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Day 10: My Festival Experience
I’m awake, and it’s … 10 a.m.? I don’t know. Where am I? What day is it? All I know for sure is that Utah has the strangest television offerings I’ve ever encountered. Apparently they have a channel here that plays nothing...
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Mon, Jan 26 2009 8:04 PM
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Awards Celebrate 2009 Storytellers
Last night, the 25th Sundance Film Festival culminated with a celebration recognizing the films that Festival juries and audiences selected for awards. Festivalgoers packed into the Park City Racquet Club for this special evening highlighting some of...
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Sun, Jan 25 2009 5:01 AM
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Q&A: Rough Aunties
You don’t want to mess with the women in charge in Rough Aunties , the new documentary that tells the story of Operation Bobbi Bear, the South African aid group dedicated to rescuing and helping abused children. Taking life’s blows with a...
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Sun, Jan 25 2009 1:02 AM
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One on One: Natalia Almada and Dana Perry
What makes a person want to reveal private family history to a wide public? What makes us want to watch a movie that accomplishes that act? Natalia Almada ( El General ) and Dana Perry’s Boy Interrupted ) documentaries are unflinching, brooding...
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Sun, Jan 25 2009 12:33 AM
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Day 9: My Festival Experience
The alarm blares at 6 a.m. and I blurrily turn on the television to help me ease into consciousness. Instantly I’m sucked into an infomercial for the Magic Bullet, an ingenious blender thing that somehow makes smoothies and also alfredo sauce? It’s...
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Sun, Jan 25 2009 12:06 AM
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Meet the Artist: Cory McAbee
John Cooper, the Festival’s Director of Programming, once said, “Sundance doesn’t change the path a filmmaker is on; it just makes the path go faster.” It is never the venue or a distribution system that is what makes a film good...
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Sat, Jan 24 2009 11:10 PM
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Q&A: The Clone Returns Home
A winner of the Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award in 2006, Kanji Nakajima returns to the Festival this year with his completed film The Clone Returns Home , which is competing in the World Dramatic section. The movie takes place in a vaguely...
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Sat, Jan 24 2009 10:42 PM
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Q&A: Barking Water
In Barking Water , the latest film from Sundance Institute Lab alum Sterlin Harjo, Irene (Casey Camp-Horinek) takes Frankie (Richard Ray Whitman) on one last road trip, driving him from the hospital across Oklahoma to see his daughter and grandchild....
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Sat, Jan 24 2009 9:53 PM
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Short Shot: The Powerful, Numbing Realism of 2 Birds
2 Birds takes place one bright summer night, as a group of teenagers move from innocent youth to adulthood. A boy on the edge of teenage trouble goes to a party with a girl on whom he has a helpless crush. As they try to grow up and play along at the...
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Sat, Jan 24 2009 7:32 PM
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A Spoonful of Sugar
Films about activists and their causes may carry with them that icky, about-to-ingest-cough-syrup feeling that you’re going to be “educated” – not actually inspired, but “inspired,” in that earnest, cloying, and didactic...
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Sat, Jan 24 2009 2:11 AM
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Day 8: My Festival Experience
It’s day eight of the festival, and I’m only just now beginning to figure out how everything works. Just in time for my final two days of the Festival! What I Learned on My Winter Vacation, by Evany Thomas It turns out many of the town hotspots...
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Sat, Jan 24 2009 1:54 AM
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Opinion: Stanley Nelson
Stanley Nelson has been writing, directing, and producing documentary projects for more than two decades. His Festival entry, Wounded Knee , is the fifth and final episode in his series chronicling key moments in Native American history and culture (the...
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Sat, Jan 24 2009 1:37 AM
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The Digital Word of Mouth
When it comes to making your independent movie a hit, it’s not about what you know but who you know – on Facebook and Twitter. Social networking has quickly emerged as a potent marketing tool for independent filmmakers, and industry insiders...
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Fri, Jan 23 2009 9:27 PM
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Q&A: Black Dynamite
An affectionate spoof of Shaft , Dolemite , and just about every other blaxploitation film from the 1970’s, Black Dynamite fumigates the much-loved genre with a healthy dose of nitrous oxide. Michael Jai White stars as the title vigilante –...
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Fri, Jan 23 2009 9:20 PM
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I Am So Proud of You: The Existential Life of a Stick Figure
If cinephiles think shorts don't generate the same sort of hype and fanbase as feature films, they obviously haven't heard of Don Hertzfeldt. Which would be both a shame and a mystery given that Hertzfeldt just came off 25 screenings in 16 U.S...
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Fri, Jan 23 2009 8:20 PM
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