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Sundance Institute had a great showing at the Oscar nominations this year! Congrats to all these projects which have been supported through Sundance Institute or the Sundance Film Festival.
Nominees for Best Motion Picture:
The Kids Are All Right-Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, and Celine Rattray Winter’s Bone-Anne Rosellini and Alix Madigan-Yorki
Adapted Screenplay:
Winter’s Bone-Adapted for the screen by Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini
Original Screenplay:
The Kids Are All Right-Written by Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg
Best Documentary Feature:
Exit through the Gift Shop-Banksy and Jaimie D’Cruz Gasland-Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic Restrepo-Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger Waste Land-Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role:
John Hawkes in Winter’s Bone Mark Ruffalo in The Kids Are All Right
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role:
Annette Bening in The Kids Are All Right Jennifer Lawrence in Winter’s Bone Michelle Williams in Blue Valentine
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role:
Jacki Weaver in Animal Kingdom
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year:
Incendies (Canada) In a Better World (Denmark)
Best Animated Short Film:
Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary).

Check out these Sundance Institute and Sundance Film Festival-supported films hitting theatres across the country this month.
Opening Friday, December 3:

Bhutto, Directed by Jessica Hernández and Johnny O’Hara
I Love You, Phillip Morris, Directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa
Night Catches Us, Directed by Tanya Hamilton
Opening Friday, December 10:

The Company Men, Directed by John Wells
Opening Friday, December 17:

Casino Jack, Directed by Alex Gibney
Opening Wednesday, December 29:

Blue Valentine, Directed by Derek Cianfrance
Now Playing in Theatres:

The Tillman Story, Directed by Amir Bar-Lev
Waiting for Superman, Directed by Davis Guggenheim
Nowhere Boy, Directed by Sam Taylor Wood
Catfish, Directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost
Jack Goes Boating, Directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman
Winter’s Bone, Directed by Debra Granik
DVD Release:
Peepli Live, Directed by Anusha Rizvi
Cyrus, Directed by Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass.

Theatre in Salt Lake City has always surprised and delighted me. More than two thousand miles away from the hustle and bustle of New York, yet daring and risk-taking theatre is produced in Utah year after year, and there is an audience enthusiastic to support it. This season, three plays that were originally nurtured at the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab find life in Salt Lake City.

Check out these Sundance Institute and Sundance Film Festival supported films hitting theatres across the country this month.
 

Opening Friday, November 5:
Four Lions, Written and Directed by Chris Morris

Now Playing in Theatres:
A Small Act, Directed by Jennifer Arnold (pictured above)
Taqwacores, Directed by Eyad Zahra
Contracorriente (Undertow), Written and Directed by Javier Fuentes-León
Douchebag, Written and Directed by Drake Doremus
Welcome to the Rileys, Directed by Jake Scott
HOWL, Written and directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
Waste Land, Directed by João Jardim, Karen Harley, and Lucy Walker
Waiting for Superman, Directed by Davis Guggenheim
Nowhere Boy, Directed by Sam Taylor Wood
Catfish, Directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost
Buried, Directed by Rodrigo Cortés
Jack Goes Boating, Directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman

DVD Release:
Winter’s Bone, Directed by Debra Granik (pictured above)
The Dry Land, Directed by Ryan Piers Williams
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, Directed by Tamra Davis
The Kids Are All Right, Directed by Lisa Cholodenko

Watch From Home:
Lovers of Hate, Directed by Bryan Poyser, Tuesday, November 9, 10:00 p.m on Sundance Channel.

On October 6, 2010, the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program (DFP) and filmmakers Richard Ray Perez and Molly O’Brien are presenting a work-in-progress screening of their film, Cesar’s Last Fast with the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. This film offers a unique and very personal view of the intersection of Cesar Chavez’s faith and his activism. The project has been supported with a grant from the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program.

Check out these Sundance Institute and Sundance Film Festival supported films hitting theatres across the country this month.
 

Opening Friday, September 3:

Last Train Home (Lixin Fan) pictured left
The Winning Season (James C. Strouse)

Opening Friday, September 10:

Bran Nue Dae (Rachel Perkins) pictured left
The Romantics (Galt Niederhoffer)

Opening Wednesday, September 15:

Catfish (Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman)
Jack Goes Boating (Philip Seymour Hoffman)
The Freebie (Katie Aselton) pictured left
The Temptation of St.

With Philip Seymour Hoffman’s directorial debut Jack Goes Boating scheduled to open nationwide September 23, we thought a little schooling on Mr. Hoffman’s Sundance Institute history was appropriate. In addition to Jack Goes Boating, which was in the Premieres category at the 2010 Film Festival, Philip Seymour Hoffman was an actor in Mary and Max (2009), The Savages (2007), the Park City at Midnight film Strangers with Candy (2005), Owning Mahowny (2003), Love Liza (2002), and Montana from the 1998 Film Festival.