cameron Teisher and insightful interviews with those closest Mu: David Benjamin Steinberg to him expand this captivating story of a mastermind’s tumultuous rise—and fall.—L.V. Sunday, January 23, 8:30 p.m. - BCHAZ23PN Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Pr: Liz Garbus, Stanley Buchthal, , Monday, January 24, 3:00 p.m. - BCHAZ24BA Matthew Justus Ci: Bob Chappell Ed: Karen Broadway Centre Cinema VI, SLC Schmeer, Michael Levine Tuesday, January 25, 9:00 p.m. - BCHAZ254N Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Friday, January 21, 11:30 a.m. - BOBBY21LD Saturday, January 29, 9:00 p.m. - BCHAZ29YN Library Center Theatre, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 22, 7:00 p.m. - BOBBY22RE Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Sunday, January 23, 11:30 p.m. - BOBBY23PL Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. - BOBBY26WN Tower Theatre, SLC Friday, January 28, 11:30 a.m. - BOBBY28ED Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 29, 3:30 p.m. - BOBBY29OA Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden

42 2011 Sundance Film Festival Casting Ca: CoD: Costume Designer Music Mu: Granito The Greatest The Interrupters

So: Sound DIRECTOR: Pamela Yates DIRECTOR/CINEMATOGRAPHER: Steve James SCREENWRITERS: Peter Kinoy, Pamela Yates, Movie Ever Sold U.S.A., 2011, 190 min., color Paco de On s DIRECTOR: U.S.A., 2011, 100 min., color SCREENWRITERS: Jeremy Chilnick, Living, breathing, modern-day heroes are Morgan Spurlock inspiring hope on the scary streets of . ArD: Art Director Sometimes a film makes history; it doesn’t just U.S.A., 2011, 90 min., color Meet the Interrupters—former gang members document it. Such is the case with Granito, who disrupt violence in their neighborhoods the astonishing new film by Pamela Yates. Part Acclaimed filmmaker and master provocateur as it happens. Acclaimed director Steve James political thriller, part memoir, Granito takes us Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) returns (Hoop Dreams, Stevie) working with noted through a riveting, haunting tale of genocide to the Sundance Film Festival with author Alex Kotlowitz, recounts the gripping and justice that spans four decades, two films, tongue-in-cheek perfection as he examines stories of men and women who, with bravado, PrD: Production Designer and in many ways, Yates’s own career. the world of product placement, marketing, humility, and humor, strive to protect their and advertising by making a film financed Embedded in Granito is Yates’s seminal 1982 communities from the brutality they once Ed: Editor entirely by product placement, marketing, employed. With his signature intimate vérité, film, When the Mountains Tremble, which and advertising. introduced the world to the tragedy of the James follows these individuals over the genocide carried out against the Mayan people We live in an age where it’s tough even to course of a year as they attempt to intervene by the Guatemalan government and propelled walk down the street without someone trying in disputes before they turn violent: two to sell you something. It’s at the point where brothers who threaten to shoot each other, an Ci: Cinematographer Mayan activist Rigoberta Menchú to the international stage. During filming, practically the entire American experience is angry teenage girl just home from prison, and Yates was allowed to shoot the only known brought to us by some corporation. Utilizing a young man on a warpath of revenge. footage of the army as it carried out the cutting-edge tools of comic exploration and Both a voyage into the stubborn persistence genocide. Twenty-five years later, this film total self-exploitation, Spurlock dissects the of bloodshed in our cities today and a beacon Associate Producer and its outtakes become evidence in an world of advertising and marketing by using of light, James’s unforgettable documentary AsP: international war-crimes case against the his personal integrity as currency to sell out captures each Interrupter’s inspired work, former commander of the army, and Yates to the highest bidder. Scathingly funny, transporting us on a powerful journey from reunites with Menchú, now a Nobel laureate, subversive, and deceptively smart, The crime to trust to redemption.—D.C. and others who continue to contribute their Greatest Movie Ever Sold shines the definitive CoP: Coproducer granito (tiny grain of sand) in a continuing light on our branded future as Spurlock ExP: Gordon Quinn, Justine Nagan, Teddy Leifer, quest for the truth.—C.M. attempts to create the “Iron Man of Paul Taylor, Sally Jo Fifer, David Fanning documentaries,” the first ever “docbuster”! Pr: Alex Kotlowitz, Steve James CoP/So: Zak Piper Pr: Producer Pr: Paco de Onís CoP: Beatriz Gallardo He may very well have succeeded.—D.C. Ed: Aaron Wickenden, Steve James AsP: Jesse Loncraine, Sally Eberhardt Ci: Melle van Essen Ed: Peter Kinoy Mu: Roger C. Miller Pr: Jeremy Chilnick, Abbie Hurewitz, Morgan Friday, January 21, 9:00 p.m. - INTER21TN Spurlock Ci: Daniel Marracino Ed: Tom Vogt, Temple Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 25, noon - GRANI25TD Marrian Cho Saturday, January 22, 9:00 p.m. - INTER22RN Temple Theatre, Park City Redstone Cinema 8, Park City ExP: Executive Producer Thursday, January 27, 6:00 p.m. - GRANI274E Saturday, January 22, 2:30 p.m. - GREAT22LA Friday, January 28, 9:00 p.m. - INTER28TN Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City Friday, January 28, 6:00 p.m. - GRANI28SE Sunday, January 23, 6:00 p.m. - GREAT23RE Saturday, January 29, 9:45 p.m. - INTER29BN Credit Legend Screening Room, Sundance Resort Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema V, SLC Saturday, January 29, 9:00 p.m. - GRANI29TN Wednesday, January 26, 6:30 p.m. - GREAT26OE Temple Theatre, Park City Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden Thursday, January 27, 5:30 p.m. - GREAT27PE Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 29, 3:30 p.m. - GREAT29GA Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

Documentary Premieres sundance.org/festival 43 Reagan Rebirth These DIRECTOR: Eugene Jarecki DIRECTOR: Jim Whitaker U.S.A./United Kingdom, 2011, 120 min., U.S.A., 2010, 105 min., color Amazing Shadows color & b/w DIRECTORS: Paul Mariano, Kurt Norton How does the journey of grieving and U.S.A., 2010, 86 min., color is so often called “good” recovery unfold for individuals and a nation? or “evil” that a line from Shakespeare’s Rebirth chronicles the lives of five people From Dorothy’s entrance into Oz to the Julius Caesar springs to mind after viewing profoundly affected by the 9/11 attacks. As pizza delivery at Ridgemont High, cinematic filmmaker Eugene Jarecki’s latest opus, a decade passes, we witness the progress of moments take on iconic levels of meaning in Reagan. Speaking at his funeral, Mark Antony a student whose mother perished, a widow a film lover’s life. said of Caesar, “The evil that men do lives of a first responder, a woman who survived As the government-appointed protector of our after them; the good is oft interred with their above the impact zone, a man who oversees cinematic legacy, the bones.” With a firm grasp of Reagan’s story, Ground Zero construction, and a firefighter selects culturally, historically, or aesthetically Jarecki avoids the predictable and allows who lost his closest friends. As they cope with significant works for preservation in the myriad interpretations of Reagan’s life while the excruciating and evolving pain of loss, . From award-winning staying centered on him as a man of deep time helps them refashion the scaffolding features to music videos, experimental films to contradiction: an American whose patriotism of their lives. home movies, each registry selection reflects paradoxically led him to impeachable acts, Meanwhile, amazingly, 14 time-lapse a truth of its time or a standout artistic a liberal Democrat who came to define the vision. Through interviews with registry board modern conservative movement. cameras chart the entire multiyear rebuilding of 7 World Trade Center—the first structure to members, archivists, and notable filmmakers Rendered to play the big screen, but unlike the rise to completion after the tragedy. The site’s like and , directors B-movies that fill Reagan’s resumé, this may renewal becomes a stunning metaphor for the Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton demonstrate be the best movie Ronald Reagan will ever cycle of life while the film’s characters reflect the way film documents artistic and star in. Through extraordinary visual material, the resilience of humanity and the possibility societal milestones. interviews, and research, Jarecki creates a of transformation in the face of anguish. Guided by a true cinephile’s love of the definitive portrait of a man solidly in and of Inspiring a collective catharsis, this exquisitely medium and a treasure trove of archival his times, whose policies and beliefs, for moving documentary helps us process what is footage, molds a better and worse, continue to shape the unimaginable.—C.L. cultural history from pieces of film, offering world we live in.—C.M. a microcosm of the work of the National Film Pr: Jim Whitaker, David Solomon Ci: Thomas Lappin Registry and making a powerful case for film ExP: Shelia Nevins, Nick Fraser Pr: Kathleen Ed: Kevin Filippini, Mu: Philip Glass Fournier Ci: Etienne Sauret Ed: Simon Barker So: John Zecca FiPr: Danielle Beverly preservation.—H.Z. Pr: Paul Mariano, Kurt Norton, Christine O’Malley Sunday, January 23, 2:15 p.m. - REAGA23LA Friday, January 21, 8:30 a.m. - REBIR21PM Ci: Frazer Bradshaw Ed: Doug Blush, Alex Calleros Library Center Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Mu: Peter Golub Ti: Brian Oakes Monday, January 24, 7:00 p.m. - REAGA24RE Tuesday, January 25, 2:30 p.m. - REBIR25LA Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 22, 3:00 p.m. - AMAZI22RA Wednesday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. - REAGA26SN Wednesday, January 26, 9:30 p.m. - REBIR26GN Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Screening Room, Sundance Resort Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Sunday, January 23, 6:00 p.m. - AMAZI23YE Thursday, January 27, 9:30 p.m. - REAGA27GN Thursday, January 27, noon - REBIR27TD Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Temple Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 29, 5:30 p.m. - REAGA29PE Saturday, January 29, 3:00 p.m. - REBIR294A The Sunday, January 23 evening screening will be Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City followed by a discussion about with , George Willeman (Library of Congress), , Steve James, and Jan-Christopher Horak (UCLA Film and Television Archive).

Friday, January 28, 9:45 p.m. - AMAZI28BN Broadway Centre Cinema V, SLC Saturday, January 29, 10:00 p.m. - AMAZI291N Holiday Village Cinema I, Park City

44 Documentary Premieres 2011 Sundance Film Festival The Spotlight section is a tribute to the cinema we love. Whether they are world premieres from some of our favorite directors or films that have dazzled audiences at other festivals, we are thrilled to light a marquee for them and are confident that you’ll love them, too. ATTENBERG Elite Squad 2 DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Tropa de Elite 2 , 2010, 95 min., color DIRECTOR: Jose Padilha SCREENWRITER: Braulio Mantovani Greek with English subtitles Brazil, 2010, 120 min., color Spotlight ATTENBERG premiered at the Venice Film Portuguese with English subtitles Festival, announcing Athina Rachel Tsangari Filmmaker José Padilha first came to the as a daring auteur of an exciting new wave Sundance Film Festival as a producer on of Greek filmmaking. We are happy to give The Charcoal People (2000), then returned as ATTENBERG its first U.S. platform. director of Bus 174 (2003) and Secrets of the In a small, seaside industrial town, 23-year- Tribe (2010). After winning acclaim in both old Marina maintains an exceptionally close fiction and nonfiction filmmaking, he is back relationship with her architect father, who is as a juror for our World Cinema Documentary dying of cancer. Her only sexual knowledge Competition, and we welcome him proudly. comes from her friend Bella, with whom she More than a decade after waging urban war practices kissing, and she remains an observer on the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Captain of mankind, emulating Sir David Attenborough Nascimento remains the controversial head whose animal programs she enjoys. While of BOPE, the special-forces military police. preparing for her father’s imminent death, Government officials hope to weaken the rash, Marina discovers her own sexuality with a but publically adored, officer by taking him visiting engineer. off the streets and giving him a desk job in ATTENBERG embraces the abstract and the State Department. Never one to fall in line, theatrical in choreographed interludes a maturing Nascimento must adapt his old and wild-animal pantomimes, but provides tactics to a new position and a new enemy. an essential emotional point of access in In this viscerally charged ride, José Padilha the profound father-daughter bond. An adeptly avoids the typical pitfalls of sequels unconventional coming-of-age film, by examining new themes of politics and ATTENBERG is the story of a girl-woman corruption.—C.R. who comes to terms with sex and death as natural parts of life.—K.Y. ExP: Leonardo Edde, James D’arcy Pr: José Padilha, Marcos Prado Ci: Lula Carvalho Ed: Daniel Rezende ExP: Christos V. Konstantakopoulos So: Leandro Lima CoD: Claudia Kopke Pr: Maria Hatzakou, , Principal Cast: Wagner Moura, André Ramiro, Iraklis Mavroidis, Athina Rachel Tsangari, André Mattos, Sandro Rocha, Maria Ribeiro, Angelos Venetis, Haos Films CoP: Greek Film Center, Milhem Cortaz Faliro House Productions, Boo Productions, Stefi Productions Ci: Sunday, January 23, 8:45 p.m. - ELITE23EN , Vangelis Mourikis, Principal Cast: Egyptian Theatre, Park City Evangelia Randou, Yorgos Lanthimos Monday, January 24, 9:00 p.m. - ELITE24BN Broadway Centre Cinema VI, SLC Friday, January 21, 9:00 a.m. - ATTEN21EM Egyptian Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 27, 11:30 a.m. - ELITE27LD Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 22, 6:00 p.m. - ATTEN22RE Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Sunday, January 23, 4:30 p.m. - ATTEN23DA Broadway Centre Cinema IV, SLC Tuesday, January 25, noon - ATTEN25ED Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 29, 9:00 p.m. - ATTEN29RN Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Sunday, January 30, 1:00 p.m. - ATTEN301D Holiday Village Cinema I, Park City

sundance.org/festival 45 I Saw the Devil Akmareul Boatda Hae vnen DIRECTOR: SCREENWRITERS: Denis Villeneuve, in collabo- DIRECTOR: Kim Ji-woon DIRECTOR: ration with Valerie Beaugrand-Champagne SCREENWRITER: Park Hoon-jung SCREENWRITER: Anders Thomas Jensen, Canada/France, 2010, 130 min., color South Korea, 2010, 141 min., color based on a story by Susanne Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen French/Arabic with English subtitles Korean with English subtitles Denmark/Sweden, 2010, 113 min., color We are proud to welcome back Denis Kim Ji-woon’s latest masterpiece, I Saw the Danish/Swedish/English with English subtitles Villeneuve, director of Maelström and the Devil, floored audiences at the Film , which screened at Festival and with its visual Susanne Bier’s award-winning films have Sundance in 2001 and 2009, respectively. audacity and gut-wrenching violence. We’re screened at the Sundance Film Festival in Incendies, Villeneuve’s fourth feature film honored to welcome him to the Festival. 2003 and 2005. We are delighted to welcome her back as a World Dramatic Competition and Canada’s Oscar submission, is his most A remorseless psychopath stalks deserted juror and to screen her new film, In a masterful, riveting work to date. roads looking for women to and Better World. In , twins Jeanne and Simon must slaughter. But when he murders the pregnant deal with their mother, Nawal’s, dying wish: fiancée of a secret-service agent, the tables Anton lives in two cultures. He works as a locate their father, who they believed was turn, and the stalker becomes the prey as doctor at an African refugee camp, where he dead, and the brother they never knew the grief-stricken agent pursues a gruesome witnesses the tragedy and brutality inflicted existed. Jeanne travels to the Middle East to revenge. Joo-yeon hunts down the killer but by a warlord, and lives in a small Danish piece together her mother’s mysterious does not turn him over to the authorities. town, where he and his wife, from whom he is personal history. On a parallel quest, set in Instead, he exacts a punishment designed to separated, raise two sons. Ten-year-old Elias, the past, Nawal searches for the son who make the truly suffer. The sadistic who is mercilessly bullied, becomes friends was taken from her at birth during a civil mayhem escalates as the pair enact a gory with a new classmate, Christian, who defends war between the Christians and the cat-and-mouse game that quickly spirals out Elias but also enjoys revenge. Anton’s two Palestinians. As the twins unravel their of control. worlds collide when he is challenged by his own advocacy of responsibility, compassion, mother’s story, truths crescendo into a As excellently crafted as it is blood soaked, and nonviolence in his encounters with series of startling revelations. Kim Ji-woon’s hard-edged revenge thriller damaged souls. Haunting images intensify this spellbinding leaves an indelible mark on its audience. classical narrative, based on Wadji Mouawad’s The brutality and unrelenting violence of Bier creates a timely and universal film acclaimed play, as Villeneuve crafts an epic, I Saw the Devil is only half as jarring as its of extraordinary power and suspense. In ferocious journey through brutality, truth, unflinching portrait of the dark side of human an exploration of masculinity and the and, ultimately, reconciliation.—K.Y. nature. —H.Z. perpetuation of violence, she imposes difficult moral dilemmas on an idealistic individual, Pr: Luc Déry, Kim McCraw Ci: André Turpin Kim Hyun-woo Lee Mogae Nam offering no easy answers.—K.Y. Pr: Ci: Ed: Ed: PrD: André-Line Na-young Mowg Choi Tae-young Mu: So: Beauparlant Mu: Grégoire Hetzel Lee Byung-hun, Choi Min-sik Sisse Graum Jørgensen Morten Søborg Principal Cast: Pr: Ci: So: Principal Cast: Lubna Ed: Pernille Bech Christensen PrD: Peter Grant Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Friday, January 21, 9:00 p.m. - ISAWD21WN Mu: Johan Søderqvist So: Eddie Simonsen Gaudette, Rémy Girard Tower Theatre, SLC Principal Cast: Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Saturday, January 22, 11:30 p.m. - ISAWD22PL Ulrich Thomsen, Markus Rygaard, William Jøhnk Nielsen Friday, January 21, 2:15 p.m. - INCEN21PA Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 23, 9:00 p.m. - ISAWD23RN Friday, January 21, 3:00 p.m. - IBETR21SA Saturday, January 22, 6:00 p.m. - INCEN22BE Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Screening Room, Sundance Resort Broadway Centre Cinema VI, SLC Thursday, January 27, 2:45 p.m. - ISAWD27EA Saturday, January 22, 9:30 p.m. - IBETR22ON Sunday, January 23, 9:00 p.m. - INCEN23SN Egyptian Theatre, Park City Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden Screening Room, Sundance Resort Saturday, January 29, 9:00 p.m. - ISAWD29EN Wednesday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. - IBETR26YN Tuesday, January 25, 8:15 p.m. - INCEN25PN Egyptian Theatre, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 30, 4:00 p.m. - ISAWD301A Thursday, January 27, 2:45 p.m. - IBETR27LA Friday, January 28, 11:15 a.m. - INCEN28LD Holiday Village Cinema I, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 29, 3:45 p.m. - IBETR29BA Broadway Centre Cinema V, SLC Sunday, January 30, 4:30 p.m. - IBETR302A Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City

46 Spotlight 2011 Sundance Film Festival Casting Ca: CoD: Costume Designer Music Mu: Kaboom Letters from Meek's Cutoff

So: Sound DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Gregg Araki DIRECTOR/EDITOR: U.S.A., 2010, 86 min., color the Big Man SCREENWRITER: Jon Raymond DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: U.S.A., 2010, 104 min., color Gregg Araki has screened nearly every film Christopher Munch he has made at the Sundance Film Festival. U.S.A., 2011, 115 min., color From her first feature, River of Grass, which ArD: Art Director As evidenced by Kaboom, his tenth feature premiered at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival, film, Araki continues to be uncompromisingly Christopher Munch’s extraordinary films, all to her subsequent works, Old Joy, Wendy and independent and subversive enough to give of which have screened at Sundance, use quiet Lucy, and Meek’s Cutoff, Kelly Reichardt has ultraconservatives massive coronaries. restraint to dodge reductionism, allowing emerged as a unique voice in cinema; it’s our viewers to derive the meaning for themselves. pleasure to welcome her back. A hyperstylized, pansexual trip, Kaboom Letters from the Big Man is no exception.

PrD: Production Designer is a live- born out of the graphic Set in 1845 along the unforgiving Oregon novel aesthetic. Thomas Dekker plays Smith, In the breathtaking, remote wilderness of Trail, Meek’s Cutoff follows three pioneer a film student lusting after his dumb, hunky southwestern Oregon, Sarah Smith, a families who have entrusted a scout, Stephen Ed: Editor roommate (aptly named Thor), but after eating hydrologist, embarks on an expedition to Meek, with guiding their wagons across a a drug-laced cookie, he hooks up with a hot conduct a government water survey. An supposed shortcut. Faced with dwindling chick, London (). Meanwhile, a intrepid outdoors woman, Sarah craves a solo water supplies, mounting uncertainty bizarre mystery brews involving his lesbian journey so she can reconnect with herself and about Meek’s dependability, and growing

Ci: Cinematographer BFF’s obsessive, witchy girlfriend, weird guys nature. Venturing deep into the forest, she disagreement over a captured Native in masks who chase him around campus, and intuits another presence. Gradually, the American, the group begins to fray. a recurring dream about a dead girl. elusive figure reveals himself to be a Sasquatch, and the two interact tentatively. Reichardt’s breathtaking vision recasts the Unrestrained and completely over the top, As their bond intensifies, Sarah finds she mythology of the . Focusing on simple Associate Producer Kaboom picks up where Araki’s “Teenage must take bold steps to protect the Big Man’s rhythms and daily tasks, she conveys the AsP: Apocalypse Trilogy” of the left off. privacy, as well as her own. families’ routines (boiling water, reloading With his impeccable craft, rebellious spirit, a musket, or replacing a wagon axle) with and outrageous vision intact, Araki remains a You can almost sense the rustling of trees incredible detail and authenticity. The film’s true indie master.—K.Y. and fresh air as Munch reverently explores unadorned aesthetic yields a morally complex

CoP: Coproducer the possibility of communicating directly with drama and meditation on human nature. Set ExP: Sebastien K. Lemercier, Pascal Caucheteux, the ineffable mysteries in nature, fashioning during the emergence of Manifest Destiny, it Jonathan Schwartz Pr: Gregg Araki, Andrea Sperling a powerful metaphysical love story with also presents an oblique, cutting comment on

Pr: Producer CoP: Pavlina Hatoupis AsP: Beau J. Genot resonance for our times.—C.L. America and its policies today.—J.N. Ci: Sandra Valde-Hansen PrD: Todd Fielsted Principal Cast: Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett, Ci: Rob Sweeney Ed: Curtiss Clayton Pr: Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani, Elizabeth Cuthrell, Chris Zylka, Roxane Mesquida, Juno Temple, ArD: Ricardo Herrera So: Frederick Helm David Urrutia Ci: Christopher Blauvelt Andy Fischer-Price CoD: Kristen Anacker Ma: Lee Romaire PrD: David Doernberg Mu: Jeff Grace Principal Cast: , Jason Butler Harner, CoD: Victoria Farrell Principal Cast: Michelle

ExP: Executive Producer Friday, January 21, 8:30 p.m. - KABOO21PN Isaac C. Singleton Jr., Jim Cody Williams, Williams, Bruce Greenwood, , ,

Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Fiona Dourif, Shirley Henderson, Rod Rondeaux Saturday, January 22, midnight - KABOO22YL Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 23, 5:30 p.m. - LETTE23LE Friday, January 21, 3:00 p.m. - MEEKS21EA Credit Legend Monday, January 24, 6:00 p.m. - KABOO24WE Library Center Theatre, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Tower Theatre, SLC Tuesday, January 25, 9:00 p.m. - LETTE25EN Saturday, January 22, 8:30 p.m. - MEEKS22PN Saturday, January 29, 9:30 p.m. - KABOO292N Egyptian Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Saturday, January 29, 5:30 p.m. - LETTE29LE Sunday, January 23, 6:00 p.m. - MEEKS23WE Library Center Theatre, Park City Tower Theatre, SLC Sunday, January 30, 5:00 p.m. - LETTE303A Saturday, January 29, midnight - MEEKS294L Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Sunday, January 30, 2:00 p.m. - MEEKS303D Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City

Spotlight sundance.org/festival 47 Old Cats Uncle Kent Gatos Viejos DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: , DIRECTOR/EDITOR: Joe Swanberg based on the novel by Joe Dunthorne SCREENWRITERS: Joe Swanberg, Kent Osborne DIRECTORS/SCREENWRITERS: Pedro Peirano, United Kingdom, 2010, 94 min., color U.S.A., 2010, 72 min., color Sebastian Silva Chile, 2010, 88 min., color First garnering attention as a comedian Joe Swanberg makes microbudget, DIY Spanish with English subtitles (notably The IT Crowd), Richard Ayoade movies with a network of talented friends. turned his hand to directing music videos A prolific filmmaker, he’s made five feature We are excited to welcome Sebastián Silva before embarking on Submarine, his films and a web series. We’re thrilled to and Pedro Peirano back to the Sundance Film extraordinarily funny first feature. present Uncle Kent, his newest feature and Festival (their film, The Maid, won the World Meet Oliver Tate, a precocious 15-year-old the first of his films to be screened at the Cinema Dramatic Competition in 2009) Sundance Film Festival. with Old Cats, a wickedly delicious chamber whose worldview is exceedingly clever and drama about a family marinating in its largely delusional (he imagines the outpouring Forty-year-old Kent Osborne works out of his own problems. of grief that would spread through Wales if he sunny Los Angeles home as a cartoonist for a died). Oliver carries a briefcase, doesn’t agree children’s show. During his day, he takes bong Isadora and Enrique, an elderly couple, live a with everything Nietzsche said but concedes hits and hangs out with his fluffy cat. Kent comfortable life with their two ample cats in that he had some interesting points, peruses hopes to hook up with Kate, a cute New York a handsome high-rise apartment overlooking the dictionary for new words (fla•gi•tious, adj, journalist he met online on Chatroulette, when the park. Isadora is struggling with a bout of wickedly shameful), and suspects his mother she comes to stay for the weekend. Although dementia when her daughter, Rosario, and of having an affair with their New Age their time together is sexually loaded—they her butch female lover, Hugo, drop in for a neighbor. But foremost on Oliver’s mind is take raunchy pictures and pick up a bicurious coked-up visit to pitch their latest get-rich finding a girlfriend. Enter Jordana Bevan. girl on Craigslist—things don’t go quite as scheme—and attempt to snatch the flat right Kent imagined. out from under Isadora. Then Isadora does Adapted from Joe Dunthorne’s wry novel something quite unexpected for a woman with and bolstered by aesthetic wit, fabulous Written by Swanberg and Osborne, the film a busted hip, and everything changes. performances, and a clever score by captures Kent’s existence with comedic charm (with songs by Alex Turner), and understated pathos. No matter how Drawing pitch-perfect performances from a Submarine evokes the spontaneity and breezy confusing his personal relationships get, he’ll brilliant cast, Silva and Peirano have crafted a cinematic cool of the French New Wave. always be Uncle Kent.—K.Y. splendid film filled with the pathos and black Ayoade sidesteps coming-of-age clichés to humor found in treacherous mother-daughter explore a kid who’s too self-absorbed to Pr: Joe Swanberg, Kent Osborne Mu: Kev relationships. Old Cats points a way to how realize that to know somebody, you first have Principal Cast: Kent Osborne, Jennifer Prediger, empathy may lead to survivable neutral to remove yourself from the center of the Josephine Decker, Joe Swanberg, Kev ground.—S.F. universe.—J.N. PRECEDED BY EX-SEX Pr: Kim Jose, David Robinson, Sebastián Silva Pr: Andy Stebbing, Mark Herbert, Mary Burke DIRECTOR: MICHAEL MOHAN Ci: Sergio Armstrong Ed: Gabriel Diaz Ci: Erik Felton Ed: Nick Fenton, Chris Dickens U.S.A., 2011, 9 MIN., COLOR So: Claudio Vargas, Ernesto Trujillo OrMu: Andrew Hewitt OrSo: Alex Turner So: Roberto Espinoza Principal Cast: Belgica Principal Cast: , , Friday, January 21, 11:30 a.m. - UNCLE21PD Castro, Claudia Celedon, Alejandro Sieveking, , Yasmin Paige, Noah Taylor Catalina Saavedra, Alejandro Goic, Alicia Rodriguez Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 22, 10:00 p.m. - UNCLE22RN Saturday, January 22, 5:30 p.m. - SUBMA22PE Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Friday, January 21, 6:00 p.m. - OLDCA21YE Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 23, 6:45 p.m. - UNCLE23BE Sunday, January 23, 9:00 p.m. - SUBMA23BN Broadway Centre Cinema V, SLC Saturday, January 22, noon - OLDCA22RD Broadway Centre Cinema VI, SLC Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Wednesday, January 26, midnight - UNCLE26EL Tuesday, January 25, midnight - SUBMA254L Egyptian Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 23, 3:00 p.m. - OLDCA23BA Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema VI, SLC Friday, January 28, 5:30 p.m. - UNCLE28LE Thursday, January 27, 6:15 p.m. - SUBMA27EE Library Center Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 25, 2:30 p.m. - OLDCA25PA Egyptian Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 29, 9:00 p.m. - UNCLE29WN Saturday, January 29, 7:00 p.m. - SUBMA29RE Tower Theatre, SLC Saturday, January 29, 6:30 p.m. - OLDCA292E Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Sunday, January 30, 1:30 p.m. - SUBMA302D Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City

48 Spotlight 2011 Sundance Film Festival NEXT films stretch a low budget to create big art. < = > (less than equals greater than) is our speak for the creativity that limited resources can inspire. Although these films share a Festival category, there is nothing categorical about them. By nature they embody the true spirit of indie filmmaking. Bellflower The Lie DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Evan Glodell DIRECTOR: Joshua Leonard U.S.A., 2010, 103 min., color SCREENWRITERS: Joshua Leonard, Jeff Feuerzeig, Jess Weixler, Mark Webber An apocalyptic love story for the Mad U.S.A., 2010, 80 min., color Max generation, Evan Glodell’s impressive feature debut paints a classic, yet urgently Once an idealistic young man with artistic contemporary, tale of the destructive power aspirations, Lonnie is stuck and doesn’t quite of love. know it. Working at an unfulfilling job, he NEXT longs to realize his lifelong dream of becoming Bellflower follows two friends who spend a musician. When his wife, Clover, is presented their time building flamethrowers and other with a career opportunity that could provide weapons in the hope that a global apocalypse them with the stability she craves (but one will occur and clear the runway for their that goes against their beliefs), Lonnie cannot imaginary gang, Mother Medusa, to reign muster the resolve to endure another day at supreme. While waiting for the destruction to work, so he tells a lie—a life-altering lie that he commence, one of them meets a charismatic cannot take back. young woman and falls in love—hard. Quickly integrating into a new group of friends, the Writer/director/actor Josh Leonard’s The Lie pair set off on a journey of betrayal, love, is a candid, yet charming, look at the way hate, and extreme violence more devastating seemingly harmless actions can cause a chain than any of their apocalyptic fantasies. reaction of irrevocable proportions. With shining performances and intelligent writing, With highly stylized photography and editing, The Lie takes us on a journey of self-discovery Bellflower is an exhilarating, character-driven as it astutely examines what it means to be joyride. Fueling this narrative with fantastic an adult, and the steps we all take to get imagery and extraordinary performances, there . . . eventually.—L.O. writer/director/actor Glodell elevates the ordinary experiences of friendship and ExP: Sriram Das Pr: Mary Pat Bentel romance into the stuff of legend.—T.G. Ci: Benjamin Kasulke Ed: Greg O’Bryant PrD: Thomas Hammock Principal Cast: Joshua ExP: Brian Thomas Evans Pr: Vincent Grashaw Leonard, Jess Weixler, Mark Webber, Alia Shawkat, CoP: Paul Edwardson, Leonard Powell, , Chelsea St. John, Jonathan Keevil, Jet Kauffman Ci: Joel Hodge Ed: Evan Glodell, Joel Hodge, PRECEDED BY EXCUSE ME Jonathan Keevil, Vincent Grashaw DIRECTOR: DUNCAN BIRMINGHAM Principal Cast: Evan Glodell, Jessie Wiseman, U.S.A., 2010, 6 MIN., COLOR Tyler Dawson, Rebekah Brandes

PRECEDED BY DAS RACIST Saturday, January 22, 9:00 p.m. - LIEEE22YN “WHO’S THAT? BROOOWN!” Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City DIRECTOR: THOMAS DE NAPOLI Sunday, January 23, 10:00 p.m. - LIEEE23RN U.S.A., 2010, 5 MIN., COLOR Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Thursday, January 27, 11:45 a.m. - LIEEE27ED Egyptian Theatre, Park City Friday, January 21, 3:00 p.m. - BELLF21YA Thursday, January 27, 9:00 p.m. - LIEEE27BN Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema VI, SLC Saturday, January 22, 6:00 p.m. - BELLF22WE Friday, January 28, 11:30 p.m. - LIEEE28PL Tower Theatre, SLC Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Monday, January 24, 10:00 p.m. - BELLF24RN Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Wednesday, January 26, 6:00 p.m. - BELLF26YE Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Friday, January 28, midnight - BELLF282L Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City

sundance.org/festival 49 The Off Hours Prairie Love DIRECTOR/CINEMATOGRAPHER/EDITOR: DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Megan Griffiths DIRECTOR: Dusty Bias Zack Godshall U.S.A., 2010, 93 min., color SCREENWRITERS: Dusty Bias, SCREENWRITERS: Zack Godshall, Ashley Martin Bias, Holly Lynn Ellis Ross Brupbacher In the languid world of the night shift at U.S.A., 2010, 85 min., color U.S.A., 2011, 94 min., color a highway diner in the Pacific Northwest, Francine’s small-town life consists of quickies From the frozen plains of North Dakota comes Byron has always been a lover of women. He’s in public restrooms and pouring coffee for this wonderfully bizarre story about three a romantic, and he loves all of his girlfriends truckers and townies. And the inertia isn’t people searching for love in the oddest ways. the same way—totally and completely. But limited to Francine; it extends to the diner When a mysterious vagrant, wandering the recently he’s been lost in some heavy owner, a short-order cook, a Serbian waitress, deserted, snow-covered plains, discovers a thoughts about big things like love and God, and Francine’s roommate. What they want is nearly frozen local man, he stops to lend a and he’s growing restless in middle age. When out of reach—or is it that they’ve lost track hand. However, upon learning the man was a TV preacher suggests he retreat from the of wanting anything at all? When Oliver, a en route to collect his pen-pal girlfriend, whom chaos of the world, Byron escapes his town to banker turned big-rig driver, becomes a diner start a spiritual journey of the fantastic kind. he has never met, from a correctional facility, regular, he sparks hope in Francine, the vagrant sees an opportunity to change his In this deadpan Greek tragedy, set on the Gulf introducing the possibility for change. lonely existence. Blinded by his desire for love, shores, a cast of bizarre, comedic characters, The Off Hours takes a precise sense of place the vagrant decides to take matters into his led by newcomer Paul Batiste, pursue and a moody atmosphere and impressively own hands—forever changing the destinies of uncommon dreams and missions of their own creates a complete environment. Writer/ all three people. making. Director Zack Godshall (Low and director Megan Griffiths draws complex Director Dusty Bias combines the Midwest’s Behold) returns to the Sundance Film Festival characters, and she stays true to them, harsh winter landscape with exquisite to share a world seen through the bloodshot respecting their shortcomings and yearnings eyes of Byron, a quixotic philosopher/poet and production design to create a world seemingly for connection. Amy Seimetz alluringly frozen in time. The absurdist humor and bayou Don Juan who seeks spiritual fulfillment commands the film as Francine, a woman by any means possible.—C.R. quirky onscreen oddities make the characters whose liberation from her mundane existence of this grim tale seem strangely lovable. is long overdue.—K.Y. Pr: Zack Godshall, Ross Brupbacher Brazenly idiosyncratic, Prairie Love takes Kenneth Richard Ross Brupbacher the love story into uncharted territory.—T.G. CoP: Mu: ExP: Garr Godfrey, Ed Kim, Aron Michael Thompson, Allisa Brupbacher Paul CoD: Principal Cast: Chris Purkiss, Lincoln Uyeda Pr: Lacey Leavitt, Batiste, Gwendolyn Spradling, Kayla Lemaire, ExP: Dusty Bias, Ashley Martin Bias Pr: Doug Mischa Jakupcak, Joy Saez Ci: Benjamin Kasulke Bria Hobgood, Eric Schexnayder, Justin Bickham Mueller, Holly Lynn Ellis, Ashley Martin Bias, Bryant PrD: Ben Blankenship Mu: Joshua Morrison Mock, Brian Quist CoP: Ted Speaker, Ashley Martin CoD: Rebecca Luke Principal Cast: Amy Seimetz, Bias Ci: Lawrence Schweich Ed: Dusty Bias Monday, January 24, 3:00 p.m. - LORDB24YA Ross Partridge, Tony Doupe, Scoot McNairy, Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Mu: Ted Speaker Principal Cast: Jeremy Clark, Lynn Shelton, Gergana Mellin Holly Lynn Ellis, Garth Blomberg Wednesday, January 26, 8:30 p.m. - LORDB26PN Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 22, 3:00 p.m. - OFFHO22YA Sunday, January 23, 3:00 p.m. - PRAIR23YA Thursday, January 27, midnight - LORDB274L Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Sunday, January 23, noon - OFFHO23RD Tuesday, January 25, 10:00 p.m. - PRAIR25RN Friday, January 28, 3:00 p.m. - LORDB28BA Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema VI, SLC Wednesday, January 26, 6:15 p.m. - OFFHO26EE Thursday, January 27, 11:30 p.m. - PRAIR273L Egyptian Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Saturday, January 29, 4:30 p.m. - OFFHO29BA Friday, January 28, 3:45 p.m. - PRAIR28BA Broadway Centre Cinema IV, SLC Broadway Centre Cinema V, SLC

50 NEXT 2011 Sundance Film Festival Casting Ca: CoD: Costume Designer Music Mu: Restless City Sound of My Voice to.get.her

So: Sound DIRECTOR: Andrew Dosunmu DIRECTOR: DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Erica Dunton SCREENWRITER: Eugene Gussenhoven SCREENWRITERS: Zal Batmanglij, U.S.A., 2010, 86 min., color U.S.A., 2011, 90 min., color U.S.A., 2010, 85 min., color When five beautiful teenagers decide it is French/English/Wolof with English subtitles Following much preparation, Peter and Lorna time to take a break, Anna decides it’s time ArD: Art Director Andrew Dosunmu’s first feature film are given an address. In the dead of night, to borrow daddy’s credit card, purchase reconfigures the classic immigrant narrative, they pull off the lonely road and await further tickets, and invite her friends to her family infusing it with new energy that befits the instructions. Soon they part with their clothes beach house for some much needed R&R. postnational world. Djibril Sy, an aspiring and belongings. After they shower and clean The pressures of school, disloyal boyfriends, young musician from Senegal, lives in New themselves thoroughly, they are blindfolded probing therapists, and family problems have and whisked to an undisclosed location, been building, and the trip seems like a perfect

PrD: Production Designer York. Although he dreams of greatness, imagining the day his own child might be where they descend into a basement. Once way to relieve stress. So the girls come president of the , his path is downstairs, they perform the complicated together for a fateful night of drinking, Ed: Editor unstructured, and he glories in the chaos handshake and are able to gain entry into dancing, self-discovery—and murder. of the street. When Djibril meets Trini, a the group. With that, the young couple, who have been posing as believers, successfully Cleverly constructed and impeccably tuned, prostitute under the control of Bekay, the to.get.her is a sexy, visually luscious mystery local loan shark, his life assumes new purpose infiltrate the cult’s inner sanctum and meet enigmatic leader Maggie, portrayed by the thriller that keeps the tension taut and the

Ci: Cinematographer and momentum; however, whether Djibril and promising Brit Marling (also cowriter and viewer guessing as the tale unravels the girls’ Trini can outrun Bekay’s nefarious influence lives and secrets. Writer/director Erica is another story. producer). Maggie claims to come from the future, and she has grand plans. Dunton draws wonderful performances from Attentive to the symbols and dynamics of the a talented ensemble cast and delivers a ride What follows is a delicately paced and that entertains as much as it illuminates Associate Producer pan-African immigrant community, Dosunmu riveting plunge into a psychological maelstrom an ever-increasing deadly trend in our

AsP: deftly sidesteps sentimentality by presenting an America that diverges from the Horatio of uncertainty and danger. Filmmaker Zal society.—S.F. Alger myth and a beautifully photographed Batmanglij’s feature debut crackles with a New York, suffused with visual and aural mesmerizing command of form, offering no Pr: Erica Dunton Ci: Derek Tindall Ed: James Devlin easy answers to the elusive search for PrD: Matthew Petersen, Andrew Sleet Mu: Michael CoP: Coproducer textures that powerfully evoke the isolation truth.—L.Z. Tremante Principal Cast: Jazzy De Lisser, Chelsea of a newcomer adrift in the world’s most Logan, Adwoa Aboah, Audrey Speicher, Jami Eaton, international city.—S.K. Pr: Hans Ritter, Shelley Surpin, Brit Marling Jill Jackson Pr: Producer Ci: Rachel Morrison Ed: Tamara Meem ExP: Muna Elfituri, David Raymond, Tony PrD: Scott Enge Mu: Rostam Batmanglij Friday, January 21, 9:00 p.m. - TOGET21YN Okungbowa Pr: Katie Mustard, Matt Parker CoD: Sarah de Sa Rego Principal Cast: Brit Marling, Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Ci: Ed: Oriana Soddu , Nicole Vicius, Avery Pohl Saturday, January 22, 4:30 p.m. - TOGET22BA Principal Cast: Dania Gurira, Anthony Okungbowa, Sy Alassane, Sky Grey, Babs Olusanmokun Broadway Centre Cinema IV, SLC PRECEDED BY PANDEMIC 41.410806, Sunday, January 23, 9:00 a.m. - TOGET23TM ExP: Executive Producer Sunday, January 23, 9:15 p.m. - RCITY23YN -75.654259 Temple Theatre, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City DIRECTOR: LANCE WEILER Thursday, January 27, 9:00 p.m. - TOGET27RN Monday, January 24, midnight - RCITY244L U.S.A., 2010, 10 MIN., COLOR Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Credit Legend Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Thursday, January 27, 8:30 p.m. - RCITY27PN Monday, January 24, 9:00 p.m. - SOUND24YN Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Friday, January 28, 4:30 p.m. - RCITY28BA Wednesday, January 26, 8:30 a.m. - SOUND26PM Broadway Centre Cinema IV, SLC Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 27, 7:30 p.m. - SOUND27BE Broadway Centre Cinema IV, SLC Friday, January 28, 11:30 a.m. - SOUND283D Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Saturday, January 29, 11:30 a.m. - SOUND29LD Library Center Theatre, Park City

NEXT sundance.org/festival 51 Raucous, rowdy, and rebellious; softies need not enter. Park City at Midnight is for the hard-core film lovers who get so engrossed in a cinematic experience they don’t even notice it’s tomorrow. From horror flicks to comedies to works that defy any genre, these unruly films will keep you edge-seated and wide awake. The Catechism Codependent Cataclysm Lesbian Space Alien DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Todd Rohal U.S.A., 2010, 81 min., color Seeks Same DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Madeleine Olnek Storytelling in all its forms is skewered in U.S.A., 2010, 76 min., b/w The Catechism Cataclysm. This shish kebab Park City of wild characters melts together stories Three lesbian aliens are sent to Earth. within stories until the lines between the Their mission? To have their hearts broken Bible, Mark Twain, and campfire tales are by earthlings so their overactive emotions at Midnight wiped out, and the viewer is carried down won’t destroy the ozone of their planet. As the river into a divinely bizarre, funny tale. the fetching extraterrestrials search for romance on the New York lesbian dating Father Billy, a young priest who has lost scene, one finds love with Jane, an eager interest in the church, decides to take a stationery store clerk who is oblivious to sabbatical. He tracks down his high-school the fact that she’s dating an alien. The other friend Robbie, who begrudgingly agrees to two, discovering the neediness of earthling a canoe trip. On the water, the two men women, connect with each other as they reminisce about Billy’s days as the keyboardist reflect on the beauty of a cheesecake in a in a Christian band and Robbie’s as a guitarist revolving dessert case. for a metal band, but when night approaches, they realize they have lost their way—and Tightly scripted with lo-fi styling and that’s when things get weird. campy DIY effects that would make Ed Wood envious, Codependent mashes up the B-movie Buoyed by commanding comedic and Men in Black and turns it into a witty, performances and deft handling by director wholly original comedy. First-time feature Todd Rohal, The Catechism Cataclysm spins writer/director Madeleine Olnek (her shorts a fantastic yarn that shines a light on the Hold Up and Countertransference screened at power of absurd fiction.—T.G. the Festival in 2006 and 2009, respectively) embraces the intrinsic hilarity of lesbian life ExP: Robert Longstreet Pr: Megan Griffiths, Lacey Leavitt, , Danny McBride, and DIY filmmaking to tell a story about love Jody Hill, Matt Reilly Ci: Ben Kasulke Ed: Alan that transcends galaxies.—K.Y. Canant PrD: Cassie Miggins Mu: Joseph Stephens Principal Cast: Steve Little, Robert Longstreet, CoP: Cynthia Fredette, Laura Terruso Walter Dalton, Miki Ann Maddox, Koko Lanham Ci: Nat Bouman Ed: Curtis Grout PrD: Rebecca Conroy Mu: Clay Drinko and others PRECEDED BY SASQUATCH BIRTH JOURNAL 2 CoD: Linda Gui Principal Cast: Lisa Haas, Susan Ziegler, Jackie Monahan, Cynthia Kaplan, DIRECTORS: ZELLNER BROS. Dennis Davis, Alex Karpovsky, Rae C. Wright U.S.A., 2010, 5 MIN., COLOR Monday, January 24, 11:30 p.m. - CODEP24LL Saturday, January 22, midnight - CATEC22EL Library Center Theatre, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 25, 3:00 p.m. - CODEP25RA Monday, January 24, 11:30 a.m. - CATEC24PD Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 27, 6:00 p.m. - CODEP27WE Tuesday, January 25, midnight - CATEC25LL Tower Theatre, SLC Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 29, midnight - CODEP29YL Friday, January 28, 9:00 p.m. - CATEC28WN Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Tower Theatre, SLC Saturday, January 29, 8:45 p.m. - CATEC293L Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City

52 2011 Sundance Film Festival Casting Ca: CoD: Costume Designer Music Mu: Corman's World: Hobo with a Shotgun

So: Sound DIRECTOR: Jason Eisener DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Calvin Lee Reeder Exploits of a SCREENWRITER: Johnathan Davies U.S.A., 2010, 81 min., color Canada, 2011, 86 min., color Hollywood Rebel There is a place. A place where the skies are DIRECTOR: Alex Stapleton A train rolls into its final stop. From one of wide and the forests are thick—and strange. ArD: Art Director U.S.A., 2011, 101 min., color the freight jumps a weary-eyed transient You can lose yourself forever in these woods. with dreams of a fresh start in a new town. You’ll meet truckers with problems and old maverick. Trailblazing writer/ Instead, he lands smack-dab in the middle of women with strange powers. You may even director who takes chances with style and an urban hellhole, a place where the cops are make a furry friend. Just be sure to stay quiet. script. Inspirational humanist. Box-office crooked and the underprivileged masses are Spend some time with a woman from Oregon success. Indie filmmaker from the or treated like insignificant animals. This is a who is lost on the road and running away from PrD: Production Designer 1990s? No—Roger Corman! city where crime reigns supreme, and the her past. Now she has a chance to experience While known for working fast—some of man pulling the strings is known only as everything the grotesque Northwest has to Ed: Editor his films were made in two days—and “The Drake.” Along with his two cold-blooded, offer, whether she likes it or not. sadistic sons, Ivan and Slick, he rules with wallowing in the B-movie world of monsters, If you know Calvin Lee Reeder’s short an iron fist, and nobody dares fuck with bad special effects, schlocky acting, and films, and you The Drake, especially not some hobo. Little Farm The Rambler, plentiful nudity, Corman is also a respected know you are in for some thick atmosphere rebel of cinema. He dealt with hot-button Ci: Cinematographer Director Jason Eisener’s blood-soaked return in The Oregonian. Reeder is a king of social topics like race and feminism. to the Sundance Film Festival is more than ambiance, using color and sound to creep He created his own production and d just a nod to the grindhouse flicks of the you out as much as the sinister characters istribution company, tagging it “America’s 1970s and ’80s; he ups the ante in a major do. The moody, tense vibes will make you Biggest Independent.” And he taught the next way, and ’s performance is a laugh, too. Come in, sit down, and get Associate Producer generation of film greats, including Scorsese, legendary display of brutal ass-kicking and lost.—M.P. AsP: Demme, even . From Corman’s meticulous name-taking that is not to be first 1955 feature to the set of his new film, missed.—A.M. Pr: Steven Schardt, Christian Palmer, Dinoshark, this entertaining documentary has Roger M. Mayer, Christo Dimassis, Wen Marcoux, all the blood and guts of Corman’s lurid and ExP: Mark Slone, Victor Loewy Pr: Niv Fichman, Scott Honea, Joey Marcoux Ci: Ryan K. Adams CoP: Coproducer fascinating career, with essential insights from Rob Cotterill, Frank Siracusa Ci: Karim Hussain Ed: Buzz Pierce Principal Cast: Lindsay Pulsipher, contemporaries and students. Learn the roots PrD: Ewen Dickson CoD: Sarah Dunsworth Robert Longstreet, Matt Olsen, Lynne Compton, of indie filmmaking, laced with boobs and Ca: Deirdre Bowen, Sheila Lane Principal Cast: Barlow Jacobs, Roger M. Mayer Pr: Producer violence!—M.P. Rutger Hauer, Gregory Smith, Molly Dunsworth, Brian Downey, Nick Bateman PRECEDED BY THE PACT ExP: Taylor Materne, Polly Platt, Joshua Ray Levin, DIRECTOR: NICHOLAS MCCARTHY Jared Moshe, Richard Lim, Antonio Von Hildebrand PRECEDED BY THE LEGEND OF BEAVER DAM U.S.A., 2010, 11 MIN., COLOR Pr: Stone Douglass, Mickey Barold, Jeff Frey, DIRECTOR: JEROME SABLE Iza Frank, Alex Stapleton Ci: Patrick Simpson CANADA, 2010, 12 MIN., COLOR Monday, January 24, midnight - OREGO24EL ExP: Executive Producer

Victor Livingston Air Ed: Mu: Egyptian Theatre, Park City Friday, January 21, 11:30 p.m. - HOBOW21LL Tuesday, January 25, 7:00 p.m. - OREGO25RE Friday, January 21, midnight - CORMA21EL Library Center Theatre, Park City Redstone Cinema 7, Park City

Credit Legend Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 22, midnight - HOBOW22BL Thursday, January 27, midnight - OREGO27LL Saturday, January 22, midnight - CORMA22WL Broadway Centre Cinema VI, SLC Library Center Theatre, Park City Tower Theatre, SLC Wednesday, January 26, 11:30 a.m. - HOBOW26ED Friday, January 28, midnight - OREGO28BL Sunday, January 23, 1:00 p.m. - CORMA23RD Egyptian Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema VI, SLC Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Friday, January 28, midnight - HOBOW28EL Saturday, January 29, 5:45 p.m. - OREGO29EE Thursday, January 27, midnight - CORMA27YL Egyptian Theatre, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 29, midnight - HOBOW29WL Saturday, January 29, 9:00 p.m. - CORMA294N Tower Theatre, SLC Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City

Park City at Midnight sundance.org/festival 53 Septien The Troll Hunter The Woman DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Michael Tully Trolljegeren DIRECTOR: Lucky McKee U.S.A., 2011, 79 min., color SCREENWRITERS: , Lucky McKee DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Andre Ovredal U.S.A., 2011, 108 min., color Eighteen years after disappearing without Norway, 2010, 103 min., color Good-old-fashioned-horror impresario Lucky a trace, Cornelius Rawlings returns to his Norwegian with English subtitles family’s farm. While his parents are long McKee (McKee’s May screened at the 2002 deceased, Cornelius’s brothers continue to When three student filmmakers venture Sundance Film Festival) returns to Park City live in isolation on this forgotten piece of land. into the remote forests of Norway to make with an outrageously sadistic peek under the Ezra is a freak for two things: cleanliness a documentary about illegal bear poaching, surface of family values gone terribly wrong. and . Amos is a self-taught artist who all signs point to Hans as the guilty party. A grizzled behemoth of a man, he refuses When stern patriarch Chris Cleek stumbles fetishizes sports and Satan. Although back upon a wild woman while hunting deep in home, Cornelius is still distant. In between to give the students the time of day, so, eager to get their story, they decide to the woods, he does what he believes is the challenging strangers to one-on-one games, he only logical thing—he stalks, captures, and huffs and drinks the days away. The family’s follow him. They soon learn that Hans isn’t a poacher at all; he is an off-the-books imprisons the savage in his shed with the high-school sports demons show up one day in intent of civilizing her. Naturally, Cleek wants the guise of a plumber and a pretty girl. Only government operative burdened with the task of protecting an unsuspecting public his whole family to participate in the process; a mysterious drifter can redeem their souls on refusal is not an option for his frail wife, 4th and goal. from the gargantuan terrors that lurk in the dark and desolate woods. For centuries, reluctant daughters, and all-too-eager son. Triple-threat actor/writer/director (and unsuspecting Norwegians have assumed As his training methods turn increasingly disturbingly gifted athlete) Michael Tully are nothing more than myth and legend, but torturous, resistance is met with brute force creates a backwoods world that’s only a few as Hans grows older and wearier of his role and animalistic urges, building meticulously trees away from our own, complete with as sentinel, he is eager to blow the lid off the to an unrelenting, carnage-filled climax. characters on the edge of sanity that we can whole operation. Writhing through themes of abuse, legacies, actually relate to. A hero tale gone wrong, and adolescent pain, McKee’s exercise in Septien is funny when it’s inappropriate to An incredibly fresh and original entry into the found footage genre, The Troll Hunter is cruelty gleefully grinds the classic laugh, and realistic when it should be story into a macabre pulp for all to enjoy.—L.Z. psychotic. Goooaaaaaaaaal!—M.P. a raucous thrill ride with eye-popping visual effects that will have you convinced that giant Pr: Andrew van den Houten, Robert Tonino Ci: Alex ExP: Andrew Krucoff, Robert Longstreet Pr: Brooke trolls really do exist.—A.M. Vendler Ed: Zach Passero PrD: Krista Gall Mu: Bernard, Ryan Zacarias, Brent Stewart Ci: Jeremy Sean Spillane So: Andrew Smetek Principal Cast: Saulnier Ed: Marc Vives ArD: Bart Mangrum Mu: Pr: John M. Jacobsen, Sveinung Golimo Ci: Hallvard Pollyanna McIntosh, , , Michael Montes Principal Cast: Robert Longstreet, Braein Ed: Per Erik Eriksen PrD: Martin Gant So: Lauren Ashley Carter, Zach Rand Onur Tukel, Michael Tully, Rachel Korine, Mark Darby Baard Haugan Ingebretsen Principal Cast: Otto Jespersen, Glenn Erland Tosterud, Hans Morten Robinson, John Maringouin Sunday, January 23, 11:30 p.m. - WOMAN23LL Hansen, Johanna Mørch, Tomas Alf Larsen Library Center Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 23, midnight - SEPTI23EL Wednesday, January 26, 10:00 p.m. - WOMAN26RN Egyptian Theatre, Park City Friday, January 21, 6:00 p.m. - TROLL21WE Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Tuesday, January 25, 9:00 p.m. - SEPTI25RN Tower Theatre, SLC Thursday, January 27, 9:00 p.m. - WOMAN27WN Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Saturday, January 22, 11:30 p.m. - TROLL22LL Tower Theatre, SLC Thursday, January 27, 8:30 a.m. - SEPTI27LM Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 29, 11:30 p.m. - WOMAN29LL Library Center Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 25, midnight - TROLL25EL Library Center Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 27, 9:45 p.m. - SEPTI27BN Egyptian Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema V, SLC Friday, January 28, midnight - TROLL28WL Saturday, January 29, 11:30 p.m. - SEPTI293L Tower Theatre, SLC Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Saturday, January 29, 10:00 p.m. - TROLL29RN Redstone Cinema 7, Park City

54 Park City at Midnight 2011 Sundance Film Festival Rediscover classic works of independent cinema as the Sundance Film Festival presents a film from the vaults of the Sundance Institute Collection at UCLA. A unique archive devoted to preserving indie film, the Collection exists not only to save important works that would otherwise disappear but also to make them accessible to new audiences and show them as they were intended to be seen: on the big screen. Formed in partnership with the UCLA Film and Television Archive and growing through the support of donor companies and individual filmmakers, the Collection now contains more than 800 films. Slacker DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER/PRODUCER: U.S.A., 1990, 97 min., color What would happen if you gathered 100 anonymous people and asked them to help From the Collection you make a movie about a subculture of directionless drifters and dreamers in your hometown? If you were as inventive as Richard Linklater, the result would be Slacker. Slacker could be subtitled “A Day in the Life of Austin, Texas.” Linklater’s camera whimsically follows a succession of people as they go about the business of doing nothing. They are bright and articulate and haven’t a clue about where they’re going. Among the most colorful are an anarchist who wants to blow up the Texas legislature, a man obsessed with Jack Ruby and the Kennedy assassination, a woman who hopes to make her fortune by selling Madonna’s pap smear, and Linklater himself, who babbles nonstop to a totally disinterested cabdriver about alternate realities. He treats them all with a mix of ironic insight and affection. Slacker played exactly 20 years ago at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival and became one of its sleeper hits. As for Linklater, he was no slacker. He went on to make , SubUrbia, , Tape, , and Me and , among others, most of which screened subsequently at the Festival.—B.B.

Ci: Ed: Scott Rhodes Principal Cast: A hundred and five Austin residents

Monday, January 24, 3:00 p.m. - COLL124EA Egyptian Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 25, 10:30 p.m. - COLL125BN Broadway Centre Cinema IV, SLC Saturday, January 29, midnight - COLL1292L Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City

sundance.org/festival 55 Native Showcase Following President and Founder ’s original vision, Sundance Institute has remained committed to supporting Indigenous filmmaking. This showcase highlights new work that contributes to a worldwide understanding FROM EBONY SOCIETY of and appreciation for these artists. GRAB Indigenous Shorts DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Billy Luther The Indigenous perspective is global and spans U.S.A., 2011, 60 min., color boundaries of race, class, faith, and geography. The exciting new voices in this shorts program In his second time at the Sundance Film Festival, offer insights into complexities that are rare Billy Luther gives audiences an intimate look and human—what hunting is like when you find inside one of his own Native American tribes, a portal to the afterlife, what happens when where cameras have never been allowed before. the lost souls of a city are discovered too early Each year residents of the Laguna Pueblo in or when a young boy looks for his dad in outer honor individual family members space, where it all began and when a step too by throwing food and gifts from the rooftops far can end it, how different a father and son of their homes to the community that gathers can be and how stealing on Christmas can be a below. Luther’s film follows three families as good thing. We hope this program will leave you they prepare for this ancient tradition, which has feeling inspired—connected to something special. taken many modern twists. Photographing with great visual flair, Luther 99 min. sculpts an emotional tribute to his community, CHOKE a community that’s filled with abundant DIRECTOR: MICHELLE LATIMER generosity and rooted in tradition. As the CANADA, 2010, 6 MIN., COLOR seconds tick away leading up to the moment of the “grab,” the arms of children reach to the sky EBONY SOCIETY to prepare for being showered with water, gifts, DIRECTOR: TAMMY DAVIS and blessings. With GRAB, Luther confirms his NEW ZEALAND, 2010, 13 MIN., COLOR place as one of today’s most exciting filmmakers portraying the beauty of the modern Native REDEMPTION DIRECTOR: KATIE WOLFE American experience.—N.B.R. NEW ZEALAND, 2010, 17 MIN., COLOR

ExP: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato Pr: Billy Luther STONES CoP: Ashley York Ci: Huy Truong, Jay Visit, Gavin DIRECTOR: TY SANGA Wynn Ed: Tracee Morrison Nar: U.S.A., 2009, 20 MIN., COLOR Co: David Benjamin Steinberg ?E?ANX (THE CAVE) Saturday, January 22, 3:00 p.m. - GRABB22TA DIRECTOR: HELEN HAIG-BROWN CANADA, 2009, 11 MIN., COLOR Temple Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 23, 4:00 p.m. - GRABB23RA THE ROCKET BOY Redstone Cinema 7, Park City DIRECTOR: DONAVAN SESCHILLIE Tuesday, January 25, 9:00 p.m. - GRABB25BN U.S.A., 2010, 16 MIN., COLOR Broadway Centre Cinema VI, SLC Wednesday, January 26, 9:00 a.m. - GRABB26TM WAPAWEKKA Temple Theatre, Park City DIRECTOR: DANIS GOULET Friday, January 28, 9:00 p.m. - GRABB28SN CANADA, 2010, 16 MIN., COLOR Screening Room, Sundance Resort Saturday, January 29, 6:00 p.m. - GRABB29TE Sunday, January 23, midnight - SHIND234L Temple Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Monday, January 24, 2:30 p.m. - SHIND24PA Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 27, 4:30 p.m. - SHIND27BA Broadway Centre Cinema IV, SLC Friday, January 28, 8:30 p.m. - SHIND283N Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Saturday, January 29, 3:00 p.m. - SHIND29SA Screening Room, Sundance Resort

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