The recent emergence of the short film format as a critical and popular art-form is at the heart of the second annual collaboration between the Sundance Institute and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Short films have always played an important role in cinema as a hotbed for up and coming talent. Now, however, with established feature film directors returning to shorts the viewing experience is more rewarding than ever before. A wonderfully diverse selection of the best the short film format has to offer is screening in Sundance at MoMA: Sundance Film Festival Shorts, April 22 – 29, at The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters at MoMA. Read more.
Accidental Filmmaking: The
Fair on the Sundance Online Film Festival
What happens when you blend an artist’s talent for book making and
a love of radio with a Website called Transom, the computer-generated
technology called Flash, and the Sundance Online Film Festival? For New
York-based multi-media artist Jason Rayles and his project The
Fair, it was a wild three-year run with an artwork that
began as a limited edition-book, became a radio pitch to National Public
Radio, developed into an animated film for the Internet, and finally received
an on-screen premiere at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Read
more and then watch the film on the Sundance Online Film Festival
at www.sundance.org through June
20.
Five Questions for Craig Lucas
On the eve of the Lincoln Center opening of Craig Lucas’ The
Light in the Piazza, the playwright/director/screenwriter
took time to talk with the inSIder about his different approaches to film,
theatre, and musical theatre, his time at the Sundance Theatre Lab, and
about what he’s reading now. Read
More.
Now Playing in Poland: I Am
My Own Wife
Moisés Kaufman (pictured below) stands in front of a theatre kiosk
on the streets on Krakow, Poland just before the opening night of Doug
Wright’s play, I Am My Own Wife (Pulitzer
Prize Drama 2004; Tony Award Best Play and Best Actor 2004) at the Stary
Theatre in Krakow. Kaufman, the play's original director, also directs
the Polish production which stars Tony-award winning actor Jefferson Mays.
The four-performance run is part of a collaboration of the Sundance Theatre
Program and the Stary Theatre.
Watch for a full story on the collaboration in next month's inSIder.
Life After the Labs
Films ranging from Boys Don't Cry to Hedwig
and the Angry Inch to Maria Full of Grace
have been developed at the Sundance Screenwriters and Filmmakers Labs,
where filmmakers work to craft the best possible version of their own,
unique feature film. Several new projects recently supported by the Labs
have advanced into various stages of production. Life After the Labs
offers a glimpse of what's on the horizon from some of today's most creative
emerging filmmakers. Read more.
Annual Risk-Takers Gala Benefit to Honor
Filmmaker Robert Altman, Playwright Tony Kushner, and Corporate Leader
Howard Schultz in New York City
Thursday, April 21, 2005
Gotham Hall, New York City
Maverick filmmaker Robert Altman, acclaimed playwright Tony Kushner, and the visionary chairman of Starbucks Howard Schultz were recently announced as recipients of the Sundance Institute Risk-Takers Award. Awards will be presented in New York City on Thursday, April 21, 2005 at the Institute’s annual Risk-Takers Benefit Gala which celebrates risk-taking, innovation, and creativity in the arts. Approximately 500 guests will attend and proceeds from the event go to support the Institute’s programs which include laboratories and workshops for narrative and documentary filmmakers, screenwriters, film composers, and theatre artists.
Documentary Series Presents Imelda
on May 5 in Park City
On May 5 in Park City, the Institute's
Documentary Film Series presents Imelda, Ramona
Diaz's intriguing documentary on Imelda Marcos, the former first lady
of the Philippines. The free monthly screenings are followed by open forum
discussions with filmmakers, critics, and subjects of the films. Screenings
begin at 7 p.m. in the Jim Santy Auditorium at the Park City Library,
1255 Park Avenue. Tickets or reservations are not required. The series
is part of the Institute's Arts & Audiences Utah Initiative and is
generously supported by the Summit County Recreation, Arts, and Parks
Program.
Deadline: Feature Film Program
Application Deadline: May 1, 2005
Applications for the January 2006 Screenwriters Lab are now being accepted
through May 1, 2005.
Apply
Deadline: Sundance/NHK
Filmmakers Award
Application Deadline: June 30, 2005
Applications for the Sundance/NHK Filmmakers Award are now being
accepted through June 30, 2005. Applications are by professional recommendation
only, and a written referral must accompany each application. If you are
unsure if you qualify, please contact the program administrator at nhk_award@sundance.org.
Sundance
Film Festival:
Sundance at MoMA: Short Film
Program Announced
Accidental Filmmaking: The Fair
on the Sundance Online Film
Festival
Theatre Program:
Five Questions for Craig Lucas
Now Playing in Poland: I Am My
Own Wife
Feature Film Program:
Life After the Labs
Events and Announcements:
Annual Risk-Takers Gala Benefit
to Honor Filmmaker Robert
Altman, Playwright Tony
Kushner, and Corporate Leader
Howard Schultz in New York City
Documentary Series Presents
Imelda on May 5 in
Park City
Deadline: Feature Film Program
Deadline: Sundance/NHK
Filmmakers Award
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THESE MOVIES
A total of 24 films supported by the Sundance Institute, through the Sundance
Film Festival, the Sundance Documentary Fund, and the Feature Film Program,
appear on theatre and television screens throughout the U.S. in the coming
weeks.
The nine films listed below will open in the next four weeks. Click on underlined titles to link directly to films’ Web sites. Films are listed in order of release dates.
For a complete listing of the additional 15 Sundance Institute-supported films that are now playing, click here.
Winter
Solstice
Writer/director Josh Sternfeld developed the screenplay for this film
at the 2001 Screenwriters Lab of the Feature Film Program. It continues
its run in LA and New York and opened in select cities nationwide on April
15.
3-Iron
Writer/director Kim Ki-duk returned to Sundance with this Korean film
that screened in the Premieres category at this year’s Festival.
3-Iron begins its U.S. theatrical run on April 29.
Brothers
This Danish film marked a return to Sundance by director Susanne Bier.
The film is based on a story by Bier and the film’s screenwriter
Anders Thomas Jensen. It was shown in the World Dramatic Competition at
the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and opens in select U.S. cities on May
6.
15
Written and directed by Royston Tan, this film from Singapore screened
in the World Cinema section of the 2004 Film Festival and opens in the
U.S. on April 13.
The
Girl From Monday
This latest work from writer/director Hal Hartley screened in the Premieres
category at the ’05 Festival. It opens in select cities on April
15.
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Writer/director Alex Gibney’s latest documentary screened in the
U.S. Documentary Competition at the Festival this year. It begins its
domestic theatrical run on April 22.
Mysterious
Skin
Sundance veteran Greg Araki returned for the ’05 Festival with this
film which he directed and wrote based on the novel by Scott Heim. The
film screened in the Premieres category and arrives in select theatres
on May 6.
Layer
Cake
This British film directed by Matthew Vaughn and written by J.J. Connolly
screened in the Premieres category at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
and begins its theatrical release in U.S. theatres on May 13.
Saving Face
The debut feature from writer/director Alice Wu was a part of the American
Spectrum category at this year’s Festival. The film opens on May
27.
SEE THESE PLAYS
In the coming weeks, four plays developed during various Sundance Theatre
Labs are being staged in New York, St. Louis, and Washington, DC. Be sure
to catch the following productions:
Crowns
Regina Taylor’s Crowns continues its run at the Mountain
View Center for the Performing Arts in Mountain View, CA through May
1. Adapted from the book by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry, Crowns
was a project of the Theatre Lab in 2002.
The Light in the Piazza
Playwright/director Craig Lucas and composer/lyricist Adam Guettel developed
The Light in the Piazza at the 2002 Sundance Theatre Lab. The play opens
on April 18 at Lincoln Center’s Vivian
Beaumont Theater.
Love and Taxes
Written and performed by Josh Kornbluth in collaboration with director
David Dower, Love and Taxes begins a full run at the B
Street Theater in Sacramento on April 23 and runs thorough June 5.
The project was developed at the 2002 Theatre Lab.
I Am My Own Wife
Written by Doug Wright, directed by Moises Kaufman, and starring Jefferson
Mays, I Am My Own Wife travels to the Curran
Theatre in San Francisco May2-29. The play was developed during the
2000 Theatre Lab and has received numerous awards, including the 2004
Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play.
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