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70 Round out your Festival experience with music, art, and conversation. From solo acts and bands performing throughout the Festival to panels and discussions that bring emerging and veteran filmmakers together with industry leaders, Offscreen offers a cultural outlet for Festivalgoers outside the theatre. offscreen SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

71 Power of Story: “In the Beginning . . .” Saturday, January 21, 3:00 p.m. (PAONE21EA) Friday, January 27, 3:30 p.m. (PATHR22EA) Egyptian Theatre Live stream at Live stream at sundance.org Egyptian Theatre sundance.org Ticket required Ticket required

Over the course of the independent film movement, there’s Writers may not always have the last word, but they do been a major transformation in the landscape of nonfiction have the first. Whether it’s theatre, film, or television, filmmaking. We’ve seen the role documentary work can the power of a story begins with the vision of a writer, a play: from changing societies and communicating diverse blank page, and a world of limitless possibility. We’ve human experiences to addressing political and social invited a distinguished group of writers to explore the issues and entertaining audiences with extraordinary mystique of the creative process and how ideas travel and inspiring stories. Meet three figures who have been from the brain to the page, and to share some of the at the center of changing the face of documentary film, work they admire. expanding its audience, and redefining its impact.

Nick Fraser has worked as a Soledad O’Brien (moderator) Stephen Gaghan is an Academy Anna Deavere Smith is an actress reporter and television producer is an anchor and special Award–winning writer and and playwright, best recognized and has been the commissioning correspondent for CNN/U.S. director whose feature-film for her roles in The West Wing editor of Storyville since it and has reported breaking work includes Traffic and and, currently, Nurse Jackie. started in 1997. Storyville films news from around the globe in Syriana, which he also directed. She is credited with creating have won more than two hundred addition to producing award- His production company, a new form of theatre—part awards, including several winning, critically acclaimed Unsupervised, has many film docudrama, part poetic—in Academy Awards, Griersons, documentary films. and television projects in work such as Fires in the Mirror, Emmys, and Peabodys, as well as development. Twilight: Los Angeles, and Let a Sundance Jury Prize. is recognized Me Down Easy. She is a professor the world over for the roles he Caryn James (moderator) is a at University. Sheila Nevins, President of HBO has played and the projects film and television critic who offscreen: Power of story offscreen: Power Documentary Films, is a highly he has directed or produced writes the “James on screenS” Andrew Stanton is an Academy regarded producer credited throughout a distinguished blog for IndieWire.com. Award–winning writer and with nearly one thousand stage and film career. He is an Previously, she was film critic director best known for his documentary films, which have environmentalist and advocate and chief television critic for groundbreaking animation films, earned numerous Academy for social responsibility and The New York Times and including Finding Nemo, Toy Awards, Emmys, Peabodys, and political involvement and has authored the novels Glorie Story, and WALL•E. He currently most recently a DGA Honor. nurtured countless innovative and What Caroline Knew. serves as vice president of During her long tenure at HBO, voices through his nonprofit creative for Pixar Animation Nevins has cultivated many new Sundance Institute and Studios, which he joined in 1990 SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL talents and set the standard for Film Festival. as one of its earliest employees. cutting-edge documentaries. 72 pa nels pa nels

CELEBRATINg stories of change Tuesday, January 24, 3:00 p.m. (PATWO24EA) Egyptian Theatre, Park City Live stream at sundance.org Ticket required

Global issues demand innovative solutions, and documentary film is increasingly showcasing the unprecedented efforts of social-issue change makers around the world. At this special discussion event celebrating the five-year partnership between Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and the Skoll Foundation, Skoll President and CEO Sally Osberg moderates a thought-provoking dialogue among award- winning filmmakers—including clips from their work—and innovators who are impacting millions. Invited panelists include Paul Farmer (founding director of Partners in Health), Jehane Noujaim (director of Control Room), Bunker Roy (founder of Barefoot College), and other special guests.

Medical anthropologist and featured films, speakers, and physician Paul Farmer is music; and can be watched the Kolokotrones University online at www.pangeaday.org Professor at Harvard University; Together with Mona Eldaief, she chair of the Department of Global is codirecting Solar Momas, a Health and Social Medicine at feature-length documentary Harvard Medical School; and a chronicling the experience of founding director of Partners In three Barefoot College students. Health (PIH), an international nonprofit organization that Bunker Roy was moved provides direct health care to respond to India’s 1967 services and undertakes research famine and traveled to offscreen and advocacy activities on behalf Tilonia, Rajasthan, to help rural of those who are sick and living villagers improve their lives. in poverty. The organization he founded in 1972, Social Work and Research Jehane Noujaim is an award- Centre, which came to be known winning director and producer as Barefoot College, has trained (Control Room, Startup. hundreds of solar engineers and com, Shayfeen.com) and teachers—women, dropouts 2006 TED Prize winner. She and unemployable youth—in founded Pangea Day, which remote villages in 16 Indian SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL was broadcast internationally; states over the past 30 years. 73 FILMMAKER LODGE Elks Building, 550 Main St., (second floor), Park City

Friday, January 20–Saturday, January 28, 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Sunday, January 29, 9:30 a.m. to noon

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Open to all Festival credential holders and the general public on a space-available basis. All events are held at the Filmmaker Lodge unless otherwise indicated.

It’s all in the story Profits and Losses in such funny times? Join Mike humanity instead of wiping Friday, January 20, 1:00 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 1:00 p.m. Birbiglia (Sleepwalk With it out? Is there better living It is a common refrain that From healthcare to the Me), Mark Duplass (Safety through brain chemistry? the Democratic Party has not environment to banking and Not Guaranteed, Your Sister’s Anthropological biologist been able to tell its story, that beyond, corporations wield Sister), Lauren Anne Miller Helen Fisher (author of the environmental movement unprecedented power in our (For A Good Time, Call . . .), Why We Love), Scott Burns has lost its narrative, and political system. Driven by and others as they explore (screenwriter of Contagion), so on. Recently in The New special interests, awash in whether comedy is the only Jake Schreier (Robot and York Times, Emory University lobbying dollars, and evasive way to cope with reality. Frank) and moderator Tracy professor Drew Westen of any serious regulation, can Day (cofounder and executive captured the frustration of an corporations be compatible moving the masses director of the World Science electorate hungry for a story with the public good? Is there Festival) explore the limits Thursday, January 26, 1:00 p.m. of control and the positive showing that the government simply too much greed? Facing What is a movement made of? will protect the interests of the widening income inequality, an potential of engineering our We live in an age when, for the many against the few. Westen untenable healthcare system, future. Supported by the first time in history, millions and special guests discuss why and a government unable to Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. of people are engaged in storytelling is embedded in the articulate basic principles of movements urging equity and human psyche, and how the equity and fairness, can we justice. From civil rights to sound thinking right story can change history. find a 99 percent solution? Saturday, January 28, 1:00 p.m. Join special guests from the environment to the recent Occupy initiative, strides and Filmmakers routinely conceive Distribution X We’re Not Broke, Detropia, of sound in limited terms—a Escape Fire, Finding North, and setbacks have marked our Saturday, January 21, 1:00 p.m. history. Join special guests supporting role in the visual With distribution becoming as The Atomic States of America medium, and the last step in as they consider who profits and as we delve into the evolving complex as an intricate math nature of making change. the filmmaking process. But, problem, producers are asking, who loses from big business. as part of a film’s artistry and “Can you really do it yourself?” key component of storytelling, Split-rights deals and digital The Wide World Control Factor what if sound design existed outlets offer vast potential, of Wit Friday, January 27, 1:00 p.m. in the earliest part of the but how do you determine Wednesday, January 25, 1:00p.m. Disaster scenarios in cinema creative process? In a mix of your film’s value in a shifting Comedy is king—and go something like this: with conversation and presentation, marketplace? How do you queen—at this year’s scientific understanding Randy Thom (director of plot a strategy to attract the Festival. A bumper crop comes the ability to sound design at Skywalker right audience and generate of boundary-pushing indie control and, hence, to lose Sound), Kent Sparling (sound the greatest revenue stream? comedies manages to find control. We are punished designer and recording mixer t the lodge Select producers posit faux humor in family dysfunction, for our knowledge. But at Skywalker Sound), and case studies aimed at industry depression, alcoholism, can good science make a others present an audio tour luminaries in an attempt to existential crisis, and oddball good narrative? What if of a world where sound and

offscreen: a solve this distribution equation. love; who knew we were living robots or viruses helped picture are one.

FILM church Sunday, January 29, 10:00 am What could be more divine than 10 days of watching film? Finish off your Sundance Film Festival experience by sharing a near-spiritual moment with Festival Director John Cooper, and Director of Programming Trevor Groth, who will offer nondenominational tales of the Festival that was. Joining us in sermon will be a variety of special guests, including a few who SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL took awards home the night before (if they can be found the morning after!). Confess your likes and dislikes. All will be forgiven.

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PRESENTED BY CHASE SAPPHIRESM Every day at 10:00 a.m. Friday, January 20–Saturday, January 28

Strange things are afoot at Cinema Café. Each morning at 10:00 a.m. in the Filmmaker Lodge, Cinema Café invigorates the culture of conversation. With all your favorite stimulants on hand—coffee, treats, and delectable dialogue—our daily series of informal chats rounds up the unusual suspects. Sometimes the most fascinating discussion is the one you didn’t expect. So bring your questions and an open mind. How does the song go? “Start your day at Cinema Café.”

Friday, January 20 Wednesday, January 25 TBA TimesTalks at Cinema Café Live stream at sundance.org saturday, January 21 9:30 a.m. Stacy Peralta Julie Delpy (2 Days in New (Bones Brigade) and York) and Parker Posey Ice-T (Something from (Price Check) Nothing: The Art of Rap) Thursday, January 26 sunday, January 22 Katie Aselton (Black TimesTalks at Cinema Café Rock), Ava DuVernay Live stream at (Middle of Nowhere), sundance.org Ry Russo-Young (Nobody Spike Lee (Red Hook Summer) Walks), and Gina and Dee Rees (Pariah) Rodriguez (Filly Brown)

Monday, January 23 Friday, January 27 Christopher Dodd (Chairman TBA offscreen and CEO of MPAA) and others. Saturday, January 28 Tuesday, January 24 Ra’anan Alexandrowicz Mads Brügger (The Law in These Parts), (The Ambassador), Jennifer Baichwal Rick Alverson (The (Payback), Yung Chang Comedy), Tim Heidecker (China Heavyweight) and Eric Wareheim (Tim & and Lauren Greenfield SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie) (The Queen of Versailles) 75 SUNDANCE ASCAP MUSIC CAFÉ Friday, January 20–Friday, January 27, 1:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m. 751 Main St., Park City

The Sundance Film Festival presents the Sundance ASCAP Music Café, a dynamic showcase dedicated to exceptional live performances of new, emerging, and established talent. Stop in during the day to hear a wide range of exciting songwriters and artists from across the musical spectrum in a program produced by ASCAP.

Green room provided by Prudential Utah Real Estate.

Please check the ASCAP website for daily updates at Open to all Festival credential holders (21 and up) on a space-available basis. This venue has limited capacity.

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY, JANUARY 20 JANUARY 21 JANUARY 22 JANUARY 23 2:00 p.m. TBA 2:00 p.m. Cris Cab 2:00 p.m. Jenny O. 2:00 p.m. Jeremy Current 2:40 p.m. Cris Cab 2:40 p.m. Jenny O. 2:40 p.m. David Nail 2:40 p.m. David Nail 3:20 p.m. TBA 3:20 p.m. Josh Kelley 3:20 p.m. Garland Jeffreys 3:20 p.m. Garland Jeffreys 4:10 p.m. Josh Kelley 4:00 p.m. John Forté and 4:00 p.m. John Forté and 4:00 p.m. James McCartney 4:50 p.m. TBA friends, featuring friends, featuring 4:40 p.m. Special Guest Natasha Bedingfield Natasha Bedingfield

TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24 JANUARY 25 JANUARY 26 JANUARY 27 2:00 p.m. Bailey Cooke 2:00 p.m. Erin Barra 2:00 p.m. Greg Laswell 2:00 p.m. TBA 2:40 p.m. Dayna Kurtz 2:40 p.m. Dayna Kurtz 2:40 p.m. Lisa Hannigan 2:40 p.m. Flying Lotus 3:20 p.m. James McCartney 3:20 p.m. TBA 3:20 p.m. Ingrid Michaelson 3:20 p.m. Lisa Hannigan 4:00 p.m. Mike Viola and 4:00 p.m. Greg Laswell 4:15 p.m. David Gray 4:00 p.m. Ingrid Michaelson Ryan Miller 4:45 p.m. The All-American 5:00 p.m. David Gray Rejects

David Gray Ingrid Michaelson The All-American Rejects Garland Jeffreys offscreen: Fi l m us i c

Sundance Music Café: Night Sessions

Introducing select evenings of official Festival music programming. A limited number of free tickets will be available to Festival credential holders. Follow us on Twitter @sundancefestnow to get the details on who is playing, and where and when to get tickets. Also check the Festival website for additional updates.

SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL For 21 and over. Tickets required. One ticket per credential holder.

76 Sundance House Presented by HP 638 Park Ave. (corner of Main St. and Heber Ave.), Park City Photo by Vito Petrosyan/Lumenere Inc. Petrosyan/Lumenere Vito by Photo Celebration of Music in Film TBA One of the most anticipated music events at the Festival, this year is going to be extra special! The lineup of artists, special details, and lots of surprises will be announced on the Festival website and on Twitter @sundancefestnow—so stay in touch to get all the latest details on this exciting night. Roundtable Discussion: Music and Film, the Creative Process Produced by BMI Wednesday, January 25, 11:00 a.m. Sundance House Presented by HP Open to all Festival credential holders and the general public as space permits. What goes into creating a successful ? What makes for an effective director/composer relationship? There are answers to these questions and more in this inspired roundtable discussion, moderated by Doreen Ringer Ross, BMI vice president of film/TV relations. Participants include composers Peter Golub (director, Sundance Institute Film Music Program); Katie Aselton (Black Rock); Ryan Beveridge and Aurora Guerrero (Mosquita y Mari); Alec Puro and Jonathan Kasdan (The First Time); T. Griffin and Marshall Lewy (California Solo); Michael Bacon (Slavery by Another Name); Miriam Cutler (Ethel), Cliff Martinez (Arbitrage); Andrew Hollander (Sleepwalk With Me); and more TBA. Music Showcase: BMI Snowball Produced by BMI Wednesday, January 25, 8:00 p.m. Sundance House Presented by HP BMI invites you to an intimate evening featuring legendary folk- rock/pop troubadour , whose classic pop masterpieces include Mellow Yellow, Sunshine Superman, and Hurdy Gurdy Man. Donovan was one of the few artists to collaborate on songs offscreen with The Beatles, contributing lyrics and vocals to the song Yellow Submarine. Donovan was also invited by The Beatles to join them at Abbey Road Studios for the final orchestral overdub session for the Lennon-McCartney collaboration “A Day in the Life,” the grand finale of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. A limited number of free tickets will be available to Festival credential holders. Check out the Festival website for event updates and follow us on Twitter @sundancefestnow to get all SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL the details including where and when to get tickets. 77