park city, january 17–27 FILM GUIDE Contents

Welcome to the Festival...... 2–3 Presenting, Leadership, and Sustaining Sponsors...... 4–5 Institute Associates and Official Providers...... 6

The Films ...... 7 Opening Night Park City, Gala, and Closing Film...... 8–9 Documentary Competition...... 10 Dramatic Competition...... 16 World Cinema Documentary Competition ...... 22 World Cinema Dramatic Competition ...... 28 Premieres...... 34 Spectrum...... 43 Park City at Midnight...... 50 Sundance Collection ...... 53 Shorts Programs...... 54 Animation Spotlight...... 57 New Frontier Features...... 59 New Frontier Artists...... 62 New Frontier Multimedia Performance Events...... 65 New Frontier Panels and Presentations...... 66

Off Screen ...... 68 Panels at Prospector...... 69 Panels at Filmmaker Lodge...... 70 Music Café and Festival Special Events...... 72 Sponsor Venues...... 75

How to Festival...... 76

Ticketing...... 76 Theatres...... 77 Venues/Merchandise...... 78 Destination: Sundance ...... 80

Film Festival Timetables...... 81

Index of Films...... 102 Index of Directors...... 103 Getting Around...... 104 WELCOME TO THE 2008

The beginning is always different. We all come from somewhere else. And whether your own journey has brought you from across the globe or from around the corner, we invite you to discover the new voices and new stories presented in film, music, art, and dialogue at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Welcome.

FESTIVAL films Documentary Competition World Cinema Documentary Competition Sixteen world-premiere films that represent the best Sixteen documentaries by talented new work in American nonfiction filmmaking. filmmakers from around the world.

Dramatic Competition World Cinema Dramatic Competition Sixteen world-premiere films that signal the arrival of Sixteen films that provide a window into the newest voices and storytelling in American film. the thematic and aesthetic concerns of artists around the globe.

Premieres New Frontier A selection of the latest work from established With film screenings, media installations, performances, directors and world premieres of highly anticipated and panels, New Frontier highlights work that pushes films. The Premieres program is presented by boundaries and celebrates the convergence of film and . art as a hotbed for new ideas and experimentation. Spectrum Shorts Presenting out-of-competition films from around The Festival’s short-film lineup showcases the creative, the world, the Spectrum program is a tribute to the boundary-pushing work of filmmaking’s newest talent. abundance of the compelling new voices in independent Shorts screen as part of programs and before features filmmaking. This year, the Festival presents seven throughout the Festival. The Shorts Programs are Spectrum films in a Documentary Spotlight. presented by Adobe Systems Incorporated. Park City at Midnight Ranging from horror to comedies to explicit animation, these films offer a lively last stop on the nightly social circuit.

 Shorts Online Off Screen This year, the Festival continues its tradition of From solo acts and bands performing at the Music streaming an exclusive selection of short films online, Café and throughout the Festival, to panels and free of charge, on the official Festival website at discussions that bring emerging and veteran www.sundance.org/festival. Every day of the Festival, filmmakers together with industry leaders, to one new short film will premiere online for 24 hours. gatherings that assemble the Festival community, Off Screen programming presents music, art, and Additionally, expands its effort to dialogue to make your Festival experience complete. build audiences for shorts with unique partnerships to make the Festival shorts available for purchase and download on Apple’s iTunes Movie Store, . com, and ’s Xbox LIVE. Short films launch simultaneously on all of these platforms beginning on January 18, 2008, and run through 2011. Presented in partnership with Sundance Channel.

2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival WELCOME TO THE FESTIVAL 

Sundance Institute is proud to acknowledge and thank the Official Sponsors of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Sponsor support reflects a commitment to sustaining the vitality of , filmmakers, and audiences. Their presence enriches the Festival experience and helps sustain the Institute’s programs for artists throughout the year.

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 the films

Many of these films have not yet been rated by the Motion Picture Association of America. Read the descriptions and choose responsibly.

Beginning January 18, visit www.sundance.org/festival to view an exclusive collection of shorts from the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, each streaming for 24 hours.

Guide to the Credits ExP Executive Producer PrD Production Designer Pr Producer ArD Art Director CoP Coproducer So Sound AsP Associate Producer Mu Music Ci Cinematographer CoD Costume Designer Ed Editor Ca Casting Director

2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival THE FILMS  2008 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org/festival DOCUMENTARY competition  Opening Night, Salt Lake City Gala, Closing Film

opening night PARK CITY

In Bruges Director/Screenwriter: Martin McDonagh United Kingdom, 2007, 101 min., color, 35mm

Martin McDonagh, an award-winning playwright and Academy Award winner for his short Six , makes his feature debut with a work that is deliriously funny, pointed, and perverse, yet sad, thoughtful, and infused with a moral vision that resonantly reflects today’s surreal world. The film takes place in a storybook setting, the preserved medieval Flemish town of Bruges, where two hit men, Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson), have been ordered to cool their heels among holiday tourists after a botched execution. Though feels out of place amid the Gothic architecture, canals, and cobbled streets, Ken is drawn to the serenity of the place as he tries to sooth Ray’s haunted psyche. As they wait for their boss Harry’s (Ralph Fiennes’s) call, they are caught up in a series of weird encounters with locals, tourists, a dwarf American filmmaker, and Dutch prostitutes and a romantic liaison that is not what it seems. When the call finally comes, it prompts a life-and-death struggle that is violent, darkly comic, and surprisingly touching. The Irish are without peer in making us laugh about ourselves, life, and especially things that aren’t supposed to be funny. The profane brilliance of McDonagh’s writing is all that and more. Galvanized by perceptive performances and framed by a unique beauty, this is filmmaking at its most exhilarating. –Geoffrey Gilmore

ExP: Jeff Abberley, Julia Blackman, Tessa Ross Pr: Graham Broadbent, Peter Czerin Ci: Eigil Bryld Ed: Jon Gregory Principal Cast: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Clémence Poésy

Thursday, January 17, 6:00 pm; Eccles Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 17, 9:30 pm; Eccles Theatre, Park City

For more screening times, see page 38.

 SALT LAKE city GALA CLOSING FILM

The Great Buck Howard CSNY Déjà Vu Director/Screenwriter: Sean McGinly Director: Bernard Shakey U.S.A., 2007, 87 min., color, 35mm Screenwriters: Neil Young, Mike Cerre U.S.A., 2006, 96 min., color, 35mm Law-school dropout Troy Gable answers an ad for a “personal assistant to a celebrity performer,” hoping it will catapult him to a glamorous career in the entertainment If you grew up, as I did, with your dorm room full of albums by Crosby, Stills, industry. Little does he know that performer is Buck Howard, a “mentalist” infamous Nash, and Young and antiwar activities as part of your daily agenda, you for his 61 appearances on The Tonight Show, who has been reduced to a has-been may approach the Freedom of Speech Tour with preconceptions about its magician in need of a pretty big trick to get him out of this slump. motivations and content based on you remember. Although the Writer/director Sean McGinly does the near impossible by successfully chronicle of that tour, CSNY Déjà Vu, is indeed a look back at the politics encapsulating a whole era of entertainment in one outrageous character. and anti–Vietnam War sentiment, its real value lies in its rejection of Played with perfection by , Buck is a bigger-than-life mix of ego, simple nostalgia and its ability to focus on the present day. sweetness, and delusion packaged in a flamboyant style. As Troy, Colin Hanks As both a portrait of a band and an examination of artistic process, does a remarkable job of holding his own, even when deflecting Buck’s diva- CSNY Déjà Vu is filmmaking that is self-centered, yet fresh and critical. esque tantrums. In an inspired bit of casting, plays Troy’s father, Today’s generation must be as tired of hearing about the ’60s as we were of who ironically disapproves of show business, and is the fiery an earlier era, and this depiction of the tour is anything but preaching to the publicist hired to stage the comeback of a . converted. Part performance, part commentary, and very much a call McGinley’s secret is that he never allows the film to wallow in sentimentality for activism, CSNY Déjà Vu is relevant because we ignore the lessons because Buck doesn’t need our pity. He has confidence in his stage presence, of history at our peril. and he may even have some authentic magic powers up his sleeve. The true Featuring music from Neil Young’s controversial Living with War CD, this magic of The Great Buck Howard, however, is remembering the power of staying evocative and edgy film documents reactions from fans to a band that has true to yourself even if the world around you has changed. –John Cooper remained committed to issues of politics and art for more than four decades. Since history seems to repeat itself, perhaps our artists best illustrate what we need to remember. –Geoffrey Gilmore ExP: Steven Shareshian, Marvin Acuna Pr: Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman CoP: Ginger Sledge Ci: Tak Fujimoto Ed: Myron I. Kerstein Principal Cast: Colin Hanks, John Malkovich, Emily Blunt, Tom Hanks, Steve Zahn Pr: L.A. Johnson Ci: Mike Elwell Ed: Mark Faulkner

Friday, January 18, 6:30 pm; Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Friday, January 25, 9:30 pm; Eccles Theatre, Park City Friday, January 18, 9:30 pm; Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

For more screening times, see page 37. For more screening times, see page 35.

2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival gala openings 

DOCUMENTARY competition

An American Soldier Director/Screenwriter: Edet Belzberg From explorations of cultural trends and political U.S.A., 2007, 86 min., color, Sony HD Cam

movements to examinations of deeply personal Five years into the war in Iraq, with no mandatory draft to fill its depleting ranks, the issues, documentary films offer new ways to Army is more dependent than ever on persuasive recruiters to lure young would-be soldiers to the understand our world. With spectacular variety, front lines. Enter Sergeant First Class Clay Usie—one of the most successful Army recruiters in America today. Filmmaker Edet Belzberg travels to Usie’s these 16 films represent the best new work in hometown of Houma, Louisiana, to track his day-to- day life over a nine-month period. What emerges is American nonfiction filmmaking. a double-edged portrait of a man entirely dedicated to his mission. Usie succeeds because he believes in what he is doing, he genuinely cares about the young people in his charge, and he is a hell of a salesman. Belzberg focuses on four of Usie’s new recruits. To these high-schoolers, Sergeant Usie is a true role model. He becomes their personal trainer, motivator, shrink, and surrogate father. After graduation, the recruits head off to basic training, where they transition to soldiers, awaiting deployment to Iraq. A new squad of innocents face their mortality. Sundance veteran Belzberg (Children Underground) brings the unflinching immediacy of her vérité style to the phenomenon of military recruitment sweeping the nation. An American Soldier brilliantly defies partisanship, allowing audiences to draw their own conclusions. Uncle Sam wants you; An American Soldier shows us how much. –David Courier

Pr: Alex Oxman Ci: Edet Belzberg, Rosanna Rizzo Ed: Chad Beck, Adam Bolt

Friday, January 18, 2:30 pm Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 19, 10:00 am Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Sunday, January 20, 6:45 pm Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Wednesday, January 23, 3:15 pm Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Friday, January 25, 11:30 am Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City

10 American Teen Bigger, Stronger, Faster* Fields of Fuel Director/Screenwriter: Nanette Burstein Director: Christopher Bell Director: Josh Tickell U.S.A., 2007, 95 min., color, Sony HD Cam Screenwriters: Christopher Bell, Screenwriter: Johnny O’Hara Alexander Buono, Tamsin Rawady U.S.A., 2007, 90 min., color, Sony HD Cam American Teen intimately follows the lives of four U.S.A., 2007, 105 min., color, Sony HD Cam teenagers in one small town in Indiana through Most know we’ve got a problem: an their senior year of high school. Using cinema vérité In America, we define ourselves in the superlative: addiction to oil that taxes the environment, entangles footage, interviews, and animation, it presents a we are the biggest, strongest, fastest country in us in costly foreign policies, and threatens the candid portrait of being 17 and all that goes with it. the world. Is it any wonder that so many of our nation’s long-term stability. But few are informed We see the insecurities, the cliques, the jealousies, athletes take performance-enhancing drugs? Director or empowered enough to do much about it. Enter the first loves and heartbreaks, the experimentation Christopher Bell explores America’s win-at-all-cost Josh Tickell, an expert young activist who, driven by with sex and alcohol, the parental pressures, and philosophy by examining the way his two brothers his own emotionally charged motives, shuttles us

Casting Director Casting the struggle to make profound decisions about became members of the steroid subculture in an on a revelatory, whirlwind journey to unravel this Ca: Ca: the future. effort to realize their American dream. addiction—from its historical origins to political Nanette Burstein returns to Sundance (On the Ropes Ingeniously beginning the film by harkening back constructs that support it, to alternatives available won a Special Jury Prize at the 1999 Festival) with to the mentality of the 1980s, where the heroes now and the steps we can take to change things. a film that is an incredible window into a time of were Rambo, Conan, and Hulk Hogan, Bell recounts Tickell tracks the rising domination of the Costume Designer Designer Costume development almost everyone can relate to. She how these role models led him and his brothers petrochemical industry—from Rockefeller’s strategy to CoD: CoD: filmed daily for 10 months, developing a remarkably into power lifting and dreams of becoming all-star halt ethanol use in Ford’s first to the mysterious close rapport with these students and their families. Music Music wrestlers. Those dreams were soon shattered by the death of Rudolph Diesel at the height of his biodiesel The kids open up in her presence and lay bare their Mu: Mu: realization that success in those fields required the engine’s popularization, to our government’s choice to lives. That exemplifies her incredible talent for use of performance-enhancing drugs. Bell uses his declare war after 9/11, rather than wean the country

Sound Sound storytelling and uncovering the many layers of truth

o: o: personal story as an entree into analyzing the bigger from fossil fuel. Never minimizing the complexities S in her subjects, creating a film that is astonishing issues that surround these drugs: ethics in sports; the of ending oil dependence, Tickell uncovers a hopeful from shooting to editing. health ramifications, both physical and psychological; reality pointing toward a decentralized, sustainable as well as the mentality that fuels it all. energy infrastructure—like big rigs tanking up on Art Director Director Art In American Teen, the stories coalesce into a narrative so engrossing that it resembles fiction more than biofuel at Carl’s Corner Texas truck stop, a new ArD: ArD: Bigger, Stronger, Faster* combines crisp editing documentary. The end result is a film that goes of hilarious archival footage with priceless family Brooklyn biodiesel plant serving three states, a beyond the stereotypes of high school—the nerd revelations, as well as interviews with congressmen, miraculous Arizona algae-based fuel farm, and the and the jock, the homecoming queen and the arty professional athletes, medical experts, and everyday Swedish public voting to be petroleum free by 2020. misfit—to capture the complexity of young people gym rats. The power of the film is the way Bell stays Sweeping and exhilarating, Tickell’s passionate film Production Designer Designer Production trying to make their way into adulthood. away from preconceptions and stereotypes and digs goes beyond great storytelling; it rings out like a bell PrD: PrD: –John Cooper deeper to find the truth and concoct a fascinating, that stirs consciousness and makes individual action

Editor Editor humorous, and poignant profile of one of the side suddenly seem consequential. –Caroline Libresco d: d:

E effects of being American. –Trevor Groth ExP: Molly Thompson, Nancy Dubuc, Rob Sharenow, Elisa Pugliese,Patrick Morris Pr: Jordan Roberts, ExP: Robbie Little, Stephen Nemeth, John Goldsmith Nanette Burstein, Eli Gonda, Chris Huddleson Ci: Laela ExP: Terrance J. Aarnio, Richard Schiffrin, Robert Pr: Greg Reitman, Dale Rosenbloom, Daniel Assael Kilbourn Ed: Mary Manhardt Mu: Michael Penn CoP: Hans Pausch, Darius Fischer Ci: James Mulryan Cinematographer Cinematographer Weiser Pr: Alexander Buono, Tamsin Rawady, Jim

Ci: Ci: Czarnecki CoP: Kurt Engfehr Ci: Alexander Buono Ed: Ed: Kristin Tieche, Michael Horwitz, Sarah Rose Bergman, Tina Imahara ArcCon: Jessica Berman Bogdan Saturday, January 19, 2:30 pm Brian Singbiel Mu: Dave Porter Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 19, 8:30 pm Preceded by W.

Associate Producer Producer Associate Sunday, January 20, 9:15 pm Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Germany, 2007, 2 min., color, 16mm AsP: AsP: Monday, January 21, 9:00 pm Sunday, January 20, 10:30 pm Directors: The Vikings Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Coproducer Coproducer Monday, January 21, 11:30 am Tuesday, January 22, 2:30 pm CoP: CoP: Wednesday, January 23, 8:30 am Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 22, 9:30 pm

Producer Producer Wednesday, January 23, 12:15 pm Thursday, January 24, noon Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Pr: Pr: Screening Room, Sundance Resort Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Thursday, January 24, 3:15 pm Friday, January 25, 11:45 pm Friday, January 25, 1:00 pm Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Friday, January 25, 6:45 pm Executive Producer Producer Executive Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC xP: xP: E Saturday, January 26, 10:00 am Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Credit Legend Legend Credit 2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival documentary competition 11 Flow: For Love of Water Gonzo: The Life and Work of The Greatest Silence: Director: Irena Salina Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Rape in the Congo U.S.A., 2007, 93 min., color, Sony HD Cam Director: Director/Screenwriter: Lisa F. Jackson Irena Salina’s cautionary documentary is determined U.S.A., 2007, 118 min., color, Sony HD Cam U.S.A., 2007, 76 min., color, Sony HD Cam to stir things up. Water, the quintessence of life, French/Swahili with English subtitles Few journalists have attained the notoriety of Dr. sustains every creature on Earth. The time has Hunter S. Thompson. His legendary status is due as come when we can no longer take this precious Women’s bodies have always been a wartime much to his scintillating writing as his outrageous resource for granted. Unless we effect global change, battleground. But on the eastern borders of the antics. He became a living legend whose persona impoverished nations could be wiped from the planet. Democratic Republic of Congo, where civil war has often overshadowed his work. However, Thompson’s Roused by a thirst for survival, people around the left four million dead since 1998, rape is happening on steadfast ability to remain true to his convictions world are fighting for their birthright. a systemic, unimaginable scale. Documentarian Lisa created an entirely new style of journalism, dubbed Jackson brings her compassionate camera into the eye Under the cover of darkness, African plumbers “gonzo,” and has solidified his place in history as one of the storm to help break the silence surrounding the secretly reconnect shantytown water pipes to ensure of America’s most influential writers and rebels. sexual torture of hundreds of thousands of women. a community’s survival. A scientist exposes Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman toxic public water supplies. A “water guru” promotes Jackson’s frank conversations with activists, doctors, doses of drugs, Thompson was a true iconoclast: community-based initiatives to provide water peacekeepers, and the rapists themselves paint goring sacred cows with impunity, hilarity, and a throughout India. The CEO of a billion-dollar water a sordid picture where rape is a key destabilizing steely-eyed obsession to right wrongs. Focusing on company argues for privatization as the wave of the method in a corrupt cycle involving illegal profiteering the good doctor’s heyday—from 1965 to 1975—the future. A Canadian author pops the cork on bottled from coltan (the ore used in cell phones and laptops), film also includes clips of never-before-seen (and water, unveiling the disturbing realities that drive which in turn funds militia groups. Compound this heard) home movies and audiotapes, and passages profits in the global water business. with ingrained beliefs in male superiority, and the fact from unpublished manuscripts. that the sex-crimes police force is literally one woman, Flow: For Love of Water is an inspired, yet disturbingly Director Alex Gibney intelligently interviews a broad and you have the makings of catastrophe. Jackson’s provocative, wake-up call. The future of our planet is spectrum of Thompson’s peers and paints a three- meetings with rape victims produce wrenching drying up rapidly. Focusing on pollution, human rights, dimensional portrait that reveals what a larger-than- testimonies of unthinkable mutilation and shaming. politics, and corruption, filmmaker Salina constructs life icon he was, a man whose actions both attracted Yet amidst dehumanization, the women impossibly an exceptionally articulate profile of the precarious and repelled the people closest to him. What’s exhibit courage and grace and create support systems. relationship uniting human beings and water. remarkable is how daring he truly was in taking on While each community’s challenges are unique, As Jackson shares her own gang-rape story, we’re the establishment and how absent that voice is the message is universal—the time to turn the tide potently reminded that in America we’re in no position today. His passing created a void that may never be is now. –David Courier to point fingers. The monstrous escalation of rape filled, but Gibney’s terrific film, in doing justice to in the Congo doesn’t exist in a vacuum; around the the writer, the legend, and the man, at least helps world, human beings perpetrate new heights of ExP: Stephen Nemeth Pr: Steven Starr CoP: Gill Holland, preserve his legacy. –Trevor Groth barbarity—against the planet and themselves. As Yvette Tomlinson Ci: Pablo De Selva, Irena Salina a Congolese police woman puts it, “He who rapes a Ed: Caitlin Dixon, Madeleine Gavin, woman rapes an entire nation.” –Caroline Libresco Pr: Jason Kliot, , Alison Ellwood, Eva Orner, Graydon Carter, Alex Gibney Ci: Preceded by My Biodegradable Heart Ed: Alison Ellwood Ci/Ed: Lisa F. Jackson AsE: Lisa Shreve U.S.A., 2007, 4 min., color, Sony HD Cam Director: Dana Adam Shapiro Sunday, January 20, 2:30 pm Monday, January 21, 9:15 pm Library Center Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Sunday, January 20, 8:30 pm Monday, January 21, 9:15 pm Tuesday, January 22, 9:15 am Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Monday, January 21, 12:15 pm Thursday, January 24, 2:30 pm Wednesday, January 23, 9:15 am Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Tuesday, January 22, 9:45 pm Friday, January 25, 10:00 am Thursday, January 24, 6:00 pm Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Thursday, January 24, 2:30 pm Friday, January 25, 9:30 pm Friday, January 25, 2:30 pm Library Center Theatre, Park City Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction Library Center Theatre, Park City Friday, January 25, 11:30 pm Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City

12 DOCUMENTARY competition

I.O.U.S.A. Nerakhoon (The Betrayal) The Order of Myths Director: Patrick Creadon Directors/Screenwriters: Ellen Kuras, Director/Screenwriter: Margaret Brown Screenwriters: Patrick Creadon, Christine Thavisouk Phrasavath U.S.A., 2008, 97 min., color, Sony HD Cam O’Malley, Addison Wiggin U.S.A., 2008, 87 min., color, Sony HD Cam U.S.A., 2008, 85 min., color, Sony HD Cam Lao with English subtitles As winter turns to spring, Mobile, Alabama, buzzes and flutters with the floats, parades, masquerade Wake up, America! We’re on the brink of a financial A Lao prophecy says, “A time will come when the balls, and secret mystic societies of Mardi Gras. The meltdown. I.O.U.S.A. boldly examines the rapidly universe will break…piece by piece…the world will oldest Mardi Gras celebration in America, this time- growing national debt and its consequences for the change beyond what we know.” That time came honored ritual has always been racially segregated. United States and its citizens. As the Baby Boomer for the small country of Laos with the clandestine Filmmaker Margaret Brown, herself a daughter of generation prepares to retire, will there even be any involvement of the United States during the Vietnam Mobile, escorts us into the parallel hearts of the city’s Social Security benefits left to collect? Burdened with War. By 1973, three million tons of bombs had been two carnivals to explore the complex contours of this

Casting Director Casting an ever-expanding government and military, increased dropped on Laos in the fight to overcome the North hallowed tradition and the elusive forces that keep it Ca: Ca: international competition, overextended entitlement Vietnamese, more than the total used during both organized along color lines. programs, and debts to foreign countries that are world wars. Taking a wonderfully restrained, observational becoming impossible to honor, America must mend With the rise of a Communist government in approach that allows viewers to draw their own its spendthrift ways or face an economic disaster Laos, killings and arrests became common among conclusions, Brown unveils the vibrant pageantry Costume Designer Designer Costume of epic proportions. those affiliated with the former government and underway as ornate masks are donned, luminous CoD: CoD: Throughout history, the American government the Americans. Families were torn apart—some gowns fitted, bejeweled trains painstakingly stitched, and the king and queen of each royal court trotted Music Music has found it nearly impossible to spend only what finally emigrating to the U.S. In a truly remarkable out at public appearances, parties, and coronations— Mu: Mu: has been raised through taxes. Wielding candid collaboration spanning more than 20 years, famed interviews with both average American taxpayers director of photography Ellen Kuras debuts her first within their distinct black and white realms, that is. Sound Sound directorial effort with Laotian codirector Thavisouk Playfulness, reverence, and camaraderie suffuse the o: o: and government officials, Sundance veteran Patrick S Creadon (Wordplay) helps demystify the nation’s Phrasavath, the main subject of the film. spectacles, generating genuine mirth and dignity in each community. Yet stories of a lynching as financial practices and policies. The film follows U.S. Phrasavath takes us through his youth, his escape Comptroller General David Walker as he crisscrosses recent as 1981, and of the white Mardi Gras queen’s Art Director Director Art from persecution and arrest in Laos, his family’s the country explaining America’s unsustainable fiscal slave-trading ancestors, as well as subtle interracial ArD: ArD: reunion and their journey as immigrants to America, policies to its citizens. social codes, cast a shadow on the proud Mobile and the second war they had to fight on the streets heritage the white residents invoke. Do the recent With surgical precision, Creadon interweaves of City. Epic in scope and drawing upon the formation of a racially integrated secret society and archival footage and economic data to paint a vivid techniques of experimental film and the traditions the attendance by this past year’s black Mardi Gras and alarming profile of America’s current economic of Laotian culture, Nerakhoon (The Betrayal) is an monarchs at the white folks’ ball augur cracks in a Production Designer Designer Production situation. The ultimate power of I.O.U.S.A. is that exquisitely crafted tale about a country, a family, and mysteriously enduring social order? PrD: PrD: the film moves beyond doomsday rhetoric to proffer a young man who discovers the power and resilience –Caroline Libresco of the human spirit. –Cara Mertes Editor Editor potential financial scenarios and propose solutions d: d:

E about how we can re-create a fiscally sound nation for future generations. Pointedly topical and ExP: Chris Mattsson Pr: Margaret Brown, Sara Alize consummately nonpartisan, I.O.U.S.A. drives home the Pr: Ellen Kuras, Flora Fernandez-Marengo CoP: Wilder Cross AsP: Louis Black Ci: Michael Simmonds, Lee message that the only time for America’s financial Knight III, Gini Reticker, Neda Armian Ci: Ellen Kuras Daniel, Frazer Bradshaw, Brian Hubbard Ed: Michael

Cinematographer Cinematographer future is now. –David Courier Ed: Thavisouk Phrasavath Taylor, Margaret Brown, Geoffrey Richman Ci: Ci:

Preceded by ExP: Addison Wiggin Pr: Christine O’Malley, Sarah my olympic summer Saturday, January 19, 11:30 am Gibson AsP: Theodore James, Kate Incontrera Ed: Doug U.S.A., 2007, 12 min., color & b/w, Sony HD Cam Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Associate Producer Producer Associate Director: Daniel Robin Blush Mu: Peter Golub GraphDes: Brian Oakes Sunday, January 20, 5:30 pm AsP: AsP: Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Monday, January 21, 2:30 pm Saturday, January 19, 6:15 pm Library Center Theatre, Park City Monday, January 21, 6:45 pm

Coproducer Coproducer Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Tuesday, January 22, 5:30 pm CoP: CoP: Sunday, January 20, 1:30 pm Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Thursday, January 24, 10:00 am Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City

Producer Producer Wednesday, January 23, noon Tuesday, January 22, 11:30 am Pr: Pr: Screening Room, Sundance Resort Friday, January 25, 4:00 pm Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Thursday, January 24, 9:30 pm Thursday, January 24, midnight Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City

Executive Producer Producer Executive Friday, January 25, 9:15 am Friday, January 25, 9:15 pm xP: xP:

E Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Credit Legend Legend Credit 2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival DOCUMENTARY competition 13 Patti Smith: Dream of Life : Secrecy Director: Steven Sebring Wanted and Desired Directors: Peter Galison, Robb Moss U.S.A., 2007, 109 min., color & b/w, 35mm Director: U.S.A., 2008, 85 min., color & b/w, Sony HD Cam Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line. You have Screenwriters: Marina Zenovich, , The “classification universe” is invisible to most of your own internal world, and it’s not neat. P.G. Morgan us, yet the production of governmental classified U.S.A., 2007, 75 min., color, Sony HD Cam — Patti Smith secret documents involves millions of people. And government secrecy is growing, vastly outpacing the Not vertical nor horizontal nor neat, Dream of Life is a Roman Polanski is certainly admired and respected circulation of open information. The statistics, as hypnotic plunge, a breathing collage of this legendary as one of the world’s great film directors. But his much as can be gathered, are staggering. In a single musician/poet/painter/activist’s philosophy and reputation has been forever tarnished by his public recent year, the United States government classified artistry that feels as if it sprang directly from her conviction for having unlawful sexual intercourse with about five times the number of pages added to the soul. A punk pioneer and spiritual child of Rimbaud, a minor some 30 years ago and his subsequent flight ; the cost is about eight billion Blake, and Burroughs, Patti Smith’s fierce poetry and from the United States to avoid going to jail. At least dollars a year—just to keep secrets secret. rock music shook up New York’s 1970s underground that’s what everyone thinks. In her riveting reopening scene, and her work continues to be stirred organically of this controversial and, as it turns out, very complex Now, 70 years after the builders of the bomb created by her rigorous mind, beloved artistic touchstones, case, filmmaker Marina Zenovich fashions a perceptive a national information security system and just a and world events. and intelligent exploration of what really happened few years after 9/11, a government secrecy crisis those many years ago and casts a very different light is looming. The combination of a declared war on Shot over 11 years, Dream of Life travels Smith’s on Polanski’s decision as well as the workings of the terrorism and the curtailment of civil liberties sets mystical interior terrain—the ideas, losses, and legal system. the stage to ask some critical questions. When does memories she wrestles with—as much as tracing security erode, rather than enhance, democracy? her outward adventures. Layered with mesmerizing Revisiting all of the key players—the lawyers, Can burying too much information actually undermine recitations, music, and narration, the fluid journey the victim, and the media—and focusing on the national security? incorporates performances, graveyard pilgrimages and conduct of the judge whose handling of the case political rallies, archival nuggets, and vérité moments was definitely unusual, as well as unearthing telling Secrecy, the stylistically elegant and provocative with her working-class parents, children, and friends. footage from the past and incorporating insightful new film by Robb Moss and Peter Galison, explores From raw, intimate sessions in her apartment to interviews from the present, Roman Polanski: Wanted the hidden world of national security policy by formidable incantations delivered to roaring crowds, and Desired develops a case for a clear miscarriage of examining the many implications of secrecy, both for Smith’s expression is unmediated by pretense or justice. But far from being an apologia for Polanski, government and individuals. Combining animation, artifice. Remarkably—and this may be the key to the film is simply trying to bring comprehension installations, a mesmerizing score, and riveting her artistic potency—she doesn’t reject death or and clarity to events long clouded by myths and interviews, the film takes us inside the inverted world construct polarities of good and bad. Instead, she presumptions. Sure to raise questions and perhaps of government secrecy as we share the experiences embraces darkness and melancholy in a way that’s resolve the limbo that still envelops Polanski, this of lawyers, CIA analysts, and the ordinary people for liberating and also life affirming. As she manifests documentary is one that you won’t want whom secrecy becomes a matter of life and death. the transcendent in life, Dream of Life reaches for the to miss.–Geoffrey Gilmore –Cara Mertes ineffable in Patti Smith. –Caroline Libresco

ExP: , Randy Wooten Pr: Jeffrey AsP: Beth Sternheimer, Tricia Wilk, Caitlin Boyle, Ann Pr: Margaret Smilow, Scott Vogel, Steven Sebring Levy-Hinte, Lila Yacoub Ci: Tanja Koop Ed: Joe Bini Kim Ci: Stephen McCarthy, Austin de Besche Ed: Chyld Ci: Phillip Hunt, Steven Sebring Ed: Angelo Corrao, Lin King Mu: John Kusiak So: Coll Anderson An: Ruth Polito, Margaret Crimmins, Greg Smith So: Tony Volante Lingford, Lisa Haber-Thomson, Tim Szetela Friday, January 18, 6:15 pm Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Preceded by Sunday, January 20, 6:15 pm Saturday, January 19, 3:00 pm On the Assassination of the President Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Screening Room, Sundance Resort U.S.A., 2007, 6 min., color & b/w, 35mm Monday, January 21, 3:15 pm Saturday, January 19, midnight Director: Adam Keker Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Tuesday, January 22, noon Sunday, January 20, 3:45 pm Friday, January 18, 9:15 pm Screening Room, Sundance Resort Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Friday, January 25, 11:30 am Wednesday, January 23, 11:30 am Saturday, January 19, 8:30 am Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Friday, January 25, 9:00 pm Friday, January 25, 3:15 pm Sunday, January 20, noon Tower Theatre, SLC Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Screening Room, Sundance Resort Saturday, January 26, 9:15 am Monday, January 21, 6:00 pm Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Thursday, January 24, 2:30 pm Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Friday, January 25, 2:30 pm 14 Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City DOCUMENTARY competition

Slingshot Hip Hop Traces of the Trade: A Story Trouble the Water Director: Jackie Reem Salloum from the Deep North Directors: Tia Lessin, Carl Deal U.S.A., 2007, 80 min., color, Sony HD Cam Director: Katrina Browne U.S.A., 2007, 90 min., color, Sony HD Cam Arabic with English subtitles Screenwriters: Katrina Browne, Alla Kovgan How is it that Hurricane Katrina managed to A new generation slings rhymes instead of rocks U.S.A., 2007, 86 min., color, Sony HD Cam revolutionize American attitudes about the as Palestinian rappers form alternative voices of environment, but somehow the very people most resistance within the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. Self-examination is good for the soul according devastated by the storm have become refugees Interweaving multiple stories of young Palestinians to the saying, and the piercing personal and social in their own country, and their experiences have in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank, filmmaker Jackie introspection first-time filmmaker Katrina Browne been all but forgotten? In Trouble the Water, this Reem Salloum spotlights a vibrant hip-hop scene conducts of her family history is a revelation because voiceless population becomes vibrantly human as as emerging artists discover rap and employ it as a it’s far more than just a personal narrative. Traces documentarians Tia Lessin and Carl Deal engage with of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North is both

Casting Director Casting means to surmount age-old schisms deepened by native New Orleans filmmaker and musician Kimberly

Ca: Ca: occupation and poverty. psychology and history, the story of her forebears, Rivers and her husband, Scott, to create a powerful the De Wolfs, the largest slave-trading family in autobiographical account of the effect Katrina had, Tamer, Joker, and Suhell are the charismatic artists United States history. and continues to have, on the lives of the people of of DAM, the first-ever Palestinian hip-hop group. New Orleans. They struggle to produce an album despite crushing From 1769 to 1820, three generations of De Wolfs Costume Designer Designer Costume poverty, progressing from their initial awkward transported more than 10,000 Africans into slavery. Kimberly’s chilling home footage of her hometown

CoD: CoD: recording attempts to triumphant sold-out shows Contrary to the myth of southern guilt, they were before, during, and after the storm provides a staunch New Protestants, who received petrifying account that essentially rewrites most

Music Music in . As politics increasingly informs their special dispensation from President Jefferson to of the media coverage of the disaster. Broadcast

Mu: Mu: art, these young rappers evolve into community leaders and activists for social change. Trapped in continue trading long after it was outlawed. Browne news stories of rampant looting are transformed

Sound Sound Gaza, facing ongoing military attacks, the group PR wrote to more than 200 family descendents, inviting into ingeniously heroic tales of survival, while recent o: o: S (Palestinian Rapperz) hope someday to meet their them to join her in tracing her family’s submerged stories of a thriving recovery in New Orleans are fellow rappers, but separation walls and internal legacy; nine signed up and take a journey from exposed as a false bill of goods sold on the backs checkpoints prohibit access. Surprisingly, Palestinian the slave forts of Ghana to the ruins of a family of the disenfranchised. Trouble the Water makes Art Director Director Art hip-hop is not just for the boys. Female soloist Abeer plantation in Cuba. unapologetically clear that Hurricane Katrina rages ArD: ArD: and the group Arapeyat are redefining gender roles This past portrait is fascinating, but it is their on as an unnatural disaster of governmental and and shaking cultural traditions. encounter with a minefield of racial politics that journalistic neglect. What is also truly amazing is that the levee protecting Kimberly’s humanity Devastated by decades of conflict, yet armed with the prompts the film’s real questions. What is their against this devastating storm remains firmly music of revolution, rappers portray the hopes and personal complicity? Who owes whom what for the grounded in her deep-rooted love for New Orleans, Production Designer Designer Production dreams of a new generation of Palestinians defying sins of their fathers? And what are the possibilities her family, and her art, and her enduring faith in PrD: PrD: the boundaries that separate them. Slingshot Hip for reparation, both spiritual and material? In this her fellow human beings. –Shari Frilot Hop is a rousing parable of the Palestinian struggle bicentennial year of the abolition of the slave trade, Editor Editor

d: d: Traces of the Trade makes a potent statement about

E propelled by an American art form gone global. privilege and responsibility. –Geoffrey Gilmore –David Courier ExP: Danny Glover, Joslyn Barnes Ci: PJ Raval, Nadia Hallgren, Kimberly Roberts Ed: T. Woody Richman AsE: Mary Lampson Mu: Davidge/Del Naja, Rumzi Araj, Jackie Reem Salloum, Waleed Zaiter CoDir: Alla Kovgan, Jude Ray ExP: Elizabeth Delude Dix

Cinematographer Cinematographer Pr: CoExP: Jude Ray Pr: Katrina Browne CoP: Juanita Brown, Black Kold Madina Ci: Ci: AsP: Rj Maccani, Ora Wise, Shalva Wise Ed: Jackie Reem Salloum, Waleed Zaiter VisEfSup: Waleed Zaiter Elizabeth Delude-Dix Ci: Liz Dory Ed: Alla Kovgan Narrator: Suhell Nafar Sunday, January 20, 11:30 am Monday, January 21, 6:15 pm Library Center Theatre, Park City

Associate Producer Producer Associate Friday, January 18, 11:30 am Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Monday, January 21, 5:30 pm AsP: AsP: Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 22, 4:00 pm Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Saturday, January 19, noon Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Tuesday, January 22, 7:30 pm

Coproducer Coproducer Screening Room, Sundance Resort Thursday, January 24, 11:30 am Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC CoP: CoP: Sunday, January 20, 11:30 pm Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 23, 11:30 pm Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Thursday, January 24, 9:00 pm Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Producer Producer Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Pr: Pr: Monday, January 21, 6:00 pm Friday, January 25, 5:30 pm Tower Theatre, SLC Friday, January 25, 3:00 pm Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Wednesday, January 23, 9:30 pm Screening Room, Sundance Resort Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Saturday, January 26, 8:30 am Executive Producer Producer Executive Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City xP: xP: Friday, January 25, 8:30 pm E Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Credit Legend Legend Credit 2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival DOCUMENTARY competition 15

DRAMATIC competition

American Son Director: Neil Abramson The vision and creativity of independent Screenwriter: Eric Schmid filmmakers can be seen through the Festival’s U.S.A., 2007, 90 min., color, 35mm Framed by the parameters of a young man’s 96-hour diverse and highly anticipated competition leave before being shipped off to Iraq, American Son is a darkly vivid, yet romantic and poignant, portrait of dramatic films. Representing unique of the passage from adolescence to adulthood, of facing the uncertainties of the future, and of truly perspectives and aesthetics, these 16 films coming of age. In joining the Marines, Mike Holland has already signal the arrival of the newest voices and chosen a path, but in returning home for what could be the last time, he is suspending his life’s journey, albeit temporarily. This “respite” is confusing because storytelling in American film. he hasn’t disclosed to anyone where he is headed and further complicated by an affair with an attractive young woman that was kindled on the bus ride home. Holland’s disintegrating family world, his tempestuous best friend, and a rapidly evolving romance, all set within a ticking time frame, make for a vitally dramatic scenario. And in this film that resonates with place (the bleakness of Bakersfield); brims with diversity, both racially and culturally; and is unique, yet oddly and affectingly commonplace, director Neil Abramson creates an emotionally powerful, tautly real, and insightful universe—one that alternates between despair and hope and resolves itself with an impact that reminds us why film is such an effective art form. With sterling performances by leads Nick Cannon and Melonie Diaz, this is unflinching and engaging independent filmmaking at its highest level. –Geoffrey Gilmore

ExP: Chris Frisina Pr: Danielle Renfrew, Michael Roiff CoP: Keeley Gould Ci: Kris Kachikis Ed: Karen Schmeer Principal Cast: Nick Cannon, Melonie Diaz, Matt O’Leary, Jay Hernandez, Tom Sizemore, Chi McBride, April Grace

Saturday, January 19, 2:30 pm Racquet Club, Park City Sunday, January 20, 9:00 pm Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Tuesday, January 22, 9:15 am Eccles Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 23, 11:30 pm Library Center Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 24, 5:30 pm Racquet Club, Park City Friday, January 25, 6:00 pm Screening Room, Sundance Resort

16 Anywhere, USA Ballast Choke Director: Chusy Haney-Jardine Director/Screenwriter: Director: Clark Gregg Screenwriters: Chusy Haney-Jardine, U.S.A., 2007, 96 min., color, 35mm Screenwriter: Clark Gregg, adapted from the Jennifer MacDonald novel by Chuck Palahniuk U.S.A., 2007, 123 min., color, Sony HD Cam In the cold, winter light of a rural Mississippi Delta U.S.A., 2007, 89 min., color, Sony HD Cam township, a man’s suicide radically transforms At 2:00 p.m. every Tuesday, Tammy beats Gene with three characters’ lives and throws off-balance what Actor-turned-director Clark Gregg shows he is as a tennis racquet. It’s his penance. In retrospect, he has long been a static arrangement among them. adept behind the camera as in front of it with Choke, shouldn’t have jumped to conclusions about the Marlee is a single mother struggling to scratch a a wickedly colorful dark comedy about mothers and pistachio nut. Meanwhile, Pearl is having doubts. An living for herself and James, her 12-year-old son, sons, sexual compulsion, and the sordid underbelly of orphaned eight-year-old in the care of her uncle, she who has begun to stumble under drug and violence Colonial theme parks. pressures. So when the opportunity to seek safe has unwittingly eaten pot brownies and begins to Victor Mancini, a sex-addicted med-school dropout, Casting Director Casting suspect that the tooth fairy isn’t real. Finally, there’s harbor at a new home arises, she grabs it, though the a: a: keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida, in an C Ralph, a man of privilege who, somewhere between property is shared by Lawrence, a man with whom Marlee has feuded bitterly since James’s birth. With expensive private mental hospital by working days as bites 23 and 27 of his steak, comes to a startling a historical reenactor. At night he runs a scam where revelation: he doesn’t know any black people. Don’t circumstances thrusting them into proximity, a subtle interdependence and common purpose emerge for he deliberately chokes in upscale restaurants to form be alarmed. It’s just another day in Anywhere, USA. parasitic relationships with the wealthy patrons who

Costume Designer Designer Costume Marlee and Lawrence as they navigate grief, test new : :

D Told in three parts (“Penance,” “Loss,” and “save” him. When, in a rare lucid moment, Ida reveals o waters, and tentatively move forward. C “Ignorance”), Chusy Haney-Jardine’s wildly original that she has withheld the shocking truth of his Ballast is one of those rare films that maximize the Music Music snapshot of du jour America is such an audacious, father’s identity, Victor must enlist the aid of his best u: u: medium through an aesthetic of understatement. M personal expression of vision that you occasionally friend, Denny, a recovering chronic masturbator, and feel as if it’s being projected directly from his Every frame is deliberately and beautifully composed, his mother’s beautiful attending physician, Dr. Paige Sound Sound brain. Haney-Jardine delights in theatricality, every cut artfully and economically executed—not Marshall, to solve this mystery before the truth of his So: So: burlesque images, and wonderfully mismatched only to transmit a quietly gripping story but to reveal possibly divine parentage is forever. characters’ layered emotional experiences and the devices (rednecks frolicking as Puccini blares or an Adapted from the acclaimed novel by Chuck Palahniuk, entire story line narrated by two women gossiping specific textures and sensations of their locales. Art Director Director Art

: : Choke tickles the funny bone as it dives into darker

D Because it is grounded by three exquisitely nuanced r at a tanning salon). And for all its humor, the film A performances, it’s not surprising that Ballast is areas of human behavior. At the heart of the film is observes life with tenderness and humanity, finding yet another staggering performance by Sam Rockwell an emotional center in Pearl and her uncle. the product of intensive collaboration with local nonactors organically connected to the material. as Victor. He fully inhabits the character and nails Here’s a film that takes real risks and reaps the First-time director Lance Hammer is a distinctive both the comedic and dramatic aspects with indelible rewards tenfold. Shot in Haney-Jardine’s hometown voice with a remarkable sensitivity to the topography timing and delivery. A delicious blend of fresh writing, Production Designer Designer Production : :

D of Asheville, North Carolina, edited in his garage, and juicy performances, and sharp directing, Choke is r of human relationships and a powerfully cinematic P featuring an almost entirely nonprofessional cast social-realist vision. –Caroline Libresco actually quite easy to swallow. –Trevor Groth

Editor Editor (his daughter, Perla, is the sole exception), Anywhere, d: d:

E USA wears its independence like a battering ram that gently knocks at your door. –John Nein Pr: Lance Hammer, Nina Parikh Ci: Lol Crawley ExP: Mike Ryan, Derrick Tseng, Gary Ventimiglia, Ed: Lance Hammer Principal Cast: Micheal J. Smith Sr., Mary Vernieu Pr: Beau Flynn, Tripp Vinson, Johnathon Jim Myron Ross, Tarra Riggs, Johnny McPhail Dorfman, Temple Fennell Ci: Tim Orr Ed: Joe Klotz

Cinematographer Cinematographer ExP: Joe Morley, Heather Winters Pr: Jennifer PrD: Roshelle Berliner CoD: Catherine George i: i: C MacDonald CoP: Andy O’Neil Ci: Patrick Rousseau Principal Cast: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Ed: Chusy Haney-Jardine Saturday, January 19, 11:30 am Kelly McDonald, Brad Henke, Clark Gregg Principal Cast: Perla Haney-Jardine, Mary Griffin, Racquet Club, Park City Mike Ellis, Molly Surrett, Shelia Hipps, Brian Fox, Sunday, January 20, 6:00 pm Monday, January 21, 8:30 pm

Associate Producer Producer Associate Jeremiah Brennan, Susie Greene, Frank Avery, : :

P Tower Theatre, SLC s Racquet Club, Park City

A Ralph Brierley, Dianne Chapman, Ellis Robinson Monday, January 21, noon Tuesday, January 22, 8:30 am Monday, January 21, 2:15 pm Eccles Theatre, Park City Racquet Club, Park City Coproducer Coproducer

: : Racquet Club, Park City P Tuesday, January 22, 3:00 pm o Thursday, January 24, 11:30 am C Tuesday, January 22, noon Screening Room, Sundance Resort Racquet Club, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 24, 8:30 pm Producer Producer Friday, January 25, 12:15 pm r: r: P Wednesday, January 23, 9:30 pm Racquet Club, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Friday, January 25, 8:30 am Friday, January 25, midnight Friday, January 25, 5:30 pm Racquet Club, Park City Tower Theatre, SLC Racquet Club, Park City Executive Producer Producer Executive : : P x Saturday, January 26, 8:30 am E Racquet Club, Park City redit Legend Legend redit C 2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival dramatic competition 17 Downloading Nancy Frozen River Good Dick Director: Director/Screenwriter: Courtney Hunt Director/Screenwriter: Marianna Palka Screenwriters: Pamela Cuming, Lee Ross U.S.A., 2007, 97 min., color, Sony HD Cam U.S.A., 2007, 85 min., color, Sony HD Cam U.S.A., 2007, 96 min., color, 35mm Two days before Christmas in rural upstate New York, Good Dick is a truly original love story. It is also quite When Albert Stockwell (Rufus Sewell) comes home Ray Eddy’s husband has left her in an impossible funny and a joy to watch. When Anna slinks into an from work one day, he finds a note from his wife of situation—not only is he gone, but he has gambled independent video store to check out the latest in 15 years, Nancy (Maria Bello), saying she has gone away all of the family’s meager savings. Ray’s single erotic offerings, she catches the eye of one of the to see friends. It is a lie. After waiting several days, wage at the Yankee One Dollar Store can’t make the clerks. He takes it upon himself to break down her Albert realizes that his wife is missing. Nancy has met payment, and the situation forces Ray to feed emotional barriers and launches on a quest to make her salvation on the Internet in the form of Louis her two sons popcorn and Tang everyday. When Ray her fall in love with him. From the beginning, we see Farley (Jason Patric). Nancy and Louis, both wounded strikes out to search for her husband, she encounters this is not going to be an easy task. souls, take comfort in one another through e-mail, Lila LIttlewolf, a tough, street-smart Mohawk woman Marianna Palka is the tour de force writer, director, pictures, and promises of perverse sexual encounters. who is dealing with her own struggle to make ends and actor behind Good Dick. She surrounds herself Nancy has finally found the one and only thing that meet. But Lila has found a way to do it—smuggling with an ensemble of great, young character actors, can liberate her from the pain in her life. But will this illegal immigrants into the States. The tribal elders most notably , who masters the daunting couple be able to see it through to the end? disapprove and attempt to stop Lila by forbidding task of making a total loser (and part-time stalker) anyone to sell her a car. Ray has a car, and although into one of the most lovable and eccentric characters Though disturbing and at times relentlessly raw, the two women don’t trust each other, they team up Downloading Nancy is stunningly executed; director in indie film. Deadpan as Anna, Palka is the perfect and share Ray’s Dodge Spirit to make a run across the foil to his persistent come-ons, blatantly rejecting him Johan Renck forces the viewer to succumb to the frozen St. Lawrence River. darkness these characters face in the world—if at every turn. In this exceptionally well-written film, not with empathy or sympathy, at least with Courtney Hunt’s remarkable and deeply emotional their tortured encounters transition from a bizarre understanding. His finely crafted narrative moves first feature is a realistic look at the world of human standoff to...well, what they end up with. strategically through the plot points, relying heavily smuggling and the difficult choices facing poor, Like classic , Palka has an uncanny on a superb cast so talented that they leave indelible single mothers. A wonderfully directed film full of knack for understanding the complex give and take impressions in their wake. Watching Downloading atmosphere, heart, and outstanding performances of human interaction and the sometimes painful Nancy is like prolonging the instance—if you even by Melissa Leo and Misty Upham, Frozen River is motivations behind them. In Good Dick, the whole see it coming—when the anticipation of extreme pain ultimately about the strength that resides in family notion of “romance” is turned on its head and takes your breath away. –John Cooper and the way hope in a dire situation can be uncovered refashioned into a more modern—if not more by courage and trust. –Shari Frilot offbeat—image. –John Cooper Pr: David Moore, Igor Kovacevich, Jason Essex, Cole Payne Ci: Ed: Johan Soderberg ExP: Charles S. Cohen, Donald Harwood Pr: Heather Pr: Jennifer Dubin, Cora Olson, Marianna Palka, Jason Principal Cast: Maria Bello, Jason Patric, Rufus Sewell, Rae, Chip Hourihan Ci: Reed Dawson Morano Ed: Kate Ritter Ci: Andre Lascaris Ed: Christopher Kroll PrD: Amy Brenneman Willams PrD: Inbal Weinberg Mu: Peter Golub, Shahzad Andrew Trosmans Mu: Jared Nelson Smith CoD: Daphne Ali Ismaily Principal Cast: Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Javitch Principal Cast: Jason Ritter, Marianna Palka, Tom Charlie McDermott, Michael O’Keefe, Mark Boone Jr. Arnold, Mark Webber, , Eric Edelstein Monday, January 21, 11:30 am Racquet Club, Park City Friday, January 18, 2:30 pm Friday, January 18, 11:30 am Tuesday, January 22, 5:30 pm Racquet Club, Park City Racquet Club, Park City Racquet Club, Park City Saturday, January 19, 9:00 am Saturday, January 19, noon Wednesday, January 23, 8:30 am Eccles Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 19, 6:00 pm Saturday, January 19, 9:30 pm Thursday, January 24, 6:00 pm Screening Room, Sundance Resort Tower Theatre, SLC Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Sunday, January 20, 12:30 pm Wednesday, January 23, 8:30 pm Friday, January 25, 3:15 pm Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Eccles Theatre, Park City Racquet Club, Park City Wednesday, January 23, 5:30 pm Friday, January 25, 11:30 pm Racquet Club, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Friday, January 25, 8:30 am Library Center Theatre, Park City

18 DRAMATIC competition

The Last Word The Mysteries of Pittsburgh North Starr Director/Screenwriter: Geoff Haley Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber Director/Screenwriter: Matthew Stanton U.S.A., 2007, 94 min., color, 35mm Screenwriter: Rawson Marshall Thurber, based U.S.A., 2007, 115 min., color & b/w, Sony HD Cam on the novel by Michael Chabon Geoff Haley’s feature debut is a hilariously dark U.S.A., 2007, 95 min., color, 35mm In his beautifully crafted directorial debut, Matthew romantic comedy set in the City of Angels, where Stanton offers a marvelously original tale of an aimless souls are desperate to either make a Based on Michael Chabon’s influential novel, aspiring rap artist who comes to appreciate the value connection or go out with a bang. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh seductively captures that of going into another man’s land and “preaching to Evan Merck (Wes Bentley) is a writer who has found a moment when getting derailed from complacency the unconverted.” most peculiar niche. Evan makes his living composing opens your mind to the endless possibilities life has After witnessing the brutal murder of his best friend, other people’s suicide notes. His reclusive world to offer. Demetrious impulsively hops into a cab to escape is thrown for a loop when, at a client’s funeral, Set in Pittsburgh in the early 1980s, the story the thug life of the inner-city Houston concrete for Casting Director Casting Evan meets the beautiful, free-spirited Charlotte serene rural pastures. His cash takes him only as far a: a: chronicles the last true summer of Art Bechstein’s C (Winona Ryder), the dead client’s sister. Unaware of youth. Stuck in a dead-end job working for his as the outskirts of Trublin, a tiny backward town with his real day job—much less his connection to her eccentric sometime-girlfriend, and forced into an skeletons in its closet. As he walks the streets of the brother’s suicide—Charlotte develops a fascination endless series of airless dinners with his mobster town, Demetrious’s presence draws the ire of the for the young writer. Sparks fly, and Evan is not father, Art begins to believe that perhaps he redneck citizens. But he is soon picked up by Darring, Costume Designer Designer Costume : : one for sparks. As his feelings for Charlotte spiral, an unlikely kindred spirit who takes Demetrious under D doesn’t even exist at all. o C Evan desperately tries to keep his career a secret. his wing. The two men find the strength in each Deceptions snowball, rocking the delicately crafted What begins as a mundane summer is quickly other to rouse old demons that haunt the town and Music Music u: u: balance of Evan’s life and, consequently, the lives of interrupted when he encounters a beautiful confront them in bold and unexpected ways. M his hapless clients. debutante and her lusty boyfriend. Together they reveal a side of Art—and Pittsburgh—that he has North Starr is a poignant and heartfelt urban Sound Sound Surprisingly touching, quirky, and wickedly intelligent, redemption story about healing wounds born of So: So: never known. As the summer boils on and their this charming comedy confronts loss, redemption, adventures darken, Art decides to risk everything to racism and the kind of trust that binds people and our curious need to leave a legacy. Bentley and preserve his newfound paradise: he thrusts himself together. There is a rare poetic and quietly tender

Art Director Director Art Ryder have a chemistry that sizzles. As Evan’s client quality to Stanton’s filmmaking that is mesmerizing

: : headlong into the blurring boundaries of family, D r and friend, Abel, Ray Romano puts the dead back to watch. It inspires the palpable exhilaration you A friendship, and love. in deadpan. Writer/director Geoff Haley returns to feel when discovering a truly fresh directorial vision Sundance after his 2002 short film, The Parlor, made Writer/director Rawson Marshall Thurber and his and voice. –Shari Frilot quite a splash. The Last Word puts Haley on the immensely gifted cast bring Chabon’s pages to life cine-map as a fresh voice that is decidedly alive. with passion, humor, and pathos, wholly capturing the

Production Designer Designer Production joys and pains that come with encountering people ExP: Jennifer Balconis, Billie H. Steffee : : –david courier D r

P who change your life forever. This movie, a stunning Pr: Matthew Stanton, Dr. Paula Windham, study of human interaction and liberation, is for Peter Levermann Ci: Peter Levermann Editor Editor anyone who has ever been rocked—for a moment d: d: Pr: David Hillary, Tim Peternel, Alexandra Milchan, Ed: Peter Levermann PrD: Gregg Ellory, Wayne Campbell E Bonnie Timmermann Ci: Kees Van Oostrum Ed: Fabienne or for a lifetime—by someone truly extraordinary. PMg: Mark Maccora Principal Cast: Jerome Hawkins, Rawley Mu: John Swihart Principal Cast: Winona Ryder, –Trevor Groth Matthew Stanton, Chris Sullivan, Isaac Lamb, Zach Wes Bentley, Ray Romano Johnson, Wayne Campbell Cinematographer Cinematographer i: i: Pr: Michael , Jason Mercer, Thor Benander, C Saturday, January 19, 5:30 pm Rawson Thurber Ci: Michael Barrett Ed: Barbara Tulliver Sunday, January 20, 11:15 am Racquet Club, Park City PrD: Maher Ahmad Principal Cast: Jon Foster, Peter Racquet Club, Park City Monday, January 21, 9:15 am Sarsgaard, Sienna Miller, Mena Suvari, Nick Nolte Monday, January 21, 11:30 am

Associate Producer Producer Associate Eccles Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City : : P s A Tuesday, January 22, 11:30 am Sunday, January 20, 5:30 pm Tuesday, January 22, 8:30 pm Racquet Club, Park City Racquet Club, Park City Racquet Club, Park City Monday, January 21, 8:30 am Coproducer Coproducer Thursday, January 24, 8:30 am Thursday, January 24, noon : : P o Racquet Club, Park City

C Racquet Club, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Friday, January 25, noon Tuesday, January 22, 9:00 pm Friday, January 25, 9:45 pm

Producer Producer Screening Room, Sundance Resort Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC r: r: P Saturday, January 26, noon Wednesday, January 23, 11:30 am Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Racquet Club, Park City Thursday, January 24, 3:15 pm

Executive Producer Producer Executive Eccles Theatre, Park City : : P x E redit Legend Legend redit C 2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival dramatic competition 19 Phoebe in Wonderland Pretty Bird Sleep Dealer Director/Screenwriter: Daniel Barnz Director/Screenwriter: Paul Schneider Director: Alex Rivera U.S.A., 2007, 96 min., color, 35mm U.S.A., 2008, 120 min., color, 35mm Screenwriters: Alex Rivera, U.S.A./Mexico, 2008, 90 min., color, Sony HD Cam So much of what constitutes psychological inquiry There is something supremely classic about Spanish with English subtitles in cinema is overly simplistic, boiling down the Paul Schneider’s Pretty Bird that makes it very complexity of behavior to clichés. So it’s exceptionally American, very theatrical, and almost timeless in Gorgeous, intelligent, and intensely imaginative, gratifying, when dealing with subjects as difficult as its setting. A play in more ways than one, it invokes Alex Rivera’s stunning first feature, Sleep Dealer, is parenting and growing up, to find as rich an inquiry as almost-iconic figures of theatrical and filmic set in a near future marked by airtight international Daniel Barnz’s remarkable Phoebe in Wonderland. lore, while simultaneously modernizing a story of borders, militarized corporate warriors, and an This is at once a tale of Phoebe (Elle Fanning), a young hucksters, dreamers, and inventors that defines the underground class of node workers who plug their girl who is different, and a portrait of her mother entrepreneurial spirit that is at America’s core. nervous systems into a global computer network (Felicity Huffman), a woman caught between trying Curtis Prentiss (Billy Crudup) is the archetypal that commodifies memory. to raise a child and striving for success in an academic American dreamer: the rainmaker. He arrives in town Memo Cruz is a young campesino who lives with career, while feeling a failure in both. It also includes with big ideas, a fervent sales pitch, and a set of his family in a town fighting for its life, the small, an unusually gifted, but peculiar, educator—a drama blueprints in hand. Curtis also has a wealthy old dusty farm village of Santa Ana del Rio, Oaxaca. teacher (), who is directing the school acquaintance who’s susceptible to his incantations. He A private company has hijacked control of the area’s production of Alice in Wonderland, which Phoebe finds, by chance, an out-of-work aerospace engineer water supply and is selling it back to the village at longs to be part of. As talented and exceptional as (), whom he recruits with a vision of outrageous prices, provoking the mobilization of Phoebe appears to be, she is also increasingly far building “the rocket belt,” a personalized flying aqua-terrorist cells. But Memo couldn’t care less away, retreating into fantasy, and frustrating her machine. They embark on their mutual missions— about Santa Ana. He loves technology and dreams of parents and teachers. to raise capital and solve the conundrum of flight— leaving his small pueblo to find work in the hi-tech As an examination of normalcy and madness, this but their relationship quickly deteriorates. factories of the big cities in the north. He dreams of is realistic and cerebral storytelling, but it is also When unexpectedly they find success, everything becoming a node worker and learns how to build his extravagantly magical, a metaphorical fable that really goes out of control, and a struggle begins own transmitter, which he uses to hack into the lives examines childhood, our attempts to understand it, that will change their lives. of others and live vicariously. One night, he stumbles and the way we, as parents and teachers, navigate Minimalist and metaphorical, cerebral yet witty across a transmission destined to pave the way to its treacherous shoals. A film full of strangeness, and engaging, the film depicts a certain symbolic the city of the future, but in a way Memo could exhilarating moments of realization, and painfully geometry to the interplay between these men that never have expected. real revelations, Phoebe in Wonderland is an transcends their human flaws. With Pretty Bird, Burning with visual energy and originality, Sleep honest and thoughtful work that is not to Schneider takes us to a stage that isn’t limited to Dealer is a fascinating and prescient work of science be missed. –Geoffrey Gilmore psychology; the film speaks ultimately to the pursuit fiction that is as politically engaged as enjoyable of the American dream, the quixotic quest for to watch. –Shari Frilot success, and the folly of human ambition. ExP: Doug Dey, Chris Finazzo Pr: Lynette Howell, –Geoffrey Gilmore Ben Barnz Ci: Bobby Bukowski Ed: ExP: Guy Naggar, Peter Klimt Pr: Anthony Bregman PrD: Therese DePrez Mu: Christophe Beck Ci: Lisa Rinzler Ed: Alex Rivera Mu: Tomandandy Principal Cast: Elle Fanning, Felicity Huffman, Patricia ExP: Doug Bernheim, Paul Giamatti, D.J. Martin, VisEfSup: Mark Russell Principal Cast: Luis Fernando Clarkson, , Campbell Scott, Peter Gerety James Shifren Pr: Dan Carey, Elizabeth Giamatti, John Peña, Leonor Varela, Jacob Vegas Limotte Ci: Igor Martinovic Ed: Annette Davey PrD: Alex DiGerlando CoD: Paola Weintraub Principal Cast: Billy Sunday, January 20, 2:30 pm Crudup, Paul Giamatti, Kristen Wiig, David Hornsby Saturday, January 19, 8:30 pm Racquet Club, Park City Racquet Club, Park City Monday, January 21, 11:30 pm Sunday, January 20, 8:30 pm Sunday, January 20, 8:30 am Library Center Theatre, Park City Racquet Club, Park City Racquet Club, Park City Tuesday, January 22, 6:30 pm Tuesday, January 22, 11:30 pm Monday, January 21, 3:00 pm Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Library Center Theatre, Park City Screening Room, Sundance Resort Thursday, January 24, 9:15 am Wednesday, January 23, 9:15 am Wednesday, January 23, 12:15 pm Eccles Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Friday, January 25, 8:30 pm Thursday, January 24, 9:00 pm Wednesday, January 23, 6:30 pm Racquet Club, Park City Screening Room, Sundance Resort Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Friday, January 25, 2:30 pm Thursday, January 24, 2:30 pm Racquet Club, Park City Racquet Club, Park City

20 DRAMATIC competition

Sugar Sunshine Cleaning Directors/Screenwriters: Anna Boden, Director: Christine Jeffs Director/Screenwriter: Ryan Fleck Screenwriter: Megan Holley U.S.A., 2007, 110 min., color, 35mm U.S.A., 2008, 120 min., color, 35mm U.S.A., 2007, 102 min., color, Sony HD Cam Spanish with English subtitles In the sweltering summer of 1994, Giuliani is scouring With a spirit and charm as seductive as its stars, within an inch of its life, hip-hop is Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck wowed Sundance Film Sunshine Cleaning is a delightful comedic drama that permeating white youth culture, and a pot-dealing Festival audiences with their prize-winning short offers a distinctive and authentic take on the story loser kid, Luke Shapiro, is trying to figure out how to Gowanus, Brooklyn (2004) and their feature Half of two people striving to better their lives. Expertly solve his parents’ insolvency, beat depression, and Nelson (2006). They return with a film far removed conceived and executed by New Zealand native get laid before pushing off to college. Luckily he’s from the world of these two, but one that shares the Christine Jeffs, Sunshine Cleaning is fueled by the got a nifty deal with a psychiatrist, Dr. Squires, who same insights into humanity and an extremely high enormous appeal of Amy Adams and Emily Blunt as trades him therapy sessions for weed. It happens

Casting Director Casting level of craft. two sisters who, in their effort to escape the malaise that the oddball doctor’s marriage is crumbling, so a: a: C and general shabbiness of their day-to-day existence, the two—one in late adolescence, the other in late Sugar follows Miguel Santos, a Dominican baseball middle-age—embark on messy passages into new life player struggling to make it to the big leagues and pull undertake a very specialized business: cleaning up the blood and body parts at various crime scenes stages. As Luke falls for a classmate who just happens his family out of poverty. He gets his break at age 19, to be Squires’s daughter, the summer heats up, and he when he advances to the United States’s minor league and suicide sites.

Costume Designer Designer Costume follows doctor’s orders, learning to coexist with pain : :

D system and travels from his tight-knit community to Like any enterprise in this modern world, the o and make it part of him, rather than let it become his C a small town in Iowa. Miguel struggles with the new “biohazard removal business” entails regulations downfall.

Music Music language and culture despite the welcoming efforts and practices that two basically unsophisticated u: u: The Wackness plays like the luscious rush of first M of his host family. When his play on the mound people need to learn. And coming, as they do, from falters, he begins examining more closely the world a family whose parents prepared them for little—a love, discovering great new music, meeting amazing Sound Sound around him and his place within it, and ultimately mother who departed early and a father (played by personalities who impart the meaning of life, and So: So: questions the single-mindedness of his life’s ambition. the wonderful ) whose constant search realizing what you’re made of. Perfectly capturing the textures of 1990s and the zeitgeist What starts out to be a classic rags-to-riches sports for get-rich-quick schemes avails them little that’s tangible—only makes things more complicated. This of worldly, yet emotionally unformed, private-school Art Director Director Art story turns into a much more complex and realistic : :

D students forced to parent their parents, director r is a classic American tale, both in the sisters’ quest A examination of what it means for young athletes Jonathan Levine conveys a whimsy, too—buoyed by to chase their dreams. Algenis Perez Soto shines in for social mobility and their relentless pursuit of individual dreams. Sunshine Cleaning is delightful the dazzlingly funny and unexpected the lead role, delivering a multifaceted performance stylistic flourishes—that gives the film’s insights that is both natural and absorbing. Set against the independent filmmaking that depicts the desires of ordinary people in an extraordinary way. and idiosyncrasies big, glorious, flapping wings. disparate backdrops of the Dominican Republic, rural –Caroline Libresco Production Designer Designer Production –Geoffrey Gilmore : : Iowa, and New York City, Sugar explores a fascinating D r P side of America’s pastime as well as what it embodies to people outside the country. –Trevor Groth Editor Editor Pr: Marc Turtletaub, Peter Saraf, Glenn Williamson, Pr: Joe Neurauter, , Felipe Marino Ci: Petra d: d: E Jeb Brody LP: Robert Dohrmann Ci: John Toon Korner Ed: Josh Noyes Mu: David Torn Principal Cast: Ed: Heather Persons PrD: Joseph T. Garrity , Ben Kingsley, Famke Janssen, Olivia Thirlby, Pr: Paul Mezey, Jamie Patricof, Jeremy Kipp Walker Ci: Mary Kate Olsen, Method Man Andrij Parekh Ed: Anna Boden PrD: Elizabeth Mickle CoD: Alix Friedberg Principal Cast: Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Jason Spevack, Steve Zahn,

Cinematographer Cinematographer CoD: Erin Benach Principal Cast: Algenis Perez Soto i: i: C Mary Lynn Rajskub, Alan Arkin Friday, January 18, 5:30 pm Racquet Club, Park City Monday, January 21, 5:30 pm Racquet Club, Park City Friday, January 18, 8:30 pm Sunday, January 20, 9:15 am Racquet Club, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City

Associate Producer Producer Associate Tuesday, January 22, 2:30 pm : : P s Saturday, January 19, 6:30 pm Wednesday, January 23, 2:30 pm A Racquet Club, Park City Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Racquet Club, Park City Wednesday, January 23, 8:30 am Racquet Club, Park City Sunday, January 20, 12:15 pm Thursday, January 24, 8:30 am Coproducer Coproducer : :

P Eccles Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City o

C Wednesday, January 23, 6:00 pm Tower Theatre, SLC Monday, January 21, 9:30 pm Friday, January 25, 6:30 pm Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Producer Producer

r: r: Thursday, January 24, 3:00 pm P Screening Room, Sundance Resort Thursday, January 24, 11:30 pm Library Center Theatre, Park City Friday, January 25, 9:15 am Eccles Theatre, Park City Friday, January 25, 11:30 am Racquet Club, Park City Executive Producer Producer Executive : : P x E redit Legend Legend redit C 2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival dramatic competition 21

WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

Alone in Four Walls Allein in vier Wänden The Sundance Film Festival proudly presents Director/Screenwriter: Alexandra Westmeier a selection of 16 extraordinary documentaries Germany, 2007, 85 min., color, Sony HD Cam Russian with English subtitles

from talented filmmakers around the world— Adolescent boys struggle to grow up in a home for juvenile delinquents in rural Russia, where life behind and invites us to explore the complexity of bars may be better than the release to freedom. Filmmaker Alexandra Westmeier provides an intimate the human experience. glimpse at a society from the inside out, where boys under the age of 14 are held for crimes ranging from theft to rape to multiple murders. They receive food and clothing. They go to school and engage in sports. For the first time in their young lives, they no longer have to fight for their daily existence; they can simply be what they are—children. Like many of the boys here, Tolya, a murderer, recounts his crimes with unnerving nonchalance. Nonetheless, moments come through in each lad’s speech or mannerisms that reveal the child within the criminal. A 13-year-old newbie is not even allowed to say good-bye to his mother. He fights back tears that somehow reflect the sorrows of all his comrades. Eschewing sentimentality, the elegantly crafted Alone in Four Walls is documentary filmmaking of the highest order. Austere, yet undeniably powerful, Westmeier’s heart-wrenching film literally rises in song, becoming a poignant ode to a lost generation of Russian youth. –David Courier

Pr: Inigo Westmeier, Alexandra Westmeier AsP: Artur Salomatov Ci: Inigo Westmeier Ed: Alexandra Westmeier So: Titus Maderlechner, Evgeny Mursikov ComEd: Katja Wildermuth, Jutta Krug

Saturday, January 19, 2:30 pm Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Sunday, January 20, 11:30 am Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Tuesday, January 22, 6:30 pm Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction Wednesday, January 23, noon Egyptian Theatre, Park City

22 The Art Star and Be Like Others A Complete History of the Sudanese Twins Director/Screenwriter: Tanaz Eshaghian My Sexual Failures Director/Screenwriter: Pietra Brettkelly Canada/United Kingdom/U.S.A./Iran, 2008, Director: Chris Waitt 74 min., color, Sony HD Cam New Zealand, 2007, 109 min., color, Sony HD Cam Screenwriters: Chris Waitt, Henry Trotter Farsi with English subtitles United Kingdom, 2007, 80 min., color, Sony HD Cam When you’re a contemporary-art star and a self- avowed feminist known for stinging audiences with In Iran, according to Islamic law, homosexuality is punishable by death. Ironically, sex-change operations When scraggly, endearingly hapless filmmaker Chris audacious performances involving red paint and Waitt gets dumped by his girlfriend—the last in a naked African women—like Vanessa Beecroft—life are not only legal; they are embraced by a society that accepts male or female but nothing in between. Iran’s long line of disastrous affairs—he resolves to find and art inevitably bleed together. So when Beecroft out what exactly is wrong with him. Why have all his decides to adopt orphaned Sudanese twins while gender reassignment industry is in a veritable boom. Attracted to members of the same sex, yet forced relationships ended in acrimony or indifference? What incorporating them into her artwork, she sparks will it take for him to dodge everlasting loneliness? Casting Director Casting to deny their true selves, a young generation of men

a: a: ethical and emotional fires from Sudan to New York. C and women adopt the only identity legally allowed for The only way to find out is to ask his past paramours Pietra Brettkelly’s camera unabashedly tracks the them – transsexual. Socially conditioned and shamed point blank. And so begins an odyssey of inadequacy dizzyingly intelligent, gorgeous, and controversial into denying their sexuality, queer youths resort, as our clueless crusader confronts exes who turn Beecroft on a three-continent voyage of creative seemingly willingly, a most drastic measure: gender- out to be mostly incredulous, crushed, or cross as

Costume Designer Designer Costume expression and self-discovery. It all starts when

: : reassignment surgery. they skewer him with remembrances of his chronic D o Beecroft, captivated by the adorable Madit and C Every day in the Tehran medical office of Dr. Bahram lateness, self-absorption, and delusion. Not even Mongor Akot, returns to their orphanage intent on his mother can muster much sympathy! Meanwhile,

Music Music motherhood. But love is not enough. Byzantine laws Mir-Jalali, the country’s most prominent sex-change u: u: Waitt attempts to jump-start his love life through

M surgeon, the waiting room is filled with new and the appearance of the twins’ father complicate Internet dating. But lo and behold, a different kind proceedings. The toughest resistance lies among candidates for gender reassignment. The doctor,

Sound Sound of inadequacy emerges—the kind that no amount locals offended when Beecroft photographs the a hero to his patients, performs more sex-change So: So: of therapy, acupuncture, or even a session with a naked infants in the church. Beecroft further shocks operations in a year than the entire country of does in 10 years. dominatrix can fix. Suffice it to say that nothing short when she takes the tiny twins to her breasts, of a Viagra overdose does the trick, sending Waitt

Art Director Director Art composing a tableau that provocatively twists tropes Filmmaker Tanaz Eshaghian has crafted an intimate, : : careening to a desperately uncomfortable climax... D r

A of Catholicism and colonialism. Meanwhile, her yet alarming, exploration of the grip of Iranian I mean, catharsis. husband questions her right to impose white, theocracy and the power of internalized shame. Seen culture on the babies and even threatens to leave. through the lens of those living on the fringes, Be Of course watching Waitt get his comeuppance is a Like Others is a provocative testament to the lengths deliciously gratifying romp for every woman who’s You can accuse Beecroft of exploitation or laud her ever been wronged by a useless boyfriend. But A courage, but it’s impossible to dispute her gameness some people will go to conform. Iranian President Production Designer Designer Production Complete History of My Sexual Failures is more than : : Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has notoriously proclaimed D r to critique herself. Propelled by motherly love and

P just sweet revenge or hilarious farce; at its core are art-making impulses, she reveals how the personal is that there are no homosexuals in Iran. Oddly enough, he’s right. Now we know why. –David Courier soft, gooey truths about the sacrifices and self- Editor Editor always political and confronts a question none can

d: d: knowledge required for grown-up love. E answer adequately: what is the appropriate response –Caroline Libresco to African suffering? –Caroline Libresco ExP: Christoph Jor Ed: Jay Freund Pr: Mark Herbert, Robin Gutch, Mary Burke, Henry

Cinematographer Cinematographer Ci: Jake Bryant Ed: Irena Dol i: i: Trotter Ci: Chris Waitt Ed: Mark Atkins, Chris Dickins

C Saturday, January 19, 6:30 pm Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction Friday, January 18, 9:15 pm Monday, January 21, 7:00 pm Preceded by Flighty Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City United Kingdom, 2006, 1 min., color, Sony HD Cam Associate Producer Producer Associate

: : Saturday, January 19, 3:15 pm P Wednesday, January 23, 11:30 am Director: Leigh Hodgkinson s A Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Monday, January 21, 10:30 pm Thursday, January 24, 8:30 am Saturday, January 19, 9:30 pm

Coproducer Coproducer Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City

: : Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City P o C Wednesday, January 23, 11:45 pm Saturday, January 26, 1:30 pm Sunday, January 20, noon Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Producer Producer r: r:

P Monday, January 21, 10:00 am Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Tuesday, January 22, 1:00 pm Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Executive Producer Producer Executive : : P x E egend egend L redit redit C 2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival world cinema documentary competition 23 Derek Dinner with the President: Durakovo: Village of Fools Director: Isaac Julien A Nation’s Journey Durakovo: Le Village des Fous United Kingdom, 2008, 76 min., color, Sony HD Cam Directors/Screenwriters: Sabiha Sumar, Director/Screenwriter: Nino Kirtadze Sachithanandam Sathananthan Derek is a glorious, yet fitting, remembrance of France, 2007, 90 min., color, Sony HD Cam one of independent film’s greatest treasures: Derek Pakistan, 2007, 52 min., color, Sony HD Cam Russian with English subtitles Jarman. It is lovingly crafted by filmmaker and friend English and Urdu with English subtitles Isaac Julian, who assembles a moving collage of Orthodox Russian nationalism percolates in a rare home movies, film clips, and interviews and a Are dictatorship and democracy mutually exclusive? castle outside Moscow, where a portly businessman- cinematic love letter from actress . Her In a country with cultures as ancient and complex as turned-guru named Mikhail Morozov presides over input serves as the poetic overlay telling the whole Pakistan’s, the answer to what the future holds is not Durakovo, a rural hamlet known as the “village of truth about the life Jarman led, and the cultural abyss straightforward. Projected to be the world’s third fools.” Here Morozov is absolute ruler, overseeing left by his absence. most populous country by 2050, Pakistan has stood at a small band of young initiates who flock to the the crossroads of east and west for centuries. Now in village from all over Russia to free themselves of the From Sebastiane (1976) to Blue (1992), Jarman was the “nuclear club” and an emerging secular democracy shackles of democracy. the single most crucial figure to British independent amidst neighboring Islamic theocracies, Pakistan plays cinema through the seventies, eighties, and nineties. Durakovo has a grand mission—to save the a critical role in America’s war on terrorism. President nation from poisonous Western influences. Some He lived as a gay man surfing the joys of gay Pervez Musharraf has long been seen as a key United liberation and the sorrows of AIDS. He lived as a of Morozov’s subjects come to him unwillingly, States ally in the region—a reputation that does not forced by parents fed up with their stints of painter and participant observer, noting with pen or always serve him well in Pakistan. camera all that passed before him. rebellion. When they join the village of fools, the In Dinner with the President: A Nation’s Journey, new residents abandon all their former rights and In Derek, Julian finds the perfect aesthetic tone, Pakistani filmmakers Sabiha Sumar and Satha agree to obey their leader’s strict rules, hoping to letting you see into the magic of a great creative Sathananthan request a dinner with their country’s learn subordination and enrich their spiritual lives. mind, and leaving you longing for a world with him leader, and to their surprise, the request is granted. Three moral pillars serve as the guiding principles at still in it. Historians can tell us what happened, but The family dinner with Musharraf and his mother Durakovo: God, tsar, and fatherland. it takes another artist to show us what it felt like to forms the backdrop to a filmic journey through be there. When Swinton recites “Dear Derek” at the Filmmaker Nino Kirtadze attains unfettered access as contemporary Pakistan as the filmmakers forego the political and religious leaders gather at the castle to opening of the film, it could be interpreted as both headlines and search the country for deeper answers. salutation and adjective because Jarman was dear to meet with Morozov and dream of a glorious future so many as both inspiration and friend. The creation In surprising encounters with people from across where Russia is devoid of foreigners. With a keen eye of Derek will thankfully go counter to Jarman’s Pakistani society, they reveal a country where ethnic for irony, Kirtadze’s camera juxtaposes Morozov and offhanded last wish and not let him “evaporate.” and tribal loyalties struggle against modernization, his peers romping naked in the pool and sauna while –John Cooper and religious Islamic forces threaten to make Pakistan the young men who serve him toil in backbreaking a theocracy like Iran. In the crosshairs of change sits labor. Purposefully restrained, yet cunningly the president himself, whose ties to the military and subversive, Durakovo provides a chilling glimpse of Pr: Eliza Mellor, Colin MacCabe, Isaac Julien Ci: Nina modernization efforts in Pakistan have made him a fascist ideology on the rise. –DAVID COURIER Kellgren Ed: Tilda Swinton, James Mackay Mu: Simon lightning rod for controversy from across the political Fisher Turner Narrator: Tilda Swinton spectrum. –Cara Mertes Pr: Paul Rozenberg Ci: Jacek Petrycki Ed: Rodolphe Molla, Nino Kirtadze So: Patrick J. Boland Saturday, January 19, 6:30 pm Pr: Sachithanandam Sathananthan Ci: Claire Pijman, Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Peter Brugman Ed: Albert Elings, Eugenie Jansen, Calle Overweg PMg: Mohammad Jamal, Julia Rose, Sven Friday, January 18, 3:00 pm Monday, January 21, 8:30 am Sauer AssD: Siraj ul Haq, Anousheh Chapra, Tayyab Screening Room, Sundance Resort Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Siddiqui PubMat: Samhita Arni Sunday, January 20, 7:00 pm Monday, January 21, 6:30 pm Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Sunday, January 20, 3:00 pm Tuesday, January 22, 11:30 am Tuesday, January 22, 12:15 pm Screening Room, Sundance Resort Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Wednesday, January 23, 5:30 pm Friday, January 25, 8:30 am Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Thursday, January 24, 9:15 pm Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Friday, January 25, 9:00 am Egyptian Theatre, Park City

24 world cinema DOCUMENTARY Competition

In Prison My Whole Life Man on Wire puujee Director: Director: Director/Screenwriter: Kazuya Yamada Screenwriters: Marc Evans, William Francome United Kingdom, 2007, 90 min., color & b/w, 35mm Japan, 2006, 110 min., color, Sony HD Cam United Kingdom, 2007, 90 min., color, Sony HD Cam Mongolian/Japanese with English subtitles August 7, 1974—A young Frenchman named Philippe On December 9, 1981, Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested Petit steps out on a wire suspended 1,350 feet above On a long trek photographing individuals of many for the murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner. It ground between the Twin Towers of the World Trade countries, photographer Yoshiharu Sekino happens was also the day that William Francome was born. Center. He dances on the wire with no safety net for upon a family in . They immediately capture Twenty-five years later, Abu-Jamal is still on death almost an hour, crossing it eight times before he is his imagination and become subjects in a photo essay row, despite seemingly overwhelming new evidence arrested for what becomes known as “the artistic he publishes, but he also forms an ongoing friendship that should, at the very least, garner him a new trial. crime of the century.” with them. The film depicts their initial encounter and Francome goes on a journey to try to understand In the months leading up to his clandestine walk, Petit the events of the next five years as Sekino goes away

Casting Director Casting what happened to Abu-Jamal’s case, to expose the assembles a team of accomplices to plan and execute and comes back repeatedly, witnessing changes with a: a: C truth about racial justice in America. his “coup” in the most intricate detail. How do they each return. Francome’s youthful perspective provides the ideal pull it off? Moving between New York and his secret At the center of this moving group portrait is the viewpoint to examine issues of racism and criminal training camp in rural France, Petit and his team plot captivating figure of Puujee, a young girl who injustice, illuminating how contemporary they still are. every detail. Like a band of professional bank robbers, becomes the film’s pivotal character, and whose Costume Designer Designer Costume : : the tasks they face seem virtually insurmountable. D He travels around the United States getting energetic, destiny seems tied to the hundreds of thousands o C poetic, and deeply moving interviews with Angela But Petit is a man possessed; nothing will thwart his of agrarian Mongolians who have moved to cities to mission to conquer the world’s tallest buildings. Music Music Davis, Alice Walker, Noam Chomsky, Mos Def, Snoop escape deprivation and the deleterious effects of u: u:

M Dogg, and Steve Earle, among others. Along the way, Unfolding like a delicious heist film, Man on Wire the new market economy. Already adept at herding he raises questions about the repercussions and brings Petit’s extraordinary adventure back to life animals on horseback, six-year-old Puujee defies Sound Sound damages of racial injustice, not only to those targeted with visceral immediacy ripened with post-9/11 Sekino and his omnipresent camera, even though her So: So: but to the American culture. nostalgia. In candid interviews, Petit and all the family members welcome him. Gradually allowing Sekino into her trust, she shares her dream of Intricately going through the details of Abu-Jamal’s key participants relish this chance to tell their becoming a teacher. When she finally gets her chance

Art Director Director Art story. Buoyed with eye-catching archival footage,

: : case, works on a number D r clever dramatizations, and delightful visual effects, to enter school, the gulf between Puujee and her A of levels and grows beyond what happened to one family yawns ever wider, evident in her rebelliousness man, becoming a critique of the judicial system, filmmaker James Marsh, like his daring subject, pulls and alienation. , and racism in the United States. off an astonishing coup. –DAVID COURIER Marc Evans () returns to the Director Kazuya Yamada renders these lives with Sundance Film Festival with an inventive and stylish a disarming simplicity but an equally deceptive

Production Designer Designer Production ExP: Jonathan Hewes Pr: Simon Chinn : : sensitivity for arranging images that demonstrate D documentary that stresses urgency—Abu-Jamal’s life r

P Maureen Ryan, Victoria Gregory Igor Martinovic hangs in the balance, but his voice still rings true CoP: Ci: the delicacy and graciousness of a vanishing way Ed: Jinx Godfrey of life. Abounding with human dignity, pujee is an

Editor Editor and loud. –Trevor Groth d: d:

E understated masterwork of beauty and humanism. Tuesday, January 22, 2:30 pm –Shannon Kelley ExP: Colin Firth, Linda James, Ivo Coulson, Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Arthur Berndt Pr: Livia Firth, Nick Goodwinself Chikae Honjo,Arata Oshima Hidekazu Cinematographer Cinematographer CoP: John Battsek, Domenico Procacci Ci: Ari Issler Wednesday, January 23, 9:30 pm Pr: Ci: i: i: C Ed: Mags Arnold Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction Sasaki,Yasuhito Simamura Ed: Makoto Itou So: Morio Watanabe,Satoru Ohata Ph: Yoshiharu Sekino Thursday, January 24, 6:15 pm AsD: Tomohito Kodama Preceded by I Met the Walrus Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Friday, January 25, 6:00 pm

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P Thursday, January 24, 8:30 pm Tuesday, January 22, 6:00 pm Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Saturday, January 26, 1:00 pm Friday, January 25, 12:15 pm Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Executive Producer Producer Executive : : P x E redit Legend Legend redit C 2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival world cinema documentary competition 25 Recycle STRANDED: I’ve come Triage: Dr. James Orbinski’s Director/Screenwriter: Mahmoud al Massad from a plane that crashed Humanitarian Dilemma Jordan, 2007, 78 min., color, 35mm on the mountains Director: Patrick Reed Arabic with English subtitles Director/Screenwriter: Gonzalo Arijon Screenwriters: Patrick Reed, Peter Raymont, Michelle Latimer What makes a terrorist? In Zarqa, Jordan’s second- France, 2007, 113 min., color, Sony HD Cam largest city with close to one million people, it is a Spanish with English subtitles Canada, 2007, 90 min., color, Sony HD Cam much-debated question. Zarqa’s political Islamists are a powerful force in this industrial center, and it One of the greatest survival stories of all time is How do you make sense of the experiences connected is the birthplace of Abu Musa al Zarqawi, the brutal finally told by the survivors themselves, brilliantly to serving as a humanitarian aid worker during some leader of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, who was killed crafted by their childhood friend and master of the world’s greatest tragedies? Dr. James Orbinski, by American forces in 2005. Many in town knew filmmaker, Gonzalo Arijon. If this is a story that you former president of Médecins Sans Frontières al Zarqawi, many in his family remain, and Zarqa think you know, think again. In October 1972, a rugby (Doctors without Borders) and a 1999 Nobel Peace continues to be a source of new recruits to the team from Uruguay boarded a plane for a game that Prize recipient, bore witness to horrendous suffering jihadist cause. they would never play. Their plane crashed in the and extreme mortality rates during the famine in Somalia, as well as the unfathomable atrocities of Inspired by his reporting on al Zarqawi and Al Qaeda Andes. Miraculously, 16 of the original 45 passengers managed to defy nature and stay alive for 72 days on the Rwandan genocide in the 1990s. Triage: Dr. James for international news agencies, Jordanian/Palestinian Orbinski’s Humanitarian Dilemma skillfully captures filmmaker Mahmoud al Massad returns to Zarqa, a frozen glacier, despite brutal conditions. How they did it became a story that shocked the world. his journey back to 15 years later, as he where he grew up, to make Recycle. With ravishing revisits the countries where he spent years working, cinematography that belies the unforgiving Arijon goes beyond the lurid tale of cannibalism that perched on the front lines of civil war. As he writes a landscape, Massad charts the daily life of a swept the headlines to discover the essence of this book depicting his tenure in the war-torn countries, religious Islamic man trying to survive in one of extraordinary human drama. Exceptionally crafted he hopes to reclaim the word “humanitarian,” a Zarqa’s poorest neighborhoods. reenactments set the stage for an experiential term frequently co-opted by governments with The film slowly unravels some of the hidden agents journey that unlocks the truth of this amazing story. ulterior motives. He understandably finds it hard to of terrorism, revealing them as poverty, humiliation, Thirty-five years later, the survivors and their children assemble the words to convey what he saw, as words lack of opportunity, and religious doctrine. Against revisit the crash site known as the Valley of Tears. themselves are too limited. the backdrop of an age of jihad that spans the globe, One by one, they disclose the intimate details of their harrowing experience—including the precise moment This intensely emotional film is highly personal and these same things define the daily rhythms of a wholly universal, shown through the eyes of one man and his family. Unlike the daily bombardment of when they realized their only hope was to eat human flesh. Recovered photos and footage of their rescue man who observed the worst of the worst. Yet the dramatic “good and evil” headlines about Islam and soft-spoken doctor eloquently reminds us it was not the war on terror, Recycle suggests that the potential illuminate the interviews with an immediacy that is palpable. STRANDED is a profound parable of the his family that was butchered or starved for political for evil can emerge quietly in the most ordinary of gains. As a visual log, the transcendent film succeeds circumstances. –Cara Mertes human condition, as hauntingly powerful as it is true. –David Courier in finding humanity where little else prevails and illustrates how words can fail to express life’s most complex situations. –Lisa Viola ExP: Paul Augusteijn, Alexander Goekjian Cesar Charlone, Pablo Zubizarreta Claudio Pr/Ci: Mahmoud al Massad CoP: Irit Neidhardt, Omar Ci: Ed: Hughes, Samuel Lajus, Alice Larry Massad, Sabine Groenewegen Ed: Ali Hammad, Sammy Ci: John Westheuser Ed: Michelle Hozer Chekhes So: Emad Ramahy Friday, January 18, 6:30 pm Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Friday, January 18, 6:00 pm Preceded by Salim Baba Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC U.S.A., 2007, 15 min., color, 35mm Saturday, January 19, 11:45 pm Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Monday, January 21, 12:30 pm Director: Tim Sternberg Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Sunday, January 20, 12:15 pm Tuesday, January 22, 6:45 pm Saturday, January 19, noon Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Wednesday, January 23, 6:45 pm Thursday, January 24, 4:00 pm Wednesday, January 23, 4:00 pm Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Saturday, January 26, 2:30 pm Thursday, January 24, 11:30 am Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Thursday, January 24, 6:00 pm Screening Room, Sundance Resort Friday, January 25, midnight Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City

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Up the Yangtze The Women of Brukman Yasukuni Director/Screenwriter: Yung Chang Les Femmes de la Brukman Director/Screenwriter: Li Ying Canada, 2007, 93 min., color, Sony HD Cam Director/Screenwriter: Isaac Isitan Japan/China, 2007, 123 min., color, 35mm Mandarin with English subtitles Canada, 2007, 90 min., color, Sony HD Cam Japanese with English subtitles Upon completion, China’s mammoth Three Gorges Spanish with English subtitles In Japan, ritual is tangible, and respect is as necessary Dam on the Yangtze River will be the largest as food and water. In their absence, the social Between 2001 and 2003, Argentina saw a new kind of hydroelectric power station in the world. Progress, contract erodes and violence can result. This is revolution. After a national economic meltdown, with though, comes at a price: the dam will displace more evidenced in the most dramatic terms at Yasukuni, almost 60 percent of the population living in poverty than a million residents and destroy numerous cultural Japan’s Shinto shrine to 2.46 million soldiers who and unemployment rising, factory owners literally and archaeological sites, upending a way of life. In have died in the name of the Japanese emperor. walked away from debt-ridden plants. The fabrica Up the Yangtze, filmmaker Yung Chang sensitively Here honor meets history in daily gatherings of ocupada phenomenon, where workers started running

Casting Director Casting examines the effects of this massive project on worshippers, visitors, and, increasingly, protesters. a: a: abandoned factories where they C personal lives, as he follows two young people, each were previously employed, began at this time. To many in Asia, Yasukuni represents Japan’s transformed by the construction. militaristic past. Some, like South Koreans and The Women of Brukman is an inspiring vérité chronicle Sixteen-year-old Yu Shui and her family are Taiwanese, want their ancestors removed because of the struggles faced by a group of women who dismantling their tiny shack along the river’s edge to they were forced to serve the emperor. Others believe

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C owners disappeared overnight—leaving everything her education, but financial circumstances force her not be honored at the shrine. For many Japanese, except money to pay the bills and the wages due

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M tourists to catch a glimpse of the river region before memories revered. The controversy has swept an international symbol for workers, standing as an it’s too late. The irony of her employment becomes Asia, where South Koreans, Chinese, Taiwanese, inspiring solution to daunting economic challenges. Sound Sound clear as the boat glides along the river, revealing a and others carry the traumatic memories of such So: So: landscape changing at an alarming pace. Meanwhile, Turkish/Canadian filmmaker and journalist Isaac events as the massacre of 300,000 Chinese in the journey’s significance is lost on her coworker Isitan followed the story for years, capturing the Nanking, and the Japanese history of dominating Bo Yu, whose good looks and English skills make him personalities of the women, the detail of factory countries in the region. Art Director Director Art : :

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A For award-winning, Chinese-born filmmaker Li an attempt to stop the workers, the police declare to make some money. Ying, “Yasukuni is like a stage, and all these people the factory closed and seal off the block. A protest Beautifully photographed, the film provides a final reveal themselves upon it.” In this bold cinematic grows, drawing supporters from all over Argentina. snapshot of a rapidly disappearing cultural landscape. observation, Li combines stunning archival footage And when 50 of the women push their way through Juxtaposing the Yangtze’s stunning panorama with with vérité interviews and scenes of the oldest

Production Designer Designer Production a barricade to go to work, tear gas and plastic bullets : : the reality of Yu Shui’s poignant story, Chang shows living swordsmith crafting his last ritual sword, or D r fly. A long legal battle follows, as the women of P the tenuous balance between China’s rich cultural yasukunitou, for the shrine. Throughout, he explores Brukman fight to assure their own jobs and gain the past and its modernized future. –Rosie Wong the meaning of war, honor, memory, and oblivion at Editor Editor dignity of having more control over their lives. d: d:

E this most important Japanese shrine. –Cara Mertes –Cara Mertes Pr: Mila Aung-Thwin, Germaine Ying Gee Wong, John Christou Ci: Wang Shi Qing Ed: Hannele Halm ExP: Zhang Huijun, Hu Yun, Jiang Xuanbin, Li Ying Pr: Carole Poliquin, Isaac Isitan Ci: Tolga Kutluay, Isaac Oliver Alary Zhang Yuhui, Zhang Huijun, Hu Yun Tetsujiro

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i: i: Isitan Ed: Fernando Lopez Escriva Mu: Roberto C. Lopez C Yamagami, Li Hongyu, Xu Xiangyun, Bobby KS Wan, Huang Haibo Ci: Yasuhiro Hotta, Li Ying Ed: Yuji Oshige, Preceded by Ignite Preceded by Breadmakers Li Ying So: Takayuki Nakamura U.S.A., 2007, 3 min., color, Sony HD Cam United Kingdom, 2007, 10 min., color, 35mm

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Absurdistan Director: Veit Helmer These 16 films provide a window into the Screenwriters: Veit Helmer, Zaza Buadze, Gordan Mihic, Ahmet Golbol thematic and aesthetic concerns of artists Germany/Azerbaijan, 2007, 88 min., color, 35mm around the globe. We present these exceptional Russian with English subtitles Veit Helmer’s inventive, allegorical comedy introduces works as a way to honor the independent spirit us to Absurdistan, a once beautiful, now utterly desolate, land. In a water-starved village, two childhood sweethearts, Aya and Temelko, await the in filmmakers everywhere. date (foretold by Aya’s grandmother) that a perfect celestial alignment will bless their first night of love. An intrepid inventor, Temelko plans to repair the aging water pipe, but the apathetic older men scoff at his designs. The women, fed up with the men’s inaction, take matters into their own hands and declare a strike. No water, no sex. The gender lines are drawn, reinforced with barbed wire, and our young lovers find themselves on opposite sides of a fast-escalating feud. The imprint of Helmer’s imagination is ubiquitous. He directs like a kid tearing through his toy chest. Mechanically obsessed, Helmer filters life through outlandish, homespun contraptions. If Aya’s first night of love is to elevate her soul, in Helmer’s world, the flight comes courtesy of a rickety scrap-heap rocket atop rusty barrels of kerosene. Brilliantly satirical (here are villagers who build an elaborate aqueduct, and then collectively forget how it works), ever witty, and dipping self-reflexively into myriad cinematic styles, Absurdistan contains the signature theatricality of Helmer’s many shorts and earlier feature, Tuvalu. It’s a philosophic parable that glides weightlessly along (no doubt suspended by pulleys and ropes hooked to a donkey). Welcome to Absurdistan. –John Nein

ExP: Linda Kornemann Ci: George Beridze Ed: Vincent Assmann PrD: Erwin Prib Mu: Shigeru Umebayashi So: Martin Frühmorgen, Immo Trümpelmann Principal Cast: Maximilian Mauff, Krist ´yna Malérˇová, Assun Planas, Kaghat Azelarab, Suzana Petricevic

Preceded by The Object United Kingdom, 2007, 6 min., color, 35mm Director: Leslie Ali

Sunday, January 20, 6:00 pm Egyptian Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 22, 8:30 am Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Tuesday, January 22, 6:00 pm Tower Theatre, SLC Wednesday, January 23, 3:00 pm Egyptian Theatre, Park City Friday, January 25, 9:30 pm 28 Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden Blue Eyelids Captain Abu Raed The Drummer Párpados Azules Director/Screenwriter: Amin Matalqa Jin Gwu Director: Ernesto Contreras Jordan, 2007, 110 min., color, 35mm Director/Screenwriter: Screenwriter: Carlos Contreras Arabic with English subtitles , 2007, 116 min., color, 35mm Mexico, 2007, 98 min., color, 35mm The first independent film to come out of Jordan, Chinese with English subtitles Spanish with English subtitles Captain Abu Raed will be remembered for more than A remarkable genre redux, Kenneth Bi’s gorgeous new its historical significance. It is also a beautiful, life- feature is a banquet for the mind and the senses. In In a remarkable feature-film debut, Ernesto Contreras affirming account of the power of storytelling and an the underworld of modern-day Hong Kong, Sid Kwan, gently explores solitude and the quest for love in ode to the ordinary people we meet along life’s path son of a Triad mob boss and drummer in a band, Mexico. Marina works at a uniform factory, and one who change our destiny. day wins an all-expense-paid trip for two from her recklessly rocks the boat between crime families employer—a trip to a beach paradise. Unfortunately, Abu Raed is an old airport janitor who has always (and not for the first time) when he makes love to Casting Director Casting a: a: dreamed of seeing the world, but he’s only Carmen, the beautiful paramour of his father’s rival, C because of her solitude, she doesn’t have anyone to invite as her guest. When Victor unexpectedly experienced it vicariously through books and brief the notorious Stephen Ma. Sent far away from Ma’s presents himself to her as an old friend from high encounters with travelers at the airport. In his poor vengeful reach by his father, Sid winds up in rural school, she doesn’t remember. But it seems that neighborhood, Abu Raed befriends a group of children : safe for a while, but still restless. who show up at his door one morning wanting to hear

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D about his adventures around the world. Because he o wanders through her daily life—as if life is passing

C Zen drumming troupe, rehearsing and living together sports a discarded captain’s hat, they all think he was her by without any meaning or memory. deep in the forest. Strangely entranced by the

Music Music an airline . As their relationships deepen, Abu passionate and athletic music making, Sid asks to u: u: Set in a modern Mexican megalopolis, a world

M Raed discovers the grim realities of their lives and join in, and then to become part of this exclusive filled with pale shades of blue, the film showcases tries to make a difference. community. Impatient at his difficult apprenticeship, Sound Sound Contreras’s steady direction and Cecilia Suárez and

So: So: Enrique Arreola’s wonderful performances, which With Jordan as a backdrop, the film glows rich in hue Sid soon finds a new sense of balance and a passion lend a quiet inertia to the film as they seek love and and texture, and director Amin Matalqa is an expert at for drumming that address the chaos of his former connectedness. Sometimes we’re not quite sure if drafting a wide range of human characters to fill the life. But he also learns that his worthiness will mean

Art Director Director Art screen. For Abu Raed, dreaming of a different life is : : confronting the legacy of his father and facing the

D they’re really lonely or want to fall in love, which is r A often demonstrated with great awkwardness. But a magical thing, but taking action and helping others, music of his own past mistakes. no matter what the risk, may be the greatest personal the sweetness lies in Marina and Victor’s continual A totally unique blend of violence and lyricism, Bi’s gift of all. –John Cooper efforts to keep trying and seeking, which is a lesson feature offers agile direction, vivid characterizations, many of us could take as we journey through our thrilling musical performances, and a strangely lives. –N. Bird Runningwater

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: : ExP: David Pritchard, Isam Salfiti, Aida Jabaji Matalqa D r worlds that Sid must straddle to evolve and be free. P Pr: Kenneth Kokin, David Pritchard, Amin Matalqa, Laith Majali, Nadine Toukan Ci: Reinhart Peschke Ed: Laith –Shannon Kelley

Editor Editor Pr: Luis Albores, Erika Avila, Sandra Paredes d: d: Majali PrD: Gerald Sullivan Mu: Austin Wintory Principal E Ci: Tonatiuh Martínez Ed: Ernesto Contreras, José Cast: Nadim Sawalha, Hussein Al-Sous, Rana Sultan, Manuel Cravioto Mu: Iñaki Principal Cast: Cecilia Suárez, Ci: Sam Koa Ed: Isabel Meier, Kenneth Bi ArD: Alex Mok Udey Al-Qiddissi, Ghandi Saber, Dina Raad-Yaghnam Enrique Arreola, Ana Ofelia Murguía, Tiaré Scanda, Mu: Andre Matthias So: Tu Duu-Chih CoD: Cindy Fog Tai Luisa Huertas Cheung Principal Cast: , Tony Leung Ka Fai, Cinematographer Cinematographer

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C Wednesday, January 23, 6:00 pm Preceded by Juvenile Egyptian Theatre, Park City United Kingdom, 2007, 11 min., color, 35mm Thursday, January 24, 9:15 am Sunday, January 20, 3:30 pm Director: China Moo-Young Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden Associate Producer Producer Associate : :

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: : Prospector Square Theatre, Park City P x E redit Legend Legend redit C 2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival world cinema dramatic competition 29 I Always Wanted Just Another Love Story King of Ping Pong to be a Gangster Kærlighed På Film Ping Pongkingen J’ai Toujours Rêvé d’Être un Gangster Director/Screenwriter: Ole Bornedal Director: Jens Jonsson Director/Screenwriter: Samuel Benchetrit Denmark, 2007, 90 min., color, 35mm Screenwriters: Jens Jonsson, Hans Gunnarson France, 2007, 113 min., b/w, 35mm Danish with English subtitles Sweden, 2007, 107 min., color, 35mm Swedish with English subtitles French with English subtitles If the first order of business for any self-respecting film noir is a dead body with a story to tell, Ole At the center of Samuel Benchetrit’s charming In icy Sweden, 16-year-old Rille faces a daily grind, Bornedal is quick to oblige. But rest assured that existential comedy about wishful criminality are four trying to get through life’s hassles with grace. Plump this twisted, visually energized genre bender has no stories and an unadorned roadside cafeteria. and moody, he’s the butt of many a school joke and further use for “custom,” and Just Another Love Story only an onlooker where girls are concerned. Home A small-time hood decides to hold up the cafeteria, is anything but. life has its own challenges: his single mom is dating despite having mislaid his gun and the keys to his Jonas is a crime photographer, a family man, and a a nerdy older man, his absent father (a professional car, but has second thoughts when he’s captivated generally beleaguered resident of suburban malaise underwater diver) is charismatic but undependable by the waitress. A pair of good-natured kidnappers until he’s involved in a car accident that leaves a and usually drunk, and Rille and his younger brother, hold a teenage girl for ransom but fail to anticipate stranger, Julia, unconscious in the hospital. Curiosity Erik, struggle to feel grounded in the domestic game her suicidal tendencies. Two musicians (once friends) compels Jonas to visit her, but when Julia’s family of musical chairs. meet by chance. One is successful; the other sees a mistakes him for her boyfriend, Sebastian (whom chance to settle the score. Finally, four retired crooks Rille’s one refuge is in ping pong. He’s an they’ve never met), Jonas readily steps into the role. spring their ailing buddy from a hospital and head to accomplished player, and supervises a community His pretense would be short lived, but Julia awakes their old hideout, where they entertain the notion of ping-pong program for kids, acting as mentor and, with amnesia and, enlivened by the new identity he’s a heist for old time’s . okay, as a sort of self-appointed king over his younger inherited, Jonas maintains the deception. Of course, subjects. The entire formula of Rille’s life makes for In this sharply written, energetic second feature full memories return. And so do boyfriends. a tenuous equilibrium, and this is threatened when of playful references, wry humor, and a loving sense Playing with flashbacks, employing a linearly fractured family secrets are accidentally disclosed, setting Rille of cinema (beautiful black and white images), what narrative, and freely manipulating noir’s standard and Erik on an emotional collision course. But in his links the stories is the irony that these people aren’t devices and archetypes, Bornedal’s dexterity with pained progress toward the chaotic adult world, Rille gangsters at all. Their romantic conception of crime genre conventions is on full display here. Constantly occasionally catches a glimpse of the possibility of is simply a function of feeling slighted by life. They aware of what’s predictable, he heads in the opposite surviving and thriving. share a desire for something better. Beneath the direction. Moreover, he latches on to a completely humor, Benchetrit finds in his actors a warmth and Director Jens Jonsson renders this delicate story universal impulse—the desire to reinvent ourselves. weight of experience that transform the material: with finesse and a quiet humor that infuses everyday But fatalism rules in noir, and the cruel irony—tailor- the wistful reminiscences of old-timers who miss drama, and even a few shocking moments of near made for that dead body—is that living a life that their hideout (now the cafeteria) or the smile of a girl calamity, with lightness and warmth. Outwardly quiet, isn’t yours is a dangerous game, an illusory freedom. who finds affection for her kidnappers. The heaviest but abuzz with emotional interest, King of Ping Pong The truth always comes knocking at your door. lifting is done with the slightest touch. –John Nein is a lovingly etched portrait of the awkward years, –John Nein certain to be familiar to many filmgoers. –Shannon Kelley Pr: Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missonnier Ci: Pierre Aïm Ed: Pr: Michael Obel Ci: Dan Laustsen Ed: Anders Villadsen Sophi Reine PrD: Nicolas Faure So: Miguel Rejas CoD: PrD: Anders Engelbrecht So: Nino Jacobsen, Niels Arild Hanna Sjödin Principal Cast: Anna Mouglalis, Edouard Pr: Jan Blomgren Ci: Askild Vik Edvardsen Ed: Kristofer Principal Cast: Anders W. Berthelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Baer, Jean Rochefort, Laurent Terzieff, Jean-Pierre Nordin PrD: Josefin Åsberg Mu: Martin Willert Principal Charlotte Fich, Dejan Cukic, Ewa Fröling, Kalfon, Venantino Venantini Cast: Jerry Johansson, Hampus Johansson, Georgi Rebecka Hemse Staykov, Ann-Sofie Nurmi, Fredrik Nilsson

Friday, January 18, 9:30 pm Saturday, January 19, 6:00 pm Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden Friday, January 18, 9:00 pm Egyptian Theatre, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 23, 9:00 pm Sunday, January 20, midnight Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 19, 9:15 am Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Thursday, January 24, 11:30 pm Monday, January 21, 3:00 pm Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Sunday, January 20, 3:15 pm Egyptian Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Friday, January 25, 9:00 pm Wednesday, January 23, 6:30 pm Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Tuesday, January 22, 6:30 pm Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden Saturday, January 26, noon Saturday, January 26, 3:00 pm Egyptian Theatre, Park City Friday, January 25, 7:30 pm Screening Room, Sundance Resort Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC

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Máncora Megane Mermaid Director: Ricardo de Montreuil Glasses Rusalka Screenwriters: Oscar Orlando Torres, Director/Screenwriter: Naoko Ogigami Director/Screenwriter: Anna Melikyan Angel Ibarguren, Juan Luis Nugent Japan, 2007, 106 min., color, 35mm Russia, 2007, 115 min., color, 35mm Spain/Peru, 2007, 100 min., color, Sony HD Cam Japanese with English subtitles Russian with English subtitles Spanish with English subtitles Among the most memorable things about Megane are Once upon a time a girl named Alisa lived by the sea. Road movie, love story, and spiritual odyssey: Ricardo an empty white beach, a luminous turquoise sea, and She let life carry her along, never struggling, always de Montreuil’s richly atmospheric Máncora is that a verdant country road. Descending on this paradise, adapting to changing conditions and historical events. rare film so sensual that not only do you watch it, but Taeko, a buttoned-up, bespectacled woman dragging The only unusual thing about Alisa was her gift of you also feel it. From the stunning actors to the lush a very large suitcase, checks into a tiny seaside inn. making wishes come true. When she found herself in locations, it washes over you like a warm ocean wave, Expecting to be left alone, she’s put off when the metropolitan Moscow, chance took her by the hand Casting Director Casting transporting you to the beautiful Peruvian location as a: a: hotel’s proprietor, Yuji, sits down to eat with her. and introduced her to a man with a cross on his chest C it tells an intoxicating tale of forbidden desire. She’s even more disgruntled when Sakura, a placid, that read “save and protect.” Alisa took one look at To cope with his father’s recent suicide, Santiago revered older woman, takes the liberty of entering the man, and her life changed forever. decides to escape the harsh Lima winter for the Taeko’s room to wake her up! But seeking haven at This romance provides the framework on which picturesque beach town of Máncora. Upon his another hotel proves farcical, and Taeko sheepishly Costume Designer Designer Costume writer/director Anna Melikyan hangs her dreams. : :

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C Superbly conceived, brilliantly executed, it’s a modern- his beautiful stepsister, Ximena, and her arrogant gradually tunes into their simple community and day fairy tale, containing surreal humor while reveling Music Music husband, Inigo. The three take off on a party-fueled cultivates what Yuji calls “the talent to be here.” in the world of a girl’s imagination. Immensely visually u: u: M road trip, picking up a bohemian hitchhiker along the There’s a lot of talk about the “visceral power of inventive, the style is used to perfection to carry the way before arriving in Máncora. Once in the beach film.” But Megane takes a step further, manifesting story. Never does the fancy camera trickery get in the Sound Sound town, they let loose, causing romantic tensions that So: So: a process whereby the viewer can partake in the way of the plot. Instead, it accentuates and brings threaten to tear the group apart. characters’ peace. As Yuji and Sakura prepare to life the unique world where Alisa lives. Critical to Máncora is a dazzling second feature by de Montreuil exquisite meals and practice playful exercises on the charm of the film is the performance by Masha Art Director Director Art : : and a remarkable vehicle for his amazing young the sand, we, like Taeko, begin to yield to their Shalaeva. Stare into her eyes for a second, and you D r A actors—Elsa Pataky, Jason Day, and Enrique pace and absorb their benevolence. As all engage in will be lost in a world of wonder and savvy innocence. Murciano. They scintillate on screen, nearly “twilighting,” a pastime involving staring into space, Fusing myth, dream, and warped reality with combusting against the breathtaking backdrop. The we, too, find that our breathing deepens, our gaze abundant invention, the film is an ingenious vision intense, almost-physical force of the film’s visuals relaxes. Watching Megane becomes a meditation. of dark enchantment. Mermaid marks the emergence creates a truly transforming experience. Indeed the

Production Designer Designer Production A soulful journey rife with subtle “aha” moments, of a marvelously gifted filmmaker and represents : : D r magic of the film’s imagery, music, and location Megane is minimalist and quiet, but never didactic or commercial art-house cinema at its very best. P provides a passionate journey into a world rarely seen serious. Like a good Buddhist teacher, its unexpected –Trevor Groth

Editor Editor in film, and shows off the immense talents of an humor delights and thaws us. –Caroline Libresco d: d: E exciting new cinematic voice. –Trevor Groth Ci: Oleg Kirichenko Ed: Alexander Andrushenko, Karen ExP: Hanako Kasumisawa, Seiji Okuda, Kumi Kobata Oganesyan, Maksim Smirnov ArD: Ulyana Ryabova ExP: Antonio Gijón Pr: Diego Ojeda Ci: Leandro Filloy Pr: Shuichi Komuro, Enma Maekawa Ci: Noboru Mu: Igor Vdovin Principal Cast: Masha Shalaeva;

Cinematographer Cinematographer Ed: Luís Carballa, Ricardo de Montreuil MuS: Lynn i: i: Tanimine Ed: Shinichi Fushima Principal Cast: Satomi Yevgeniy Ciganov; Maria Sokolova; Nastya Doncova, C Fainchtein Mu: Angelo Milli Principal Cast: Elsa Pataky, Kobayashi, Mikako Ichikawa, Ryo Kase, Ken Mitsuishi, Irina Skrinichenko, Veronica Skugina Jason Day, Enrique Murciano, Phellipe Haagensen, Masako Motai, Hiroko Yakushimaru Liz Gallardo Tuesday, January 22, 9:00 pm

Associate Producer Producer Associate Preceded by Oiran Lyrics Egyptian Theatre, Park City : : P s Preceded by The Sound of People A Japan, 2007, 8 min., color, Sony HD Cam Thursday, January 24, 9:00 am Ireland, 2007, 7 min., color, 35mm Japanese with English subtitles Egyptian Theatre, Park City Director: Simon Fitzmaurice Director: Ryosuke Ogawa Coproducer Coproducer

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C Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction Sunday, January 20, 9:00 pm Friday, January 18, 9:00 pm Egyptian Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Saturday, January 26, 11:30 am Producer Producer

r: r: Prospector Square Theatre, Park City P Monday, January 21, 11:45 pm Saturday, January 19, 3:00 pm Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 22, noon Sunday, January 20, 8:30 am Egyptian Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Executive Producer Producer Executive : : P x Wednesday, January 23, 9:00 pm E Monday, January 21, 8:30 pm Tower Theatre, SLC Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City redit Legend Legend redit C 2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival world cinema dramatic competition 31 Perro Come Perro Riprendimi Strangers Dog Eat Dog Good Morning Heartache Directors/Screenwriters: Erez Tadmor, Guy Nattiv Director: Carlos Moreno Director: Anna Negri Israel, 2007, 85 min., color, 35mm Screenwriters: Alonso Torres, Carlos Moreno Screenwriters: Anna Negri, Giovanna Mori Hebrew with English subtitles Colombia, 2007, 106 min., color, 35mm Italy, 2007, 93 min., color, Sony HD Cam Spanish with English subtitles Italian with English subtitles If you’ve ever been swept up in a love affair that leaves you dizzy (or wanted to be), you will find yourself Set in the Colombian crime world, Carlos Moreno’s A fresh voice emerges from Italian cinema in the viscerally entwined with Strangers, Erez Tadmor and smartly scripted debut feature, Perro Come Perro, person of Anna Negri with her new film Riprendimi, Guy Nattiv’s riveting story of impossible love—based depicts a brutal universe where gangsters are as which features the best young Italian actors working on their 2004 award-winning Festival short. vicious as rabid street dogs and voodoo reigns as the today. An Israeli kibbutznik, Eyal, and a Palestinian living supreme form of punishment, doling out karmic fate Shot on location in Rome, it is the all-too-familiar to its thuggish denizens. in , Rana, both descending on for the story of a couple breaking up, and the effect it has World Cup finals, meet accidentally when their El Orejón is a violent and agoraphobic crime boss on the lives of those around them. In Negri’s account, identical backpacks get switched on the subway. This who lives surrounded by telescopes in a luxury high- a documentary team sets out to capture the effect chance encounter turns into three days of magnetic rise apartment in the center of the city. When his that an “actor’s life,” and in turn the inherent financial attraction as they fall in love amidst crowds of godson William Medina is killed, he beseeches Iris, stress, has on “the perfect couple.” What these roaring soccer fans. But as Rana jets suddenly and a voodoo priestess, to avenge the murder by casting documentarians don’t expect is to stumble headlong inexplicably back to Paris, the second Israel- a deadly spell on the shooter. While Iris conducts into a situation fret with the turmoil of a modern-day war breaks out, and a conflicted Eyal decides to her black magic, miles from her a small-town heavy life crisis. Alternately emotional and funny, these search for Rana in spite of it all. Once in Paris, harsh named Victor Peñaranda is carrying out a job to characters’ plights, we soon realize, are universal. realities of displacement, opposing opinions on the collect money from a slippery pair of twins. A comic tension is created by pitting the analytical war, allegiances, and responsibilities test their bond. He makes a disastrous decision to break the sacred intentions of the filmmakers against the desire to get Yet it is on Europe’s neutral ground that Rana and Eyal law of the crime world—he keeps the cash for involved in the messy, raw lives of the protagonists. are somehow able to transcend deep wounds of the himself. His choice unwittingly sets off a detonation Girlfriends bond with girlfriends, the boys enable each Israeli-Palestinian conflict and relate as individuals. pattern that wreaks havoc through two cities and other’s bad-boy behavior, and the filmmakers find Their inextricably linked history and common the realm of the netherworld. themselves in the middle and over their heads. homeland, certainly a source of discord, also seem to Energetic direction, beautiful lensing , and fantastic Riprendimi is a sweet confection that is as much fun generate an intrinsic intimacy between them. performances—led by Marlon Moreno and Oscar to look at as it is to ingest. What is unique is the Shot largely hand-held and fueled by powerfully Borda—bring this gripping thriller to life. Perro Come clever way Negri slyly plays with the conventions of immediate, improvisational performances against the Perro is one of the best genre films to come out of filmmaking by weaving together sassy, naturalistic backdrop of real events in summer 2006, Strangers Colombia in years and marks Carlos Moreno as an dialogue; close-up vérité style; and the time-honored reflects the urgency and freshness of a younger exciting talent to watch. –SHARI FRILOT film-within-a-film device. –JOHN COOPER generation seeking to reconnect with and humanize the “enemy” in their midst. –Caroline Libresco ExP: Diego F. Ramírez, Carolina Barrera, Rodrigo ExP: Roberto Manni Pr: Francesca Neri Ci: Gian Enrico Guerrero Ci: Juan C. Gil Ed: Felipe Guerrero, Santiago Bianchi Ed: Ilaria Fraioli ArD: Roberto De Angelis CoD: Pr: Chilik Michaeli, Tami Leon, Avraham Pirchi Palau, Carlos Moreno ArD: Jaime Luna CoD: Luz H. Antonella Cannarozzi Principal Cast: , LP: Shai Michaeli Ci: Ram Shweky Ed: Yuval Orr Cardenas UPM: Jhonny Hendrix Principal Cast: Marlon Marco Foschi, Valentina Lodovini, Stefano Fresi, Mu: Eyel Leon Katzav So: Yisrael David Principal Cast: Moreno, Oscar Borda, Álvaro Rodríguez, Blas Jaramillo, Alessandro Averone Liron Levo, Lubna Azabal, Dominique Lollia, Patrick Paulina Rivas Albenque, Abdallah el Akal, Roger Dumas Preceded by By Modern Measure Friday, January 18, 6:00 pm U.S.A., 2006, 5 min., b/w, Sony HD Cam Preceded by Paradise Egyptian Theatre, Park City Director: Matthew Lessner France, 2006, 3 min., color, Sony HD Cam Saturday, January 19, 5:30 pm Director: Yi Zhou Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Monday, January 21, 9:00 pm Sunday, January 20, 9:00 am Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 19, 9:00 pm Egyptian Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 22, midnight Egyptian Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 20, 9:30 pm Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Sunday, January 20, 11:45 pm Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction Wednesday, January 23, 1:00 pm Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Wednesday, January 23, 7:30 pm Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Monday, January 21, noon Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Friday, January 25, 6:00 pm Egyptian Theatre, Park City Tower Theatre, SLC Wednesday, January 23, 3:00 pm Screening Room, Sundance Resort Friday, January 25, midnight Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC 32 world cinema DRAMATIC Competition

Under the Bombs The Wave The Wind and the Water Sous les Bombes Die Welle Burgua dii Ebo Director: Philippe Aractingi Director: Directors/Screenwriters: Vero Bollow and the Screenwriters: Philippe Aractingi, Michel Léviant Screenwriters: Dennis Gansel, Peter Thorwarth, Igar Yala Collective Lebanon, 2007, 98 min., color, Sony HD Cam based on Todd Strasser’s novel Panama, 2007, 100 min., color, 35mm Lebanese with English subtitles Germany, 2008, 101 min., color, 35mm Kuna/Spanish with English subtitles German with English subtitles In the summer of 2006, Lebanon was relentlessly A tender, yet powerful, coming-of-age story, The bombed for 34 days in a row. Bold and riveting, Under When Rainer Wegner, a popular high school teacher, Wind and the Water is a rare feature from Panama the Bombs is Philippe Aractingi’s captivating account finds himself relegated to teaching autocracy as that offers an unprecedented glimpse into how of what happens next. Amidst the smoke and turmoil, part of the school’s project week, he’s less than identity, youth agency, and cultural transition play out the beautiful, wealthy Zeina returns from abroad in a enthusiastic. So are his students, who greet the in a native pueblo on the edge. Casting Director Casting

Ca: Ca: frivolously bright blue dress that starkly contrasts the prospect of studying fascism yet again with apathetic Machi and Rosy are two native Kuna Yala babies dark reality she faces. Desperate for a cab, she meets grumbling. “The Nazis sucked. We get it.” Struck by born at the same time, but under very different Tony, an oddly endearing driver who, because of her the teenagers’ complacency and unwitting arrogance, circumstances. Machi grows up in Kuna Yala beautiful eyes, risks the perilous drive to the heavily Rainer devises an unorthodox experiment. But his territory speaking the native tongue and learning affected southern region to search for her missing hastily conceived lesson in social orders and the Costume Designer Designer Costume the traditional ways of his fishing village. Rosy sister and son. power of unity soon grows a life of its own. grows up in Panama City speaking Spanish, wearing CoD: CoD: Against a scarred terrain of sun-drenched ruins, In probing the underpinnings of fascism, The Wave is matching pink outfits, and sporting dreams of Music Music bombed-out roads, and lush lands peppered with far from a social studies lesson. As with his previous becoming a fashion model. By the time Machi and Mu: Mu: live cluster shells, Zeina frantically grasps at strands film, Before the Fall, director Dennis Gansel fashions Rosy are 15, a big development company has the Kuna Yala territories in its crosshairs. The company

Sound Sound of information to uncover her family’s whereabouts. an energetic, gripping drama that cuts through

So: So: Meanwhile, an unlikely intimacy takes root between superficial ideological interrogatives and goes straight puts powerful machinations in motion against the Zeina and Tony that eludes romantic clichés to for the veins—the human psychologies and individual community to displace the Indigenous population become another kind of love: the recognition of a behaviors that contribute to collective movements. and build resort hotels on their pristine shores. What Art Director Director Art shared humanity that renders differences of class, In unpeeling the emotional layers and contradictions the company doesn’t know is that the wind blowing

ArD: ArD: religion, and politics irrelevant. of his characters (the need to belong, to be through two very special coconut trees creates a empowered, to escape social distinctions), Gansel powerful force in Machi and Rosy that may prove very Shot 10 days into the actual bombings with many difficult for the company to defeat. nonactors, Aractingi’s sophisticated film hovers offers a humanistic perspective on the terrifying willfully between narrative and documentary, lending irony that these students may welcome the very There is a bold uniqueness to Vero Bollow and the things they denounce. Igar Yala Collective’s filmmaking style, marked by Production Designer Designer Production rare authenticity and access to an emotionally musical rhythms and an energetic fluidity. Precise and PrD: PrD: powerful, fast-paced, and haunting story. Nuanced, And lest we too easily dismiss this cautionary tale, it’s complex characters illuminate the personal trauma of noteworthy that the true story that prompted Todd simple, The Wind and the Water is an inspirational Editor Editor war, effectively leaving behind the reactionary politics Strasser’s novel The Wave (from which the film was accomplishment of intergenerational storytelling Ed: Ed: of either warring side, Hezbollah or the Israeli military. adapted) did not take place in Germany, but at a high that radiates rays of warmth, sweetness, and hope. Instead, we are offered the possibility of salvaged school in Palo Alto. –John Nein –Shari Frilot hope, new beginnings, and ultimately, peace—from under the bombs. –ROYA RASTEGAR Cinematographer Cinematographer Pr: , Nina Maag CoP: Anita Schneider, Pr: Vero Bollow CoP: Miguel Sánchez Ed: Vero Bollow Ci: Ci: Martin Moszkowicz, Franz Kraus, David Groenewold and the Igar Yala Collective Principal Cast: Benjamin Pr: Hervé Chabalier, Francois Gohen-Séat, Paul Raphael, Ci: Torsten Breuer Ed: Ueli Christen PrD: Knut Loewe Avila, Yirelis Adjani Smith, Ologwagdi, Arosemena Algis Philippe Aractingi Ci: Nidal Abdel Khalek Ed: Deena Mu: Heiko Maile Principal Cast: Juergen Vogel, Frederick Charara Mu: René Aubry So: Mouhab Chanesaz Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich, Christiane Paul

Associate Producer Producer Associate ArTrans: Anjo Rihane Principal Cast: Nada Abou Farhat, Tuesday, January 22, 6:00 pm

AsP: AsP: Georges Khabbaz, Bshara Atallay, Rawia Elchab Egyptian Theatre, Park City Friday, January 18, 3:00 pm Egyptian Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 23, 10:00 am Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City

Coproducer Coproducer Friday, January 18, 9:00 pm Saturday, January 19, 9:00 am

CoP: CoP: Tower Theatre, SLC Egyptian Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 23, 10:30 pm Monday, January 21, 6:00 pm Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Sunday, January 20, 9:30 pm Producer Producer Egyptian Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 24, 3:00 pm

Pr: Pr: Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Tuesday, January 22, 9:00 am Egyptian Theatre, Park City Monday, January 21, 9:45 pm Egyptian Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Thursday, January 24, 1:00 pm Wednesday, January 23, 8:30 pm

Executive Producer Producer Executive Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Credit Legend ExP: ExP: Legend Credit 2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival world cinema dramatic competition 33 premieres

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Assassination of a High School President To showcase the diversity of contemporary Director: Brett Simon cinema, the Sundance Film Festival’s Premieres Screenwriters: Tim Calpin, Kevin Jakubowski U.S.A., 2008, 90 min., color, 35mm program offers a selection of the latest work Director Brett Simon’s feature debut is an intricately crafted high school drama that strays from the typical from established directors and world premieres teenage fare and manages to keep what at first seems like a familiar plot twisting and turning until of highly anticipated films. the very last frame. Combining a keen sense of relief that no one can make you go back to high school with an equally strong desire to return and make all of the cool kids realize that there’s life past graduation, Assassination of a High School President deftly captures a new kind of grown-up teenage angst. Sophomore Bobby Funke, played with witty nuance by Reece Thompson, is a self-described newspaper dork whose social skills are severely lacking in this high school hierarchy, yet he is instantly recognizable as the person with the most promising future in his class. Determined to win a spot in a coveted summer journalism program, he finds himself at the epicenter of a story that threatens the entire social structure of St. Donovan’s High School—everyone from jocks to misfits to Bruce Willis’s campy and over-the-top principal. The rest of the perfectly cast ensemble creates a high school from hell, where anything seems possible, especially since every character seems to be 16 going on 30. Giving any hints about the way this film turns out would only destroy the fun. –Adam Montgomery

Pr: Bob Yari, Roy Lee, Doug Davison Ci: M. David Mullen Ed: William Anderson Principal Cast: Mischa Barton, Reece Daniel Thompson, Bruce Willis, Michael Rapaport, Kathryn Morris, Josh Pais

Wednesday, January 23, 6:15 pm Eccles Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 24, 11:30 pm Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 26, 6:30 pm Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

34 Be Kind Rewind CSNY Déjà Vu The Deal Director/Screenwriter: Michel Gondry Director: Bernard Shakey Director: U.S.A., 2007, 101 min., color, 35mm Screenwriters: Neil Young, Mike Cerre Screenwriters: William H. Macy, U.S.A., 2006, 96 min., color, 35mm Steven Schachter The fertile and irrepressible imagination of Michel Canada, 2007, 98 min., color, 35mm Gondry is again on display in this wildly original If you grew up, as I did, with your dorm room full comedy, Be Kind Rewind, a film whose simplicity of of albums by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young and What does it look like when a Hollywood movie vision, inventiveness, and charm remind us of why we antiwar activities as part of your daily agenda, you producer suddenly has nothing to lose? Meet Charlie first fell in love with film. It’s a journey that begins in may approach the Freedom of Speech Tour with Berns, a guy whose suicidal tendencies give him the a New Jersey video store, a place that already seems preconceptions about its motivations and content chutzpah to con a major studio into a $100 million nearly obsolete. based on the band you remember. Although the deal on a script he hasn’t even read. When Jerry (Jack Black) accidentally erases all the chronicle of that tour, CSNY Déjà Vu, is indeed a look At the very moment when his idealistic screenwriter Casting Director Casting tapes in the store because he has become magnetized back at the politics and anti–Vietnam War sentiment, nephew knocks on the door, toting a solemn art- Ca: Ca: (just stay with me on this…), he and his best friend its real value lies in its rejection of simple nostalgia house period script about Benjamin Disraeli, Charlie Mike (Mos Def) decide to remake the lost movies to and its ability to focus on the present day. has literally had it with life. But the trade papers have keep alive the ailing business of their temporarily As both a portrait of a band and an examination announced that a recently converted black action star absent boss, Mr. Fletcher (Danny Glover). And when of artistic process, CSNY Déjà Vu is filmmaking is actively seeking Jewish material, so the serendipity Costume Designer Designer Costume their peculiarly inspired versions of Hollywood that is self-centered, yet fresh and critical. Today’s is too absurd to resist. Charlie masterminds a plan, CoD: CoD: classics become a surprise hit with their neighborhood generation must be as tired of hearing about the ’60s making it impossible for the studio not to green- clientele, they are soon in full-scale production, Music Music as we were of an earlier era, and this depiction of the light this project, which, while Jewish, couldn’t be remaking everything from to King Mu: Mu: tour is anything but preaching to the converted. Part further from an action flick. No matter. In Hollywood, Kong. This, of course, cannot be permitted by the performance, part commentary, and very much a call perception is everything. Along the way, Charlie Sound Sound powers that be, so the friends and their now-returned for activism, CSNY Déjà Vu is relevant because we meets his match in Deidre Hearn, a sharp-witted So: So: employer face losing the store unless they can come ignore the lessons of history at our peril. development executive who sees right through his up with a plan. Featuring music from Neil Young’s controversial Living games but also recognizes that maybe his caution-to- the-wind philosophy has serious merit. Art Director Director Art Whether it’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, with War CD, this evocative and edgy film documents The Science of Sleep, or Be Kind Rewind, Gondry, ArD: ArD: reactions from fans to a band that has remained The mischievous charm in this smart screwball satire along with a remarkable artistic team, operates in committed to issues of politics and art for more than about renegade producers bamboozling a soul- a creative sphere that sets him apart. His ability four decades. Since history seems to repeat itself, crushing industry hinges on the wonderfully crackly to touch, stimulate, and entertain us is rare, really perhaps our artists best illustrate what we need to Tracy-Hepburn chemistry between William Macy and exceptional, and the mark of a filmmaker who clearly remember. –Geoffrey Gilmore . Steven Schachter’s tongue-in-cheek romp Production Designer Designer Production loves his craft. –Geoffrey Gilmore revels in sending up Hollywood stereotypes—zealous PrD: PrD: star, histrionic director, slippery suits—but also Pr: L.A. Johnson Ci: Mike Elwell Ed: Mark Faulkner

Editor Editor Ryan’s legacy as romantic comedy’s “it” girl, and ExP: Toby Emerich, Guy Stodel Pr: Michel Gondry, Julie Ed: Ed: even the notion that it’s possible to make a Fong, Georges Bermann Ci: Ellen Kuras Principal Cast: meaningful movie. –Caroline Libresco Jack Black, Mos Def, Mia Farrow, Danny Glover Friday, January 25, 9:30 pm Eccles Theatre, Park City

Cinematographer Cinematographer Sunday, January 20, 3:15 pm Saturday, January 26, 9:15 am Pr: Irene Litinsky, Michael Prupas, Keri Nakamoto Ci: Ci: Ci: Eccles Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Paul Sarossy Ed: Matt Friedman Principal Cast: William H. Macy, Meg Ryan, LL Cool J Monday, January 21, 8:30 am Sunday, January 27, 12:30 pm Library Center Theatre, Park City Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Tuesday, January 22, 9:30 pm Associate Producer Producer Associate Tuesday, January 22, 9:30 pm Eccles Theatre, Park City AsP: AsP: Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction Wednesday, January 23, 8:30 am Thursday, January 24, 6:30 pm Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Coproducer Coproducer Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden Sunday, January 27, 3:30 pm CoP: CoP: Saturday, January 26, 9:00 pm Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Tower Theatre, SLC Producer Producer Pr: Pr: Executive Producer Producer Executive Credit Legend ExP: ExP: Legend Credit 2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival premieres 35 Death in Love Diminished Capacity The Escapist Director/Screenwriter: Director: Terry Kinney Director: Rupert Wyatt U.S.A., 2007, 100 min., color, Sony HD Cam Screenwriter: Sherwood Kiraly, Screenwriters: Rupert Wyatt, Daniel Hardy based on his novel Ireland/United Kingdom, 2007, 105 min., What burdens do the survivors of those who survived U.S.A., 2007, 92 min., color, Sony HD Cam color, 35mm carry? A young woman in a Nazi concentration camp saves her life by seducing the young After a concussion leaves him unfocused, short on Frank () is a lifer: in prison for the rest performs medical experiments on prisoners. Cut short-term memory, and demoted from the political of his natural-born days. And he’s been perfectly to decades later, when that same woman (played pages to the comics, Cooper (Matthew Broderick), a willing to accept that...until now. A letter informs him by ) is living in New York City and newspaper editor, travels home to his daughter is critically ill following an overdose. He married with two grown sons. to visit his aging Uncle Rollie (). On the must see her before it is too late and concocts a plan, The two siblings have developed differently under a verge of losing his home and exhibiting signs of but he needs help. He assembles a motley crew of mother with a long history of erratic behavior. The senility, Rollie spends his time stubbornly refusing unlikely companions to help with his intricate scheme. younger one can’t cope at all, and the older one copes to pay bills, compulsively drying socks, and sitting A fatal encounter puts the escape in jeopardy, too well. Portrayed by Josh Lucas, he is now 40 years by the lake editing “fish poetry” (think typewriter and Frank must lead the group on a truly old and hides out in psychosexual escapades and a job keys tied to baited fishing lines). But when he shows hair-raising escape. at a fraudulent modeling agency scamming the young Cooper a near-mint-condition Frank “Wildfire” Schulte What is so great about The Escapist is that it and hopeful. He is good at them both—too good. So baseball card, the two muddled men—along with functions as both a classic prison-break film and an why is he growing increasingly frightened? Is he losing Cooper’s high school sweetheart, Charlotte (Virginia existential puzzle and is thoroughly enjoyable either his game? His sexual prowess and intellectual Madsen)—drive back to Chicago hoping to sell the way. The film is meticulously crafted, and filled with diatribes no longer make him feel better. He will have antique card at a memorabilia convention. minute details of place and plot. Director Rupert to change to survive. Director Terry Kinney and screenwriter Sherwood Wyatt subtly melds story and visuals to fashion an Boaz Yakin returns to Sundance with a wonderfully Kiraly (who also wrote the novel) have concocted exhilarating ride through the prison milieu and the insightful, yet personal, film about family, guilt, a delightful, bittersweet comedy about people coming internal workings of the characters. His insightful ambition, lust, and the impossible task of trying together and memory falling apart. Full of wit and mix of frenetic and static camerawork prompts a to live without them. The detailed performances observant character humor, Diminished Capacity visceral reaction that amplifies the speed and of the talented cast capture the subtleties of is cleverly set in the world of baseball cards and urgency of the escape. characters maneuvering through a minefield of family commercialized nostalgia that allows us Cox delivers a tour-de-force performance, reminiscent relationships. Death In Love reminds us that no to explore the value of our memories (which may of classic screen heroes, that is impressive both matter how much we wish it weren’t so, our actions not be what’s quoted in the price list) and who we are physically and emotionally. When the puzzle is finally reverberate and affect others in monumental ways, without them. complete, we see Frank’s journey for what it really is: especially those who love us. –John Cooper It’s with a hint of melancholy that we accept a passage not just from confinement to freedom but that our memories are fleeting, or as Rollie’s fish toward redemption for a tormented soul. point out in one of their more-accessible poems, –Trevor Groth Pr: Boaz Yakin, Joseph N. Zolfo CoP: Alma Har’el “Time is the guest of the north.” They may be on Ci: Frederik Jacobi Ed: John Lyons PrD: Dara Wishingrad to something. –John Nein CoD: Sue Gandy Principal Cast: Josh Lucas, ExP: Brian Cox, Tristan Whalley Pr: Alan Moloney, Jacqueline Bisset, Lukas Haas, Adrian Sturges Ci: Philipp Blaubach Ed: ExP: Scott Hanson, John Allen Ed Hart, Bruce Lunsford Principal Cast: Brian Cox, , Tuesday, January 22, 6:15 pm Pr: Celine Rattray, Galt Niederhoffer, Tim Evans, Daniela Liam Cunningham, Seu Jorge, Dominic Cooper, Eccles Theatre, Park City Tapling Lundberg Ci: Vanja Cernjul Ed: Tim Streeto Steven Mackintosh, Damian Lewis Principal Cast: Matthew Broderick, Alan Alda, Virginia Wednesday, January 23, 11:30 am Madsen, Dylan Baker Library Center Theatre, Park City Monday, January 21, 9:30 pm Eccles Theatre, Park City Friday, January 25, 9:00 pm Monday, January 21, 6:15 pm Tuesday, January 22, 11:30 pm Screening Room, Sundance Resort Eccles Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 26, 4:30 pm Tuesday, January 22, 8:30 am Saturday, January 26, midnight Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Library Center Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Wednesday, January 23, 6:00 pm Screening Room, Sundance Resort Saturday, January 26, 3:45 pm Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC

36 premieres

The Great Buck Howard The Guitar Henry Poole Is Here Director/Screenwriter: Sean McGinly Director: Amy Redford Director: U.S.A., 2007, 87 min., color, 35mm Screenwriter: Amos Poe Screenwriter: Albert Torres U.S.A., 2007, 95 min., color, 35mm U.S.A., 2008, 100 min., color, 35mm Law-school dropout Troy Gable answers an ad for a “personal assistant to a celebrity performer,” hoping How would you behave if you had to confront For a man who seems to be living a perfect life— it will catapult him to a glamorous career in the your own mortality? Especially if you were young, comfortable, engaged, full of opportunity— entertainment industry. Little does he know that in your twenties or early thirties, how would you the discovery in a routine doctor’s checkup that all performer is Buck Howard, a “mentalist” infamous react if you learned you had less than two months is not well prompts Henry Poole to flee. He finds for his 61 appearances on The Tonight Show, who has to live? These questions create the point of himself alone in a new house and a new place, been reduced to a has-been magician in need of a departure for Amy Redford’s whimsical fairy tale somewhere where perhaps he can try to escape the pretty big trick to get him out of this slump. The Guitar, a thoroughly engaging, almost- fate that he has been dealt. It’s a house in a working-

Casting Director Casting Writer/director Sean McGinly does the near mythological allegory that is fueled by the class suburb with neighbors who welcome him, or Ca: Ca: impossible by successfully encapsulating a whole exceptional performance of Saffron Burrows and at least try to; he finds them rather unattractive, era of entertainment in one outrageous character. executed with style by its director. frankly, but fine for his purposes. But life won’t let Played with perfection by John Malkovich, Buck is a One morning Mel, a mousy, harried New Yorker with him alone. His neighbors’ intrusions, the discovery of bigger-than-life mix of ego, sweetness, and delusion a thankless job and an even-less-appealing boyfriend a “miracle” on a backyard wall, and the attentions of a Costume Designer Designer Costume packaged in a flamboyant style. As Troy, Colin Hanks learns that the tumor in her throat is cancerous; the little girl with a tape recorder disrupt whatever hopes CoD: CoD: does a remarkable job of holding his own, even diagnosis is terminal, so it seems that both her job he had for hiding out. when deflecting Buck’s diva-esque tantrums. In an

Music Music and her relationship are kaput. Rather than lying down Director Mark Pellington revisits Sundance (Going inspired bit of casting, Tom Hanks plays Troy’s father,

Mu: Mu: and dying then and there, she embarks on an endless All the Way played at the 1997 Festival) with a very who ironically disapproves of show business, and spree, the kind of self-indulgent wish fulfillment that personal work about devastation and the need to Sound Sound Emily Blunt is the fiery publicist hired to stage the we have all fantasized about. find yourself. Inspired by Pellington’s own loss, Henry So: So: comeback of a lifetime. Written by Amos Poe, and based on a true story, Poole Is Here is a work that is soul searching in the McGinly’s secret is that he never allows the film to this beautifully realized parable speaks volumes best sense of the word. Poignant, yet acerbic and funny, it tells us about faith, the vagaries of life and Art Director Director Art wallow in sentimentality because Buck doesn’t need about living. Overflowing with an energy and vitality our pity. He has confidence in his stage presence, and death, and personal salvation. Powered by a resonant ArD: ArD: that belie the initial darkness of its narrative, The he may even have some authentic magic powers up Guitar is a transcendent respite from the turmoil of performance from the remarkable Luke Wilson, Henry his sleeve. The true magic of The Great Buck Howard, our troubled times. It is sure to capture both your Poole Is Here is full of small moments and meanings however, is remembering the power of staying true to imagination and your heart. –Geoffrey Gilmore that make it a memorable film. –Geoffrey Gilmore yourself even if the world around you has changed.

Production Designer Designer Production –John Cooper Pr: , Gary Lucchesi, Richard Wright, PrD: PrD: ExP: Michael Roban, Damon Martin Pr: Bob Jason, Hayward Collins, Amy Redford, Amos Poe Ci: Bobby Gary Gilbert, Tom Lassally Ci: Eric Schmidt Editor Editor ExP: Steven Shareshian, Marvin Acuna Pr: Tom Hanks, Ed: Lisa Churgin PrD: Richard Hoover Principal Cast:

Ed: Ed: Bukowski Ed: David Leonard Principal Cast: Saffron Gary Goetzman CoP: Ginger Sledge Ci: Tak Fujimoto Burrows, Isaach De Bankole, Paz De La Huerta Luke Wilson, Rhada Mitchell, Adriana Barraza, George Ed: Myron I. Kerstein Principal Cast: Colin Hanks, John Lopez, Cheryl Hines Malkovich, Emily Blunt, Tom Hanks, Steve Zahn Friday, January 18, 3:15 pm Cinematographer Cinematographer Monday, January 21, 3:15 pm

Ci: Ci: Eccles Theatre, Park City Friday, January 18, 6:30 pm Eccles Theatre, Park City Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Saturday, January 19, midnight Egyptian Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 22, 8:30 am Friday, January 18, 9:30 pm Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Monday, January 21, 6:30 pm Associate Producer Producer Associate Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden Thursday, January 24, 6:30 pm

AsP: AsP: Saturday, January 19, 3:15 pm Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Eccles Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 23, 9:00 pm Screening Room, Sundance Resort Saturday, January 26, 9:30 pm Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction Coproducer Coproducer Sunday, January 20, 6:30 pm Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden Saturday, January 26, 9:30 pm CoP: CoP: Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Sunday, January 20, 11:30 pm

Producer Producer Library Center Theatre, Park City Pr: Pr: Monday, January 21, 9:00 pm Screening Room, Sundance Resort Executive Producer Producer Executive Credit Legend ExP: ExP: Legend Credit 2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival premieres 37 In Bruges Incendiary The Merry Gentleman Director/Screenwriter: Martin McDonagh Director/Screenwriter: Sharon Maguire Director: Michael Keaton United Kingdom, 2008, 101 min., color, 35mm United Kingdom, 2008, 96 min., color, 35mm Screenwriter: Ron Lazzaretti U.S.A., 2007, 110 min., color, Sony HD Cam Martin McDonagh, an award-winning playwright and Based on a novel released two days before the London Academy Award winner for his short Six Shooter, bombings, Incendiary is a contemporary portrait of A delicacy of tone transforms Michael Keaton’s makes his feature debut with a work that is deliriously England that deftly interweaves tragedy, sex, politics, The Merry Gentleman from what might have been funny, pointed, and perverse, yet sad, thoughtful, and the grief emanating from a suicide terrorist a pedestrian tale into a beautifully romantic fable. and infused with a moral vision that resonantly attack on a London soccer stadium. Directed with Directed, photographed, and performed with a reflects today’s surreal world. The film takes place in dispatch and clarity by Sharon Maguire (in a complete precision and style that mark a distinctive directorial a storybook setting, the preserved medieval Flemish departure from her previous feature, Bridget Jones’s debut, the film begins with a woman who leaves an town of Bruges, where two hit men, Ray (Colin Farrell) Diary), Incendiary is a multilayered chronicle of one abusive relationship to begin a new life in a new city, and Ken (Brendan Gleeson), have been ordered to cool woman’s life (she is superbly played by Michelle where she forms an unlikely and ironic relationship their heels among holiday tourists after a botched Williams) and the way it is utterly transformed in the with a suicidal hit man (unbeknownst to her). Enter execution. Though he feels out of place amid the course of a single afternoon. a worn, alcoholic detective to form the third party Gothic architecture, canals, and cobbled streets, What might have been just a momentary tryst with in a very unusual triangle, and this dark, soulful, Ken is drawn to the serenity of the place as he tries a sexy journalist (Ewan MacGregor) who lives across sometimes-funny story begins to unfold. to sooth Ray’s haunted psyche. As they wait for their the road is forever changed by the broadcast of the boss Harry’s (Ralph Fiennes’s) call, they are caught Walking a line between the conventional and the terrorist explosion and her flash of realization that idiosyncratic, Keaton creates a highly original up in a series of weird encounters with locals, her husband and son, who are attending the match, tourists, a dwarf American filmmaker, and Dutch yarn that has a quiet, sometimes-even-meditative are probably victims. While she tries to deal with her quality, and frames a more straightforward story prostitutes and a romantic liaison that is not what guilt and despair, her life unravels even further as it seems. When the call finally comes, it prompts a about a woman’s accidental involvement in a murder she seeks answers and a degree of consolation and investigation. Wonderfully composed and enacted, life-and-death struggle that is violent, darkly comic, discovers new relationships in a world turned upside and surprisingly touching. The Merry Gentleman features Keaton in the lead role down, one that both reveals and covers up the truth opposite a gifted leading lady, Kelly Macdonald, who The Irish are without peer in making us laugh about about the day’s events. is at once enigmatic and iconographic in her portrayal ourselves, life, and especially things that aren’t As much a commentary on modern life and politics as of a woman trying to find her way in a cold world. supposed to be funny. The profane brilliance of a personal chronicle, Incendiary is an ever-evolving, The cop, played by Tom Bastounes, is a disheveled McDonagh’s writing is all that and more. Galvanized wonderfully unpredictable cinematic experience that embodiment of male cluelessness and relentless by perceptive performances and framed by a unique captures the ambivalent nature of today’s world— pursuit. Together they are lonely figures in an urban beauty, this is filmmaking at its most exhilarating. moral contradictions and all—even as it searches for landscape, one that exemplifies the isolation and need –Geoffrey Gilmore a road to personal salvation. for personal relationships that we all carry with us. –Geoffrey Gilmore –Geoffrey Gilmore ExP: Jeff Abberley, Julia Blackman, Tessa Ross Pr: Graham Broadbent, Peter Czerin Ci: Eigil Bryld Ed: Jon Pr: Andy Paterson, Anand Tucker, Adriene Maguire ExP: Tom Bastounes, Paul J Duggan Pr: Steven A. Jones, Gregory Principal Cast: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ci: Ben Davis Ed: Valerio Bonelli PrD: Kave Quinn Christina Varotsis Ci: Chris Seager Ed: Howard Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Clémence Poésy Principal Cast: Michelle Williams, Ewan McGregor, Grant Myers, Luis Carballar Mu: Sean Douglas, Jon Matthew MacFadyen Sadoff Principal Cast: Kelly Macdonald, Michael Keaton Thursday, January 17, 6:00 pm Eccles Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 20, 9:30 pm Friday, January 18, 9:30 pm Thursday, January 17, 9:30 pm Eccles Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Monday, January 21, 8:30 am Saturday, January 19, 8:30 am Friday, January 18, 9:15 am Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Racquet Club, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 22, 9:00 pm Sunday, January 20, 9:00 pm Friday, January 18, 6:00 pm Screening Room, Sundance Resort Screening Room, Sundance Resort Screening Room, Sundance Resort Saturday, January 26, 12:30 pm Tuesday, January 22, 9:30 pm Sunday, January 20, 3:30 pm Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Saturday, January 26, 6:15 pm Eccles Theatre, Park City

38 premieres

A Raisin in the Sun Savage Grace Sleepwalking Director: Kenny Leon Director: Director: Bill Maher Screenwriter: Paris Qualles Screenwriter: Howard A. Rodman Screenwriter: Zac Stanford U.S.A., 2007, 131 min., color, Sony HD Cam U.S.A., 2007, 96 min., color, 35mm U.S.A., 2007, 101 min., color, 35mm

A Raisin in the Sun, the award-winning play by In his long-awaited follow-up to 1992’s Swoon, Tom Tara is a twelve-year-old girl whose mother, Jolene, Lorraine Hansberry, comes to vibrant life in this Kalin returns to a true crime story; this time it’s a can’t seem to get her life together, let alone build filmed version that takes this seminal work to a society murder that rattled the world on both sides a stable environment for her daughter. When her deeper level and hopefully brings it to the of the Atlantic. Based on the book by Natalie Robins boyfriend is arrested for growing marijuana, Jolene awareness of a new audience. The all-star cast, and Steven M.L. Aronson, Savage Grace tells the takes off, and Tara is put in foster care. Jolene’s several of whom won in the most astonishing story of Barbara Daly (), brother, James, isn’t much better off than Jolene, recent revival on Broadway, reunites to recreate this a former actress who married above her class to but he feels a responsibility toward Tara, and when

Casting Director Casting enduring dramatic portrait. become the wife of Brooks Baekeland (Stephen he decides to break her out of her foster home, they Ca: Ca: The story is set in the 1950s and focuses on the Dillane), heir to a plastics fortune. Alluring and set off on a journey with no set destination except to Younger family, who are struggling to make ends meet charismatic, yet an unabashed social climber, Barbara find a better life. on Chicago’s south side. An insurance check is about becomes an embarrassment to her well-bred husband. The road leads them to James and Jolene’s father’s to arrive that will change the course of their lives The Baekelands crisscross the globe from New York farm and the violent childhood that James has never Costume Designer Designer Costume forever. Each family member, however, has a different to Paris to Cadaques to London, savagely grasping confronted. Tara learns of Jolene’s past and the CoD: CoD: idea about how to spend the newfound wealth in for the good life. The birth of their only child, Tony, reasons why she has lived such a scattered, scarred pushes their already-rocky marriage over the cliff.

Music Music his or her eagerness to shape a new life. Family ties life, and James is forced to finally stand up to a cold, Brooks looks upon Tony, who is homosexual, with

Mu: Mu: are put to the test as the Youngers face problems scary father while there is still a chance to save Tara as individuals and even bigger issues as an African- litttle more than disdain. The groundwork for tragedy from a gloomy future. Sound Sound American family daring to pursue the American dream. is laid as Barbara, scorned by her husband, does So: So: everything in her power to own her son. Bill Maher directs his first film with confidence What makes A Raisin in the Sun special is that this and a keen understanding of the details that both is not a simple filming of a stage play. It has been Filmmaker Kalin and screenwriter Howard Rodman complicate and strengthen familial bonds: the shared wisely avoid melodrama despite a story line that Art Director Director Art elegantly transformed from stage to film by director history that links a family even while tearing it apart. would make Tennessee Williams proud. Buoyed by ArD: ArD: Kenny Leon’s careful guidance and the performances Through the accomplished performances of the cast, of a talented and insightful cast. In their capable its stunning European locations and propelled by a we watch the characters ultimately help one another hands, this American classic reveals it is as timely ferociously daring performance by Moore, Savage to find something that eludes many broken families: and significant as ever. –John Cooper Grace crescendoes to a shocking climax that is both hope. –Matt Anderson horrifying and inevitable. –David Courier Production Designer Designer Production

PrD: PrD: ExP: Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, Sean Combs, Carl Pr: Charlize Theron, J.J. Harris, Beth Kono, AJ Dix Ci: Rumbaugh, Susan Batson, David Binder Pr: John ExP: , Temple Fennell, Johnathan Dorfman, Juan Ruiz Anchia Ed: Stuart Levy Principal Cast: Nick Editor Editor Hengameh Panahi, Stephen Hays, Peter M. Graham II Pr:

Ed: Ed: M. Eckert CoP: Royce Bergman, Tim Christenson Ci: Stahl, AnnaSophia Robb, Charlize Theron, Dennis Ivan Strasburg Ed: Melissa Kent Mu: Mervyn Warren Iker Monfort, Katie Roumel, Pamela Koffler, Christine Hopper, , Deborrah-Lee Furness Principal Cast: Sean Combs, Phylicia Rashad, Audra Vachon Ci: Juanmi Azpiroz Ed: Tom Kalin, John F. Lyons, McDonald, Sean Patrick Thomas Enara Goicoetxea PrD: Victor Molero CoD: Gabriela Salaverri Principal Cast: Julianne Moore, Stephen Tuesday, January 22, 3:15 pm Cinematographer Cinematographer

Ci: Ci: Dillane, Eddie Redmayne Eccles Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 23, 3:15 pm Wednesday, January 23, 11:30 pm Eccles Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 20, 9:30 pm Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 24, noon Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Friday, January 25, 6:30 pm Associate Producer Producer Associate Egyptian Theatre, Park City Friday, January 25, 6:15 pm Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden AsP: AsP: Thursday, January 24, 9:30 pm Eccles Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 27, 10:00 am Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Saturday, January 26, 11:30 am Screening Room, Sundance Resort Coproducer Coproducer Racquet Club, Park City CoP: CoP: Producer Producer Pr: Pr: Executive Producer Producer Executive Credit Legend ExP: ExP: Legend Credit 2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival premieres 39 Smart People Towelhead Transsiberian Director: Noam Murro Director: Director: Brad Anderson Screenwriter: Mark Jude Poirier Screenwriter: Alan Ball, based on the novel Screenwriters: Brad Anderson, Will Conroy U.S.A., 2007, 93 min., color, 35mm by Alicia Erian Spain, 2008, 111 min., color, 35mm U.S.A., 2007, 115 min., color, 35mm Smart People is the darkly comic story of Lawrence Brad Anderson is a quintessentially independent Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid), a widowed, acerbic, and In his feature directorial debut, Six Feet Under creator film director known for his attention to character self-absorbed literature professor who has alienated and American Beauty screenwriter Alan Ball once psychology and the details and nuance of place, traits his son and turned his daughter into an overachieving, again unearths the dirty secrets lurking beneath the that make the superbly crafted thriller Transsiberian friendless teen. He falls for Janet (Sarah Jessica wholesome façade of suburban America. He digs an uncommonly absorbing experience. One of those Parker), one of his former students; at the same even deeper here, upping the ante from powerfully legendary train trips that people used to dream time, his ne’-do-well brother (played by Thomas provocative to seriously disturbing. A brilliant about taking, the Transsiberian Express has probably Haden Church) unexpectedly shows up at his door, storyteller, Ball grasps the humanity in the creepiest, seen better days. An American couple, Roy (Woody low on cash and needing a place to stay. Suddenly, most despicable characters, deftly juggling humor, Harrelson) and Jessie (Emily Mortimer), decide to Lawrence’s well-thought-out, though not well- satire, and pathos. return home the long way from their recent sojourn managed, life comes crashing down on him. All the Set in Desert Storm–era 1980s, Towelhead, based in Peking and meet another couple from the West, intelligence in the world can’t unstick his life. on the novel by Alicia Erian, explores the sexual Carlos (Eduardo Noriega) and Abby (), with A seasoned commercial director, Noam Murro is no awakening of Jasira (Summer Bishil), a 13-year-old whom they quickly form that tenuous bond that often stranger behind a camera, but Smart People surely Arab American girl and only child of a Lebanese father unites fellow travelers away from home. When Roy signals the beginning of an accomplished new career (Peter Macdissi) and American mother (Maria Bello). gets separated from the train at a stopover, Jessie in feature filmmaking. The script by Mark Jude Poirier Jasira is shipped off to live with her strict racist dad begins to realize that their compatriots aren’t exactly is razor sharp, and the obvious rapport among the in Houston after Mom’s boyfriend helps her shave who or what they seem to be. But the real dangers of ensemble cast members makes for a healthy dose her bikini area. Turns out that beautiful young Jasira their unforgettable trip have only begun to surface; of well-conceived humor. Mixing comedy genres, is a man magnet. Her ripening sexuality becomes the Russian cops (Ben Kingsley plays one), mobsters, including just a hint of modern slapstick, Murro troubling obsession of both her adult neighbor, a and locals are still to come. proves he has an assured grasp on what any good redneck Army reservist (Aaron Eckhart), and her As much a psychological puzzle piece as artful adult comedy needs—an expert balance of pace and horny African American boyfriend (Eugene Jones). suspense, the film showcases Anderson’s newfound pathos. Smart People traces the amusing series of Nosy, pregnant neighbor Melina (Toni Collette) skill with dramatic action that meshes seamlessly with events that trigger, in one man, the need to change tries to protect Jasira from the wolves. his engrossing atmosphere. Blessed with a engagingly and reconnect with his family before he can take the Towelhead captures the simmering anti-Arab subtle performance by the always-exemplary first step forward. –John Cooper sentiment that came to a boil after 9/11. Eckhart, Mortimer and a surprisingly fresh turn by Harrelson, Bello, and Collette shine in nuanced performances. Transsiberian transports us into a new and different Macdissi is both frightening and hilarious as a world and creates a unique cinematic experience. Pr: Bridget Johnson, Michael Costigan, Michael London, –GEOFFREY GILMORE Bruna Papandrea Ci: Toby Irwin Ed: Robert Frazen doggedly patriotic American immigrant. But in the Principal Cast: Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, final analysis, it’s luminous young Summer Bishil’s , Ellen Page, Ashton Holmes star-making performance that will have Hollywood Pr: Julio Fernandez CoP: Carlos Fernandez, Jet wolves salivating. –David Courier Christiaanse, Alvaro Augustin Ci: Xavi Gimenez Ed: Jaume Marti Principal Cast: Woody Harrelson, Emily Sunday, January 20, 6:15 pm Mortimer, Kate Mara, Thomas Kretschmann, Eduardo ExP: Anne Carey, Peggy Rajski, Scott Rudin Eccles Theatre, Park City Noriega, Ben Kingsley Pr: Alan Ball, Ted Hope, Steven M. Rales Monday, January 21, 11:30 pm Ci: Newton Thomas Sigel Ed: Andy Kier Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Principal Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Toni Collette, Friday, January 18, 6:15 pm Tuesday, January 22, 6:00 pm Summer Bishil, Peter Macdissi, Eugene Jones Eccles Theatre, Park City Screening Room, Sundance Resort Saturday, January 19, 8:30 am Wednesday, January 23, 9:30 pm Saturday, January 19, 9:00 pm Library Center Theatre, Park City Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Sunday, January 20, 6:30 pm Saturday, January 26, 6:30 pm Thursday, January 24, 9:30 pm Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden Eccles Theatre, Park City Monday, January 21, 6:00 pm Friday, January 25, 8:30 am Screening Room, Sundance Resort Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 26, 9:30 pm Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden

40 premieres

U2 3D The Visitor What Just Happened? Directors: Catherine Owens, Mark Pellington Director/Screenwriter: Tom McCarthy Director: U.S.A., 2007, 85 min., color, Sony HD Cam U.S.A., 2007, 108 min., color, 35mm Screenwriter: U.S.A., 2007, 107 min., color, 35mm It goes without saying that 3D is not merely a Director Tom McCarthy returns to the Festival (The concert film; it is a concert experience—and one that Station Agent won three awards in 2003) with an Every profession has its share of outlandish behavior, will leave you fumbling around on the ground for outstanding sophomore effort, The Visitor, an and filmmaking is fabled as an industry where behind- your jaw. An electrifying collage of South American illuminating and superbly crafted film about how the-scenes stories are often more fascinating than stadium concerts during U2’s 2006 tour, U2 3D disparate people form familial bonds which inspire an the productions. But as the setting for a tale about mobilizes digital 3-D and surround-sound technology emotional rebirth in a lonely widower. power, decision making, and life at the top, maybe to plunge us into almost supernatural proximity to the Walter Vale, an economics professor from suburban Hollywood isn’t any more extreme or bizarre than musicians. Whether it’s dropping into The Edge’s sonic Connecticut, has withdrawn from life since his the worlds of Wall Street, publishing, or even the orbit or passing over the crowd through a sculptural Casting Director Casting wife died. When he must attend a conference on military. Which is not to say that the rocky road for a Ca: Ca: sea of outstretched arms, we’re no longer on the globalization in Manhattan, he goes home to his Hollywood producer is ever mundane or dull. outside looking in, but on the inside looking in—a seldom-used apartment in the city and frightens a perspective shift whose novelty is at first delightfully The vision that Academy Award–winning director beautiful young couple who have been living there Barry Levinson’s sometimes-mordant, often- odd, and then pure revelation. The sense of intimacy illegally, Tarek, a Lebanese man, and his wife, Zainab, with the audience is uncanny, as if Bono has stepped penetrating, and fiercely comic chronicle brings to the Costume Designer Designer Costume from Senegal. Seeing that the couple have nowhere right off the screen to spend a moment with us, his screen is as human and universal as any insider’s tale, CoD: CoD: else to go, Walter softens and invites them to stay a story about a man at the top of his game who has extended hand mere inches from our face. Featuring until they sort something out, and a friendship

Music Music to deal with prima donnas, crazy artists, shameless songs that have touched fans for years, from “Sunday blossoms. When Tarek is racially profiled and

Mu: Mu: egotists, and difficult marriages. This adaptation Bloody Sunday” and “One” to ”Beautiful Day” and incarcerated, he faces deportation and possible death “Vertigo,” U2 3D establishes a visceral bond that’s of Art Linson’s account of his day-to-day existence

Sound Sound back in Lebanon. Since Zainab cannot visit Tarek at completely unprecedented in film. as a studio producer resonates with truth, insight, So: So: the immigration detention center, she turns to Walter and the absurdity that often fills our lives. Because U2 has always understood the power of multisensory for help. When he decides to assume responsibility for it’s personal and detailed and virtuously enacted by engagement in conveying its social message, in this his new friends, Walter begins a journey back toward Robert DeNiro and a spectacular supporting cast, it’s Art Director Director Art case, coexistence, so it’s not surprising that the personal and emotional revival. even touching. Not only in Hollywood is maintaining ArD: ArD: band would be inspired to explore the immersive McCarthy establishes himself here as a masterful your dignity so difficult; life is a humbling experience possibilities of 3-D. Call them polarized or rosy, from storyteller. His simple and precise direction elicits for all of us. –Geoffrey Gilmore behind these glasses the world may indeed be a place wonderfully nuanced performances from a talented of peace and hope. –Caroline Libresco/John Nein cast led by Richard Jenkins. The Visitor possesses ExP: Art Linson, Jane Rosenthal, Robert DeNiro Pr: Todd Production Designer Designer Production a powerful, yet quiet, grace, as it delivers a telling Wagner Ci: Stephane Fontaine Ed: Hank Corwin Principal PrD: PrD: ExP: Sandy Climan, Michael Peyser, David Modell commentary on America’s current war on terror. –Shari Frilot Cast: Robert DeNiro, Bruce Willis, , Catherine Editor Editor Pr: Jon Shapiro, Peter Shapiro, John Modell, Catherine Keener, Stanley Tucci, John Turturro

Ed: Ed: Owens Ci: Peter Anderson, Tom Krueger Ed: Olivier Wicki Mu: Carl Glanville 3-D/DigPr: Steve Schklair Pr: Mary Jane Skalski, Michael London Ci: Oliver Saturday, January 19, 6:15 pm Bokelberg Ed: Tom McArdle Principal Cast: Richard Jenkins, Hiam Abbass, Haaz Sleiman, Eccles Theatre, Park City

Cinematographer Cinematographer Saturday, January 19, 9:45 pm

Ci: Ci: Eccles Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 20, 8:30 am Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 19, midnight Wednesday, January 23, 9:30 pm Eccles Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Monday, January 21, 9:30 pm Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Thursday, January 24, 8:30 am Associate Producer Producer Associate Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 23, 6:30 pm AsP: AsP: Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden Friday, January 25, 9:30 pm Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Saturday, January 26, 6:00 pm

Coproducer Coproducer Screening Room, Sundance Resort CoP: CoP: Producer Producer Pr: Pr: Executive Producer Producer Executive Credit Legend ExP: ExP: Legend Credit 2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival premieres 41 The Year of Getting to Know Us The Yellow Handkerchief Director/Screenwriter: Patrick Sisam Director: Udayan Prasad U.S.A., 2007, 90 min., color, 35mm Screenwriter: Erin Dignam U.S.A., 2007, 102 min., color, 35mm Written and directed by Patrick Sisam, The Year of Getting to Know Us is a darkly comic exploration of One lazy afternoon in a backwater Louisiana town, the classic dysfunctional-family dynamic, focusing on Martine takes a leap into an unfamiliar convertible. the commitment-phobic Christopher Rocket (played The driver, Gordy, an awkward young itinerant who with delightful subtlety by Jimmy Fallon). Rocket eyed her in the diner earlier, isn’t displeased to find escaped his sheltered life as the only child of a this pretty sylph in his front seat. Soon they meet golf-obsessed father and eccentric mother in Florida Brett, a laconic, humble man just released from prison. to become a successful freelance writer in New Martine isn’t keen on going solo with Gordy, and now York. His apprehension about taking his relationship it’s raining cats and dogs, so she invites Brett along, with his beautiful and intelligent girlfriend, Anne, and the unlikely trio sets out, each one unsure of the to the next level makes it painfully obvious that destination. What ensues is a journey through the he has some childhood issues to reconcile. When lush green byways of rural Louisiana and into the his estranged father suffers a stroke on the golf depths of these characters’ souls. course, Christopher returns to the Sunshine State to reconnect with the man whom he never really knew as Naturally the strangers are suspicious of each other, a child—a task that is made easier by the fact that his but each passing mile gives them chances to prove father’s ailing health has put him in a vegetative state their trustworthiness. As they tell personal stories, of disconnection. the sense of danger dissolves, and the narrative threads of their past gradually engender mutual Deftly moving back and forth between Christopher’s appreciation and delicately interwoven fates. As they less-than-normal ‘70s childhood and present-day roll into New Orleans, the powerful secrets Brett adulthood to elucidate his inability to engage with uncoils steers the makeshift family toward profound others, Sisam paints a cinematic portrait that eschews love and second chances. the traditional narrative structure and tells an infinitely relatable story. The Year of Getting to Udayan Prasad’s astute insight into outsider Know Us is a quirky exploration of how the people experience, combined with William Hurt’s in our lives make us who we are. brilliantly restrained performance, gives The Yellow –Adam Montgomery Handkerchief wrenching emotional authenticity. Prasad and his visionary team of Academy Award winners—producer Arthur Cohn, cinematographer ExP: Howard Buttler, Warren T. Goz, Ed Machek, Lou , and Hurt—have created a timeless, Maggio, Stewart McMichael, Lawrence Najem, Michael deeply humanistic film about staying the course and Ossi, Lance Ringhaver Pr: Holly Wiersma Ci: Lisa Rinzler letting people in. –Caroline Libresco Ed: Susan Shipton Principal Cast: Jimmy Fallon, Chase Ellison, Lucy Liu, Sharon Stone, Tom Arnold ExP: Lillian Birnbaum Pr: Arthur Cohn Ci: Chris Menges Principal Cast: Maria Bello, William Hurt, Eddie Thursday, January 24, 6:15 pm Redmayne, Veronica Russell, , Eccles Theatre, Park City Eddie Redmayne Friday, January 25, 11:30 pm Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Friday, January 18, noon Saturday, January 26, 3:30 pm Eccles Theatre, Park City Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Friday, January 18, 9:00 pm Screening Room, Sundance Resort Wednesday, January 23, 9:00 am Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 26, 6:00 pm Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC

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Anvil! The True Story of Anvil Director: Sacha Gervasi Presenting out-of-competition films from around U.S.A., 2007, 90 min., color, Sony HD Cam

the world, the Spectrum program is a tribute to At 14, Toronto school friends Steve “Lips” Kudlow and Robb Reiner made a pact to rock together forever. the abundance of the compelling new voices Their band, Anvil, went on to become the “demigods of Canadian metal,” releasing one of the heaviest albums in metal history, 1982’s Metal on Metal. The and creative spirit in independent filmmaking. album influenced a musical generation, including , Slayer, and Anthrax, and went on to sell This year, the Festival presents seven Spectrum millions of records. But Anvil’s career took a different path—straight to obscurity. Casting Director Casting

Ca: Ca: films in a Documentary Spotlight. Director Sacha Gervasi has concocted a wonderful and often hilarious account of Anvil’s last-ditch quest for elusive fame and fortune. His ingenious filmmaking may first lead you to think this a mockumentary, but

Costume Designer Designer Costume it isn’t. Gervasi joined the legendary heavy-metal

CoD: CoD: band as a roadie for a tour of Canadian hockey arenas, so he has intimate insight into the members’ Music Music eccentricities. It’s fascinating to see the reality of Mu: Mu: their day-to-day lives as they struggle to make ends

Sound Sound meet, take a misguided European tour, and engage

So: So: in antics on the road—which is not always lined with fans. Gervasi even finds a softer center to this raucous film, introducing us to band members’ Art Director Director Art ever-supportive, but long-suffering, families. At its

ArD: ArD: core, Anvil! The True Story of Anvil is a timeless tale of survival and the unadulterated passion it takes to follow your dream, year after year. Anvil rocks—it has no other choice. –John Cooper Production Designer Designer Production

PrD: PrD: Pr: Rebecca Yeldham Ci: Chris Soos Ed: Jeff Renfroe,

Editor Editor Andrew Dickler MuS: Dana Sano PrC: Lauren McClard

Ed: Ed: Post: Luca Borghese

Friday, January 18, 5:30 pm

Cinematographer Cinematographer Library Center Theatre, Park City Ci: Ci: Saturday, January 19, 9:00 pm Tower Theatre, SLC Sunday, January 20, noon Egyptian Theatre, Park City Associate Producer Producer Associate

AsP: AsP: Saturday, January 26, midnight Egyptian Theatre, Park City Coproducer Coproducer CoP: CoP: Producer Producer Pr: Pr: Executive Producer Producer Executive Credit Legend ExP: ExP: Legend Credit 2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival spectrum: Documentary spotlight 43 The Black List Kicking It The Linguists Director: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Director/Screenwriter: Susan Koch Directors: Seth Kramer, Daniel Miller, U.S.A., 2007, 87 min., color, 35mm U.S.A., 2007, 98 min., Color, Sony HD Cam Jeremy Newberger Screenwriter: Daniel Miller Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell’s Using the global appeal of soccer to address the U.S.A., 2007, 70 min., color, Sony HD Cam beautifully crafted collaboration presents a pandemic of homelessness, the Homeless World fascinating series of miniportraits of 20 influential Cup was first established in 2001 to give homeless Like modern-day explorers, the two academics African Americans. This inspirational and varied group people the opportunity to better their lives through featured in The Linguists travel to forgotten places of prominent artists, CEOs, politicians, and activists sports. Five years later, 20,000 homeless people had around the globe to unearth rare treasures—in this share their individual experiences and viewpoints in competed on street soccer teams, with 500 players case, endangered languages. On a shoestring budget, regard to societal, familial, and personal identity. Each selected to represent 48 countries in the fourth professors David Harrison and Gregory Anderson compelling interview serves as a potent illustration of annual Homeless World Cup in Cape Town, South navigate difficult terrain, searching for speakers empowerment in the face of unique limitations and Africa, in the summer of 2006. Susan Koch’s of these forgotten and mostly hidden languages. broader obstacles. Kicking It profiles seven of these players—men While more than 7,000 different languages are made invisible by poverty and addiction but who The Black List unveils a broad canvas of issues, currently spoken around the world, many are rapidly now emerge as compelling figures fighting to including the shock waves Bill T. Jones felt from his disappearing. Language diversity is shrinking as become heroes on the soccer pitch and find a way contemporaries after referring to himself as an artist colonialism and economic unrest destroy traditional out of their situations. first and black second, Chris Rock discussing how tribal tongues. When young people abandon their he believes equality in baseball was only achieved The men journey from all around the globe, ancestral language, the passive suppression of when there were also bad black baseball players in temporarily putting behind them Dublin’s heroin their culture begins, and soon those languages the major leagues, and Vernon Jordon noting that epidemic; Nairobi’s slums; Madrid’s overcrowded will cease to exist. there is a definition of black America, but none for shelters; Charlotte, North Carolina’s streets; war-torn Joining a traditional ceremony in a remote village in white America. This country’s institutionalized racism Kabul; and the stigma of homelessness in unforgiving India, observing a Kallawaya healing ritual in Bolivia, is addressed as actor Lou Gossett Jr. speaks about St. Petersburg. Whether they are experiencing victory and completing an arduous journey into Siberia is all his lack of acting offers after winning his Oscar, or defeat on the field, bonding with teammates, or part and parcel of heeding the urgent call. The word and museum curator Thelma Golden recounts how flirting with groupies, soccer provides an escape from connoisseurs are well suited for the monumental task people mistakenly thought she actually only worked their problems while it also inspires hope for actual of researching and documenting native tongues; they for Thelma Golden. These experiences contrast with change in their lives. speak 25 languages between them. These humble Toni Morrison’s description of the encouragement she Ultimately uplifting, though tempered by the sobering ethnographers are in a race against time to preserve received in her childhood, specifically in not feeling reality of its subjects’ vulnerable lives, Kicking It the increasingly rare words, which are intricately threatened by being a woman. captures their humanity and ability to overcome linked to the vanishing traditions and heritage In blending Greenfield-Sanders’s sleek and elegant adversity—all through the simple game of Indigenous populations. Well-paced and laced portrait photography with Mitchell’s notable of soccer. –Basil Tsiokos with humor, The Linguists serves as an insightful, conversational acumen, The Black List offers a fresh, contemporary adventure film with a strong emphasis immediate discourse for deriving another definition of on cultural history. –Lisa Viola the word “blacklist.” –Lisa Viola CoDir: Jeff Werner ExP: Rick Allen, Randy Boe, Kat Byles, Jack Davies, Joe Edelman, Mark Ein, Raul Fernandez, Sheila Johnson, Nigel Morris, Ci: Seth Kramer, Jeremy Newberger Ed: Seth Kramer, ExP: Chris McKee, Scott Richman, Payne Brown, Tommy Soroush Shehabi, Kat Byles Pr: Ted Leonsis, Susan Koch, Anne Barliant MuS: Brooke Wentz Mu: Brian Hawlk So: Walker Pr: Elvis Mitchell, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Jedd Wider, Todd Wider Ci: Neil Barrett Ed: Jeff Werner Daniel A. Miller Ti: Bombastic, Inc. Michael Slap Sloane Ci: Graham Willoughby, Joe Victorine Ed: Lukas Hauser Mu: Neal Evans Interviewer: Preceded by Nikamowin Elvis Mitchell Saturday, January 19, 8:30 pm Library Center Theatre, Park City Canada, 2007, 12 min., color, Sony HD Cam Sunday, January 20, 3:00 pm Director: Kevin Lee Burton Tuesday, January 22, 8:30 pm Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Library Center Theatre, Park City Friday, January 18, noon Monday, January 21, 6:30 pm Egyptian Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 23, 5:30 pm Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 19, 12:45 pm Tuesday, January 22, 11:45 pm Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Thursday, January 24, 6:45 pm Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Saturday, January 19, 11:30 pm Sunday, January 27, 5:30 pm Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 26, 5:30 pm Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Wednesday, January 23, 8:30 pm Sunday, January 27, 1:00 pm Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Screening Room, Sundance Resort

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Made in America Where in the World Is Young@Heart Director: Stacy Peralta Osama bin Laden? Director/Screenwriter: Stephen Walker Screenwriters: Stacy Peralta, Sam George Director: Morgan Spurlock United Kingdom, 2007, 107 min., color, 35mm U.S.A., 2007, 105 min., color & b/w, Sony HD Cam Screenwriters: Jeremy Chilnick, Since 1982, Young@Heart, a chorus composed of Morgan Spurlock In one small stretch of land in south Los Angeles, senior citizens, has entertained audiences at home there is enough history, tragedy, and hope to inform a France, 2007, 93 min., color, 35mm and abroad with unique renditions of punk, rock, and nation. This area is known as South Central LA, once a rhythm-and-blues songs by musicians as disparate Morgan Spurlock, director of the unforgettable Super hotbed of African American culture but now known to as the Clash, , and James Brown. With a new Size Me (2004 Festival), returns with a surprising many as simply a war zone. show titled “Alive and Well” six weeks away, Young@ follow-up: his search for the most wanted man on Heart’s taskmaster choral director has six new songs Applying his distinct storytelling style to explore earth. And as he did with fast food, he’s determined for these inspiring elders to learn, from ’s the history of this neighborhood, filmmaker Stacy to go the distance.

Casting Director Casting discordant “Schizophrenia” to Allen Toussaint’s Peralta interviews many who have lived there, who Ca: Ca: Amazed by Osama bin Laden’s success at evading tongue-twisting “Yes, We Can Can.” have survived, and who try to hold this community capture, gung-ho Spurlock sets out to locate the Al together. In this film rich with historical footage, This is no mere novelty act for its members. Young@ Qaeda leader himself in a manhunt that takes him to subjects recount their innovation of forming their Heart is at once a serious musical undertaking, a , , Israel, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, own “clubs” after being denied participation in the supportive community, and a way to stay active Costume Designer Designer Costume and finally Pakistan (where most fingers point). Bin Boy Scouts of America. From the Watts riots to and engaged when society often expects seniors

CoD: CoD: Laden is always one step ahead, but along the way the community-inspired activism and the Black Power to be passive and quiet. The group’s eclectic and documentarian forms a picture of the Middle Eastern entertaining repertoire shines a spotlight on taboos Music Music movement that exploded in the late 1960s, the populations whose fates are inextricably intertwined about old age—the Clash’s “Should I Stay, or Should Mu: Mu: evolution of this neighborhood is complicated and not with those in the United States. Who are these easily explained. This is especially true since, after the I Go?” becomes an amusing meditation on life and

Sound Sound people? What are the culture and socioeconomic Black Power movement was systemically squelched by death, while ’s “Forever Young” serves as a

So: So: determinants of radical fundamentalism? Who in the the federal government, a new element arose in the haunting ode to lost youth and fallen friends. appreciates a good joke? face of oppression: the Crips. While the chorus prepares for the concert, some Determined to get his man and some answers, Art Director Director Art In this broad, historic examination of South Central, members struggle with serious health problems, Spurlock leaves no stone unturned. It’s dizzying to impressing us even further with the special challenges ArD: ArD: the film traces the of African American witness him ambling amiably into ultra-Orthodox transplants who fled a racist South only to find its the group faces. Funny, poignant, and inspirational, Israeli neighborhoods and a Saudi mosque, where more subdued form just as powerful in Southern Stephen Walker’s intimate documentary demonstrates God’s wrath is invoked against America, as well as the California. Peralta relays stories that have gone that the Young@Heart chorus only gets better malls and supermarkets peopled by moderates who unnoticed for far too long, stories that are distinctly with age. –Basil Tsiokos

Production Designer Designer Production are seldom seen on the nightly news: just the kind made in America. –N. Bird Runningwater

PrD: PrD: of temperature reading many Americans would like to take, if they dared. Outrageous graphics, original Pr: Sally George Ci: Eddie Marritz Ed: Chris King Editor Editor music, and an appeal for a higher consciousness

Ed: Ed: ExP: Stephen Luczo, Quincy Jones III Pr: Dan Halsted, Baron Davis, Stacy Peralta, Jesse Dylan CoP: Gus among global neighbors are the fries and shake alongside this Happy Meal of a documentary. Friday, January 18, 7:30 pm Roxburgh, Shaun Murphy, Cash Warren Ci: Tony Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Hardmon Ed: T.J. Mahar Narrator: –Shannon Kelley

Cinematographer Cinematographer Saturday, January 19, 6:30 pm

Ci: Ci: Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden Sunday, January 20, 8:30 pm Pr: Stacey Offman, Morgan Spurlock Ci: Daniel Library Center Theatre, Park City Marracino Ed: Julie “Bob” Lombardi, Gavin Coleman Monday, January 21, 9:15 am Post: Stuart Macphee Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Tuesday, January 22, 11:30 pm Wednesday, January 23, 8:30 pm Associate Producer Producer Associate Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City AsP: AsP: Friday, January 25, 8:30 pm Monday, January 21, 8:30 pm Library Center Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 26, 2:30 pm Wednesday, January 23, midnight Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Coproducer Coproducer Saturday, January 26, 9:00 pm Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City CoP: CoP: Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Thursday, January 24, 6:30 pm

Producer Producer Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction Pr: Pr: Friday, January 25, 10:30 pm Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Saturday, January 26, 8:30 pm

Executive Producer Producer Executive Library Center Theatre, Park City Credit Legend ExP: ExP: Legend Credit 2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival spectrum: Documentary Spotlight 45 August Birds of America Director: Austin Chick Directors/Screenwriters: , Director: Craig Lucas Screenwriter: Howard A. Rodman Screenwriter: Elyse Friedman U.S.A., 2007, 88 min., color, 35mm U.S.A., 2007, 84 min., color, 35mm U.S.A., 2007, 89 min., color, Sony HD Cam

Austin Chick returns to the Festival (his XX/XY played Directors Mark and Jay Duplass return to the Festival In “normal” middle-class suburban families, kids grow in 2002) with August, a sophisticated and razor-sharp (their film played in 2005) with a up, move out, and visit only on special occasions. But film about an aggressive young dot-com entrepreneur hilarious, tongue-in-cheek, genre-twisting comedy Morrie Tanager never got to leave. His parents died struggling to keep his head above water as the that explores the minutiae of relationship dynamics and left him, and he became the parent, raising two bottom falls out of the market. among a group of desperate actor friends and roasts siblings, Ida and Jay, in the home he now shares with a gamut of indie films in the process. At the end of March 2001, the dot-com market his wife, Betty. So it’s not surprising this family is a went into a downward freefall, but LandShark, an After attending the Los Angeles Underground Film bit askew. Ida is a promiscuous, broke, itinerant artist; Internet company run by the cocky Tom Sterling Festival premiere of the lauded indie film We Are Jay, an odd duck prone to antisocial experiments; (), seemed to come through the crash Naked, Chad, Katherine, Matt, and Michelle are and Morrie, a chronically constipated pleaser, who still glistening with the aura of success. In August, desperate to launch their flailing careers by writing hasn’t had a bowel movement in ages. When Jay however, the company faces serious financial their own script, casting themselves in juicy star roles. goes completely off the deep end and Ida drops in troubles, and everyone—except for Tom—seems to That night they impulsively drive up to Matt’s uncle’s unannounced, the motley clan is thrust under one be coming to terms with that fact. He cruises around cabin in Big Bear, but horny ulterior motives upstage roof, and childhood dynamics reemerge. The big town in his money-green convertible, convinced that the boozy brainstorming session of good ideas for problem is that Ida and Jay’s recklessness could LandShark’s products, which were developed by his their unborn hit film. The foursome do get something upend a delicate social ritual Morrie and Betty are brilliant brother, Josh (), are still in high out of their mumbling weekend in the woods, and it’s masterminding to secure his tenure. demand and destined to revolutionize the future of something that far exceeds their expectations Birds of America is about socialization and growing up business. Tom is right, but the road to the revolution Earnest performances from the talented ensemble when there are no grown-ups. For Jay it means living may not look exactly like the one he has in mind. cast seamlessly bring to life the Duplass brothers’ within social boundaries and telling an occasional lie; In his brilliantly crafted sophomore effort, Chick unique brand of dim-witted comedy. There is a deep, for Ida it’s accountability for her actions, whereas draws spot-on performances all around (including a engaged brilliance to Baghead—that is, if you can call Morrie must learn to loosen codes, assert the naked cleverly cast ) and perfectly captures the a film brilliant when it is basically about a group of truth, and release responsibility to others. What’s so innocence, optimism, and electric anticipation of the dumb actors, a bag...and a head. –Shari Frilot satisfying and moving in Craig Lucas’s eccentric, yet rise of e-commerce that enthralled America before lyrical, comedy—besides the stellar cast— is the way the world changed. At its most basic level, August is the siblings’ transformations adjust the geometry of about hubris—about a time when we, as Americans, Pr: John Bryant, Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass Ci: Jay interdependence, and that genuine tenderness is thought we were untouchable. –Shari Frilot Duplass Ed: Jay Deuby Principal Cast: , Ross the familial glue that ultimately bolsters each in Partridge, , Elise Muller the world. –Caroline Libresco

ExP: Patrick Morris, Austin Chick, Howard A Rodman Tuesday, January 22, 8:30 pm ExP: Ed Hart, Bruce Lunsford Pr: Daniela Taplin Pr: Charlie Corwin, Elisa Pugliese, David Guy Levy, Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Josh Hartnett, Clara Markowicz Ci: Andrij Parekh Ed: Lundberg, Jana Edelbaum, Celine Rattray, Galt Pete Beaudreau PrD: Roshelle Berliner Ca: Ellen Parks Wednesday, January 23, 9:15 pm Niederhoffer CoP: Hollise Gersh, Ed Gersh Ci: Yaron Principal Cast: Josh Hartnett, Adam Scott, Naomie Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Orbach Ed: Eric Kissack PrD: John Nyomarkay Principal Harris, Robin Tunney, , David Bowie Cast: Matthew Perry, Ginnifer Goodwin, , Thursday, January 24, 11:30 am Hilary Swank, Lauren Graham, Zoe Kravitz Library Center Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 22, 5:30 pm Saturday, January 26, 10:30 pm Library Center Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 24, 5:30 pm Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 23, 2:30 pm Library Center Theatre, Park City Friday, January 25, 11:30 am Library Center Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 24, 9:45 pm Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Saturday, January 26, 6:00 pm Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 26, 11:30 am Library Center Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 27, 6:30 pm Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

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Blind Date Bottle Shock Chronic Town Director: Stanley Tucci Director: Randall Miller Director: Tom Hines Screenwriters: Stanley Tucci, David Schechter Screenwriters: Jody Savin, Randall Miller, Screenwriter: Michael Kamsky U.S.A., 2007, 80 min., color, 35mm Ross Schwartz U.S.A., 2007, 96 min., color, Sony HD Cam U.S.A., 2008, 110 min., color, 35mm Don and Janna are a married couple struggling to In Fairbanks, Alaska, Truman Korovin drives a cab reconnect after the death of their daughter. They It’s 1976, and Jim Barrett (Bill Pullman) is struggling to he calls Bessie for a dispatcher he call Blowjob. His answer each other’s phony classified ads and begin an create the perfect chardonnay at Chateau Montelena, sarcasm, witty barbs, and the odd drink or five get elaborate game of pretend on a series of blind dates, his vineyard in the not-yet-famous Napa Valley, where him through the cold winter days. Showing less than hoping that this ruse will allow them finally to talk he has jeopardized everything for a dream. His son, resounding support for his girlfriend’s writing career, openly about the demise of their relationship in the Bo (Chris Pine), at first glance doesn’t seem to have Truman gets dumped. As habit dictates, he consoles wake of tragedy. In playing out their various roles— inherited his father’s love for the family business, himself with some substance abuse, but after a bad

Casting Director Casting such as a blind man in search of a sighted woman, a and the two of them are often found duking it out in acid trip and what appears to be a suicide attempt,

Ca: Ca: woman in search of a dance partner, and a reporter in the backyard boxing ring, each hoping to knock some Truman winds up in an institution and, worse, group search of an aggressive female interviewee—Don and sense into the other. Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) therapy. However, in befriending his fellow “loonies,” Janna feel free to ask each other probing questions, is a British expatriate living in Paris who owns the particularly a stripper, Eleanor, and an elderly woman, explore the meaning of humor after calamity, and Academie du Vin; out of necessity, he develops an Elizabeth, whom he visits in a home as part of his

Costume Designer Designer Costume nearly fall in love. However, when their conversations idea to educate Parisians, not on French , but on “loony release program,” Truman opens the door to

CoD: CoD: can’t seem to break out of a circular pattern, never the new coming out of California. A of a new world, puts his best foot forward, and steps transcending the wall between them, they face the fate along a dusty road brings the floundering vintner into the cold. Music Music reality that perhaps overcoming heartbreak is not in and the struggling shop owner together, changing

Mu: Mu: From Michael Kamsky’s smart, sardonic screenplay, the cards for them. both their lives—and the wine industry—forever. first-time director Tom Hines musters exactly the kind Sound Sound Although the material is sometimes dark, Stanley Director Randall Miller delicately composes Bottle of askew sensibility and broad-mindedness that takes So: So: Tucci’s filmmaking is infused with humor, and Shock as a cinematic love letter to California’s seemingly dark subject matter and cracks it open Tucci and Patricia Clarkson are a pleasure to watch wine country, where he shot the film in its sun- without ever selling his characters short. JR Bourne as Don and Janna. They give shaded, compelling soaked entirety. Based on a true story, the film takes a character generally mired in a depressive funk Art Director Director Art performances as real, tragic characters attempting to reveals America’s initiation into and contribution to and buries it behind a smart-ass demeanor. These ArD: ArD: fake their way through unfamiliar emotional territory. vinification, along with the brave and enterprising characters are people trying to deal with their messy –Matt Anderson artisans who love nothing more than to bottle it. lives, but the film has an honest acceptance of those –Jennifer Cochis limitations. These aren’t problems with solutions— the best Truman can hope for is a better way

Production Designer Designer Production ExP: Nick Stiliadis Pr: Bruce Weiss, Gijs van de of coping. –John Nein Westelaken Ci: Thomas Kist Ed: Camilla Toniolo PrD: J. Todd Harris, Jody Savin, Randall Miller, Marc

PrD: PrD: Pr: Loren Weeks Principal Cast: Stanley Tucci, Patricia Toberoff, Brenda Lhormer, Marc Lhormer Ci: Michael J.

Editor Editor Clarkson, Thijs Romer Ozier Ed: Randall Miller, Dan O’Brien PrD: Craig Stearns ExP: Michael Peterson, Tim Farley Pr: Lauri LaBeau, Ed: Ed: Mu: Mark Adler Principal Cast: Alan Rickman, Bill David Scharf CoP: Maya Salganek Ci: Yiannis Samaras Pullman, Chris Pine, Rachael Taylor, , Ed: Clay Zimmerman Principal Cast: JR Bourne, Emily Preceded by Dog Lovers Eliza Dushku, Dennis Farina Wagner, Alice Drummond, Dan Butler, Garry Marshall, U.S.A., 2007, 4 min., color, Sony HD Cam Paul Dooley Cinematographer Cinematographer

Ci: Ci: Director: Danny Roew Friday, January 18, 8:30 pm Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 19, 5:30 pm Friday, January 18, 8:30 pm Library Center Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Saturday, January 19, 6:00 pm Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Sunday, January 20, 11:30 pm Associate Producer Producer Associate Saturday, January 19, 8:30 am Prospector Square Theatre, Park City AsP: AsP: Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Monday, January 21, 11:30 pm Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Monday, January 21, 9:00 pm Saturday, January 19, 10:30 pm Tower Theatre, SLC Friday, January 25, noon Coproducer Coproducer Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Egyptian Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 24, 8:30 pm CoP: CoP: Wednesday, January 23, 5:30 pm Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 26, 6:30 pm

Producer Producer Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction Pr: Pr: Executive Producer Producer Executive Credit Legend ExP: ExP: Legend Credit 2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival spectrum 47 Goliath A Good Day to Be Black & Sexy Love Comes Lately Directors: David Zellner, Nathan Zellner Director/Screenwriter: Dennis Dortch Director/Screenwriter: Jan Schütte Screenwriter: David Zellner U.S.A., 2008, 92 min., color, Sony HD Cam Germany, 2007, 86 min., color, 35mm U.S.A., 2007, 80 min., color, Sony HD Cam Indeed, it is a very good day. Dennis Dortch’s A self-appointed bachelor living in New York City, Max Good writers of all kinds rely on basic observations daring directorial debut ambitiously charts black Kohn (Otto Tausig) is an accomplished writer whose about human nature. This is especially true in comedy, sexuality through a set of six deliciously amusing, waking life regularly commingles with his imaginary and that’s exactly what makes Goliath hilarious. interconnected vignettes that unfold in a single day one. Max’s longtime girlfriend, Riesle (Rhea Pearlman), A bare-bones production, it’s a study in economical in Los Angeles. A hot-button, “don’t-let-them-know- is the perfect rock to which Max anchors himself, but storytelling that lives up to its name in laughs. you’re-watching” constellation of intimate moments, she is absolutely certain in her suspicion that Max is A Good Day to Be Black & Sexy seduces us with cheating on her. Beginning with the opening photo montage of a man, obsessively watchable performances that make it at Love Comes Lately is a film about real and imagined his cat, and the scratched-out face of his soon-to- once familiar, provocative, and fresh. be ex-wife, Goliath ripples with insights into the longings, the never-ending dream of love, and the human condition—specifically, the condition of a Women unapologetically figure it out for themselves, power of fiction. On several occasions, we fall down man working in a dead-end job, going through a reclaiming license to be selfish, rude, and raunchy in the rabbit hole of Max’s imagination, where he divorce, and coping with a missing cat. The crappy a playfully enduring tug-of-war between the sexes. embodies the lives of both a retiree named Simon job and the divorce he can take, but the absent cat is Explicitly exploring the texture of sex, Dortch packs and a sympathetic gent named Henry. During these too much. He focuses his frustration on broadening the film full of viscerally seductive tones and sultry sojourns into Max’s head and manuscripts, love and his neighborhood search, posting flyers, offering a grittiness as he allows us sneak-peak access to a murder are just part of the landscape. Max’s real life reward, even seeking out the assistance of a private multitude of motives of desire—a woman in bed takes an interesting turn when he runs into Rosalie investigator. When his worst fears are confirmed, with her boyfriend jockeys for position to get hers (Barbara Hershey), a former student who always had he —but realizes in the end where happiness first; a teenager explores the limits of her sexuality a crush on him. can be found. in questionable situations; a boy and his ball are held In Love Comes Lately, director Jan Schütte masterfully hostage by interracial taboos. The plot of the film is secondary, however, to the evokes many quirky and wonderfully detailed worlds comical moments sprinkled throughout. Finding Bringing overdone stereotypes about black sexuality that seamlessly shift between reality and fantasy. humor in the trimming of a moustache, the signing to their knees, Dortch explodes a constellation of Based on a collection of short stories by Nobel of divorce papers, and the inane lunchroom banter of sexy little secrets that we would otherwise keep Prize–winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer, Love coworkers, brothers David and Nathan Zellner show quiet. Packing a strong voice and innovative style, Comes Lately is a reminder to enjoy the present— they are as perceptive as they are funny. With three Dortch’s kaleidoscopic sketches are juicy and in all its variations. –Jennifer Cochis prior shorts at the Festival, they return with a feature surprising with every step, stroke, and...ahem. Yes, he that is simultaneously deadpan, stark, strange, did just go there! –Roya Rastegar Martin Hagemann, Kai Künnemann Edward realistic, and amusing. Goliath further establishes Pr: Ci: Klosinski, Chris Squires Katja Dringenberg, Renate their comedic talent and distinctive vision. Ed: Layla Mashavu Brian Harding Dennis Dortch, Merck Amanda Ford Henning Lohner Frank –Trevor Groth Pr: Ci: Ed: PrD: Mu: So: Tangier Clarke Ca: Adetoro Makinde Principal Cast: Kruse Principal Cast: Otto Tausig, Rhea Perlman, Tovah Kathryn Taylor, Chonte` Harris, Marcuis Harris, Mylika Feldshuh, Barbara Hershey, Elizabeth Peña Pr: Nathan Zellner Ci: Jim Eastburn Ed: David Zellner, Davis, Jerome Anthony Hawkins, Alphonso Johnson Nathan Zellner So: Tom Sturgis Principal Cast: David Friday, January 18, 2:30 pm Zellner, Nathan Zellner, Caroline O`Connor, John Bryant, Saturday, January 19, 5:30 pm Library Center Theatre, Park City Andrew Bujalski, Wiley Wiggins Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 19, 3:30 pm Sunday, January 20, 8:30 am Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Preceded by The Mark Library Center Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 20, 6:00 pm U.S.A., 2007, 4 min., Color, Sony HD Cam Sunday, January 20, 4:30 pm Screening Room, Sundance Resort Director: Thomas Barndt Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Monday, January 21, 9:00 am Friday, January 25, 5:30 pm Egyptian Theatre, Park City Monday, January 21, 8:30 pm Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 24, 8:30 pm Saturday, January 26, 9:00 pm Library Center Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 22, 11:30 am Screening Room, Sundance Resort Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 26, 8:30 am Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 26, 9:45 pm Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC

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Momma’s Man Quid Pro Quo Red Director/Screenwriter: Azazel Jacobs Director/Screenwriter: Carlos Brooks Directors: Trygve Allister Diesen, Lucky McKee U.S.A., 2008, 94 min., color, 35mm U.S.A., 2007, 82 min., color, Sony HD Cam Screenwriter: Stephen Susco U.S.A., 2007, 98 min., color, 35mm There is a trend in the world today of young men Quid Pro Quo is a dark, puzzling tale of strangers who not wanting to leave their parents’ homes. But what crash into one another’s lives and transform them From its first scene, Red rivets you like a classic page- happens when a “boy” who has already left the nest forever. Isaac, a paraplegic, is a popular New York City turner. Set in small-town America, Red derives its title gets this same urge? public-radio reporter who is investigating a story from from a 14-year-old dog that is the sole companion of Momma’s Man begins with Mikey returning to his an anonymous source about a man who walked into a Avery (Brian Cox), an older gentleman who lives alone parents’ place in New York after deciding not to get hospital demanding that his leg be amputated. with his memories in a simple existence posing no on the plane to go home to his wife and small child in While pursuing the story to satisfy his own probing threat to anyone. One day while he is fishing, three California. Unsure of his own motivations, he makes curiosity, Isaac meets the strikingly beautiful and troublesome teens terrorize him and kill the only thing

Casting Director Casting up excuses about why he is staying. His doting mother mysterious Fiona, a restoration artist. Isaac’s he has left to love in the world—his dog. He sets a: a: C is more than happy to enable his procrastination, investigation not only initiates a relationship with out on a quest for an apology, but the situation soon while his father remains typically distanced from the Fiona but also leads him into the strange subculture escalates into much more. situation. As the days go on, Mikey grows more and of “wannabes,” those longing for wholeness—or Norwegian director Trygve Diesen gives a welcome more entrenched in his adolescent sanctuary and lack thereof—in rather peculiar ways. Will Fiona lead fresh perspective to this very American story. Diesen Costume Designer Designer Costume comes to a point where he must choose his life now Isaac to answers about this underworld of seekers, or is a refined and calculating storyteller; he allows oD: oD: C or his life then. will their stormy association push him toward a more events to stack up, keeping you both intrigued and painful truth? Music Music Humorous and poignant, Momma’s Man wrestles with questioning each character’s actions and motives.

Mu: Mu: universal themes, but its strength lies in its deeply In his sleek directorial debut, Carlos Brooks Brian Cox is in almost every scene and proves personal details. Writer/director Azazel Jacobs cast confidently navigates the delicate line of the himself one of the finest actors working today. He Sound Sound engages you and invites you to take the journey o: o: his own parents and shot the film in their apartment, psychological thriller genre with the help of eerie S where he grew up. Exquisite camerawork captures the and convincing performances from with him, but at every step of the way, you can’t nooks and crannies of the unique dwelling, as well and Nick Stahl. Quid Pro Quo does not celebrate or help but ask, “What would I do?” As it systematically deconstructs the age-old conflict between good and

Art Director Director Art as the family’s intimate moments. Whether it’s art sensationalize the subculture it portrays but instead imitating life, or life imitating art, Jacobs has crafted explores the human psyche and allows the audience evil, Red becomes a genre tale about redemption and ArD: ArD: a profoundly humane account of the frailty of the to ask questions. Brooks takes us on a journey to revenge—and makes that old good-versus-evil battle human spirit, and he shows how the defining strength explore our desires, find order in disorder, and exhume eerily, believably new. –John Cooper that people get from their families can also be a the need to restore normalcy to a society we find tether. –Trevor Groth ourselves ostracized from. –Nazgol Zand roduction Designer Designer roduction

P ExP: Bill Straus, Lawrence Mattis, Randy Ostrow Pr: Trygve Allister Diesen, Norman Dreyfuss PrD: PrD: ExP: Paul S. Mezey, Tyler Brodie Pr: Alex Orlovsky, ExP: Jason Kliot, Joana Vicente, Todd Wagner, Mark Ci: Harald Gunnar Paalgard Ed: Jon Endre Mork ditor ditor E Principal Cast: Brian Cox, Tom Sizemore, Kim Dickens, d: d: Hunter Gray Ci: Tobias Datum Ed: Darrin Navarro Cuban Pr: Sarah Pillsbury, Midge Sanford Ci: Michael E Mu: Mandy Hoffman Principal Cast: Matt Boren, McDonough Ed: Lauren Zuckerman, Charles Ireland , Robert Englund Flo Jacobs, Ken Jacobs, Dana Varon, Richard Edson, PrD: Roshelle Berliner Mu: Mark Mothersbaugh Eleanor Hutchins Principal Cast: Nick Stahl, Vera Farmiga, Kate Burton, , Aimee Mullins, Pablo Schreiber Sunday, January 20, 2:30 pm Cinematographer Cinematographer Prospector Square Theatre, Park City i: i: C Preceded by I Have Seen the Future Thursday, January 24, 5:30 pm Preceded by The Deep roducer roducer Canada, 2006, 6 min., color, 35mm

P Library Center Theatre, Park City U.S.A., 2006, 7 min., color, Sony HD Cam Director: Cam Christiansen Saturday, January 26, 6:45 pm Director: Alex Haworth Associate Associate Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC

AsP: AsP: Friday, January 18, 11:30 am Library Center Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 20, 5:30 pm Sunday, January 27, 11:30 am Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Saturday, January 19, 11:30 am Library Center Theatre, Park City Coproducer Coproducer Monday, January 21, 11:30 am oP: oP: Library Center Theatre, Park City C Saturday, January 19, 9:00 pm Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City roducer roducer

P Screening Room, Sundance Resort Friday, January 25, 8:30 pm Pr: Pr: Sunday, January 20, 7:30 pm Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Saturday, January 26, 7:30 pm roducer roducer P Wednesday, January 23, 6:30 pm Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC

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Adventures of Power The Broken Park City at Midnight films Director/Screenwriter: Ari Gold Director/Screenwriter: Sean Ellis offer a lively last stop on the U.S.A., 2008, 96 min., color, Sony HD Cam United Kingdom, 2007, 110 min., color, 35mm nightly social circuit. With If you’ve ever heard the classic Rush song “Tom On a typically gloomy day in London, Gina, a young Sawyer,” you may have found yourself flailing your and beautiful radiologist, is sure she just saw herself films ranging from horror arms in a rhythmic motion known as “air drumming.” driving by—in her own car. When she follows to comedies to explicit Neil Peart, Rush’s legendary drummer, casts a wicked her mysterious doppelganger into an unfamiliar spell, but if you’ve managed to avoid it, or think air apartment, she isn’t quite sure she can trust her own animation, these films are drumming isn’t cool, I give you—Power. eyes until she spots a photo of herself and her father on the entryway table. Understandably spooked, she a treat for true cinephiles Adventures of Power tells the comedic tale of a New Mexico mine worker named Power, who sets out to dashes back down to her car. Soon she finds herself and casual filmgoers alike. change the world through his love of drums. But he in the hospital, unable to remember what has put has never learned how to play. Instead, he air-drums her there or much about the strange woman. What at his aunt’s on talent night. After participating in Gina does know is her boyfriend seems different, the an underground “drum off” in Mexico, he is spotted ceiling above the bathtub leaks blood in her dreams, by a trainer from New York and asked to train with and broken mirrors are becoming a recurring theme in the team. As his fellow mine workers fight for their her life. Increasingly paranoid, Gina is experiencing a rights back home, Power finds himself in the air-drum bizarre and horrific version of her former life, and as fight of his life against a formidable and despicable things spiral out of control, she must escape from, or rival. Summoning strength from inner desire, Power come to grips with, her new reality. learns what’s been driving him his whole life: he Sean Ellis’s vision of London is full of shadows and doesn’t need drums. He is drums. blind corners. A color palette that matches the Having had three shorts in the Festival, Ari Gold foreboding skies and well-placed overhead shots returns with his feature debut and shows off his of the bewildering street pattern heighten the multifaceted talents of writing, directing, acting, claustrophobic feeling of being trapped with Gina in and air drumming. Enlisting a terrific group of an inescapable maze. As Gina struggles to put the comedic actors, he has crafted a funny and charming pieces together, you may wonder about your own tale of a man, his dream, and the passion that it bathroom mirror, and who stares back at you in the takes to chase it. –Trevor Groth middle of the night. –Matt Anderson

ExP: Gill Holland, Christopher Woodrow Pr: Andrea Pr: Lene Bausager Ci: Angus Hudson Ed: Scott Thomas Sperling Ci: Lisa Wiegand Ed: Daniel Schalk, David PrD: Morgan Kennedy Mu: Guy Farley CoD: Vicki Russell Blackburn, Geraud Brisson PrD: Walter Barnett Principal Cast: Lena Headey, Richard Jenkins, Asier Mu: Ethan Gold Principal Cast: Ari Gold, Shoshanna Newman, Michelle Duncan, Melvil Poupaud Stern, , Michael Mckean, Jane Lynch, Steven Williams Friday, January 18, midnight Egyptian Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 20, midnight Saturday, January 19, noon Egyptian Theatre, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Monday, January 21, 2:30 pm Saturday, January 19, midnight Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Tower Theatre, SLC Thursday, January 24, 9:00 pm Saturday, January 26, 9:15 pm Tower Theatre, SLC Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Saturday, January 26, 11:45 pm Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City

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Donkey Punch Funny Games George A. Romero’s Director: Olly Blackburn Director/Screenwriter: Diary of the Dead Screenwriters: Olly Blackburn, David Bloom France, 2007, 107 min., color, 35mm Director/Screenwriter: George A. Romero United Kingdom, 2007, 90 min., color, 35mm The Farber family—George (Tim Roth), Anna (Naomi U.S.A., 2007, 95 min., color, 35mm Watts), and young Georgie (Devon Gearhart)—drive Sex, drugs, and beautiful people on board a luxurious In George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead, fiction turns through the countryside to their summer home. yacht in the Mediterranean—not your typical setting into reality for a group of film students who set out Shortly after they arrive, two well-mannered young for a horror film. But Donkey Punch isn’t your typical to shoot a low-budget horror flick in the woods of men, Paul (Michael Pitt) and Peter (Brady Corbet), horror film. . When the dead come to life before their appear, hoping to borrow some eggs. But they are eyes, director Jason Creed decides to capture these Three gorgeous ladies on holiday in a Mediterranean neither friendly neighbors nor interested in eggs. startling events with his camera, even as members of beach town are determined to let their hair down and Taking the family hostage, the intruders proceed his cast and crew become prey to the increasing army leave their troubles behind. The festivities begin at a to entertain themselves with increasingly sadistic Casting Director Casting of walking corpses that surround them. Mainstream a: a: nightclub, where libations flow and libidos grow. As

C “games.” Then, with alarming politeness, Paul bets media coverage of this plague is manipulated and luck would have it, they encounter three charming the Farbers that they won’t survive the next 12 hours. unreliable, so the only way to get the real story out to lads who are more than eager to provide them with He turns to the camera: “Think they stand a chance?” what they are looking for. Collectively they make their the public is by posting raw footage on the Internet. way to the yacht where the men crew. Caught up in It may not be immediately evident that an As the group make their way back home in an old Costume Designer Designer Costume the hedonistic wave created by the sexual tension, unrelentingly brutal home-invasion thriller can Winnebago, they are met with death at every turn, oD: oD: C and spurred by the fact that the yacht’s owner is rekindle your faith in a cinema of ideas, but that’s and the realization sets in that the only remaining what Funny Games does. In every detail, Michael audience for Jason’s film may be the same undead

Music Music away, they throw caution to the wind and head out Haneke’s remake of his own 1997 Austrian film is subjects he is risking his life to document.

Mu: Mu: to sea. This is where the terror begins. constructed expressly to comment on itself. What’s remarkable about Olly Blackburn’s debut Widely regarded as the master of all things

Sound Sound The physical and psychological violence forms a

o: o: zombie, George A. Romero reinvents his legendary S feature is the way he builds suspense over the powerful, self-reflexive conceit to challenge the contribution to the horror film zeitgeist with this film’s first half. He takes his time in developing the audience’s complicity and systematically frustrate entirely new take on undead culture. Romero’s fifth characters, plot, and place, and it pays off. He is aided the impulse toward gratification. At one point,

Art Director Director Art zombie film never violates the rules of the undead by an impressive cast of fresh faces who are at ease Haneke literally hands control of the film itself over that he created nearly four decades ago with his ArD: ArD: with each other and their situation, as well as by to one of his characters. the lush Mediterranean scenery, which is perfectly landmark film Night of the Living Dead—he stays captured and appears both serene and menacing. Refusing to tiptoe around the brutality inflicted on true to his roots, solidifying his place as a true “gore Blackburn’s gut-wrenching, nerve-shredding the family, Haneke doesn’t want to entertain you; auteur” of the genre. –Adam Montgomery Donkey Punch stimulates the senses and shatters he wants to challenge you. He wants blood flowing roduction Designer Designer roduction P conventions. –Trevor Groth to your brain, not just across the linoleum.

PrD: PrD: Why wouldn’t he remake the film for Americans? ExP: Dan Fireman, John Harrison, Steve Barnett It’s about us. –John Nein Pr: Peter Grunwald, Art Spigel, Sam Englebardt, ditor ditor E d: d: Pr: Angus Lamont, Mark Herbert, Robin Gutch Ci: Nanu Katz Ci: Adam Swica Ed: Michael Doherty PrD: Rupert E Segal Ed: Kate Evans PrD: Delarey Wagener MuS: Phil Lazarus So: Zenon Waschuk Principal Cast: Michelle Canning Mu: François-Eudes Chanfrault Principal Cast: ExP: , Philippe Aigle, Carole Siller, Douglas Morgan, Joshua Close, Shawn Roberts, Amy Lalonde, , Sian Breckin, Tom Burke, Nichola Burley, Steiner Pr: Chris Coen, Hamish McAlpine, Hengameh Joe Dinicol, Scott Wentworth , Jay Taylor, Jaime Winstone Panahi, Christian Baute, Andro Steinborn CoP: Jonathan Cinematographer Cinematographer i: i:

C Schwartz Ci: Darius Khondji Ed: Monika Willi Principal Cast: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Friday, January 18, 11:30 pm Library Center Theatre, Park City roducer roducer Tuesday, January 22, midnight Corbet, Devon Gearhart P Egyptian Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 22, 9:00 pm Tower Theatre, SLC Associate Associate Friday, January 25, 3:00 pm Saturday, January 19, midnight

AsP: AsP: Egyptian Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Saturday, January 26, 11:30 pm Saturday, January 26, midnight Wednesday, January 23, midnight Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Tower Theatre, SLC

Coproducer Coproducer Egyptian Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 27, 10:00 am oP: oP: Holiday Village Cinema I, Park City C Thursday, January 24, 9:30 pm Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction roducer roducer P

Pr: Pr: Saturday, January 26, 11:30 pm Prospector Square Theatre, Park City roducer roducer P xecutive xecutive E xP: xP: E redit Legend Legend redit C 2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival PARK CITY AT MIDNIGHT 51 Hell Ride Otto; or, Up with Dead People Time Crimes Director/Screenwriter: Larry Bishop Director/Screenwriter: Bruce LaBruce Los Cronocrímenes U.S.A., 2007, 83 min., color, Sony HD Cam Germany/Canada, 2007, 95 min., color & b/w, 35mm Director/Screenwriter: Nacho Vigalondo Hell Ride is a raucous throwback to the days of the Otto is a handsome, sensitive, neo-Goth zombie with Spain, 2007, 90 min., color, 35mm Sergio Leone spaghetti western, with a heaping an identity crisis. He looks and smells like a zombie Spanish with English subtitles helping of testosterone-fueled chopper action thrown but isn’t certain that he is one. He wanders the into the mix. Writer/director Larry Bishop takes on a streets of the city, never sleeping, until one day—as As it happens, this smart, feisty thriller begins quite third role as Pistolero, head honcho of the Victors, he is being harassed by hooligans—he ducks into an sedately. Hector sits on a lawn chair outside his a group of badass bikers who are out to avenge the alley and spots a poster announcing auditions for country home surveying the nearby hillside through a murder of one of their members at the hands of the a zombie film. He soon meets aspiring filmmaker/ pair of binoculars. But, catching sight of what appears 666ers, a rival gang whose actions live up to their revolutionary Medea Yarn, who is convinced to be a nude woman amidst the trees, he hikes up to hellish moniker. Along with his cohorts, the Gent that Otto, as a confused zombie, is the perfect investigate. When he’s attacked by a sinister figure (deviously portrayed by Michael Madsen) and the embodiment of the effects of advanced capitalism wrapped in a grotesque, pink head bandage, Hector mysterious Comanche (Eric Balfour), Pistolero aims on individuals. Medea begins to make a film about takes refuge in a laboratory atop the hill. He tries to take down the Deuce and Billy Wings, menacing Otto, while simultaneously shooting a film about a to elude the stalker by hiding in a peculiar scientific leaders of the 666ers, but a mutiny looms on the gay zombie revolt against consumerist society. After contraption, and moments later, he emerges—only horizon when his commitment to profit is questioned moving in with an actor, Otto begins to remember to find that it’s hours earlier. But time has a lot in by a few of his fellow Victors. An even larger story fragments of his pre-zombie life with a sweet store for Hector. unravels when previously unknown information about boyfriend. As Medea directs the final, orgiastic scene Nacho Vigalondo, who directed the ingenious, Comanche resurrects ghosts from Pistolero’s past. of her gay zombie film, Otto struggles to access the Oscar-nominated short 7:35 in the Morning, has a Although there is enough sex, violence, and all-out human emotions buried beneath his zombie exterior. great instinct for the aesthetic, moving effortlessly machismo to keep grind-house fans firmly plastered Otto; or, Up with Dead People is a clever modern between a tense, disquieting atmosphere and a to their seats, Bishop’s take on the genre strays fable about alienation and the problems created by relentless, driving energy. But drawing from a far from exploitation as he weaves a twisting, a mass-produced society, where even the members tradition of more cerebral science fiction, his story multilayered tale of revenge, loyalty, and brotherhood most on the fringe find it hard to resist being pulled of an ordinary man flung into circumstances far that is brought to life by a superb ensemble cast, into the mainstream. Toying with genre conventions, beyond his comprehension (and perhaps his control) with memorable performances by , combining different media, and making use of is propelled by a deeper curiosity than genre antics Vinnie Jones, and David Carradine. In the words of Medea’s often-humorous films-within-the-film, alone will satisfy. Ever more desperate to decipher Comanche, “The road to hell is paved with anything Bruce LaBruce creates a new, sexy, hyperpoliticized the web of cause and effect surrounding him, Hector but good intentions.” –Adam Montgomery zombie mythology. –Matt Anderson becomes increasingly complicit in the very situation he’s trying to escape. Any physicist would tell him that the more you try to fix things, the more they ExP: Quentin Tarantino CoExP: Matthew Stein, Alix Pr: Jürgen Brüning, Michael Huber, Jennifer Jonas fall apart. When you mess with time, you mess with Taylor Pr: Michael Steinberg,Shana Stein, Larry Bishop CoP: Leonard Farlinger, Bruce Bailey Ci: James Carman nature. –John Nein CoP: Todd King Ci: Scott Kevan Ed: William Yeh, Blake Ed: Jörn Hartmann Principal Cast: Jey Crisfar, Katharina West Principal Cast: Larry Bishop, Michael Madsen, Eric Klewinghaus, Marcel Schlutt, Christophe Chemin, Balfour, Vinnie Jones, Dennis Hopper, David Carradine, Susanne Sachsse, Gio Andrade, Guido Sommer Pr: Eduardo Carneros, Esteban Ibarretxe, Javier Leonor Varela Ibarretxe CoP: Santi Camuñas, Jorge Gómez Ci: Flavio Labiano Ed: Jose Luis Romeu ArD: Jose Luis Saturday, January 19, 11:30 pm Arrizabalaga, Biaffra So: Roberto Fernández Preceded by The Rambler Library Center Theatre, Park City Principal Cast: Karra Elejalde, Bárbara Goenaga Candela Fernández, Nacho Vigalondo U.S.A., 2007, 12 min., color, Sony HD Cam Sunday, January 20, 3:00 pm Director: Calvin Reeder Egyptian Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 22, 10:30 pm Preceded by Advantage Monday, January 21, midnight Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Australia, 2007, 11 min., color, 35mm Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 26, 9:00 pm Director: Sean Byrne Thursday, January 24, 10:30 pm Egyptian Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Friday, January 18, 3:15 pm Friday, January 25, midnight Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 19, 9:45 pm Saturday, January 26, 11:30 pm Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Library Center Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 23, midnight Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Thursday, January 24, midnight Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 26, 6:15 pm Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City 52 FROM THE collection

Edward II The Living End Each year, the Sundance Director: Director/Screenwriter: Gregg Araki Screenwriters: Stephen McBride, Ken Butler, U.S.A., 1992, 92 min., color, Sony HD Cam Film Festival presents Derek Jarman screenings of archival films United Kingdom, 1991, 90 min., color, 16mm Gregg Araki’s The Living End, which debuted at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival, is a buddy movie gone pulled from the holdings of It’s unfortunate that Derek Jarman and Elizabethan bad; Luke (Mike Dytri) and Jon (Craig Gilmore) are playwright lived four centuries literally on the road to nowhere. Luke is a rootless the Sundance Collection at apart. They could have hung out and gone drinking hustler who’s determined to “live fast, die young, together. They had a lot in common. and make a beautiful corpse,” while Jon is a freelance UCLA. Established as a joint writer whose life and stability are devastated when he partnership of Sundance That’s one reason why Jarman was the perfect person finds out he’s HIV positive. They meet by chance (or to adapt Marlowe’s controversial play Edward II to is it fate?), and when Luke kills a cop, they take to the Institute and the UCLA Film the screen and the twentieth century. The story road. A casual affair leads to mutual dependence and concerns a king (Steven Waddington) who is ready a lasting bond. As Luke tells Jon, “Don’t you get it? and Television Archive, the to sacrifice everything—the love of his people, the We’re not like them. We don’t have as much time, so stability of his country, even his throne—to be with we have to grab life by the balls and go for it.” Sundance Collection at UCLA Piers Gaveston (Andrew Tiernan), the man he loves. Araki traps the characters close to the camera or is a groundbreaking archive Edward’s obsessive devotion to Gaveston makes him easy prey for the ambitions of his spurned and isolates them against sterile or desolate landscapes, of independent films shown bitter wife, Isabella (Tilda Swinton, who won the made luminous by Christopher Münch’s surreal best actress award at the Film Festival for her lighting. Most of the people they meet are alienated at the Festival and supported performance), and the unscrupulous Mortimer (Nigel or hostile, which only deepens their isolation. Terry), who are equally obsessed with power. The film’s title encapsulates the paradox that by the Institute’s artist becomes their lives. Jarman retains much of Marlowe’s dialogue but development programs. infuses the adaptation with his own attitudes, Strand Releasing and Fortissimo Films have artistry, and flamboyant style. The dank, dark completely remastered the film for this screening, Thanks to the contributions settings are thrown into relief by chiaroscuro lighting, cleaning up the original 16mm print and transferring it to HD, recolor-timing it, and totally remixing the of individual filmmakers, as painterly compositions, vivid colors, and ornate costumes, and Jarman self-consciously inserts musical soundtrack. In giving a vibrant voice to the speechless well as the generous support numbers and the trappings of a police state, even an and disenfranchised, The Living End makes a welcome Act-Up demonstration, to always remind us we are addition to the Sundance Collection. of donors, the Collection watching a film, an artificial construct. –Barbara Bannon has steadily grown over the Jarman’s untimely death in 1994 from AIDS deprived independent cinema and England of one if its unique ExP: Evelyn Hu, Jon Jost, Henry Rosenthal, Mike past 10 years to include more artistic auteurs. This screening pays tribute to his Thomas Pr: Marcus Hu, Jon Gerrans CoP: Jim Stark than 300 films. legacy, and is especially timely because filmmaker AsP: Andrea Sperling Ci/Ed: Gregg Araki Isaac Julien’s paean to Jarman, Derek, is screening as Lgt: Christopher Münch Principal Cast: Mike Dytri, Craig part of the World Cinema Documentary Competition. Gilmore, Darcy Marta, Scot Goetz, Mary Woronov, –Barbara Bannon Johanna Went

ExP: Simon Curtis, Sarah Radclyffe Pr: Steve Clark-Hall, Friday, January 18, 8:30 pm Antony Root Ci: Ian Wilson Ed: George Akers Prospector Square Theatre, Park City PrD: Christopher Hobbs Mu: Simon Fisher Turner Saturday, January 19, 4:30 pm Principal Cast: Steven Waddington, Andrew Tiernan, Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry, Jerome Flynn, John Lynch

Friday, January 18, 6:45 pm Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Sunday, January 20, 2:30 pm Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City

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Shorts Program I Fueled by artistic expression, shorts have the ability to transcend From the sublimely sweet to the downright raunchy, here we meet friends, relatives, body parts, boys, and traditional storytelling. The Festival’s Shorts Programs showcase the fish stuck together, for better or worse, in functional and dysfunctional relationships, to get through this creative, boundary-pushing work of filmmaking’s newest talent. thing called life. Two cousins labor in a post-Katrina wasteland, a pair of sisters would rather die than wear homemade dresses, and gender-bending dance partners Premiering January 18 and running all 10 days of the Festival, create art and exist as art. Whether it’s a pissed-off wife and her no-good husband, a muscleman and his audiences worldwide can view one exclusive short film each day passive-aggressive mother, or bickering testicles, this journey tells you who’s the boss and why it’s always, for FREE @ www.sundance.org/festival. See page 58 for a list of films. always advisable to wear underwear. Total running time: 96 min. Also starting January 18, you can now own and watch many of our shorts at iTunes, Netflix, or Xbox LIVE. Visit www.sundance.org/festival The Second Line Director: John Magary for more details. Presented in partnership with Sundance Channel. U.S.A., 2007, 19 min., color, Sony HD Cam Dennis Director: Mads Matthiesen Denmark, 2007, 18 min., color, 35mm The Adventures of Baxter & McGuire: The Boss Director: Mike Blum U.S.A., 2007, 3 min., color, Sony HD Cam The 2008 Sundance Film Festival Harvest Time Short Film Program was selected by Director: Sami Korjus the following programmers from Finland, 2006, 15 min., color, 35mm throughout North America: Teat Beat of Sex Director: Signe Baumane Matt Anderson U.S.A., 2007, 4 min., color, Sony HD Cam George Eldred Smile Trevor Groth Director: Julia Kwan Todd Luoto Canada, 2007, 17 min., color, 35mm Shane Smith Bend It Hebe Tabachnik Director: Jules Nurrish United Kingdom, 2007, 3 min., color, Sony HD Cam Kimberly Yutani Aquarium Director: Rob Meyer U.S.A., 2007, 17 min., color, 35mm

Friday, January 18, 10:00 am Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Friday, January 18, midnight Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Saturday, January 19, 7:30 pm Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Sunday, January 20, 9:15 am Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Wednesday, January 23, 6:15 pm Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Saturday, January 26, midnight 54 Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City From Chief From Sikumi From The Loss of a Wrestling Match

Shorts Program II Shorts Program III Shorts Program IV A Samoan chief hides from the tragedy of When paranormals lurk, when spiders start to crawl. Okay, here’s what I’ve got: Not all fathers fit the model yesteryears, while a fully dressed knight looks Where Inuit hunters tragically take a fall. of confidence and heroism. Not all beachgoers step into ahead to yards of green yet to come. Morality and Sisters become closer, as boys are drafted by “others.” paradise. Sometimes records are meant to be broken. responsibility come to blows under the roof of a Young kids are influenced by the half-dressed mothers. Sometimes broken families try to become mended. Two prison as childhood ideals form between the walls If you’ve got a temperature of 102, personas can get you in trouble, while two-percent milk of a classroom. A relationship in the arena of straight I desperately want to try and sleep with you. can help save your job. From those seeking answers, expectations is redifined, while the predicaments of Ladies and gentleman, come now and see sustaining records, staring at children, or staring back two pseudointellectuals are skewered under big city The compelling offerings of Shorts Program III. at childhood, to fathers who can’t fight the world, and lights. Within this program are tales of redemption and Total running time: 92 min. women who refuse to fight their fathers, welcome running; ethics and ethos; prohibited, forbidden love; to the world of Shorts Program IV. Four is more than and presumptuous, forward thinking. Get ready for three, but less than five. Fact...checked. Shorts Program II. Sick Sex Total running time: 95 min. Total running time: 98 min. Director: Justin Nowell U.S.A., 2007, 12 min., color, Sony HD Cam Soft Chief Sikumi (On the Ice) Director: Simon Ellis Director: Brett Wagner Director: Andrew Okpeaha MacLean United Kingdom, 2007, 14 min., color, 35mm U.S.A., 2007, 20 min., color, 35mm U.S.A., 2007, 15 min., color, 35mm Waves Motion Studies: Inertia Man Director: Adrian Sitaru Director: Jake Mahaffy Director: Myna Joseph Romania, 2007, 16 min., color, 35mm U.S.A., 2007, 2 min., color, Sony HD Cam U.S.A., 2007, 15 min., color, Sony HD Cam FCU: Fact Checkers Unit Wind, Ten Years Old Welcome Director: Dan Director: Marzieh Vafamehr Director: U.S.A., 2007, 9 min., color, Sony HD Cam Iran, 2006, 23 min., color & b/w, Sony HD Cam U.S.A., 2007, 12 min., color, 35mm Dugong The Execution of Solomon Harris Crossbow Director: Erin White Directors: Wyatt Garfield, Ed Yonaitis Director: David Michôd Australia, 2006, 18 min., color, Sony HD Cam U.S.A., 2007, 8 min., color, Sony HD Cam Australia, 2007, 14 min., color, 35mm The Loss of a Wrestling Match Wrestling Cherries Director: Jed Cowley Director: Grimur Hakonarson Director: Tom Harper U.S.A., 2007, 11 min., color, Sony HD Cam Iceland, 2007, 20 min., color, 35mm United Kingdom, 2007, 15 min., color, 35mm Pariah A Relationship in Four Days Spider Director: Director: Peter Glanz Director: Nash Edgerton U.S.A., 2007, 27 min., color, Sony HD Cam U.S.A., 2007, 25 min., b/w, 35mm Australia, 2007, 9 min., color, 35mm Friday, January 18, 9:15 am Friday, January 18, 8:30 am Friday, January 18, 8:30 am Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Racquet Club, Park City Friday, January 18, 11:45 pm Friday, January 18, 6:00 pm Friday, January 18, 9:45 pm Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Tower Theatre, SLC Saturday, January 19, 8:30 pm Saturday, January 19, 1:00 pm Sunday, January 20, 8:30 pm Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Sunday, January 20, 9:45 pm Tuesday, January 22, 5:30 pm Tuesday, January 22, 8:30 pm Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 26, 2:30 pm Saturday, January 26, 9:15 pm Saturday, January 26, 4:00 pm Library Center Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City

2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival SHORTS PROGRAMS 55 From I Love Sarah Jane From Farewell Packets of Ten From Gas Zappers

Shorts Program V Documentary Spotlight Frontier Shorts Program From the romantic travails of teens on the verge, Freedom, death, sensuality, and money collide in this New Frontier shorts are the definition of energy. to a Rashomon-style take on the differences between year’s lineup of short documentaries. Female murderers Creating a lively, raw atmosphere through crisp video the sexes, to a man’s affection for his miniature compete ferociously for a beauty crown in prison. glitches or saturated film, filled with luscious colors guide horse, love shows its many colors. Then there’s A carved wooden diabetic woman sits in a broken- warped by light and water, or taking an uncanny flight the darker side—a tragic incident turns love into down farmhouse waiting to die. Teens in Los Angeles over a city, celebrating the art of remembrance, electric vengeance, a single gal realizes she may as well be unabashedly reveal their more material instincts. and poignant, these shorts celebrate innovation. dead, and a tale of zombies is fueled by desire. A handicapped man explores the sensual power of a Total running time: 91 min. Oh, and there are mating insects, where the line kiss. In a smoky room, two charming, 70-something between sex and death is as thin as a spider’s web. women discuss the pros and cons of quitting an old Total running time: 87 min. habit. A pilgrimage to the site of a World War II Plot Point internment camp awakens a sense of identity and Director: Nicolas Provost brings new insight to the lessons of the past. Force 1 TD Belgium, 2007, 15 min., color, 35mm From brutal honesty to haunting reality, these Director: Randy Krallman stories will stir your emotions. U.S.A., 2007, 11 min., color, 16mm Count Backwards from Five Total running time: 108 min. Director: Tony Gault Green Porno (Dragonfly) U.S.A., 2007, 6 min., color, 35mm Director: U.S.A., 2007, 1 min., color, Sony HD Cam kids + money Gas Zappers Director: Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung Director: Lauren Greenfield Lloyd Neck U.S.A., 2007, 5 min., color, Sony HD Cam Director: Benedict Campbell U.S.A., 2007, 32 min., color, Sony HD Cam U.S.A., 2007, 16 min., color, Sony HD Cam Farewell Packets of Ten Buyo Director: Andrea Fasciani Director: Ken Wardrop Green Porno (Firefly) Italy, 2008, 37 min., color, Sony HD Cam Director: Isabella Rossellini Ireland, 2007, 3 min., color, 35mm U.S.A., 2007, 1 min., color, Sony HD Cam Pilgrimage SEVILLA π (∞) 06 Director: Olivo Barbieri Sunlit Shadows Director: Tadashi Nakamura Spain, 2006, 13 min., color, 35mm Director: Benjamin M Piety U.S.A., 2007, 22 min., color & b/w, Sony HD Cam U.S.A., 2007, 14 min., color, Sony HD Cam Carlin please stand back! (zurrueckbleiben bitte) Director: Stadtmusik Green Porno (Spider) Director: Brent Green Germany, 2007, 8 min., color, Sony HD Cam Director: Isabella Rossellini U.S.A., 2007, 8 min., color, Sony HD Cam U.S.A., 2007, 1 min., color, Sony HD Cam Because Washington is Hollywood for Ugly Scoring People August 15th Director: Ken Wardrop Director: Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung Director: Xuan Jiang Ireland, 2007, 3 min., b/w, 35mm China, 2007, 20 min., color, Sony HD Cam U.S.A., 2007, 7 min., color, Sony HD Cam La Corona (The Crown) The Funeral Directors: Amanda Micheli, Isabel Vega Friday, January 18, 1:00 pm Director: Sara St. Onge U.S.A., 2007, 40 min., color, Sony HD Cam Canada, 2007, 9 min., color, Sony HD Cam Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City I Love Sarah Jane Friday, January 18, 11:30 pm Friday, January 18, 8:30 am Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Director: Spencer Susser Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Australia, 2007, 14 min., color, 35mm Saturday, January 19, 6:00 pm Friday, January 18, 10:30 pm Tower Theatre, SLC Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Friday, January 18, 8:30 am Tuesday, January 22, 3:15 pm Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Saturday, January 19, 12:15 pm Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Friday, January 18, 11:30 pm Saturday, January 26, 8:30 pm Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Monday, January 21, 5:30 pm Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 19, 3:45 pm Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Saturday, January 26, 5:30 pm Library Center Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 20, 5:30 pm Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 24, 6:30 pm Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Saturday, January 26, 5:30 pm Prospector Square Theatre, Park City 56 Credit Legend ExP: Executive Producer Pr: Producer CoP: Coproducer AsP: Associate Producer Ci: Cinematographer Ed: Editor PrD: Production Designer ArD: Art Director So: Sound Mu: Music CoD: Costume Designer Ca: Casting Director sp animati 2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/fest Festival Film Sundance 2008 o tlight o n ival

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am P am ark City p ot l i gh t 57 SUNDANCE ORG Beginning January 18, visit www.sundance.org/festival to view an exclusive collection of shorts from the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, each streaming for 24 hours.

10 SHORT FILMS OVER 10 DAYS STREAMING FREE

January, 18 January, 23 I Love Sarah Jane Because Washington Is Hollywood for Ugly People Spencer Susser Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung

January, 19 January, 24 Pariah Force 1 TD Dee Rees Randy Krallman

January, 20 January, 25 Yours Truly Wind, Ten Years Old Osbert Parker Marzieh Vafamehr

January, 21 January, 26 my olympic summer Sikumi (On the Ice) Daniel Robin Andrew Okpeaha MacLean

January, 22 January, 27 Sick Sex Spider Justin Nowell Nash Edgerton

To watch and own more shorts, visit iTunes, Netflix, or Xbox LIVE beginning January 18. Presented in partnership with Sundance Channel.

“I’ve always felt that anyone who is truly interested in independent film should pay attention to shorts. They are often an indication of what’s coming down the creative pike.” —

58 SUNDANCE ORG Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, Parts 4 and 5 Director/Screenwriter: Yang Fudong China, 2007, b/w, Sony HD Cam

New Frontier showcases uniquely innovative cinematic visions from the art world that seldom find exposure in the film world. The powerfully photographic imagination of rising Chinese art star Yang Fudong are on display in this rare Festival Highlighting work that New Frontier Contents engagement of his atmospheric and epic tale, Seven pushes the boundaries, Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest. Features 59 This sensual and poetic five-part series New Frontier celebrates contemporizes a popular Chinese legend of seven Artists 62 ancient intellectuals who survived the tumultuous the convergence of film Multimedia transition between the Wei and Jin dynasties by Performance Events 65 finding an indulgent refuge in pure thought and and art as an emerging bacchanalian delights within a bamboo forest. Yang’s Panels and Presentations 66 affluent intellectuals begin atop the breathtakingly hotbed for new ideas picturesque Yellow Mountain in Part 1, travel and experimentation. sexualized interior corridors of the city in Part 2, experience an earthy rural life in Part 3, invent a new world on a deserted island in Part 4, and finally return to the city, integrating their experiences to take on the new urban challenge, in Part 5. Yang situates his epic exactly where detached intellect meets extreme sensations. Action carries the same weight as inaction in this abstract and contemplative work that engages with the operative that comprehension is often best achieved in a state of immobility. Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest may serve as a metaphor for the overwhelming task—evident in China and many other parts of the world—of keeping up with today’s torrential change. –Shari Frilot

Pr: Jin Yu, Yao Peifen ArD: Liu Weijian So: Huang Xun, Dai Dai Ph: Xu Wei Makeup: Sai Sai Principal Cast: Gao Yanqing, Chen Ran, Li Shenghua, Xu Jing, Dai Zhe, Huang Lu, Kong Chenjiang

Part 4 (79 min.)—Friday, January 18, 4:00 pm Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Part 5 (90 min.)—Saturday, January 19, 4:00 pm Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Part 4 (79 min.)—Saturday, January 19, 6:45 pm Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Part 5 (90 min.)—Sunday, January 20, 6:00 pm Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC

new frontier 59 casting a glance Eat, for This Is My Body Fear(s) of the dark A Film by James Benning Mange, Ceci Est Mon Corps Peur(s) du Noir U.S.A., 2007, 80 min., color, 16mm Director/Screenwriter: Michelange Quay Directors: Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard A strange lake with an incredible amount of salt Haiti, 2007, 105 min., color, 35mm French with English subtitles McGuire Screenwriters: Blutch, Charles Burns, content in the water. A distinct artistic vision forming Pierre di Sciullo, Jerry Kramsky, Richard McGuire, a 1,500-foot-long spiral-shaped jetty into the water, Michel Pirus, Romain Slocombe created from 7,000 tons of basalt rock and earth. Michelange Quay’s stunning first feature seductively Clouds, reflections, odd algae, and a few people far begs the viewer to abandon the rules of traditional France, 2007, 78 min., color & b/w, 35mm away. These are the elements of casting a glance, storytelling and instead embrace a poetic, cinematic James Benning’s latest stunning film. language. Eat, for This Is My Body tells of the Spiders’ legs brushing against naked skin. Unexplained evolution of power in Quay’s native Haiti and noises in the dark. A hypodermic needle getting A huge earthen artwork in Utah’s , the colonial relationship between black boys closer and closer. A dead thing trapped in a bottle the Spiral Jetty was made in 1970 by storied artist and white women. of formaldehyde. A growling dog running and on Robert Smithson. Between May 15, 2005, and January The film begins with a breathtaking aerial swoop the hunt. A big empty house creaking....Six amazing 14, 2007, Benning made 16 trips to the jetty. On each graphic artists and cartoonists lend their distinctive visit, Benning set up his 16mm film camera and took over Haiti that seems to beckon the pain of poverty, war, and revolution to thrive and wreak havoc on hands to stylize these dark nightmares with no color, beautifully framed shots of the ever-changing jetty in only black, white, and gray. a similar way to his past landscape films. the serene land. The traumatic image of a woman struggling with an enormously pregnant stomach With ultrarealistic techniques now possible, it is The finished movie is a new form of art documentary, is soothed by images of waterfalls on the tropical important to remember that animation is first and re-creating the 37-year existence of the jetty with island. The viewer is then plunged into the thick heat foremost art. Whether slick or rough, paint or pencil, its many water levels (it was under the surface for of a voodoo ceremony, a beautifully quiet burial or even originating from a computer, there is an image almost 30 years), visitors, and seasonal markings. ground, and finally into the bedroom of an isolated carefully hand designed for every single frame of Educated and poetic hints to history are layered chateau, where an elderly white woman lies on her film. It is the ultimate work of a creator, personally throughout the soundtrack. The sunlight is incredible bed, ruminating about her motherly power over using the drawn frame, chiaroscuro contrast, the as the rocks reshaped by human beings are now black children. When a troupe of young black boys angle of the light, and the line movement to tell a distorted by nature. The sky and the water provide arrives at the chateau, the colonial games of sex story. But it is also the duration of a shot, and what the perfect paint for Benning, who has voiced and race begin. is and isn’t heard. It is the style of the art and the that this could be his last film project. It’s one art of the storytelling that make Fear(s) of the dark of his most hypnotic. –Mike Plante There is a muscular confidence and inspired dreamlike quality to Quay’s filmmaking. He evocatively blends so wonderful. Since they come from the artists’ own gorgeous imagery with an infectious musical energy phobias, you can trust a loving exploration into the Preceded by Suspension to create a story that is largely free of dialogue and surreal atmosphere of your creepiest dreams. As your entirely visceral in effect. Eat, for This Is My Body is emotions get worked over, you won’t jump up; you Belgium, 2007, 3 min., color, Sony HD Cam will sink in. –Mike Plante Director: Nicolas Provost sure to trigger emotions and mark your imagination in mesmerizing and unforgettable ways. –Shari Frilot Friday, January 18, 11:30 am ExP: Valérie Schermann, Christophe Jankovic, Denis Friedman, Vincent Tavier, Philippe Kauffmann Céline Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Ci: Thomas Ozoux Ed: Jean-Marie Lengellé Principal Ed: Kélépikis ArD: Etienne Robial Mu: René Aubry, René Sunday, January 20, 12:45 pm Cast: Sylvie Testud, Hans Dacosta Saint-Val, Catherine Samie, Jean Noël Pierre Gronemberger, Laurent Perez Del Mar, George Van Dam Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC So: Fred Demolder, Valene Leroy LP: Tanguy Olivier Thursday, January 24, 5:30 pm Principal Cast: Aure Atika, Arthur H, François Creton, Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Preceded by Number One Guillaume Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Louisa Pili Saturday, January 26, 7:00 pm U.S.A., 2007, 10 min., color, Sony HD Cam Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Director: Leighton Pierce Preceded by The Apology Line United Kingdom, 2007, 10 min., color, Sony HD Cam Friday, January 18, 5:30 pm Director: James Lees Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Saturday, January 19, 9:30 pm Friday, January 18, 2:30 pm Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Tuesday, January 22, 10:00 am Saturday, January 19, 11:30 am Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Wednesday, January 23, 2:30 pm Sunday, January 20, 6:30 pm Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction Friday, January 25, 9:00 pm Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 26, 3:00 pm Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC 60 Half-Life Reversion Director/Screenwriter: Jennifer Phang Director/Screenwriter: Mia Trachinger U.S.A., 2008, 116 min., color, Sony HD Cam U.S.A., 2008, 90 min., color, Sony HD Cam

Set in the idyllic hills of northern California, Jennifer This ambitious, prismatic second feature by Mia Phang’s marvelously original first feature, Half-Life, Trachinger deftly constructs a not-too-unfamiliar is a supernormal tale about selfish and disillusioned world of existential forces, tilted on its side for suburbanites who live in a futuristic time of natural a better look. Set in a vacuous, contemporary disasters, suffocating air quality, and accelerating Los Angeles of the imagination, the film strings global cataclysms. together moments of high drama and gathering Single mom Saura Wu and her two kids, Pam and dread, moments when the full import of any scene Timothy, struggle to rebuild their family in the filters quickly away, like water through a sieve…

Casting Director Casting presence of a sinister, but charming, interloper. until fate’s inexorable hand makes any attempt at a: a: C Pam seeks refuge in her object of desire, a young comprehension—or intervention—too little, too late. hipster named Scott who, in turn, attempts to jar Eva is a woman desperate to get in front of her fate. his fundamentalist parents out of their denial of his One of a growing number of human mutants who gay identity. Timothy, meanwhile, stumbles upon a exist out of time, she is aware of the disaster that’s Costume Designer Designer Costume way to develop and hone paranormal powers that he set to befall her and her lover, Marcus. Knowing she oD: oD: C summons to alter everyone’s reality. has seen too much, she believes (or hopes) that she can also see beyond destiny to another outcome. The Music Music Modern and philosophical, Half-Life masterfully film is reminiscent of key works of the French New Mu: Mu: blends menacing rage with the tenderness and vulnerability of youth to create a tale that injects an Wave, as if Alain Resnais were to awaken in a Vons

Sound Sound supermarket, unable to find his way out. o: o: empowering and persevering hopefulness into the S family’s fatalistic fears of a disintegrating world. Though the story largely rescrambles causality A visually ambitious accomplishment filled with along a linear axis, it also casts a wide lateral gaze

Art Director Director Art gorgeous cinematography, handcrafted animation, at human agency and the question of free will, a and expertly concocted faux news reports, this dilemma all people must confront, but one that never ArD: ArD: auspicious directorial debut is without precedent and has a satisfactory answer before time is up. It’s a firmly establishes Jennifer Phang as an exciting talent somewhat-astringent glance at human existence, to watch. –Shari Frilot but enthrallingly portrayed in this cagey and precocious film. –Shannon Kelley roduction Designer Designer roduction P

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d: d: Ed: Gloria Vela, Harry Yoon, Kristian Hansen Livingstone Mu: Jonathan Snipes CoD: Michelle Wang E An: Matthew Pugnetti VisEfSup: Catherine Tate Ca: Elizabeth Campbell Principal Cast: Leslie Silva, Jason Principal Cast: Sanoe Lake, Alexander Agate, Leonardo Olive, Tom Maden Nam, Julia Nickson, Ben Redgrave, Lee Marks Cinematographer Cinematographer i: i: Preceded by The Drift C Preceded by Untitled #1 (from the series U.S.A., 2007, 9 min., color, Sony HD Cam

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C Tuesday, January 22, 9:00 pm Egyptian Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City roducer roducer P Friday, January 25, 6:30 pm Saturday, January 26, 3:00 pm Pr: Pr: Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 26, 12:45 pm roducer roducer P Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC xecutive xecutive E xP: xP: E redit Legend Legend redit C 2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival New frontier 61 New Frontier on Main is a social and creative space that showcases artist installations, live performances, thought-provoking panels and the Rabbit Hole, a DJ lounge and café. New Frontier on Main is presented by Adobe Systems Incorporated, HP, and Doug Aitken Sony Electronics, Inc. sleepwalkers

Aitken will present a special single-channel version of his groundbreaking 333 Main St. Museum of Modern Art installation. A gorgeous and evocative work starring Donald Sutherland, Tilda Swinton, and the music of Cat Power, Sleepwalkers Friday, January 18–Friday, January 25; entwines the story lines of five nocturnal New Yorkers who awaken as the sun noon to 8:00 p.m. sets, prepare to set out into the night, and make their way through the city to Saturday, January 25; noon to 3:00 p.m. their disparate destinations. Aitken explores not just the constructed landscape upon which Sleepwalkers Open to all Festival credential holders and the general public was initially projected but also the architecture of the video image itself. as space permits unless otherwise noted. Incorporated into the rhythms of the piece, the images break down into the resplendent abstraction of pixels that are the building blocks of moving images we encounter each day.

Sleepwalkers is on display at New Frontier on Main at 2:30 p.m. daily. Conversation with Doug Aitken at New Frontier, Wed., January 23 at 6:30 p.m.

Robert Boyd ©ause Collective Xanadu along the way

In this special single-channel presentation of Boyd’s explosive installation, Using a vibrant assembly of video portraits of people and places around a history of apocalyptic thought is presented to probe society’s self- Oakland, California, ©ause Collective paints a mesmerizing digital canvas destructive impulse. Rapid-fire montage of doomsday cults, iconic of what makes up a town, digging below the surface to examine how the political figures, and global fundamentalist movements are crafted unique individual affects the greater identity and how a community is into MTV-style music videos set to disco. a direct reflection of its citizenry.

Xanadu is on display at New Frontier on Main at 2:30 p.m. daily.

62 artists

Jim Campbell Hasan Elahi home movies Tracking Transience: The Orwell Project Utilizing custom electronics with columns of high-powered LEDs After being mislabeled and tracked as a terrorist, Hasan Elahi decided to (light-emitting diodes), Jim Campbell creates an ethereal new form of reclaim his pursuit of happiness by naming the FBI as his artistic collaborator. sculptural art out of old style home movies. The images are universal, as is By tracking himself in this website installation, he enables anyone to see what the wonderful effect of memories—fuzzy and obscured, yet fully evocative. he’s doing anytime, analyzing the incredible connection between the real and virtual worlds we now swear by.

Graffiti Research Lab Stephanie Rothenberg and Jeffery Crouse L.A.S.E.R. Tag Invisible Threads: A Virtual Sweatshop in Second Life L.A.S.E.R. Tag is a Weapon of Mass Defacement (WMD) that gives individuals Audiences can buy a pair of designer blue jeans manufactured on the spot in the power to communicate their thoughts on buildings, ski slopes, and a Second Life sweatshop factory, and walk away wearing them in this playful snowbanks, using a 60-milliwatt laser and a big-ass projector. The G.R.L. interactive installation that replicates real-world economies and scrutinizes the will bomb screenings, party events, and other random targets for the relationship between real dollars and virtual assets. duration of the Festival.

Shopping hours: 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. daily at New Frontier on Main. Meet Graffiti Research Lab and see video documentation of these experiments on Tuesday, January 22 at 12:30 p.m. at New Frontier on Main.

2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival new frontier artists 63 Daniel Rozin Jennifer Steinkamp Peg Mirror and Snow Mirror Mike Kelley TREES “How the heck does it work?” is the usual first response to Jennifer Steinkamp creates a magical forest at New Frontier on Main with Daniel Rozin’s magical mirrors. Snow Mirror celebrates the drift of her high-definition video projections of individually crafted trees that twist black and white, forming a reflection from video snow. Peg Mirror and twirl and change through the seasons. Projected to fill the height questions the notions of digital object and light reflection, made of the venue’s walls, the trees interact with the architecture of the from 650 circular wooden pegs. lounge, creating a splendid tension between the imaginary landscape and the physical space.

Eddo Stern Marina Zurkow DarkGame and Best Flame War Ever The Poster Children and Heroes of the Revolution A motivating force in the art of video gaming, Eddo Stern makes Marina Zurkow returns to the Festival (her Braingirl series was featured calculated statements about the culture of solitary beings. Darkgame is in the Sundance Online Film Festival in 2002) with a haunting pair of for two players, working with various forms of sensory deprivation. gorgeously rendered, animated installation works that reflect our surreal Best Flame War Ever displays two avatar faces reenacting overtly world of oceanic detritus, child warfare, and melting ice caps. machismo chat-room conversations.

Darkgame gaming sessions take place from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. daily.

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Cory Arcangel in Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky, Califone and the Animated Collaboration with Paper Rad That Subliminal Kid Films of Brent Green Next Year’s Bad News Bears Terra Nova: The Antarctic Suite God Builds Like Frank Lloyd Wright The masters of culture observationalism, In this one-night event, DJ Spooky gives us Paper Rad and Cory Arcangel, will blow up a glimpse of his new work that acoustically In the converted barn he lives in, Brent pop art in a one-night-only film and live music portrays the transformation of Antarctica. Green is a stylized, self-taught animator. He performance. Experience the breakdown Miller’s field recordings couple with visual doesn’t hide the process or the lines and of consumer-sized ideas and colors with material from Getty Images in a live tape. In this special appearance with Califone, lucid, OCD-tripping, Nintendo-like worlds performance that powerfully comments on Green becomes a wild preacher, writhing and and the “The Bruce Springsteen Born to Run humanity’s relationship with nature. channeling his stories: someone to believe in. Glockenspiel Addendum.” Performance and conversation with the artist Friday, January 18 at 6:30 p.m.; Sunday, Saturday, January 19 at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 22 at 9:00 p.m. January 20 at 6:30 p.m.; Monday, January 21 at 6:30 p.m.

The Composers Lab Web Junk Battle Experiment: Braden King, Think you know some Internet funny? Come Shahzad Ali Ismaily, join the Native Forum Showcase for an all-out battle for prizes as festivalgoers screen the Deborah Johnson funniest Internet clips they’ve seen.

The Story Is Still Asleep Wednesday, January 23, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. This live, multimedia film and music event explores the prenarrative ether from which a movie emerges. A collaboration between lab fellows Braden King (filmmaker) and Shahzad Ismaily (composer) with video artist Deborah Johnson, this performance shines a light on the literal and metaphoric maps of the atmospheric tone and dreamlife from which King’s new feature, Here, is now awakening.

Thursday, January 24 at 9:00 p.m.

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These panels explore the ever-evolving convergence of art and technology by offering festivalgoers the opportunity to engage in a dialogue with filmmakers and industry leaders.

333 Main St. Friday, January 18–Friday, January 25; noon to 8:00 p.m. Saturday, January 26; noon to 3:00 p.m. Open to all Festival credential holders and the general public as space permits unless otherwise noted.

Opening Reception Friday, January 18; 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

New Filmmaking Technology: The Artists of the New Frontier What’s Now and What’s Next? Sunday, January 20; 12:30 p.m. RABBIT HOLE Friday, January 18; 12:30 p.m. Microcinema, New Frontier on Main Microcinema, New Frontier on Main Today’s fine artists are increasingly The Café at New Frontier on Main Ranging from lofty 4K cameras to the incorporating the tools of filmmaking into humblest laptop editing system, it seems their work, blurring the boundaries between no technology is beyond today’s indie disciplines. The result is some of the most filmmakers. How do we choose the best independent, technologically savvy visions Eco Lamps by David Cooney solutions available? Join the makers behind at the Festival. Join the artists of the New

the Festival’s most innovative films to review Frontier as they discuss the space among art, Shining a light on the beauty of recycled plastics. the latest in HD cinematography, workflow electronics, and moving images. Moderated Eco Lamp light structures in the Atrium and options, postproduction software, and more. by Mike Plante, CineVegas programmer and the DJ booth. Moderated by entertainment technology Sundance New Frontier consultant. strategy adviser Phil Lelyveld, formerly with Disney.

Webolution!—Hollywood Adapts Alternative Storytelling for New to the Web Digital Media Platforms Monday, January 21; 12:30 p.m. Saturday, January 19; 12:30 p.m. Microcinema, New Frontier on Main Microcinema, New Frontier on Main How do you tell good stories in a world The writing is on the wall—the Industry where your computer is a television, your must adapt to new media or face extinction. cell phone is a movie screen, and your avatar Today’s studios and independents are finally addresses a global virtual audience? Join embracing the challenge of porting content visionary new funders, media artists, tech and revenue to new distribution strategies. pundits, and program innovators to discuss Join Hollywood power brokers and new media the development of next-generation content superstars to discuss their strategies for the for emerging platforms. Moderated by Wendy Web. Moderated by Kara Swisher of The Wall Levy of the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC). Street Journal’s AllThingsD.com.

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Going It Alone: Digital Distribution Collision Course: Content Providers Avid Presentations for Indie Filmmakers and the Creative Community Chart a Outerspace Cinema, New Frontier on Main Wednesday, January 23; 12:30 p.m. Course for the Future Friday, January 18; 4:30 p.m. Microcinema, New Frontier on Main Friday, January 25; 12:30 p.m. Creating a Low-Budget Film with The myriad distribution opportunities facing Microcinema, New Frontier on Main High Production Value today’s filmmakers make for a landscape of In 2007, Hollywood chose to stop production In this session, Michael Phillips (an Avid film both opportunity and confusion. How can over unresolved new-media revenue issues. you maximize your digital rights potential? editor) and Norm Hollyn (from USC) explore Instead, we at the 2008 Sundance Film the way filmmakers can add high production Where are the best revenue opportunities? Festival look forward to dealing with this Join buyers, sellers, and filmmakers to discuss value to their low-budget project. The pair new challenge. How do we quantify the walk through their personal experiences rights, royalties, and windows in the wild distribution models? How do we share? world of digital distribution today. on the short film Jack in the Box and how Join industry and indie prognosticators as using tools like Avid Media Composer Moderated by Meyer Shwarzstein, CEO of we examine subscription models, targeted Brainstorm Media. allowed them to create a high-quality advertising, revenue sharing, and other product very economically. emerging business strategies. Moderated by Scott Kirsner of Variety. Saturday, January 19; 4:30 p.m. Doug Liman: “Sharing a Vision” and the Importance of Finding the Right Editor Social Cyborg: How Technology Panavision Presentations In this session, award-winning director/ Is Changing Us Outerspace Cinema, New Frontier on Main producer Doug Liman (Swingers, Mr. and Mrs. Thursday, January 24; 12:30 p.m. Saturday, January 19; Sunday, January 20; and Smith, The Bourne Ultimatum) talks about his Microcinema, New Frontier on Main Wednesday, January 23; 12:30 p.m. current and past projects and the way Beyond the way we act, the Internet affects How to Talk to the Big Guys When he approaches storytelling—from shooting the way we think, raising questions of who to the editing room. we are as individuals and a community. You’re a Little Guy Social networking, user-generated content, Join representatives from Panavision,Kodak, Sunday, January 20; 4:30 p.m. multiplayer gaming, file sharing—we are Laser Pacific, FotoKem, efilm, Mole-Richardson, From Production to Post to joined in previously unimagined ways. and Deluxe to find out how small independent Distribution: What You Should Know films and student productions without large Join leading innovators as we explore the This open discussion with experts across the ramifications of a wired populous. Moderated budgets can obtain products and services from leaders in the field. Topics include low-cost film industry discusses trends, tips, and tricks by Katie Hafner, technology reporter for The in filmmaking. Featuring editor Kevin Tent New York Times. camera rentals, film processing, electronic workflow, and postproduction services such as (, The Golden Compass, Blow) and digital intermediates and film-outs. film-distribution consultant Stacy Parks.

Imagining a Market for Short Films Sony Presentations Thursday, January 24; 4:30 p.m. Outerspace Cinema, New Frontier on Main Outerspace Cinema, New Frontiter on Main Monday, January 21; 12:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. As the zone between making short films and Tuesday, January 22; 12:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. reaching an audience gets more explosive, new companies and technologies are changing the Creative Shooting Techniques— landscape daily. Sundance has stepped into the XD-CAM Ex-Camcorder void to help get the power and profit into the From one-half-inch full 1920 by 1080 imagers hands of the filmmakers. Come meet the folks to native 24p capturing, variable frame rates, and filmmakers who manage the Sundance selectable gamma curves, and solid-state shorts deal (iTunes/Netflix/Xbox). Moderated memory recording—come and see how by a surprise guest. cinematographer Jody Eldred wove these latest technologies into breathtaking art.

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With events ranging from concerts to panels to parties, Off Screen offers an outlet for music, dialogue, and fun to round out your Festival experience.

Panels at Prospector Filmmaker Lodge Music Café Music Events 2200 Sidewinder Dr. Elks Building Star Bar From panels to live performances, 550 Main St., (second floor) 268 Main St. the Festival recognizes the huge From art to commerce, role music plays in film at a variety documentary to digital, Panels at Friday, January 18–Saturday, Friday, January 18–Saturday, of venues. Prospector examine the constant January 26; 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. January 26; 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. evolution of contemporary Supported by Discovery Films Supported by ASCAP. filmmaking. Note that panels and PBS. require a ticket (see pages 76–77 A dynamic showcase for live for details). The Filmmaker Lodge presents performances by emerging and lively panel discussions on a broad established artists. Saturday, January 19– range of current issues regarding Friday, January 25 the craft of filmmaking. Opening Reception Friday, January 18 Opening Reception 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Friday, January 18 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Sundance House Film Church Special Events Sponsor Venues at The Kimball Filmmaker Lodge and Venues From great sponsor giveaways, to Art Center 550 Main St., (second floor) Whether you’re in Salt Lake City, the latest in cool gadgets, to simply at Sundance Resort, or simply a hip place to hang out in your 638 Park Ave. Sunday, January 20; 2:30 p.m. passionate about film music, down time, our Official Sponsor (corner of Main St. and Heber Ave.) don’t miss the happenings at the venues have it all. Sundance Film Festival offers Festival’s other events and venues. Friday, January 18–Saturday, nondenominational lessons in January 26; 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. what’s wrong or what’s right with Presented by our cinema from people who have Presenting Sponsors something to say. Film Church is bad for you. The hub of Festival activity: Internet access, giveaways, music, and a café—it’s all here. Opening Reception Friday, January 18 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

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From art to commerce, documentary to digital, contemporary filmmaking is constantly changing. Filmmakers, industry representatives, journalists, and scholars debate a number of topics relevant in the international film community today.

These panels require a ticket (see pages 76–77 for details).

On Crisis Survival: On Comedy: On Cinematic Imagination: Stories of Disaster and Its Aftermath Are We Laughing in Dark Times? New Spaces for a New Cinema Culture Saturday, January 19, 2:30 p.m. Monday, January 21, 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, January 23, 2:30 p.m.

Depression, substance abuse, family strife, How do you establish an environment Which crises demand our attention? It falls and suicide—has life always been this where originality can flourish? For artists to journalists and filmmakers to help us funny? Humor seems to be tackling pretty working outside of traditional modes of understand. But how do they do that? And dark stuff. Is the comedy of perversity, moviemaking, the creative freedoms and how should we respond? Disasters demand taboo, and dysfunction just a means of unique perspective found there profoundly solutions. With survival at stake, are you coping? What are we allowed to laugh at? influence the cinematic imagination. willing to engage? Panelists Naomi Klein, This panel may not have the answer, but we’ll The resulting work from this important Peter Galison, Tia Lessin, Patrick Creadon, let them discuss it for a while. space is exploding onscreen conventions and others discuss the next bad thing, and and transforming the ambient images what to do to head it off. of our everyday lives. Join artists Doug Aitken and Isaac Julien, and moderator/ curator Thelma Golden for this stimulating discussion.

In 3-D: On Invention: On Plurality: The Future Is Now The Cinema and Science The Middle East in Perspective Sunday, January 20, 11:30 a.m. of Moving Forward Friday, January 25, 2:30 p.m. Lose the red and blue cardboard glasses; this Tuesday, January 22, 2:30 p.m. With such distinctive voices and interests, is not your daddy’s 3-D. A new generation Whether they’re in the employ of labs or the film work from the Middle East this of groundbreaking technologies offers a tinkering in the shed, the inventors of the year reinforces the sense of a vibrant wildly diverse range of creative possibilities world are united by vision and imagination. cultural plurality. In combating reductive and the potential to transform the theatrical With the history of invention as captivating representations and articulating complex moviegoing experience. A handful of 3-D’s as those who fill it, what role do they play in political, religious, and social issues, leading practitioners invite you for a sneak the world of science? And neurobiologically these filmmakers speak as many voices. preview of things to come (glasses provided). speaking, what does it mean to have an Whether exploring Islam, or expressing inventive mind? An assembly of scientists personal stories, each film holds and filmmakers will tinker with the idea. transformative power.

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The Filmmaker Lodge presents lively Sundance Work-in-Process The Latin Resurgence panel discussions on a broad range Monday, January 21; 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, January 23; 2:00 p.m. of current issues regarding the Join documentary filmmakers who have been Across the Latin American cinemascape, change craft of filmmaking. The Lodge supported by the Sundance Documentary is in the air. Latin stories are reaching wider Film Program and labs as they reveal the good, (sometimes global) audiences, there’s a virtual offers a casual meeting place and the bad, and the just plain crazy, all in pursuit renaissance in Mexico, there’s more diverse café that encourages conversations of a great film. Panelists include Ellen Kuras output from Brazil and Argentina, and industries among filmmakers, industry leaders, and Thavi Phrasavath (Nerakhoon); Robb Moss are flourishing all the way from Peru to Colombia (Secrecy); Edet Belzberg (An American Soldier); and even Panama. What’s going on? How do and the press. Mahmoud al Massad (Recycle) and Tanaz producers view the changing climate? Can we still Eshaghian (Be Like Others). think in terms of national cinemas?

Elks Building, 550 Main St., (second floor) Friday, January 18– Saturday, January 26 The Producing Cap Stories That Must Be Told: 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday, January 21; 2:00 p.m. Today’s Human Rights Open to all Festival credential holders and the Nobody calls you when it’s good news. The Documentary Movement general public as space permits. financing fell through, the tax incentive fell Thursday, January 24; 10:30 a.m. through, an actor fell through, a tree fell Human rights and documentary are joining Supported by Discovery Films and PBS. through (the roof). It’s raining. The D.P. needs forces to powerful effect. Hear from experts this thing...from NASA. Producing is tough, working globally about the growing use of filmic Opening Reception and the cap you wear is generally of a problem- storytelling in human-rights work. Panelists Friday, January 18 solving variety. In this panel, a group of seasoned include Paul van Zyl (International Center for 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. producers bring a range of problems to the Transitional Justice), Gillian Caldwell (1sky table, and share their solutions. Alliance), and Oren Yacobovitch (B’tselem).

Rewriting the Process Meet the Film Funds and Producing Native Cinema Saturday, January 19; 2:30 p.m. Commissioning Editors Thursday, January 24; 2:00 p.m. Sundance House at The Kimball Art Center Putting the creative process into words can Tuesday, January 22; 10:30 a.m. How ! More Native films are be a challenge. Join this discussion of voice, Hear directly from the decision makers who could being produced each year: how is it happening and collaboration, adaptation, and rewriting by support your next documentary, including reps who’s behind it? What does it take for a Native exploring the experience of the Screenwriters from A&E, ITVS, PBS and PBS strands, HBO, the film to get off the ground (and does it help if your Laboratory with Howard Rodman, Ryan Fleck, Sundance Documentary Fund, and many others. producer was a fashion model)? Join Heather Rae, Anna Boden, Boaz Yakin, and others. Followed Sign up at the Filmmaker Lodge. Sessions will producer of Frozen River; Chad Burris, producer at 4:00 p.m. by Sundance in Person, an informal fill up; register early. of Four Sheets to the Wind; and members of the opportunity to connect with the staff of filmmaking collective behind The Wind and Water Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program. as they discuss these issues.

Are You Global Enough? Black in America Critics Cornered? Sunday, January 20; 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, January 22; 2:00 p.m. Friday, January 25; 10:30 a.m. Join leaders in the international documentary The African-American experience is the subject of Do critics still matter? Maybe the better question community as they describe new funding many of the documentaries in this year’s Festival. is, what factors contribute to their perceived and professional training opportunities in an In this panel hosted by Elvis Mitchell, filmmakers, relevance? What have blogging and “critic-proof” increasingly global documentary world. Panelists artists, and experts discuss the pivotal questions marketing changed? Do they still have the power include Tom Perlmutter (NFB); Claire Aguilar for African Americans today and talk about where to help films? And forgetting the box office for (ITVS); Leena Pasanen (European Documentary the most progress is being made. two seconds, what about the culture where films Network); and Christoph Jorg (). are received? So do critics still matter? Ask them.

70 The Double Bottom Line: Too Good to be True? Friday, January 25; 2:00 p.m. Measuring social good alongside financial profit is the business framework for many filmmakers. But what exactly is the double bottom line? Join Jess Search (Channel Four Foundation); John Schreiber (Participant Productions); Annie Sundberg, director of The Devil Came on Horseback; and others for this provocative discussion.

Film Church Outreach Table Wine Escapes Film Church is a rant. Film Church is a sermon. The Outreach Table at the Filmmaker Meet and greet with other filmmakers and Film Church is whatever needs to be said! Lodge offers the opportunity to interact industry representatives in a relaxed and with representatives from a diverse group informal environment. Sundance Film Festival offers non- of national and regional film-service denominational lessons in what’s wrong or organizations. Organizations participating Saturday, January 19 4:00 p.m. what’s right with cinema from people who have this year include the following: Hosted by Discovery Films something to say. Film Church is bad for you. Active Voice Animal Content in Entertainment Sunday, January 20 4:00 p.m. Film Church with Martin McDonagh Arts Engine Hosted by PBS Sunday, January 20; 2:30 p.m. Asian CineVision Association of Film Monday, January 21–Friday, January 25 Martin McDonagh is notorious for a particular Commissioners International 4:00 p.m. brand of blistering, postmodern, dark comedy Austin Film Society that brilliantly slides into the extremes of ugliness, violence, and brutality in a way that Bay Area Video Coalition may best be described as grotesquely absurd. Center for Asian American Media Open to all Festival credential holders Born in London to Irish immigrant parents, Center for Social Media (must be 21 and older). he began his career scripting radio plays and Film Arts Foundation has since won two Olivier Awards and been Film Independent nominated for four Tonys. His plays include Filmmakers Alliance The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, and The Pillowman. His Film the West first foray into filmmaking was the Academy Flaherty Seminar Award–winning short Six Shooter. In Bruges is IFP McDonagh’s first feature. International Documentary Association National Association of Latino Independent Producers Open to all Festival credential holders and the Native American Public Telecommunications general public as space permits. New Day Films New York Women in Film and Television San Diego Asian Film Foundation Visual Communications Western North Carolina Film Commission Women in Film Los Angeles Women Make Movies

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Sundance Film Festival presents the Music Café, a dynamic showcase for live performances by emerging and established artists and bands. Stop in during the day to hear a range of exciting songwriters and artists from across the musical spectrum in this very unique and intimate Festival setting. The daytime programming at the Music Café is produced by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).

Opening Reception Friday, January 18; 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Open to Festival credential holders as space permits (must be 21 or older).

Friday, January 18 Monday, January 21 2:30–3:00 p.m. am 2:30–3:00 p.m. tBA 3:10–3:40 p.m. ingrid Michaelson 3:10–3:40 p.m. Jessie Baylin 3:50–4:20 p.m. Jesca Hoop 3:50–4:20 p.m. Ben’s Brother 4:30–5:00 p.m. Sea Wolf 4:30–5:00 p.m. tBA 6:00–7:oop.m. Patti Smith

Saturday, January 19 Tuesday, January 22 2:30–3:00 p.m. ingrid Michaelson 2:30–3:00 p.m. Charlotte Sometimes 3:10–3:40 p.m. Paddy Casey 3:10–3:40 p.m. Jessie Baylin 3:50–4:20 p.m. eef Barzelay 3:50–4:35 p.m. Peter and Gordon 4:30–5:00 p.m. Sea Wolf 4:45–5:15 p.m. Dusty Rhodes and the River Band 5:25–6:00 p.m. Butch Walker

Sunday, January 20 Wednesday, January 23 2:30–3:00 p.m. tBA 2:30–3:00 p.m. Quincy Coleman 3:10–3:40 p.m. Ben’s Brother 3:10–3:40 p.m. adam Levy 3:50–4:20 p.m. motion City 3:50–4:20 p.m. Butch Walker Soundtrack 4:30–5:15 p.m. tim Finn 4:30–5:00 p.m. metric

72 The Star Bar 268 Main St. 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. January 18–January 26 Open to all Festival credential holders (must be 21 or older)

Thursday, January 24 2:30–3:00 p.m. tBA 3:10–3:40 p.m. adam Levy 3:50–4:20 p.m. tBA 4:30–5:15 p.m. tim Finn 5:25–6:15 p.m. tBA

Friday, January 25 Music on Main 2:30–3:00 p.m. everest Thursday, January 24 3:10–3:40 p.m. missy Higgins 6:00 to 9:30 p.m. 3:50–4:50 p.m. Largo’s Watkins Lower Main St. (outdoor event), Park City family Hour Free and open to everyone 5:00–5:45 p.m. tBA The Sundance Film Festival is proud to present an evening of celebration, music, and art for filmmakers and Festival patrons. Join us for one night only as we transform historic Lower Main Street into a block party. Enjoy the diverse sounds of our selected musicians as they perform live on the street. We hope to see you there! Saturday, January 26 2:30–3:00 p.m. meiko Performances by Gold Streets, Ha Ha Tonka, Meridian West 3:10–3:40 p.m. will Dailey DJ: TBA 3:50–4:20 p.m. Brett Dennen Special art performance by Graffiti Research Lab: L.A.S.E.R Tag 4:30–5:00 p.m. Johnny Lloyd Rollins and the All Nighters Presented by Adobe Systems Incorporated, Entertainment Weekly, HP, 5:10–5:40 p.m. roan and Volkswagen of America, Inc.

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Salt Lake City Festival Café Sundance Resort Film Music Events Beehive Tea Room North Fork, Sundance House at The Kimball Art Center 12 West Broadway (300 South) 638 Park Ave. (between Main St. and Nestled at the base of 12,000-foot Mt. Heber Ave.), Park City Friday, January 18 and Timpanogos, Sundance is a 5,000-acre Saturday, January 19 destination resort, recently ranked second A Celebration of Music in Film Noon to 11:00 p.m. in the country by a Conde Nast Traveler’s readers poll. Sundance is dedicated to Sunday, January 20; 8:00 p.m. Sunday, January 20–Saturday, January 26 maintaining the balance of art, nature, and Open to all Festival credential holders. Noon to 10:00 p.m. community. Created by Robert Redford, Come join us for a special evening to Sundance is a haven for discovery and celebrate music from composers and inspiration that offers diverse mountain- Designed by a former set dresser in film and performers highlighted in this year’s films. television, the Beehive Tea Room offers a recreation experiences year round. Ski, casual, vintage atmosphere for festivalgoers snowboard, or enjoy cross-country skiing in The Everyothers (The Guitar) to relax with a wide menu of comfort foods winter. Bike and hike during summer amid This Brooklyn-based quartet bring their and warm beverages. The café also features breathtaking scenery. Award-winning dining, soulful rock ‘n’ roll sound to the Festival. live music nightly, making it a perfect place a Native American–inspired spa, and an Michel Gondry, and Jean-Michel Bernard to continue your conversations after a film. Art Shack that features classes in painting, (Be Kind Rewind), and friends pottery, and jewelry making make Sundance This group brings to life the songs of jazz the perfect mountain getaway. Friday, January 18 legend Fats Waller. Not to be missed. Rauber-Prinz Trio (funky Parisian café jazz) Patti Smith (Patti Smith: Dream of Life) Catch live music every night of the Festival Saturday, January 19 Icon, poet, performer, wordsmith: magic. at the Owl Bar, featuring these artists: Red Rock Hot Club (French Gypsy jazz)

Sunday, January 20 Friday, January 18 Roundtable Discussion: Music and Red Rock Hot Club 2 1/2 White Guys (reggae/ska) Film, the Creative Process Produced by BMI Monday, January 21 Saturday, January 19 Rauber-Prinz Trio Fat Paw (rock) Wednesday, January 23; 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, January 22 Sunday, January 20 Open to all festival credential holders and the Bob Moss (a true Utah original folknik) Red Line (jazz) general public as space permits. Wednesday, January 23 Monday, January 21 What goes into creating a successful film Jo’mo’ka (Hungarian folk/Gypsy/eclectic) Rob Binnion (jazz) score? What makes for an effective director/ composer relationship? There are answers Thursday, January 24 Tuesday, January 22 to these questions and more in this inspired TBA Joy, Eric, Fred, and Tony roundtable discussion. Panelists include Friday, January 25 (contemporary covers) composers George S. Clinton, Christopher TBA Wednesday, January 23 Young, Mark Mothersbaugh, John Frizzell, Saturday, January 26 Slaymaker Group (Celtic fusion) BT, Peter Golub, Mervyn Warren, and TBA Thursday, January 24 directors Amy Redford (The Guitar) and Legendary Porch Pounders (blues) Patrick Creadon (I.O.U.S.A.). Moderated by Doreen Ringer Ross, vice president of film Supported by the Salt Lake Convention Friday, January 25 and TV relations at BMI. & Visitors Bureau. Carlos Cornea (reggae)

Saturday, January 26 Music Showcase: BMI Snowball Matt Harding (folk rock) Produced by BMI Sunday, January 27 Wednesday, January 23; 6:00 p.m. Harry Lee (blues) Open to all festival credential holders.

For more information, including driving BMI invites you to an intimate evening of directions, visit www.sundance.org/festival inspired performances. Please join us for a great night of music, mingling, and spirits. and appetizers will be served... so please arrive early and stay to enjoy performances by DeVotchka and other special guests.

74 Sponsor Venues Please visit Films and Events at www.sundance.org in January 2008 for complete details and locations of all Sponsor Venues.

Turning Leaf Vineyards Entertainment Weekly HP The Leaf Lounge Entertainment Weekly Café HP Broadcast Studio 751 Main St. Sundance House at The Kimball Art Center Sundance House at The Kimball Art Center January 18–26 January 18–26 January 17–26 3:00 to 9:00 p.m. 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. HP is providing a television production set

The Leaf Lounge is a unique place to enjoy Hungry? At the full-service EW Café, you’ll and interview lounge at the 2008 Sundance complimentary Turning Leaf Vineyard wines find soups, panini, and beverages. Stay warm Film Festival. The HP Broadcast Studio while comparing notes on films, catching while you check your e-mail or flip through will include comfortable, casual seating up with friends, or listening to live musical the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly. and be configured with the latest in HD performances by special guest artists. cameras and equipment to conduct turnkey Open to all Festival credential holders and the interviews at the Festival. general public as space permits. Open to the general public, 21 and older, as space permits. Open to credentialed media (by appointment) and Festival patrons during other times as space permits.

Stella Artois Ray-Ban ZonePerfect® Nutrition Bars Stella Artois Cutting Room Ray-Ban Rock Bar The ZonePerfect Bar Sundance House at The Kimball Art Center 427 Main St. Where Music Meets Film: Live from the (lower-level patio) January 17–21 ZonePerfect Bar January 18–26 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day 427 Main St. 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. each evening January 24–26

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during happy hour with Stella Artois, Belgian Ray-Ban Rock Bar to beat the cold during The ZonePerfect Bar is a three-night music frites, and great music. the day and come back at night to hear the television production taped live, featuring hottest live music. Guaranteed rock ‘n’ roll acoustic performances by 12 headline and Open to Festival credential holders, 21 and older, good times! emerging artists with unique connections as space permits. to film. Open to the general public, 21 and older, as space permits. Open to filmmakers and invited guests, 21 and older, as space permits.

Delta Air Lines Microsoft Corporation SKY360 by Delta: Microsoft HD DVD House Park City with WireImage 301 Main St. January 18–26 Portrait Studio 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. each day 449 Main St. January 17 and 26 Visit the Microsoft HD DVD house to see 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. how HD DVD is transforming the way we watch and make movies. See for yourself the Sky360 by Delta is a hub of relaxation full capability of high-definition video and featuring an array of Delta offerings, audio, and the advanced viewing features including all-leather airline seats, the and interactive capabilities of the latest HD industry’s leading in-flight entertainment DVD players.

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Open to credentialed filmmakers, press, and Open to the general public, as space permits, industry from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. For a complete on January 17 and 26 only. schedule, visit www.thisishddvd.com/sundance.

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Festival Ticketing How to Get Day-of-Show Tickets Wait-list rules for the 2008 Sundance Film Restrictions Festival are as follows: • CASH ONLY Every morning beginning on January 18, day-of- • Saving places in line is NOT permitted show tickets will be released at 8:00 a.m. at the Arrive at the theatre of your screening choice Park City and Salt Lake City Main Box Offices. two hours before the scheduled time, except Wait-list ticket sales begin no sooner than 30 Tickets for each theatre’s first screening of the day for each theatre’s first screening of the day, minutes prior to the screening. If no space is are released at 8:00 a.m. on the day before. Day-of- when you may arrive one hour before the available, ticketed wait-list patrons receive a full show tickets must be purchased in person; they are scheduled time. refund. A wait-list number does not guarantee not available by phone or online. • Receive a wait-list number (one per person). tickets are available for purchase. All timetables for wait-list tickets are subject to change at the Return no later than 30 minutes before the discretion of the theatre manager. How to Get Wait-List Tickets scheduled screening time. • Line up according to number. Every year thousands of festivalgoers see • Purchase available tickets, which are sold to popular films without advance tickets. the line by number.

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Park City Box Office Gateway Center, 136 Heber Ave. January 12 Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (*Best of Fest/Individual ticket pickup) January 13 Sunday Noon to 5:00 p.m. (*Best of Fest/Individual ticket pickup) January 14–16 Monday–Wednesday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (Ticket sales begin) January 17–26 Thursday–Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. (Festival ticket sales) January 27 Sunday 8:00 a.m. to noon (Festival ticket sales)

Salt Lake City Box Office trolley Square (second floor), 600 South 700 East January 12 Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (*Best of Fest/Individual ticket pickup) January 13 Sunday Noon to 5:00 p.m. (*Best of Fest/Individual ticket pickup) January 14–16 Monday–Wednesday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (Ticket sales begin) January 17–26 Thursday–Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. (Festival ticket sales) January 27 Sunday 8:00 a.m. to noon (Festival ticket sales)

Sundance Resort Box Office north Fork, Provo Canyon January 12 Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (*Best of Fest/Individual ticket pickup) January 13 Sunday Noon to 5:00 p.m. (*Best of Fest/Individual ticket pickup) January 14–16 Monday–Wednesday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (Ticket sales begin) January 17–26 Thursday–Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (Festival ticket sales) January 27 Sunday 9:00 a.m. to noon (Festival ticket sales)

Ogden Box Office 2415 Washington Blvd. January 12 Saturday Noon to 5:30p.m. (*Best of Fest/Individual ticket pickup) January 14–16 Monday–Wednesday Noon to 5:30p.m. (Ticket sales begin) January 17–19 Thursday–Saturday Noon to 5:30p.m. (Festival ticket sales) January 21–26 Monday–Saturday Noon to 5:30p.m. (Festival ticket sales)

*For locals only.

76 Ticket Prices Exchanges Customer Service Individual tickets: $15.00 There are no refunds, but you may exchange your (435) 776-7878 or [email protected] Wait-list tickets: $10.00 tickets up to two hours before the screening time by Handling fee: $1 per ticket (all online/phone orders) visiting any Main Box Office during regular business September 12–January 16, Monday–Friday Processing fee: $10.00 (all online/phone orders) hours. A fee of $2.00 per ticket applies. Theatre box 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Phone order fee: $10.00 offices cannot exchange tickets. January 17–26 Optional express delivery: $25.00 (must be 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. requested at the time of purchase) January 27 Pass and Package Office 8:00 a.m. to noon Gateway Center, 136 Heber Ave. January 16, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm This is for information only; there are no sales. January 17–26, 8:00 am to 7:00 pm January 27, 8:00 am to noon

Festival Theatres KIMBALL JUNCTION THEATRE REGULATIONS (45-minute bus ride from Park City) All patrons—whether credentialed or ticketed—must adhere to the following REDSTONE cinemas park city guidelines posted at each theatre: eccles THEATRE 6030 North Market St., Suite 120 Cinema 1: 185 seats 1750 Kearns Blvd. 1. To guarantee admittance, ticket and (1270 seats) eligible pass holders must be in their seats salt lake city 15 minutes prior to the film’s scheduled Egyptian Theatre (45-minute drive from Park City) start time. 328 Main St. broadway centre cinemas 2. The use of cameras or other recording (266 seats) 111 East Broadway (300 South) equipment is strictly prohibited during the screening. Broadway IV: 211 seats Holiday village cinemas 3. Filmgoers should remember to take all 1776 Park Ave. Broadway V: 238 seats personal belongings and litter with them Holiday II: 156 seats Broadway VI: 274 seats as they exit. Any items left behind may be Holiday III: 156 seats rose wagner performing arts center disposed of. Holiday IV: 164 seats 138 West Broadway 4. The Sundance Film Festival reserves the right to search the personal belongings of (485 seats) library center theatre any patron inside or around the premises of 1225 Park Ave. tower theatre the theatre. 876 East 900 South 5. By entering the theatre, patrons consent (448 seats) to be photographed/filmed and grant the (342 seats) prospector sqUARE theatre Sundance Institute, its successors, assigned parties, carrier stations, network station(s), 2200 Sidewinder Rd. sundance resort sponsor(s), advertising agents, and their (332 seats) (60-minute drive from Park City) affiliated entities the right to record and use sundance institute screening room their likeness, voice, and name worldwide racquet club theatre in perpetuity for any purpose whatsoever. 1200 Little Kate Rd. North Fork, Provo Canyon In addition, they release the above parties (164 seats) (602 seats) from any and all liability for loss or damage to person or property while they are at or yarrow hotel theatres ogden around the theatre. 1800 Park Ave. (65-minute drive from Park City) 6. All cell phones inside theatre auditoriums Theatre 1: 250 seats must be turned off prior to the introduction peery’s egyptian theater Theatre 2: 80 seats of the film. 2415 Washington Blvd. 7. All filmgoers agree to comply with all Press and Industry screenings only. (800 seats) published and stated rules and regulations.

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Festival Venues Festival

THE TEMPORARY MUSEUM Merchandise Stores park city All stores are open from OF PERMANENT CHANGE Filmmaker Lodge January 17 to January 27 Downtown Salt Lake City Elks Building, 550 Main St., (second floor) Thursday, January 17– Friday, January 18–Saturday, January 26 Sunday, January 27 park city 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The Temporary Museum of Permanent Festival Store At the Music CafÉ Change reinvents the concept of museums Gateway Center Star Bar, 268 Main St., Park City by creating an always-changing, always 136 Heber Ave. Friday, January 18–Saturday, January 26 open museum without walls. In the 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. museum’s “Broadway Wing,” Festivalgoers Sundance House at can experience art installations and help Main Street Store at the The Kimball Art Center to transform downtown Salt Lake City into Talisker Gallery 638 Park Ave. distinct places of visual interest. More info 515 Main St. (corner of Main St. and Heber Ave.) at www.museumofchange.org. 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Friday, January 18–Saturday, January 26 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. F estival Offices Eccles Theatre Store (main lobby) New Frontier on Main in Park City 1750 Kearns Blvd. 333 Main St. (lower level) 10:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Festival Headquarters Friday, January 18–Friday January 25 Noon to 8:00 p.m. Park City Marriott Hotel Headquarters Store Saturday, January 26 1895 Sidewinder Dr. (At the Park City Marriott, Uinta Room) Noon to 3:00 p.m. Thursday, January 17– 1895 Sidewinder Dr. Saturday, January 26 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. salt lake city 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (45-minute drive from Park City) Sunday, January 27 Salt Lake City Festival CafÉ 8:00 a.m. to noon Beehive Tea Room Sundance Film Festival 12 West Broadway (300 South) Industry Office (SIO) AND Press Friday, January 18– ADA ACCESSIBILITY Conference Pavilion Saturday, January 19 Yarrow Hotel, 1800 Park Ave. Sundance Institute works to make each Noon to 11:00 p.m. January 17–26, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. of its venues physically accessible for Sunday, January 20– Closed January 27 all festivalgoers. All Festival venues Saturday, January 26 and theatres are ADA accessible. Noon to 10:00 p.m. The Filmmaker Lodge, housed in the historic Elks Building, now has a Stair-Trac on site that meets ADA requirements. 24-hour CHACHA notice to use this service. ChaCha is the official text-answers service for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Starting January 3, festivalgoers can sign up at www.sundance.org/festival to receive daily Festival For reservations or more information, updates. Also, if you have a question about wait lists, screenings, or area restaurants and contact Sundance Institute at need a quick, accurate answer, text ChaCha at 242242. Regular text-message rates apply. (435) 658-3456.

78 Festival Merchandise Stores Festival Tips for Being Green All stores are open from Sundance Institute continually seeks ways to reduce the Using Less January 17 to January 27 environmental impact of all its activities. Here are a few Hanging on to just one copy of the Film Guide for the simple things you can do to support us in our efforts to whole Festival, opting out of daily linen and towel changes make the 2008 Sundance Film Festival a little greener. at your hotel, and using fewer paper napkins with the meals you grab on the go are just a few of the ways you Recycling can create fewer disposables and expend less energy while With more recycling bins at all of our theatres and venues, on the ground in Park City. and throughout Park City this year, you can easily recycle your aluminum, plastic, glass, and paper. Buying Green Bags made of recycled banners from Festivals past, Getting Around reusable water bottles, and organic cotton T-shirts are A great alternative to driving, a system of walking paths some of the green items you can find in our merchandise throughout Park City takes you between Festival venues so stores. With your purchase, you’ll receive a reusable tote you can save the precious time and energy spent fighting bag to carry your purchases through the Festival and traffic. When snow or freezing temperatures hit, hop on a throughout the year. The tote bags are underwritten by free Festival shuttle bus. Entertainment Weekly.

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DESTINATION: Sundance Film Festival One-stop shopping for travel to the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, including air, lodging, and ground transportation. Why use a travel agent who’s never been to Park City or the Film Festival? Take advantage of local experts who can help make your stay memorable! Visit destinationsff.com or call toll free (877) SFF -STAY (877-733-7829). International callers should phone (435) 940-7096.

Official Transportation Providers The Canyons Resort (866) 584-4480 Affiliated Resort Transportation www.thecanyons.com/sundance.com (866) 374-8824 www.esgutah.com/ART David Holland’s Resort Lodging and Conference Services (888) PARK-CITY or (435) 655-3315 Delta Air Lines www.davidhollands.com (800) 221-1212 www.delta.com Identity Properties (800) 245-6417 or (435) 649-5100 Express Shuttle www.pclodge.com (800) 397-0773 (801) 596-1600 (in Salt Lake City) ResortQuest Park City (435) 658-3444 (in Park City) (800) 570-1276 or (435) 649-6606 www.xpressshuttleutah.com www.resortquest.com

Thrifty Car Rental Hotel Monaco Salt Lake City (800) THRIFTY or (801) 595-5310 (Approximately 45 minutes from Park City) www.thrifty.com (801) 595-0000 www.monaco-saltlakecity.com

Official Provider Properties Salt Lake Marriott City Center (Approximately 45 minutes from Park City) 2008 Sundance Film Festival Headquarters (800) or (801) 961-8700 Park City Marriott www.marriott.com/SLCCC (800) 234-9003 www.marriotthotels.com/slcpc Sundance Resort (Approximately 60 minutes from Park City) 2008 Sundance Film Festival Industry Office (800) 892-1600 or (801) 225-4107 The Yarrow Resort Hotel & Conference Center www.sundanceresort.com (800) 927-7694 or (435) 649-7000 www.yarrowresort.com

Deer Valley Lodging (800) 453-3833 or (435) 649-4040 www.deervalleylodging.com

All Seasons Resort Lodging (888) 754-3279 or (435) 949-2645 www.allseasonsresortlodging.com

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Holiday Holiday Holiday Library Prospector Racquet Eccles Egyptian Village Village Village Center Square Club Redstone Theatre Theatre Cinema II Cinema III Cinema IV Theatre Theatre Theatre Cinemas 1270 seats 266 seats 156 seats 156 seats 164 seats 448 seats 332 seats 602 seats 185 seats 8 am

Megane A Good Day What Just Sleep World to be Black Happened? Dealer† 9 am † Perro Come Dramatic & Sexy Premieres Dramatic The Perro page 31 Shorts Spectrum page 41 Competition Wackness World 114 min. Program I† page 48 107 min. page 20 Dramatic Dramatic 8:30 am page 54 92 min. 8:30 am 90 min. 10 am Competition page 32 MEGAN202M 96 min. Up the 8:30 am WHATJ20PM 8:30 am page 21 SLPDL20RM 106 min. 9:15 am Yangtze† GDBLK20LM 110 min. 9:00 am SHONE203M World 9:15 am PERRO20EM Documentary 11 am WACKN20CM page 27 96 min. North 10:00 am † Alone in UPTHE204M Trouble the In 3-D: The Starr Four Walls† Water† Future Is Dramatic noon Now Competition Anvil! The World Documentary page 19 Sunshine True Story Documentary Stranded† Competition Panels † † page 22 page 15 Cleaning of Anvil World page 69 115 min. Dramatic Spectrum 85 min. Documentary 90 min. 11:30 am 11:15 am 1 pm Competition page 43 11:30 am page 26 11:30 am PATWO20PD NORTH20RD Yasukuni page 21 90 min. ALONE202D 113 min. TROUB20LD 102 min. World noon 12:15 pm Documentary 12:15 pm ANVIL20ED STRND203D page 27 SUNSH20CD 2 pm 123 min. 1:00 pm YASUK204D Edward II Gonzo† Red Phoebe in Sundance Documentary Spectrum Wonder- 3 pm land Otto; or, Up Collection Competition page 49 Be Kind with Dead page 53 page 12 98 min. Dramatic King of Competition Rewind People 90 min. Ping Pong 118 min. 2:30 pm page 20 Premieres Park City at 2:30 pm World 2:30 pm REDDD20PA 4 pm page 35 Midnight COTWO202A Dramatic GONZO20LA 96 min. In Prison 101 min. page 52 page 30 2:30 pm My Whole PHOEB20RA 3:15 pm 95 min. 107 min. Life† BKIND20CA 3:00 pm 3:15 pm World 5 pm OTTOO20EA KINGO203A Documentary page 25 95 min. The Order Quid Pro Shorts The † 4:00 pm † † 6 pm of Myths PRISN204A Quo Program V MysteRies Absurd- Documentary Spectrum page 56 of Competition Pittsburgh Smart istan Patti Smith: page 49 87 min. People World page 13 dream of 89 min. Dramatic 5:30 pm Competition Fear(s) of Premieres Dramatic 97 min. life SHFIV20PE 5:30 pm page 19 the dark 7 pm page 40 page 28 5:30 pm Documentary QUIDP20LE Durakovo: 95 min. New Frontier 93 min. 94 min. ORDER202E Competition Village of 5:30 pm page 60 6:00 pm page 14 † 6:15 pm Fools MYSTE20RE 88 min. SMART20CE ABSUR20EE 109 min. World 6:30 pm 8 pm 6:15 pm Documentary FEARS20DE PATTI203E page 24 90 min. Flow: For 7:00 pm Made in Shorts Pretty Bird † † Love of DURAK204E America Program III Dramatic 9 pm † MAncora† Water Spectrum page 55 Competition World Documentary American page 45 92 min. page 20 Competition † Incendiary Dramatic Teen 105 min. 8:30 pm 120 min. Perro Come page 12 The Wave Premieres page 31 Documentary 8:30 pm SHTHR20PN 8:30 pm Perro 10 pm 97 min. World page 38 107 min. Competition Dramatic MADEI20LN PRETT20RN World 8:30 pm page 11 96 min. 9:00 pm page 33 Dramatic MANCO20EN FLOWF202N 95 min. page 32 9:30 pm 101 min. INCEN20CN 9:15 pm 9:30 pm 106 min. 11 pm AMTEE203N WAVEE204N 9:30 pm PERRO20DN

Slingshot The Great Chronic † † Hip Hop Strangers Buck Town midnight Howard Adventures Documentary World Just Another Spectrum of Power† Competition Dramatic Love Story Premieres page 47 page 15 page 9, 37 Park City at page 32 World 96 min. Midnight 80 min. 88 min. Dramatic 87 min. 11:30 pm 1 am page 50 11:30 pm 11:45 pm page 30 11:30 pm CHRON20PL 96 min. SLING202L STRAN203L 90 min. BUCKH20LL midnight midnight ADVEN20EL JUSTA204L 2 am † Digital screening provided by Digital Projection International 86 SUNDAY, JANUARY 20 – Off Screen, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Sundance Resort

Ogden Sundance off screen off screen off screen slc slc slc slc slc Rose Peery’s Resort Events Events Events Broadway Broadway Broadway Tower Wagner Egyptian Screening Cinema IV Cinema V Cinema VI Theatre Center Theater Room 211 seats 238 seats 274 seats 342 seats 485 seats 800 seats 164 seats 8 am

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Are You Global 11 am Enough? Filmmaker Lodge page 70 noon 10:30 am A Complete Secrecy† History of Documentary The Artists How to My Sexual Competition † Frozen 1 pm of the New Talk to the Failures casting a River† page 14 Frontier Big Guys... World glance Dramatic 91 min. Documentary New Frontier New Frontier New Frontier Competition noon on Main on Main page 23 page 60 † page 18 SECRE20SD page 66 page 67 81 min. I.O.U.S.A. 83 min. Documentary 97 min. 2 pm 12:30 pm 12:30 pm noon 12:30 pm COMPL20BD 12:45 pm Competition CASTI20BD page 13 FROZN20GD 85 min. FILM Music Café 1:30 pm CHURCH 2:30 pm 3 pm WITH IOUSA20BD TBA † Dinner MARTIN Kicking It 3:10 pm Spectrum with the MCDONAGH President† Ben’s Brother page 44 In Bruges The Filmmaker World Lodge 98 min. Roman Premieres Drummer 4 pm 3:50 pm † Documentary page 71 3:00 pm Polanski page 8, 38 World Motion City page 24 2:30 pm Soundtrack KICKI20BA Documentary 101 min. Dramatic Competition page 29 52 min. From 4:30 pm A Good Day 3:30 pm page 14 BRUGE20GA 116 min. 3:00 pm Production Metric to be Black DINNE20SA 5 pm to Post to 75 min. & Sexy† 3:30 pm DRUMR20OA DistribU- page 72 3:45 pm Spectrum tion ROMAN20BA page 48 New Frontier 92 min. 6 pm on Main page 67 4:30 pm Seven GDBLK20BA Ballast Love Comes 4:30 pm Intellectu- Dramatic Lately † GOD BUILDS als, Part 5 Competition Trans- The Great Spectrum LIKE FRANK New Frontier An page 17 siberian Buck page 48 7 pm LLOYD page 59 American 96 min. Premieres Howard 86 min. WRIGHT 90 min. † Soldier 6:00 pm page 40 Premieres 6:00 pm New Frontier 6:00 pm Documentary BALLA20WE 111 min. page 9, 37 LOVEC20SE on Main SEVN520BE Competition Momma’s Man 6:30 pm 87 min. page 65 page 10 8 pm TRANS20GE 6:30 pm 6:30 pm A Celebra- 86 min. Spectrum page 49 BUCKH20OE tion of 6:45 pm Music in AMSOL20BE 100 min. Film 7:30 pm 9 pm Sundance MOMMA20BE House American Reversion† The Merry page 74 Son New Frontier Gentleman 8:00 pm Dramatic page 61 Savage Premieres Competition Shorts 99 min. Grace page 38 10 pm page 16 † Program IV 9:00 pm Premieres 110 min. 90 min. page 55 REVER20WN page 39 9:00 pm 9:00 pm 95 min. Bigger, 96 min. MERRY20SN AMSON20BN 9:45 pm Stronger, 9:30 pm 11 pm SHFOU20BN Faster*† SAVGR20GN Documentary Competition page 11 midnight 105 min. 10:30 pm BIGGE20BN 1 am

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2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival film festival timetable—Sunday, January 20 87 MONDAY, JANUARY 21 – Park City Screenings

Holiday Holiday Holiday Library Prospector Racquet Eccles Egyptian Village Village Village Center Square Club Redstone Theatre Theatre Cinema II Cinema III Cinema IV Theatre Theatre Theatre Cinemas 1270 seats 266 seats 156 seats 156 seats 164 seats 448 seats 332 seats 602 seats 185 seats 8 am

Derek† Be Kind Incendiary The 9 am World Rewind Premieres MysteRies Documentary Premieres page 38 of Love Comes Pittsburgh The Last Lately page 24 Young@ page 35 96 min. Word 76 min. Heart 101 min. Dramatic Spectrum 8:30 am Competition 8:30 am INCEN21PM Dramatic page 48 Spectrum 8:30 am page 19 10 am DEREK212M BKIND21LM Competition 86 min. page 45 page 19 A Complete 95 min. 9:00 am 107 min. History of 94 min. 8:30 am LOVEC21EM 9:15 am My Sexual MYSTE21RM 9:15 am YOUNG213M Failures† 11 am LASTW21CM World Documentary page 23 Quid Pro 81 min. North Fields of Download- † † noon Quo† 10:00 am Starr Fuel ing Nancy Ballast Strangers Spectrum COMPL214M Dramatic Documentary Dramatic Competition Competition Competition Dramatic World page 49 Flow: For page 19 page 11 page 18 Competition Dramatic 89 min. Love of Triage† † 115 min. 92 min. 96 min. page 17 page 32 11:30 am Water 1 pm World 11:30 am 11:30 am 11:30 am 96 min. 88 min. QUIDP212D Documentary Documentary Competition NORTH21LD FIELD21PD DOWNL21RD noon noon page 26 BALLA21CD STRAN21ED page 12 90 min. 97 min. 12:30 pm 2 pm 12:15 pm TRIAG214D FLOWF213D Anywhere, † † Adventures Nerakhoon On Com- USA of Power† Documentary edy: Are We Dramatic 3 pm Competition Laughing in Competition Just Park City at page 13 Dark Times? page 17 Henry Another Midnight Patti Smith: Panels Poole Is Love Story page 50 Dream of 99 min. 123 min. page 69 Here World 96 min. Life 2:30 pm 2:15 pm ANYWH21RA 4 pm Premieres Dramatic 2:30 pm Documentary NERAK21LA 2:30 pm puujee† PATHR21PA page 37 page 30 ADVEN212A Competition 100 min. 90 min. page 14 World Documentary 109 min. 3:15 pm 3:00 pm page 25 5 pm HENRY21CA JUSTA21EA 3:15 pm PATTI213A 110 min. 4:00 pm PUUJE214A Trouble the TBA Docu- Sugar † Water mentary Dramatic 6 pm Spotlight† Under the Documentary 5:30 pm Competition Diminished Bombs† Competition Traces of TBAAA21LE Shorts page 21 Capacity† page 15 the Trade† Program 120 min. World page 56 Kicking It† Premieres Dramatic 90 min. Documentary 5:30 pm Spectrum 7 pm page 36 page 33 5:30 pm Competition 108 min. SUGAR21RE TROUB212E Be Like 5:30 pm page 44 92 min. 98 min. page 15 † Others SHDOC21PE 98 min. 6:15 pm 6:00 pm 86 min. World DIMIN21CE UNDER21EE 6:30 pm 6:15 pm Documentary KICKI21DE 8 pm TRACE213E page 23 74 min. 7:00 pm † † Megane BELIK214E Where in Goliath Choke World the World Spectrum Dramatic 9 pm Is Osama? Riprendimi† Dramatic page 48 Competition page 31 † Spectrum page 17 World The Gonzo 84 min. The Dramatic 114 min. Greatest Documentary page 45 8:30 pm 89 min. Sunshine † 10 pm Escapist page 32 8:30 pm Silence Competition 93 min. GOLIA21PN 8:30 pm Cleaning† Premieres 98 min. MEGAN212N Documentary page 12 8:30 pm CHOKE21RN Dramatic Competition OSAMA21LN page 36 9:00 pm 118 min. Competition 105 min. RIPRE21EN page 12 9:15 pm page 21 9:30 pm 76 min. GONZO214N 102 min. 11 pm ESCAP21CN 9:15 pm 9:30 pm GREAT213N SUNSH21DN

Bottle Phoebe in Smart Shock MAncora† Wonder- People midnight land Hell Ride† Spectrum World In Prison Premieres page 47 Dramatic page 40 Park City at Dramatic my whole 110 min. page 31 life† Competition 93 min. Midnight page 20 page 52 11:30 pm 107 min. World 11:30 pm 1 am BOTTL212L Documentary 96 min. SMART21PL 95 min. 11:45 pm page 25 MANCO213L 11:30 pm midnight 95 min. PHOEB21LL HELLR21EL midnight PRISN214L 2 am † Digital screening provided by Digital Projection International 88 MONDAY, JANUARY 21 – Off Screen, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Sundance Resort

Ogden Sundance off screen off screen off screen slc slc slc slc slc Rose Peery’s Resort Events Events Events Broadway Broadway Broadway Tower Wagner Egyptian Screening Cinema IV Cinema V Cinema VI Theatre Center Theater Room 211 seats 238 seats 274 seats 342 seats 485 seats 800 seats 164 seats 8 am

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SUNDANCE WORK-IN- 11 am PROCESS Filmmaker Lodge page 70 noon 10:30 am Up the Yangtze† ALTERNA- CREATIVE World TIVE STORY- SHOOTING Documentary 1 pm TELLING TECHNIQUES page 27 New Frontier New Frontier 96 min. on Main on Main noon page 67 page 67 UPTHE21SD 2 pm 12:30 pm 12:30 pm

THE Music Café PRODUCING 3 pm CAP 2:30 pm Filmmaker TBA Sleep † Lodge 3:10 pm Dealer page 70 Jessie Baylin Dramatic Competition 2:00 pm 3:50 pm 4 pm page 20 Ben’s Brother 90 min. 4:30 pm 3:00 pm CREATIVE TBA SLPDL21SA 5 pm SHOOTING 6:00 pm TECHNIQUES Patti Smith New Frontier on Main page 72 page 67 6 pm 4:30 pm Secrecy† Slingshot Trans- † Documentary Hip Hop siberian GOD BUILDS Competition Documentary Derek† The Guitar Premieres page 14 Competition page 40 7 pm LIKE FRANK The Order World Premieres LLOYD † page 15 91 min. of Myths Documentary page 37 111 min. WRIGHT 80 min. 6:00 pm Documentary page 24 95 min. 6:00 pm New Frontier SECRE21BE 6:00 pm TRANS21SE Competition Yasukuni 76 min. 6:30 pm on Main page 13 SLING21WE page 65 World 6:30 pm GUITA21OE 8 pm 97 min. DEREK21GE 6:30 pm Documentary 6:45 pm page 27 ORDER21BE 123 min. 7:30 pm 9 pm YASUK21BE American Chronic The Great Teen† Town† Buck Documentary Spectrum What Just Howard 10 pm Competition The Wave page 47 Happened? Premieres page 11 World 96 min. Premieres pages 9, 37 95 min. Dramatic 9:00 pm page 41 87 min. 9:00 pm page 33 The Art Star CHRON21WN 107 min. 9:00 pm AMTEE21BN 101 min. and the 9:30 pm BUCKH21SN 11 pm 9:45 pm Sudanese WHATJ21GN WAVEE21BN Twins† World Documentary midnight page 23 109 min. 10:30 pm ARTST21BN 1 am

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2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival film festival timetable—Monday, January 21 89 TUESDAY, JANUARY 22 – Park City Screenings

Holiday Holiday Holiday Library Prospector Racquet Eccles Egyptian Village Village Village Center Square Club Redstone Theatre Theatre Cinema II Cinema III Cinema IV Theatre Theatre Theatre Cinemas 1270 seats 266 seats 156 seats 156 seats 164 seats 448 seats 332 seats 602 seats 185 seats 8 am

Absurd- Diminished Henry Choke† † istan Capacity Poole Is Dramatic 9 am Here Under the World Premieres Competition American Bombs† Dramatic The page 36 Premieres page 17 page 28 Son World Greatest 92 min. page 37 89 min. † Dramatic Dramatic 94 min. Silence 8:30 am 100 min. 8:30 am 10 am Competition page 33 8:30 am Documentary DIMIN22LM 8:30 am CHOKE22RM page 16 ABSUR222M Competition Eat, for HENRY22PM 98 min. This Is My 90 min. 9:00 am page 12 Body 9:15 am UNDER22EM 76 min. New Frontier AMSON22CM 11 am 9:15 am page 60 GREAT223M 115 min.

10:00 am † † Durakovo: EATFO224M Goliath I.O.U.S.A. The Last Village of Spectrum Documentary Word noon † Anywhere, MAncora† Fools page 48 Competition Dramatic † † page 13 Competition USA World World Derek 84 min. page 19 Dramatic Dramatic Documentary World 11:30 am 85 min. Competition page 31 page 24 Documentary GOLIA22LD 11:30 am 94 min. 1 pm page 17 107 min. 90 min. page 24 IOUSA22PD 11:30 am A Complete LASTW22RD 123 min. noon 11:30 am 76 min. History of noon MANCO22ED DURAK222D 12:15 pm My Sexual ANYWH22CD DEREK223D Failures† 2 pm World Documentary page 23 Man on 81 min. Bigger, On Inven- Sugar Wire Stronger, tion: The Dramatic 3 pm 1:00 pm † † COMPL224D Faster* Cinema and Competition Half-Life World Science of Sleep- Documentary Documentary page 21 New Frontier Frontier Competition Moving walking page 25 Shorts 120 min. page 61 page 11 Forward Premieres 120 min. 90 min. Program† 2:30 pm 105 min. Panels 4 pm page 39 3:00 pm 2:30 pm page 56 SUGAR22RA Traces of 2:30 pm page 69 101 min. HALFL22EA MANON222A † 91 min. the Trade BIGGE22LA 2:30 pm 3:15 pm 3:15 pm Documentary PAFOU22PA SLPWK22CA SHFRO223A Competition 5 pm page 15 86 min. Nerakhoon† 4:00 pm August Shorts Download- TRACE224A † 6 pm Documentary Spectrum Program II ing Nancy The Wind Competition page 46 page 55 Dramatic Death in and the page 13 Animation 88 min. 98 min. Competition † † page 18 Love Water 99 min. Spotlight 5:30 pm 5:30 pm 96 min. Alone in Premieres World 5:30 pm Shorts AUGUS22LE SHTWO22PE Four Walls† 7 pm page 36 Dramatic NERAK222E Program 5:30 pm The Women World page 33 page 57 DOWNL22RE 100 min. of Brukman† Documentary 100 min. 105 min. 6:15 pm World page 22 DEATH22CE 6:00 pm 6:15 pm Documentary 85 min. WINDA22EE ANIMA223E 8 pm page 27 6:30 pm 100 min. ALONE22DE 7:00 pm Shorts WOMEN224E The Black Baghead North † † 9 pm Program III List Spectrum Starr Mermaid page 55 Reversion† Spectrum page 46 Dramatic Competition World 92 min. New Frontier page 44 84 min. page 19 The Deal Dramatic 8:30 pm page 61 Fields of 87 min. 8:30 pm Be Kind † 115 min. 10 pm Premieres page 31 SHTHR222N 99 min. Fuel 8:30 pm BAGHE22PN Rewind page 35 115 min. 9:00 pm Documentary BLCKL22LN 8:30 pm Premieres NORTH22RN 98 min. 9:00 pm REVER223N Competition page 35 9:30 pm MERMA22EN page 11 101 min. DEALL22CN 92 min. 9:30 pm 11 pm 9:30 pm BKIND22DN FIELD224N

Made in Pretty Bird The † midnight America Kicking It† Dramatic Escapist Donkey Spectrum Spectrum Riprendimi† Competition Premieres page 45 page 20 page 36 Punch page 44 World Park City at 105 min. 98 min. Dramatic 120 min. 105 min. Midnight 11:30 pm 11:45 pm page 32 11:30 pm 11:30 pm 1 am page 51 MADEI222L KICKI223L 98 min. PRETT22LL ESCAP22PL 90 min. midnight midnight RIPRE224L DONKE22EL 2 am † Digital screening provided by Digital Projection International 90 TUESDAY, JANUARY 22 – Off Screen, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Sundance Resort

Ogden Sundance off screen off screen off screen slc slc slc slc slc Rose Peery’s Resort Events Events Events Broadway Broadway Broadway Tower Wagner Egyptian Screening Cinema IV Cinema V Cinema VI Theatre Center Theater Room 211 seats 238 seats 274 seats 342 seats 485 seats 800 seats 164 seats 8 am

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Meet the Film Funds 11 am and Com- missioning Editors Filmmaker noon Lodge page 70 Patti Smith: 10:30 am Dream of CREATIVE MEET Life SHOOTING GRAFFITI Documentary 1 pm TECHNIQUES RESEARCH Competition New Frontier LAB page 14 on Main New Frontier 109 min. page 67 on Main noon 2 pm 12:30 pm page 63 PATTI22SD BLACK IN 12:30 pm AMERICA Filmmaker Music Café Lodge 3 pm page 70 2:30 pm Charlotte Ballast 2:00 pm Sometimes Dramatic 3:10 pm Competition 4 pm Jessie Baylin page 17 3:50 pm 96 min. Peter and 3:00 pm BALLA22SA CREATIVE Gordon 5 pm SHOOTING 4:45 pm TECHNIQUES Dusty Rhodes New Frontier and the River on Main Band page 67 5:25 pm 6 pm 4:30 pm Butch Walker In Prison Absurd- Smart My Whole istan People page 72 † Life World Phoebe in King of Premieres World † Dramatic Wonder- Ping Pong page 40 7 pm Documentary Triage page 28 land World 93 min. page 25 World Documentary 94 min. Dramatic Dramatic 6:00 pm 95 min. 6:00 pm Competition page 30 SMART22SE page 26 Trouble the 6:00 pm † ABSUR22WE page 20 107 min. 90 min. Water 8 pm PRISN22BE 96 min. 6:30 pm 6:45 pm Documentary 6:30 pm KINGO22OE TRIAG22BE Competition page 15 PHOEB22GE 90 min. 9 pm 7:30 pm TERRA NOVA THE TROUB22BE Diary of Incendiary New Frontier Mysteries the Dead Premieres on Main of Park City at The Merry page 38 Pittsburgh 10 pm page 65 Flow: For Midnight Gentleman 96 min. 9:00 pm Dramatic Love of page 51 Premieres Competition 9:00 pm Water† 95 min. page 38 page 19 INCEN22SN Documentary 9:00 pm 110 min. 95 min. Otto; or, Up Competition with Dead DIARY22WN 9:30 pm 9:00 pm 11 pm page 12 People MERRY22GN MYSTE22BN 97 min. Park City at 9:45 pm Midnight FLOWF22BN page 52 midnight 95 min. 10:30 pm OTTOO22BN 1 am

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2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival film festival timetable—Tuesday, January 22 91 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23 – Park City Screenings

Holiday Holiday Holiday Library Prospector Racquet Eccles Egyptian Village Village Village Center Square Club Redstone Theatre Theatre Cinema II Cinema III Cinema IV Theatre Theatre Theatre Cinemas 1270 seats 266 seats 156 seats 156 seats 164 seats 448 seats 332 seats 602 seats 185 seats 8 am

American Download- The Deal Sugar † 9 am Teen ing Nancy Premieres Dramatic The Yellow Documentary Dramatic page 35 Competition Pretty Bird Handker- Competition The Competition 98 min. page 21 page 11 page 18 Dramatic chief Greatest 8:30 am 120 min. † Competition Premieres 95 min. Silence 96 min. DEALL23PM 8:30 am 10 am page 20 page 42 8:30 am Documentary 8:30 am SUGAR23RM AMTEE232M Competition The Wind DOWNL23LM 120 min. 102 min. and the 9:15 am 9:00 am page 12 Water PRETT23CM YELLO23EM 76 min. World 11 am 9:15 am Dramatic GREAT233M page 33 100 min. Be Like Death in Roman The 10:00 am † † Others† WINDA234M Love Polanski Mysteries noon of Alone in World Premieres Documentary Pittsburgh Sleep Four Walls† Documentary Bigger, page 36 Competition † Dramatic Dealer World page 23 Stronger, 100 min. page 14 † Competition Dramatic Documentary 74 min. Faster* 75 min. 11:30 am page 19 1 pm Competition page 22 11:30 am Documentary DEATH23LD 11:30 am Riprendimi† 95 min. page 20 85 min. BELIK232D Competition ROMAN23PD page 11 World 11:30 am 90 min. noon 105 min. Dramatic MYSTE23RD 12:15 pm ALONE23ED page 32 2 pm SLPDL23CD 12:15 pm BIGGE233D 98 min. 1:00 pm RIPRE234D Eat, for August On The This Is My Spectrum Cinematic Wackness 3 pm Imagina- Absurd- Body page 46 Dramatic tion Competition A Raisin in istan New Frontier An 88 min. † Panels page 21 the Sun World page 60 American 2:30 pm Premieres Dramatic 115 min. Soldier† AUGUS23LA page 69 110 min. 4 pm page 39 page 28 2:30 pm Documentary 2:30 pm 2:30 pm Recycle WACKN23RA 131 min. 94 min. EATFO232A Competition PAFIV23PA page 10 World 3:15 pm 3:00 pm Documentary ABSUR23EA 86 min. RAISN23CA page 26 5 pm 3:15 pm AMSOL233A 93 min. 4:00 pm RECYC234A Dinner Blind Date The Black Frozen † with the Spectrum List River 6 pm President† Captain page 47 Spectrum Dramatic Assas- Abu Raed World Shorts 84 min. page 44 Competition Documentary sination † page 18 World Program I Momma’s 5:30 pm 87 min. of a High page 24 97 min. Just Dramatic page 54 Man BLIND23LE 5:30 pm Another 7 pm School page 29 52 min. BLCKL23PE 5:30 pm President 96 min. Spectrum Love Story 110 min. 5:30 pm FROZN23RE Premieres 6:15 pm page 49 World 6:00 pm DINNE232E Dramatic page 34 SHONE233E 100 min. CAPTA23EE page 30 90 min. 6:30 pm 8 pm MOMMA234E 90 min. 6:15 pm 6:30 pm ASSAS23CE JUSTA23DE The Young@ The Wave Good Dick† † 9 pm Linguists Heart World Dramatic I Always Spectrum Spectrum Dramatic Competition Wanted page 44 Baghead page 45 page 33 page 18 to Be a The Visitor 82 min. Spectrum Slingshot 107 min. 101 min. 85 min. Man on Gangster 10 pm Premieres 8:30 pm page 46 Hip Hop† 8:30 pm 8:30 pm 8:30 pm Wire World LINGU232N 84 min. YOUNG23LN WAVEE23PN GOODD23RN World page 41 Dramatic Documentary Competition Documentary 108 min. page 30 9:15 pm BAGHE233N page 15 page 25 9:30 pm 113 min. VISIT23CN 80 min. 90 min. 11 pm 9:00 pm 9:30 pm GANGS23EN 9:30 pm SLING234N MANON23DN

Trouble the American Sleep- † midnight Water The Art Star Son walking Funny Documentary and the Where in Dramatic Premieres Games Competition Sudanese the World Competition page 39 page 15 Twins† page 16 Park City at Is Osama? 101 min. 90 min. World 90 min. Midnight Documentary Spectrum 11:30 pm 1 am page 51 11:30 pm page 23 page 45 11:30 pm SLPWK23PL TROUB232L AMSON23LL 107 min. 109 min. 93 min. 11:45 pm midnight midnight FUNNY23EL ARTST233L 2 am OSAMA234L † Digital screening provided by Digital Projection International 92 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23 – Off Screen, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Sundance Resort

Ogden Sundance off screen off screen off screen slc slc slc slc slc Rose Peery’s Resort Events Events Events Broadway Broadway Broadway Tower Wagner Egyptian Screening Cinema IV Cinema V Cinema VI Theatre Center Theater Room 211 seats 238 seats 274 seats 342 seats 485 seats 800 seats 164 seats 8 am

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11 am Music and Film, the Creative Process noon Sundance House Nerakhoon† page 74 Documentary Going It HOW TO 11:00 am Competition 1 pm Alone: TALK TO THE page 13 New Frontier BIG GUYS... 99 min. on Main New Frontier noon page 67 on Main NERAK23SD 12:30 pm page 67 2 pm 12:30 pm

THE LATIN Music Café RESURGENCE 3 pm Filmmaker 2:30 pm Lodge Quincy Strangers page 70 Coleman World 2:00 pm 3:10 pm Dramatic 4 pm Adam Levy page 32 3:50 pm 88 min. Butch Walker 3:00 pm STRAN23SA 4:30 pm 5 pm Tim Finn

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2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival film festival timetable—Wednesday, January 23 93 THURSDAY, JANUARY 24 – Park City Screenings

Holiday Holiday Holiday Library Prospector Racquet Eccles Egyptian Village Village Village Center Square Club Redstone Theatre Theatre Cinema II Cinema III Cinema IV Theatre Theatre Theatre Cinemas 1270 seats 266 seats 156 seats 156 seats 164 seats 448 seats 332 seats 602 seats 185 seats 8 am

Be Like The The Visitor The Last 9 am Others† Wackness Premieres Word Mermaid World Dramatic page 41 Dramatic Competition Competition Phoebe in Documentary Captain 108 min. World page 23 page 21 page 19 Wonder- Dramatic Abu Raed 8:30 am land page 31 74 min. World 110 min. VISIT24PM 94 min. 10 am Dramatic 115 min. 8:30 am Dramatic 8:30 am 8:30 am Competition BELIK242M page 29 The Order WACKN24LM LASTW24RM 9:00 am of Myths† page 20 MERMA24EM 110 min. 96 min. Documentary 9:15 am Competition 11 am 9:15 am CAPTA243M page 13 PHOEB24CM 97 min. 10:00 am Baghead Traces of Choke† Recycle ORDER244M the Trade† World Spectrum Dramatic noon Competition North A Raisin in Documentary page 46 Documentary Competition Starr† the Sun† page 26 Yasukuni 84 min. page 17 page 15 Dramatic Premieres 93 min. World 11:30 am 89 min. Competition page 39 11:30 am Documentary BAGHE24LD 86 min. 11:30 am 1 pm CHOKE24RD page 19 131 min. RECYC242D page 27 11:30 am Under the TRACE24PD 115 min. noon 123 min. Bombs† noon RAISN24ED 12:15 pm World NORTH24CD YASUK243D Dramatic 2 pm page 33 98 min.

† 1:00 pm † Gonzo UNDER244D Flow: For Secrecy Sleep † Documentary Love of Documentary Dealer 3 pm Water† The Wind Competition Competition Dramatic Documentary page 14 Competition The and the page 12 Fields of Competition page 20 Mysteries Water 118 min. Fuel† 91 min. page 12 90 min. of World 2:30 pm Documentary 2:30 pm 4 pm Pittsburgh Dramatic GONZO242A Competition 97 min. SECRE24PA 2:30 pm Triage† Dramatic page 33 page 11 2:30 pm SLPDL24RA World FLOWF24LA Competition 100 min. 92 min. page 19 Documentary 3:00 pm 3:15 pm page 26 5 pm 95 min. WINDA24EA FIELD243A 3:15 pm 90 min. MYSTE24CA 4:00 pm TRIAG244A casting a Red Birds of American † 6 pm glance Spectrum America Son Blue New Frontier page 49 Spectrum Dramatic The Year of Eyelids page 60 Man on 98 min. page 46 Competition Getting to 83 min. Wire 89 min. page 16 World Shorts 5:30 pm Where in Know Us Dramatic 90 min. 5:30 pm World Program V† REDDD24LE 5:30 pm the World 7 pm Premieres page 29 CASTI242E Documentary BIRDS24PE 5:30 pm page 56 Is Osama? page 42 109 min. page 25 AMSON24RE 87 min. Spectrum 90 min. 6:00 pm 90 min. page 45 BLUEE24EE 6:30 pm 6:15 pm 6:15 pm SHFIV244E 93 min. YEAR024CE MANON243E 8 pm 6:30 pm OSAMA24DE

puujee† Love Comes Chronic Ballast † 9 pm World Lately Town Dramatic The Documentary Spectrum Spectrum Competition Drummer page 25 Dinner page 48 page 47 page 17 Towelhead World 110 min. with the Nerakhoon† 86 min. 96 min. 96 min. Funny President† Premieres Dramatic 8:30 pm Documentary 8:30 pm 8:30 pm 8:30 pm Games 10 pm PUUJE242N BALLA24RN page 40 page 29 World Competition LOVEC24LN CHRON24PN Park City at Documentary Midnight 115 min. 116 min. page 13 page 24 page 51 9:30 pm 9:00 pm 99 min. DRUMR24EN 52 min. TOWEL24CN 9:30 pm 107 min. 11 pm 9:15 pm NERAK244N 9:30 pm DINNE243N FUNNY24DN

I Always Sunshine Assas- † Wanted The Women Cleaning sination midnight † to Be a of Brukman † Dramatic of a High Time Crimes Gangster I.O.U.S.A. School World Competition Park City at World Documentary page 21 President Midnight Documentary Competition Dramatic page 27 102 min. Premieres page 52 page 30 page 13 1 am 100 min. 11:30 pm page 34 101 min. 113 min. 85 min. 11:45 pm SUNSH24LL 90 min. midnight 11:30 pm midnight 11:30 pm TIMEC24EL WOMEN243L IOUSA244L GANGS242L ASSAS24PL 2 am † Digital screening provided by Digital Projection International 94 THURSDAY, JANUARY 24 – Off Screen, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Sundance Resort

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Stories That Must 11 am Be Told Filmmaker Lodge page 70 noon 10:30 am American Teen† SOCIAL Documentary 1 pm CYBORG Competition New Frontier page 11 on Main 95 min. page 67 noon AMTEE24SD 2 pm 12:30 pm Produc- ing Native Cinema Music Café Filmmaker 2:30 pm 3 pm Lodge page 70 TBA Sugar 2:00 pm 3:10 pm Dramatic Adam Levy Competition page 21 4 pm 3:50 pm TBA 120 min. 3:00 pm 4:30 pm SUGAR24SA Imagining Tim Finn 5 pm a Market 5:25 pm for Short TBA Films New Frontier page 73 on Main 6 pm page 67 4:30 pm MUSIC ON The Download- Recycle MAIN Greatest ing Nancy World † Lower Silence Dramatic Henry Be Kind Documentary Main St. Documentary The Black Competition Poole Is Rewind page 26 7 pm Competition page 73 List page 18 Here Premieres 93 min. 6:00 pm page 12 Spectrum 96 min. Premieres page 35 6:00 pm 76 min. 6:00 pm page 37 RECYC24SE page 44 TBA 101 min. DOWNL24WE 6:00 pm 87 min. 100 min. 6:30 pm GREAT24BE 8 pm 6:45 pm 6:30 pm BKIND24OE 7:30 pm HENRY24GE BLCKL24BE TBAAA24BE 9 pm THE STORY IS Traces of Adventures Pretty Bird † † STILL ASLEEP the Trade of Power Dramatic New Frontier Documentary Park City at A Raisin in Competition 10 pm on Main Competition August Midnight the Sun† page 20 page 65 page 15 Spectrum page 50 Premieres 120 min. 9:00 pm 86 min. page 46 96 min. page 39 9:00 pm 9:00 pm 88 min. Hell Ride† 9:00 pm 131 min. PRETT24SN TRACE24BN ADVEN24WN 9:45 pm Park City at 9:30 pm 11 pm AUGUS24BN Midnight RAISN24GN page 52 95 min. 10:30 pm midnight HELLR24BN

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2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival film festival timetable—thursday, January 24 95 FRIDAY, JANUARY 25 – Park City Screenings

Holiday Holiday Holiday Library Prospector Racquet Eccles Egyptian Village Village Village Center Square Club Redstone Theatre Theatre Cinema II Cinema III Cinema IV Theatre Theatre Theatre Cinemas 1270 seats 266 seats 156 seats 156 seats 164 seats 448 seats 332 seats 602 seats 185 seats 8 am

Durakovo: Frozen Towelhead Ballast † Village of River Premieres Dramatic 9 am Fools† Dinner Dramatic page 40 Competition Sugar with the World Nerakhoon† Competition 115 min. page 17 President† Documentary page 18 96 min. Dramatic page 24 Documentary 8:30 am Competition World Competition 97 min. TOWEL25PM 8:30 am 10 am page 21 Documentary 90 min. page 13 8:30 am BALLA25RM Gonzo† 120 min. page 24 8:30 am 99 min. FROZN25LM DURAK252M Documentary 9:15 am 52 min. 9:15 am Competition SUGAR25CM 9:00 am NERAK253M page 12 DINNE25EM 11 am 118 min. 10:00 am GONZO254M An Birds of Patti Smith: Sunshine † † American America Dream of Cleaning noon † Life Bottle Soldier Spectrum Dramatic Competition Choke† Shock Documentary In Prison page 46 Documentary Competition page 21 Dramatic Spectrum Competition My Whole 89 min. † page 14 102 min. Competition page 47 page 10 Life 11:30 am 1 pm BIRDS25LD 109 min. 11:30 am page 17 110 min. 86 min. World 11:30 am Documentary American 11:30 am SUNSH25RD 89 min. noon † AMSOL252D page 25 Teen PATTI25PD 12:15 pm BOTTL25ED CHOKE25CD 95 min. Documentary Competition 2 pm 12:15 pm PRISN253D page 11 95 min. 1:00 pm † The On Plural- Pretty Bird Secrecy AMTEE254D Greatest ity: The Dramatic 3 pm Documentary Silence† Middle East Competition Competition Donkey in Perspec- Download- Punch page 14 Documentary page 20 Roman Competition tive ing Nancy 91 min. Polanski† 120 min. Park City at Panels Dramatic Midnight page 12 2:30 pm 2:30 pm Documentary page 69 4 pm Competition page 51 SECRE252A Competition 76 min. PRETT25RA page 18 The Order 2:30 pm 2:30 pm 90 min. page 14 of Myths† PASIX25PA 96 min. GREAT25LA 3:00 pm 75 min. Documentary 3:15 pm DONKE25EA 3:15 pm Competition DOWNL25CA 5 pm ROMAN253A page 13 97 min. 4:00 pm Trouble the ORDER254A Captain A Good Day Anywhere, Water† Abu Raed to be Black USA† 6 pm & Sexy† TBA 1 Documentary World Dramatic Savage Competition The Dramatic Spectrum Competition page 15 page 29 page 48 page 17 Grace Drummer † 6:00 pm 90 min. Half-Life 110 min. 123 min. Mermaid Premieres TBONE25EE World 92 min. 7 pm 5:30 pm Dramatic New Frontier 5:30 pm 5:30 pm World page 39 5:30 pm Dramatic TROUB252E page 29 page 61 CAPTA25LE GDBLK25PE ANYWH25RE 96 min. page 31 116 min. 120 min. 6:15 pm 115 min. SAVGR25CE 6:15 pm 6:30 pm DRUMR253E HALFL254E 6:30 pm 8 pm MERMA25DE

Slingshot Made in Quid Pro Phoebe in Hip Hop† America† Quo† Wonder- 9 pm land Fear(s) of Documentary Spectrum Spectrum the dark Competition I.O.U.S.A.† Blue page 45 page 49 Dramatic page 15 Competition CSNY New Frontier Documentary Eyelids 105 min. 89 min. Gonzo† 80 min. page 20 DÉjÀ Vu page 60 Competition World 8:30 pm 8:30 pm Documentary 10 pm 96 min. Premieres 88 min. 8:30 pm page 13 Dramatic MADEI25LN QUIDP25PN Competition page 9, 35 SLING252N 85 min. page 29 8:30 pm page 12 9:00 pm PHOEB25RN 96 min. FEARS25EN 9:15 pm 109 min. 118 min. 9:30 pm IOUSA253N 9:15 pm 9:30 pm 11 pm CSNYD25CN BLUEE254N GONZO25DN

Flow: For Good Dick† The Year of Love of Bigger, Dramatic Getting to midnight Water† Know Us Hell Ride† Stronger, Recycle Competition Documentary Faster*† page 18 Premieres Park City at World Competition Documentary 85 min. page 42 Midnight page 12 Documentary page 52 Competition page 26 11:30 pm 90 min. 97 min. page 11 1 am 95 min. 93 min. GOODD25LL 11:30 pm 11:30 pm 105 min. YEAR025PL midnight FLOWF252L midnight HELLR25EL 11:45 pm RECYC254L BIGGE253L 2 am † Digital screening provided by Digital Projection International 96 FRIDAY, JANUARY 25 – Off Screen, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Sundance Resort

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CRITICS 11 am CORNERED? Filmmaker Lodge page 70 noon 10:30 am The Last Word COLLISION Dramatic 1 pm COURSE Competition New Frontier page 19 on Main 94 min. page 67 noon LASTW25SD 2 pm 12:30 pm THE DOUBLE BOTTOM LINE Music Café Filmmaker 2:30 pm 3 pm Lodge page 71 Everest Traces of the Trade† 2:00 pm 3:10 pm Missy Higgins Documentary Competition 4 pm 3:50 pm Largo’s page 15 Watkins 86 min. Family Hour 3:00 pm TRACE25SA 5 pm 5:00 pm TBA

page 73 6 pm Man on Riprendimi† American Wire World Son World Dramatic The Sleep- Dramatic Documentary Fields of page 32 Wackness walking Competition 7 pm page 25 † page 16 Fuel 98 min. Dramatic Premieres 90 min. Documentary 6:00 pm Competition page 39 90 min. Competition RIPRE25WE 6:00 pm page 21 101 min. 6:00 pm MANON25BE page 11 King of AMSON25SE Ping Pong 110 min. 6:30 pm 8 pm 92 min. World 6:30 pm SLPWK25OE 6:45 pm Dramatic WACKN25GE FIELD25BE page 30 107 min. 9 pm 7:30 pm I Always KINGO25BE Patti Smith: Death in Wanted to Dream of Love† be a gang- Life The Visitor Absurd- Premieres ster North Documentary Premieres istan page 36 10 pm World † Competition Starr page 41 World 100 min. Dramatic page 14 Dramatic 108 min. Dramatic 9:00 pm page 30 Competition 109 min. page 28 Where in 9:30 pm DEATH25SN 113 min. page 19 the World 9:00 pm VISIT25GN 94 min. 9:00 pm PATTI25WN 11 pm 115 min. Is Osama 9:30 pm GANGS25BN 9:45 pm bin Laden? ABSUR25ON NORTH25BN Spectrum page 45 midnight 93 min. Strangers 10:30 pm Choke† World OSAMA25BN Dramatic Dramatic Competition page 32 page 17 1 am 88 min. 89 min. midnight midnight STRAN25BL CHOKE25WL 2 am † Digital screening provided by Digital Projection International

2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival film festival timetable—Friday, January 25 97 SATURDAY, JANUARY 26 – Park City Screening Schedule

Holiday Holiday Holiday Library Prospector Racquet Eccles Egyptian Village Village Village Center Square Club Redstone Theatre Theatre Cinema II Cinema III Cinema IV Theatre Theatre Theatre Cinemas 1270 seats 266 seats 156 seats 156 seats 164 seats 448 seats 332 seats 602 seats 185 seats 8 am

Traces of Goliath† Blue Anywhere, † 9 am the Trade† Spectrum Eyelids USA The Documentary page 48 World Dramatic Dramatic Competition CSNY Drummer Competition Patti Smith: 84 min. page 29 page 17 DÉjÀ Vu World page 15 Dream of 8:30 am Premieres Dramatic 86 min. Life GOLIA26LM 109 min. 123 min. 10 am page 29 8:30 am Documentary 8:30 am 8:30 am pages 9, 35 Fields of TRACE262M Competition BLUEE26PM ANYWH26RM 96 min. 116 min. Fuel† page 14 9:15 am 9:00 am Documentary CSNYD26CM DRUMR26EM 109 min. Competition 11 am 9:15 am page 11 PATTI263M 92 min. 10:00 am The Women FIELD264M August Mermaid Savage of Brukman† Spectrum World Grace noon Dramatic TBA 2 I Always World page 46 Premieres Wanted to Documentary Man on 88 min. page 31 page 39 noon Be a page 27 Wire 11:30 am 115 min. 96 min. TBTWO26CD Gangster 100 min. World AUGUS26LD 11:30 am 11:30 am 1 pm Documentary MERMA26PD SAVGR26RD World 11:30 am † Dramatic WOMEN262D page 25 puujee page 30 90 min. World Documentary 113 min. 12:15 pm page 25 2 pm noon MANON263D GANGS26ED 110 min. 1:00 pm PUUJE264D Triage† Shorts Young@ Program IV† Heart 3 pm World Reversion† Documentary page 55 Spectrum page 45 Animation New Frontier page 26 Yasukuni 95 min. † Spotlight page 61 90 min. World 2:30 pm 107 min. Shorts 99 min. 2:30 pm Documentary SHFOU26LA 2:30 pm 4 pm Program TRIAG262A page 27 YOUNG26PA 3:00 pm Shorts page 57 REVER26EA 123 min. Program III† 105 min. 3:15 pm page 55 3:15 pm YASUK263A 92 min. 5 pm ANIMA26CA 4:00 pm SHTHR264A The Black Docu- Shorts List mentary Program V† 6 pm Spotlight† Birds of Spectrum page 56 In Bruges America† page 44 Time Crimes Shorts 87 min. Program Premieres 87 min. Park City at 5:30 pm Spectrum page 56 Bottle pages 8, 38 page 46 5:30 pm Midnight SHFIV26PE Shock 7 pm BLCKL262E page 52 108 min. 101 min. 89 min. casting a Spectrum 101 min. 5:30 pm 6:15 pm 6:00 pm glance SHDOC26LE page 47 BRUGE26CE BIRDS26EE 6:15 pm New Frontier 110 min. TIMEC263E page 60 6:30 pm 8 pm 83 min. BOTTL26DE 7:00 pm CASTI264E Frontier Where in Documen- Shorts the World tary Grand 9 pm Program† Is Osama JURY Prize Otto; Or, Up bin Laden? WINNER with Dead page 56 Shorts The Broken PEOPLE 91 min. Program II† Spectrum Dramatic Park City at page 45 8:30 pm Henry Grand Jury Park City at 8:30 pm page 55 Midnight DOCGP26PN Poole Is 10 pm SHFRO262N 93 min. Prize Midnight 98 min. page 50 Here WINNER page 52 110 min. 8:30 pm Premieres 9:15 pm OSAMA26LN 95 min. SHTWO263N 9:15 pm page 37 9:30 pm 9:00 pm BROKN264N 100 min. OTTOO26EN 11 pm DRMGP26CN 9:30 pm HENRY26DN

Diary of Hell Ride† Funny the Dead Adventures Park City at Games midnight † Anvil! The Park City at of Power Shorts Midnight Park City at True Story Midnight Park City at Program I† page 52 Midnight † page 51 page 51 of Anvil Midnight page 54 95 min. 95 min. page 50 107 min. Spectrum 96 min. 11:30 pm 1 am page 43 11:30 pm 96 min. HELLR26LL 11:30 pm DIARY262L midnight FUNNY26PL 90 min. 11:45 pm SHONE264L midnight ADVEN263L 2 am ANVIL26EL † Digital screening provided by Digital Projection International 98 SATURDAY, JANUARY 26 – Off Screen, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Sundance Resort

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noon The Last Captain Word Abu Raed Dramatic Incendiary World Competition Half-Life† Premieres Dramatic 1 pm page 19 page 29 New Frontier page 38 94 min. page 61 96 min. 110 min. noon 120 min. 12:30 pm noon LASTW26BD Be Like CAPTA26SD 2 pm 12:45 pm Others† INCEN26GD HALFL26BD World Documentary page 23 Music Café 74 min. 3 pm 2:30 pm 1:30 pm Meiko Fear(s) of BELIK26BD Just 3:10 pm the dark Another Will Dailey New Frontier The Year of Love Story World 3:50 pm page 60 Diminished Getting to 4 pm † Dramatic Brett Dennen 88 min. Capacity Know Us Premieres Premieres page 30 4:30 pm 3:00 pm FEARS26BA page 36 page 42 90 min. Johnny Death in 92 min. Love† 90 min. 3:00 pm 5 pm Lloyd Rollins JUSTA26SA and the All 3:45 pm Premieres 3:30 pm Nighters DIMIN26BA page 36 YEAR026GA 5:10 pm 100 min. ROAN 4:30 pm 6 pm DEATH26BA Page 73 The Yellow TBA 3 What Just Handker- Happened? chief 6:00 pm Assas- SMART Premieres 7 pm Premieres Red TBTHR26WE sination PEOPLE page 41 page 42 Spectrum of a High Premieres 107 min. 102 min. page 49 School page 40 6:00 pm President 6:00 pm 98 min. Quid Pro 93 min. WHATJ26SE YELLO26BE Premieres 6:45 pm Quo† 6:30 pm page 34 8 pm REDDD26BE Spectrum SMART26OE 90 min. page 49 6:30 pm 89 min. ASSAS26GE 7:30 pm 9 pm QUIDP26BE Made in Be Kind A Good Day America† Rewind to be Black † Spectrum Premieres The Guitar Trans- & Sexy 10 pm page 45 Goliath† page 35 Premieres siberian Spectrum 105 min. Spectrum 101 min. page 37 Premieres page 48 9:00 pm page 48 9:00 pm 95 min. page 40 92 min. MADEI26BN BKIND26WN 9:00 pm 84 min. Baghead 9:30 pm 111 min. GDBLK26SN 9:45 pm Spectrum GUITA26GN 9:30 pm 11 pm GOLIA26BN TRANS26ON page 46 84 min. 10:30 pm midnight BAGHE26BN The Donkey Escapist Punch Premieres Park City at page 36 Midnight 1 am 105 min. page 51 midnight 90 min. ESCAP26BL midnight DONKE26WL 2 am † Digital screening provided by Digital Projection International

2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival film festival timetable—Saturday, January 26 99 SUNDAY, JANUARY 27 – Park City Screening Schedule

Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Library Prospector Racquet Eccles Egyptian Village Village Village Village Center Square Club Redstone Theatre Theatre Cinema I Cinema II Cinema III Cinema IV Theatre Theatre Theatre Cinemas 1270 seats 266 seats 164 seats 156 seats 156 seats 164 seats 448 seats 332 seats 602 seats 185 seats 8 am

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10 am World DIARY OF Dramatic THE DEAD Prize World Park City at Documen- Award Alfred P. WINNER Documen- Midnight tary Winner Sloan Prize 11 am page 51 TBA 2 WINNER tary JURY Cinema- Award 10:00 am Prize 95 min. tography Winner WDRGP27CM WINNER 10:00 am Award 10:30 am 10:30 am TBA 1 Red DIARY271M WINNER AWTBA27LM SLOAN27PM Spectrum noon 10:30 am 11:00 am WDOGP27EM page 49 10:30 am AWTBA273M CINDC272M 98 min. 11:30 am 1 pm REDDD274M Documen- Award Shorts Waldo Salt tary Grand Winner Award Screen- Jury Prize TBA 3 Winners† writing WINNER World World Award Dramatic DOCUMEN- 2 pm 1:00 pm 1:00 pm WINNER Audience TARY Award 1:00 pm Award AWTBA271D Audience SHRTA27LD DOCGP27CD Winner 1:00 pm WINNER Award TBA 4 WINNER Award WALDO27PD Winner 3 pm 1:30 pm 2:00 pm TBA 5 WADRA27ED 1:30 pm AWTBA273D WADOC272D 2:30 pm Dramatic AWTBA274D Documen- Award 4 pm Grand Jury tary Winner Prize Audience TBA 8 WINNER World Documen- Award tary WINNER 3:30 pm World Award 3:30 pm Directing AWTBA27PA Dramatic Winner 5 pm DRMGP27CA Award 3:30 pm Directing TBA 6 WINNER Award AADOC27LA Award Winner WINNER 4:00 pm 4:30 pm TBA 7 † WDADC271A Kicking It AWTBA272A 6 pm 4:30 pm Spectrum 5:00 pm page 44 WDADR27EA AWTBA273A World Documen- Dramatic 98 min. Screen- tary Audience 5:30 pm writing Directing Award KICKI274A Award Award 7 pm WINNER WINNER WINNER

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Ogden Sundance off screen off screen off screen slc slc slc slc slc Rose Peery’s Resort Events Events Events Broadway Broadway Broadway Tower Wagner Egyptian Screening Cinema IV Cinema V Cinema VI Theatre Center Theater Room 211 seats 238 seats 274 seats 342 seats 485 seats 800 seats 164 seats 8 am

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2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival film festival timetable—Sunday, January 27 101 Index of directors

A G M S Abramson, Neil 16 Galison, Peter 14 MacLean, Andrew Okpeaha 55 Salina, Irena 12 Ali, Leslie 28 Gansel, Dennis 33 Magary, John 54 Salloum, Jackie Reem 15 al Massad, Mahmoud 26 Garfield, Wyatt 55 Maguire, Sharon 38 Sathananthan, Sachithanandam 24 Anderson, Brad 40 Gault, Tony 56 Mahaffy, Jake 55 Schachter, Steven 35 Aractingi, Philippe 33 Gervasi, Sacha 43 Maher, Bill 39 Schneider, Paul 20 Araki, Gregg 53 Gibney, Alex 12 Marsh, James 25 Schütte, Jan 48 Arijon, Gonzalo 26 Glanz, Peter 55 Matalqa, Amin 29 Sears, Kelly 61 Gold, Ari 50 Matthiesen, Mads 54 Sebring, Steven 14 Gondry, Michel 35 Mattotti, Lorenzo 60 Shakey, Bernard 9, 35 B Green, Brent 56 McCarthy, Tom 41 Shapiro, Dana Adam 12 Greenfield, Lauren 56 McDonagh, Martin 8, 38 Simon, Brett 34 Ball, Alan 40 Greenfield-Sanders, Timothy 44 McGinly, Sean 9, 37 Sisam, Patrick 42 Bannon, Shawn 27 Gregg, Clark 17 McGuire, Richard 60 Sitaru, Adrian 55 Barbieri, Olivo 56 McKee, Lucky 49 Spurlock, Morgan 45 Barndt, Thomas 48 Melikyan, Anna 31 Stadtmusik 56 Barnz, Daniel 20 H Mell, Carson 57 Stanton, Matthew 19 Baumane, Signe 54 Meyer, Rob 54 Sternberg, Tim 26 Beers, Dan 55 Hakonarson, Grimur 55 Micheli, Amanda 56 St. Onge, Sara 56 Bell, Christopher 11 Haley, Geoff 19 Michôd, David 55 Sumar, Sabiha 24 Belzberg, Edet 10 Hammer, Lance 17 Miller, Daniel 44 Susser, Spencer 56 Benchetrit, Samuel 30 Haneke, Michael 51 Miller, Randall 47 Szczerbowski, Maciek 57 Benning, James 60 Haney-Jardine, Chusy 17 MK12 57 Bi, Kenneth 29 Harper, Tom 55 Moo-Young, China 29 Bishop, Larry 52 Haworth, Alex 49 Moreno, Carlos 32 T Blackburn, Olly 51 Helmer, Veit 28 Moss, Robb 14 Blum, Mike 54 Hines, Tom 47 Murro, Noam 40 Tadmor, Erez 32 Blutch 60 Hodgkinson, Leigh 23 Thurber, Rawson Marshall 19 Boden, Anna 21 Hung, Kenneth Tin-Kin 56 Tickell, Josh 11 Bollow, Vern 33 Hunt, Courtney 18 N Trachinger, Mia 61 Bornedal, Ole 30 Tucci, Stanley 47 Brettkelly, Pietra 23 Nakamura, Tadashi 56 Tucker, Joe 57 Brooks, Carlos 49 I Nattiv, Guy 32 Brown, Margaret 13 Negri, Anna 32 Browne, Katrina 15 Igar Yala Collective 33 Newberger, Jeremy 44 V Burns, Charles 60 Isitan, Isaac 27 Nowell, Justin 55 Burstein, Nanette 11 Nurrish, Jules 54 Vafamehr, Marzieh 55 Burton, Kevin Lee 44 Varela, Peque 57 Bustamante, Nao 61 J Vega, Isabel 56 Byrne, Sean 52 O Vigalondo, Nacho 52 Vikings, The 11 Jackson, Lisa F. 12 Jacobs, Azazel 49 Ogawa, Ryosuke 31 C Jarman, Derek 53 Ogigami, Naoko 31 Jeffs, Christine 21 Owens, Catherine 41 W Caillou, Marie 60 Jonsson, Jens 30 Campbell, Benedict 56 Joseph, Myna 55 Wagner, Brett 55 Chang, Yung 27 Julien, Isaac 24 P Waitt, Chris 23 Chick, Austin 46 Walker, Stephen 45 Christiansen, Cam 49 Palka, Marianna 18 Wardrop, Ken 56 Contreras, Ernesto 29 K Parker, Osbert 57 Westmeier, Alexandra 22 Cook, Luis 57 Pellington, Mark 37, 41 White, Erin 55 Cowley, Jed 55 Kalin, Tom 39 Peralta, Stacy 45 Wyatt, Rupert 36 Creadon, Patrick 13 Karlsson, Hermann 57 Phang, Jennifer 61 Keaton, Michael 38 Phrasavath, Thavisouk 13 Keker, Adam 14 Pierce, Leighton 60 X D Kinney, Terry 36 Piety, Benjamin M. 56 Kirtadze, Nino 24 Prasad, Udayan 42 Xuan Jiang 56 Deal, Carl 15 Koch, Susan 44 Provost, Nicolas 56, 60 de Montreuil, Ricardo 31 Korjus, Sami 54 Diesen, Trygve Allister 49 Krallman, Randy 56 di Sciullo, Pierre 60 Kramer, Seth 44 Q Y Dortch, Dennis 48 Kuras, Ellen 13 Yakin, Boaz 36 Dunst, Kirsten 55 Kwan, Julia 54 Quay, Michelange 60 Duplass, Jay 46 Yamada, Kazuya 25 Duplass, Mark 46 Yang Fudong 59 Yonaitis, Ed 55 L R E LaBruce, Bruce 52 Lavis, Chris 57 Raskin, Josh 25 Z Edgerton, Nash 55 Lees, James 60 Redford, Amy 37 Zaramella, Juan Pablo 57 Ellis, Sean 50 Leon, Kenny 39 Reed, Patrick 26 Zellner, David 48 Ellis, Simon 55 Lessin, Tia 15 Reeder, Calvin 52 Zellner, Nathan 48 Eshaghian, Tanaz 23 Lessner, Matthew 32 Rees, Dee 55 Zenovich, Marina 14 Evans, Marc 25 Levine, Jonathan 21 Renck, Johan 18 Rivera, Alex 20 Zhou, Yi 32 Levinson, Barry 41 Li Ying 27 Robin, Daniel 13 F Lucas, Craig 46 Roew, Danny 47 Romero, George A. 51 Fasciani, Andrea 56 Rossellini, Isabella 56 Fedda, Yasmin 27 Fitzmaurice, Simon 31 Fleck, Ryan 21

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1977 57 Smile 54 Soft 55 E M Sound of People, The 31 Spider 55 A Eat, for This Is My Body 60 Madame Tutli-Putli 57 STRANDED: I’ve come from a plane Edward II 53 Made in America 45 that crashed on the mountains 26 Absurdistan 28 Escapist, The 36 Man 55 Strangers 32 Advantage 52 Execution of Solomon Harris, The 55 Máncora 31 Sugar 21 Adventures of Baxter & McGuire: Man on Wire 25 Sunlit Shadows 56 The Boss, The 54 Mark, The 48 Sunshine Cleaning 21 Adventures of Power 50 Megane 31 F Suspension 60 Alone in Four Walls 22 Mermaid 31 American Soldier, An 10 Farewell Packets of Ten 56 Merry Gentleman, The 38 American Son 16 FCU: Fact Checkers Unit 55 Momma’s Man 49 American Teen 11 Fear(s) of the dark 60 Motion Studies: Inertia 55 T Anvil! The True Story of Anvil 43 Fields of Fuel 11 My Biodegradable Heart 12 Teat Beat of Sex 54 Anywhere, USA 17 Flighty 23 my olympic summer 13 Time Crimes 52 Apology Line, The 60 Flow: For Love of Water 12 Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The 19 Towelhead 40 Aquarium 54 Force 1 TD 56 Traces of the Trade: Art Star and the Sudanese Twins, The 23 For the Love of God 57 A Story from the Deep North 15 Assassination of a High School President 34 Frozen River 18 N Transsiberian 40 August 46 Funeral, The 56 August 15th 56 Triage: Dr. James Orbinski’s Funny Games 51 Nerakhoon (The Betrayal) 13 Humanitarian Dilemma 26 Nikamowin 44 Trouble the Water 15 North Starr 19 B Number One 60 G Baghead 46 Gas Zappers 56 U Ballast 17 George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead 51 Because Washington Is Hollywood O U2 3D 41 Goliath 48 for Ugly People 56 Under the Bombs 33 Gonzo: The Life and Work Object, The 28 Be Kind Rewind 35 Untitled #1 (from the series of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson 12 Oiran Lyrics 31 Be Like Others 23 Earth People 2507) 61 Good Day to Be Black & Sexy, A 48 On the Assassination of the President 14 Bend It 54 Up the Yangtze 27 Good Dick 18 Order of Myths, The 13 Bigger, Stronger, Faster* 11 Great Buck Howard, The 9, 37 Otto; or, Up with Dead People 52 Birds of America 46 Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo, The 12 Black List, The 44 Green Porno Shorts 56 V Blind Date 47 Guitar, The 37 Blue Eyelids 29 P Visitor, The 41 Bottle Shock 47 Paradise 32 Breadmakers 27 Pariah 55 Broken, The 50 H Patti Smith: Dream of Life 14 W Buyo 56 Half-Life 61 Pearce Sisters, The 57 By Modern Measure 32 Harvest Time 54 Perro Come Perro 32 W. 11 Hell Ride 52 Phoebe in Wonderland 20 Wackness, The 21 Henry Poole Is Here 37 Pilgrimage 56 Wave, The 33 C History of America, The 57 please stand back! (zurrueckbleiben bitte) 56 Waves 55 Plot Point 56 Welcome 55 Captain Abu Raed 29 Pretty Bird 20 What Just Happened? 41 Carlin 56 puujee 25 Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? 45 casting a glance 60 I Wind and the Water, The 33 Cherries 55 I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster 30 Wind, Ten Years Old 55 Chief 55 Ignite 27 Women of Brukman, The 27 Choke 17 Q I Have Seen the Future 49 Wrestling 55 Chonto 57 I Love Sarah Jane 56 Quid Pro Quo 49 Chronic Town 47 I Met the Walrus 25 Complete History of My Sexual Failures, A 23 In Bruges 8, 38 Y Corona, La (The Crown) 56 Incendiary 38 Count Backwards from Five 56 R In Prison My Whole Life 25 Yasukuni 27 Crossbow 55 Year of Getting to Know Us, The 42 I.O.U.S.A. 13 Raisin in the Sun, A 39 CSNY Déjà Vu 9, 35 Yellow Handkerchief, The 42 Rambler, The 52 Young@Heart 45 Recycle 26 Yours Truly 57 J Red 49 D Relationship in Four Days, A 55 Just Another Love Story 30 Reversion 61 Deal, The 35 Juvenile 29 Riprendimi 32 Death in Love 36 Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired 14 Deep, The 49 Dennis 54 Derek 24 K Diminished Capacity 36 S Kicking It 44 Dinner with the President: A Nation’s Journey 24 kids + money 56 Dog 57 Salim Baba 26 King of Ping Pong 30 Dog Lovers 47 Savage Grace 39 Scoring 56 Donkey Punch 51 Downloading Nancy 18 Second Line, The 54 Drift, The 61 L Secrecy 14 Drummer, The 29 Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, Dugong 55 Lapsus 57 Parts 4 and 5 59 Durakovo: Village of Fools 24 Last Word, The 19 SEVILLA–›(oo) 06 56 Linguists, The 44 Sick Sex 55 Living End, The 53 Sikumi (On the Ice) 55 Lloyd Neck 56 Sleep Dealer 20 Loss of a Wrestling Match, The 55 Sleepwalking 39 Love Comes Lately 48 Slingshot Hip Hop 15 Smart People 40

2008 Sundance Film Festival www.sundance.org/festival INDEX OF FILMS 103 getting around

Getting around Park City during the Festival is quick and easy. Walk or use free Festival shuttle buses to avoid the headaches of traffic and parking. There is no parking at Park City theatres and venues, so walking is often the quickest way to travel between locations; use the walking times located on the Festival Transit Map to plan your trip.

During the Festival, parking is NOT available at Park City theatres Walking Paths and venues. Use the free Festival shuttle buses. Walking is a great option within Park City; the lighted pedestrian If you are driving from outside Park City, you can park in one of the paths and sidewalks throughout town are often the quickest way to designated Official Festival Parking Lots. They are serviced by the get around. Along with shuttle bus routes, walking paths and times free Festival shuttle buses. But be aware of the following: are noted on the transit map on the inside back cover of this guide. • Parking around town is extremely limited, and regulations are Remember that it’s winter in the Rocky Mountains, so the weather strictly enforced. can change quickly; be sure to dress appropriately. • Some designated Festival parking lots charge between $10 and $20 per entry (CASH ONLY). Sundance Resort Shuttle Service • An extremely limited number of parking lots offer free parking. Sundance is a 60-minute drive from Park City. Shuttle service • Each lot is served by free Festival shuttle buses. between Park City and Sundance Resort is available from January • Overnight parking is not permitted. 18–26 at $20 per person each way. Sundance Resort ticket package • All lots operate on a first-come, first-served basis. holders may use the shuttle for free. From Sundance Resort to Park City: The shuttle leaves the Sundance Resort at 9:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., Festival Designated Parking Lots 3:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m., and 11:00 p.m. China Bridge Parking Structure Located one block east of Main Street on Marsac Avenue, China From Park City to the Sundance Resort: Bridge provides parking to a limited number of Festival patron. The shuttle leaves from Sundance House at 10:30 a.m.,1:30 p.m., There is a $20 fee per entry, CASH ONLY. This facility is likely to 4:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m., and midnight. reach capacity prior to screenings. For Resort shuttle information, call the Sundance concierge at Prospector Lot F and Lot G (801) 223-6000. For further information about Sundance Resort, Limited parking is available in Lots F and G at Prospoector Square. see page 74. There is a fee per entry, CASH ONLY. ADA ACCESSIBILITY Monitor Drive Parking Lot The Monitor Drive Parking Lot offers limited parking ONLY after The Sundance Institute works to make each of its venues 3:00 p.m. on weekdays and all day Saturdays. Parking is not physically accessible for all festivalgoers. All Festival venues and permitted on Sundays. theatres are ADA accessible. The Filmmaker Lodge, housed in the Park City Elks Building, falls under historical preservation standards and does not have an elevator. However, the Institute Don’t want to drive? does have a Stair-Trac on site that meets ADA requirements. Please give 24-hour notice to use this service. Festival Shuttle Buses Free Festival shuttle buses stop frequently at every Festival theatre For additional information, please contact Sundance Institute and venue, and most accommodations. Buses operate daily from at (435) 658-3456. 7:00 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. The last bus leaves Old Town Transit Center at 2:20 a.m. and the top of Main Street at 2:30 a.m. Plan trips between venues using the routes listed on the transit map.

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