2009 Sundance Catalog w/JC's Notes

FILM GUIDE
PARK CITY, UTAH JANUARY 15–25

WHERE THE NEXT BEGINS.
There are stories. And then there are stories. The ones that
come vibrantly alive, carrying you so entirely to other places
in time that you feel compelled to tell them all again as if you
were there. Of course, each time you do, you add something,
embellish something else. You make them yours. And you’re
not the only one. These same stories are spreading, changing,
and growing, telling themselves through others all the time.
Because they have a life of their own.
Since 1985, Sundance has been a place and time for stories.
It’s where they start on the screen and continue in our hearts
and imagination. To commemorate the twenty-fifth Festival, we
launch THE STORYTIME PROJECT, which reflects back on some
of the most memorable Sundance stories so far, stories that
have become important and indelible chapters in our own
narrative. We hope you enjoy the history, and we hope you
contribute your own stories to the project because it’s a work
in progress. It’s meant to live and grow. Just like Sundance.
U.S. Documentary Premieres Park City at Midnight
Competition A selection of the latest work Ranging from horror to comedies
Sixteen world-premiere films from established directors to explicit animation, these films
that represent the best new and world premieres of highly offer a lively last stop on the
work in American nonfiction anticipated films. The Premieres nightly social circuit.
filmmaking. program is presented by
Entertainment Weekly.
From the Collection
U.S. Dramatic Each year, the Sundance Film
Competition Spectrum
Festival presents screenings
Sixteen world-premiere films Presenting out-of-competition of archival films pulled from
that signal the arrival of the films from around the world, the the holdings of the Sundance
newest voices and storytelling Spectrum program is a tribute to Collection at UCLA. Established
in American film. the abundance of the compelling as a joint partnership between
new voices in independent Sundance Institute and the UCLA
World Cinema filmmaking. This year, the Festival Film and Television Archive, the
Documentary presents seven Spectrum films in Sundance Collection at UCLA is a
Competition a Documentary Spotlight. groundbreaking archive of
Sixteen documentaries by independent films shown at
talented filmmakers from New Frontier the Festival and supported
around the world. by the Institute’s artist
With film screenings, media
development programs. Thanks
installations, performances,
to the contributions of individual
World Cinema and panels, New Frontier
Dramatic Competition filmmakers, as well as the
highlights work that pushes
generous support of donors, the
Sixteen films that provide a boundaries and celebrates the
Collection has steadily grown
window into the thematic and convergence of film and art
over the past 10 years to include
aesthetic concerns of artists as a hotbed for new ideas and
more than 600 films.
around the globe. experimentation.
Shorts
The Festival continues its
commitment to sharing short
films with audiences all over the
world. This year, 10 short films
will showcase over the 10 days of
the Festival, beginning January
15, 2009, and running through
January 25 exclusively on iTunes.
The roster offers a sampling of
the Festival shorts programs
representing a variety of countries,
styles, genres, and stories, all at
one distinct location.
Off Screen
From solo acts and bands
performing at the Sundance
ASCAP Music Café and
throughout the Festival, to
panels and discussions that bring
emerging and veteran filmmakers
together with industry leaders,
to gatherings that assemble the
Festival community, Off Screen
programming presents music,
art, and dialogue to make your
Festival experience complete.
Presenting, Leadership, and Sustaining Sponsors ....................................................... 7
Institute Associates and Official Providers .................................................................. 8
The Films
Opening Night Park City, Salt Lake City Gala, and Closing Film ...................................10
Documentary Competition ...............................................................................................12
Dramatic Competition .......................................................................................................18
World Cinema Documentary Competition .....................................................................24
World Cinema Dramatic Competition .............................................................................30
Premieres...........................................................................................................................36
Spectrum ...........................................................................................................................42
Park City at Midnight .......................................................................................................50
Shorts Programs ...............................................................................................................64
Animation Spotlight ......................................................................................................... 67
From the Collection ..........................................................................................................53
New Frontier
New Frontier .....................................................................................................................55
New Frontier Films ...........................................................................................................55
New Frontier Artists and Scientists ...............................................................................58
New Frontier Panels .........................................................................................................62
Off Screen ................................................................................. 68

Panels at Prospector ........................................................................................................ 72
At the Lodge ..................................................................................................................... 70
Music at the Festival ........................................................................................................ 73
Beyond Park City ..............................................................................................................74
How to Festival................................................................... 76
Ticketing ............................................................................................................................76
Theatres and Venues........................................................................................................ 78
Destination: Sundance Film Festival...............................................................................80
Film Festival Timetables ....................................... 81

Index of Directors and Artists ...................................................................................... 102
Index of Films and Installations .................................................................................... 103
Getting Around ............................................................................................................... 104
SUNDANCE INSTITUTE
is proud to acknowledge
and thank the Official
Sponsors of the 2009
Sundance Film Festival.
Sponsor support reflects a
commitment to sustaining
the vitality of independent
film, 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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PRESENTING SPONSORS
LEADERSHIP SPONSORS
SUSTAINING SPONSORS
GROUP PARTNER
The Official Television Network of

the 2009 Sundance Film Festival
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The following contributors provide a broad range of support for
Sundance Institute, from cash donations to in-kind goods and services.
Many Institute Associates maintain year-round working relationships
with the Institute, characterized by mutually aligned missions that
nurture independent vision and thought. Through their donations of
in-kind goods and services, Official Providers help sustain Festival
operations, keeping expenses at a minimum and directing more funds
to the Institute’s core programs.
Institute Associates Deer Valley Lodging

Digital Projection International
A & E IndieFilms
Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Express Shuttle
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
Film Finders, a division of IMDb.com
BMI
The Hollywood Reporter
Convergys Corporation
Hotel Monaco Salt Lake City
Directors Guild of America
Identity Properties
Discovery Channel
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Eastman Kodak Company
Internap Network Services
Film Independent
Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc
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Klipsch Group, Inc.
Focus Features
KPCW 91.9 FM – Community Wireless of Park City, Inc.
FotoKem Film and Video
KRCL 90.9 FM Community Radio
IFP
Los Angeles Times
Miramax Films
Manpower
NBC Universal
Miderra Lifestyle Management
NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Mobile Commons
Overture Films
National Beverage Corp./Sundance® Organic Life
Park City Municipal Corporation
Ola Loa Products
Park City Visitors Bureau and Film Commission
Park City Marriott
Rainbow Media
PARK CITY TELEVISION
SAGIndie/Screen Actors Guild
Peery’s Egyptian Theater
SEIU, Service Employees International Union
Primal Screen, Inc.
SHOWTIME NETWORKS INC.
QSC Audio Products, LLC
Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development
Rastar
Utah Office of Tourism
ResortQuest Park City
The Walt Disney Company
Salt Lake Convention & Visitors Bureau
The Weinstein Company
Salt Lake Marriott City Center
Women In Film LA
The Shop Yoga Studio
Writers Guild of America, West
The Shops at the Village on Main Street
Zions Bank
The Sky Lodge
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Many of these films have not yet been rated by the Motion Picture Association
of America. Read the descriptions and choose responsibly.
Films are followed by a Q&A with the director and selected members of the cast and
crew. There are some exceptions.
All films are shown in 16 mm, 35 mm, or Sony HD Cam.
Guide to the Credits

ExP Executive Producer ArD Art Director
Pr Producer So Sound
CoP Coproducer Mu Music
AsP Associate Producer CoD Costume Designer
Ci Cinematographer Ca Casting Director
Ed Editor PrCo Producton Company
PrD Production Designer
2009 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org/festival THE FILMS 9

OPENING NIGHT PARK CITY
Mary and Max

DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Adam Elliot
Australia, 2008, 92 min., color & b/w
Mary and Max is unique. A claymation animation by Academy Award–winning

filmmaker Adam Elliot (Harvie Krumpet), it tells the simple story of a 20-year
pen-pal friendship between two very different people: Mary Dinkle, a chubby,
lonely 8-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max Horowitz,
a 44-year-old Jewish man, who is severely obese, suffers from Asperger’s
syndrome, and lives an isolated life in New York City. It is very much a triumph
of emotion, insight, and eccentricity—a complete delight.
Animation’s ability to capture the intricate complexity of life has never been
on display in as absorbing fashion as with the storytelling of this Australian
filmmaker, who truly makes you forget what you are watching. The originality
of the voices in this ever-spinning kaleidoscope of innocence and idiosyncrasy
comes straight from an incredibly rich imagination and complete artistic vision.
This desire for acceptance and love amid the pain of existence is masterfully
narrated by Barry Humphries and fleshed out by the voices of Philip Seymour
Hoffman and Toni Collette.
This film that explores friendship, autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, alcoholism,

where babies come from, obesity, kleptomania, trust, copulating dogs, sexual
and religious differences, agoraphobia, and more, and is rooted in a very per-
sonal relationship, is proof of why we go to the movies and a truly exceptional
portrait of compassion and love.
—GEOFFREY GILMORE
ExP: Mark Gooder, Paul Hardart, Tom Hardart, Bryce Menzies, Jonathan Page
Pr: Melanie Coombs Ci: Gerald Thompson Ed: Bill Murphy PrD: Adam Elliot
Principal Cast: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Humphries,
Eric Bana
Thursday, January 15, 6:00 pm - MARYA15CE

Eccles Theatre, Park City
Thursday, January 15, 9:30 pm - MARYA15CN
For more screening times, see page 39.
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SALT LAKE CITY GALA CLOSING FILM
The September Issue Earth Days

DIRECTOR: R.J. Cutler DIRECTOR: Robert Stone
U.S.A., 2008, 90 min., color U.S.A., 2009, 100 min., color
Anna Wintour, editor of Vogue for 20 years, is the most powerful and polarizing Director Robert Stone concocts an inspiring and hopeful work in Earth Days, a
figure in fashion. Larger than life and more complex than fiction, documentary that recounts the history of the modern environmental movement
Wintour embodies a fascinating contradiction of passion and perfectionism from its beginnings nearly four decades ago. Environmental activism really
as she reigns over a dizzying array of designers, models, photographers, and began with the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, and precipitated
editors. an unexpected and galvanizing effect on the national psyche.
Director R.J. Cutler delivers a rare insider account of the nine months leading Told through the eyes of nine very-divergent witnesses, including a secretary
up to the printing of the highly anticipated September issue of the magazine, of the interior, Stewart Udall, who actually cared about the environment; a
which promises to be the biggest one ever. He takes us behind the scenes at biologist, Paul Ehrlich; a congressman, Pete McCloskey; and an astronaut, Rusty
fashion week, to Europe and back, on shoots and reshoots, and into closed- Schweickart, Earth Days is a visually stunning, globe-spanning chronicle of
door staff meetings, bearing witness to an arduous and sometimes emotionally watershed events and consciousness-changing realizations that prompted
demanding process. a new awareness: the post–World War II American dream of a future world
created by scientific progress, new technology, and economic expansion was
At the eye of this annual fashion hurricane is the two-decade relationship rapidly changing into a nightmare.
between Wintour and Grace Coddington, incomparable creative director and
genius stylist. They are perfectly matched for this age-old conflict between To the 20 million Americans who demanded change and political action to
creator and curator. Through them, we see close up the delicate creative protect the environment on that first Earth Day, the urgency and scale of the
chemistry it takes to remain at the top of the ever-changing fashion field. current crisis would have seemed extreme and alarmist. Earth Days is a truly
cogent and powerful depiction of the awakening of the world to environmental
Cutler cleverly deconstructs the creative process as it plays out in the hollowed reality by a dedicated and skilled filmmaker; ignoring its message could imperil
halls of Vogue, lined with racks of couture. In The September Issue, his access us all!
and insight are impressive and make us aware that he is offering us a privileged —GEOFFREY GILMORE
glimpse into a world many dream about but few see.
—JOHN COOPER ExP: Mark Samels Ed: Don Kleszy Mu: Michael Giacchino So: Coll Anderson
Ph: Howard Shack
ExP: Molly Thompson, Robert Sharenow, Robert DeBitetto, R.J. Cutler Pr: R.J.
Cutler, Eliza Hindmarch, Sadia Shepard Ci: Bob Richman Ed: Azin Samari
Mu: Craig Richey So: Edward L. O’Connor Friday, January 23, 9:30 pm - EARTH23CN
Friday, January 16, 6:30 pm - SEPTE16GE Saturday, January 24, 8:30 am - EARTH24LM
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Library Center Theatre, Park City
Friday, January 16, 9:30 pm - SEPTE16GN
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC
For more screening times, see page 16. For more screening times, see page 37.
2009 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org/festival GALA OPENINGS 11

U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
From explorations of cultural trends and political Art & Copy

DIRECTOR: Doug Pray
movements to examinations of deeply personal issues, SCREENWRITER: Timothy J. Sexton
documentary films offer new ways to understand our U.S.A., 2008, 86 min., color
Got creativity? Got manipulation? Got art? Advertis-

world. With spectacular variety, these 16 films represent ing’s profound effect on modern culture is unques-
tionable. Art & Copy takes us inside a powerful, yet
the best new work in American nonfiction filmmaking. surprisingly unknown, industry to reveal the most
influential creative forces tapping the zeitgeist of
our time. Think of those commercials we can never
seem to get out of our heads. Each one is the brain
child of an industry typically associated with pander-
ing and manipulation. Is great advertising actually a
rare and rebellious accomplishment more akin to—
dare I say it—art?
Beginning in the 1960s, a creative revolution revital-

ized the advertising industry. Bill Bernbach launched
the Volkswagen Beetle, prompting viewers to “think
small.” Dan Wieden coined “Just Do It” and forever
changed the way we motivate ourselves athletically.
Hal Riney all but insured Reagan’s reelection with
heart-tugging TV ads. Mary Wells Lawrence reinvent-
ed the big bad apple via her “I love NY” campaign.
George Lois gave Tommy Hilfiger the makeover of a
lifetime, while Cliff Freeman wondered “Where’s the
beef?” and Jeff Goodby and Rich Silverstein asked,
“Got Milk?”
Renowned documentary filmmaker Doug Pray

(Scratch, Surfwise) intermingles dazzling foot-
age of TV satellites being launched and billboards
being erected with some of the most remarkable
ad campaigns of all time. Like the talented subjects
he profiles, Pray creates a rousing synthesis of art,
commerce, and human emotion.—DAVID COURIER
ExP: David Baldwin, Gregory Beauchamp, Kirk

Souder, Mary Warlick Pr: Jimmy Greenway, Michael
Nadeau Ci: Peter Nelson Ed: Philip Owens
Com: Jeff Martin
Preceded by The Archive

U.S.A., 2008, 8 min., color
Director: Sean Dunne
Friday, January 16, 5:30 pm - ARTCO16PE

Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Saturday, January 17, 9:15 am - ARTCO174M
Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City
Sunday, January 18, 6:15 pm - ARTCO18BE
Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC
Wednesday, January 21, 12:15 pm - ARTCO214D
Thursday, January 22, 3:00 pm - ARTCO22TA
Temple Theatre, Park City
12 Friday, January 23, noon - ARTCO23SD
Screening Room, Sundance Resort
Boy Interrupted The Cove Crude
DIRECTOR: Dana Perry DIRECTOR: Louie Psihoyos DIRECTOR: Joe Berlinger
U.S.A., 2008, 92 min., color SCREENWRITER: Mark Monroe U.S.A., 2009, 100 min., color
U.S.A., 2008, 90 min., color English and Spanish with English subtitles
Boy Interrupted is a film that raises questions. It
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 PrCo: Production Company
asks how a young boy can end his life at the tender Flipper was one of the most beloved television char- Can 30,000 plaintiffs from five Indigenous
age of 15. It struggles to find answers about what acters of all time. But ironically, the fascination with Ecuadoran tribes find justice from Chevron, one of
kind of family he had and the life he led. By its dolphins that it caused created a tragic epidemic the world’s largest oil producers? Who is responsible
very nature, it is a naked display of its filmmaker’s that has threatened their existence and become a for the unconscionable dumping of 18 billion gallons
personal life at its most revealing and perhaps dis- multibillion-dollar industry. of toxic oil waste in the Ecuadoran Amazon, poison-
turbing. How can a mother, we may ask, make a film ing the most biodiverse place on the planet?
about the death of her son? What defines this film The largest supplier of dolphins in the world is
as a remarkably unique and truth-telling achieve- located in the picturesque town of Taiji, Japan. But Filmmaker Joe Berlinger’s latest documentary picks
ment is the way it explores how filmmaking can cre- the town has a dark, horrifying secret that it doesn’t up the thread of the infamous “Amazon Chernobyl”
ate closure for its creators as well as its audience. want the rest of the world to know. There are case, a 13-year-old battle between communities
guards patrolling the cove, where the dolphin cap- nearly destroyed by oil drilling and development
Dana Perry has gathered home movies, photo- turing takes place, who prevent any photography. and one of the biggest companies on earth. In a
graphs, and a variety of different documents to tell The only way to stop the evil acts of this company sophisticated take on the classic David and Goliath
the story of her son, Evan: his bipolar illness, his and the town that protects it is to expose them... story, Berlinger took three years to craft a cinema
life, and his death, and their impact on those who and that’s exactly what the brave group of activists vérité portrait centering on the charismatic lawyers
loved him the most. She interviews his siblings and in The Cove intend to do. in the U.S. and Ecuador who have doggedly pursued
friends, his doctors and his teachers, and in the the case against all of the forces a corporation can
process, she chronicles a harrowing and difficult Armed with state-of-the-art surveillance equip- bring into courts of law.
journey. The camera provides insight and revelation, ment, the members of the small group, led by the
and yet Boy Interrupted is a film that is also full of most famous dolphin trainer in the world, devise Though the Ecuadorans receive the lion’s share of
despair. The film’s saving grace is that it functions, a covert plan to infiltrate the cove to document screen time, the film makes a concerted effort to
in the final analysis, as therapy for both its viewers the horrifying events that happen there. Along the show the case from all sides: from the scientists and
and its subjects at a most fundamental level. It is way, they uncover what may be the largest health lawyers employed by Chevron, to Ecuadoran judges,
an essentially human story, and a parent’s worst crisis facing our planet—the poisoning of our seas. to celebrity activists and humanitarian organizers,
nightmare.—GEOFFREY GILMORE Part environmental documentary, part horror film, to the media, to the dramatic intervention of Rafael
part spy thriller, The Cove is as suspenseful as it is Correa himself, the first Ecuadoran president to
ExP: Sheila Nevins Pr: Dana Perry Ci: Hart Perry enlightening. The final result is a heart-wrenching, sympathize with the Indigenous perspective.
Ed: Geoff Bartz Mu: Michael Bacon but inspirational story that shows the true power of
film in the hands of people who aren’t afraid to risk In a tale that spans the globe, Crude looks beyond
So: Margaret Crimmins compassion for the disenfranchised and the corrup-
everything for a vital cause.—TREVOR GROTH
tion of those in power to ask how justice itself is
Friday, January 16, 3:00 pm - BOYIN16TA being defined in the twenty-first century.
ExP: Jim Clark Pr: Fisher Stevens, Paula DuPre —CARA MERTES
Temple Theatre, Park City Pesmen CoP: Olivia Ahnemann Ed: Geoffrey Richman
Saturday, January 17, 8:30 am - BOYIN173M
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City ExP: Liesl Copland, Jon Kamen Pr: Joe Berlinger,
Sunday, January 18, 3:00 pm - COVEE18TA Michael Bonfiglio, J.R. DeLeon, Richard Stratton
Saturday, January 17, 9:45 pm - BOYIN17BN Temple Theatre, Park City CoP: Daniel Luciano, Danielle Pelland, Stewart
Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Zweibel Ci: Juan Diego Pérez, Pocho Alvarez, Joe
Tuesday, January 20, 2:30 pm - COVEE20LA
Sunday, January 18, 9:00 pm - BOYIN18SN Library Center Theatre, Park City Berlinger, Michael Bonfiglio Ed: Alyse Ardell Spiegel
Screening Room, Sundance Resort SecUnD: Michael Bonfiglio
Wednesday, January 21, 7:30 pm - COVEE21BE
Wednesday, January 21, 9:00 pm - BOYIN21TN Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC
Temple Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 18, 6:00 pm - CRUDE18TE
Thursday, January 22, 9:00 pm - COVEE22TN Temple Theatre, Park City
Thursday, January 22, 2:30 pm - BOYIN223A Temple Theatre, Park City
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Monday, January 19, 8:30 am - CRUDE193M
Saturday, January 24, 9:00 am - COVEE24TM Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City
Wednesday, January 21, 6:00 pm - CRUDE21TE
Thursday, January 22, 9:45 pm - CRUDE22BN
Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC
Friday, January 23, noon - CRUDE23TD
Saturday, January 24, 3:00 pm - CRUDE24SA
2009 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org/festival U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION 13
Dirt! The Movie El General Good Hair
DIRECTORS: Bill Benenson, Gene Rosow DIRECTOR: Natalia Almada DIRECTOR: Jeff Stilson
U.S.A., 2009, 90 min., color Mexico/U.S.A., 2008, 83 min., color SCREENWRITERS: Chris Rock, Jeff Stilson,
Spanish with English subtitles Lance Crouther, Chuck Sklar
Possessing both a cosmic perspective that reaches
U.S.A., 2009, 95 min., color
into the vastness of time and space, and the kind of “How do we reconcile the contradictions between
warm, earnest energy that inspires small revolu- our personal family memories and our country’s When Chris Rock’s daughter, Lola, came up to him
tions inside human hearts, Dirt! The Movie offers an collective memory?” When filmmaker Natalia Almada crying and asked, “Daddy, how come I don’t have
important and timely look at the vital relationship asks this question, the answer is her latest film, good hair?” the bewildered comic committed himself
between those of us on Earth and something that a tour de force of cinematic imagination bristling to search the ends of the earth and the depths of
is easy to take for granted—the soil upon which we with beauty, contradiction, and the epic scope of black culture to find out who had put that question
tread. Mexico’s last 100 years of history. into his little girl’s head! Director Jeff Stilson’s cam-
era followed the funnyman, and the result is Good
Inspired by William Bryant Logan’s acclaimed book Stunningly realized, Almada’s filmic meditation is Hair, a wonderfully insightful and entertaining, yet
Dirt, the Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, directors Bill framed as a search through the memory of her remarkably serious, documentary about African
Benenson and Gene Rosow employ a colorful grandmother, whose reminiscences revolve around American hair culture.
combination of animation, vignettes, and personal her father, Plutarco Elías Calles, one of Mexico’s
accounts from farmers, physicists, church leaders, most prominent and controversial presidents. A An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris
children, wine critics, anthropologists, and activists general during the Mexican Revolution and then Rock could pull off, Good Hair visits hair salons and
to learn about dirt—where it comes from, how president from 1924 to 1928, Calles was known both styling battles, scientific laboratories, and Indian
we regard (or disregard) it, how it sustains us, the for his deeds as a revolutionary hero and the brutal temples to explore the way black hairstyles impact
way it has become endangered, and what we can tactics he employed during his presidency. His life the activities, pocketbooks, sexual relationships, and
do about it. Benenson and Rosow find answers and legacy embody both the promise and betrayal of self-esteem of black people. Celebrities such as Ice-
everywhere: in tiny villages that dare to rise up to Mexico’s poignant history. T, Kerry Washington, Nia Long, Paul Mooney, Raven
battle giant corporations to trendy organic farms; Symoné, Maya Angelou, and Reverend Al Sharpton
from prison horticultural programs to scientists who For Almada, the exploration of her extraordinary all candidly offer their stories and observations to
discover connections with soil that can offset the personal link to Mexico’s past becomes a lens Rock while he struggles with the task of figuring
damage from global warming. through which she explores the qualities of cinema out how to respond to his daughter’s question.
that have formed the fulcrum of her artistic practice What he discovers is that black hair is a big business
The fresh and generous spirit of Dirt! The Movie is over her career. Archival and original footage, that doesn’t always benefit the black community
simple and energizing. You may walk into the theatre Hollywood films, and still photographs are woven and little Lola’s question might well be bigger than
on asphalt, carpet, and cement, but you will likely with original music and meticulously edited audio ar- his ability to convince her that the stuff on top of
walk out with a rekindled connection to the living, chives to reveal a hypnotic and deeply compassion- her head is nowhere near as important as what is
dark, rich soil that lies beneath you and a mind set ate portrait of the Mexican people and the forces inside.—SHARI FRILOT
on cultivating a new future.—SHARI FRILOT that have shaped their country.—CARA MERTES
ExP: Nelson George Pr: Chris Rock, Kevin O’Donnell,
ExP: Bill Benenson, Laurie Benenson Pr: Bill Pr: Daniela Alatorre, Natalia Almada Jenny Hunter Ci: Cliff Charles Ed: Paul Marchand,
Benenson, Gene Rosow, Eleanore Dailly Ci: Chuy Chavez Mu: Shahzad Ismaily, John Zorn Greg Nash Mu: Marcus Miller
Ci: Antonio Rossi, Tom Pakulsky, Steve Elkins So: Alejandro de Icaza
Ed: Anne Stein, Jonathan Shaw MuS: Tom Schnable
So: Michael Kowalski Sunday, January 18, 9:00 pm - GOODH18TN
Sunday, January 18, noon - GENER18TD Temple Theatre, Park City
Preceded by Magnetic Movie Monday, January 19, midnight - GOODH194L
Monday, January 19, 9:00 am - GENER19EM Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City
United Kingdom, 2007, 5 min., color Egyptian Theatre, Park City
Director: Semiconductor: Ruth Jarmon + Wednesday, January 21, 9:30 pm - GOODH21GN
Joe Gerheardt Tuesday, January 20, 6:00 pm - GENER20SE Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC
Monday, January 19, 3:00 pm - DIRTT19TA Thursday, January 22, 8:30 pm - GOODH223M
Wednesday, January 21, 6:45 pm - GENER21BE Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City
Temple Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC
Tuesday, January 20, noon - DIRTT20TD Friday, January 23, 3:00 pm - GOODH23TA
Thursday, January 22, 6:00 pm - GENER22TE Temple Theatre, Park City
Temple Theatre, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City
Wednesday, January 21, 8:30 am - DIRTT213M Friday, January 23, 12:15 pm - GENER234D
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City
Friday, January 23, 9:30 pm - DIRTT23TN
Saturday, January 24, 4:30 pm - DIRTT24BA
Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC
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DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Over the Hills and Far Away The Reckoning Reporter

DIRECTOR: Michel Orion Scott DIRECTOR: Pamela Yates DIRECTOR/CINEMATOGRAPHER/EDITOR:
U.S.A., 2008, 93 min., color U.S.A., 2009, 100 min., color Eric Daniel Metzgar
Spanish/French/Swahili/ Acholi/Lingalla with U.S.A., 2008, 90 min., color
Over the Hills and Far Away explores one family’s English subtitles
unforgettable journey as they travel halfway across As focused as this superbly conceived examination
the world in search of a miracle to heal their autistic Late in the twentieth century, in response to of The New York Times reporter Nicholas D. Kristof
son. This sweeping and emotionally charged story horrific atrocities igniting increasingly around the is on its subject, filmmaker Eric Daniel Metzgar has
embodies the openness and faith the Isaacson world, more than 60 countries united to launch a much greater arena in mind in this multilayered
family places in the possibility of trying something the International Criminal Court (ICC)—the first exploration of journalism than just the work and
extraordinary. permanent home for prosecuting perpetrators (no impact of the Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist. That
matter how powerful) of crimes against humanity, journalism, at least as we have known it, is undergo-
Rowan was born in 2001, seven years after his war crimes, and genocide. ing a massive transformation is certainly no secret,
parents met while touring India. His father, Rupert, but Metzgar amplifies this limited insight with a
a British journalist and human-rights activist, and Pamela Yates’s The Reckoning follows charismatic fully fleshed-out portrait of the importance of real
his mother, Kristin, a psychology professor from ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo for three years news gathering in enabling democratic nations to
suburban California, felt the world was their oyster. across four continents as he and his team tirelessly function and illuminating a world in chaos. Tracking
After their son was diagnosed with autism in 2004, issue arrest warrants for Lord’s Resistance Army Kristof as he traveled during the summer of 2007 to
their perfect life began to fall apart. They tried leaders in Uganda, put Congolese warlords on trial, the Congo to report on the conflict and desperate
conventional therapies, diets, and medication, all challenge the U.N. Security Council to help indict poverty besieging that African republic in an at-
to no avail. Rupert had witnessed the potency of Sudan’s president for the Darfur massacres, and tempt to put this crisis on the international radar, as
traditional healing and discovered that his son had a shake up the Colombian justice system. As you can he did with his articles on Darfur, the film immerses
special bond with horses. He researched and found a imagine, building cases against genocidal criminals us in a discussion of the ways this kind of reportage
place that combined horseback riding and shamanic is no cakewalk. Moreno-Ocampo has a mandate but reaches the public, effects change, and creates a
healing—Mongolia. The next step was convincing no police force. At every turn, he must pressure the humanitarian response.
his wife they should take their son to Ulaanbaatar international community to muster political clout
and travel on horseback, searching for the elusive for the cause. It is far too simple minded to see virulently opinion-
reindeer herders and the most powerful shaman in ated blogging and brainless infotainment overtaking
the country. Like a deft thriller, The Reckoning keeps you on the and defining the future of knowledge and under-
edge of your seat, in this case with two riveting standing, but the crisis in journalism is real, and this
Accompanied by Rupert’s honest narration, this rich dramas—the prosecution of unspeakable crimes sophisticated, analytical, and lyrically heartbreaking
film blends footage from the family’s adventure and the ICC’s fight for efficacy in its nascent years. account should become required viewing for anyone
through the Mongolian countryside with scenes As this tiny court in The Hague struggles to change who cares about the future of ideas.
from their life at home in Texas. Bolstered by the world and forge a new paradigm for justice, —GEOFFREY GILMORE
testimony from autism experts, including Dr. Temple innocent victims suffer and wait. Will Moreno-
Grandin, this compelling film exquisitely captures an Ocampo succeed? Will the world ensure that justice ExP: Ben Affleck Pr: Mikaela Beardsley, Steven
astonishing physical and spiritual journey. prevails?—CAROLINE LIBRESCO Cantor Mu: Eric Liebman So: Gautam Choudhury
—LISA VIOLA PrEx: Terry Clark Narrator: Eric Daniel Metzgar
Pr: Paco de Onís Ci: Melle van Essen Ed: Peter Kinoy,
Pr: Rupert Isaacson Ed: Rita K. Sanders AsE: Dara Kell Mu: Roger C. Miller
Michelle Green Mu: Lili Haydn, Kim Carroll So: Justin Friday, January 16, 9:30 pm - REPOR16TN
Hennard SecCam: Jeremy Bailey Temple Theatre, Park City
Monday, January 19, noon - RECKO19TD
Temple Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 18, 6:00 pm - REPOR18WE
Tower Theatre, SLC
Preceded by The Kinda Sutra Tuesday, January 20, 9:00 pm - RECKO20TN
Temple Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 20, 3:00 pm - REPOR20TA
Director: Jessica Yu Thursday, January 22, 3:00 pm - RECKO22SA
Screening Room, Sundance Resort Thursday, January 22, noon - REPOR22TD
Saturday, January 17, 3:00 pm - OVERT17TA Friday, January 23, 11:30 am - RECKO23LD
Temple Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Friday, January 23, 6:30 pm - REPOR23DE
Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction
Sunday, January 18, 9:15 pm - OVERT184N Saturday, January 24, 8:30 am - RECKO243M
Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Saturday, January 24, 9:15 am - REPOR244M
Monday, January 19, 10:30 pm - OVERT19BN
Thursday, January 22, 9:00 am - OVERT22TM
Saturday, January 24, 3:00 pm - OVERT24TA
The September Issue Sergio Shouting Fire: Stories from
DIRECTOR: R.J. Cutler DIRECTOR: Greg Barker the Edge of Free Speech
U.S.A., 2008, 90 min., color U.S.A., 2008, 94 min., color DIRECTOR: Liz Garbus
Anna Wintour, editor of Vogue for 20 years, is the Based on the biography Chasing the Flame by U.S.A., 2008, 80 min., color
most powerful and polarizing figure in fashion. Samantha Power, Sergio is the story of the United
During the 1950s, McCarthy’s red scare closed down
Larger than life and more complex than fiction, Nation’s go-to guy. A cross between James Bond
avenues of dissent for a decade. Americans were
Wintour embodies a fascinating contradiction of and Bobby Kennedy, Sergio Vieira de Mello could
pitted against one another. Political opinions be-
passion and perfectionism as she reigns over a descend into the most dangerous places, charm
came ammunition. Since 9/11, the First Amendment
dizzying array of designers, models, photographers, the worst war criminals, and somehow protect the
has again been under attack. Liz Garbus’s Shouting
and editors. lives of the ordinary people to whom he’d devoted
Fire, a riveting exploration of the current state of
his life. After a string of doomed relationships, he
Director R.J. Cutler delivers a rare insider account free speech in America, is crucially relevant.
was about to settle down finally with the woman
of the nine months leading up to the printing of the he loved. And then came the call: another crisis, and Interweaving historical cases—The New York
highly anticipated September issue of the magazine, Sergio was the only man for the job. Persuaded by Times’s fight to publish the Pentagon Papers and
which promises to be the biggest one ever. He takes Kofi Anaan, Condoleezza Rice, and Tony Blair, the Nazis’ insistence on marching in Skokie, among
us behind the scenes at fashion week, to Europe and Sergio reluctantly took up his post as U.N. them—with contemporary free-speech infringe-
back, on shoots and reshoots, and into closed-door ambassador to Iraq. ments, the film documents the way both the Right
staff meetings, bearing witness to an arduous and and the Left have lashed out in fear. In the stories
sometimes emotionally demanding process. On August 19, 2003, a bomb struck the U.N.
of a left-wing professor fired for provocative re-
headquarters in Baghdad, marking a watershed
At the eye of this annual fashion hurricane is the marks about 9/11, an Arab American principal made
moment in history. For the first time, the U.N. had
two-decade relationship between Wintour and to resign after discussing the word “intifada,” and
become the target of terrorism. The news shocked
Grace Coddington, incomparable creative director Christian schoolkids suspended for wearing Bible-
the world.
and genius stylist. They are perfectly matched for quoting T-shirts, there’s an ironic pattern. When
this age-old conflict between creator and curator. With visceral immediacy, filmmaker Greg Barker threatened by an outside enemy, perceived or real,
Through them, we see close up the delicate creative recreates the events of a day that will forever live in we often demonize each other, undermining the very
chemistry it takes to remain at the top of the ever- infamy. Harrowing testimony from Sergio’s fiancée freedom we seek to protect.
changing fashion field. and the military paramedics who risked their own
lives to save him is interlaced with haunting footage We think of First Amendment rights as inviolable; in
Cutler cleverly deconstructs the creative process shot on the day of the bombing and reenactments fact, they’re profoundly vulnerable. Mixing vibrant
as it plays out in the hollowed halls of Vogue, lined of the rescue attempt. Devastatingly powerful, pacing with an elegant journalistic style, Garbus
with racks of couture. In The September Issue, his Sergio paints a portrait of a man who gambled with orchestrates this urgent matter like a rallying cry
access and insight are impressive and make us aware his own life to restore dignity to the lives of others. for action. As her father, legendary attorney Martin
that he is offering us a privileged glimpse into a —DAVID COURIER Garbus, wisely warns, if we don’t fight for our
world many dream about but few see. freedoms every day, we will lose them.
—JOHN COOPER —CAROLINE LIBRESCO
ExP: Samantha Power, Sheila Nevins, Nick Fraser
Pr: John Battsek, Julie Goldman Ed: Karen Schmeer
ExP: Molly Thompson, Robert Sharenow, Robert ExP: Sheila Nevins, Nancy Abraham Pr: Liz
DeBitetto, R.J. Cutler Pr: R.J. Cutler, Eliza Hindmarch, Garbus, Rory Kennedy, Jed Rothstein CoP: Karen K.
Sadia Shepard Ci: Bob Richman Ed: Azin Samari Saturday, January 17, 6:00 pm - SERGI17TE H. Sim Ci: Tom Hurwitz Ed: Karen K. H. Sim
Mu: Craig Richey So: Edward L. O’Connor Temple Theatre, Park City Mu: Miriam Cutler
Sunday, January 18, midnight - SERGI184L
Friday, January 16, 6:30 pm - SEPTE16GE Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City
Preceded by 575 Castro St.
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Monday, January 19, 9:45 pm - SERGI19BN U.S.A., 2008, 7 min., color
Friday, January 16, 9:30 pm - SEPTE16GN Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Director: Jenni Olson
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Tuesday, January 20, 9:00 pm - SERGI20SN
Saturday, January 17, noon - SEPTE17TD Screening Room, Sundance Resort
Monday, January 19, 9:00 pm - SHOUT19TN
Temple Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 21, noon - SERGI21TD Temple Theatre, Park City
Sunday, January 18, 5:30 pm - SEPTE183E Temple Theatre, Park City
Tuesday, January 20, 2:30 pm - SHOUT203A
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Friday, January 23, 2:30 pm - SERGI23PA Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City
Wednesday, January 21, 3:00 pm - SEPTE21TA Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Thursday, January 22, 6:45 pm - SHOUT22BE
Temple Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC
Friday, January 23, 9:15 am - SEPTE234M Friday, January 23, 8:30 am - SHOUT233M
Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City
Saturday, January 24, noon - SHOUT24TD
16
We Live in Public When You’re Strange William Kunstler:

DIRECTOR: Ondi Timoner DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Tom DiCillo Disturbing the Universe
U.S.A., 2008, 90 min., color U.S.A., 2008, 90 min., color & b/w DIRECTORS: Emily Kunstler, Sarah Kunstler
Calling all voyeurs and exhibitionists! Internet pio- The Doors are probably my favorite band. Maybe U.S.A., 2009, 90 min., color
neer Josh Harris has spent his life implementing his that’s because they emerged at such a troubled One of the most infamous lawyers of the twentieth
unique vision of the future, where technology and point in American history and so captured the zeit- century, William Kunstler liked to shake things up.
media dictate human social interaction and define geist of that era, the late 1960s and early ‘70s. And Filmmakers Emily and Sarah Kunstler explore their
our personal identity. yet I don’t mythologize them. Tom DiCillo’s feature father’s life and legacy: from middle-class family
documentary is such an inspired portrait of not only
At the turn of the millenium, Harris launched an art man to celebrated radical activist to “the most hated
the band and its iconic singer, Jim Morrison, but also
experiment called Quiet: We Live in Public. He cre- lawyer in America.”
that time period and its contradictions, its optimism
ated an artificial society in an underground bunker and fury, its co-optation and transformation, that it Kunstler’s resume is one for the storybooks. He
in the heart of New York City. More than 100 artists instantly carried me back to those days. fought for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr.
moved in and lived in pods under 24-hour surveil- and catapulted to the world stage by defending the
lance in what was essentially a human terrarium. When You’re Strange is far from a nostalgic journey Chicago Eight. Soon Kunstler became the go-to guy
They defecated, had sex, shared a transparent com- and much more than a biopic. Using only original
for the radical left. When inmates rioted at Attica
munal shower—all on camera. On January 1, 2000, footage shot between 1966 and 1971, DiCillo’s film
prison or Native Americans took on the federal
after 30 days, the project was busted by FEMA as a attempts to disentangle truth from myth, depict the
government at Wounded Knee, they chose Kunstler
“millennial cult.” artist and the alcoholic/addict that was Morrison,
as their lawyer. In the 1970s, when Emily and Sarah
and showcase the other members of the band: Ray
were growing up, their father transitioned away
Undeterred, Harris struck again, this time as his own Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore, who
from civil-rights cases. Lured to the limelight of
subject. Rigging his loft with 32 motion-controlled together channeled the group’s magic. It manages to
high-profile criminal cases, Kunstler represented
cameras, he paid his girlfriend $30,000 to allow him preserve the mystique but never ceases to unearth
accused rapists, terrorists, and Mafia bosses. Being
to record streaming video of every moment of their new revelations and augment our understanding of
on the unpopular side of the infamous Central Park
lives from the toilet to the bedroom. The project who The Doors were and what they became.
jogger trial was perhaps the linchpin that triggered
backfired, his relationship imploded, and Harris went his fall from grace.
broke. Mentally unhinged, he fled to an apple farm As well as an astute chronicle of the times, this is a
in upstate New York. deeply personal film for DiCillo. In the final analysis,
Was the real William Kunstler a hero or a villain? A
When You’re Strange is a rare tribute to music, defender of the defenseless or an egomaniac drawn
Sundance award winner Ondi Timoner (DIG! won individuality, and a generation and resonates with
to fame? Eschewing white-hat, black-hat simplicity,
the Grand Jury Prize in 2004) chronicled Harris for a an authenticity that speaks to anyone who wants to
Emily and Sarah Kunstler share a provocative and
decade, culling through thousands of hours of understand that era and what it means today.
deeply personal journey as they paint a complex
Harris’s own footage and coupling it with rous- —GEOFFREY GILMORE
portrait of a man whose life mirrors the battles that
ing vérité of her own. The result is a fascinating, forever defined our history.—DAVID COURIER
sexy, yet cautionary, tale where we all become Big Pr: John Beug, Jeff Jampol, Peter Jankowski, Dick
Brother.—DAVID COURIER Wolf Ci: Paul Ferrara Ed: Micky Blythe, Kevin Krasny
ExP: Vanessa Wanger Pr: Jesse Moss, Susan
Korda Ci: Brett Wiley Ed: Emily Kunstler
ExP: Sean McKeough, Vladamir Radovanov, John Mu: Shahzad Ismaily
Battsek, Andrew Ruhemann Pr: Ondi Timoner, Keirda Saturday, January 17, 9:00 pm - WHENY17TN
Bahruth CoP: Jeff Frey, Austin Wilkin, Meagen Temple Theatre, Park City
Keane, Vasco Nunes Ed: Josh Altman, Ondi Timoner Sunday, January 18, 2:30 pm - WHENY183A Friday, January 16, noon - DISTU16TD
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City
Monday, January 19, 6:00 pm - WELIV19TE Tuesday, January 20, 6:00 pm - WHENY20BE Saturday, January 17, 2:30 pm - DISTU173A
Temple Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City
Tuesday, January 20, 11:30 am - WELIV203D Wednesday, January 21, 9:00 am - WHENY21TM Sunday, January 18, 6:00 pm - DISTU18SE
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City Screening Room, Sundance Resort
Tuesday, January 20, 7:30 pm - WELIV20BE Friday, January 23, 6:15 pm - WHENY234E Monday, January 19, 6:45 pm - DISTU19BE
Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC
Thursday, January 22, 6:00 pm - WELIV22SE Wednesday, January 21, 9:15 am - DISTU214M
Screening Room, Sundance Resort Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City
Friday, January 23, 9:00 am - WELIV23TM Friday, January 23, 8:30 pm - DISTU233N
Temple Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City
Saturday, January 24, 2:30 pm - WELIV243A
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City

U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION
The vision and creativity of independent filmmakers Adam

can be seen through the Festival’s diverse and DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Max Mayer
U.S.A., 2009, 95 min., color
highly anticipated competition of dramatic films. In movies, when two twentysomethings
serendipitously wind up under the same Manhattan
Representing unique perspectives and aesthetics, roof, witty repartee usually transpires, then sparks
fly, and eventually they fall into bed. But the boy
these 16 films signal the arrival of the newest voices and the girl in Adam are no ordinary characters, and
their romance is anything but familiar.
and storytelling in American film.
Soon after moving in, Beth, a brainy, beautiful
writer, encounters Adam, the handsome, but odd,
fellow in the downstairs apartment. A pleasant
chemistry flows, but his awkwardness is perplexing.
Whether avoiding eye contact or standing by
blithely while Beth drags a heavy load up steep
stairs, Adam seems utterly oblivious to social
convention. Then one night, Adam regales Beth
with an elaborate outer-space light show. It’s a
magical moment, tainted slightly by his obsessively
thorough astronomical explanation. Their
connection is palpable. It becomes clear that Adam’s
inability to decipher nonverbal signals is beyond his
control. And yet Beth doesn’t balk.
What makes this rare story about obstacles

to human intimacy credible is its tremendous
psychological wisdom; what makes it transcendent
is the intelligence and authenticity radiating from
actors Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne. Though their
particular challenges are extraordinary, Beth and
Adam’s tricky relationship elucidates something
universal: truly reaching another person means
bravely stretching into discomfiting territory—
and the shake-up can be liberating.
—CAROLINE LIBRESCO
ExP: Dan Revers, Chistina Weiss Lurie Pr: Leslie

Urdang, Miranda De Pencier, Dean Vanech CoP:
Gary Guidice, Geoff Linville Ci: Seamus Tierney Ed:
Grant Myers PrD: Tamar Gadish Principal Cast: Hugh
Dancy, Rose Byrne, Frankie Faison, Peter Gallagher,
Amy Irving, Mark Linn-Baker
Preceded by Small Collection

Director: Jeremiah Crowell
Monday, January 19, 12:15 pm - ADAMM19CD

Tuesday, January 20, 5:15 pm - ADAMM20RE
Racquet Club, Park City
Thursday, January 22, 8:30 pm - ADAMM22PM
Friday, January 23, 5:30 pm - ADAMM23LE
Library Center Theatre, Park City
18 Saturday, January 24, 3:00 pm - ADAMM24BA
Amreeka Arlen Faber Big Fan
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Cherien Dabis DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: John Hindman DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Robert Siegel
U.S.A./Canada/Kuwait, 2009, 96 min., color U.S.A., 2008, 95 min., color U.S.A., 2008, 102 min., color
English and Arabic with English subtitles
Arlen Faber (Jeff Daniels) is the reclusive author of For legions of people, sports teams are religion,
Director Cherien Dabis’s auspicious debut feature, Me and God, a book that has redefined spirituality and their favorite players are their idols. This no-
Amreeka, is a warm and lighthearted film about for an entire generation. On the eve of the twen- tion sparks the hilarious premise of Big Fan, the
one Palestinian family’s tumultuous journey into tieth anniversary of his still-wildly-popular book, exhilarating directing debut from Robert Siegel, the
Diaspora amidst the cultural fallout of America’s Arlen continues to be sought after as the man with screenwriter of The Onion Movie and The Wrestler.
war in Iraq. all the answers. Then his life collides with those of
Elizabeth (Lauren Graham), a single mom raising her Paul Aufiero, a 35-year-old parking-garage attendant
Muna Farah, a Palestinian single mom, struggles to seven-year-old son, and Kris (Lou Taylor Pucci), a from working-class Staten Island, is the self-
maintain her optimistic spirit in the daily grind of young man fresh out of rehab who is searching for described “world’s biggest New York Giants fan.”
intimidating West Bank checkpoints, the constant meaning. Both Elizabeth and Kris are hopeful that One night Paul and his best friend, Sal, spot star
nagging of a controlling mother, and the haunting Arlen has answers for them, but the truth is that he Giants linebacker Quantrell Bishop at a gas station
shadows of a failed marriage. Everything changes hasn’t got a clue. in Staten Island. They impulsively follow his SUV into
one day when she receives a letter informing her Manhattan to a strip club, where they finally muster
that her family has been granted a U.S. green card. In Arlen Faber, writer/director John Hindman’s up the courage to talk to their hero. What starts
Reluctant to leave her homeland, but realizing it dialogue is clever and insightful but not enough out as a dream come true turns into a nightmare as
may be the only way to secure a future for Fadi, her to eclipse the underlying sweetness of his film. He a misunderstanding ignites a violent confrontation,
teenage son, Muna decides to quit her job at the brings together an eccentric group of characters and Paul is sent down a path that will test his devo-
bank and visit her relatives in Illinois to see about and allows them to work their way through this tion to the extreme.
a new life in a land that gives newcomers a run for unique and ultimately inspiring story. It helps that
their money. the talented cast have an engaging chemistry that Patton Oswalt is perfectly cast as Paul, infusing him
draws us into their cinematic lives. The emotional with a humanity that renders him empathetic in-
Dabis weaves an abundance of humor and levity into walls between our main characters are high—but stead of pathetic. Siegel has an innate understand-
this tale of struggle, displacement, and nostalgia not insurmountable, so the pleasure is in watching ing of—and reverence for—his characters but finds
and draws an absorbing and irresistibly charming them try to get over them. If romance gives Arlen humor in every scene by perfectly capturing the
performance from actress Nisreen Faour as Muna, Faber its heart, then its spine is the things that details of their world. From the posters on the walls,
who stands at the heart of this tale. Amreeka glows make life complicated—heroes that let us down, life to the NFL bed sheets, to the “spontaneous” smack
with the truth and magic of everyday life and signals not giving us what we deserve, and fame not being talking, he nails it. Big Fan resonates with truth and
the arrival of an exciting, new directorial talent. all it’s cracked up to be. —JOHN COOPER insight, and the result is a film that will make you
—SHARI FRILOT laugh and wince at the same time—a very winning
ExP: Rachel Cohen, Stephen Hays, Peter Graham, combination. —TREVOR GROTH
ExP: Alicia Sams, Cherien Dabis Pr: Christina Michael Lesser Pr: Kevin Messick, Jana Edelbaum
Piovesan, Paul Barkin CoP: Liz Jarvis, Al-Zain CoP: Rebecca Rivo, Deborah Aquila Ci: Oliver ExP: Jen Cohn Pr: Jean Kouremetis, Elan Bogarin
Al-Sabah Ci: Tobias Datum Ed: Keith Reamer Mu: Bokelberg Ed: Jerry Greenberg PrD: Alex DiGerlando CoP: Joshua Trank Ci: Michael Simmonds Ed: Joshua
Kareem Roustom Principal Cast: Nisreen Faour, Principal Cast: Jeff Daniels, Lauren Graham, Lou Trank Mu: Philip Watts Principal Cast: Patton
Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Taylor Pucci, Olivia Thirlby, Kat Dennings, Nora Dunn Oswalt, Michael Rapaport, Kevin Corrigan, Marcia
Alia Shawkat, Joseph Ziegler Jean Kurtz, Matt Servitto
Sunday, January 18, 5:15 pm - ARLEN18RE

Saturday, January 17, 12:15 pm - AMREE17CD Racquet Club, Park City Sunday, January 18, 8:00 pm - BIGFA18RN
Eccles Theatre, Park City Racquet Club, Park City
Tuesday, January 20, 8:00 pm - ARLEN20RN
Sunday, January 18, 9:45 pm - AMREE18BN Racquet Club, Park City Tuesday, January 20, 11:15 am - BIGFA20RD
Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Racquet Club, Park City
Wednesday, January 21, 6:00 pm - ARLEN21WE
Monday, January 19, 2:15 pm - AMREE19RA Tower Theatre, SLC Tuesday, January 20, 9:00 pm - BIGFA20BN
Racquet Club, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC
Thursday, January 22, 12:15 pm - ARLEN22CD
Wednesday, January 21, 8:30 am - AMREE21RM Eccles Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 22, 3:15 pm - BIGFA22CA
Racquet Club, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City
Saturday, January 24, 11:15 am - ARLEN24LD
Thursday, January 22, 8:30 pm - AMREE22LN Library Center Theatre, Park City Friday, January 23, 8:30 am - BIGFA23RM
Library Center Theatre, Park City Racquet Club, Park City
Special screening for Park City locals. Pass holders and Saturday, January 24, 9:30 pm - ARLEN24ON
any others need to waitlist. Contact the Park City Main Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden
Box Office for ticket information.
2009 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org/festival U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION 19

Brief Interviews Cold Souls Dare
with Hideous Men DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Sophie Barthes DIRECTOR: Adam Salky
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: John Krasinski U.S.A., 2008, 97 min., color SCREENWRITER: David Brind
U.S.A., 2008, 72 min., color English and Russian with English subtitles U.S.A., 2009, 92 min., color
In response to shiny, bigger, better American Dare follows three very-different teenagers
John Krasinski, best known for playing the charming consumerism comes Cold Souls, a metaphysical tragi-
everyman, Jim Halpert, on The Office, may seem an through the last semester of high school. They are
comedy in which souls can be extracted and traded Alexa (Emmy Rossum), the overachieving good girl
unlikely candidate to adapt and direct the late David as commodities.
Foster Wallace’s caustic exploration of the hideous who longs to break out of her shell; Ben (Ashley
nature of men. However, he proves himself up to Springer), the melancholy outsider confused about
Balancing on a tightrope between deadpan humor his sexuality; and Johnny (Zach Gilford), the rich kid
the challenge and delivers a provocative and darkly and pathos, and between reality and fantasy, the
comedic film. who has everything, including good looks, but hides
film presents Paul Giamatti as himself, agonizing behind his bad-boy persona. This unlikely trio fall
over his interpretation of Uncle Vanya. Paralyzed into each other’s lives and each other’s arms, making
When her boyfriend leaves her with little explana- with anxiety, he stumbles upon a solution via a New
tion, Sara Quinn is left looking for answers. A doc- a last-ditch effort to shake things up before they
Yorker article about a high-tech company promis- actually have to start living as adults.
toral candidate in anthropology at a prestigious East ing to alleviate suffering by deep-freezing souls.
Coast university, she thinks she can remedy both her Giamatti enlists its services, intending to reinstate
heartache and her academic challenges with a new Director Adam Salky and writer David Brind take
his soul once he survives the performance. But us into some uncharted territory with fresh eyes
research project and begins conducting a series of complications ensue when a mysterious, soul-
interviews with men. As she records the astonishing and matter-of-fact authority. Sweet and sexy don’t
trafficking “mule,” transporting product to and always go together, but they work beautifully in this
and disquieting experiences of various subjects, Sara from Russia, “borrows” Giamatti’s stored soul for an
discovers much more about men—and herself— instance because the sexuality of the film is cleverly
ambitious, but unfortunately talentless, soap-opera woven into the fabric of the story. You can ask
than she bargained for. actress. Rendered soulless, he is left with no choice why the kids are in such a hurry to experience adult
but to follow the trail back to bleak St. Petersburg. feelings, especially when their parents, comically
The subject matter of the stories ranges from the
He comes to value that happiness isn’t merely the enough, are afraid to get in the way. All is answered
bizarre to the banal. What is most alarming is that
absence of pain, but the integration of the full range in the nuanced performances of this exceptional
the stories aren’t extreme but all too common.
of emotion into life. cast. They capture perfectly a generation with
Julianne Nicholson delivers a subtly nuanced per-
formance as the recording object, both literally and nothing to rebel against except their self-imposed
Sophie Barthes’s debut feature is strikingly original, inhibitions.
figuratively, of the men’s revelations and desires. not only for its haunting concept but for its poetic
Motivated by all the right reasons, Krasinski’s execution. Inspired production design and lyrical
passion for the book resounds as he crafts a film By being keenly perceptive, director Salky stacks
cinematography create a melancholic, heightened up countless priceless moments in crafting teen
that is sure to inspire heated conversations. He also
world. Perfectly cast, Giamatti and a gifted ensemble
displays his deft ability in front of—and behind— romance with a decidedly modern spin. In Dare, the
maneuver seamlessly through shifting ontological kids do what they need to do to become the adults
the camera. —TREVOR GROTH landscapes without ever betraying the surrealism. they should be.—JOHN COOPER
With this dazzling accomplishment, Barthes estab-
ExP: Kevin Connors Pr: Eva Kolodner, Yael Melamede, lishes herself as an auteur to reckon with.
John Krasinski, James Suskin Ci: John Bailey Pr: Mary Jane Skalski, Jason Orans Ci: Michael
—CAROLINE LIBRESCO Fimognari Ed: John F. Lyons Mu: Duncan Sheik,
PrD: Stephen Beatrice CoD: Vicki Farrell Principal
Cast: Julianne Nicholson, John Krasinski, Bobby David Poe CoD: Caroline Duncan Ca: Kerry Barden,
Pr: Dan Carey, Elizabeth Giamatti, Paul Mezey, Andrij Paul Schnee Principal Cast: Emmy Rossum, Zach
Cannavale, Ben Shenkman, Dominic Cooper, Parekh, Jeremy Kipp Walker Ci: Andrij Parekh Ed:
Christopher Meloni Gilford, Ashley Springer, Ana Gasteyer, Alan
Andrew Mondshein PrD: Elizabeth Mickle Cumming, Sandra Bernhard
Mu: Dickon Hinchliffe CoD: Erin Benach Principal
Preceded by The Nature Between Us Cast: Paul Giamatti, Dina Korzun, David Strathairn,
U.S.A., 2008, 4 min., color Emily Watson, Katheryn Winnick, Lauren Ambrose Monday, January 19, 5:15 pm - DAREE19RE
Director: William Campbell Racquet Club, Park City
Saturday, January 17, 5:15 pm - COLDS17RE Tuesday, January 20, 2:15 pm - DAREE20RA
Monday, January 19, 3:15 pm - BRIEF19CA Racquet Club, Park City Racquet Club, Park City
Eccles Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 22, 11:30 pm - DAREE22PL
Sunday, January 18, 11:15 am - COLDS18RD
Tuesday, January 20, 8:30 am - BRIEF20RM Racquet Club, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Racquet Club, Park City Friday, January 23, 12:15 pm - DAREE23CD
Monday, January 19, 6:00 pm - COLDS19WE
Thursday, January 22, 5:15 pm - BRIEF22RE Tower Theatre, SLC Eccles Theatre, Park City
Racquet Club, Park City Saturday, January 24, 12:30 pm - DAREE24GD
Wednesday, January 21, 12:15 pm - COLDS21CD
Friday, January 23, 8:30 pm - BRIEF23LN Eccles Theatre, Park City Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC
Friday, January 23, 6:00 pm - COLDS23SE
Saturday, January 24, 3:30 pm - BRIEF24GA Screening Room, Sundance Resort
Saturday, January 24, 8:30 am - COLDS24PM
20 Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
DRAMATIC COMPETITION
Don’t Let Me Drown The Greatest Humpday

DIRECTOR: Cruz Angeles DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Shana Feste DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Lynn Shelton
SCREENWRITERS: Maria Topete, Cruz Angeles U.S.A., 2008, 98 min., color U.S.A., 2009, 92 min., color
U.S.A., 2008, 105 min., color
English and Spanish with English subtitles
Crying your eyes out at the movies used to be It’s been a decade since Ben and Andrew were the
commonplace. But the difficulty of affecting a con- bad boys of their college campus. Ben has settled
At the center of Cruz Angeles’s touching first temporary audience emotionally demonstrates how down and found a job, wife, and home. Andrew took
feature are Lalo and Stefanie, two high-school kids much respect a work like The Greatest engenders: it the alternate route as a vagabond artist, skipping
living in Brooklyn. Lalo comes from a Mexican im- is an enormously moving, intelligent exploration of the globe from Chiapas to Cambodia. When Andrew
migrant family that struggles financially. His father, pain and grieving, a film that will touch you and stay shows up, unannounced, on Ben’s doorstep, they
with you. easily fall back into their old dynamic of hetero-
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
formerly a janitor at the World Trade Center, now

works at Ground Zero cleaning up debris. Stefanie’s sexual one-upmanship. After a night of perfunctory
family moved back to Brooklyn after her sister was The death of their teenage son, Bennett, in a car carousing, the two find themselves locked in a
killed in the attacks. While her mother tries to hold crash is almost too much for the Brewer family to mutual dare: to enter an amateur porn contest. But
the family together, her father’s emotions have no bear, not just because his was a life of such promise what kind of boundary-breaking porn can two dudes
outlet but anger. Lalo and Stefanie meet at a birth- but also because the impact of his death unleashes make? After the booze and “big talk” run out, only
day party, and although they start off on the wrong the turmoil that was just beneath the surface of one idea remains—they will have sex together…on
foot, the ice melts, and their budding friendship their lives. His mother becomes obsessed and can’t camera. It’s not gay; it’s beyond gay. It’s not porn;
becomes a clandestine romance. let go; his father, in turn, can’t face it at all; and it’s an art project. But how will it work? And more
his brother’s secondary status is magnified and importantly, who will tell Anna, Ben’s wife?
Don’t Let Me Drown features an elegantly simple entrenched. And when Bennett’s girlfriend appears,
story, layered characters, and standout perfor- the family must come to grips with circumstances Judging by writer and director Lynn Shelton, it takes
mances, notably from its young leads. The director’s that complicate their loss even further. a talented woman to unearth the biggest ironies in
approach feels intuitive and brings a refreshing the male ego. Humpday is a buddy movie gone wild.
spontaneity to the story. He clearly knows every- An ensemble film that is the debut of Shana Feste, Shelton expertly mines this clever construct for
thing about his characters and creates an authentic- a particularly talented young filmmaker, this sensi- every possible comedic and irreverent moment. The
ity that brings out both their emotions and humor. tive and heartbreaking feature showcases Susan three lead actors deliver fine-tuned performances
The character interactions seem so slight, couched Sarandon and Pierce Brosnan at their best and amidst postmodern patter and tight, crisp storytell-
mostly in everyday, often-funny situations, but launches a career for young actress Carey Mulligan ing. Shelton’s command of her craft shines brightest
gradually the film accrues weight. The textures of that is certain to be impressive. This is one of the when our two gentlemen finally get down to the
the city and the lives of ordinary people are shaded standout works of this Festival and is as fine a task at hand: creating a classic “wriggle in your seat”
with a wistful sense of struggle, but the fabric of debut as we can present. —GEOFFREY GILMORE moment of truth. —JOHN COOPER
the film is woven from compassion. We care about
these characters because they care about each ExP: Pierce Brosnan, Aaron Kaufman, Doug Dey, Pr: Lynn Shelton CoP: Jennifer Maas, Steven Schardt
other: that’s how they keep their heads above water. Ron Hartenbaum, Douglas Kuber, Myles Nestel Ci: Ben Kasulke Ed: Nat Sanders PrD: Jasminka
—JOHN NEIN Pr: Lynette Howell, Beau St. Clair Ci: John Bailey Vukcevic Mu: Vinny Smith Principal Cast: Mark
Ed: Cara Silverman PrD: Judy Rhee Mu: Christophe Duplass, Joshua Leonard, Alycia Delmore, Lynn
ExP: Ian McGloin, Virgil Price, Jamie Mai, Charlie Beck Principal Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon, Shelton, Trina Willard
Ledley Pr: Maria Topete, Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Carey Mulligan, Johnny Simmons, Aaron Johnson,
James Lawler, Ben Howe Ci: Chad Davidson Michael Shannon
Friday, January 16, 12:15 pm - HUMPD16CD
PrD: Inbal Weinberg Ca: Eyde Belasco Principal Cast: Eccles Theatre, Park City
E.J. Bonilla, Gleendilys Inoa, Damián Alcázar, Ricardo Saturday, January 17, 3:15 pm - GREAT17CA
Antonio Chavira, Gina Torres, Yareli Arizmendi Eccles Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 17, 8:30 am - HUMPD17RM
Sunday, January 18, 8:30 am - GREAT18RM
Sunday, January 18, 12:15 pm - DONTL18CD Racquet Club, Park City Saturday, January 17, 9:00 pm - HUMPD17WN
Eccles Theatre, Park City Tower Theatre, SLC
Monday, January 19, 6:30 pm - GREAT19OA
Monday, January 19, 11:15 am - DONTL19RD Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden Monday, January 19, 3:00 pm - HUMPD19SA
Racquet Club, Park City Screening Room, Sundance Resort
Wednesday, January 21, 11:30 am - GREAT21LD
Wednesday, January 21, 5:30 pm - DONTL21LE Library Center Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 21, 2:15 pm - HUMPD21RA
Library Center Theatre, Park City Racquet Club, Park City
Wednesday, January 21, 9:00 pm - GREAT21WN
Thursday, January 22, noon - DONTL22SD Tower Theatre, SLC Friday, January 23, 5:15 pm - HUMPD23RE
Screening Room, Sundance Resort Racquet Club, Park City
Friday, January 23, 8:00 pm - GREAT23RN
Friday, January 23, 6:00 pm - DONTL23BE Racquet Club, Park City
Saturday, January 24, 8:30 am - DONTL24RM

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Paper Heart Peter and Vandy Push: Based on

DIRECTOR: Nicholas Jasenovec DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Jay DiPietro the novel by Sapphire
SCREENWRITERS: Nicholas Jasenovec, Charlyne Yi U.S.A., 2008, 85 min., color DIRECTOR: Lee Daniels
U.S.A., 2008, 88 min., color SCREENWRITER: Damien Paul
All couples are defined by their collective experi-
Charlyne Yi does not believe in love. Or so she says. ences together. But if they could go back in time U.S.A., 2008, 105 min., color
At the very least, she doesn’t believe in fairy-tale and look at those experiences again, would they be
the same as they remember? Would those moments With sheer audacity and utter authenticity, director
love or the Hollywood mythology, and her own
have the same meaning? Writer/director Jay DiPietro Lee Daniels tackles Push: Based on the novel by
experiences have made her—at minimum—a Sapphire and creates an unforgettable film that sets
modern-day skeptic. But this inquiry into love and explores these questions in Peter and Vandy, a story
about love with no beginning and no end. a new standard for cinema of its kind.
its present-day manifestations suggests she hasn’t
entirely given up hope. Precious Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) is a high-school girl
Set in Manhattan, the story shifts back and forth
in time, juxtaposing Peter and Vandy’s romantic with nothing working in her favor. She is pregnant
As Yi and her friend (and director), Nicholas Jasen- with her father’s child—for the second time. She
ovec, together search for answers and advice, you beginnings with the slow deterioration that fol-
lows. The way they bicker while trying to order can’t read or write, and her schoolmates tease her
get the idea that this new generation’s cynicism for being fat. Her home life is a horror, ruled by a
isn’t the whole story. And when she meets a man takeout, or laugh too hard at a bad joke, reveals
more about them than they can ever know in the mother (Mo’Nique) who keeps her imprisoned both
after her own heart…well, you can guess the rest. Yi, emotionally and physically. Precious’s instincts tell
a Los Angeles–based artist and comedian, certainly moment. As the film jumps around, the contrast is
jarring at times, enlightening at others, but it always her one thing: if she’s ever going to break from the
has an interesting array of friends and acquaintanc- chains of ignorance, she will have to dig deeply into
es. They offer diverse views on modern romance, enhances the viewing experience. By rearranging
the pieces of the puzzle, the film gives each piece her own resources.
as well as various answers to the age-old question:
does love really exist? But is this all for real? Is it a different meaning and offers the viewer a new
Don’t be misled—Push is not a film wallowing in
fantasy? Or is it a just a filmmaker’s quest? experience in reflecting on what it means to fall
the stillness of depression; instead, it vibrates with
in—and out of—love.
the kind of energy derived only from anger and
This is a wonderfully imagined journey of one girl’s
Adapted from DiPietro’s own acclaimed play, Peter hope. The entire cast is amazing; they carry out a
search for love. This self-conscious and self-reflec-
and Vandy’s successful transition to film is aided by firestorm of raw emotion. Daniels has drawn from
tive film leads us all down a “rabbit hole” of emo-
masterful performances from the two lead actors. them inimitable performances that will rivet you
tion, hope, and confusion that give this poignant,
Jess Weixler and Jason Ritter sparkle and wither to your seat and leave you too shocked to breathe.
funny, and intelligent film its…heart. Only people
at just the right pitch, filling the screen with grace If you passed Precious on the street, you probably
as aware and knowledgeable about their craft as Yi
notes of subtlety and complexity. Playing with wouldn’t notice her. But when her story is revealed,
and Jasenovec can make a film as entertaining and
memory versus reality, as well as subtext versus as Daniels does in this courageous film, you are left
absorbing as Paper Heart.—GEOFFREY GILMORE
surface meaning, DiPietro fashions a spellbinding with an indelible image of a young woman who—
story about love...that is not a love story. with creativity, humor, and ferocity—finds the
ExP: Nicholas Jasenovec, Charlyne Yi Pr: Elise strength to turn her life around. —JOHN COOPER
Salomon, Sandra Murillo Ci: Jay Hunter Ed: Ryan —TREVOR GROTH
Brown Mu: Michael Cera, Charlyne Yi So: Devendra
ExP: Lawrence Levine, Amanda Gruss Pr: Peter ExP: Lisa Cortes, Tom Heller Pr: Lee Daniels, Sarah
Cleary, Jacob Riehle Principal Cast: Charlyne Yi,
Sterling, Austin Stark, Benji Kohn, Bingo Gubelmann Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness CoP: Mark G. Mathis
Michael Cera, Jake Johnson
CoP: Matthew Parker, Carly Hugo Ed: Frank G. AsP: Asger Hussain Ci: Andrew Dunn Ed: Joe Klotz
DeMarco Ca: Calleri Casting Principal Cast: Jason Principal Cast: Gabourey Sidibe, Paula Patton,
Ritter, Jess Weixler, Jesse L. Martin, Tracie Thoms Mo’Nique, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd,
Preceded by From Burger It Came Lenny Kravitz
Director: Dominic Bisignano
Preceded by John and Karen Friday, January 16, 8:00 pm - PUSHH16RN
United Kingdom, 2007, 4 min., color Racquet Club, Park City
Saturday, January 17, 8:00 pm - PAPER17RN Director: Matthew Walker
Racquet Club, Park City Saturday, January 17, noon - PUSHH17BD
Monday, January 19, 2:30 pm - PAPER19LA Monday, January 19, 8:00 pm - PETER19RN
Library Center Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 20, 3:15 pm - PUSHH20CA
Racquet Club, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City
Wednesday, January 21, 3:15 pm - PAPER21CA Tuesday, January 20, 11:30 am - PETER20PD
Eccles Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 21, 11:30 pm - PUSHH21PL
Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Friday, January 23, 11:30 pm - PAPER23PL Thursday, January 22, 8:30 am - PETER22RM
Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Friday, January 23, 2:15 pm - PUSHH23RA
Racquet Club, Park City Racquet Club, Park City
Saturday, January 24, 6:00 pm - PAPER24BE Friday, January 23, 3:15 pm - PETER23CA
Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Eccles Theatre, Park City
Saturday, January 24, 12:00 pm - PETER24BD
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Sin Nombre Taking Chance Toe to Toe

DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Cary Joji Fukunaga DIRECTOR: Ross Katz DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Emily Abt
U.S.A./Mexico, 2008, 96 min., color SCREENWRITERS: Lt. Col. Michael R. Strobl (ret.), U.S.A., 2008, 100 min., color
Spanish with English subtitles Ross Katz
U.S.A., 2008, 85 min., color Emily Abt’s emotionally powerful feature film, Toe
It’s almost impossible to believe that Sin Nombre to Toe, tells the story of a love/hate relationship
is Cary Joji Fukunaga’s feature debut; its storytell- You might presume that yet another film about the between lacrosse mates Tosha and Jesse, two senior
ing is so accomplished, its visual style so crisp, and war in Iraq couldn’t possibly reveal anything new; girls at a competitive Washington, D.C., prep school.
its heightened naturalism and performances so and that, regardless, you can anticipate its message Tosha is a fiercely determined African American
textured. A social-political thriller in the tradition from what is almost always a cleanly defined ideo- scholarship student from Anacostia, one of
of American film noir, Sin Nombre is set on the logical point of view: Left or Right, pro- or antiwar, Washington’s poorest areas, while Jesse is a
border, where Mexico becomes the crucible and the pro-administration or opposed. But you would be privileged, but troubled, white girl from Bethesda,
fearsome gangs of today’s Mexican countryside, the wrong. Taking Chance is, without question, one of who deals with promiscuous tendencies that pull
gauntlet, to freedom. the most powerful and vital films ever made about her toward self-destruction. The two forge a close
Iraq—or, for that matter, the military—and yet its and genuine friendship on the field, but that bond
The stories of Sayra, a teenager living in Honduras potency comes not from melodramatic or political is tested when the obstacles presented by societal
and hungering for a brighter future, and teen gang statements but simply from its reality circumstances threaten to tear them apart.
members Smiley and Casper, for whom the Mara and execution.
Salvatrucha is nearly their entire universe, become Abt draws penetrating performances from bright,
interlaced on the train to the border, a journey The true story of a Marine who volunteers to escort young talents Louisa Krause (Jesse) and Sonequa
that will determine the future of their lives. Young the remains of a 19-year-old killed in Iraq to his Martin (Tosha). Together they craft a complex
Casper is already a wary veteran of the “Mara,” family in a small Wyoming town, the film is based story rich with nuance and authenticity, avoiding
and his new recruit is the 12-year-old Smiley, full of on a book by Lieutenant Colonel Michael Strobl. It predictability and challenging tired racial narra-
bravado and looking for status. The two run afoul is in every sense a personal narrative, beautifully tives. Inspired by the disturbing fact that interracial
of the everyday violence that penetrates their world presented by first-time filmmaker Ross Katz—who friendships end at age 14 for 87 percent of Ameri-
and find themselves fellow passengers with Sayra was heretofore an accomplished producer and now can teenagers, Toe to Toe is a powerful reminder
on a States-bound freight, hugging the rooftop as makes a remarkable debut as a director. of the transforming power of honesty and the
their precarious journey unfolds. way that those who test us often make us better.
Fueled by an outstanding performance by Kevin —SHARI FRILOT
At once a love story and a chase film, a thrill ride Bacon, Taking Chance is about respect, about death
and a vision of an apocalyptic hell, Sin Nombre and sadness, about honor and the military frater- ExP: Sarah Peter Pr: Emily Abt, Susan Leber Ci: Alan
demonstrates Fukunaga’s skill; he envelops us in a nity, and about the American community during a Jacobsen Ed: Jeff Marcello PrD: Tommaso Ortino
nightmare that is all too real for its inhabitants. Sin time of tragedy. It is an extraordinary film from any Com: Ion Furjanic, Sanford Livingston Principal Cast:
Nombre is a portrait of hope and desperation and perspective. —GEOFFREY GILMORE Louisa Krause, Sonequa Martin, Silvestre Rasuk,
announces the launching of a shining new filmmak- Leslie Uggams, Gaius Charles, Ally Walker
ing career.—GEOFFREY GILMORE ExP: Brad Krevoy, Cathy Wischner-Sola, Ross Katz
Pr: Lori Keith Douglas Ci: Alar Kivilo Ed: Lee Percy,
ExP: Gerardo Barrera, Pablo Cruz, Diego Luna, Gael Brian A. Kates Mu: Marcelo Zarvos Principal Cast: Friday, January 16, 3:15 pm - TOETO16CA
Garcia Bernal Pr: Amy Kaufman Ci: Adriano Goldman Kevin Bacon Eccles Theatre, Park City
Ed: Luis Carballar, Craig McKay PrD: Claudio “Pache” Saturday, January 17, 9:30 pm - TOETO17DN
Contreras Mu: Marcelo Zarvos Principal Cast: Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction
Paulina Gaitan, Edgar Flores, Kristyan Ferrer, Friday, January 16, 5:15 pm - TAKIN16RE
Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Diana García, Héctor Jiménez. Racquet Club, Park City Sunday, January 18, 2:15 pm - TOETO18RA
Sunday, January 18, 3:30 pm - TAKIN18GA
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Tuesday, January 20, 9:45 pm - TOETO20BN
Sunday, January 18, 3:15 pm - SINNO18CA Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC
Eccles Theatre, Park City Monday, January 19, noon - TAKIN19SD
Screening Room, Sundance Resort Wednesday, January 21, 5:30 pm - TOETO21PE
Monday, January 19, 8:30 am - SINNO19RM Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Racquet Club, Park City Tuesday, January 20, 12:15 pm - TAKIN20CD
Eccles Theatre, Park City Friday, January 23, 11:30 pm - TOETO23LL
Wednesday, January 21, 8:30 pm - SINNO21PN Library Center Theatre, Park City
Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 21, 8:30 am - TAKIN21PM
Thursday, January 22, 8:00 pm - SINNO22RN Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Racquet Club, Park City Saturday, January 24, 11:30 am - TAKIN24PD
Friday, January 23, 3:00 pm - SINNO23SA Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

WORLD CINEMA
The Sundance Film Festival proudly presents a selection 211: Anna

of 16 extraordinary documentaries from talented DIRECTORS/SCREENWRITERS: Paolo Serbandini,
Giovanna Massimetti
filmmakers around the world—and invites us to explore Italy, 2008, 89 min., color
Russian with English subtitles
the complexity of the human experience. Russia is the second-most-dangerous country in

the world for journalists, after Iraq. The Russian
Union of Journalists has recorded the names of
its members killed in Russia since 1991. Anna
Politkovskaya was number 211. Her assassination
in 2006 was stunning in its simplicity: she was shot
point blank in her apartment building in Moscow.
Her murderer has never been identified, and it is
widely assumed that her continuing coverage of
the Russian government’s brutality toward its
own people, particularly in Chechnya, resulted in
her death.
211: Anna weaves a story of modern Russia and a

woman who passionately believed that the untold
stories of everyday people were an unheralded
history. As a journalist, she followed events heart-
breaking in their cruelty, from the war in Chechnya
to the siege of the Russian Parliament building to
the death of hundreds of children during the Beslan
school-hostage crisis. Her stark coverage brought
her international recognition, as well as anonymous
threats, poisoning attempts, and government repri-
sal. In the end, it brought death to her doorstep.
Combining interviews with her husband of many

years, Russian TV anchor Alexander Politkovski, her
children, and her newspaper colleagues with the
writings of Politovskaya herself, Italian directors
Paolo Serbandini and Giovanna Massimetti create an
impressionistic portrait of a woman, a nation, and a
people under siege. —CARA MERTES
ExP: Alessandro Papini Pr: Stefano Alpini

Ci: Vladimir Ivanov Ed: Vittorio De Felice,
Gabriele Spinelli
Sunday, January 18, 3:15 pm - 211AN184A

Monday, January 19, 11:30 pm - 211AN193L
Tuesday, January 20, 6:45 pm - 211AN20BE
Thursday, January 22, 5:30 pm - 211AN22LE
Saturday, January 24, noon - 211AN24SD
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Afghan Star Big River Man Burma VJ
DIRECTOR: Havana Marking DIRECTOR: John Maringouin DIRECTOR: Anders Ostergaard
Afghanistan/United Kingdom, 2008, 87 min., color SCREENWRITERS: John Maringouin, Molly Lynch SCREENWRITERS: Anders Ostergaard,
Afghan-Persian with English subtitles Jan Krogsgaard
U.S.A./United Kingdom, 2008, 94 min., color
After 30 years of Taliban and wartime rule, pop English and Slovene with English subtitles Denmark, 2008, 85 min., color
culture is creeping back into Afghanistan. Director English and Burmese with English subtitles
Who is the greatest swimmer of all time? Michael
Havana Marking has captured it in this inspired
Phelps? Mark Spitz? If gold medals are your barom- Armed with pocket-sized video cameras, a tenacious
documentary, Afghan Star. An American Idol–type
eter, then maybe, but I’d like to see either of them band of Burmese reporters face down death to ex-
contest set in Afghanistan? What more intriguing
drink two bottles of wine a day and still swim the pose the repressive regime controlling their country.
inroad into a region usually represented in our news
length of the Amazon river.
media by death and violence? In 2007, after decades of self-imposed silence,
This feat is attempted by Martin Strel, an endurance Burma became headline news across the globe when
To understand the magnitude of this film, we must
swimmer from Slovenia, who swims rivers—the peaceful Buddhist monks led a massive rebellion.
look at the facts—two-thousand contestants
Mississippi, the Danube, and the Yangtze to date— More than 100,000 people took to the streets pro-
compete for a chance to be the next Afghan pop
to highlight pollution in the world. In his fifties and testing a cruel dictatorship that has held the coun-
idol. Three of them are women. In an unheard-of
rather overweight, his treacherous journey brings try hostage for more than 40 years. Foreign news
precedent, all genders, ethnic groups, and age sec-
him face to face with many obstacles, including crews were banned, the Internet was shut down,
tors are equal. More than one-third of the country
water predators, rapids, and toxic pollution. Spear- and Burma was closed to the outside world. So how
watches the show and votes with text messages.
heading the expedition is Strel’s son and manager, did we witness these events? Enter the Democratic
For many, this represents their first encounter with
who also becomes the film’s narrator. As the days Voice of Burma (DVB), aka the Burma VJs.
any kind of democratic process.
go by, Strel’s physical fortitude is strained, along
with his relationship with his son and his grip on Compiled from the shaky handheld footage of the
Marking follows the dramatic stories of four of
reality. Part world-class sporting event, part circus DVB, acclaimed filmmaker Anders Ostergaard’s
the contestants over three months, from regional
sideshow, the film follows the colorful characters Burma VJ pulls us into the heat of the moment as
auditions to the finals in Kabul. All is not safe for
3,375 miles over 66 days on history’s longest, most the VJs themselves become the target of the
her subjects because they must actually risk their
perilous swim. Burmese government. Their tactical leader, code-
lives to sing. In a larger sense, we get a glimpse into
named Joshua, oversees operations from a safe
the ongoing struggle of a country trying to segue
Director John Maringouin explicitly understands hiding place in Thailand. Via clandestine phone
into the modern world and the dangerous underpin-
the many dimensions of Strel’s journey and crafts calls, Joshua dispenses his posse of video warriors,
nings its citizens must navigate. Though moving and
an almost-expressionistic portrait of the event. who covertly film the abuses in their country,
inspiring, what is really brilliant about Afghan Star
Utilizing breathtaking and intimate cinematography, then smuggle their footage across the border into
is that by observing a people’s relationship to pop
he captures the journey along the Amazon and into Thailand. Joshua ships the footage to Norway,
culture, we get a different, if not more human, look
the heart of Strel’s darkness. Big River Man is a where it is broadcast back to Burma and the world
at this troubled part of the world.—JOHN COOPER
psychological thrill ride that works as both a humor- via satellite.
ous character study and an enlightening environ-
ExP: Mike Lerner, Martin Herring, Saad Mohseni, mental message; it has to be seen to be believed. Burma VJ plays like a thriller, all the more scary
Jahid Mohseni Pr: Havana Marking AsP: Sandra —TREVOR GROTH because it is true.—DAVID COURIER
Whipham, Maxyne Franklin Ci: Phil Stebbing
Ed: Ash Jenkins ExP/Pr: Lise Lense-Møller CoP: Fredrik Gertten,
CoDir: Molly Lynch ExP: Olivia Newton-John Pr:
Maria Florio, Molly Lynch, John Maringouin, Kevin Torstein Nyboe Ci: Simon Plum Ed: Janus Billeskov
Ragsdale, Molly Hassell Ci: John Maringouin Ed: Jansen So: Conny Malmqvist
Preceded by Theresa’s Story
John Maringouin, Molly Lynch Mu: Rich Ragsdale
United Kingdom, 2000, 5 min., color
Director: Maria Marshall Preceded by Lies
Preceded by My Surfing Lucifer Sweden, 2008, 13 min., color
Friday, January 16, 6:15 pm - AFGHA164E Switzerland/U.S.A., 2008, 9 min., color Director: Jonas Odell
Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Director: Kenneth Anger
Saturday, January 17, 3:45 pm - AFGHA17BA Saturday, January 17, 11:30 am - BURMA173D
Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Friday, January 16, 3:15 pm - BIGRI164A Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City
Sunday, January 18, 8:30 am - AFGHA18LM Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Saturday, January 17, 9:00 pm - BURMA17SN
Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 17, midnight - BIGRI174L Screening Room, Sundance Resort
Wednesday, January 21, 2:30 pm - AFGHA213A Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Sunday, January 18, 11:30 pm - BURMA18PL
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Monday, January 19, 6:00 pm - BIGRI19BE Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Thursday, January 22, 6:30 pm - AFGHA22DE Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Wednesday, January 21, 9:45 pm - BURMA21BN
Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction Thursday, January 22, 5:30 pm - BIGRI22PE Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC
Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 22, 9:15 pm - BURMA224N
2009 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org/festival WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION 25
The End of the Line The Glass House Kimjongilia
DIRECTOR: Rupert Murray DIRECTOR/CINEMATOGRAPHER/EDITOR: DIRECTOR: NC Heikin
SCREENWRITER: Charles Clover Hamid Rahmanian France/U.S.A./South Korea, 2008, 75 min., color
United Kingdom, 2008, 90 min., color SCREENWRITER: Melissa Hibbard English and Korean with English subtitles
U.S.A./Iran, 2008, 92 min., color
Sound the global alarm. Scientists predict that if Farsi with English subtitles
North Korea is one of the world’s most isolated
we continue fishing at the current rate, the planet nations. For almost 60 years, North Koreans have
will run out of seafood by 2048 with catastrophic The Glass House skillfully examines the mostly hid- been governed by a totalitarian regime that controls
consequences. Based on the book by Charles Clover, den lives of young women, teetering on the fringes almost all information entering and leaving the
The End of the Line explores the devastating effect of Iranian society in modern Tehran. Marginalized country. A cult of personality surrounds its two
that overfishing is having on fish stocks and the by their families, these women have found a saving recent leaders: first, Kim Il Sung, and now his son,
health of our oceans. grace in a day center formed by an Iranian expatri- Kim Jong Il.
ate. Marjaneh Halati opened the center to give
With Clover as his guide, Sundance veteran Rupert downtrodden young women a voice, thus empower- For Kim Jong Il’s 46th birthday, a hybrid red begonia
Murray (Unknown White Male) crisscrosses the ing them with the life skills they need to succeed named kimjongilia was created, symbolizing wisdom,
globe, examining what is causing the dilemma and on their own. Many of these teens previously spent love, justice, and peace. This film draws its name
what can be done to solve it. Industrial fishing be- time in a jail, hospital, or state home because they from the rarefied flower and reveals the extraor-
gan in the 1950s. High-tech fisheries now trawl the had no other options. dinary stories told by survivors of North Korea’s
oceans with nets the size of football fields. Species vast and largely hidden prison camps. Interviewed in
cannot survive at the rate they are being removed Sussan is 20 years old and suffers from memory loss South Korea, where they now live, their experiences
from the sea. Add in cofactors of decades of bad and a stutter as a result of a blow to the head either are interspersed with archival footage of North
science, corporate greed, small-minded govern- from her sigheh (temporary husband) or her abusive Korean propaganda films and original scenes that
ments, and escalating consumer demand, and we’re brother. Mitra is learning how to avoid confronta- illuminate the contours of daily life for a people
left with a crisis of epic proportions. Ninety percent tion with her father, who takes out his frustration whose every action is monitored and whose every
of the big fish in our oceans are now gone. on his 16-year-old daughter. Nazila, 19, finds an thought could bring official retribution. It’s a world
outlet for her anguish by recording as a rap singer, where justice and peace are impossible.
Murray interweaves glorious footage from both which is forbidden by law. The young women see
underwater and above with shocking scientific tes- Marjaneh as both a mother figure and a mentor and First-time documentarian NC Heikin’s background as
timony to paint a vivid and alarming profile of the cherish her frequent visits from London. a dancer and performance artist has influenced her
state of the sea. The ultimate power of The End of approach to this stylish and deeply moving rendition
the Line is that it moves beyond doomsday rhetoric In superb cinema vérité style spanning 18 months, of modern-day torture and the search for recovery.
to proffer real solutions. Chillingly topical, The End The Glass House deftly portrays a spirit of hopeful- Far from being a litany of travails or a simple indict-
of the Line drives home the message: the clock is ness. These former victims are given the chance to ment of a government’s actions, Kimjongilia is a
ticking, and the time to act is now. express themselves and transform their difficult totally original and ultimately inspiring consideration
—DAVID COURIER circumstances into new beginnings.—LISA VIOLA of the extremes human beings can suffer, and yet
still hold out hope for a better future.
Pr: Melissa Hibbard Mu: David Bergeaud —CARA MERTES
ExP: Christopher Hird, Jess Search Pr: Claire Lewis,
George Duffield Ed: Claire Ferguson So: Paul Longstaffe, Christopher Harvengt
Cons: Charles Clover Ci: Hamid Rahmanian CoP: Young-sun Cho, Su Kim Ci: Kyle Saylors Ed:
Peterson Almeida, Mary Lampson Mu: Michael
Gordon An: Wilhelm Ogterop
Monday, January 19, 12:15 pm - ENDOF194D Preceded by Sister Wife
Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City U.S.A., 2008, 10 min., color
Tuesday, January 20, 11:30 am - ENDOF20LD Director: Jill Orschel Preceded by China’s Wild West
Library Center Theatre, Park City United Kingdom, 2008, 10 min., color
Director: Urszula Pontikos
Wednesday, January 21, 9:00 pm - ENDOF21SN Friday, January 16, 12:15 pm - GLASS164D
Screening Room, Sundance Resort Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City
Sunday, January 18, 12:15 pm - KIMJO184D
Thursday, January 22, 5:30 pm - ENDOF223E Saturday, January 17, 8:30 am - GLASS17PM Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Monday, January 19, 6:00 pm - KIMJO19SE
Friday, January 23, 6:45 pm - ENDOF23BE Saturday, January 17, 6:00 pm - GLASS17SE Screening Room, Sundance Resort
Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Screening Room, Sundance Resort
Wednesday, January 21, 11:30 am - KIMJO213D
Wednesday, January 21, 6:00 pm - GLASS21BE Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City
Friday, January 23, 5:30 pm - KIMJO23PE
Friday, January 23, 9:15 pm - GLASS234N Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Saturday, January 24, 1:30 pm - KIMJO24BD
26
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Let’s Make Money Nollywood Babylon Old Partner

DIRECTOR: Erwin Wagenhofer DIRECTORS/SCREENWRITERS: Ben Addelman, DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Chung-ryoul Lee
Austria, 2008, 108 min., color Samir Mallal South Korea, 2008, 75 min., color
German/French/Spanish/Dioulu/Tamil with Canada, 2008, 75 min., color Korean with English subtitles
English subtitles
Hasta la vista, Hollywood! Welcome to the wild, Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul
Erwin Wagenhofer has crafted a momentous and and wacky world of Nollywood, Nigeria’s explosive remains unawakened. — Anatole France
chilling work of reportage in this documentary homegrown movie industry, where Jesus and voo-
that maps and analyzes the contemporary global doo vie for screen time. In a remote, verdant valley in South Korea, old Mr.
financial system. and Mrs. Lee live on a farm with their rickety ox. For
Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen, known in Lagos as “Da 40 years, the animal has served them faithfully—
Shuttled around the world in private limousines Governor,” is one of the most influential men in hauling untold firewood loads and dragging the
and welcomed to corporate offices atop gleaming Nollywood, a term coined in the early ‘90s for the plow through fertile fields. A gently unfolding
towers, we are treated to a litany of explanations by world’s fastest-growing national cinema, surpassed meditation on the cycle of life, Old Partner playfully
people close to the action, outlining how the finan- only by its American and Indian counterparts. Unde- and poetically tells the story of the ineffable bond
cial world works and where it stands. It is unsurpris- terred by miniscule budgets, Da Governor is one of between Mr. Lee and his ox as their lives wind down
ing for many to learn that capitalism is ruthless. a cadre of resourceful filmmakers creating a garish, in tandem.
More alarming is the degree to which the financial imaginative, and wildly popular form of B-movie
(ad)ventures of an unaccountable and often-invisible that has frenzied fans begging for more. Among Rain or shine, hunched and gnarled, Mr. Lee tills,
few are facilitated by public policies and monies and the bustling stalls of Lagos’s Idumato market, films weeds, and harvests, often crouching on all fours
arcane schemes that drain vast quantities of wealth are sold, and budding stars are born. Creating sto- like the ox that never leaves his side. The camera
away from civilizations into private hands. ries that explore the growing battle between lingering intimately on the ox’s kind eyes and creaky
traditional mysticism and modern culture, good bones allows us to sense the depth of this sentient
In settings ranging from India to Austria, from versus evil, and witchcraft and Christianity, Nol- being’s loyalty as he carts Mr. Lee to town at a
Burkina Faso to Washington, D.C., the legacies of lywood auteurs have mastered a down-and-dirty, snail’s pace. In return, Mr. Lee collects special fodder
decades of relaxed credit, deregulation of markets, straight-to-video production formula that has by hand and refuses to spray insecticides for fear of
and privatization of public facilities are illustrated by become the industry standard in a country plagued poisoning his beloved beast. Meanwhile, the cheeky
concrete examples so bizarre, outsized, and chilling by poverty. Nollywood is tapping a national identity Greek chorus, Mrs. Lee, complains incessantly from
that you’d expect to find them in a science-fiction where proud Africans are telling their own stories to the peanut gallery. This traditional life and this ox
movie rather than a documentary. The testimonies a public hungry to see their lives on screen. will be her undoing!
of economic theorists, proponents of offshore tax
havens, and even one “economic hit man” combine Peppered with outrageously juicy movie clips and A charming, heartbreaking, existential buddy tale,
to create a portrait of high stakes and shortsight- buoyed by a rousing score that fuses Afropop and Old Partner conveys the almost mystical inextrica-
edness, with war, mass migration, and ecological traditional sounds, Nollywood Babylon celebrates bility of humans and nature. As laconic Mr. Lee in-
disaster as only a few of the downsides. the distinctive power of Nigerian cinema as it mar- tones, “The ox is my karma.” —CAROLINE LIBRESCO
vels in the magic of movies.—DAVID COURIER
Viewed in such volatile economic times as these, this Pr: Young-jae Goh Ci: Jae-woo Ji Ed: Chung-ryoul
prescient, shocking, and expertly crafted primer will ExP: Galile Marion-Gauvin, Marcel Jean, Ravida Din Lee Mu: Hoon Heo, So-yun Min Li: Jin-young Yang
spark many urgent debates.—SHANNON KELLEY Pr: Ben Addelman, Samir Mallal, Adam Symansky
Ed: Annie Ilkow Mu: Olivier Alary
Ed: Paul M. Sedlacek Mu: Helmut Neugebauer So: Preceded by A Film from My Parish – 6 Farms –
Lisa Ganser Cons: Corinna Milborn AD: Lisa Ganser Ireland, 2008, 7 min., color
Friday, January 16, 6:00 pm - NOLLY16SE Director: Tony Donoghue
Saturday, January 17, 3:15 pm - LETSM174A
Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Monday, January 19, 6:15 pm - NOLLY194E Friday, January 16, 9:45 pm - OLDPA16BN
Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC
Sunday, January 18, 8:30 am - LETSM183M
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Thursday, January 22, 10:30 pm - NOLLY22BN Sunday, January 18, 8:30 pm - OLDPA183N
Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City
Sunday, January 18, 10:30 pm - LETSM18BN
Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Friday, January 23, 11:30 pm - NOLLY233L Monday, January 19, 8:30 am - OLDPA19LM
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City
Friday, January 23, 8:30 pm - LETSM23PN
Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 24, 2:30 pm - NOLLY24PA Thursday, January 22, 11:30 am - OLDPA22PD
Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Prom Night in Mississippi The Queen and I
Drottningen och Jag Quest for Honor
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Paul Saltzman
Canada, 2008, 90 min., color DIRECTOR: Nahid Persson Sarvestani DIRECTOR: Mary Ann Smothers Bruni
Sweden, 2008, 90 min., color Kurdistan/U.S.A., 2008, 60 min., color
In 1997, Academy Award–winning actor Morgan Farsi/Swedish with English subtitles Kurdish with English subtitles
Freeman offered to pay for the senior prom at
Charleston High School in Mississippi under one When Nahid Persson Sarvestani, an Iranian exile, set “We were raised to believe in resistance, persistence,
condition: the prom had to be racially integrated. His out to make a documentary about Farrah, the wife and confrontation. That’s why I know I can handle
offer was ignored. In 2008, Freeman offered again. of the shah of Iran, she expected to encounter her anything.” So says one of the women in Quest for
This time the school board accepted, and history opposite. As a child, Persson Sarvestani had lived in Honor, a searing and necessary documentary about
was made. Charleston High School had its first-ever dire poverty, watching Farrah’s wedding as if it were the still-prevalent practice of honor killings in the
integrated prom—in 2008! Until then, blacks and a fairy tale. As a teenager, she joined the Communist Kurdistan region in northern Iraq.
whites had separate proms even though their class- faction of Khomeini’s revolution that deposed the
rooms have been integrated for decades. shah, sending him and his family volleying from Kurds number more than 26 million and are believed
country to country. When Khomeini betrayed his to be the largest ethnic group in the world without
Canadian filmmaker Paul Saltzman follows students, promise for democracy, imposing more violent their own country. Despite much progress politically
teachers, and parents in the lead-up to the big day. measures than the shah had, Persson Sarvestani was and economically, honor killings are routinely cited
Freeman addresses the student body. Girls shop for also forced to flee. Thirty years later, she needs key as the major human-rights violation among Kurds.
dresses and get their hair done. Boys rent tuxedoes questions answered and goes directly to the source. Since 1991, statistics suggest that more than 12,000
and buy corsages. These seemingly inconsequential Surprisingly, Queen Farrah welcomes her as a fellow women, mostly between 13 and 18, have met a grue-
rites of passage suddenly become profound as the refugee from their beloved homeland, granting some death at the hands of relatives, usually the
weight of history falls on teenage shoulders. We unprecedented access. Over the next year and a half, men of the family, who are convinced the victim has
quickly learn that change does not come easily in Persson Sarvestani enters the queen’s world, plan- impugned the family’s honor.
this sleepy Delta town. Freeman’s generosity fans ning to challenge the shah’s ideology; instead, she
the flames of racism—and racism in Charleston has The film centers on cases taken up by the Women’s
must rethink her own. Media and Education Center in Sulaimaniyah,
a distinctly generational tinge. Some white parents
forbid their children to attend the integrated prom When Persson Sarvestani’s prior opposition to the Kurdish Iraq. Texas-based photographer and author
and hold a separate white-only dance. “Billy Joe,” shah surfaces, the queen shuts down filming. Yet, in Mary Ann Smothers Bruni’s film marks her evolution
an enlightened white senior, appears on camera in the struggle to understand each other’s experiences, from still photographer to filmmaker. While the
shadow, fearing his racist parents will disown him if an unlikely friendship has blossomed. Confronting deaths themselves are shocking in their sheer bru-
they know his true feelings. Farrah about the shah’s repression has become not tality, perhaps more striking is the ease with which
only a political conflict but a personal one, and the men involved in the killings speak about their
Prom Night In Mississippi captures a big moment in Persson Sarvestani’s objectivity is shaken. unforgiving attitudes toward the victims. Deeply
a small town, where hope finally blossoms in black, disturbing, yet profoundly hopeful, in its belief that
white, and a whole lot of taffeta.—DAVID COURIER In this gripping, poignant consideration of subjectiv- change in centuries-old attitudes is possible, Quest
ity as truth, we learn that people write history. for Honor asks us to imagine a day when women
Pr: Paul Saltzman, Patricia Aquino AsP: Thabi Moyo, And can also heal it. The Queen and I couldn’t be everywhere can live in honor, and not fear for their
Paul Hay Ci: Bongo, Don Warren, Paul Saltzman more relevant as we reach across our own political lives.—CARA MERTES
Ed: Kevin Schjerning, Stephen Philipson, David aisles.—CAROLINE LIBRESCO
Ransley So: Corey Easley Cons: Tom Schlesinger Pr: Larry Taub, Frances Farenthold, Philip Knox
AsP: Christine Milrod Ci: Bjorn Schaller CC: Jeff Key AsP: Birusk Tugan, Katia Maguire Ci: Kristian
James Pub: Sara Vahabi PProd: Kevin Heart, Dane Lawing, Behzad Oliadonighi, Hemen Kaikai
Preceded by SUSPENDED Bridget Heart Ed: Deborah Dickson, Tim Smith, Gabriel Rhodes
U.S.A., 2009, 9 min., color TechSup: Conan Chadbourne
Director: Kimi Takesue
Saturday, January 17, 6:15 pm - QUEEN174E
Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Preceded by Lessons from the Night
Saturday, January 17, 8:30 pm - PROMN173N Australia, 2008, 9 min., color
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Sunday, January 18, 8:30 am - QUEEN18PM
Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Director: Adrian Francis
Sunday, January 18, 11:30 am - PROMN183D
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Sunday, January 18, 6:45 pm - QUEEN18BE
Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Monday, January 19, 3:15 pm - QUEST194A
Monday, January 19, 9:45 pm - PROMN19GN Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Friday, January 23, 11:30 am - QUEEN23PD
Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 20, 5:30 pm - QUEST20PE
Thursday, January 22, 11:30 pm - PROMN22LL Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Friday, January 23, 10:30 pm - QUEST23BN
Saturday, January 24, 12:15 pm - QUEST244D
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Rough Aunties Thriller in Manila Tibet in Song

DIRECTOR: Kim Longinotto DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: John Dower DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Ngawang Choephel
United Kingdom, 2008, 103 min., color United Kingdom, 2008, 91 min., color Tibet, 2008, 82 min., color
Zulu with English subtitles English and Tibetan with English subtitles
Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali fought three times.
Jackie, Mildred, Eureka, Sdudla, and Thuli are the Their first highly anticipated encounter was dubbed Too often an oversimplified mythology has been
women behind Bobbi Bear, a nonprofit organization the “fight of the century” before either boxer applied to discussions about Tibet and its history,
based in Durban, South Africa, that counsels sexu- entered the ring. But it was their third and final which makes this compelling and erudite docu-
ally abused children and works to bring their abusers confrontation on October 1, 1975, in the mentary especially welcome. Filmmaker Ngawang
to justice. Born out of a recognition of cultural stig- Philippines, that cemented their rivalry as one of Choephel is the personification of the struggle to
mas that discourage reporting abuse and inadequate history’s greatest. By the late rounds, the fight had preserve Tibetan cultural identity, and his voyage
methods of communicating with young victims, become “a contest of pure will” with both men on and attempted documentation of Tibetan folk music
Bobbi Bear developed a method of letting children the verge of collapse. That moment—when a fight and musicians represents an exploration of the
use teddy bears to explain their abuse. Since 1992, becomes more important than life and death— realities of contemporary Tibet that is both dramatic
the multiracial staff has become the fearless and explains both the romance and the sickness of the and daring. Tibetans call their land “an ocean of
powerful voice for those victims who would other- sport. It wasn’t a fight for a belt; it was a war. music and dance,” yet despite centuries of history,
wise continue to live in fear, powerless against their there are only a handful of musicians and teachers
oppressors and ignored by the legal system. What’s remarkable about Thriller in Manila is how left who can recount the meaning and importance
dramatically it conveys both the depths of this of this identity.
Director Kim Longinotto (The Day I Will Never Forget rivalry as well as the complex racial politics of the
screened at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival) adept- time. Using extensive archival footage and inter- Decades of occupation, and the institution of
ly and intimately follows Bobbi Bear staff in difficult views (from cornermen in both camps, biographers, Chinese policies and law designed to silence the
direct sessions with children and consultations with journalists, and Frazier himself), director John traditional voices of Tibet, have resulted in an
family members, and on raids with authorities to ar- Dower tells the story from Frazier’s point of view, insidious co-optation of this national heart and soul
rest the perpetrators of these heinous acts. Facing clearly finding in him not only an unsung hero but a by Chinese-sponsored pop culture. In his efforts
tragedy daily as part of their advocacy work and, counterpoint to Ali’s mystique. Though Ali famously to preserve the authentic music of his land, film-
heartbreakingly for some, in their personal lives, disparaged all his opponents, Dower argues that his maker Choephel himself becomes a victim of this
the women draw strength from each other and find verbal taunting of Frazier was particularly vicious, repression, which transforms this saga from merely
hope despite the suffering around them. racially charged, and a betrayal of their onetime a professional quest to an especially potent and
friendship. impactful statement.
Equally as compassionate to the young victims as
they are steadfast in their pursuit of justice, these Thriller in Manila reminds us that to be captivated by Bringing this story to life, including presenting
five exceptional women have found themselves a great sporting event is to be captivated by a great the beauty of Tibetan song, makes this work both
transformed by their mission into “rough aunties,” story. Surely this is both. —JOHN NEIN resonant and irresistible. Choephel is both an artist
crossing barriers of race, culture, and socioeconomic and a voice of resistance who deserves our undying
status to become formidable agents of change in ExP: John Smithson, Elinor Day Pr: John Dower respect.—GEOFFREY GILMORE
their community. —BASIL TSIOKOS Ci: Stephen Sanden Picture Editors: Nicholas Packer,
Kate Spankie CoW: Tara Steele Pr: Ngawang Choephel
ExP: Peter Dale Pr: Teddy Leifer, Paul Taylor Ci: Hugh Walsh, Ngawang Choephel, Tim Bartlett,
AsP: Rebecca Lloyd-Evans Ed: Ollie Huddleston Carrie Lederer Ed: Kate Amend
So: Mary Milton Preceded by Ma Bar
Scotland/United Kingdom, 2008, 12 min., color
Directors: Finlay Pretsell, Adrian McDowall Sunday, January 18, 6:15 pm - TIBET184E
Monday, January 19, 8:30 pm - ROUGH193N Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Monday, January 19, 9:15 am - TIBET194M
Tuesday, January 20, 11:30 pm - ROUGH20PL Friday, January 16, 8:30 pm - THRIL163N Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City
Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City
Tuesday, January 20, 3:00 pm - TIBET20SA
Wednesday, January 21, 10:30 pm - ROUGH21BN Saturday, January 17, 11:30 am - THRIL17PD Screening Room, Sundance Resort
Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Thursday, January 22, 6:00 pm - TIBET22BE
Saturday, January 24, 11:30 am - ROUGH243D Saturday, January 17, 9:00 pm - THRIL17BN Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC
Friday, January 23, 2:30 pm - TIBET23LA
Wednesday, January 21, midnight - THRIL214L Library Center Theatre, Park City

WORLD CINEMA
These 16 films provide a window into the thematic Before Tomorrow

Le Jour Avant le Aendemain
and aesthetic concerns of artists around the globe.
DIRECTORS: Madeline Piujuq Ivalu,
We present these exceptional works as a way to honor Marie-Hélène Cousineau
Canada, 2008, 93 min., color
the independent spirit in filmmakers everywhere. Inuktitut with English subtitles
It’s circa 1840 in the northernmost tundra of

Inuit-land. In the Arctic Circle, some Inuit tribes still
have never met any white people, although rumors
circulate about what they might be like, where they
come from, and why they are there.
As the Europeans encroach upon the territory and

the Inuit clans go about their nomadic life, two elder
women and a young boy go to an isolated island to
perform the task of drying their clan’s cache of fish
in preparation for the long winter. The clan promises
to fetch them after the fish are dried and before the
water freezes over, but as the fall hunting season
ends and they fail to return, something appears to
have gone very wrong.
In their first feature, Madeline Piujuq Ivalu and

Marie-Hélène Cousineau of the Arnait Video
Collective base their film on the novel For
Morgendagen by Danish writer Jørn Riel. They
combine traditional Inuit storytelling traditions with
European cinema techniques to portray a story of
a grandmother and a grandson who fend for them-
selves after tragedy strikes their clan.
With stellar performances by Madeline Piujag Ivalu

as Ningiuq and Paul-Dylan Ivalu as Maniq, viewers
experience the harshness of the tundra and the love
of family in the most trying of times.
—N. BIRD RUNNINGWATER
ExP: Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk Ci: Norman

Cohn, Félix Lajeunesse Ed: Félix Lajeunesse, Marie-
Hélène Cousineau, Norman Cohn, Louise Dugal
PrD: Susan Avingaq Principal Cast: Peter-Henry
Arnatsiaq, Paul-Dylan Ivalu, Madeline Piujuq Ivalu,
Mary Qulitalik, Tumasie Sivuarapik
Preceded by Wet Season

Singapore, 2007, 6 min., color
Directors: Michael Tay
Friday, January 16, noon - BEFOR16ED

Egyptian Theatre, Park City
Saturday, January 17, 6:30 pm - BEFOR17OA
Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden
Monday, January 19, 7:30 pm - BEFOR19BE
Tuesday, January 20, 9:00 am - BEFOR20EM
30 Thursday, January 22, 6:15 pm - BEFOR224E
Bronson Carmo, Hit the Road Cliente
DIRECTOR: Nicolas Winding Refn DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Murilo Pasta A French Gigolo
SCREENWRITERS: Norman Brock, Spain, 2008, 100 min., color DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Josiane Balasko
Nicolas Winding Refn Spanish and Portuguese with English subtitles
France, 2008, 104 min., color
United Kingdom, 2008, 92 min., color
No shrinking violet, Carmo, the freewheeling lead of French with English subtitles
Charlie Bronson, Britain’s most violent prisoner this energetic film, packs a wallop of sass. Feeling
French cinema has never been shy about depicting
and the antihero of Nicolas Winding Refn’s tour de suffocated by her small town, she hits the road on
female desire. Cliente, Josiane Balasko’s matter-of-
force, is a man with a calling. He just needed jail her mile-long legs, traipsing through untamed
fact comedy about the commodification of love, is
time to find it. Brazilian border country. Barely dodging the mine-
no exception.
field of sleazy thugs at her heels, she is rescued by
In 1974, Charlie robs a post office and draws a an unlikely knight in shining armor, who comes out An elegant entrepreneur in her fifties, Judith
seven-year sentence. But stone walls do not a prison of nowhere. Unfortunately, the uncouth Marco, unapologetically engages male escorts to minister to
make. His “hotel room” becomes an incubator for bound only by his wheelchair, is reluctant to include her sexual pleasure. When she answers Patrick’s ad,
his art, which is violence. Taking a perverse glee in her in his own getaway plans. Carmo is determined she’s charmed by the sensitive fellow in the classic
fighting, he’s sent to a mental institution, where, to prove they can be partners in crime, and they suit; it’s as if he stepped right out of the Nouvelle
drugged and drooling, he still musters defiance. His set out together in Marco’s dilapidated truck, over Vague films of her youth. But from the get-go,
eventual release is short lived, and he returns to jail. treacherous terrain, to find the desperados who things with this good-natured gent aren’t as ef-
Placed in an art class, Charlie creates his master- have hijacked Marco’s loot. ficient as with other lovers. Not only is he unable to
piece. It is not a painting. sustain an erection on their second date, but power
It’s hard to tell what’s more sizzling in this saucy
dynamics and his private life begin to muddy their
Though based on a real person, Bronson is less adventure—the clashing chemistry between the
arrangement.
a biopic than a virtuosic explosion of style. With two deliciously feisty leads or the dusty, but daz-
twisted imagery, the music of Wagner and Pet Shop zling, South American landscape. With a comical At home in the Paris projects, Patrick is buckling
Boys, and a stunning performance by Tom Hardy, and scandalous motley crew of characters, and an under pressure to support a gaggle of demanding
Winding Refn creates an aesthetic that is both com- array of livewire cinematic gestures, Murilo Pasta’s relatives, including his adorable wife, Fanny, who’s
plicit in Charlie’s violence but also theatrical. Charlie high-octane filmmaking refuels the classic road-trip getting wise to his secret financial scheme. And just
narrates his own story before an audience, and the genre. The thrill of taking a fly-by-the-seat-of-your- as you think they’ll be propelled onto predictable
movie is just an extension of this burlesque staging. pants ride through jagged paradise is accelerated paths befitting characters in a less-playful, less-
Our moral compass reeling, we’re tempted to see by the explosive pairing of two strangers who have astute story, Judith, Patrick, and Fanny veer into
him as an animal, but violence is simply the fullest found their match and together will continue to murky emotional terrain, reluctantly getting tangled
expression of his identity. Overjoyed by his fame fight destiny tooth and nail. —CHRISTINE DAVILA in a bittersweet triangle.
and ever-increasing capacity for harm, Charlie walks
the cellblock beaming with pride. He has become ExP: Roberto d’Avila, Xavier Granada, Justyna Part bedroom farce, class melodrama, and feminist
somebody. He is—quite terrifyingly—the hero of Pawlak Pr: Elisa Alvares, Alberto Aranda, Xavier foray, Cliente is elevated by the superb perfor-
his own story.—JOHN NEIN Granada, Grzegorz Hajdarowicz, Murray Lipnik Ci: mances of Eric Caravaca and Nathalie Baye. It boldly
Robbie Ryan Ed: Nacho Ruiz Capillas Mu: Zacarías illuminates the challenge of contemporary women to
Pr: Rupert Preston, Danny Hansford Ci: Larry Smith M. de la Riva PrincipalCast: Fele Martínez, Mariana define satisfaction on their own terms—somewhere
Ed: Mat Newman PrD: Adrian Smith Principal Cast: Loureiro, Seu Jorge, Márcio Garcia, Paca Gabaldón, between autonomy and interdependence.
Tom Hardy, Matt King, James Lance, Kelly Adams, Rosi Campos —CAROLINE LIBRESCO
Amanda Burton
Pr: Cyril Colbeau-Justin Ci: Robert Alazraki
Friday, January 16, noon - CARMO16SD
Ed: Marie De La Selle, Claudine Merlin Mu: Kore
Preceded by 2) Secret Machine Screening Room, Sundance Resort
Principal Cast: Nathalie Baye, Eric Caravaca, Isabelle
Germany, 2009, 10 min., color Monday, January 19, 11:30 am - CARMO19ED Carré, Josiane Balasko
Director: Reynold Reynolds Egyptian Theatre, Park City
Tuesday, January 20, 10:30 pm - CARMO20BN Tuesday, January 20, 6:00 pm - CLIEN20EE
Monday, January 19, 9:00 pm - BRONS19EN Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Egyptian Theatre, Park City
Egyptian Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 21, 11:30 pm - CARMO213L Wednesday, January 21, 9:00 pm - CLIEN21BN
Wednesday, January 21, 2:30 pm - BRONS21PA Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC
Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Friday, January 23, 9:00 pm - CARMO23EN Thursday, January 22, 9:00 am - CLIEN22EM
Thursday, January 22, 9:30 pm - BRONS22GN Egyptian Theatre, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City
Saturday, January 24, 3:15 pm - CLIEN244A
Saturday, January 24, noon - BRONS24ED Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City
2009 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org/festival WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION 31

The Clone Returns Home Dada’s Dance An Education
Kurôn wa kokyô o mezasu DIRECTOR: Zhang Yuan DIRECTOR: Lone Scherfig
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Kanji Nakajima SCREENWRITER: Li Xiaofeng SCREENWRITER: Nick Hornby
Japan, 2008, 110 min., color China, 2008, 92 min., color United Kingdom, 2008, 95 min., color
Japanese with English subtitles Mandarin with English subtitles
The 1960s were a time of change. So is life when
In the tradition of Solaris and other deeply philo- Dada is the neighborhood coquette. She lives with you are 16. That combination propels An Education,
sophical science-fiction works, The Clone Returns her divorced mother, works at a pool hall, and is a set in London in 1961, and makes it an unforgettable
Home is art cinema at its best. tease to the local men, including the boy next door, coming-of-age story.
Zhoa, who has a crush on her. One morning she
Kohei, a young astronaut, agrees to participate in an catches him spying on her as she dances, but she Attractive, bright, 16-year-old Jenny is stifled by
experimental cloning program that will “regenerate” continues to flirt with him. Her mother’s lecherous the tedium of adolescent routine; she can’t wait
his body and memory should he die. So when he’s new boyfriend also has eyes for her. But when she for adult life to begin. One rainy day her suburban
killed during a space mission, scientists are able to spurns his advances, he reveals that she’s adopted. existence is upended by the arrival of a much older
regenerate his clone. But problems occur with its Hastily packing her bag, Dada heads out of town suitor, David. Urbane and witty, David instantly
memory, which regresses to Kohei’s youth and the with Zhoa in search of her birth mother. charms Jenny and introduces her to a glittering new
accidental death of his twin brother. Distressed, the world of classical concerts, art auctions, smoky bars,
clone flees the lab in search of his childhood home. Picking up on many of the themes that have fasci- and late-night suppers with his attractive friends.
Along the way, he finds his own lifeless body in a nated him over the course of his career, Zhang Yuan He replaces Jenny’s traditional education with his
space suit. Mistaking it for his brother, he continues (Little Red Flowers screened at the 2006 Sundance own more-dangerous version. Just as the family’s
his journey carrying the body on his back. Film Festival) returns with a stylized rite-of-passage long-held dream of getting their brilliant daughter
story that reflects broadly on contemporary love, into Oxford has seemed within reach, Jenny is
Set somewhere between the near future and a disaffected youth, and existential malaise. As tempted by another kind of life. Will David be the
dream, as if a figurative mist drifts through it, always, Zhang’s stylization is distinctive—here making of Jenny, or her undoing?
Kanji Nakajima’s first feature is distinguished by most notably in the sensual imagery, eclectic music,
the metaphysical space it conjures. With each new and nocturnal motif that seems to swallow his Every so often a performance comes along that is
incarnation of Kohei—his clone, his body, his soul, characters even in the daytime. Dada inhabits a so captivating that it becomes an instant classic.
his twin—our literal sense of story gives way to a world of obscurity and ambivalence, where life has Carey Mulligan’s enchanting performance as Jenny is
metaphysical one. With exceptional artistry (lyrical no gravity. Though Zhoa takes her to the adoption one of them. Channeling the spirit of a young Holly
images, elegant moving masters, and evocative center, she laughs and runs off. She’s unable to take Golightly, she makes Jenny’s character blossom on
sound motifs), Nakajima explores identity, memory, anything seriously, even Zhoa who truly loves her. screen from a girl into a woman, and transforms
and the ethical responsibilities of science. But, en- Although she shows outward signs of maturity, herself from an actor into a star. Director Lone
riched by spiritual conceptions of life and death and we’re left to wonder whether the dance has really Scherfig’s complete understanding of Nick Hornby’s
the soul, the film’s emotional center and its poetry changed.—JOHN NEIN extraordinary script brings its many dimensions to
lie in these successive versions of Kohei, wandering vivid life.—TREVOR GROTH
in search of a home that no longer exists. Ci: Zhang Jian Ed: Wu Yixiang, Jacopo Quadri
—JOHN NEIN ArD: Pang Chao Mu: Andrea Guerra So: Shi Baofeng ExP: Wendy Japhet Pr: Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey
Principal Cast: Li Xinyun, Li Xiaofeng, Gai Ge, Ci: John De Borman Ed: Barney Pilling Principal Cast:
ExP: Wim Wenders Pr: Kiyoshi Inoue, Rie Yamamoto, Chen Jun Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan, Alfred Molina,
Yoshiaki Tago Ci: Hideho Urata PrD: Takeo Kimura, Emma Thompson Ca: Lucy Bevan
Norifumi Ataka Mu: Yuta Yamashita So: Masaru Usui
Principal Cast: Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Eri Ishida, Preceded by The Stronger
Sunday, January 18, 3:00 pm - EDUCA18EA
Hiromi Nagasaku United Kingdom, 2007, 10 min., b/w
Director: Lia Williams
Tuesday, January 20, 9:30 pm - EDUCA20GN
Saturday, January 17, noon - CLONE17ED Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC
Egyptian Theatre, Park City Friday, January 16, 6:00 pm - DADAS16WE
Tower Theatre, SLC Thursday, January 22, 8:30 pm - EDUCA22PN
Sunday, January 18, 7:30 pm - CLONE18BE Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Sunday, January 18, 6:00 pm - DADAS18EE
Egyptian Theatre, Park City Friday, January 23, 6:30 pm - EDUCA23OA
Tuesday, January 20, 8:30 pm - CLONE20LN Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden
Library Center Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 20, 9:00 am - DADAS20TM
Temple Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 24, 9:00 am - EDUCA24EM
Thursday, January 22, 11:30 pm - CLONE223L Egyptian Theatre, Park City
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Friday, January 23, 3:00 pm - DADAS23EA
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WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION
Five Minutes of Heaven Heart of Time Louise-Michel

DIRECTOR: Oliver Hirschbiegel Corazón del Tiempo DIRECTORS: Benoît Delépine, Gustave de Kervern
SCREENWRITER: Guy Hibbert DIRECTOR: Alberto Cortés France, 2008, 94 min., color
United Kingdom/Ireland, 2009, 90 min., color French with English subtitles
SCREENWRITERS: Alberto Cortés, Hermann
Bellinghausen Though times are tough, the women workers of

The idea of reconciliation between two men from
opposite sides of a life-and-death struggle is Mexico, 2008, 90 min., color a provincial toy factory are given new smocks to
perhaps impossible or even incredibly naïve. Spanish with English subtitles assure them of their company’s stability. But they
Five Minutes of Heaven, a film that tracks the lives show up the next day to find the factory empty,
In the picturesque Chiapas mountains, amidst a its machinery and management nowhere to be
of two men from the same town but different sides Zapatista village populated by free Indigenous seen. Now “redundant,” they decide to pool their
of the Irish political divide, is unlike any other on Mayans, a beautiful young woman, Sonia, is coming paltry compensation money toward a common
this subject. One man, Alistair, is a killer; the other, of age. She is betrothed in the traditional manner to goal, suggested by Louise: hire a hit man to kill the
Joe, is the brother of the man he killed. One feels Miguel, a valuable young community leader she has company’s owner. Enter Michel, a paranoid security
he dare not ask for forgiveness; the other feels known since childhood. Her future seems set until manager at a trailer park, who offers no creden-
incapable of giving it. one day, as she meanders along a jungle path, she tials but has a formidable gun collection. Partners
And so the scene is set in this masterfully conceived finds herself staring into the eyes of a handsome in crime, Louise and Michel work their way up the
drama, written by Guy Hibbert (Omagh) and perfect- rebel fighter, Lieutenant Julio, and falls deeply in corporate food chain behind the factory closure.
ly directed by German filmmaker Oliver Hirschbiegel. love. Sonia’s revolution of the heart threatens the
The leads are Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt, and wills and convictions of everyone around her and Aptly dedicated to nineteenth-century French an-
they are both superb. But the film’s careful con- puts the security of her community, and the entire archist Louise Michel, this quixotic revenge comedy
struction is what transforms this from predictable insurgent army, in danger. from Gustave de Kervern and Benoît Delépine, mak-
to transcendent. This isn’t a work of expiation or ers of the wildly-surreal Avida, tosses decorum aside
So begins director Alberto Cortés’s extraordinary as it joyfully sifts through the underlying perversion
guilt; neither does it seek a simplistically dramatic film, Heart of Time, a rare and intimate look into the of life. Propelled by rebellious humor, cartoonlike
finale. It is, like its subject, the portrait of a process;
heart of the Zapatista revolution in Chiapas, Mexico. inventiveness, and an indie rock soundtrack, it’s also
and the hatred and trauma that are its foundation
Cortés crafts a unique approach to storytelling—a brutally dark. Michel, a killer who can’t even shoot a
are such that their genesis took years.
confident mix of romantic drama, Greek chorus, dog, much less a person, resorts to using terminally
Five Minutes of Heaven is replete with an almost- and political intrigue—to relate a multifaceted tale ill patients to do his dirty work. Downtrodden,
exquisite sensitivity and quest for understanding. of an epic liberation struggle that spans centuries: mildly retarded Louise traps live animals for food
It is perhaps impossible to erase the past, but we from the age of slavery to today’s era of digital and—unable to afford booze—buys lighter fluid.
are better off for encountering it with the kind of media. As Cortés depicts, with striking authenticity, They may set out for revenge against capitalism, but
passion and insight emanating from a true work of a community that is constantly reinventing the rules their real oppressor is nature itself, which has cruelly
art.—GEOFFREY GILMORE of tradition and revolution, he also reveals that the twisted them.—JOHN NEIN
roots of struggle for political freedom are ultimately
born out of the tangle of desires to live with a free
ExP: Paul Trijbits, Francois Ivernel, Cameron ExP: Elisa Larriere Pr: Benoit Jaubert, Mathieu
heart.—SHARI FRILOT
McCracken, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe Pr: Eoin Kassovitz CoP: Benoit Delépine, Gustave Kervern
O’Callaghan Ci: Ruairi O’Brien Ed: Hans Funck Ci: Hughes Poulain Ed: Stéphane Elmadjian
PrD: Mark Lowry Principal Cast: Liam Neeson, Pr: Ana Solare, Alberto Cortés Ci: Marc Bellver Ed: So: Guillaume Le Braz, Les Kouz Principal Cast:
James Nesbitt, Anamaria Marinca Lucrecia Gutiérrez Maupomé, Alberto Cortés PrD: Yolande Moreau, Bouli Lanners
Ana Solares Mu: Descemer Bueno, Kelvis Ochoa
So: :Emilio Cortés Principal Cast: Rocío Barrios
Monday, January 19, 6:30 pm - FIVEM19EE Preceded by Cattle Call
Egyptian Theatre, Park City Canada, 2008, 4 min., color
Friday, January 16, 3:00 pm - HEART16SA
Wednesday, January 21, midnight - FIVEM21EL Screening Room, Sundance Resort Directors: Matthew Rankin, Mike Maryniuk
Tuesday, January 20, 9:00 pm- HEART20EN
Friday, January 23, 9:00 pm - FIVEM23WN Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 17, 9:30 pm - LOUIS17ON
Tower Theatre, SLC Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden
Wednesday, January 21, 3:15 pm - HEART214A
Saturday, January 24, 2:15 pm - FIVEM24LA Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Sunday, January 18, noon - LOUIS18ED
Library Center Theatre, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City
Thursday, January 22, 3:15 pm - HEART224A
Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Monday, January 19, 9:00 pm - LOUIS19WN
Tower Theatre, SLC
Friday, January 23, 9:00 pm - HEART23BN
Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Wednesday, January 21, 9:00 pm - LOUIS21EN
Friday, January 23, midnight - LOUIS234L

Lulu and Jimi The Maid One Day in a Life
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Oskar Roehler La Nana Un altro pianeta
Germany, 2007, 95 min., color DIRECTOR: Sebastian Silva DIRECTOR: Stefano Tummolini
English and German with English subtitles
SCREENWRITERS: Sebastian Silva, Pedro Peirano SCREENWRITERS: Stefano Tummolini,
In 1950s Germany on a sunny afternoon in an Chile, 2008, 95 min., color Antonio Meerone
amusement park, Lulu, a prized beauty from a Spanish with English subtitles Italy, 2008, 82 min., color
well-heeled, white German family, meets Jimi, the Italian with English subtitles
impossibly handsome son of a damaged African After 23 years of service to the Valdes family,
American World War II veteran, and falls head over Raquel is comfortably ensconced in a vague A man, Salvatore, crosses a sand dune heading to
heels in love. Lulu’s scheming mother, Gertrud, existence between maid and her illusion that she is the beach. The next instant the beauty of the sea
together with her secret lover, Schultz, the chauf- a family member. Her barely concealed bitterness and sky is revealed to him, as if a forecast of the
feur, and a wicked old shrink, Von Oppeln, do all in and increased clashes with her employer’s eldest possibilities that lie ahead. Salvatore cuts a striking
their power to tear the two lovers apart, but the daughter lead the family to think she is overworked. figure in his bathing suit and becomes an instant
trio are only the first of many obstacles that will They hire more help, and, feeling usurped, Raquel lightning rod for others’ curiosity. He exudes a bold
stand in the way of the couple’s passion. Thus starts begins to sabotage each new employee by resorting presence, although his aloof exterior barely masks
Oskar Roehler’s dazzling feature film Lulu and Jimi, a to childish antics, clinging to her ambiguous place a lingering hurt from his past. The sun and sand do
stylish, musically infused romance that plays as hot within the family. their part, helping separate him from the struggles
and heavy as the chemistry between the interracial of his everyday life and serving as a surreal backdrop
In his remarkably astute second feature, Sebastian for a peculiar menagerie of characters to enter his
lovebirds.
Silva questions, without bias, a dusty remnant life.
Roehler crafts a colorful, magical world full of visual of class division—the common, Latin American,
whimsy, revved up with a sizzling soundtrack of aristocratic tradition of serfdom. Within this complex Writer/director Stefano Tummolini tells a simple, yet
rock and roll, as Lulu and Jimi’s love sweeps out dynamic, we are privy to the inner workings of a well- beautiful, story that unfolds in a single day. He has
the stale air of the 1950s. Actors Jennifer Decker intentioned family’s relationship with their servant— assembled a perfect cast, playing characters drawn
and Ray Fearon turn in magnetic performances as however endearingly the word is used. Silva wields from every section of modern Italian society—old
Lulu and Jimi, a couple that fearlessly takes on the his handheld camera like a magnifying glass, revealing and young, gay and straight, rich and poor. On the
evil powers of a deeply bigoted society. Roehler’s Raquel’s fenced-in fragility, and watching her evolve beach, they find the perfect emotional equalizer for
Lulu and Jimi is a sexy and exceedingly entertaining is truly touching. Astonishing in its intimacy, the film them to express themselves. Antonio Merone, as the
watch that aims to set hearts thumping and fingers wrings awkward humor from the alienated Raquel’s complicated Salvatore, is excellent in his role.
snapping as you wait to see if love saves the day. mind games. Only Lucy, last in the line of new maids,
is able to nudge Raquel gently toward the momen- As the sun lowers on the horizon, you realize
—SHARI FRILOT
tous kick-start needed to rediscover herself. Tummolini has accomplished something quite
special: he has created a study of an ordinary day
Pr: Gabriela Sperl, Uwe Schott Ci: Wedigo von Sebastian Silva’s hungry curiosity to examine the where an extraordinary thing happens—people
Schultzendorff Ed: Bettina Böhler PMg: Marc Grewe intersection of social and personal forces produces a are forced to slow down and become aware of the
Principal Cast: Jennifer Decker, Ray Fearon, Katrin painful, yet satisfying, comedic drama that shakes up transformative pleasure of human contact.
Sass, Udo Kier, Rolf Zacher, Ulrich Thomsen and humanizes an insidious system. —JOHN COOPER
—CHRISTINE DAVILA
Friday, January 16, 9:00 pm - LULUA16EN Pr: Angelo Draicchio Ci: Raoul Torresi Ed: Bruno
Egyptian Theatre, Park City ExP: Gregorio Gonzales AsP: Edgar San Juan, Sarandrea Principal Cast: Antonio Merone,
Issa Guerra, Sebastian Sanchez, Atomica Lucia Mascino
Saturday, January 17, 10:30 pm - LULUA17BN
Ci: Sergio Armstrong Ed: Danielle Fillios Mu: Pedro
Soubercaseaux So: Roberto Espinoza Principal Cast:
Sunday, January 18, 9:00 am - LULUA18EM Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedón, Mariana Loyola, Preceded by A’Mare
Egyptian Theatre, Park City Andrea García-Huidobro, Alejandro Goic, United Kingdom, 2008, 15 min., color
Tuesday, January 20, 6:30 pm - LULUA20OA Agustín Silva Director: Martina Amati
Friday, January 23, 11:30 am - LULUA233D Saturday, January 17, 3:00 pm - MAIDD17EA Friday, January 16, 6:45 pm - ONEDA16BE
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC
Sunday, January 18, 3:45 pm - MAIDD18BA Sunday, January 18, 9:00 pm - ONEDA18EN
Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Egyptian Theatre, Park City
Tuesday, January 20, 9:15 am - MAIDD204M Wednesday, January 21, 9:00 am - ONEDA21EM
Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City
Friday, January 23, 6:00 pm - MAIDD23EE Friday, January 23, 2:30 pm - ONEDA233A
Egyptian Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City
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Unmade Beds Victoria Day Zion and His Brother

DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Alexis Dos Santos DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: David Bezmozgis zion ve’achiv
United Kingdom, 2008, 92 min., color Canada, 2009, 82 min., color DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Eran Merav
English/Spanish/French with English subtitles English and Russian with English subtitles
France/Israel, 2009, 84 min., color
With his startlingly visceral and original second With the long Victoria Day weekend signaling the Hebrew with English subtitles
feature, Unmade Beds, Alexis Dos Santos manifests end of school, and the Stanley Cup playoffs afoot,
In a gritty neighborhood in Haifa, Israel, when
an exuberant London where unbridled longing and the summer of 1988 arrives in Toronto. Ben Spector,
cascading events drive an alienating wedge between
zeal plunge nubile expats into lusty adventures and a smart, sensitive kid from a Russian immigrant
inseparable brothers, their fierce loyalty is shaken
momentous encounters. family, hits the Bob Dylan show with his buddies and
and their interdependence fractured. First-time film-
runs into Jordan Chapman, the class prick and Ben’s
When wide-eyed Spaniard Axl comes to London on maker Eran Merav’s Zion and His Brother delivers
tormentor on the ice-hockey rink. Jordan is five
a quest for the father who abandoned him, he lands sensitive insight into the dynamic of close siblings
dollars shy of a nice bag of weed, and Ben begrudg-
in the middle of a creative hotbed—an underground and the adolescent struggle to differentiate oneself
ingly spots him the dough. But the next day, Jordan
polyglot squat filled with colorful free spirits. from one’s family.
fails to show up at school or hockey practice. With
Among them is Vera, a beautiful Belgian girl recently days passing and Jordan’s whereabouts a mystery, With an absent father and a single mother
dumped by her boyfriend, who seeks to restore her Ben finds himself in an uncomfortable predicament, consumed with paying bills and satisfying her
faith in romantic destiny after meeting a charismatic especially when a romance with Jordan’s sister boyfriend, tough, smoldering Meir has taken it upon
stranger. As Axl and Vera separately pursue these tentatively blooms in the midst of the ordeal. himself to protect his gentle younger brother, Zion.
bittersweet and elusive connections, they circle He wheels Zion on his bike and holds his hand at the
each other’s orbits—their fates almost inevitably Director David Bezmozgis, a celebrated prose
dentist; and when Zion reports that a schoolmate
intertwined. writer, imbues seemingly spartan interactions with
has stolen his coveted soccer sneakers, Meir handles
emotional complexity. There’s a palpable tenu-
Alongside this lush story of youthful awaken- the problem. But the reprisal spins out of control,
ousness lurking beneath scenes as Ben becomes
ing, Dos Santos conjures a rhythmic stream-of- and soon Zion understands he’s complicit in a secret
preoccupied with Jordan’s disappearance in a more
consciousness mood collage. Axl and Vera’s world only he and Meir share. This terrible pressure and
existentially unsettling way than he can fully grasp.
vibrates with visual and sonic energy. The palate Meir’s clashes with their mother’s boyfriend propel
As his friends play Hacky Sack and set off fireworks,
of yellows, reds, and greens emits benevolent Zion to risk his fraternal allegiance—and sense of
he’s entering that unfamiliar, liminal state between
warmth as if to soften the blow of their tender security—for a survival mode of his own.
adolescence and adulthood, where consciousness
aches. Surprising sound scapes and an effusive of human vulnerability begins to surface. In this sensual, almost classical, coming-of-age
score aptly express the characters’ mercurial interior Bezmozgis’ ability to capture that disorientation, drama, brought to life with powerful immediacy
states. Meanwhile slapstick moments and musical along with Ben’s awkwardly emerging sexual desire, by Reuven Badalov, Ofer Hayoun, and the always-
performances by fresh unknowns puncture the in such a vivid, subtle, and moving way is the mark mesmerizing Ronit Elkabetz (The Band’s Visit),
melancholy, buoying the film into irreverent whimsy. of a masterful storyteller, whether wielding pen or Merav tenderly renders nuanced, layered characters
They may be slightly crumpled works in progress— camera.—JOHN NEIN/CAROLINE LIBRESCO in complex circumstances and sustains exquisite
like the unmade beds where they slumber—but Axl, narrative tension, where a lesser storyteller would
Vera, and their friends are as vital as a crisp new Pr: Michael McNamara, Judy Holm Ci: David settle for obvious resolutions. The result is quietly
day.—CAROLINE LIBRESCO Franco Ed: Rod Deogrades PrD: Peter Cosco devastating.—CAROLINE LIBRESCO
Principal Cast: Mark Rendall, Sergiy Kotelenets,
ExP: Peter Carlton, Lizzie Franke Pr: Soledad Gatti- Nataliya Alyexeyenko, Holly Deveaux, John Mavro, Pr: Assaf Amir, Yoav Roeh CoP: Marin Karmitz,
Pascual, Peter Ettedgui Ci: Jakob Ihre Ed: Olivier Scott Beaudin Nathanael Karmitz, Charles Gillibert Ci: Itzik Portal
Bugge Coutte PrD: Kristian Milsted So: Tim Barker Ed: Einat Glazer Zarhin, Sari Ezouz PrD: Lee Levy
Principal Cast: Deborah Francois, Fernando Tielve So: Gil Toren Principal Cast: Ronit Elkabetz,
Preceded by Ten for Grandpa Tzachi Grad, Reuven Badalov, Ofer Hayun
Canada/U.S.A., 2008, 7 min., color
Preceded by This Is Her Director: Doug Karr
New Zealand, 2008, 12 min., color Preceded by BAIT
Director: Katie Wolfe Israel, 2008, 12 min., color
Saturday, January 17, 6:00 pm - VICTO17EE
Egyptian Theatre, Park City Director: Michal Vinik
Friday, January 16, 6:00 pm - UNMAD16EE
Egyptian Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 18, noon - VICTO18BD
Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Saturday, January 17, 9:00 pm - ZIONA17EN
Saturday, January 17, 12:45 pm - UNMAD17BD Egyptian Theatre, Park City
Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Tuesday, January 20, 9:15 pm - VICTO204N
Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Sunday, January 18, 9:15 am - ZIONA184M
Tuesday, January 20, 8:30 am - UNMAD203M Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Wednesday, January 21, 3:00 pm - VICTO21SA
Screening Room, Sundance Resort Wednesday, January 21, 11:30 am - ZIONA21PD
Thursday, January 22, 11:30 am - UNMAD22LD Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Library Center Theatre, Park City Friday, January 23, 9:00 am - VICTO23EM
Egyptian Theatre, Park City Friday, January 23, 9:45 pm - ZIONA23BN
PREMIERES
Presented by
ENTERTAINMENT
WEEKLY
To showcase the diversity of contemporary 500 Days of Summer

DIRECTOR: Marc Webb
cinema, the Sundance Film Festival’s Premieres SCREENWRITERS: Scott Neustadter,
Michael Weber
program offers a selection of the latest work from U.S.A., 2009, 95 min., color
established directors and world premieres of highly The freshness of Marc Webb’s love-me/love-me-
not story is epitomized by its perfectly framed
anticipated films. tag lines…Boy meets Girl—Boy falls in love—Girl
doesn’t. What else can you say about a postmodern
love story? Not only is this delightfully surpris-
ing dissection of a romance structured so that it
catches us continually off guard, but the classic
tale of love unrequited is turned as topsy-turvy as a
Shakespearian farce.
Directed with verve, pace, and confidence by first-

time filmmaker Webb and replete with Los Angeles
settings that are distinctive and interesting, 500
Days of Summer never descends into ordinary ro-
mance. The typical premise of the love story—that
we want what we can’t have—is fueled by a role re-
versal (it’s the woman who doesn’t want to commit)
and energized by dance numbers, split screens, and
two dynamic performances from Joseph Gordon-
Levitt and Zooey Deschanel.
That Tom, a hapless greeting-card copywriter, and

the alluring Summer, his temporary office mate,
fluctuate between the highs and lows of infatua-
tion, dating, sex, and separation is the conventional
aspect of an unconventional tale of self-discovery
and relationships. For a new generation of story-
tellers, 500 Days of Summer is destined to be a
template for the future of romantic inspiration.
—GEOFFREY GILMORE
Pr: Jessica Tuchinsky, Mary Waters, Steven

Wolfe, Mason Novick Ci: Eric Steelberg
Ed: Alan Bell Principal Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
Zooey Deschanel
Saturday, January 17, 6:15 pm - 500DA17CE

Sunday, January 18, 11:30 am - 500DA18PD
Monday, January 19, 9:00 pm - 500DA19SN
Tuesday, January 20, 6:30 pm - 500DA20GE
Friday, January 23, 9:30 pm - 500DA23ON
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Adventureland Brooklyn’s Finest Earth Days
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Greg Mottola DIRECTOR: Antoine Fuqua DIRECTOR: Robert Stone
U.S.A., 2008, 106 min., color SCREENWRITERS: Michael C. Martin, U.S.A., 2009, 100 min., color
Brad Caleb Kane
It’s the summer of 1987, and James Brennan, an Director Robert Stone concocts an inspiring and
U.S.A., 2008, 125 min., color

uptight, recent college grad, can’t wait to embark on hopeful work in Earth Days, a documentary that
his dream tour of Europe. But when his parents an- Something of a genre homecoming, Antoine Fuqua’s recounts the history of the modern environmental
nounce they can no longer subsidize his trip, James latest film once again finds him delving into the movement from its beginnings nearly four decades
has little choice but to take a lowly job at a local gritty, brutal realm of cops and crooks—as he did in ago. Environmental activism really began with the
amusement park. Forget about German beer, world- Training Day. first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, and precipitated
famous museums, and cute French girls—James’s an unexpected and galvanizing effect on the
summer will now be populated by belligerent dads, Tango is an undercover officer on a narcotics national psyche.
stuffed pandas, and screaming kids high on cotton detail that forces him to choose between duty and
candy. Lucky for James, what should be his worst friendship. Having been to hell and back, he wants Told through the eyes of nine very-divergent
summer ever turns into quite an adventure when he out, but the powers that be won’t let him quit. witnesses, including a secretary of the interior,
discovers love in the most unlikely place. Family-man Sal is a detective tempted by greed and Stewart Udall, who actually cared about the environ-
corruption. He can barely make ends meet, and now ment; a biologist, Paul Ehrlich; a congressman, Pete
Greg Mottola directs his own script drawn from his wife has an illness that threatens the life of their McCloskey; and an astronaut, Rusty Schweickart,
personal experience, and his knowledge of people unborn twins. Eddie is nearing retirement age and Earth Days is a visually stunning, globe-spanning
and places shows. He displays a superb talent for has long since lost his dedication to his job as a cop. chronicle of watershed events and consciousness-
revealing nuances of character and environment. He wakes up every morning trying to come up with changing realizations that prompted a new aware-
Jesse Eisenberg turns in another poignant and a reason to go on living...and he can’t think of one. ness: the post–World War II American dream of a
amusing performance; between The Squid and the Fate brings the three men to the same Brooklyn future world created by scientific progress, new
Whale and this film, he shows that he is the perfect housing project as each takes the law into his own technology, and economic expansion was rapidly
embodiment of youthful angst, yet he still manages hands. changing into a nightmare.
to be completely human and utterly charming.
His love interest in the film, Kristen Stewart, Crosscutting between multiple subplots, Brooklyn’s To the 20 million Americans who demanded change
shines as the object of his, and others’, desire. Finest unfolds violently and passionately as coiled, and political action to protect the environment
Adventureland is a hilarious coming-of-age tale that constantly roving cinematography contributes a on that first Earth Day, the urgency and scale of
will speak to anyone who ever had the job from hell measure of unease to the underworld action. the current crisis would have seemed extreme and
but still wouldn’t trade the experience for anything. Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, and Ethan Hawke bring alarmist. Earth Days is a truly cogent and powerful
—TREVOR GROTH all of the intensity and complexity required to depiction of the awakening of the world to environ-
breathe stunning life into their characters’ fractured mental reality by a dedicated and skilled filmmaker;
Pr: Anne Carey, Ted Hope, Sidney Kimmel souls. Fuqua flourishes in this terrain. Showing ignoring its message could imperil us all!
Principal Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, complete command of the cinematic language of —GEOFFREY GILMORE
Ryan Reynolds, Martin Starr, Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig the genre, he creates a visceral and emotional punch
that displays a master at work. —TREVOR GROTH ExP: Mark Samels Ed: Don Kleszy Mu: Michael
Giacchino So: Coll Anderson Ph: Howard Shack
Monday, January 19, 6:15 pm - ADVNL19CE ExP: Avi Lerner, Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short, Boaz
Eccles Theatre, Park City Davidson, Antoine Fuqua, Robert Greenhut, Mary Friday, January 23, 9:30 pm - EARTH23CN
Tuesday, January 20, 9:15 am - ADVNL20CM Viola Pr: Basil Iwanyk, John Langley, Elie Cohn, Eccles Theatre, Park City
Eccles Theatre, Park City John Thompson Principal Cast: Richard Gere, Don
Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin Saturday, January 24, 8:30 am - EARTH24LM
Wednesday, January 21, noon - ADVNL21SD Library Center Theatre, Park City
Friday, January 16, 6:15 pm - BROOK16CE Saturday, January 24, 6:30 pm - EARTH24GE
Thursday, January 22, 6:30 pm - ADVNL22GE Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Eccles Theatre, Park City
Saturday, January 17, 9:00 am - BROOK17CM Sunday, January 25, 10:00 am - EARTH25SM
Eccles Theatre, Park City Screening Room, Sundance Resort
Monday, January 19, 6:30 pm - BROOK19GE

2009 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org/festival PREMIERES 37

Endgame I Love You Phillip Morris The Informers
DIRECTOR: Pete Travis DIRECTORS: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa DIRECTOR: Gregor Jordan
SCREENWRITERS: Paula Milne, based on The Fall U.S.A., 2008, 100 min., color SCREENWRITERS: Bret Easton Ellis,
of Apartheid by Robert Harvey Nicholas Jarecki
United Kingdom, 2009, 101 min., color With alacrity and style, Glenn Ficarra and John U.S.A., 2008, 98 min., color
English and Afrikaans with English subtitles
Requa, the codirectors of I Love You Phillip Morris,
have fashioned an improbable, but true, tale of a Sex, drugs, and new wave...Los Angeles in the early
South Africa...the late 1980s. The African National spectacularly charismatic and resourceful con- 1980s: a time of excess and decadence, and nobody
Congress (ANC) wages an armed struggle against man’s journey from small-town cop to flamboyant captures it better than Bret Easton Ellis as he
apartheid; President P.W. Botha clings to the last white-collar criminal. Concocted by the absurdist coadapts his own acclaimed novel for the screen. Its
threads of power; the country is on the brink of sensibilities and warped minds that were behind multistrand narrative deftly balances a vast array of
bloody insurrection. In a gripping thriller based on the creation of Bad Santa and centered around an characters, who represent both the top of the heap
real-life events, Endgame drops us into this brutal eccentrically wonderful performance by Jim Carrey, (a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star,
conflict’s control centers: Nelson Mandela’s prison, the film relates a story that is truly stranger than an aging newscaster) and the bottom (a voyeuristic
Botha’s chambers, ANC headquarters, and, to our fiction and showcases a love story that will not be doorman and an amoral ex-con). Connecting his
surprise, the rented car of a British bureaucrat. denied. intertwining strands are the quintessential Ellis
protagonists—a group of beautiful, blonde young
It turns out that Consolidated Gold, a British mining When a local Texas policeman, Steve Russell (Carrey), men and women who sleep all day and party all
concern, convinced that peaceful resolution in South turns to cons and fraud to allow him to change his night, doing drugs—and one another—with aban-
Africa serves their interests, has initiated covert, lifestyle (in more ways than one), his subsequent don, never realizing that they are dancing on the
unofficial talks between opposing sides. Brilliantly stay in the state penitentiary results in his meet- edge of an abyss.
building suspense befitting the situation’s high ing the love of his life, a sensitive fellow inmate
stakes, Endgame chronicles this dangerous mission, named Phillip Morris, perfectly portrayed by Ewan Gregor Jordan returns to Sundance (Two Hands and
where Michael Young, Consolidated’s head of public McGregor. What ensues can only be described as a Buffalo Soldiers played at previous Festivals) with
affairs, doggedly assembles a reluctant, yet impres- relentless quest as Russell attempts escape after a glamorous and gritty exposé of a culture where
sive, crew to confront intractable obstacles in the escape and executes con after con, all in the name too much was never enough. He presents both the
way of reconciliation. ANC leader Thabo Mbeki and of love. seductive and repellent sides of a time when safe
Afrikaner philosophy professor Willie Esterhuyse are sex meant being on the pill. Featuring a truly all-star
chief among them. This is the world of the preposterous: it plays like a cast who are at the top of their game, The Informers
farce but is vastly entertaining because it turns all is a scathing descent into the morally bankrupt core
Zeroing in on the growing emotional empathy that we take for granted about life on its head. As beneath L.A.’s superficial beauty. It is both titillating
between Mbeki and Esterhuyse, which becomes the a primer on the irresistible power of a man who is and horrifying as it captures an era on the verge
linchpin for the talks, this enormously moving story either insane or in love (is there a difference?), of an implosion whose effects we are still feeling
dramatizes the way that meticulous strategies, I Love You Phillip Morris surely serves to remind us today. —TREVOR GROTH
combined with serendipity, finally unlock change. of the resilience of the human spirit.
While Mandela endures house arrest, terrorist —GEOFFREY GILMORE
ExP: Bret Easton Ellis, Vanessa Coifman, Brian
bombs threaten the dialogue, and Botha’s regime Young, Jere Hausfater, Nicholas Jarecki Pr: Marco
gives way to F.W. de Klerk’s leadership, an unlikely ExP: Luc Besson Pr: Andrew Lazar, Far Shariat Weber Ci: Petra Korner Principal Cast: Billy Bob
cadre, secreted in a distant British manor, pave the Ci: Xavier Perez Grobet Ed: Thomas J. Nordberg Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Winona
way to black South African freedom and form a PrD: Hugo Luczyc-Wyhowski CoD: David C. Robinson Ryder, Jon Foster, Amber Heard
template for peace negotiations around the world. Principal Cast: Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie
—CAROLINE LIBRESCO Mann, Rodrigo Santoro
Thursday, January 22, 9:30 pm - INFOR22CN
Pr: David Aukin, Hal Vogel Ci: David Odd Ed: Clive Eccles Theatre, Park City
Sunday, January 18, 9:30 pm - ILOVE18CN
Barrett PrD: Chris Roope Principal Cast: William Eccles Theatre, Park City Friday, January 23, 8:30 am - INFOR23LM
Hurt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mark Strong, Jonny Lee Miller Library Center Theatre, Park City
Monday, January 19, 9:15 am - ILOVE19CM
Eccles Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 24, midnight - INFOR24WL
Sunday, January 18, 6:15 pm - ENDGA18CE Tower Theatre, SLC
Eccles Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 20, 9:00 pm - ILOVE20WN
Tower Theatre, SLC
Monday, January 19, 8:30 am - ENDGA19PM
Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 24, 6:00 pm - ILOVE24SE
Tuesday, January 20, noon - ENDGA20SD
Wednesday, January 21, 6:30 pm - ENDGA21OA
Sunday, January 25, 6:30 pm - ENDGA25GE
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PREMIERES
In the Loop Manure Mary and Max

DIRECTOR: Armando Iannucci DIRECTOR: Michael Polish DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Adam Elliot
SCREENWRITERS: Armando Iannucci, SCREENWRITERS: Mark Polish, Michael Polish Australia, 2008, 92 min., color & b/w
Jesse Armstrong U.S.A., 2008, 105 min., color
Mary and Max is unique. A claymation animation
United Kingdom, 2008, 109 min., color by Academy Award–winning filmmaker Adam Elliot
When a tragic accident ends the life of Mr. Rose,
the genius behind Rose’s Manure Company, the (Harvie Krumpet), it tells the simple story of a 20-
If Armando Iannucci’s political farce about the road
livelihood of its loyal fleet of salesmen threatens year pen-pal friendship between two very different
to war through the corridors of power weren’t so
to go, as they say, into the toilet. Enter estranged people: Mary Dinkle, a chubby, lonely 8-year-old
funny, it would be utterly terrifying.
daughter Rosemary (Téa Leoni), a high-class- girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max
Horowitz, a 44-year-old Jewish man, who is severely
When a British cabinet minister, Simon Foster, com- cosmetics salesgirl, who steps in to take control.
ments publicly that he thinks war is “unforeseeable,” She is not sure she has a nose for the family obese, suffers from Asperger’s syndrome, and lives
the result is an immediate bollocking from Malcolm business, but she is determined to make foul into an isolated life in New York City. It is very much a
Tucker, the prime minister’s testy bulldog pushing profit. Little does she know that a ruthless, slick- triumph of emotion, insight, and eccentricity—a
for war. Unable to clarify his position, Simon is sent talking fertilizer rep (Kyle MacLachlan) is plotting complete delight.
to Washington, where, trying desperately to be a takeover. Whether she likes it or not, she must
trust her top salesman, Patrick Fitzpatrick (Billy Bob Animation’s ability to capture the intricate complex-
important, he meets Karen Clark, a U.S. State
Thornton), to devise a plan to regain Rose’s rightful ity of life has never been on display in as absorbing
Department official, and General Miller, who see him
position on top of the heap. fashion as with the storytelling of this Australian
as a transatlantic partner in building a consensus
filmmaker, who truly makes you forget what you are
against war. They search for a secret war committee,
The Polish brothers have created a wholly original, watching. The originality of the voices in this ever-
led by Karen’s hawkish colleague, Linton Barwick.
decidedly irreverent, yet enchantingly classic comic spinning kaleidoscope of innocence and idiosyncrasy
And as farce demands, all parties eventually con-
adventure from the 1960s. Sassy dialogue gives comes straight from an incredibly rich imagination
verge for a climactic shuffle between rooms, in this
Manure flair, but it is the period design with its and complete artistic vision. This desire for accep-
case at the United Nations.
sepia palate of painted backdrops that conjures up tance and love amid the pain of existence is master-
Wickedly sardonic and filled with secrets, lies, leaks, scaffolds and wind machines just off camera. fully narrated by Barry Humphries and fleshed out
plugs, faulty intelligence and faulty walls, In the by the voices of Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni
Loop leads us behind closed doors to reveal bungling The Polish brothers are complete originals, and their Collette.
bureaucrats entangled in petty rivalries, obsequious all-star cast stylishly matches their campy hybrid
hijinks. Thornton masters just the right tone, while This film that explores friendship, autism, taxidermy,
aides jockeying for favor, and the Keystone Cops
Leoni’s nostalgic throwback performance showcases psychiatry, alcoholism, where babies come from,
of government, including a minister who hopes
her unique brand of physical comedy. In the Polish obesity, kleptomania, trust, copulating dogs, sexual
there’s no war because it’s bad enough coping with
brothers’ capable hands, Manure fills the screen and religious differences, agoraphobia, and more,
the Olympics, and an unscrupulous bureaucrat who
with scene after scene of wonderfully rendered, and is rooted in a very personal relationship, is proof
doctors intelligence because he believes that “in the
pure cinematic imagination. —JOHN COOPER of why we go to the movies and a truly exceptional
land of truth, the man with one fact is king.”
portrait of compassion and love.
But don’t worry. None of this actually happened! It’s Pr: Jonathan Sheldon, Michael Polish, Mark Polish —GEOFFREY GILMORE
just British comedy. —JOHN NEIN Ci: M. David Mullen Ed: Cary Gries Principal Cast:
Billy Bob Thornton, Téa Leoni, Kyle MacLachlan ExP: Mark Gooder, Paul Hardart, Tom Hardart,
Pr: Kevin Loader, Adam Tandy Ci: Jamie Cairney Bryce Menzies, Jonathan Page Pr: Melanie Coombs
Ed: Billy Sneddon, Ant Boys PrD: Cristina Casali Ci: Gerald Thompson Ed: Bill Murphy PrD: Adam
Mu: Adem Ilhan with the Elysian Quartet CoD: Tuesday, January 20, 9:30 pm - MANUR20CN Elliot Principal Cast: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour
Ros Little Principal Cast: Peter Capaldi, James Eccles Theatre, Park City Hoffman, Barry Humphries, Eric Bana
Gandolfini, Tom Hollander, David Rashe, Gina McKee, Wednesday, January 21, 8:30 am - MANUR21LM
Chris Addison, Anna Chulmsky, Mimi Kennedy Library Center Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 15, 6:00 pm - MARYA15CE
Thursday, January 22, 9:00 pm - MANUR22SN Eccles Theatre, Park City
Thursday, January 22, 6:15 pm - INTHE22CE Screening Room, Sundance Resort Thursday, January 15, 9:30 pm - MARYA15CN
Eccles Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 24, 9:00 pm - MANUR24BN Eccles Theatre, Park City
Friday, January 23, 9:15 am - INTHE23CM Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Friday, January 16, 9:15 am - MARYA16CM
Eccles Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City
Saturday, January 24, 9:00 pm - INTHE24SN Friday, January 16, 6:30 pm - MARYA16OA
Screening Room, Sundance Resort Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden
Sunday, January 25, 12:30 pm - INTHE25GD Saturday, January 17, 6:30 pm - MARYA17GE
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC
Saturday, January 24, 6:15 pm - MARYA24CE

The Messenger Moon Motherhood
DIRECTOR: Oren Moverman DIRECTOR: Duncan Jones DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Katherine Dieckmann
SCREENWRITERS: Oren Moverman, SCREENWRITER: Nathan Parker U.S.A., 2008, 90 min., color
Alessandro Camon United Kingdom, 2008, 97 min., color
U.S.A., 2008, 107 min., color Eliza Welch is having a really bad day. A middle-aged
Nearing the end of a three-year contract with Lunar mom in post-9/11 Manhattan with two kids, an
With three months left in the service, Will (Ben Industries, Sam Bell is counting the days until his oblivious husband, and an incontinent dog, Eliza is
Foster) has spent a good deal of time in army return to Earth. The lone occupant of a lunar mining a consummate multitasker facing the soul-crushing
hospitals, healing scars from his time in Iraq. To base, Sam monitors the tractors that harvest the fear that her dreams of being a writer are going down
make things worse, the girl he left behind (Jena moon’s surface for helium energy. Buoyed by spo- the diaper bin.
Malone) has moved on with her life. Ironically, his radic transmissions from his wife and young daugh-
chance at a fresh start lies in working shoulder to ter, he combats monotony and isolation by tending Motherhood takes place in a single day—a day when
shoulder with Tony (Woody Harrelson), a senior offi- to plants, continuing his predecessor’s woodcraft Eliza becomes a magnet for the entire city’s hostility.
cer who teaches him the ropes of his new post with project, and interacting with the station’s robotic She has to throw her daughter’s sixth birthday party,
the Casualty Notification Office. Will, who narrowly computer, Gerty. But Sam is beginning to unravel battle for a parking space, chase her toddler son,
escaped death, must now break the news about mentally. After a hallucination causes him to crash navigate playground politics, repair a botched birth-
those who didn’t. Between assignments, these two his lunar rover, he wakes up in the sick bay and soon day cake, contemplate a fling with a sexy messenger
soldiers form a unique bond that helps them in their realizes that his life at the base is not what it seems. half her age, juggle a career-changing opportunity,
struggle to get back to “normal” life, fully knowing find time to have a breakdown, briefly run away from
nothing will ever really be normal again. Moon is a refreshingly philosophical and ultimately home, and realize what is truly valuable in her life—
touching indie inflection on a genre that too often all in one day.
Proving himself a cinematic craftsman, director loses sight of character and story amid the wizardry
Oren Moverman deliberately hasn’t made a political of its special effects. In confining the story to one As Eliza, the irresistibly charming Uma Thurman is
film. The Messenger isn’t even about the military man (and his robot), director Duncan Jones and up to the task. Anthony Edwards and Minnie Driver
at its core; it’s about people choosing to live life writer Nathan Parker create an intimate and insight- lend expert support. With a keen eye for the delicious
and finding the light and humor at the end of the ful character piece about memory and identity details that define authenticity, Motherhood depicts
tunnel. Harrelson and Foster infuse these complex anchored by Sam Rockwell’s perceptive perfor- a world we may think we know and injects it with
characters with the necessary pathos to raise their mance; he brings out the heartache, contradictory freshness and humor. Written and directed by
story to a new level of compassion. Foster adds yet emotions, and existential terror of a man gradually Katherine Dieckmann, Motherhood is a funny and
another layer when Will faces an ethical dilemma stripped of the most fundamental sense of who poignant comedy about one woman’s quest to hold
because he is drawn to one of the young widows, he is. So for all the creativity of its visual design onto her true self as she embraces the foibles, heart-
played by Samantha Morton. She rounds out this and technology, Moon is less about outer than it is ache, and joys of being a mother. —DAVID COURIER
powerhouse cast in a moving and elegant film that about inner space. —JOHN NEIN
is an elegy of our time. —JOHN COOPER Pr: Jana Edelbaum, Rachel Cohen, Pamela Koffler,
Pr: Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler Ci: Gary Shaw Christine Vachon Ci: Nancy Schreiber Ed: Michael
Pr: Mark Gordon, Lawrence Inglee, Zach Miller Ed: Nicolas Gastor PrD: Tony Noble Mu: Clint R. Miller Principal Cast: Uma Thurman, Anthony
CoP: Gwen Bialec PrD: Steven Beatrice Mu: Nathan Mansell Principal Cast: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Edwards, Minnie Driver
Larson So: Leslie Shatz, Javier Bennassar Dominique McElligott, Benedict Wong, Matt Berry,
Principal Cast: Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Kaya Scodelario, Malcolm Stewart Wednesday, January 21, 9:30 pm - MHOOD21CN
Samantha Morton, Jena Malone, Eamonn Walker Eccles Theatre, Park City
Friday, January 23, 6:15 pm - MOONN23CE Thursday, January 22, 8:30 am - MHOOD22LM
Monday, January 19, 9:30 pm - MESSE19CN Eccles Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City
Eccles Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 24, 9:00 am - MOONN24CM Friday, January 23, 9:30 pm - MHOOD23GN
Tuesday, January 20, 8:30 am - MESSE20LM Eccles Theatre, Park City Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC
Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 24, 9:30 pm - MOONN24GN
Wednesday, January 21, 6:30 pm - MESSE21GE Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Sunday, January 25, 1:00 pm - MOONN25SA
Saturday, January 24, 3:00 pm- MESSE24OA Screening Room, Sundance Resort
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PREMIERES
Rudo y Cursi Shrink Spread

DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Carlos Cuarón DIRECTOR: Jonas Pate DIRECTOR: David Mackenzie
Mexico, 2008, 103 min., color SCREENWRITER: Thomas Moffett SCREENWRITER: Jason Dean Hall
Spanish with English subtitles U.S.A., 2008, 110 min., color U.S.A., 2008, 97 min., color
Y Tu Mamá También costars Gael García Bernal and What happens when the people we count on to hold Los Angeles is often the customary site for myth-
Diego Luna are reunited on the big screen in Rudo us together…are barely holding it together them- making in the American cultural iconography. It is a
y Cursi, a delightful romp of a comedy drama deftly selves? Jonas Pate’s Shrink is a striking, fast-paced place, for instance, where the legend of the sexual
directed by Carlos Cuarón. exposé of the “other” Hollywood, featuring folks exploits of the male gigolo seems perfectly at home
living outside their comfort zone and the people in the decadent universe of Hollywood dreams and
Beto (Luna) and Tato (Bernal) are a pair of rivaling, who put them there. nightmares.
dim-witted brothers who work on a dusty banana

ranch and play soccer for their local team. Beto, Henry Carter (Kevin Spacey) is a psychiatrist with Surely inspired by the classic tradition of American
a goalie whose hot temper on the field earns an A-list clientele, including a once-famous actress Gigolo and Shampoo, Spread is such a perfectly
him the nickname of Rudo, dreams of becoming (Saffron Burrows), an insecure young writer (Mark tuned, contemporary depiction of the trials and
a professional soccer player, while Tato wants to Webber), and a comically obsessive-compulsive tribulations of sleeping your way to wealth and
be a famous singer. They both share the dream of superagent (Dallas Roberts). Henry is not in a good success that, guilty pleasure or not, it’s irresistible.
building a big house for their mother, Elvira, but all place, however. He has been asked to take his first Especially so since it’s driven by the iconic persona
of their desires seem completely out of reach, that pro bono case, a troubled teenage girl from a neigh- of Ashton Kutcher, who plays Nikki and breathes the
is, until a talent scout, Batuta, discovers their skill borhood far from the Hollywood hills. Considering charged sexuality, fashion and hipness, and sense
on the field. To Beto’s chagrin, it is Tato, whose his present state of mind, is he ready for the real- of entitlement of the sexual grifter as if he were
curlicue field play earns him the nickname of Cursi, life troubles of a young woman who loves the world born to it.
who is chosen to become a star player. Not to be of movies he has become so jaded by?
bested, Beto scores a goalie position on a rival team, Stylishly directed by David MacKenzie (Hallam Foe,
further intensifying the competition between them. At its core, Shrink is a study of control and our Young Adam), Spread is a moral tale in a very-
But success makes the brothers confront their own endless need for it, even when it grows increasingly modern sense with its characters of a young man
personal demons and sets them on a chase for more impossible to obtain. Writer Thomas Moffett uses and his middle-aged, well-to-do client (played by
than just soccer balls. classic archetypes in this modern Hollywood tale, Anne Heche), his various associates and conquests,
but never pushes them over the edge of credibility. and a waitress whom he begins to really care about
Cuarón keeps the energy high and the laughter Performed by a well-matched cast at the top of their (unbeknownst to him, she is playing the same
rolling even as he crafts a moral into the story. But form, the result is both satisfying and exhilarating. game). The world of money, sex, and privilege is an
even if the dueling brothers do find a way out of the Watching Shrink makes us feel like voyeurs looking ephemeral one, and the fall can be as sudden as the
banana ranch, will the banana ranch ever find a way through a window into the lives of people who ascent. Spread is a finely crafted vision of ambition,
out of them? —SHARI FRILOT look great, feel worse, and end up behaving badly. indulgence, vanity, and self-realization that epito-
—JOHN COOPER mizes the lifestyle of a fabled Mecca.
Pr: Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu, —GEOFFREY GILMORE
Guillermo del Toro, Frida Torresblanco, Tita Pr: Michael Burns, Braxton Pope, Dana Brunetti
Lombardo Ed: Alex Rodríguez Ph: Adam Kimmel CoP: John Saviano Ci: Lukas Ettlin Ed: Luis Carballar ExP: Myles Nestel, Anthony Callie, Paul Kolsby,
Principal Cast: Diego Luna, Gael García Bernal, Principal Cast: Kevin Spacey, Keke Palmer, Mark John Limotte, Aaron Kaufman Pr: Ashton Kutcher,
Guillermo Fracella Webber, Dallas Roberts, Saffron Burrows Jason Goldberg, Peter Morgan Ci: Stephen Poster
Ed: Nicholas Eramus Principal Cast: Ashton Kutcher,
Anne Heche, Margarita Levieva, Rachel Blanchard,
Friday, January 16, 9:30 pm - RUDOA16CN Wednesday, January 21, 6:15 pm - SHRIN21CE Sebastian Stan, Sonia Rockwell
Saturday, January 17, 8:30 am - RUDOA17LM Thursday, January 22, 9:15 am - SHRIN22CM
Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 17, 9:15 pm - SPREA17CN
Sunday, January 18, 3:30 pm- RUDOA18OA Friday, January 23, 9:00 pm - SHRIN23SN
Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden Sunday, January 18, 9:15 am - SPREA18CM
Screening Room, Sundance Resort Eccles Theatre, Park City
Friday, January 23, 6:30 pm - RUDOA23GE Saturday, January 24, 9:00 pm - SHRIN24WN
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Thursday, January 22, 9:00 pm - SPREA22WN
Tower Theatre, SLC Tower Theatre, SLC

SPECTRUM
Presenting out-of-competition Against the Current The Anarchist’s Wife

DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Peter Callahan La Mujer del Anarquista
films from around the world, U.S.A., 2008, 95 min., color DIRECTORS: Marie Noelle, Peter Sehr
the Spectrum program is a Paul Thompson (Joseph Fiennes), a financial SCREENWRITERS: Marie Noelle, Ray Loriga
writer struggling with a tragic past, decides to do Germany/Spain, 2008, 112 min., color
tribute to the abundance something special and unique to distinguish himself. Spanish/French with English subtitles
Having always wanted to swim the 150 miles of the
In a story spanning several decades, The Anarchist’s
of the compelling new Lower Hudson River, he recruits his best friend, Jeff
(Justin Kirk), and new acquaintance, Liz (Elizabeth Wife depicts the way the marriage between an
idealistic young activist and his glamorous wife is
voices and creative spirit in Reaser), to accompany him on a physical and emo-
tional journey exploring friendship, grief, and how dominated by shifting political powers during the
we cope when what we lose is greater than what life Spanish Civil War and World War II. Justo’s (Juan
independent filmmaking. has to offer. Diego Botto) political activism separates the couple
for years as he goes into hiding and is ultimately
This year, the Festival Beautifully nuanced and restrained, Against the deported to a concentration camp, but Manuela
(Maria Valverde) steadfastly clings to as much of
Current swells with friendship and human folly.
presents seven Spectrum Playful dialogue entices as smart writing and
stellar performances immediately immerse us in
their old lives as possible in rapidly deteriorating
circumstances, raising their children and facing mul-
the unfulfilled lives of these three characters: a tiple tragedies on her own. After the war, Manuela
films in a Documentary profoundly sad man, a failed actor in an unhappy uproots her life to rush to Justo’s side, only to find
marriage, and a woman yearning for more while that she must again share him with a cause.
Spotlight. dealing with the pressures of her mother (Mary
Tyler Moore). In this historical drama that incorporates archi-
val footage, a rich score, and memorable visuals
The simplicity of this well-crafted narrative is what to carefully evoke Spain in the 1930s and ‘40s,
makes it so beautiful. We can’t always understand husband-and-wife filmmakers Peter Sehr and Marie
the decisions others make, but writer/director Peter Noelle employ impressive historical detail in this
Callahan adeptly illustrates the intensely compli- story of a single family that finds that unyielding
cated dynamics of human relationships and just how devotion does not come without a price. The film
far we’re willing to go to support those we love. celebrates the couple’s single-minded loyalties—
—LISA OGDIE Manuela to her husband and Justo to his beliefs—
but also depicts the negative repercussions, espe-
ExP: Jonathan Gray, Miranda Bailey, Matthew cially on the couple’s headstrong young daughter,
Leutwyler Pr: Joshua Zeman, Mary Jane Skalski Paloma (Ivana Baquero). Told through Paloma’s
CoP: Wouter Barendrecht, Michael J. Werner point of view, the story of her parents’ undying love
Ci: Sean Kirby Ed: Michael Taylor PrD: Tommaso and political commitment is at once wholly romantic
Ortino Principal Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Justin and somewhat bittersweet. —HEIDI ZWICKER
Kirk, Elizabeth Reaser, Mary Tyler Moore, Michelle
Trachtenberg, Pell James Pr: Marie Noelle, Peter Sehr Ci: Jean Francois
Robin Ed: Luis de la Madrid PrD: Marta Blasco,
Juan Botella Ruiz-Castillo Mu: Zacarias Martinez
Sunday, January 18, 8:30 pm - AGAIN18LN de la Riva So: Pierre Gamet Principal Cast: Maria
Library Center Theatre, Park City Valverde, Juan Diego Botto, Nina Hoss, Ivana
Wednesday, January 21, 11:15 am - AGAIN21RD Baquero, Jean-Marc Barr, Laura Morante,
Racquet Club, Park City Irene Montala, Biel Durán, Pere Arquillué,
Nathalie Grauwin
Thursday, January 22, 2:15 pm - AGAIN22RA
Saturday, January 24, 6:45 pm - AGAIN24BE Friday, January 16, 3:00 pm - ANARC16EA
Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC Egyptian Theatre, Park City
Saturday, January 17, 3:30 pm - ANARC17GA
Sunday, January 18, 11:30 am - ANARC18LD
Wednesday, January 21, 8:00 pm - ANARC21RN
Saturday, January 24, 6:30 pm - ANARC24OA
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Barking Water Children of Invention Everything Strange and New
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Sterlin Harjo DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Tze Chun DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Frazer Bradshaw
U.S.A., 2008, 85 min., color U.S.A., 2008, 95 min., color U.S.A., 2009, 84 min., color
English/Cantonese/Mandarin Chinese with
Before Oklahoma was a red state, it was known English subtitles Wayne has a job, a wife, two kids, and a house.
as the Land of the Red People, described by the He’s living the American Dream. There’s a fine line,
Choctaw phrase Okla Humma. In his sophomore film, For immigrants, the American Dream has always however, between a dream and nightmare, and
Sterlin Harjo takes viewers on a road trip through been a symbol of success that meant achieving a Wayne finds himself at odds with the life he has
his own personal Oklahoma, which includes an new life far removed from past hardships. In his and preoccupied by the life he thinks he wants. He
eclectic mix of humanity. feature film debut, director Tze Chun explores this floats passively in a swirling sea inhabited by his
age-old-perception through the eyes of a Chinese emotionally unpredictable wife, his out-of-control
Irene and Frankie have a difficult past, but Frankie American family in suburban Boston. young children, and his embattled friends, who
needs Irene to help him with one task. He needs to have demons of their own. As things change for
get out of the hospital and go home to his daughter Single mother Elaine Cheng struggles to support her others, Wayne’s life takes emotional turns, which
and new grandbaby to make amends. Irene had been two young children, Raymond and Tina, by juggling are sometimes subtle and sometimes violent but
his one, true, on-again, off-again love until they various sales jobs. When another one falls through, never enough to shake him off the track he doesn’t
parted ways for good. But to make up for the past, the family finds itself homeless and must seek remember choosing.
Irene agrees to help him in this trying time. refuge in an unfinished apartment building. This lat-
est predicament seems all too familiar to precocious Writer/director Frazer Bradshaw returns to Sun-
With steady and graceful performances by Richard Raymond, who dreams of taking care of his mother dance (his short, Every Day Here, played at the 2000
Ray Whitman as Frankie and Casey Camp-Horinek and sister with the fortunes garnered from his Festival) with an exquisitely rendered, but challeng-
as Irene, this story takes viewers for a ride in the inventions. Little Tina, however, remains oblivious to ingly bleak, examination of daily life. He focuses
backseat of Frankie and Irene’s Indian car, listening their troubles, thanks to her mother’s careful pro- the story in unique ways that draw attention more
to their past and the rhythmic soundtrack that sets tection. Meanwhile, lured by promises of easy cash, intently to the emotional and psychological interplay
the beat for a redemptive road journey. Harjo wraps Elaine finds herself drawn into another pyramid of ideas, rather than following a narrative arc.
us in the charm and love of Oklahoma through scheme, one that will jeopardize the welfare of the Bradshaw, an established cinematographer, frames
the people and places Irene and Frankie visit along two things that matter the most: her children. the world in beautifully composed shots that em-
the way. phasize Wayne’s trapped existence. To underline the
Chun delicately explores the immigrant experience moral anomie of the disturbingly familiar universe,
In this sparingly sentimental and achingly poignant through parallel tales as Elaine and Raymond seek he utilizes a jarring, dissonant score at times and
film, Harjo claims his place as one of the most truth- solutions to their dilemma. As they do so, age be- moments of silence in others.
ful and honest voices working in American cinema comes irrelevant as they clutch for the elusive brass
today. Barking Water is an expression of gratitude ring that always seems just out of reach. Everything Strange and New is the kind of transcen-
for the ability to have lived and loved. —ROSIE WONG dent filmmaking that develops a cinematic language
—N. BIRD RUNNINGWATER all its own, and in doing so opens viewers up to
ExP: Dan Cogan Pr: Mynette Louie, Trevor Sagan themselves. —TREVOR GROTH
ExP: Jack Clark, Joel Hulett Pr: Chad Burris CoP: Dave Saltzman Ci: Chris Teague Ed: Anna Boden
Ci: Fredrick Schroeder Ed: David Michael Maurer Mu: T. Griffin Principal Cast: Cindy Cheung, Michael ExP: Stephen Bannatyne, Marcia Carver, Willie Mae
Principal Cast: Casey Camp-Horinek, Richard Ray Chen, Crystal Chiu Webb Pr: Laura Techera Francia, A.D. Liano
Whitman, Jon Proudstar, Aaron Riggs, Quese Imc, Ci: Frazer Bradshaw Ed: Frazer Bradshaw, Jesse
Ryan Redcorn Production Design: Greg Hulett Spencer Mu: Dan Plonsey, Kent Sparling So: Kent
Sunday, January 18, 2:30 pm - CHILD18PA Sparling Principal Cast: Jerry McDaniel, Beth Lisick,
Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Luis Saguar, Rigo Chacon Jr.
Preceded by Trece Años
Tuesday, January 20, 6:00 pm - CHILD20TE
U.S.A./Cuba, 2008, 7 min., color
Director: Topaz Adizes Preceded by Keith Reynolds can’t make
Wednesday, January 21, 6:00 pm - CHILD21SE it tonight
Saturday, January 17, 2:15 pm - BARKI17RA Screening Room, Sundance Resort United Kingdom, 2007, 6 min., color
Racquet Club, Park City Saturday, January 24, 11:30 pm - CHILD24LL Director: Felix Massie
Sunday, January 18, noon - BARK18SD Library Center Theatre, Park City
Screening Room, Sundance Resort Monday, January 19, 11:30 am - EVERY19LD
Wednesday, January 21, 6:15 pm - BARKI214E
Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Wednesday, January 21, 11:30 pm - EVERY21LL
Thursday, January 22, 2:30 pm- BARKI22LA
Library Center Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 22, 6:00 pm - EVERY22EE
Saturday, January 24, 6:00 pm - BARKI24WE
Tower Theatre, SLC Saturday, January 24, 3:45 pm - EVERY24BA
2009 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org/festival SPECTRUM 43

Helen The Immaculate Conception of Johnny Mad Dog
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Sandra Nettelbeck Little Dizzle DIRECTOR: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Canada/Germany, 2008, 120 min., color DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: David Russo SCREENWRITERS: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire,
U.S.A., 2009, 90 min., color Jacques Fieschi
Featuring a riveting performance by the gifted
France/Liberia/Belgium, 2008, 93 min., color
Ashley Judd and infused with intelligence and detail If there is anything that can be said about David English and Liberian with English subtitles
by Sandra Nettelbeck, a storyteller who clearly Russo’s spirited and wildly imaginative debut
knows intimately the parameters of this universe, Fiction based on horrifying fact, Johnny Mad Dog
feature, it is that you’ve never seen anything like it
Helen transcends the usual limitations that besiege before. The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle portrays the atrocities of an ongoing civil war in an
portraits of mental illness and depression. In truth, could only be created in the surreal mix engendered unnamed African nation. Although challenging to
for all that we’ve learned about depression—its by today’s modern world of biochemical engineering, the core, it’s an important work that will scorch the
causes, its cures, and the breadth of its affliction— digital wizardry, corporate deception, high art, and sensibilities of the most jaded viewer; it also raises
the old clichés and stigmas still dominate our tales the rapidly changing mores regarding the straight the question, can evil be forgiven?
and popular culture. What Nettelbeck and her male arse.
colleagues have accomplished is an unapologeti- Fifteen-year-old Johnny Mad Dog heads a platoon
cally moving examination that offers no simplistic Dory, a computer programmer experiencing a crisis of soldiers who are younger than he is. They’re
answers and refrains from reductively singular of faith, is laid off from his suit-and-tie job and armed to the teeth, sport a variety of bizarre outfits
happy endings. must resort to cleaning toilets with a brown-collar (odd headgear, angel wings, a wedding dress), and
band of janitorial misfits. Unbeknownst to him, he is have adopted names such as No Good Advice,
Helen focuses on a woman with an apparently per- made the subject of a bizarre experiment involving Captain Dust to Dust, and Chicken Hair. Charged
fect life: a successful academic, she seems happily deliciously addictive cookies that simulate “oven with overtaking a city in an attempt to unseat the
married with a wonderful daughter. But we witness freshness” by warming in your mouth when eaten. government, Johnny leads this band of killers on
a sudden breakdown and a journey that is enigmatic It turns out that the cookies cause spectacular a murderous rampage toward their destination.
and heartbreakingly real. When solutions prove elu- visions, wild mood swings, and quasi-pregnancies Meanwhile, the studious Laokolé lives with her
sive and Helen is hospitalized, she forges a relation- in the male janitors. The men must pull together young brother and disabled father and dreams of a
ship with Mathilda, a fellow traveler who both aids to become midwives for one another as each gives better life—until Johnny’s hurricane of destruction
and traumatizes her life’s course. When death seems birth to a small, beautiful, immaculately conceived comes her way.
the only answer, and the safe haven of family gives blue fish.
no respite, the pain of bipolarity is exhausting and Shot in Liberia, Johnny Mad Dog pulses with atmo-
overwhelming. Told with poignancy and insight— A character-driven comedy enriched with Russo’s sphere and authenticity; many of the phenomenal
and ultimately concluding with as much courage as innovative animation, The Immaculate Conception young actors actually lived through conflicts similar
inevitable sadness—Helen is the work of artists of Little Dizzle is a lighthearted film with a liberated to those in the film. They bring the weight of their
whose craft and sensibility are special. vision—the idea that you may find peace in the face experience to the screen and unleash some of the
—GEOFFREY GILMORE of uncertainty if you simply accept the very things bravest and most genuine performances I have ever
that are beyond your control. —SHARI FRILOT seen. Writer/director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire firmly
ExP: Kirk Shaw, Jens Meurer, Robbie Little, Simon grasps the gravity of the issues, yet packs them into
Fawcett Pr: Judy Tossell, Christine Haebler Pr: Peggy Case, Michael Seiwerath Ci: Neil Holcomb, a hyperstylish, almost-surreal package that shows a
Ci: Michael Bertl PrD: Linda Del Rosario CoD: Bettina Benjamin F. Kasulke, David Russo Ed: Billy McMillin true visionary at work. —TREVOR GROTH
Helmi Principal Cast: Ashley Judd, Goran Visnjic, Mu: Awesome SoD: Tom Hambleton
Lauren Lee Smith, Alexia Fast, Alberta Watson, PrD: Christopher Swenson Principal Cast: Marshall ExP: Elisa Larrière Pr: Mathieu Kassovitz, Benoit
David Hewlett Allman, Natasha Lyonne, Tania Raymonde, Tygh Jaubert CoP: Jean Stéphane Sauvaire, Alexandre
Runyan, Matt Smith, Vince Vieluf Lippens, Genevieve Lemal Ci: Marc Koninckx
Ed: Stéphane Elmadjian ArD: Alexandre Vivet
Friday, January 16, 8:45 pm - HELEN16LN
Principal Cast: Christopher Minie, Daisy Victoria
Preceded by Field Notes from Dimension X : Vandy, Dagbeh Tweh, Barry Chernoh, Mohammed
Saturday, January 17, 9:30 pm - HELEN17GN Oasis Sesay, Joseph Duo
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC U.S.A., 2008, 5 min., color
Monday, January 19, 11:30 pm - HELEN19LL Director: Carson Mell
Friday, January 16, 8:30 am - JOHNN16PM
Library Center Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Thursday, January 22, 11:15 am - HELEN22RD Monday, January 19, 5:30 pm - IMMAC19LE Saturday, January 17, 6:00 pm - JOHNN17WE
Racquet Club, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Tower Theatre, SLC
Saturday, January 24, 6:30 pm - HELEN24DE Tuesday, January 20, 11:30 pm- IMMAC203L Sunday, January 18, 6:30 pm - JOHNN18OA
Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden
Saturday, January 24, 9:00 pm - IMMAC24TN Monday, January 19, 5:30 pm - JOHNN19PE
Temple Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Sunday, January 25, 5:30 pm - JOHNN254E
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Lymelife The Missing Person La MISSION

DIRECTOR: Derick Martini DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Noah Buschel DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Peter Bratt
SCREENWRITERS: Derick Martini, Steven Martini U.S.A., 2008, 98 min., color U.S.A., 2008, 117 min., color
U.S.A., 2008, 93 min., color
John Rosow is a private detective prone to sardonic Set in the colorful, seedy streets of the San
Scott Bartlett (Rory Culkin) is a typical 15-year-old wit, gin, and the endless repercussions of what hap- Francisco district that bears its name, La MISSION
boy growing up in late-1970s Long Island. His subur- pens when you mix the two. Powerful lawyer Drexler is a story of redemption imbued with the curative
ban existence is primarily marked by a nerdy interest Hewitt wants Rosow to tail a mysterious middle- power of Aztec tradition. Feared, yet respected, as
in Star Wars, fending off bullies at high school, his aged man who is traveling with a Mexican boy from the baddest Chicano on the block, Che (Benjamin
longtime crush on neighbor/best friend Adrianna Chicago to Los Angeles. Hewitt’s loyal, stern assis- Bratt), a reformed inmate and recovering alcoholic,
Bragg (Emma Roberts), and navigating the dysfunc- tant, Miss Charley, waits at the door with cash and resorts to violence and intimidation to get what he
tional terrain of his parents’ rocky marriage—all instructions. But when Rosow hits Santa Monica, wants. A bus driver by day, Che lives for his beloved
against the paranoid backdrop of a Lyme disease his objective changes: now he has to bring the man son, Jesse, his lifelong friends, and his passion for
outbreak, which has freaked out Scott’s high-strung back to New York—for a cool half mil. Through his lowrider cars. Che and the “Mission Boyz” salvage
mother, Brenda (Jill Hennessy), and has already various dealings with an odd cast of characters—a junked cars, transforming them into classics.
claimed Adrianna’s father, Charlie (Timothy Hutton), cabdriver who knows his Catholic saints, a Segway-
as a victim. With Charlie out of work due to his riding L.A. cop, meddling FBI agents, and femme Che’s macho world is crushed when he discovers
illness, Adrianna’s mother, Melissa (Cynthia Nixon), fatales—Rosow begins to unravel the strange tale that Jesse’s been living a secret life. In a violent
takes a job working for Scott’s father, Mickey (Alec of the missing middle-aged man and learns some- rage, Che pummels Jesse and throws him out of the
Baldwin), a successful real-estate developer, and thing about himself along the way. house. Lena, an attractive neighbor and a force to
soon embarks on a messy affair. When eldest son be reckoned with, is a woman with a few secrets of
Jimmy (Kieran Culkin) returns from army training The Missing Person is a stunning, modern-day film her own. Mutual attraction percolates as Lena chal-
and confronts his father about Mickey’s less-than- noir. It creates a desaturated world of color with lenges Che to reconcile the life he thought he had.
discreet adultery, both families are forever changed the most luscious lighting you could dream of.
Michael Shannon is perfect as Rosow, with a face Sundance veteran Peter Bratt (Follow Me Home)
by the devastating consequences. returns with a powerful second feature. Propelled
and demeanor that bring the character to startling
Drawing from their own childhoods, director Derick life. Under the airtight direction of Noah Buschel, by commanding performances from Jeremy Ray
Martini and his brother and cowriter, Steven Martini, Shannon’s Rosow is reminiscent of Elliott Gould as Valdez as Jesse and Erika Alexander as Lena—and
bring a palpable sense of place and authenticity to Phillip Marlow in The Long Goodbye or Ralph Meeker featuring an exceptional turn by Benjamin Bratt—
Lymelife. Their alternately funny and emotionally as Mike Hammer in Kiss Me Deadly—gruff, lovable, La MISSION is a haunting story of healing and trans-
devastating script, brought to life by a talented flawed, and doing the best they can. formation: the healing of a broken man, of a father’s
roster of actors, poignantly reinvents both the —MIKE PLANTE relationship with his son, and of a neighborhood
suburban drama and the coming-of-age story at the struggling to break the chains of violence.
same time. —BASIL TSIOKOS Pr: Jesse Scolaro, Allen Bain, Lois Drabkin, Alex —DAVID COURIER
Estes Ci: Ryan Samul Ed: Mollie Goldstein
ExP: Martin Scorsese, Leonard Loventhal Pr: Steven PrD: Aleta Shaffer Principal Cast: Michael Shannon, ExP: Tom Steyer, Kat Taylor, Dan Nelson Pr: Alpita
Martini, Jon Cornick, Alec Baldwin, Barbara De Fina, Amy Ryan, Frank Wood Patel, Benjamin Bratt, Peter Bratt Ci: Hiro Narita
Michele Tayler, Angela Somerville Ed: Derick Martini, Ed: Stan Webb Mu: Mark Kilian ConPr: John
Steven Martini, Mark Yoshikowa Mu: Steven Martini Amaechi Principal Cast: Benjamin Bratt, Erika
Preceded by Protect You + Me. Alexander, Jeremy Ray Valdez, Jesse Borrego, Talisa
Principal Cast: Alec Baldwin, Kieran Culkin, Rory U.S.A., 2008, 10 min., color
Culkin, Jill Hennessy, Timothy Hutton, Cynthia Nixon, Soto Bratt
Director: Brady Corbet
Emma Roberts
Friday, January 16, 6:00 pm - THEMI16LE Monday, January 19, 8:30 pm - LAMIS19PN
Friday, January 16, 9:00 pm - LYMEL16SN Library Center Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Screening Room, Sundance Resort Saturday, January 17, 9:00 am - THEMI17TM Wednesday, January 21, 2:30 pm - LAMIS21LA
Saturday, January 17, 11:15 am - LYMEL17RD Temple Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City
Racquet Club, Park City Sunday, January 18, 6:30 pm - THEMI18GE Friday, January 23, noon - LAMIS23ED
Sunday, January 18, 1:30 pm - LYMEL18BD Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Egyptian Theatre, Park City
Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Tuesday, January 20, 6:30 pm - THEMI20DE Saturday, January 24, 9:45 pm - LAMIS24BN
Tuesday, January 20, 5:30 pm - LYMEL20LE Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC
Library Center Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 21, 5:15 pm- THEMI21RE
Saturday, January 24, 11:30 pm - LYMEL24PL Racquet Club, Park City

Once More with Feeling The Only Good Indian Pomegranates and Myrrh
DIRECTOR: Jeff Lipsky DIRECTOR: Kevin Willmott Al Mor wa al Rumman
SCREENWRITER: Gina O’Brien SCREENWRITER: Tom Carmody DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Najwa Najjar
U.S.A., 2008, 105 min., color U.S.A., 2008, 113 min., color Palestinian Territories, 2008, 95 min., color
English and Cherokee with English subtitle English and Arabic/Hebrew with English subtitles
The parallel life crises of a father and daughter
take center stage in this engaging and endearing With this outstanding revisionist western, Kevin Dancer Kamar’s joyful wedding to Zaid is followed
dramatic comedy by director Jeff Lipsky Willmott stakes out new territory in a genre that almost immediately by Zaid’s imprisonment in an
(Flannel Pajamas screened at the 2006 Sundance might have seemed completely settled. Fancifully Israeli jail for refusing to give up his land. Free-
Film Festival). configuring the symbols of the genre, he creates a spirited Kamar wants to support her husband and be
fascinating parable of American history. a dutiful wife but struggles with the idea of giving
Frank Gregorio (Chazz Palminteri) is a successful
up dance and her own dreams. Matters are compli-
psychiatrist, loving husband, and doting grandfather At the outset, young Nachwihiata lives a peaceful cated when a new dance instructor, Kais, returns to
to the two children of his eldest daughter, Lana existence with his agrarian family until a band of the studio after many years in Lebanon and takes a
(Drea de Matteo). When the universe conspires to white marauders attacks their homestead. They special interest in Kamar. She struggles to deal with
introduce him to karaoke through both a patient’s forcibly remove him to a white Christian boarding the weight of Kais’s attention, which brings to the
parent issues and his precocious granddaughter’s school, where Native children are assimilated into surface her attempts to balance her own desires
birthday party, Frank rediscovers a long-suppressed the dominant culture. Renamed Charlie, he chafes with her duties as the wife of a prisoner.
dream of becoming a professional singer. While his under the lie of his new identity and, before long,
wife, Angelina (Maria Tucci), believes he’s just prac- runs away. He’s soon captured by bounty hunter Like the character of Kamar herself, Najwa Najjar’s
ticing to sing at their younger daughter’s upcoming Sam Franklin, an assimilated Indian who now only filmmaking (in her debut feature) is matter-of-fact
wedding, Frank befriends a karaoke aficionado, Lydia aspires to round up other Indians for reward money. about Kamar’s situation. Instead of manufacturing
(Linda Fiorentino), a femme fatale who has other The plot thickens when Sam and Charlie are pursued melodrama, Najjar stays focused on her protago-
plans for the would-be crooner. Simultaneously the by a cruel, grizzled sheriff, who also wants the nist’s insistence on seeing her life, like anyone else’s,
sarcastic and harried Lana grows increasingly neu- bounty on the missing boy. Like a true warrior, as an opportunity for joy. The constant interference
rotic about her postpregnancy weight and flagging Charlie faces repeated tests of his courage and of the external conflict—her husband’s arrest,
marriage and contemplates solutions in the form self-awareness, discovering the painful contortions the squatters on her land, and the soldiers filling
of plastic surgery and an affair with a hunky and of identity and despair to which many of his race are the streets—is an unavoidable aspect of Kamar’s
charismatic police officer. Like father, like daughter? consigned, and the conflicts that remain even after existence but one that she will not allow to deter
How will this close-knit Italian American family cope the Indian Wars have supposedly ended. her. Najjar’s intimate storytelling and Yasmine Al
with the decisions Frank and Lana make? Massri’s sensitive portrayal of Kamar create a film
Willmott constructs a fascinating plot, laced with that addresses honestly the way a woman might
Brimming with wit, heart, and music, and featuring intriguing twists and ever-higher plateaus of face the realities of life in modern-day Palestine
fine performances from its ensemble cast, Once suspense, infused with gothic devices that underline while refusing to be defined by them.
More with Feeling perfectly captures the strength the horrors involved. The Only Good Indian is a wor- —HEIDI ZWICKER
of family bonds in the face of life’s temptations and thy fictional account of an essential American story.
trials. —BASIL TSIOKOS —SHANNON KELLEY Pr: Hani E. Kort CoP: Robin Gutch, Thierry Lenouvel,
Kamel Kacimi and Daniel Gobner Ci: Valentina
ExP: Ed Carroll, Sam Logan, Steve Matzkin, Sarah ExP: Hanay Geiogamah, J.T. O’Neal, Dan Wildcat Canalgia ComEd: Meinolf Zuhorst Ed: Bettina
Schroeder Pr: Paul Jarrett, Nick Huston Ci: Ruben Pr: Thomas Carmody, Rick Cowan, Matt Cullen, Bohler, Sotira Kyriacou Principal Cast: Hiam Abbass,
O’Malley Ed: Sara Corrigan CoD: Amy Bradshaw Greg Hurd, Scott Richardson, Kevin Willmott Ali Suleiman,Yasmine Al Massri, Ashraf Farah, Yousef
Principal Cast: Chazz Palminteri, Drea de Matteo, Ci: Matthew Jacobson, Jeremy Osbern Ed: Sean Abu Wardeh, Samia Kuzmoz Bakri
Linda Fiorentino, Lauren Bittner, Maria Tucci, Daisy Blake Principal Cast: Wes Studi, Winter Fox Frank,
Tahan, Gene Ruffini J. Kenneth Campbell, Paul Butler, Thirza Defoe,
Christopher Wheatley Sunday, January 18, 5:30 pm - POMEG18PE
Monday, January 19, 2:30 pm - ONCEM19PA
Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Friday, January 16, 5:30 pm - ONLYG163E Monday, January 19, 9:00 pm - POMEG19BN
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC
Tuesday, January 20, 8:30 pm - ONCEM203N
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Saturday, January 17, 3:00 pm - ONLYG17BA Wednesday, January 21, noon - POMEG21ED
Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Egyptian Theatre, Park City
Friday, January 23, 8:30 am - ONCEM23PM
Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 18, 9:00 am - ONLYG18TM Thursday, January 22, 6:30 pm - POMEG22OA
Temple Theatre, Park City Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden
Saturday, January 24, 7:30 pm - ONCEM24BE
Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Saturday, January 24, 9:00 pm - ONLYG244N Saturday, January 24, midnight - POMEG244L
Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City
Sunday, January 25, 11:30 am - ONLYG254D
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DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT
The Vicious Kind World’s Greatest Dad
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Lee Toland Krieger DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Bobcat Goldthwait It Might Get Loud
DIRECTOR: Davis Guggenheim
In his second feature film, director Lee Krieger pres- As the saying goes, be careful what you wish for. In U.S.A., 2008, 97 min., color
ents a redemption tale focused on Caleb Sinclaire, World’s Greatest Dad, a wickedly funny dark com-
a bitter construction worker whose life is turned edy, Lance Clayton (Robin Williams) discovers that There are guitar players, and then there are rock
upside down one Thanksgiving weekend. what he covets most in life may not be what makes stars. It Might Get Loud is an epic, exhilarating
him happy, and being lonely is not necessarily the backstage pass into the world of the latter. Over the
Estranged from his family, Caleb lives an isolated, same as being alone. course of one day, three generations of electric-
but contented, life. Following a difficult breakup, guitar phenoms come together, crank up their amps,
he becomes scornful toward women and wears Lance is a high school poetry teacher who dreams of and let it roll.
his disdain as a badge of honor. Caleb’s resolve is becoming a rich and famous writer. A single father,
tested, however, when he meets his younger brother he tries desperately to connect with his teenage Documentarian Davis Guggenheim gives us so much
Peter’s new girlfriend, Emma. Immediately distrust- son, Kyle (Daryl Sabara), an insolent, hormone- more than an all-star jam session (that would make
ful of her, Caleb warns Peter that she will only end raging smartass who defies his dad at every turn. even the gnarliest of rock geeks giddy); he leads
up hurting him. Despite his efforts to protect his Lance exercises his own hormones with Claire us to these artists’ inner sanctums and illuminates
brother, he finds himself drawn to Emma and sur- (Alexie Gilmore), a painfully adorable art teacher the paths each one travelled to forge a sound all
prised by his growing attraction. Caleb’s unexpected who may have her eyes on a bigger prize. After a his own. We begin to understand how a one-time
feelings force him finally to confront the vulnerabil- freak accident, Lance suddenly faces both the worst furniture upholsterer from Detroit, a London studio
ity he has struggled so long to conceal. tragedy of his life, and the greatest opportunity. musician, and a Dublin schoolboy redefined the
Determined to make lemonade from life’s lemons, horizons of guitar playing. Meanwhile, the Edge
Adam Scott gives an inspired performance as Caleb, Lance treads a path that could land him everything (U2), Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), and Jack White (The
a misanthrope not only prone to angry diatribes he’s ever dreamed of, as long as he can live with the White Stripes) seem genuinely to enjoy each other’s
but also susceptible to flashes of naked frailty. knowledge of how he got there. company while sharing riffs, swapping stories, and
Superbly shot, and supported by a lush score and hip divulging their distinct philosophies of craft.
soundtrack, The Vicious Kind offers a glimpse into Alexie Gilmore is cheeky and Daryl Sabara is droll
the soul of a damaged man whose obstinate defense incarnate, but it’s the outstanding performance by This soulful opus is at once a portrait of each art-
mechanisms are laid bare by his fractured relation- Robin Williams that propels World’s Greatest Dad. ist and a captivating examination of the creative
ships. —ROSIE WONG Writer/director and longtime-comedian Bobcat process. It Might Get Loud does get loud, and in the
Goldthwait returns to Sundance with another process, opens up our minds and hearts to a whole
ExP: Neil LaBute, Chris Finefrock, Ryan Horton lusciously perverse, and refreshingly original comedy new way of listening to and enjoying what it means
Pr: Tim Harms, Lindsay Lanzillotta, Lee Toland that tackles love, loss, and our curious quest for to rock. —JENNIFER COCHIS
Krieger CoP: Dallas Dickinson, Sheri Davani, Mamta infamy. —DAVID COURIER
Trivedi Ci: Bradley Stonesifer Ed: Regino Roy III ExP: Bert Ellis, Mike Mailis Pr: Thomas Tull, Lesley
PrD: Grady Cooley Principal Cast: Adam Scott, ExP: Edward H. Hamm Jr., Jennifer Roth Pr: Tim Chilcott, Davis Guggenheim, Peter Afterman
Brittany Snow, Alex Frost, J.K. Simmons Perell, Howard Gertler, Sean McKittrick, Richard Kelly Ci: Erich Roland, Guillermo Navarro Ed: Greg Finton
CoP: Sarah de Sa Rego Ci: Horacio Marquinez PrD: Don Burt So: Skip Lievsay
Ed: Jason Stewart PrD: John Paino Principal Cast:
Preceded by Little Minx Exquisite Corpse: Robin Williams, Daryl Sabara, Alexie Gilmore, Tom
Rope a Dope Friday, January 16, 9:00 am - ITMIG16TM
Kenny, Geoffrey Pierson, Henry Simmons, Mitzi
U.S.A., 2008, 6 min., color Temple Theatre, Park City
Mccall, Tony V
Director: Laurent Briet Friday, January 16, 6:00 pm - ITMIG16BE
Saturday, January 17, 8:30 pm - VICIO17LN Sunday, January 18, 5:30 pm - WORLD18LE
Library Center Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 17, 2:30 pm - ITMIG17LA
Tuesday, January 20, 11:30 pm - VICIO20LL Tuesday, January 20, 8:30 am - WORLD20PM
Library Center Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 18, 3:00 pm - ITMIG18SA
Thursday, January 22, 9:00 pm - VICIO22BN Tuesday, January 20, 6:00 pm - WORLD20WE
Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Tower Theatre, SLC Saturday, January 24, 6:00 pm - ITMIG24TE
Saturday, January 24, 9:00 pm - VICIO24EN Saturday, January 24, 11:30 am - WORLD24RD
Egyptian Theatre, Park City Racquet Club, Park City

DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT
No Impact Man Passing Strange Tyson

DIRECTORS: Laura Gabbert, Justin Schein DIRECTOR: Spike Lee DIRECTOR: James Toback
U.S.A., 2008, 90 min., color U.S.A., 2008, 135 min., color U.S.A., 2008, 90 min., color
GLOBAL WARMING! The headlines scream it; the In this astounding and explosive documentary, Spike A gritty and intimate portrait of one of boxing’s
thermometer confirms it; but few of us do much Lee captures the eponymous Broadway musical most polarizing figures, James Toback’s Tyson
to address it. Author Colin Beavan and his family show written by singer/songwriter Stew (with music recounts Iron Mike’s rise to superstardom and
are pictures of liberal complacency—sophisticated, cowritten by his creative partner, Heidi Rodewald). subsequent fall from grace through the eyes of the
takeout-addicted New Yorkers who refuse to let The resulting work unites revelatory theater with man himself. Candid interviews with Tyson reveal an
moral qualms interfere with good old-fashioned superb filmmaking, raising the whole to a dizzyingly often-misunderstood persona that encompasses a
American consumerism. Then Colin turns things plateau of emotional engagement. broad spectrum of decidedly human instincts. He is
upside down. For his next book, he announces he’s at once gentle and animalistic, humane and violent,
becoming No Impact Man, testing whether making The story (developed at the Sundance Theatre Lab) predator and prey.
zero environmental impact adversely affects hap- concerns the uneasy relationship of a young black
piness. The hitch is he needs his wife, Michelle—an man (called simply Youth in the show’s credits) with After a stint in a juvenile reform school, where his
espresso-guzzling, Prada-worshipping Business his life. Raised somewhere south of Interstate 10 in boxing skills took root, the 14-year-old Tyson was
Week writer—and their toddler to join the experi- Los Angeles, our hero, a would-be songwriter, stews introduced to legendary trainer Constantine “Cus”
ment. in a sea of conflicted cultural signals. He chafes un- D’Amato, who took the young fighter under his
der his mother’s fixation on family ties and church wing and served as one of the only positive figures
A year without electricity, cars, toilet paper, and and her bourgeois aspirations. So he sets out on in his life. D’Amato died before he was able to see
nonlocal food isn’t going to be a walk in the park. Or his own—like pioneers Josephine Baker and James his final protégé become the sport’s youngest
is it? As Michelle contends with caffeine and shop- Baldwin—to Europe, seeking something “real.” heavyweight champion at 20 years old, an event
ping withdrawal, compost worms, and defending her that started a chain reaction in Tyson’s young life.
dreams in the face of Colin’s household hegemony, Picaresque misadventures with sex, drugs, politics, His meteoric success in the ring collapsed under a
she’s gradually transformed by this life-without- and art await Youth in far-out Amsterdam and sea of controversy—his ill-fated marriage to Robin
wastefulness. Meanwhile, Colin’s numerous media hypermilitant Berlin. His eyes are opened ever wider, Givens, who publicly maligned him as a violent beast;
appearances unleash a viral rash of criticism among even revealing what he left behind. An absolutely an arrest and conviction for the rape of Desiree
bloggers and friends, raising doubts about the superb cast, ably supported by sparing (but pitch- Washington, a charge which he still denies; a highly
project’s integrity. Is it ostentatious or altruistic? perfect) costumes, design, and stagecraft, bring to publicized falling out with promoter Don King; and
Hypocritical or visionary? life the emotionally charged story with its astound- his infamous 1997 rematch with Evander Holyfield.
ing original music, narrated and overseen by Stew
Whatever the conclusion, no one can deny we’re himself. Lee’s multicamera coverage of the event Toback manages to crack Mike Tyson’s brooding
going to have to alter our habits radically to achieve (including backstage scenes) involves the audi- exterior to expose both the best and worst of the
sustainability. Through the intimate prism of ence in not only the text but the electricity of the most explosive and controversial enigma in the his-
conflict within a contemporary marriage, No Impact ensemble’s onstage adventure. It’s a tour-de-force tory of the sport. —ADAM MONTGOMERY
Man suggests that individual change can be the first of creative collaboration and inspiration.
step in a quantum leap toward a systemic, societal —SHANNON KELLEY ExP: Mike Tyson, Harlan Werner, Nicholas Jarecki,
shift. And the temporary discomfort just might be Henry Jarecki, Bob Yari, Carmelo Anthony Pr: Damon
worth it. —CAROLINE LIBRESCO Pr: Spike Lee, Steve Klein Ed: Barry Alexander Brown Bingham, James Toback Ci: Larry McConkey
Ph: Matty Libatique Ed: Aaron Yates Mu: Salaam Remi, song “Legendary”
Pr: Laura Gabbert, Eden Wurmfeld CoP: Colin by Nas
Beavan, Michelle Conlin Ci: Justin Schein Ed: Bill
Haugse, Matt Martin Mu: Bobby Johnston Friday, January 16, 2:30 pm - PASSI16LA
Library Center Theatre, Park City Friday, January 16, 8:30 am - TYSON16RM
Saturday, January 17, noon - PASSI17SD
Friday, January 16, 11:30 am - NOIMP16LD Screening Room, Sundance Resort Friday, January 16, 9:00 pm - TYSON16WN
Library Center Theatre, Park City Tower Theatre, SLC
Sunday, January 18, 3:00 pm - PASSI18BA
Saturday, January 17, 3:15 pm - NOIMP17SA Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Saturday, January 17, 5:30 pm - TYSON17LE
Screening Room, Sundance Resort Library Center Theatre, Park City
Tuesday, January 20, midnight - PASSI204L
Sunday, January 18, 12:30 pm - NOIMP18GD Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Monday, January 19, 2:30 pm - TYSON193A
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City
Saturday, January 24, 5:15 pm - PASSI24LE
Sunday, January 18, 11:30 pm - NOIMP183L Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 24, 6:15 pm - TYSON244E
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City
Friday, January 23, 5:30 pm - NOIMP233E
48
SPECTRUM:DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT
DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT
Why We Laugh: Black Wounded Knee The Yes Men Fix the World
Comedians on Black Comedy DIRECTOR: Stanley Nelson DIRECTORS/SCREENWRITERS: Andy Bichlbaum,
DIRECTORS: Robert Townsend SCREENWRITER: Marcia Smith Mike Bonanno
SCREENWRITERS: Quincy Newell, John Long, U.S.A., 2008, 74 min., color France/U.S.A., 2008, 90 min., color
based on, Black Comedians on Black Comedy by
Darryl Littleton On the night of February 27, 1973, a caravan of cars The Yes Men are back, but no one saw them coming.
carrying 200 armed Sioux—led by American Indian After their first film, you would think they had
U.S.A., 2008, 95 min., color blown their cover, but,to the contrary, they have
Movement (AIM) activists—entered Wounded Knee
on the Pine Ridge Reservation and quickly occupied only stepped up their game. If you don’t know them,
Timely, insightful, and downright funny, Why We

Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy is a buildings, cut off access, and took up defensive po- they’re Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, a pair of
sweeping account of the evolution of black comedy sitions. When federal agents arrived, they declared, notorious troublemakers who sneak into corporate
in America. Inspired by comedian Darryl Littleton’s “The Indians are in charge of the town,” and a 71-day events disguised as captains of industry. Then they
book, directors Robert Townsend and Quincy Newell standoff ensued. use their momentary authority to expose the big-
have crafted a no-holds-barred documentary that is gest criminals on the planet. In The Yes Men Fix the
both an insider’s take and a critical examination of Compiling an astonishing amount of archival film World, they’ve set their sights on a plethora of man-
the cultural influence of black comedy. footage (notable for the key moments it captures) made disasters, from profiteering after Hurricane
and firsthand accounts from participants, Stanley Katrina to the environmental disaster in Bhopal.
Townsend and Newell enrich this hilarious and spec- Nelson creates an immersive, comprehensive
tacularly archived film by including interviews with account of the occupation and its fascinating com- Initially their antics come across like adoles-
prominent scholars, politicians, cultural critics, and plexity. The Sioux sought redress of old grievances cent pranks, but after further exploration, you
a host of notable comics, including Bill Cosby, Chris and broken treaties (just miles from the massacre of discover that Bichlbaum and Bonanno can actually
Rock, Keenan Ivory Wayans, and Eddie Griffin. Why 1890) but also demanded the ouster of Pine Ridge be considered “inside-out activists.” By changing
We Laugh tracks the way black comedy has evolved tribal leader Dick Wilson, who governed through reality—even temporarily—they open your mind to
from Stepin Fetchit and minstrels in blackface to the corruption and intimidation as he pursued deeply the possible. Sweet dreams for some, a nightmare
politically tinged humor of Dick Gregory, and from divisive policies of assimilation. for corporate Goliaths with skeletons in the closet.
the television success of Good Times and The When they present what should have been done,
Jeffersons to the big-screen accomplishments Nelson also explores the climate of racism in border you become acutely aware of how easy it would
of stars like Eddie Murphy and Whoopi Goldberg. towns; the broad political context that shaped the have been to solve the problem in the first place. A
Townsend and Newell turn a perceptive eye on the AIM—its tactics, organization and ability to exploit film complete with comedic interludes and, yes, an
controversial career of Dave Chapelle and the im- the national media; and ultimately the role armed underwater ballet, The Yes Men Fix the World is as
plications of corporate efforts to capitalize on the protest played in Native American self-conception. entertaining as it is effective. My only fear is that by
massive successes of Russell Simmons’s Def Comedy With its iconic images of Indians holding the gov- the time this film premieres at the Festival, the Yes
Jam and Spike Lee’s The Original Kings of Comedy. ernment at bay, Wounded Knee not only brought Men could easily be in jail. See this movie now!
national attention to an invisible community and its —JOHN COOPER
A major historical contribution to American desperate conditions but contributed to an awak-
culture—and a hoot to watch—Why We Laugh is ened sense of dignity and connection with their CoDir: Kurt Engfehr ExP: Patrice Barrat, Alan
a tribute to the way individuals can change history, proud heritage. —JOHN NEIN Hayling, Juliette Timsit Pr: Doro Bachrach, Ruth
as well as a cautionary tale about how tenuous that Charny CoP: Laura Nix Ed: April Merl
change can be. —SHARI FRILOT ExP: Sharon Grimberg, Mark Samels Pr: Stanley
Nelson CoP: Julianna Brannum Ci: Stephen
ExP: Jeff Clanagan, Richard Foos Pr: Quincy McCarthy, Michael Chin, Allen Moore, Eddie Maritz Preceded by Joel Stein’s Completely
Newell, Robert Townsend, Darryl Littleton, Angela Ed: Aljernon Tunsil, Lillian Benson, Lawrence Lerew Unfabricated Adventures
Northington Ci: Johnny Simmons Ed: Skip Robinson, SoEd: James LeBrecht U.S.A., 2008, 3 min., color
Agusta Einarsdottir Director: Walter Robot
Friday, January 16, 2:30 pm - WOUND163A
Saturday, January 17, 5:30 pm - WHYLA17PE Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Sunday, January 18, 2:30 pm - YESME18LA
Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 17, 6:00 pm - WOUND17BE Library Center Theatre, Park City
Sunday, January 18, 9:30 pm - WHYLA18GN Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Monday, January 19, 6:30 pm - YESME19DE
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Monday, January 19, 9:00 am - WOUND19TM Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction
Monday, January 19, 11:30 pm - WHYLA19PL Temple Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 21, 8:30 pm - YESME21LN
Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 22, 8:30 pm - WOUND223N Library Center Theatre, Park City
Thursday, January 22, 11:30 pm - WHYLA223D Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Thursday, January 22, 6:00 pm - YESME22WE
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Tower Theatre, SLC
Friday, January 23, 11:15 am - YESME23RD

PARK CITY
AT MIDNIGHT
Park City at Midnight is Black Dynamite The Carter

DIRECTOR: Scott Sanders DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Adam Bhala Lough
a lively last stop on the SCREENWRITERS: Michael Jai White, U.S.A., 2009, 90 min., color
Scott Sanders, Byron Minns
nightly social circuit. With U.S.A., 2008, 90 min., color The Carter is a documentary about Dwayne Michael
Carter Jr. aka Lil Wayne. An internationally known
films ranging from horror When “the man” kills his brother, pumps heroin rapper, his most recent album went platinum in a
into the local orphanage, and floods the ghetto week, and he just might be the voice of his genera-
to comedies to explicit with a secret weapon disguised as Anaconda Malt tion. But this ain’t no VH1 rock doc. Rather, it is an
intoxicating, cinematic journey into the thoughts
Liquor, there is only one brother bad enough, strong
animation, this mind- enough, and brave enough to take them on: the
legendary Black Dynamite.
and world of an extremely complicated man whose
creative force is something to behold. He never
stops recording. He has a portable studio that he
bending program is a treat Black Dynamite is a throwback with an attitude. carries around in a black bag, and it allows him to lay
Hilarious, campy, hot, and sexy, it plays with every down a track anytime anywhere. It is his pressure
for true cinephiles and cliché from 1970s film and television, with a few valve and makes him a refreshing anomaly in a sea
new ones thrown in for color. Director Scott of manufactured prefab “singers.” His work is his
casual filmgoers alike. Sanders doesn’t need to show his hand to get his own: unfiltered, uncensored, raw, and powerful.
point across, making it even more fun to watch. He
has miraculously assembled a huge cast that all per- Director Adam Bhala Lough, whose fiction film
fectly tread the line between satire and spoof. Crazy Weapons premiered in competition at the 2007
kudos need to go to our leading man, played by Sundance Film Festival, has unbelievable access to
Michael Jai White, who offers a pitch-perfect per- Lil Wayne’s public and private lives. He captures
formance in every take. Art direction and costumes remarkably candid moments, such as Lil Wayne
are flawless, and the flocked wallpaper holds it own recounting his first sexual experience, as well as him
against the faux fur and poly-blend wardrobe. talking openly about his drug habits. Following him
all over the country and to Amsterdam, Lough mixes
Black Dynamite has something for everyone: chase fly-on-the-wall footage of Lil Wayne in his hotel
scenes, gunfights, a house of ill repute, some karate room and on his bus with artfully composed concert
action, and a star with a killer body who takes on footage. The result is a shockingly intimate portrait
bad guys with—and without—his shirt on. And if of one of the most inspired (and eccentric) musi-
this isn’t enough, Sanders does the near impos- cians of modern America.—TREVOR GROTH
sible: he sustains the comedy while taking a nice big
sucker punch at the underlying politics of our time. ExP: Quincy Jones III Pr: Adam Bhala Lough, Josh
—JOHN COOPER Krause Ci: Adam Bhala Lough Ed: Andy Grieve
Mu: Dwayne “Lil Wayne” Carter
Pr: Ars Nova Ci: Shawn Maurer Ed: Adrian
Younge PrD: Denise Pizzini CoD: Ruth E. Carter
Principal Cast: Michael Jai White, Tommy Davidson, Saturday, January 17, midnight - CARTE17CL
Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Arsenio Hall, Byron Eccles Theatre, Park City
Minns, Kym Whitley Monday, January 19, 9:30 pm - CARTE19DL
Sunday, January 18, 11:30 pm - BLDYN18LL Wednesday, January 21, 3:00 pm - CARTE21EA
Library Center Theatre, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City
Tuesday, January 20, noon - BLDYN20ED Friday, January 23, midnight - CARTE23WL
Egyptian Theatre, Park City Tower Theatre, SLC
Friday, January 23, 6:00 pm - BLDYN23WE
Tower Theatre, SLC
Saturday, January 24, 9:30 pm - BLDYN24DN
50
Dead Snow Grace The Killing Room
Død Snø DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Paul Solet DIRECTOR: Jonathan Liebesman
DIRECTOR: Tommy Wirkola U.S.A., 2008, 85 min., color SCREENWRITERS: Gus Krieger, Ann Peacock
SCREENWRITERS: Tommy Wirkola, U.S.A., 2008, 90 min., color
Eight months pregnant, and preoccupied with
Stig Frode Henriksen both a natural childbirth and a pure-body life- With the goal of earning some extra cash, four
Norway, 2008, 91 min., color style, Madeline Matheson, played with merciless unwitting volunteers sign up for what they believe
Norwegian with English subtitles compassion by Jordan Ladd, deflects her demand- is just another paid research study. Instead,
ing mother-in-law’s insistent pressure for standard they embark upon the worst night of their lives,
For eight medical students, Easter vacation begins hospital treatment, instead opting for the peaceful becoming pawns in a deadly, classified government
innocently enough. They pack their cars full of ski companionship of a trusted midwife. Though reluc-
program that was thought to have been terminated

equipment and enough beer to fuel their escape tantly compliant, her husband remains supportive of more than 20 years earlier. As a group, they are
from everyday life to the snowy, isolated hills out- her choices until a sudden tragic accident leaves her presented with a series of questions and a finite
side of Øksfjord, Norway. Once there, they receive unborn baby lifeless inside of her. Madeline remains window of time by which each of them must submit
a late-night visit from a shady hiker, who tells them determined to carry the stillborn baby to term, a unique numerical answer. Presumably the subject
a story about Nazi occupation of the area during where she miraculously wills the delivered corpse who is furthest from the correct response will be
World War II. After doing their fair share of raping into life. But it is not too long before the increas- “removed” from the experiment. They soon come to
and pillaging, the dreaded battalion faced a brutal ingly isolated mother realizes that something is not realize that, in this lethal psychological game, the
and vengeful uprising by the citizens of the town. right with baby Grace, and she must make horrible correct answer is not always the right one. Behind
The soldiers who managed to survive the onslaught, sacrifices to keep her living. the scenes, the mysterious and brooding Dr. Phillips
including their dreaded leader Colonel Herzog, were
(Peter Stormare) deviously pulls the strings as the
driven into the hills by the angry mob, where they In his feature debut, writer/director Paul Solet most recent addition to his team, military psycholo-
supposedly froze to death, never to be seen again. assuredly approaches the medium, displaying a gist Ms. Reilly (Chloë Sevigny), is emotionally torn by
But if the horror genre has taught us anything, it’s cocksure confidence in his construction of this her first assignment.
that the raucous behavior and promiscuity of the modern horror fable. He relies upon a precise and
younger generation always have a way of bringing slow-building technical elegance, supplemented by Director Jonathan Liebesman takes the viewer on
evil spirits back to life. fearless performances and the ever-elusive gift of a a dark and suspenseful ride into the depths of the
genuinely frightening story, to violate the sanctity human mind, meticulously revealing pieces of the
Director Tommy Wirkola pulls no punches in the of a mother’s love and create true horror. Seething puzzle along the way. The sterile and safe environ-
carnage department—heads roll, blood flows, and with a kind of sophisticated terror uncommon for ment he initially creates quickly deteriorates into an
entrails ooze as the young vacationers attempt to its genre, Grace effortlessly uncoils an atmosphere unstable madhouse as average civilians must make
make it through the night. Wirkola adeptly utilizes of immense discomfort and subtle intensity, while seemingly impossible choices to survive.
the snow’s eerie and ominous backdrop to its fullest quietly creeping into the spine and slicing into our —ADAM MONTGOMERY
extent while orchestrating this wickedly gory, yet most primal fears.—LANDON ZAKHEIM
somehow delightful, tale of Nazi zombie terror.
—ADAM MONTGOMERY ExP: Jonathan Liebesman, Ann Peacock, Jeff
ExP: Scott Einbinder, Simon Edery Pr: Ingo Sagansky, Jean-Luc De Fanti Pr: Guymon Casady,
Vollkammer, Cory Neal, Adam Green, Kevin DeWalt Ben Forkner, Ross M. Dinerstein, Bobby Schwartz
ExP: Kjetil Omberg, Magne Ek, Espen Horn, Ci: Zoran Popovic Ed: John Coniglio, Darrin Navarro CoP: Gus Krieger Principal Cast: Chloë Sevigny,
Harald Zwart Pr: Terje Strømstad, Tomas Evjen PrD: Martina Buckley Mu: Austin Wintory Principal Peter Stormare, Clea DuVall, Timothy Hutton, Nick
Ci: Matthew Weston Ed: Martin Stoltz Mu: Christian Cast: Jordan Ladd, Samantha Ferris, Gabrielle Rose, Cannon, Shea Whigham
Wibe So: Kjetil Trøan Principal Cast: Vegard Hoel, Malcom Stewart, Stephen Park, Serge Houde
Stig Frode Henriksen, Charlotte Frogner, Jenny
Skavlan, Jeppe Beck Laursen, Lasse Valdal Friday, January 16, 11:30 am - KILLI16PD
Preceded by Rite Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Preceded by Treevenge Saturday, January 17, midnight - KILLI17BL
Director: Alicia Conway
Canada, 2008, 16 min., color Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC
Director: Jason Eisener Friday, January 16, midnight - GRACE16EL Tuesday, January 20, midnight - KILLI20EL
Egyptian Theatre, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City
Saturday, January 17, midnight - DEADS17EL
Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 17, 6:30 pm - GRACE17DE Thursday, January 22, 9:30 pm - KILLI22DN
Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction
Wednesday, January 21, 9:30 pm - DEADS21DN
Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction Thursday, January 22, noon - GRACE22ED
Friday, January 23, midnight - DEADS23EL
Egyptian Theatre, Park City Friday, January 23, 7:30 pm - GRACE23BE
Saturday, January 24, 10:30 pm - DEADS24BN
PARK CITY AT MIDNIGHT 51

Mystery Team Spring Breakdown White Lightnin’
DIRECTOR: Dan Eckman DIRECTOR: Ryan Shiraki DIRECTOR: Dominic Murphy
SCREENWRITERS: Dominic Dierkes, Donald Glover, SCREENWRITERS: Ryan Shiraki, Rachel Dratch SCREENWRITERS: Shane Smith, Eddy Moretti
DC Pierson U.S.A., 2008, 84 min., color United Kingdom, 2008, 84 min., color
U.S.A., 2008, 105 min., color
For Judi, Gayle, and Becky, tragically unhip bosom Some people spend their whole lives running from
If Encyclopedia Brown, the kids from American Pie, buddies pushing 40, “make-your-own-pizza night” who they really are, but Jesco White (Edward Hogg)
and Nancy Drew all had sex, their baby would prob- constitutes the pinnacle of revelry. But when Judi’s uses tap dancing to keep his demons at bay. At
ably look something like Mystery Team, a wonderful fiancé turns out to be gay, Gayle’s face repulses a the tender age of six, he started getting high by
blend of innocent and seedy humor from the Derrick blind guy, and Becky’s beloved cat kicks the bucket, huffing gasoline and stolen lighter fluid. Growing
Comedy group. Already an Internet phenomenon, they’re ready for real pampering. Dusting themselves up, Jesco often found himself shuffling between
they transition gloriously into the realm of feature off, the trio heads for some R&R on South Padre reform schools, work camps, and his home in West
films. Island, where Becky’s supposed to chaperone her Virginia—until his father, famous mountain dancer
boss’s daughter. What they don’t know is that spring D. Ray White, taught him how to tap. After his
When they were kids, the Mystery Team solved break has sprung, and there’s no turning back. father’s murder, Jesco begins to dance to control his
pint-sized mysteries like “Who stuck his finger increasingly wicked ways. Wearing his late father’s
in the pie?” Now it’s senior year of high school, Skanky, semen-doused hotel rooms? Scantily clad, tap shoes, he takes his show on the road, where
and they are still solving mysteries the same way. upchucking coeds? Sweaty, cramped, beer-foam he meets Cilla (Carrie Fisher), the love of his life.
Though each member of the team has a supposed parties? Judi and Gayle morph into unstoppable Sadly, Jesco’s troubled past doesn’t stay gone for
specialty—Jason is the Master of Disguise; Charlie party animals, leaping into the vapid, anarchic long, and we are forced to bear witness to the dual
is the Strongest Kid in Town; and Duncan is the Boy euphoria without so much as a hiccup. Gayle’s latent powers of revenge and redemption, and the bone-
Genius—they are really just stunted and naïve kids. popularity fantasy becomes a living wet dream as chilling lengths that he will go to have both.
When a little girl asks them to find out who killed she’s inducted into a sorority of sweet, half-starved
her parents, Jason realizes they have an opportunity half-wits. Judi unlocks seventh heaven as she drinks White Lightnin’ is a phantasmagoric tumble into the
to prove to the town, and themselves, that they are her way to blissful oblivion and a life-changing dark corners of artistic genius, addiction, and insan-
real detectives. night with a sexy, confused jock. Becky, our staunch ity that is set to an aptly kinky soundtrack. Inspired
ecofeminist, remains firmly on the sidelines, devoted by the life of Jesco White, “the dancing outlaw,”
A dark comedy that hits on classic mystery conven- to her principles and flowing skirts…until she and director Dominic Murphy creates a cleverly stylized
tions, Mystery Team cleverly places the naïve in- her young ward swallow a bit of spring-break elixir portrait that is nothing short of sensational.
nocence of yesteryear within the jaded, crime-laden themselves. —JENNIFER COCHIS
world of today. What makes the ludicrous premise
work so magnificently is the impeccable chemistry An outlandish, quick-witted romp that jubilantly Pr: Mike Downey, Sam Taylor CoP: Eddy Moretti,
among the three leads. This is a film for anyone who leaves none immune to ridicule, Spring Breakdown Shane Smith, Suza Horvat, Igor A. Nola, Robert
is nostalgic for a time when solving a mystery was chews up our geeky gals and spits them out as Bevan, Samantha Horley Ci: Tim Maurice-Jones
ˆ
the greatest feeling in the world, but adult enough triumphant powerhouses—confident that being Ed: Sam Sneade PrD: Ivo Husnjak CoD: Blanka Budak
to like a little raunchy humor.—TREVOR GROTH who they truly are is way cooler than fitting in. Principal Cast: Edward Hogg, Carrie Fisher, Muse
—CAROLINE LIBRESCO Watson, Owen Campbell
ExP: Meggie McFadden, Dan Eckman, Donald Glover,
DC Pierson, Dominic Dierkes Pr: Meggie McFadden ExP: Mike Rachmil, Rachel Dratch, Ryan Shiraki
Ed: Dan Eckman ArD: DC Pierson Mu: Donald Pr: Rick Berg, Larry Kennar Ci: Frank G. DeMarco Preceded by I Live in the Woods
Glover Principal Cast: Donald Glover, DC Pierson, Ed: Tom Lewis PrD: Caty Maxey Mu: Deborah Lurie U.S.A., 2008, 4 min., color
Dominic Dierkes, Aubrey Plaza, Bobby Moynihan, Principal Cast: Amy Poehler, Parker Posey, Rachel Director: Max Winston
Matt Walsh Dratch, Amber Tamblyn, Jane Lynch, Missi Pyle
Monday, January 19, midnight - WHITE19EL
Saturday, January 17, 11:30 pm - MYSTE17LL Preceded by The Blindness of the Woods
Library Center Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 21, 5:30 pm - WHITE213E
Argentina, 2008, 11 min., color Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City
Sunday, January 18, 9:00 pm - MYSTE18WN Directors: Martin Jalfen, Javier Lourenco
Tower Theatre, SLC Friday, January 23, 9:30 pm - WHITE23DN
Friday, January 16, midnight - SPRIN16LL Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction
Tuesday, January 20, 9:30 pm - MYSTE20DN Library Center Theatre, Park City
Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction Saturday, January 24, midnight - WHITE24BL
Saturday, January 17, midnight - SPRIN17WL Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC
Thursday, January 22, midnight - MYSTE22EL Tower Theatre, SLC
Sunday, January 18, 9:30 pm - SPRIN18DN
Sunday, January 25, 10:00 am - MYSTE251M Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction
Holiday Village Cinema I, Park City
Thursday, January 22, 3:00 pm - SPRIN22EA
Saturday, January 24, 3:45 pm - SPRIN241A
Holiday Village Cinema I, Park City
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FROM THE
COLLECTION
Each year, the Sundance Chameleon Street sex, lies, and videotape
Film Festival presents DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Wendell B. Harris, Jr.
U.S.A., 1990, 94 min., color
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Steven Soderbergh
U.S.A., 1989, 100 min., color
screenings of archival films Filmmaker/actor Wendell B. Harris Jr. heard about Twenty years ago, Steven Soderbergh arrived at the
the exploits of William Douglas Street and knew Sundance/United States Film Festival carrying the
pulled from the holdings he had to make a film about him. Street is a bright, print of sex, lies, and videotape; he left with the
articulate black man trapped in a menial job dramatic Audience Award. The film went on to win
of the Sundance Collection installing burglar alarms. Driven by his desire for the Palme d’ Or and the best actor award for James
more money and influence and eager to satisfy his Spader at Cannes and became one of most popular
at UCLA. Established as a shopping-obsessed wife, Gabrielle (Angela Leslie),
Street decides to work his way up the middle-class
and critically acclaimed independent films. Suddenly,
for good or bad, Sundance was on everyone’s radar.
white ladder by impersonating professionals. As a
joint partnership between journalist, he interviews celebrities; as a doctor, he Sex, lies charts the complex interrelationship linking
performs surgery; as a foreign-exchange student, four characters in a southern town: Ann (Andie
Sundance Institute and the he speaks French; as a lawyer, he negotiates with MacDowell); her husband, John (Peter Gallagher); her
corporate clients. Eventually he is caught and goes sister, Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo), who is having
UCLA Film and Television to prison. When asked why he behaves as he does, an affair with John; and John’s old college friend
Graham (Spader), who drifts into their lives and,
Street’s explanation is simple: “I give people what
Archive, the Sundance they want.” through his videotapes, changes the way they see
themselves and relate to each other.
As well as directing and writing the film, Harris por-
Collection at UCLA is a trays Street, which makes the parallels between the What makes the film unique is the counterpointing
two even sharper. Like Street, Harris is a black man between the images and the soundtrack, enabling
groundbreaking archive of trying to find his niche in a white man’s world. He you to follow two strands of the story simultane-
has more in mind than entertaining us with Street’s ously and see their connection. In the film’s opening
independent films shown at adventures. Street’s story also becomes social com- scene, for example, we hear Ann telling her analyst
about her poor sexual relationship with John while
mentary on the frustrations inherent in the black
we watch John and Cynthia making torrid love.
the Festival and supported experience in America.
Although Chameleon Street won the Grand Jury Some films run dry over time, but sex, lies keeps
by the Institute’s artist Prize at the 1990 Sundance/United States Film getting richer. With each viewing, new subtleties
Festival, it never received wide distribution, an emerge. All the performances are impressive, but
development programs. added incentive for adding it to the Sundance Col- Spader is mesmerizing. His Graham is disarmingly
direct yet maddeningly elusive; at one point, he tells
lection. Harris recently restored the film and mas-
Thanks to the contributions tered it on HD Cam, and this screening offers a rare
opportunity to see it again. —BARBARA BANNON
Ann, “I don’t have the slightest idea who I am.” Nei-
ther do we, but that just increases our fascination.
—BARBARA BANNON
of individual filmmakers, as ExP: Helen B. Harris Pr: Dan Lawton CoP: Hobart
ExP: Nancy Tanenbaum, Nick Wechsler, Morgan
well as the generous support W. Harris Ci: Daniel S. Noga PrD: Tim Alvaro, Ingrid
Schmitt So: Bernard Hajdenberg Principal Cast: Mason Pr: Robert Newmyer, John Hardy
Wendell B. Harris, Jr., Angela Leslie, Amina Fakir, Mu: Cliff Martinez Principal Cast: James Spader,
of donors, the Collection has Anthony Ennis Andie Macdowell, Peter Gallagher, Laura San
Giacomo, Ron Vawter
steadily grown over the past Friday, January 16, 8:30 pm - CHAME16PN
Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Monday, January 19, 3:00 pm - SEXLI19EA
10 years to include more than Egyptian Theatre, Park City
Saturday, January 17, 6:45 pm - CHAME17BE
600 films. Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC
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Since 1985, the Sundance Film Festival has been a place and a time for stories.
To commemorate the 25th Festival, we created THE STORYTIME PROJECT, a
living archive of some of the most memorable Sundance moments as told by
our family of filmmakers, actors, and leaders.
Read the one about the volunteer who mistook a theatergoer for Winona Ryder,
and moments later ran into the “real” Winona Ryder. And took a photo of both
ladies together.
Or the one about the very nervous filmmaker who couldn’t stop talking during
his introduction, and had to be rescued at the podium.
And then there’s the story of two filmmakers, one a director of a short film, the
other a feature director who met when their films screened together. They’re
married now with a 17 month old.
You can read more of these stories—and contribute your own Sundance story—
on our website, sundance.org/festival.
Lunch Break
DIRECTOR: Sharon Lockhart
U.S.A., 2008, 80 min., color
Artist and filmmaker Sharon Lockhart is known for

creating beautiful, meditative films that incorporate
subtle movement and a static, photographic gaze
to examine her subjects. In this daring pair of new
works, Lunch Break and Exit, Lockhart explores a
new approach, an insisting sense of motion that
produces more of what might be described as a
Springing out of a rapidly shifting media landscape, New photographic experience. In Lunch Break, the camera
is entirely untethered, slowly moving in a single
Frontier is a platform for innovations in cinematic culture tracking shot through a long corridor where workers
are enjoying their lunch hour at the Bath Iron Works,
at the crossroads of art, technology, and film. New a massive shipyard in Maine. In Exit the frame
constantly fills with teeming workers as they head
Frontier screens films that challenge conventional form, and home after a long day’s work.
Lunch Break and Exit are examples of Lockhart’s

cultivates an immersive atmosphere for media installations timely new film and photographic series about the
present state of U.S. labor. The organic rhythm of
and performances on Main Street. Welcome to evolutions in workers in the shipyard receives a lyrical examina-
tion at a juncture in American economic history that
storytelling on and off screen. The next has begun. may well make such scenarios obsolete. As viewers,
we must completely surrender conventional narra-
tive expectations and let ourselves be transported
Films.................................................................................................................................. 55 into the atmosphere and idiosyncratic details of life
Artists and Scientists...................................................................................................... 58 at the shipyard. We develop a sense of comfort and
Panels................................................................................................................................ 62 sentimental camaraderie with the workers as they
enjoy restful moments amidst productive labor.
When the final frame passes the shutter, we have
New Frontier Panels become so enmeshed with shipyard life that we
333 Main St. don’t want it to end. —SHARI FRILOT
Friday, January 15–Saturday, January 24
Opens at noon daily for all Festival credential holders ExP: Blum & Poe, Gladstone Gallery,
and the general public as space permits unless otherwise noted. Neugerriemschneider Pr: Clay Russell Lerner
Ci: Richard Rutkowski MuS: Becky Allen,
James Benning So: Felix Andrew, Ernst Karel
PrCoor: Carly Short
Preceded by Exit
U.S.A., 2008, 40 min., color
Director: Sharon Lockhart
Friday, January 16, 2:30 pm - LUNCH16PA

Saturday, January 17, 4:30 pm - LUNCH17BA
Wednesday, January 21, 9:15 pm - LUNCH214N
Saturday, January 24, 3:00 pm - LUNCH24EA
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O’er the Land Stay the Same Never Change Where Is Where?
A FILM BY Deborah Stratman DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Laurel Nakadate DIRECTOR: Eija-Liisa Ahtila
U.S.A., 2008, 52 min., color U.S.A., 2008, 93 min., color Finland, 2009, 95 min., color & b/w
Finnish with English subtitles
With the excuse of freedom, we lose so many Artist/filmmaker Laurel Nakadate’s weird and
things. — Silvio Barile delightful first feature film, Stay the Same Never Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila has worked with
Change, is a raw, audacious effort that burns with multichannel formats since the 1990s, and her
O’er the Land is Deborah Stratman’s meditation on such originality and honesty that it seems destined precisely structured, one-hour-long, split-screen
freedom and technological approaches to manifest to become a Festival discovery. Starring amateur ac- depiction of a real incident that took place during
destiny. She captures the marching-band battle cries tors in Kansas City, and filmed in their homes, Stay the Algerian War of Independence from France reso-
of the country with a strong, controlled tone that the Same Never Change is as much visual fact as nates alternately with poetic imagery, literal history,
proves its point but is extremely playful, too. narrative fiction about American heartland folk and and symbolic references.
the lives they live while wanting more.
Stratman documents the wild, wild worlds of gun Where Is Where? is an experimental narrative that
shows—ones where you can fire machine guns A nonlinear yarn that skips among various vignettes relates an incident that took place in the late 1950s.
in the forest and literally blow stuff up, reenact- depicting the solitary existence of distantly con- As a reaction to the atrocities of French colonial
ments of famous battles with historically accurate nected young women, Nakadate’s film exudes a repression, two young Arab boys killed a French
weapons and clothes (golf carts and Pepsi trucks warm sense of humor as it peers into the loneliness friend, a boy of their own age. Utilizing both the
in the wings), border disputes, and the organized of the girls and their desperate attempts to find fictive reality of the film itself and a theatrelike set,
frenzy of cheerleaders and motor homes. All are affection. From a pining tween who turns to her the narrative mode breaks with traditional story
framed by the incredible experiences of Colonel sewing machine for creature comforts to a young time and framing to advance a complex flow of
William Rankin, who, in 1959, was forced to eject woman obsessed with polar bears and Oprah, Na- imagery and ideas. The overall collision of narrative
from his F8-U fighter jet at 48,000 feet without a kadate’s characters reveal quiet lives brimming with lines comes through the perspective of a European
pressure suit, only to get trapped for 45 minutes in anguish and desire, but also a fascinating ingenuity. poet: visited by Death, he gradually investigates the
the up-and-down drafts of a massive thunderstorm. Awkward moments of absurdity and small ruptures past to reveal the importance of the event for the
Miraculously he survived. in their lives offer opportunities to create a new present day.
world or stretch for what is just beyond reach.
The scale of practicing war as a game is colossal At once hauntingly elusive and very direct, the film
and hard to grasp at times. Stratman captures the You do not have to hail from the heartland to con- artistically challenges the norms and preconceptions
events she depicts with wonder rather than disdain. nect with the infectious appeal of Stay the Same of reading and storytelling as well as depicting the
Her thoughtful framing of images and meticulous Never Change. If you’ve ever been a tween and clash of cultures and societies. Evocative and dense,
editing help us understand the absurdity in this dark pined for life and love, you will cringe with powerful Where Is Where? is ultimately a condensation of
path. —MIKE PLANTE personal recognition as you witness the seemingly the mists of truth, a gathering of the fragments of
psychotic lives of these girls. —SHARI FRILOT knowledge, and perhaps a conduit for an alternate
Mu: Maryanne Amacher, Kevin Drumm, Steve Rowell, perspective. —GEOFFREY GILMORE
Rich Hammond Ci/Ed: Laurel Nakadate AsE: Elise Irving Mu:
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Com: Owen CoDir: Mari Savio Pr: Ilppo Pohjola Ci: Arto
Ashworth So: Laurel Nakadate, Elise Irving, Cyan Kaivanto Ed: Heikki Kotsalo PrD: Kaisa Niva
Preceded by Out of Our Minds Meeks Principal Cast: Tate Buck, Dirk Cowan, So: Peter Nordström
U.S.A., 2008, 28 min., color Matthew Faber, Mary Nichols, Julie Potratz,
Director: Tony Stone Paige Sanders
Preceded by NightStill
Friday, January 16, 11:30 am - OERTH163D Austria, 2008, 9 min., color
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Preceded by American Minor Director: Elke Groen
Tuesday, January 20, 6:15 pm- OERTH204E Director: Charlie White
Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Saturday, January 17, 12:15 pm - WHERE174D
Friday, January 23, 3:15 pm - OERTH234A
Friday, January 16, 9:15 pm - STAYT164N Sunday, January 18, 12:45 pm - WHERE18BD
Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC
Saturday, January 17, 7:30 pm - STAYT17BE Tuesday, January 20, 8:30 pm - WHERE20PN
Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Sunday, January 18, 6:30 pm - STAYT18DE Saturday, January 24, 6:00 pm - WHERE24EE
Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction Egyptian Theatre, Park City
Tuesday, January 20, 3:00 pm- STAYT20EA
Thursday, January 22, 9:15 am - STAYT224M
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The Works of Maria Marshall You Wont Miss Me New Frontier Shorts
Total running time: 93 min.
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Maria Marshall DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Ry Russo-Young
United Kingdom, 2007, 67 min., color SCREENWRITERS: Ry Russo-Young, Stella Schnabel
U.S.A., 2009, 81 min., color & b/w The Beekeepers
Maria Marshall’s disturbing and gorgeously com- Director: Richard Robinson
posed video projections probe the psychological Ry Russo-Young creates an engrossing character U.S.A., 2008, 28 min., color
dimensions of cinema. Marshall often uses her two portrait in this deceptively compact, but exquisitely
sons in the main roles of her frequently violent, layered, feature. Stella Schnabel portrays Shelly, the
Horizontal Boundaries
but visually charming, films. Her work tackles the daughter of famous, successful (and emotionally Director: Pat O’Neill
fundamental subjects of motherhood, socializa- removed) parents, Shelly strives to make her own U.S.A., 2008, 23 min., color
tion, and life experience and returns us to the world mark and find affirmation, but her life’s landscape
of childhood as a pretext to evoke the anxiety of is littered with dilemmas. Setting her sights on an
adults. Hypnotic in their effect, Marshall’s films are Untitled
acting career, Shelly displays a ferocious emotional
presented in looped repetition and cleverly employ Directors: Sandra Lea Gibson, Luis Recoder
intensity that keeps her from getting jobs. Friend-
digital technology to create disturbing images, such U.S.A., 2008, 42 min., b/w
ships, especially with other women, become fraught
as a video portrait of her young son smoking or a arenas of blaming and posing. Casual encounters
piece where her own skin literally crawls. with men offer little hope of romance. Even her sup- Each of these striking short films deconstructs the
portive best friend Simon finds it necessary to draw frame with various styles and intentions, pushing
Marshall is a London-based artist who has created boundaries where Shelly is concerned. Returning the visceral universe of the physical film strip.
more than 35 filmic installations. She has primarily regularly to a psychiatric hospital, Shelly is repeat-
shown her video works in art galleries and museums Horizontal Boundaries looks at the geography of
edly counseled by the resident shrink, who tries to
around the world. Please join Marshall in this rare California as the basis for cinematic disruption and
give her a leg up on the go-nowhere cycles of her
Festival appearance as she discusses her creative restatement. The “boundaries” turn out to be frame
life. Is there still time?
process and artistic practice as they evolve toward lines, the divisions between images. Pat O’Neill inte-
longer forms of narrative storytelling. Russo-Young renders this depiction of intersecting grates the lines into the compositional language of
dead ends with an astute and exactingly measured the piece, a dynamic repositioning that causes image
For a full schedule of screenings of Maria Marshall’s empathy. Her searching, elliptical narrative structure combinations to be generated unpredictably. The
work at New Frontier on Main, please see page 59. and compact, concentrated mise-en-scène astutely result is a tapestry of exquisite contradiction.
—SHARI FRILOT underline the lonesome self-sabotage involved when
The Beekeepers is an experimental documentary film
self-reliance becomes an armor against intimacy and,
Pr: Laurie Castelli, Francis Castelli Ci: Mark Puffett, that explores Colony Collapse Disorder: due to the
particularly, when a woman’s affirmation continually
Giovanni Savino, Alex Marshall, Maria Marshall changing environment, bees all over the world are
rests in the hands of some man. Subtly mannered
Ed: Russ Clapham Mu: Damon Albarn Principal Cast: dying. Richard Robinson’s film charts the history of
performances and an evocative score round out
Maria Marshall, Raphael Marshall, Yosi Marshall, this ancient profession, searching for answers to its
this knowing portrait, viewed from outside and in.
Naef Jacob Marshall Naef, Sean McKillop current plight while daring the documentary form to
—SHANNON KELLEY
be as artful and mysterious as its subject.
Saturday, January 17, 5:30 pm - WORKS173E Ci: Kitao Sakurai, Ku-Ling Siegel Ed: Gil Kofman, Sandra Lea Gibson and Luis Recoder’s piece,
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Ry Russo-Young So: Andrew Barchilon, Micah Untitled, takes two frames of light and methodically
Bloomberg Com: Will Bates Principal Cast: Stella works with their edges to an evocative sound
Monday, January 19, 5:30 pm - WORKS193E Schnabel, Simon O’Connor, Carlen Altman, Rene design by Olivia Block. The piece literally creates an
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Ricard, Sarah Ball, Donald Eric Cumming installation environment in the theatre, making the
Saturday, January 24, 9:45 am - WORKS241M finale an entirely physical experience. Gibson and
Holiday Village Cinema I, Park City Recoder experiment with the possibilities of the
Preceded by All Through the Night projector and the light itself, from booth to screen,
U.S.A., 2008, 5 min., color over our heads and back to our eyes.
Director: Michael Robinson —MIKE PLANTE
Friday, January 16, 11:30 pm - YOUWO163L Friday, January 16, 9:00 am - SHFRO16EM
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City
Saturday, January 17, 8:30 pm - YOUWO17PN Saturday, January 17, 9:15 pm - SHFRO174N
Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City
Sunday, January 18, 4:30 pm - YOUWO18DA Thursday, January 22, 7:30 pm - SHFRO22BE
Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC
Thursday, January 22, 12:15 pm - YOUWO224D Saturday, January 24, 8:30 pm - SHFRO243N
Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City
2009 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org/festival NEW FRONTIER FILMS 57
ARTISTS and SCIENTISTS
CANDICE BREITZ Mother + Father OMER FAST The Casting
Candice Breitz’s beautifully crafted media installation, Mother + Father, appropriates In Omer Fast’s emotional four-channel installation, The Casting, a U.S. Army sergeant
a cast of iconic actors from Hollywood blockbusters to examine popular notions recounts two incidents: the accidental shooting of an Iraqi and a romantic liaison with a
of parenthood. In an energetic and insightful orchestration of gestures, tears, young German woman who mutilates herself. The sergeant’s recollections slip between
laughter, and guffaws, six actors and six actresses passionately perform the rites of setting and story as he tries to find relief—if not redemption—in the act of recalling.
motherhood and fatherhood across two six-channel plasma installations. Breitz offers Performed in silent tableaux, The Casting artfully reveals the way both memory and
us parenthood as a metaphor for the relationship between star and fan, and invites us cinema arbitrarily remix emotions, images, and words to create our connection to a
to reflect on the increasingly formative role that cinema plays in our lives. moment, and the way that remix orients—or disorients—us in our lives.
IJ CENTRAL; ADOPT LINKS; DIGITAL DIASPORA: JONATHAN HARRIS AND SEP KAMVAR
Spotlight on Projects from the BAVC Producers We Feel Fine, Universe
Institute for New Media Technologies
Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar’s work combines elements of computer science,
Thursday, January 22 at 2:15 p.m. at New Frontier on Main anthropology, visual art, and storytelling. Using the metaphor of an interactive
night sky, Universe creates an interactive environment for navigating the world’s
The Producers Institute for New Media Technologies at the Bay Area Video Coalition contemporary mythology as found online in global news and information. Everyone’s
(BAVC) is a residency program for independent producers to develop and prototype path through Universe is different, allowing each person to find his or her own
a multiplatform, interactive project informed by a social-justice documentary. This constellations based on personal interests and curiosities.
special presentation spotlights three works developed at the Institute: IJ Central, by
the filmmaker team who made the Documentary Competition entry, The Reckoning; We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale. Every few minutes,
AdoptLinks, by filmmaker Deanne Liam, based on her upcoming feature Precious We Feel Fine takes sentences that include the words “I feel” or “I am feeling” from all
Objects of Desire; and Digital Diaspora Family Reunion, by Thomas Allen Harris, based blogs that have just been published and visualizes them in six different movements
on his upcoming feature documentary Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and that let viewers see what any part of the world is feeling at any given moment.
the Emergence of a People.
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THE COMPOSERS LAB EXPERIMENTS: GINGGER MARIA MARSHALL

SHANKAR, A.J. LARA, AND ARTHUR HYDE Maria Marshall’s disturbing and gorgeously composed video projections probe the
Metamorphoses psychological dimensions of cinema. Hypnotic in their effect, Marshall’s films are
designed to be presented in looped repetition. A selection of Marshall’s work will be
screened at New Frontier on Main.
The third edition of the Composers Lab Experiments at New Frontier features a
collaboration between musician extraordinaire Gingger Shankar and filmmakers A.J. New Frontier on Main Schedule
Lara and Arthur Hyde. In their multimedia performance, Metamorphoses, Gingger
Friday, January 16, 6:15–7:00 p.m., When I Grow Up I Want to be a Cooker
Shankar and special guest musicians elegantly score the walls of time and space. These
Marshall’s two-year-old son smokes a cigarette and blows in your face.
musicians test the boundaries of organic versus electronic music and find where the
two meet. While the musicians uniquely create a hybrid, Lara and Hyde sculpt the visual Friday, January 16, 7:15–8:00 p.m., When Are We There?
architecture through a fusion of mind and motion. As the participants play with sight The filmmaker’s skin literally crawls with something unknown.
and sound, a live journey through life and dreams unfolds. Saturday, January 17, 6:15–7:00 p.m., Lollypop
An optical illusion recreates a scene from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
Saturday, January 17, 7:15–8:00 p.m., I Should Be Older Than You
A baby stretches out and relaxes in a pit of snakes.
Sunday, January 18, 6:15–7:00 p.m., I Saw You Crying
Something violent is making a young boy’s smile turn to tears.
Sunday, January 18, 7:15–8:00 p.m., Playground
A boy kicks a peculiar ball against the wall of a church.
Thursday, January 22, 4:30–5:45 p.m., Don’t Let The Trex Get The Children
If you tie your children up, they can’t do anything wrong.
Friday, January 23, noon–1:30 p.m., The Emperor & His Clothes
Where are the weapons of mass destruction?
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Words can kill, even when you are smiling.
Saturday, January 24, 2:00–3:00 p.m., Theresa’s Story
NOVA JIANG AND MICHAEL KONTOPOULOS A young boy tells an elaborate story in precise prelingual babble.
Moon Theater
Moon Theater will be located at the bottom of Main Street and available to the
public after dusk.
Nova Jiang and Michael Kontopoulos have created a playful interactive work that lets
audiences get their hands on the moon. Moon Theater uses interactive shadow play
and high-tech magic to transform your hand’s shadows into puppets that are then
projected onto a large floating moon. Moon Theater is designed to address issues of
scale and social performance in a public setting. The audience is invited to participate
and make the puppets on the moon dance and play, fight and kiss… the possibilities are
as endless as the imagination.
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ARTISTS and SCIENTISTS
CORY MCABEE Stingray Sam LEIGHTON PIERCE Agency of Time, Part 1B

Tuesday, January 20 at 6:15 and 9:00 p.m.
Thursday, January 22 at 6:15 p.m.
Saturday, January 24 at noon Leighton Pierce’s mesmerizing work employs film, video, photography, and sound to
create experiences in transformative time. In his multichannel installation Agency of
A dangerous mission reunites Stingray Sam with his long-lost accomplice, the Quasar Time, Part 1B, Pierce creates painterly animations from long-exposure photography. The
Kid. Join these two space convicts as they earn their freedom in exchange for rescuing animations are then projected onto various surfaces that engage with the architecture
a young girl held captive by the genetically designed figurehead from a very wealthy of the space to create a moving-image environment that evokes awareness of point of
planet. Featuring music by American Astronaut and narrated by David Hyde Pierce, Cory view, time, desire, and memory.
McAbee’s musical space-western is a six-part miniseries designed especially for small
screens, but perfect for screens of all sizes.
NASTY NETS endless pot of gold cd-rs LUNCH FILMS Commissioned by Mike Plante
Monday, January 19 at 6:15 p.m.
Tuesday, January 20 at noon
The 25 artists in the Nasty Nets collective make work that both celebrates and critiques Friday, January 23 at 6:15 p.m.
the Internet by employing original and appropriated imagery, audio, animated gifs,
YouTube hacks, html cheat codes, and other found or edited material—all of which Film before food. Truly independent films are made from the gut. Just feed filmmakers,
offer a humorous and poignant take on contemporary, digital visual culture. Nasty and they are inspired to work. The Lunch Films concept is basic: a filmmaker is taken
Nets invites you to create visual mischief on the Internet at “Nasty Nets: Night of a out to lunch; in trade, he or she makes a short film for the cost of the lunch. Rules and
Thousand Megabytes,” a Saturday late-night digital art-making jam at New Frontier on inspirations are written out on a napkin contract. At times poetically real and other
Main (RSVP by 8:00 p.m. Friday, January 16 to NewFrontierRSVP@sundance.org). times languidly artistic, the resulting Lunch Films offer a variety of stunning tastes.
Filmmakers featured in this edition include Martha Colburn, Bobcat Goldthwait, Brent
Green, Sam Green, Braden King, George Kuchar, Lee Lynch and Naomi Uman, Jake
Mahaffy, Nicolas Provost, Ricardo Rivera, and Kelly Sears, among others!
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ON MAIN
MICHAEL PORTNOY Provocateur JOHN UNDERKOFFLER AND OBLONG INDUSTRIES

TAMPER
Episodes of Provocateur will be filmed daily from January 16 to 21 at 4:30 p.m. in front
of a live audience in the Microcinema at New Frontier on Main.
Remember, in the film Minority Report, watching Tom Cruise wear gloves that could
Performance artist Michael Portnoy’s longstanding investigation of social exchange and grab and move computer images in space? Well, the consulting scientist who invented
the rules of communication has led him to create Provocateur for Ovation TV. Guests that trick for the production has now developed the same idea into a groundbreaking
will be chosen from the Festival community for their capacity to challenge the status system for editing film. In a gleeful union of cutting-edge interface technology and
quo, pushing their work and our perception to the edge. Provocateur invites us to film production, TAMPER offers an editing room of mild derangement. Visitors become
think outside the box and develop our critical sense as Portnoy leads us to a new style cinema collage artists, using their hands directly to grab and recompose film elements—
of television interview, where art, performance, and conversation collide. characters, props, architecture—let loose from different movies. TAMPER insists that
we poke and push and pinch film.
KELLY RICHARDSON Exiles of the Shattered LYNETTE WALLWORTH Evolution of

Star, Wagons Roll, Twilight Avenger Fearlessness
Kelly Richardson uses cinematic language to create part-real, part-imagined landscapes In this profoundly evocative work, viewers enter a dark room to hear the stories of
that offer visual metaphors for our modern “reality”—a wavering hybrid of fact and women who have survived war zones. They can then walk up to a threshold where a
fiction. Exiles of the Shattered Star portrays an idyllic countryside showered with what video meeting becomes possible. In creating Evolution of Fearlessness, artist Lynette
appear to be the fiery remnants of another place. Twilight Avenger presents a dreamy, Wallworth filmed portraits of several women residing in Australia but originally from
dark, enigmatic forest, occupied by a radioactive deer. In Wagons Roll, a car hangs countries such as Afghanistan‚ Sudan‚ Iraq, and El Salvador. They are women who
portentously in midair against a mountainous landscape, with a plume of dust shooting have lived through wars‚ survived concentration camps, or experienced extreme acts
from its rear. Viewers can only guess what events led to these peculiar situations, or of violence. Built around the importance of the gesture‚ Evolution of Fearlessness
what horrible or miraculous conclusions will follow. uses its interactive structure to link us to the living women contained in the piece.
Commissioned by New Crowned Hope Festival; produced by forma(forma.org.uk).
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PANELS
New Frontier panels explore the Creating New Media Technology What’s Next? Models and
ever-evolving convergence of in the Service of Storytelling Experiments in Indie Distribution
Friday, January 16, noon Sunday, January 18, noon
art and technology by offering Microcinema, New Frontier on Main Microcinema, New Frontier on Main
Festivalgoers the opportunity Today’s media artists stand in two worlds—one driven In today’s brutal marketplace, filmmakers and
by technological innovation, the other by creative distributors are forced to think outside the box. From
to engage in a dialogue with expression. At the intersection of science and art, today’s DIY theatrical to multiplatform releases and viral
pioneering storytellers are finding startling new ways marketing, there are as many new strategies today as
filmmakers and industry leaders, to bend technology to their will. Featuring New Frontier there are successful films. Join us as we showcase films
artists, this panel celebrates leading voices of this new capitalizing on the newest opportunities, as well as the
to participate in workshops to twenty-first century alchemy. Moderated by Ruby Lerner, distribution companies articulating the clearest visions.
executive director of Creative Capital. Moderated by Scott Kirsner, editor of CinemaTech and
gain hands-on experience, or contributing writer for Variety.
just to share ideas. Panels and

presentations are free and open
Where Do We Go From Here? What’s Next? Web Content—
to all Festival credential holders Icons of the Digital Age Where are the Big Ideas for
and the general public as space Saturday, January 17, noon Small Screens?
permits unless otherwise noted. Microcinema, New Frontier on Main Monday, January 19, noon
Remember the world before the Internet, e-mail, and Microcinema, New Frontier on Main
cell phones? Now try and picture it 15 years from now. If What kind of content works best on broadband
we are currently in the greatest information revolution platforms? Web serials, television reruns, UGM, reality
since the printing press, what can we expect next? How programming—why does so much of today’s content
will media, entertainment, and our digital lifestyles seem… juvenile? Where is the next generation of content
change? This roundtable assembles visionaries of the for cinephiles, artists, and activists? Join new voices in
digital revolution to discuss the limits of our imagination. the digital space as they unveil the possibilities for Web
Moderated by Kara Swisher of The Wall Street Journal’s content 3.0. Moderated by Suzanne Stefanac, director,
allthingsd.com
AFI Digital Content Lab.
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ON MAIN
Sneak Peak: $5 Cover Sponsor Presentations
Monday, January 19, 9:00 p.m.
Microcinema, New Frontier on Main Avid Presentation Sony Presentation
A special preview screening of selections from $5 Cover, File-Based Formats: What Every How to Do More for Less
a multiplatform series by Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow,
Black Snake Moan). Emerging musicians from Memphis,
Filmmaker Should Know Saturday, January 17, 2:00 p.m.
Tennessee, play themselves as they fight for love, Sunday, January 18, 2:00 p.m.
Friday, January 16, 2:00 p.m.
inspiration, and money to pay the rent. Microcinema, New Frontier on Main
Microcinema, New Frontier on Main
The maturing digital revolution allows filmmakers to
This session will explore file-based workflows for
reach new boundaries of filmmaking, while creating new
independent filmmakers from acquisition to distribution,
obstacles along the way. Sony’s XDCAM EX series high-
and demystify the variety of tapeless formats available
What’s Next? The Digital today. Hear from industry experts about the benefits
def cameras introduce new capabilities that contribute
Distribution Imperative to the inevitable democratization of filmmaking—
of digital cinema and how to optimize your workflow
including new shooting styles, lighting techniques,
(shooting, ingest, edit, finish) to get your film ready for
Wednesday, January 21, noon workflow considerations, and dynamic latitude toward
distribution. Learn how cost-effective digital-cinema
Microcinema, New Frontier on Main executing a creative vision. Come see how the XDCAM
technology can best work for you.
EX streamlined efficiency contributed to the hit
As traditional film distribution wanes, is broadband Webisode series Blank Slate, and adapts to the visual
ready to pick up the slack? We are finally seeing the effects–laden movie and television shows of today.
major Hollywood players put their cards on the table,
and filmmakers are weighing their options. Will Avid Presentation Panavision Presentation
broadband revitalize the entertainment industry, or is the Meet the Sundance Filmmakers: How to Talk to the Big Guys
industry facing a collapse? This panel assembles studio
execs, major independents, and trend spotters How They Found that “Lean When You’re a Little Guy
to discuss digital distribution. Moderated by Katie
Hafner, technology writer for the New York Times.
Forward” Moment Tuesday, January 20, 2:00 p.m.
Wednesday, January 21, 2:00 p.m.
Monday, January 19, 2:00 p.m.
Join qualified representatives from Panavision, Kodak,
Created Worlds Longtime film editor, USC professor, and author Norm
Laser Pacific, Fotokem, efilm, Mole-Richardson, Deluxe,
Hollyn moderates a panel with 2009 Festival filmmakers
and others to find out how small independent films and
Thursday, January 22, noon on a topic loosely based on his forthcoming book, The
student productions can obtain products and services
Microcinema, New Frontier on Main Lean Forward Moment: Create Compelling Stories for
from leaders in the field without having large budgets.
Film, TV, and the Web. Hear directly from directors,
Topics include low-cost camera rentals, film processing,
Technology allows us to escape into dreamlike worlds— producers, and editors about how they turn their “lean
electronic workflow, and postproduction services such
where storytellers and designers redefine reality. forward” moments into compelling stories.
as digital intermediates and film-outs.
Once known as “virtual reality,” today’s technological
environment features immersive designers who combine
film, television, animation, architecture, and gaming
to create new storytelling environments. This panel
assembles artists and scientists who are setting the
agenda for the future of narrative design. Moderated by
Alex McDowell, production designer and founder ofthe
“5D: The Future of Immersive Design” conference.
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SHORTS PROGRAMS From PAL/SECAM
Fueled by artistic expression, shorts have the ability to Shorts Program I

Little Boris’s hormones ride high, while 12-year-old
transcend traditional storytelling. The Festival’s Shorts Greta travels cross country with her dad. Pablo and
Javier willingly share a bed at night, while two couples
Programs showcase the creative, boundary-pushing find themselves sharing a dinner they didn’t plan. Sofia
craves something tasty in her life, while a man craves
work of filmmaking’s newest talent. freedom. Peter would love to know his classmate,
Georgia, better, while a man in a hospital just wants to
know why. Welcome to the land of desperation, new
sexual encounters, embarrassment, homoeroticism, and
matricide. Welcome to Shorts Program I.
Shorts Online
This year the Festival will showcase ten short films over Abbie Cancelled
Director: Dumb Bunny
the ten days of the Festival exclusively on iTunes. The U.S.A., 2008, 16 min., color
10/10 roster offers a sampling of the Festival programs Copper on the Chopping Block
Director: Kai Orion
representing a variety of countries, styles, genres, and U.S.A., 2008, 15 min., color
stories all at one distinct location. Little Canyon

Director: Olivia Silver
U.S.A., 2008, 20 min., color
Little Minx Exquisite Corpse: She Walked Calmly

Shorts Programmers: Disappearing into the Darkness
Director: Malik Hassan Sayeed
Trevor Groth U.S.A., 2008, 10 min., color
Jon Korn Love You More

Director: Sam Taylor-Wood
Todd Luoto United Kingdom, 2008, 15 min., color
Shane Smith Omelette

Director: Nadejda Koseva
Hebe Tabachnik Bulgaria, 2008, 5 min., color
Kim Yutani PAL/SECAM

Director: Dmitry Povolotsky
Russian Federation, 2008, 15 min., color
The Watch
Associate Programmer: Director: Marco Berger
Argentina, 2008, 15 min., color
Nazgol Zand
Friday, January 16, 8:30 am - SHRT1163M
Friday, January 16, 9:00 pm - SHRT116BN
Sunday, January 18, 8:30 pm - SHRT118PN
Tuesday, January 20, 5:30 pm- SHRT1203E
Saturday, January 24, 5:30 pm - SHRT124PE
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From Acting for the Camera From Pencil Face From Sparks
Shorts Program II Shorts Program III Shorts Program IV

It’s not easy being a teen… and apparently it’s no picnic How do you cope when a bad day at work only gets When children hide secrets, when houses burn down,
being an adult, either. But that’s not going to stop the worse at home? When that cool party with the adults When people eat so damn much they careen to
diverse cast of characters in these superbly crafted turns into something… unexpected? And, well, when the ground,
shorts from doing whatever it takes to make their maybe the baby you just gave birth to isn’t quite Care units become chaotic as the robots come invading,
dreams come true, or at least get the job done. Drive, meeting your needs? With sleight of hand, these films And there are a few complex thoughts when one is
desire, and a healthy dose of unhinged determination offer fearless, transcendent alternatives to common fornicating...
fuel their fire—to get that acting gig, to take revenge solutions. Pay no regard to mental stability—an utterly Come paint a deer’s eye but look out for the flames,
on a bully, to scratch that “itch,” or just to get through inappropriate therapist; a brilliant, yet untethered, And check out the funny, the dramatic, the strange...
another damn day. So hold on tight—the emotional musician; and one giant, creepy pencil will bend and blow Oh viewers, don’t worry, you won’t fall through the
rollercoaster is about to the leave the station. your mind. To this wonderfully eccentric magic show of floor...
Total running time: 97min. Shorts Program III, just say, “Chimay.” But instead, come indulge—it’s Shorts Program IV.
Total running time: 104 min. Total running time: 102 min.
Acting for the Camera
Director: Justin Nowell 2 Birds The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5
U.S.A., 2008, 15 min., color Director: Runar Runarsson Director: Chema García Ibarra
Iceland, 2008, 15 min., color Spain, 2008, 7 min., b/w
Asshole
Director: Chadd Harbold Concerto Choices
U.S.A., 2008, 10 min., color Director: Filippo Conz Director: Rashaad Ernesto Green
The Dirty Ones
Director: Brent Stewart Countertransference James
U.S.A., 2008, 11 min., color Director: Madeleine Olnek Director: Connor Clements
U.S.A., 2008, 16 min., color Northern Ireland, 2008, 18 min., color
Jerrycan
Director: Julius Avery HUG Next Floor
Australia, 2008, 14 min., color Director: Khary Jones Director: Denis Villeneuve
U.S.A., 2008, 16 min., color Canada, 2008, 12 min., color
Miracle Fish
Director: Luke Doolan Instead of Abracadabra Our Neck of the Woods
Australia, 2008, 17 min., color Director: Patrik Eklund Director: Rob Connolly
Sweden, 2008, 22 min., color U.S.A., 2008, 15 min., color
Predisposed
Director: Philip Dorling Nobody Knows You, Nobody Gives a Damn Short Term 12
U.S.A., 2008, 15 min., color Director: Lee Stratford Director: Destin Daniel Cretton
The Young and Evil
Director: Julian Breece Pencil Face Sparks
U.S.A., 2008, 15 min., color Director: Christian Simmons Director: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Friday, January 16, 11:15 am - SHRT216RD

Racquet Club, Park City Friday, January 16, midnight - SHRT3164L Friday, January 16, 2:15 pm - SHRT416RA
Saturday, January 17, 11:30 pm - SHRT217PL Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Racquet Club, Park City
Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 17, 2:30 pm - SHRT317PA Saturday, January 17, 1:30 pm - SHRT417BD
Tuesday, January 20, 12:15 pm - SHRT2204D Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC
Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Monday, January 19, 9:15 pm - SHRT3194N Saturday, January 17, 11:30 pm - SHRT4173L
Wednesday, January 21, 6:30 pm - SHRT221DE Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City
Redstone Cinemas, Kimball Junction Friday, January 23, midnight - SHRT323BL Wednesday, January 21, 8:30 pm - SHRT4213N
Saturday, January 24, 12:45 pm - SHRT2241D Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City
Holiday Village Cinema I, Park City Saturday, January 24, 5:30 pm - SHRT3243E Saturday, January 24, midnight - SHRT424EL
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City
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From Netherland Dwarf From Steel Homes
Shorts Program V Documentary Shorts

Everybody’s looking for something: love, trouble, It may sound like a cliché, but these outstanding
Sasquatch. And the best part about desire is that it’s documentary shorts prove that there’s no fiction
all yours. He wants a rabbit, she’s looking just to grow stranger than truth. From the grandeur of a billionaire’s
up already, and they need another lost soul to bathe folly to the emotional baggage of storage lockers, to
in the purifying blood of their God. Prom dates, butt the creative process of brilliant artists and the healing
sex, maybe a little damn human connection once in a of resilient teens, there’s a trove of truth to treasure.
while—it’s all the same here. So who cares if some And stories of who has the biggest “weapon,” what’s
romantic actuary says these modern quests lack the choking the Internet, and a eccentric’s quest to go to
necessary grandeur and grails of a true epic? Flags fly unimaginable extremes offer a jolt back to reality.
forever, dude. Total running time: 91 min.
Chop Off
Boutonniere Director: M.M. Serra
Director: Coley Sohn U.S.A., 2008, 6 min., color
U.S.A., 2008, 10 min., color
GOOD: Atomic Alert
Captain Coulier (space explorer) Director: Max Joseph
Director: Lyndon Casey U.S.A., 2007, 4 min., color
Canada, 2008, 13 min., color
GOOD: Internet Censorship
Crocodiles and I Directors: Lindsay Utz, Morgan Currie, Jason Jones
Director: Marcela Arantes U.S.A., 2008, 3 min., color
Brazil, 2008, 18 min., color
I Knew It Was You
Knife Point Director: Richard Shepard
Director: Carlo Mirabella-Davis U.S.A., 2008, 40 min., color
U.S.A., 2008, 27 min., color
The Real Place
A Mate Director: Cam Christiansen
Director: Teemu Nikki Canada, 2008, 5 min., color
Finland, 2007, 7 min., b/w
So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away
Netherland Dwarf Director: Annie P. Waldman
Director: David Michôd U.S.A., 2008, 10 min., color
Australia, 2008, 15 min., color
Steel Homes
Wunderkammer Director: Eva Weber
Director: Andrea Pallaoro United Kingdom, 2008, 10 min., color
U.S.A., 2008, 14 min., color
Utopia, Part 3: The World’s Largest Shopping Mall
Directors: Sam Green, Carrie Lozano
Friday, January 16, 11:30 pm - SHRT516PL U.S.A., 2009, 13 min., color
Saturday, January 17, 11:30 am - SHRT517LD
Library Center Theatre, Park City Friday, January 16, 8:30 am - SHDOC16LM
Sunday, January 18, 9:00 pm - SHRT518BN
Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Saturday, January 17, 9:00 am - SHDOC17EM
Thursday, January 22, midnight - SHRT5224L
Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Monday, January 19, 11:30 am - SHDOC193D
Saturday, January 24, 8:30 pm - SHRT524PN
Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 21, 6:00 pm - SHDOC21EE
Saturday, January 24, 12:45 pm - SHDOC24BD
Saturday, January 24,11:30 pm - SHDOC243L
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ANIMATION SPOTLIGHT
Animation Spotlight
Dear Beautiful,
I can tell you’re infected, so strange yet so telling,
For us to be isolated in this labyrinthlike dwelling.
And if you shall pass, I know a few braves
Who will take care of your coffin, and walk
to your grave...
From I Am So Proud of You I can’t take work off, darling,
’cause Mister Cok won’t approve,
but I can care for your dog, and serve you some “food.”
No comets in sight; there’s a horse cart out back;
I think we’re all good if you avoid the train tracks.
And in your final hours, take a look at the land...
It’s a beautiful landscape, created by computer and hand.
2, 3, 4-D, let’s take in the view:
Remember, my dear, I Am So Proud of You.
From Hot Dog Sincerely,
Me
Dear Beautiful This Way Up

Director: Roland Becerra Directors: Adam Foulkes, Alan Smith
U.S.A., 2007, 15 min., color United Kingdom, 2008, 9 min., color
Hear, Earth, Heart Western Spaghetti

Director: Yi Zhou Director: PES
France, 2008, 6 min., b/w U.S.A., 2008, 2 min., color
Hot Dog The Yellow Bird

Director: Bill Plympton Director: Tom Schroeder
I Am So Proud of You Friday, January 16, 9:15 am - ANIMA163M

Director: Don Hertzfeldt Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City
U.S.A., 2008, 22 min., color Saturday, January 17, 12:30 pm - ANIMA17GD
Mister Cok
Director: Franck Dion Sunday, January 18, midnight - ANIMA18EL
France, 2008, 10 min., color Egyptian Theatre, Park City
Thursday, January 22, 9:00 pm - ANIMA22EN
Out of Control Egyptian Theatre, Park City
Director: Sofia Carrillo Saturday, January 24, 3:15 pm - ANIMA24CA
Mexico, 2008, 11 min., color Eccles Theatre, Park City
Skhizein
Director: Jeremy Clapin
France, 2008, 14 min., color
Delve into the art, culture, and
commerce of cinema. With the
independent film world changing every
day, Festival panels offer in-depth
conversation, lively debate, and critical
insight into a broad range of issues.
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The Panic Button: Push or Ponder?
Ticket Purchase Required
Monday, January 19, 11:30 a.m., PAONE19PD
Prospector Square Theatre
The sky fell, companies collapsed, and the industry spent much of the year
with one hand on the panic button. So where do we go from here? Is this the
end or simply a transition? Of the questions that besiege the industry today
(content, distribution, its very identity), maybe the most fundamental is what
kind of movies we want to make… and see. Today we ask for a vision of the
future, for new models that foster the health, diversity, and creativity of
independent filmmaking. Panelists include Mark Gill (The Film Department),
Ted Hope (This is that corporation), Michael Barker (Sony Picture Classics),
Jonathan Sehring (IFC) and Peter Broderick (Paradigm Consulting).
All Grown Up, Now Where To Go?

Ticket Purchase Required
Tuesday, January 20, 2:30 p.m., PATWO20PA
Prospector Square Theatre
Over the last 25 years, the independent film movement has been a coming-of-
age story. Creativity and personal expression, once consigned to the margins,
gradually evolved into a diverse movement of unprecedented vitality and
popularity. But where is the independent film movement right now? How
can it maintain creative momentum and freedom? What needs to change to
preserve the energy of voices and aesthetics to keep this culture thriving as
it matures? Panelists include Steven Soderbergh, Barbara Kopple, Nicole
Holofcener, and more.
At the Lodge is a series of daily panels hosted at Cinema Café
New this year! Start your day at Cinema Café. Each
the Filmmaker Lodge, a casual meeting place for morning in the Filmmaker Lodge, Cinema Café revives
the culture of conversation, offering audiences the
filmmakers and Festivalgoers with a café and opportunity to engage with Festival filmmakers and
other guests in an informal dialogue about their work.
comfortable lounge. If you missed the Q&A, here’s your chance to hear more
about the origins, subject matter, and production of
Festival films.
Sunday, January 18, 10:30 a.m.

Filmmaker Lodge New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and author
Samantha Power (Chasing the Flame) in conversation
Elks Building, 550 Main St., (second floor) with Orlando Bagwell from the Ford Foundation
Monday, January 19, 10:30 a.m.
Friday, January 16–Saturday, January 24 Nick Hornby (An Education) and David Bezmozgis
(Victoria Day)
10:00 am to 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 20, 10:30 a.m.
Natalia Almada (El General) NC Heikin (Kimjongilia), Eric
Daniel Metzgar (Reporter), and film editor Kate Amend
Open to all Festival credential holders and the general public Thursday, January 22, 10:30 a.m.
as space permits. Sterlin Harjo and Chad Burris (Barking Water) join Stanley
Nelson and Julianna Brannum (Wounded Knee)
All events are held at the Filmmaker Lodge unless Friday, January 23, 10:30 a.m.
otherwise indicated. Cruz Angeles (Don’t Let Me Drown), Sophie Barthes
(Cold Souls), and Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre)
Supported by the Discovery Channel.
Meet the Funders
Gather for a round table with funders and broadcasters
of feature length documentaries. Participating
companies include ITVS, PBS, HBO, Sundance Channel,
and many others. Registration required. Sessions will fill
up; register early at the Filmmaker Lodge.
Sundance House
The Kimball Art Center
638 Park Ave., Park City
Tuesday, January 20, 9:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.
Blueprint for Change

Saturday, January 17, 2:30 p.m.
The incoming Obama administration has already signaled
a marked shift in priorities. Join human-rights leaders
and filmmakers in discussing the new realities for
the advancement of human rights, civil liberties, and
international diplomacy. Panelists include directors Liz
Garbus (Shouting Fire), Pam Yates (The Reckoning), and
Greg Barker (Sergio), along with First Amendment trial
attorney Martin Garbus, author Samantha Power
(Chasing the Flame), and moderator Paul van Zyl
(International Center for Transitional Justice).
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OFF SCREEN: AT THE LODGE
It’s a Big World After All Late Night Trivia
Sunday, January 18, 2:00 p.m. Thursday, January 22, 8:30 p.m.
For working producers who face the enormous Think you know your Sundance history? What film won
challenges of financing and the grim climate for the first Grand Jury Prize in 1985?1 How many feet of
distribution, it’s important to have a global mindset. snow fell on Park City during the 1996 Festival?2 How
Why does the accessibility of international markets many times has the phrase “‘Do you know who I am?”’
remains a mystery? What are the options for financing been uttered at the Egyptian?3 Join the fun as we put
partnerships, coproductions, and international sales? If two teams of veteran Sundancers to the test. Prepare
you’re a producer and the term “global economy” makes for quips, queries, burlesques, monkeyshines, and
you think of freight containers, it’s time to meet “the lampoonery. And maybe a swimsuit round.
internationals.” 1. Blood Simple 2. Ten 3. At least once a year
The New Fresh 2020 Vision

Monday, January 19, 2:00 p.m. Friday, January 23, 2:00 p.m.
They are the new voices in independent film: filmmakers Filmmakers are speculative by nature, so it’s no surprise
who put words like freshness, vision, and attitude on the that they frequently imagine what our world will look
tips of tongues. They make you feel like you’re seeing like in the years to come. But how do scientists envision
something you haven’t seen before. Maybe not a new the near-future world? How will genetics, alternative
story, but a new way of telling it. Whether it’s reinventing energy, and, you know, helpful robots improve societies?
genre, brandishing their style wands, or simply making Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a panel of
you wonder how you got stuck in their heads, they are scientists and filmmakers explore what we’ll be thinking,
the new faces of fresh. eating, and watching when then becomes now.
The Culture of Change Filmmaker Outreach and

Tuesday, January 20, 2:00 p.m. Engagement Services
Change happens. With new perspective, we look at the Curious about workshops, grants, or tax breaks that
role media and film can play in confronting the enormous exist for filmmakers in the United States? Meet with
hurdles we face as a society. What role can filmmakers representatives from national and regional filmmaker
play, not only in connecting audiences to important service organizations every day at the Filmmaker Lodge.
issues but in creating tools for change to knock down Participating organizations include these:
walls, find common ground, and empower individuals to Active Voice
participate in solutions? What will you do? ArteEast
Arts Engine
Asian CineVision
Asian Pacific American Film
Truth and Consequences Association of Film Commissioners International
Aurora Picture Show
Wednesday, January 21, 2:00 p.m. Austin Film Society
Center for Asian American Media
What are the consequences for filmmakers whose Center for Social Media
stories speak against the grain of power? Join filmmakers Film Independent
Hubert Sauper (Darwin’s Nightmare), Ngawang Choephel Film the West
(Tibet in Song), and others to discuss the cost of truth in Filmmakers Alliance
the modern world. Moderated by B. Ruby Rich, critic and IFP
cultural theorist. International Documentary Association
National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture
National Association of Latino Independent
Producers
Now or Never Native American Public Telecommunications
New Day Films
Thursday, January 22, 2:00 p.m. New York Women in Film & Television
Outfest
We live in history’s first generation that must San Diego Asian Film Foundation
address urgent global challenges or risk unalterable Visual Communications
consequences. Join world leaders on the environment, Western North Carolina Film Commission
women’s status, poverty, and other key issues to Women in Film Los Angeles
discuss the world we are making, and the one we could Women Make Movies
make. Moderated by Cara Mertes (Sundance Institute
Documentary Film Program) with panelists Denis Hayes
(Bullitt Foundation), Kavita Ramdas (Global Fund for
Women), and Charles Clover (author of No End in Sight).
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From panels to live performances, the
Festival recognizes the huge role music
plays in film at a variety of venues.
Film Music Events The People Speak:
Sundance House
The Kimball Art Center
Voices of A People’s
638 Park Ave.
(between Main St. and Heber Ave.),
History of the United States
Park City Thursday, January 22, 1:00 p.m.
A Celebration of Music in Film Sundance ASCAP Music Café
Sunday, January 18, 8:00 p.m. Main Street, between 7th and 9th Streets
Open to all Festival credential holders. Come join
us for a special evening to celebrate music from The People Speak: Voices of A People’s History
composers and performers highlighted in this of the United States (the basis of the
year’s films. forthcoming documentary The People Speak)
Programming will be announced in January. brings to light little-known voices from U.S.
history, including those of women, African
Roundtable Discussion: Music and Film, the Americans, Native Americans, immigrants, and
Creative Process Produced by BMI laborers. By giving public expression to rebels,
Wednesday, January 21, 11:00 a.m. dissenters, and visionaries from our past—and
present—we work to educate and inspire a new
Open to all Festival credential holders and the
general public as space permits. generation of people working for social justice.
This live performance with Howard Zinn features
What goes into creating a successful film score? readings by Benjamin Bratt, Josh Brolin, Woody
What makes for an effective director/composer Harrelson, Q’Orianka Kilcher and Marisa Tomei
relationship? There are answers to these
and includes musical performances.
questions and more in this inspired
Roundtable discussion.
Panelists to be announced in January.
Music Showcase: BMI Snowball Produced by BMI

Wednesday, January 21, 6:00 p.m.
Open to all Festival credential holders.
BMI invites you to an intimate evening of inspired

performances. Please join us for a great night
of music, mingling, and spirits. Cocktails and
appetizers will be served... so please arrive early
and stay to enjoy performances by special guests.
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OFF SCREEN: MUSIC AT THE FESTIVAL
Sundance ASCAP Music Café

Presented by Ray-Ban
Main Street
between 7th and 9th Streets
Friday, January 16–Friday, January 23
2:00 to 6:00 p.m. (Doors open at 1:00 p.m.)
Venue provided by The Shops at
the Village on Main Street
Open to all Festival credential holders and general

public (21 and over) as space allows. This venue
has limited capacity.
Friday, January 16 Tuesday, January 20

2:00 p.m. Rosi Golan 2:00 p.m. Rosi Golan
2:40 p.m. Tom Freund 2:40 p.m. Dave Barnes
3:20 p.m. Dan Wilson 3:20 p.m. Angel Taylor
4:00 p.m. TBA 4:00 p.m. TBA
Saturday, January 17 Wednesday, January 21

2:00 p.m. Katie Herzig 2:00 p.m. Angel Taylor
2:40 p.m. Chad & Jeremy 2:40 p.m. Locksley
3:20 p.m. Dan Wilson 3:20 p.m. Dave Barnes
4:00 p.m. Rachael Yamagata 4:00 p.m. Phil Vassar
Sunday, January 18 Thursday, January 22

2:00 p.m. Chris Mann 1:00 p.m. The People Speak
2:40 p.m. Katie Herzig 2:40 p.m. Youth Speaks
3:20 p.m. John Rzeznik 3:20 p.m. Landon Pigg
(of the Goo Goo Dolls) 4:00 p.m. Sara Watkins
4:00 p.m. Rachael Yamagata 4:40 p.m. Phil Vassar
Monday, January 19 Friday, January 23

2:00 p.m. Birdmonster 2:00 p.m. TBA
2:40 p.m. TBA 2:40 p.m. Landon Pigg
3:20 p.m. John Rzeznik 3:20 p.m. TBA
(of the Goo Goo Dolls) 4:00 p.m. Lenka
4:00 p.m. Wynonna
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OFF SCREEN:
BEYOND PARK CITY
If you’re in Salt Lake City Salt Lake City Festival Café Sundance Resort
or at Sundance Resort, Beehive Tea Room
12 West Broadway (300 South)
North Fork, Provo Canyon
Nestled at the base of 12,000-foot Mt. Timpanogos,
don’t miss the happenings Friday, January 16 and Saturday, January 17
Sundance is a 5,000-acre destination resort, recently
ranked second in the country by a Conde Nast Traveler’s
noon to 11:00 pm readers poll. Sundance is dedicated to maintaining
at the Festival’s other the balance of art, nature, and community. Created by
Sunday, January 18–Saturday, January 24 Robert Redford, Sundance is a haven for discovery and
events and venues. noon to 10:00 pm inspiration that offers diverse mountain recreation
experiences year round. Ski, snowboard, or enjoy cross-
Designed by a former set dresser in film and television, country skiing in winter. Bike and hike during summer
the Beehive Tea Room offers a casual, vintage amid breathtaking scenery. Award-winning dining, a
atmosphere for Festivalgoers to relax with a wide menu Native American–inspired spa, and an Art Shack that
of comfort foods and warm beverages. The café also features classes in jewelry making, painting, and pottery
features live music nightly, making it a perfect place to make Sundance the perfect mountain getaway.
continue your conversations after a film.
Catch live music every night of the Festival at the Owl
Supported by the Salt Lake Convention & Bar, featuring these artists:
Visitors Bureau
Thursday, January 15
Blues on First (blues)
Friday, January 16
Storyboards: Sundance Meets 2 1/2 White Guys (reggae/ska)
the Global Classroom Saturday, January 17
The Michael Berry Gallery Harry Lee and the Back Alley Blues (blues)
163 East 300 South, Salt Lake City Monday, January 19
Zach Parrish (blues)
Thursday, January 15–Sunday, January 25 Tuesday, January 20
noon to 11:00 pm Joy & Eric (contemporary covers)
Photographer and educational artist John Schaefer has Wednesday, January 21
been documenting the stories of Sundance Institute for Swagger (celtic rock)
over 25 years. Many of these seminal photographs will Thursday, January 22
comprise a special presentation open for public viewing Ides of Soul (blues)
and as part of a media collaboration experiment with
students from Mexico and Utah. Friday, January 23
Jebu (jazz/funk)
Presented by The Temporary Saturday, January 24
Museum of Permanent Change Fat Paw (rock)
For more information, including driving directions,
visit sundance.org/festival
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Notes
2009 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org/festival NOTES 75

How to Get Tickets • Purchase available tickets, which are sold to the
line by number. Exchanges
OPEN TICKET SALES Restrictions
There are no refunds, but you may exchange your
• CASH ONLY tickets up to two hours before the screening time
Main Box Offices
• Exact change recommended by visiting any Main Box Office during regular
January 12–25, 2009 • Saving places in line is NOT permitted business hours. A fee of $2.00 per ticket applies.
Show up at one of our Main Box Office locations to
Waitlist ticket sales begin no sooner than 30 Theatre box offices cannot exchange tickets
purchase your tickets.
minutes prior to the screening. If no space is
Online
January 12–23, 2009
available, ticketed waitlist patrons receive a full
refund. A waitlist number does not guarantee
Pass and
Tickets are available online up until 36 hours before tickets are available for purchase. All timetables Package Office
showtime. Order online and come to a Main Box for waitlist tickets are subject to change at the
Office location two hours prior to the screening for discretion of the theatre manager. Gateway Center, 136 Heber Ave., Park City
ticket pickup. January 14, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
January 15–24, 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
TICKET PICKUP January 25, 8:00 a.m. to noon
DAY-OF-SHOW SALES
Patrons who purchased individual tickets online
January 16–25, 2009
Didn’t get the tickets you wanted to a sold-out
and did not order express delivery must pick up
their tickets during normal business hours at any Customer Service
screening? Come in to our Main Box Offices in Salt Main Box Office. You must present a photo ID to
Lake City or Park City to get tickets to previously be issued your tickets. Please pick up your tickets Now–January 14, Monday–Friday
unavailable screenings. Each morning at 8:00 a.m., at least two HOURS before your first screening 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
we release a limited number of tickets to that time. Tickets for screenings prior to 10:00 a.m. January 15–24, 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
day’s screenings. Tickets for each theatre’s first should be picked up the day before as heavy traffic January 25, 8:00 a.m. to noon
screening of the day are released at 8:00 a.m. the is expected in the Main Box Office during the
day before. Day-of-Show tickets must be purchased early morning hours. Tickets for screenings after
in person; they are not available online. 7:00 p.m. must be picked up during regular Main Information
Box Office hours. There is no ticket pickup at the
WAITLIST TICKET SALES
theatres. Be sure to select tickets that coincide with Booth Locations
(not according to) your arrival time and the Main
January 15–25, 2009 Box Office hours of operation. Salt Lake Airport
(includes Opening Night films) Park City Marriott Lobby
Park City Marriott Ballroom (January 15–19)
Every year thousands of Festivalgoers see popular Ticket Prices Sundance House
films without advance tickets. New Frontier on Main
Individual tickets
$15.00 Park City Main Box Office
Waitlist rules for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival Eccles Theatre Lobby
are as follows:
Waitlist tickets
Arrive at the theatre of your screening choice two $15.00
hours before the scheduled time, except for each
theatre’s first screening of the day, when you may Fees will apply to online orders
arrive one hour before the scheduled time.
• Receive a waitlist number (one per person).
You may leave the line.
Return no later than 30 minutes before the
scheduled screening time.
• Line up according to number.
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Main Box Offices Hours of Operation
PARK CITY MAIN BOX OFFICE GATEWAY CENTER, 136 HEBER AVE.
Saturday, January 10, 2009 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Best of Fest/Ticket pickup
Sunday, January 11, 2009 Noon to 5:00 p.m. Best of Fest/Ticket pickup
Monday–Wednesday, January 12–14, 2009 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Open ticket sales begin
Thursday–Saturday, January 15–24, 2009 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Festival
Sunday, January 25, 2009 8:00 a.m. to noon Festival
SALT LAKE CITY MAIN BOX OFFICE TROLLEY SQUARE, 700 EAST 500 SOUTH
Thursday–Saturday, January 15–24, 2009 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Festival ticket sales
Sunday, January 25, 2009 8:00 a.m. to noon Festival ticket sales
SUNDANCE RESORT MAIN BOX OFFICE NORTH FORK, PROVO CANYON

Thursday–Saturday, January 15–24, 2009 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Festival ticket sales
Sunday, January 25, 2009 9:00 a.m. to noon Festival ticket sales
OGDEN MAIN BOX OFFICE 2415 WASHINGTON BLVD.

Saturday, January 10, 2009 Noon to 5:30 p.m. Best of Fest/Ticket pickup
Monday–Saturday, January 12–17, 2009 Noon to 5:30 p.m. Open ticket sales begin/Festival ticket sales
Monday–Saturday, January 19–24, 2009 Noon to 5:30 p.m. Festival ticket sales
Closed Sundays
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Festival Theatres ROSE WAGNER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
138 West Broadway Ticket and Pass
485 seats Regulations
PARK CITY TOWER THEATRE
876 East 900 South NO REFUNDS, EXCHANGES, TRANSFERS OR
ECCLES CENTER 349 seats RESALES PERMITTED. Ticket/Pass Holder must
1750 Kearns Blvd. be seated 15 minutes prior to scheduled start
1270 seats time or the seat may be forfeited. Films are not
rated. Viewer discretion is advised. Ticket and
EGYPTIAN THEATRE privileges may be revoked at any time for any
328 Main St.
SUNDANCE RESORT
(60-minute drive from Park City) reason without liability to Sundance Institute. The
282 seats Ticket/Pass Holder releases and holds Sundance
Institute harmless from any claims resulting from
HOLIDAY VILLAGE CINEMAS SUNDANCE INSTITUTE SCREENING ROOM
attendance. The likeness of the ticket or pass and
1776 Park Ave. North Fork, Provo Canyon
any Sundance trademarks may not be used without
Holiday I: 164 seats 164 seats
the express written consent of Sundance Institute.
Holiday II: 156 seats
Holiday III: 156 seats
Holiday IV: 164 seats
OGDEN
LIBRARY CENTER THEATRE (65-minute drive from Park City)
1225 Park Ave.
446 seats PEERY’S EGYPTIAN THEATER
2415 Washington Blvd.
PROSPECTOR SQUARE THEATRE
810 seats
2200 Sidewinder Rd.
332 seats
RACQUET CLUB THEATRE

1200 Little Kate Rd.
Theatre Regulations
608 seats
All patrons—whether credentialed or ticketed—
TEMPLE THEATRE must adhere to the following guidelines posted
Located on Highway 224 at each theatre:
No parking at this venue; it is accessible by shuttle
from the Yard Park and Ride. Parking along Highway 1. To guarantee admittance, Ticket and eligible Pass
224 will result in immediate towing Holders must be in their seats 15 minutes prior to
267 seats the film’s scheduled start time.
YARROW HOTEL THEATRE 2. The use of cameras or other recording equipment

1800 Park Ave. is strictly prohibited during the screening.
293 seats 3. Filmgoers should remember to take all personal
Press and Industry screenings only belongings and litter with them as they exit. Any
items left behind may be disposed of.
4. The Sundance Film Festival reserves the right
KIMBALL JUNCTION to search the personal belongings of any patron
(15-minute bus ride from Park City) inside or around the premises of the theatres.
REDSTONE CINEMAS 5. By entering the theatre, patrons consent to

6030 North Market St., Suite 120 be photographed/filmed and grant Sundance
Cinema I: 188 seats Institute, its successors, assigned parties,
carrier stations, network station(s), sponsor(s),
advertising agents, and their affiliated entities
the right to record and use their likeness, voice,
SALT LAKE CITY and name worldwide in perpetuity for any
(45-minute drive from Park City) purpose whatsoever. In addition, they release the
above parties from any and all liability for loss or
BROADWAY CENTRE CINEMAS damage to person or property while they are at
111 East Broadway (300 South) or around the theatre.
Broadway IV: 211 seats
Broadway V: 242 seats 6. All cell phones inside theatre auditoriums
Broadway VI: 274 seats must be turned off prior to the introduction
of the film.
7. All filmgoers agree to comply with all published
and stated rules and regulations.
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HOW TO FESTIVAL
Festival Venues FESTIVAL OFFICES IN PARK CITY Festival Tips for

FESTIVAL HEADQUARTERS Being Green
PARK CITY Park City Marriott Hotel
1895 Sidewinder Dr. Sundance Institute continually seeks ways
FILMMAKER LODGE to reduce the environmental impact of all its
Supported by Discovery Channel Thursday, January 15–Saturday, January 24
8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. activities. Here are a few simple things you can do
Elks Building, 550 Main St., (second floor) Sunday, January 25 to support us and our sponsor community in our
Friday, January 16–Saturday, January 24 8:00 a.m. to noon shared efforts to make the 2009 Sundance Film
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Festival a little greener.
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL INDUSTRY OFFICE (SIO)
SUNDANCE ASCAP MUSIC CAFÉ Presented by Google RECYCLING
Presented by Ray-Ban Yarrow Hotel, 1800 Park Ave. You can easily recycle your aluminum, plastic,
Main Street Thursday, January 15–Friday, January 23 glass, and paper at more recycling bins this year,
Friday, January 16–Friday, January 23 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. graciously provided by Timberland at all of our
1:30 to 5:30 p.m. theatres, venues, and shuttle stops, and throughout
Park City.
Venue provided by The Shops
at the Village on Main Street
ADA Accessibility GETTING AROUND
A system of walking paths throughout Park City
SUNDANCE HOUSE takes you between Festival venues so you can save
Presented by Entertainment Weekly, Sundance Institute works to make each of its the precious time and energy spent fighting traffic.
HP, and Honda venues physically accessible for all Festivalgoers. When snow or freezing temperatures hit, hop on a
The Kimball Art Center All Festival venues and theatres are ADA accessible. free Festival shuttle bus or share a ride.
638 Park Ave. The Filmmaker Lodge, housed in the historic Elks
(corner of Main St. and Heber Ave.) Building, now has a Stair-Trac on-site that meets USING LESS
Friday, January 16–Saturday, January 24 ADA requirements. Please give 24-hour notice to This year Brita filters will be available at Park City
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. use this service. venues and events. Remember to carry your own
reusable water bottle throughout the 10 days of the
For reservations or more information, contact Festival to help us reduce the waste consumption of
NEW FRONTIER ON MAIN Sundance Institute at (435) 658-3456.
Presented by HP and Sony Electronics, Inc. 50,000 plastic bottles.
333 Main St. (lower level) BUYING GREEN

Friday, January 16–Friday January 23
Noon to 8:00 p.m. Festival Bags made of recycled banners from Festivals past,
reusable water bottles, and organic cotton T-shirts
Saturday, January 24
Noon to 3:00 p.m.
Merchandise Stores are some of the green items you can find in our
merchandise stores.
All stores are open from January 15 to January 25.
MAIN STREET
Between 7th Street and 9th Street PARK CITY
Join us daily for Festival activities supported
by our Official Sponsors! Everyone’s invited! FESTIVAL STORE AT THE GATEWAY CENTER
136 Heber Ave.
8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
SALT LAKE CITY MAIN STREET STORE
SALT LAKE CITY FESTIVAL CAFÉ 738 Main St.
Supported by Salt Lake Convention & 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Vistors Bureau
Beehive Tea Room ECCLES THEATRE STORE
12 West Broadway (300 South) (main lobby)
Monday–Friday 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. 1750 Kearns Blvd.
Saturday 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. 10:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
HEADQUARTERS STORE
(At the Park City Marriott, Uinta Room)
1895 Sidewinder Dr.
8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
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DESTINATION: Sundance Film Festival
One-stop shopping for travel to the 2009 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 +1 (435) 940-7096.
Official Provider IDENTITY PROPERTIES

(800) 245-6417 or (435) 649-5100
OFFICIAL AIRLINES OF THE
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2009 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL RESORTQUEST PARK CITY
(800) 221-1212 2009 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL (800) 570-1276 or (435) 649-6606
www.delta.com HEADQUARTERS www.resortquestparkcity.com
Park City Marriott
(800) 234-9003 THE SKY LODGE
Transportation www.parkcitymarriott.com (888) 876-2525
www.skylodge.com
Providers 2009 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
INDUSTRY OFFICE SNOW FLOWER CONDOMINIUMS
The Yarrow Resort Hotel & Conference Center (435) 649-6400
MIDERRA
(800) 927-7694 or (435) 649-7000 www.snowflowerparkcity.com
(866) 374-8824
www.miderra.com www.yarrowresort.com
EXPRESS SHUTTLE DEER VALLEY LODGING SURROUNDING AREAS

(800) 397-0773 (800) 453-3833 or (435) 649-4040
www.deervalleylodging.com HOTEL MONACO SALT LAKE CITY
(801) 596-1600 (in Salt Lake City) (approximately 45 minutes from Park City)
(435) 658-3444 (in Park City) ALL SEASONS RESORT LODGING (801) 595-0000
www.xpressshuttleutah.com (888) 575-2775 or (435) 940-2645 www.monaco-saltlakecity.com
www.allseasonsresortlodging.com
SALT LAKE MARRIOTT CITY CENTER
THE CANYONS RESORT (approximately 45 minutes from Park City)
(866) 584-4480 (800) or (801) 961-8700
www.thecanyons.com www.marriott.com/SLCCC
DAVID HOLLAND’S RESORT LODGING SUNDANCE RESORT
AND CONFERENCE SERVICES (approximately 60 minutes from Park City)
(888) PARK-CITY or (435) 655-3315 (800) 892-1600 or (801) 225-4107
www.davidhollands.com www.sundanceresort.com
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 16 Park City Screening Schedule
HOLIDAY HOLIDAY LIBRARY PROSPECTOR RACQUET

ECCLES EGYPTIAN VILLAGE VILLAGE TEMPLE CENTER SQUARE CLUB REDSTONE
THEATRE THEATRE CINEMA III CINEMA IV THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE CINEMAS
1270 seats 282 seats 156 seats 164 seats 267 seats 446 seats 332 seats 608 seats 188 seats
8 am
SHORTS DOCU- JOHNNY TYSON
PROGRAM I MENTARY
9 am FRONTIER page 64 SHORTS
MAD DOG
Spectrum
Spectrum
page 48
IT MIGHT PROGRAM
MARY SHORTS 111 min. ANIMATION page 44 90 min.
GET LOUD page 66
AND MAX PROGRAM 8:30 a.m. SPOTLIGHT 93 min.
Spectrum 8:30 a.m.
Premieres page 57 91 min.
SHRT1163M page 67 page 47 8:30 a.m. TYSON16RM
10 am page 10, 39 93 min. 107 min. 97 min. 8:30 a.m. JOHNN16PM
92 min. 9:00 a.m. 9:15 a.m. SHDOC16LM
SHFRO16EM 9:00 a.m.
9:15 a.m. ANIMA163M
ITMIG16TM
MARYA16CM
11 am
SHORTS
O’ER THE NO IMPACT THE KILLING PROGRAM II
ROOM page 65
noon BEFORE
LAND
New Frontier WILLIAM
MAN
Spectrum Park City at 97 min.
HUMPDAY TOMORROW Feature THE GLASS KUNSTLER page 48 Midnight 11:15 a.m.
page 56 HOUSE page 51 SHRT216RD
Dramatic World Documentary 90 min.
Competition Dramatic 80 min. World Competition 90 min.
11:30 a.m.
1 pm page 21 page 30 11:30 a.m. Documentary page 17 NOIMP16LD 11:30 a.m.
92 min. 99 min. OERTH163D page 26 90 min. KILLI16PD
12:15 p.m. 103 min.
noon noon
HUMPD16CD BEFOR16ED 12:15 p.m.
DISTU16TD
2 pm GLASS164D
SHORTS
WOUNDED PASSING LUNCH PROGRAM IV
BREAK page 65
3 pm KNEE
Spectrum BOY
STRANGE
Spectrum New Frontier 102 min.
THE
TOE TO TOE ANARCHIST’S page 49 BIG INTERRUPTED page 48 Feature 2:15 p.m.
Dramatic WIFE 74 min. RIVER MAN Documentary 135 min. page 55 SHRT416RA
Competition Spectrum 2:30 p.m. World Competition 2:30 p.m. 120 min.
4 pm page 23 page 42 WOUND163A
Documentary page 13 PASSI16LA 2:30 p.m.
100 min. page 25 92 min. LUNCH16PA
112 min.
3:15 p.m. 103 min. 3:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
TOETO16CA ANARC16EA 3:15 p.m. BOYIN16TA
5 pm BIGRI164A
TAKING
CHANCE
THE ONLY ART & COPY Dramatic
6 pm GOOD
INDIAN
Documentary
Competition
Competition
UNMADE THE MISSING page 23
BROOKLYN’S BEDS Spectrum AFGHAN PERSON page 12
STAR 85 min.
FINEST World page 46 94 min.
Spectrum 5:15 p.m.
Premieres Dramatic 113 min. World 5:30 p.m.
7 pm page 37 page 35 5:30 p.m.
Documentary page 45
105 min. ARTCO16PE
TAKIN16RE
104 min. ONLYG163E page 25

125 min. 6:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. 92 min.
6:15 p.m. THEMI16LE
BROOK16CE UNMAD16EE 6:15 p.m.
8 pm AFGHA164E
PUSH
Dramatic
THRILLER IN Competition
CHAMELEON
MANILA page 22
9 pm LULU World
HELEN
STREET
Sundance 105 min.
AND JIMI Documentary STAY THE Spectrum Collection 8:00 p.m.
World page 29 SAME NEVER page 44 page 53 PUSHH16RN
RUDO CHANGE REPORTER
Dramatic 103 min. 120 min. 94 min.
Y CURSI
10 pm Premieres
page 34
8:30 p.m.
New Frontier
Feature
Documentary
Competition
8:45 p.m. 8:30 p.m.
95 min. HELEN16LN CHAME16PN
page 41 THRIL163N
page 56 page 15
9:00 p.m.
103 min. 101 min. 90 min.
LULUA16EN
9:30 p.m. 9:15 p.m. 9:30 p.m.
11 pm RUDOA16CN STAYT164N REPOR16TN
YOU WONT SHORTS

MISS ME
midnight New Frontier
PROGRAM V
page 66
GRACE SHORTS SPRING
Feature
Park City at PROGRAM III BREAKDOWN 104 min.
page 57 11:30 p.m.
Midnight page 65 Park City at
page 51 86 min. SHRT516PL
Midnight
1 am 94 min. 11:30 p.m.
104 min.
midnight page 52
midnight YOUWO163L SHRT3164L 95 min.
GRACE16EL midnight
SPRIN16LL
2 am
Digital screening provided by Digital Projection International
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 16 Off Screen, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Sundance Resort
OGDEN SUNDANCE
NEW SLC SLC SLC SLC SLC ROSE PEERY’S RESORT
OFF SCREEN OFF SCREEN FRONTIER BROADWAY BROADWAY BROADWAY TOWER WAGNER EGYPTIAN SCREENING
EVENTS EVENTS ON MAIN CINEMA IV CINEMA V CINEMA VI THEATRE CENTER THEATER ROOM
211 seats 242 seats 274 seats 349 seats 485 seats 810 seats 164 seats
8 am
9 am
10 am
11 am
CREATING
NEW MEDIA
noon TECHNOL-
OGY IN THE CARMO, HIT
SERVICE OF THE ROAD
STORYTELL- World
ING Dramatic
1 pm Panel page 31
page 62 100 min.
noon
noon
CARMO16SD
2 pm
MUSIC CAFÉ FILE-BASED
2:00 p.m. FORMATS
Rosi Golan Presentation
page 63
3 pm 2:40 p.m.
2:00 p.m. HEART
Tom Freund
OF TIME
3:20 p.m.
World
Dan Wilson Dramatic
4 pm 4:00 p.m. page 33
TBA 90 min.
page 73 3:00 p.m.
HEART16SA
5 pm
6 pm DADA’S NOLLYWOOD
IT MIGHT GET
LOUD DANCE BABYLON
WHEN I
GROW UP I Spectrum World World
Dramatic THE MARY AND
WANT TO BE page 47 Documentary
MAX
7 pm A COOKER, ONE DAY IN
A LIFE 97 min.
page 32 SEPTEMBER
ISSUE Premieres
page 27
WHEN ARE 103 min. 75 min.
World 6:00 p.m. Documentary page 10, 39
WE THERE? Dramatic Competition 92 min. 6:00 p.m.
ITMIG16BE 6:00 p.m.
page 59 page 34 DADAS16WE page 11, 16 6:30 p.m. NOLLY16SE
8 pm 105 min. 97 min. 90 min. MARYA16OA
6:15 p.m. 6:45 p.m. 6:30 p.m.
ONEDA16BE SEPTE16GE
9 pm
SHORTS TYSON LYMELIFE
PROGRAM I Spectrum Spectrum
page 64 page 48 THE page 45
SEPTEMBER
10 pm OLD
PARTNER
111 min.
9:00 p.m.
90 min.
9:00 p.m. ISSUE
93 min.
9:00 p.m.
SHRT116BN TYSON16WN Documentary LYMEL16SN
World
Documentary Competition
page 27 page 11, 16
11 pm 82 min. 90 min.
9:45 p.m. 9:30 p.m.
OLDPA16BN SEPTE16GN
midnight
1 am
2 am

SATURDAY, JANUARY 17 Park City Screening Schedule

8 am
BOY RUDO Y THE GLASS HUMPDAY
9 am INTERRUPTED
Documentary
CURSI
Premieres
HOUSE Dramatic
Competition
BROOKLYN’S DOCU- THE MISSING World
FINEST MENTARY Competition ART & COPY PERSON page 41 Documentary page 21
Premieres SHORTS page 13 Documentary 103 min. page 26 92 min.
Spectrum
page 37 PROGRAM 92 min. Competition page 45 8:30 a.m. 103 min. 8:30 a.m.
10 am 125 min. page 66 8:30 a.m. page 12
105 min. RUDOA17LM 8:30 a.m. HUMPD17RM
9:00 a.m. 91 min. BOYIN173M 94 min. GLASS17PM
9:00 a.m.
BROOK17CM 9:00 a.m. 9:15 a.m. THEMI17TM
SHDOC17EM ARTCO174M
11 am
LYMELIFE
BURMA VJ SHORTS THRILLER Spectrum
page 45
noon World
Documentary
PROGRAM V IN MANILA
93 min.
THE CLONE THE page 66 World
AMREEKA RETURNS page 25 WHERE IS SEPTEMBER Documentary 11:15 a.m.
104 min.
Dramatic HOME 98 min. WHERE? ISSUE 11:30 a.m. page 29 LYMEL17RD
Competition World 11:30 a.m. New Frontier Documentary SHRT517LD 103 min.
1 pm page 19 Dramatic BURMA173D Feature Competition 11:30 a.m.
96 min. page 32 page 56 page 11, 16 THRIL17PD
12:15 p.m. 110 min. 104min. 90 min.
noon noon
12:15 p.m.
2 pm AMREE17CD CLONE17ED
WHERE174D SEPTE17TD
BARKING
WILLIAM IT MIGHT GET SHORTS WATER
KUNSTLER
3 pm Documentary OVER THE
LOUD PROGRAM III Spectrum
page 43
THE MAID Spectrum page 65
THE Competition LET’S MAKE HILLS AND
World page 47 104 min. 92 min.
GREATEST page 17 MONEY FAR AWAY
Dramatic 97 min. 2:30 p.m. 2:15 p.m.
Dramatic 90 min. World Documentary
page 34
4 pm Competition
117 min. 2:30 p.m. Documentary Competition
page 15
2:30 p.m.
ITMIG17LA
SHRT317PA BARKI17RA
page 21 DISTU173A page 27

3:00 p.m. 101 min.
98 min. MAIDD17EA 108 min.
3:15 p.m. 3:15 p.m. 3:00 p.m.
5 pm GREAT17CA LETSM174A OVERT17TA
COLD SOULS
THE WORKS TYSON WHY WE Dramatic
OF MARIA LAUGH
6 pm MARSHALL
Spectrum
page 48 Spectrum
Competition
page 20
VICTORIA SERGIO
500 DAYS OF DAY New Frontier THE QUEEN 90 min. page 49 97 min.
SUMMER Documentary
Feature AND I Competition 95 min.
World 5:30 p.m. 5:15 p.m. GRACE
Premieres Dramatic page 57 World page 16 5:30 p.m. COLDS17RE
7 pm page 36 page 35 67 min. Documentary 94 min.
TYSON17LE
WHYLA17PE
Park City at
Midnight
95 min. 89 min. 5:30 p.m. page 28
6:00 p.m. page 51
6:15 p.m. 6:00 p.m.
WORKS173E 90 min. SERGI17TE 94 min.
500DA17CE VICTO17EE 6:15 p.m.
6:30 p.m.
8 pm QUEEN174E
GRACE17DE
PAPER HEART
Dramatic
PROM THE VICIOUS YOU WONT Competition
NIGHT IN page 22
9 pm ZION AND
MISSISSIPPI
KIND
Spectrum
MISS ME
New Frontier 95 min.
WHEN
SPREAD HIS BROTHER World FRONTIER page 47 Feature 8:00 p.m.
Documentary YOU’RE
Premieres World SHORTS STRANGE 98 min. page 57 PAPER17RN
Dramatic page 28 PROGRAM 86 min. TOE TO TOE
page 41 Documentary 8:30 p.m.
10 pm 97 min. page 35 99 min. page 57 Competition VICIO17LN 8:30 p.m. Dramatic
Competition
9:15 p.m. 96 min. 8:30 p.m. 93 min. page 17 YOUWO17PN
page 23
PROMN173N 9:15 p.m. 90 min.
SPREA17CN 9:00 p.m. 100 min.
ZIONA17EN SHFRO174N 9:00 p.m.
9:30 p.m.
11 pm WHENY17TN TOETO17DN
SHORTS MYSTERY SHORTS

PROGRAM IV
midnight DEAD SNOW page 65
TEAM
Park City at
PROGRAM II
page 65
THE CARTER BIG RIVER
Park City at Park City at 102 min. MAN Midnight 97min.
Midnight Midnight 11:30 p.m. World page 52 11:30 p.m.
page 50 page 51 SHRT4173L Documentary 105 min.
1 am 90 min. 107 min. page 25 11:30 p.m.
SHRT217PL
midnight midnight 103 min. MYSTE17LL
CARTE17CL DEADS17EL midnight

BIGRI174L
2 am
84
SATURDAY, JANUARY 17 Off Screen, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Sundance Resort
OGDEN SUNDANCE
8 am
9 am
10 am
11 am
noon PUSH PASSING

ICONS OF
THE DIGITAL Dramatic STRANGE
AGE Competition Spectrum
page 22 ANIMATION
Panel page 48
1 pm page 62
UNMADE 105 min.
SPOTLIGHT
page 67 135 min.
BEDS
noon noon noon
World PUSHH17BD 107 min.
PASSI17SD
Dramatic 12:30 p.m.
SHORTS page 35
2 pm HOW TO DO
PROGRAM IV
104 min.
ANIMA17GD
MUSIC CAFÉ page 65

MORE FOR 12:45 p.m.
2:00 p.m. LESS 102 min. UNMAD17BD
BLUEPRINT Katie Herzig 1:30 p.m.
FOR CHANGE Presentation
3 pm Panel
2:40 p.m. page 63
SHRT417BD
Chad & THE ONLY

Filmmaker Jeremy 2:00 p.m. GOOD
Lodge NO IMPACT
INDIAN
3:20 p.m. THE MAN
page 70 Spectrum
4 pm 2:30 p.m.
Dan Wilson
AFGHAN page 46
ANARCHIST’S
WIFE
Spectrum
page 48
4:00 p.m. STAR 113 min. Spectrum
Rachael World 90 min.
Yamagata 3:00 p.m. page 42
LUNCH Documentary ONLYG17BA
3:15 p.m.
112 min.
5 pm page 73
BREAK page 25
92 min. 3:30 p.m.
NOIMP17SA
New Frontier ANARC17GA
Feature 3:45 p.m.
page 55 AFGHA17BA
120 min.
6 pm 4:30 p.m.
LUNCH17BA WOUNDED JOHNNY THE GLASS
LOLLYPOP, KNEE MAD DOG HOUSE
I SHOULD BE Spectrum Spectrum MARY BEFORE World
OLDER THAN
7 pm YOU CHAMELEON page 49
74 min.
page 44
93 min.
AND MAX
Premieres
TOMORROW Documentary
page 26
STREET World
page 59 page 10, 39 Dramatic 103 min.
Sundance 6:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m.
105 min. Collection WOUND17BE JOHNN17WE 92 min. page 30 6:00 p.m.
6:15 p.m. STAY THE
page 53 6:30 p.m. 99 min. GLASS17SE
8 pm SAME NEVER
CHANGE 94 min. MARYA17GE 6:30 p.m.
6:45 p.m. BEFOR17OA
New Frontier
Feature CHAME17BE
page 56
9 pm 101 min.
THRILLER HUMPDAY BURMA VJ
7:30 p.m.
STAYT17BE
IN MANILA Dramatic World
World Competition HELEN LOUISE- Documentary
Documentary page 25
10 pm BOY
page 29
page 21
92 min.
Spectrum MICHEL
98 min.
INTERRUPTED page 44 World
103 min. 9:00 p.m. 120 min. Dramatic 9:00 p.m.
Documentary
Competition 9:00 p.m. HUMPD17WN
9:30 p.m. page 33 BURMA17SN
LULU page 13 THRIL17BN 98 min.
11 pm AND JIMI
92 min.
HELEN17GN
9:30 p.m.
World LOUIS17ON
Dramatic 9:45 p.m.
BOYIN17BN
page 34
95 min.
midnight 10:30 p.m.
LULUA17BN THE KILLING SPRING
ROOM BREAKDOWN
Park City at Park City at
Midnight Midnight
1 am page 51 page 52
90 min. 95 min.
midnight midnight
KILLI17BL SPRIN17WL
2 am

SUNDAY, JANUARY 18 Park City Screening Schedule

8 am
LET’S MAKE
AFGHAN THE QUEEN THE
MONEY
9 am LULU World
STAR AND I GREATEST
THE ONLY World World Dramatic
SPREAD AND JIMI Documentary ZION AND GOOD Documentary Documentary Competition
World page 27 HIS BROTHER INDIAN
Premieres page 25 page 28 page 21
page 41 Dramatic 108 min. World Spectrum 90 min. 98 min.
10 am 97 min.
page 34 8:30 a.m. Dramatic page 46
92 min.
8:30 a.m. 8:30 a.m. 8:30 a.m.
95 min. LETSM183M page 35 113 min.
9:15 a.m. AFGHA18LM QUEEN18PM GREAT18RM
SPREA18CM 96 min. 9:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
LULUA18EM 9:15 a.m. ONLYG18TM
11 am ZIONA184M
COLD SOULS
PROM THE Dramatic
500 DAYS OF Competition
NIGHT IN
noon MISSISSIPPI
ANARCHIST’S
WIFE
SUMMER
Premieres
page 20
LOUISE- EL GENERAL 97 min.
DON’T LET World Spectrum page 36
MICHEL Documentary KIMJONGILIA Documentary 11:15 a.m.
ME DROWN Competition page 42 95 min.
World page 28 World COLDS18RD
Dramatic page 14 112 min.
1 pm Competition
Dramatic
page 33
99 min. Documentary
page 26 83 min. 11:30 a.m.
11:30 a.m.
500DA18PD
page 21 11:30 a.m. ANARC18LD
98 min. PROMN183D 85min. noon
105 min.
noon 12:15 p.m. GENER18TD
12:15 p.m. LOUIS18ED
2 pm DONTL18CD
KIMJO184D
TOE TO TOE
THE YES CHILDREN OF Dramatic
WHEN Competition
3 pm YOU’RE
STRANGE
MEN FIX THE
WORLD
INVENTION
Spectrum
page 23
AN THE COVE 100 min.
EDUCATION Documentary Spectrum page 43
SIN NOMBRE 211: ANNA Documentary 2:15 p.m.
Competition Competition page 49 95 min.
Dramatic World page 17 World TOETO18RA
page 13 93 min. 2:30 p.m.
4 pm Competition
page 23
Dramatic
page 32 90 min.
Documentary
page 24 90 min. 2:30 p.m. CHILD18PA
96 min. 95 min. 2:30 p.m. 89 min. 3:00 p.m.

YESME18LA
WHENY183A
3:15 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 3:15 p.m. COVEE18TA
EDUCA18EA
5 pm SINNO18CA 211AN184A
ARLEN FABER
WORLD’S POME- Dramatic
THE Competition
GRANATES
6 pm SEPTEMBER
ISSUE
GREATEST
DAD AND MYRRH page 19
DADA’S CRUDE 95 min.
ENDGAME Documentary TIBET IN Spectrum Spectrum
DANCE Documentary 5:15 p.m.
Competition SONG Competition page 47 page 46
Premieres World ARLEN18RE STAY THE
page 38 page 11, 16 World page 13 98 min. 95 min.
7 pm 101 min.
Dramatic
page 32 90 min. Documentary 100 min. 5:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m.
SAME NEVER
CHANGE
5:30 p.m. page 29 WORLD18LE POMEG18PE
6:15 p.m. 103 min. 6:00 p.m. New Frontier
SEPTE183E 82 min. CRUDE18TE Feature
ENDGA18CE 6:00 p.m.
DADAS18EE page 56
8 pm 6:15 p.m.
TIBET184E 101 min.
BIG FAN
6:30 p.m.
Dramatic STAYT18DE
OLD AGAINST THE SHORTS Competition
page 19
9 pm PARTNER CURRENT
Spectrum
PROGRAM I
page 64 102 min.
ONE DAY World GOOD HAIR
Documentary OVER THE page 42 111 min. 8:00 p.m.
IN A LIFE Documentary
page 27 HILLS AND Competition 95 min. BIGFA18RN
I LOVE YOU World 8:30 p.m. SPRING
82 min. FAR AWAY
page 14 8:30 p.m.
10 pm PHILLIP
MORRIS
Dramatic
page 34 8:30 p.m. Documentary
95 min. AGAIN18LN
SHRT118PN BREAKDOWN
Competition Park City at
Premieres OLDPA183N 9:00 p.m. Midnight
97 min. page 15
page 38 9:00 p.m. GOODH18TN page 52
101 min.
100 min. ONEDA18EN 95 min.
11 pm 9:30 p.m.
9:15 p.m.
OVERT184N 9:30 p.m.
ILOVE18CN SPRIN18DN
NO IMPACT BLACK BURMA VJ

midnight MAN
Spectrum
DYNAMITE
Park City at
World
Documentary
ANIMATION SERGIO
SPOTLIGHT page 48 Midnight page 25
Documentary
90 min. Competition page 50 98 min.
page 67
11:30 p.m. page 16 90 min. 11:30 p.m.
1 am 107 min.
midnight
NOIMP183L 94 min. 11:30 p.m. BURMA18PL
BLDYN18LL
ANIMA18EL midnight
SERGI184L
2 am
86
SUNDAY, JANUARY 18 Off Screen, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Sundance Resort
OGDEN SUNDANCE
8 am
9 am
10 am
CINEMA
11 am CAFÉ
Filmmaker
Lodge
page 70
10:30 a.m.
noon
MODELS AND VICTORIA DAY BARKING
EXPERI- World WATER
MENTS IN Dramatic Spectrum
NO IMPACT
INDIE DISTRI- page 43
1 pm BUTION WHERE
IS WHERE?
page 35
89 min.
MAN
Spectrum 92 min.
Panel
New Frontier noon page 48 noon
page 62
LYMELIFE Feature VICTO18BD 90 min. BARKI18SD
noon
page 56 12:30 p.m.
2 pm IT’S A BIG HOW TO DO
Spectrum
page 45 104 min. NOIMP18GD
MUSIC CAFÉ
WORLD MORE FOR 93 min. 12:45 p.m.
2:00 p.m. LESS
AFTER ALL 1:30 p.m.
WHERE18BD
Chris Mann
Panel Presentation LYMEL18BD
3 pm Filmmaker 2:40 p.m. page 63
Lodge Katie Herzig PASSING IT MIGHT GET
2:00 p.m. STRANGE LOUD
page 71 3:20 p.m.
2:00 p.m. John Rzeznik Spectrum TAKING RUDO Y CURSI Spectrum
page 48 page 47
4 pm 4:00 p.m. THE MAID
135 min.
CHANCE Premieres
page 41 97 min.
Rachael World Dramatic
Yamagata Dramatic 3:00 p.m. Competition 103 min. 3:00 p.m.
page 34 PASSI18BA page 23 3:30 p.m. ITMIG18SA
page 73 YOU WONT
117 min. 85 min.
5 pm MISS ME
3:45 p.m. 3:30 p.m.
RUDOA18OA
New Frontier
TAKIN18GA
Feature MAIDD18BA
page 57
86 min.
6 pm 4:30 p.m. WILLIAM
YOUWO18DA REPORTER
I SAW YOU KUNSTLER
CRYING ART & COPY Documentary
Competition Documentary
Documentary THE MISSING JOHNNY Competition
PLAY- page 15
7 pm GROUND THE QUEEN
AND I
Competition
page 12 90 min.
PERSON MAD DOG
page 17
Spectrum Spectrum
page 59 90 min.
World 94 min. 6:00 p.m. page 45 page 44
105 min. Documentary REPOR18WE 6:00 p.m.
6:15 p.m. 105 min. 93 min. DISTU18SE
6:15 p.m. THE CLONE page 28
8 pm RETURNS 90 min.
ARTCO18BE 6:30 p.m.
THEMI18GE
6:30 p.m.
JOHNN18OA
A CELEBRA- HOME
6:45 p.m.
TION OF World QUEEN18BE
MUSIC IN Dramatic
FILM page 32
9 pm Sundance 110 min. MYSTERY
SHORTS BOY
House 7:30 p.m. PROGRAM V TEAM INTERRUPTED
page 72 CLONE18BE page 66 Park City at Documentary
8:00 p.m. Midnight WHY WE Competition
104 min.
10 pm AMREEKA
9:00 p.m.
page 52 LAUGH page 13
Dramatic 105 min. Spectrum
Competition SHRT518BN 92 min.
9:00 p.m. page 49 9:00 p.m.
LET’S MAKE page 19
MYSTE18WN 95 min. BOYIN18SN
MONEY 96 min.
11 pm World 9:45 p.m. 9:30 p.m.
Documentary AMREE18BN WHYLA18GN
page 27
108 min.
midnight 10:30 p.m.
LETSM18BN
1 am
2 am

MONDAY, JANUARY 19 Park City Screening Schedule

8 am
CRUDE OLD ENDGAME SIN NOMBRE

9 am Documentary
Competition WOUNDED
PARTNER Premieres Dramatic
Competition
EL GENERAL World page 38
Documentary page 13 TIBET IN KNEE Documentary 101 min. page 23
I LOVE YOU
PHILLIP Competition 100 min. SONG Spectrum page 27 8:30 a.m. 96 min.
MORRIS page 14 8:30 a.m. World page 49 82 min. 8:30 a.m.
10 am Premieres 83 min. CRUDE193M Documentary 74 min. 8:30 a.m.
ENDGA19PM
SINNO19RM
page 38 9:00 a.m. page 29 9:00 a.m. OLDPA19LM
100 min. GENER19EM 82 min. WOUND19TM
9:15 a.m. 9:15 a.m.

11 am ILOVE19CM TIBET194M
DON’T LET
CARMO, HIT ME DROWN
DOCU- EVERYTHING THE PANIC
THE ROAD Dramatic
noon World
MENTARY
SHORTS
STRANGE
AND NEW
BUTTON
Competition
THE Panels
ADAM Dramatic PROGRAM page 21
THE END OF RECKONING Spectrum page 69
page 31 105 min.
Dramatic page 66 THE LINE Documentary page 43 90 min.
Competition 100 min. 11:15 a.m.
91 min. Competition 91 min.
1 pm page 18 11:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m.
World
Documentary page 15 11:30 a.m.
11:30 a.m.
PAONE19PD
DONTL19RD
101 min. CARMO19ED SHDOC193D page 26 100 min. EVERY19LD
12:15 p.m. 90 min. noon
ADAMM19CD RECKO19TD
12:15 p.m.
2 pm ENDOF194D
AMREEKA
Dramatic
TYSON PAPER HEART ONCE MORE Competition
WITH
3 pm Spectrum Dramatic
Competition FEELING
page 19
SEX, LIES, page 48 DIRT! THE 96 min.
BRIEF INTER- AND VIDEO- 90 min. QUEST FOR MOVIE page 22 Spectrum
page 46 2:15 p.m.
VIEWS WITH TAPE 2:30 p.m. HONOR Documentary 95 min. AMREE19RA
HIDEOUS World Competition 2:30 p.m. 105 min.
4 pm MEN
Sundance
Collection
TYSON193A
Documentary page 14 PAPER19LA 2:30 p.m.
Dramatic page 53 page 28 95 min. ONCEM19PA
Competition 69 min.
100 min. 3:00 p.m.
page 20 DIRTT19TA
3:00 p.m. 3:15 p.m.
5 pm 77 min.
SEXLI19EA QUEST194A
3:15 p.m.
BRIEF19CA DARE
THE IMM- JOHNNY Dramatic
THE WORKS Competition
ACULATE
6 pm OF MARIA
MARSHALL CONCEPTION
MAD DOG
Spectrum
page 20
WE LIVE IN OF LITTLE 92 min.
ADVENTURE- New Frontier NOLLYWOOD PUBLIC DIZZLE page 44
Feature BABYLON 5:15 p.m.
LAND FIVE Documentary Spectrum 93 min. DAREE19RE THE YES
page 57 World Competition 5:30 p.m.
7 pm Premieres
page 37
MINUTES OF
HEAVEN 67 min. Documentary page 17
page 44
95 min. JOHNN19PE
MEN FIX
THE WORLD
106 min. World 5:30 p.m. page 27 90 min.
5:30 p.m. Spectrum
6:15 p.m. Dramatic WORKS193E 75 min. 6:00 p.m. IMMAC19LE page 49
ADVNL19CE page 33 WELIV19TE
93 min.
6:15 p.m.
8 pm 90 min. NOLLY194E PETER AND 6:30 p.m.
6:30 p.m. VANDY YESME19DE
FIVEM19EE Dramatic
ROUGH SNEAK LA MISSION
AUNTIES Competition
PREVIEW 1
9 pm World
Spectrum
page 45
page 22
BRONSON SHOUTING 89 min.
Documentary
World SHORTS FIRE 117 min.
page 29 8:00 p.m.
Dramatic PROGRAM III Documentary 8:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m. THE CARTER
THE 103 min. PETER19RN
page 31 page 65 Competition SNEK119LN LAMIS19PN
10 pm MESSENGER
Premieres 102 min. 8:30 p.m. 104 min. page 16
Park City at
Midnight
page 40 9:00 p.m. ROUGH193N 9:15 p.m. 88 min. page 50
107 min. BRONS19EN SHRT3194N 9:00 p.m. 90 min.
SHOUT19TN
9:30 p.m. 9:30 p.m.
11 pm MESSE19CN CARTE19DL
211: ANNA HELEN WHY WE

LAUGH
midnight World
Documentary
Spectrum
Spectrum
WHITE GOOD HAIR page 44
LIGHTNIN’ page 24 120 min. page 49
Documentary
Park City at 89 min. Competition 11:30 p.m. 95 min.
Midnight 11:30 p.m. page 14 11:30 p.m.
1 am page 52 211AN193L 95 min.
HELEN19LL
WHYLA19PL
88 min. midnight
midnight GOODH194L
WHITE19EL
2 am
88
MONDAY, JANUARY 19 Off Screen, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Sundance Resort
OGDEN SUNDANCE
8 am
9 am
10 am
CINEMA
11 am CAFÉ
Filmmaker
Lodge
page 70 WEB
10:30 a.m.
noon CONTENT—
WHERE
TAKING
ARE THE
CHANCE
BIG IDEAS
FOR SMALL Dramatic
Competition
1 pm SCREENS?
page 23
Panel
page 62 85 min.
noon noon
TAKIN19SD
2 pm THE NEW MEET THE
MUSIC CAFÉ
FRESH SUNDANCE
2:00 p.m. FILMMAK-
Panel
Birdmonster ERS
Filmmaker
3 pm Lodge 2:40 p.m. Presentation
page 71 TBA page 63 HUMPDAY
2:00 p.m. 3:20 p.m. 2:00 p.m. Dramatic
John Rzeznik Competition
page 21
4 pm 4:00 p.m.
92 min.
Wynonna
3:00 p.m.
page 73 HUMPD19SA
5 pm
6 pm BIG RIVER COLD SOULS KIMJONGILIA

LUNCH MAN Dramatic World
FILMS World Competition BROOKLYN’S THE Documentary
page 60 Documentary page 20 FINEST GREATEST page 26
7 pm 6:15 p.m.
WILLIAM
KUNSTLER
page 25 97 min. Premieres Dramatic 85 min.
103 min. 6:00 p.m. page 37 Competition 6:00 p.m.
Documentary
Competition 6:00 p.m. COLDS19WE 125 min. page 21 KIMJO19SE
BEFORE BIGRI19BE
page 17 6:30 p.m. 98 min.
8 pm TOMORROW
World 90 min. BROOK19GE 6:30 p.m.
Dramatic 6:45 p.m. GREAT19OA
page 30 DISTU19BE
99 min.
9 pm 7:30 p.m.
SNEAK PEEK: BEFOR19BE POMEGRAN- LOUISE- 500 DAYS OF
$5 COVER ATES AND MICHEL SUMMER
page 63 MYRRH Premieres
World
Spectrum page 36
10 pm 9:00 p.m. SERGIO
page 46
Dramatic
page 33
PROM
95 min.
Documentary NIGHT IN
Competition 95 min. 98 min. MISSISSIPPI 9:00 p.m.
page 16 9:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. World 500DA19SN
OVER THE POMEG19BN LOUIS19WN Documentary
94 min.
11 pm HILLS AND
FAR AWAY 9:45 p.m. page 28
Documentary
SERGI19BN 99 min.
Competition 9:45 p.m.
page 15 PROMN19GN
midnight 101 min.
10:30 p.m.
OVERT19BN
1 am
2 am

TUESDAY, JANUARY 20 Park City Screening Schedule

8 am
UNMADE THE WORLD’S BRIEF INTER-

9 am BEDS
World DADA’S
MESSENGER GREATEST
DAD
VIEWS WITH
HIDEOUS
BEFORE Premieres
TOMORROW Dramatic DANCE page 40 Spectrum MEN
ADVENTURE- THE MAID
LAND World Dramatic page 35 World 107 min. page 47 Dramatic
World Dramatic Competition
Premieres page 30 104 min. Dramatic 98 min.
10 am page 37 99 min. 8:30 a.m. page 34 page 32
8:30 a.m.
MESSE20LM 8:30 a.m. page 20
103min. WORLD20PM 77 min.
106 min. 9:00 a.m. UNMAD203M 117 min.
9:00 a.m. 8:30 a.m.
9:15 a.m. BEFOR20EM 9:15 a.m.
DADAS20TM
ADVNL20CM MAIDD204M BRIEF20RM
11 am
BIG FAN
WE LIVE IN THE END OF PETER AND Dramatic
PUBLIC THE LINE VANDY Competition
noon Documentary DIRT! THE World Dramatic page 19
BLACK
TAKING DYNAMITE Competition SHORTS MOVIE Documentary Competition 102 min.
CHANCE page 17 PROGRAM II Documentary page 26 page 22 11:15 a.m.
Park City at
Dramatic Midnight 90 min. page 65 Competition 90 min. 89 min. BIGFA20RD
1 pm Competition page 50 11:30 a.m. 97 min. page 14 11:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m.
page 23 90 min. WELIV203D
12:15 p.m. 95 min. ENDOF20LD PETER20PD
85 min. noon SHRT2204D noon
BLDYN20ED DIRTT20TD
2 pm 12:15 p.m.
TAKIN20CD
DARE
SHOUTING ALL GROWN Dramatic
THE COVE Competition
FIRE UP, NOW
3 pm STAY THE Documentary
Documentary
Competition WHERE TO page 20
REPORTER GO? 92 min.
PUSH SAME NEVER Competition TBA page 13
Documentary 2:15 p.m.
CHANGE page 16 Competition 90 min. Panels
Dramatic DAREE20RA
Competition New Frontier 88 min. page 69
page 15 2:30 p.m.
4 pm page 22 Feature 2:30 p.m. 90 min. COVEE20LA 90 min.
105 min. page 56 SHOUT203A 2:30 p.m.
3:15 p.m. 3:00 p.m.
3:15 p.m. 101 min. REPOR20TA
PATWO20PA
TBONE204A
PUSHH20CA 3:00 p.m.
5 pm STAYT20EA
ADAM
SHORTS LYMELIFE QUEST FOR Dramatic
PROGRAM I HONOR Competition
6 pm CLIENTE page 64 CHILDREN OF
Spectrum
page 45 World page 18
Documentary 101 min.
SNEAK World 111 min. O’ER THE INVENTION 93 min. page 28 5:15 p.m.
PREVIEW 2 Dramatic 5:30 p.m. LAND Spectrum 5:30 p.m. THE MISSING
page 31 69 min. ADAMM20RE
SHRT1203E New Frontier page 43 PERSON
7 pm 104 min. Feature 95 min.
LYMEL20LE
5:30 p.m.
Spectrum
QUEST20PE
6:15 p.m. 6:00 p.m. page 56 6:00 p.m. page 45
SNEK220CE CLIEN20EE 80 min. CHILD20TE 105 min.
6:15 p.m. 6:30 p.m.
8 pm OERTH204E
ARLEN FABER
THEMI20DE
Dramatic
ONCE THE CLONE WHERE IS Competition
MORE WITH RETURNS WHERE? page 19
9 pm HEART OF
FEELING
THE
HOME New Frontier 95 min.
TIME Spectrum VICTORIA RECKONING World Feature 8:00 p.m.
World page 46 DAY Dramatic page 56 ARLEN20RN
MANURE Documentary MYSTERY
Dramatic 105 min. World Competition page 32 104 min. TEAM
10 pm Premieres
page 39
page 33 8:30 p.m. Dramatic page 15 110 min. 8:30 p.m. Park City at
90 min. ONCEM203N page 35 100 min. 8:30 p.m. WHERE20PN Midnight
105 min. 89 min. CLONE20LN
9:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. page 52
9:30 p.m. HEART20EN 9:15 p.m.
MANUR20CN
RECKO20TN 105 min.
11 pm VICTO204N
9:30 p.m.
MYSTE20DN
THE IM- THE VICIOUS ROUGH

MACULATE KIND AUNTIES
midnight CONCEPTION
PASSING Spectrum World
THE KILLING OF LITTLE
STRANGE page 47 Documentary
ROOM DIZZLE
Spectrum 98 min. page 29
Park City at Spectrum
Midnight page 48 11:30 p.m. 103 min.
1 am page 51
page 44
95 min. 135 min. VICIO20LL 11:30 p.m.
ROUGH20PL
90 min. midnight
11:30 p.m.
midnight PASSI204L
IMMAC203L
KILLI20EL
2 am
90
TUESDAY, JANUARY 20 Off Screen, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Sundance Resort
OGDEN SUNDANCE
8 am
9 am MEET THE
FUNDERS
Sundance
House
10 am page 70
9:00 a.m.
CINEMA
11 am CAFÉ
Filmmaker
Lodge
MEET THE page 70
FUNDERS 10:30 a.m.
noon Sundance ENDGAME
LUNCH
House Premieres
FILMS
page 70 page 38
page 60
11:30 a.m. 101 min.
1 pm noon
noon
ENDGA20SD
2 pm THE CULTURE HOW TO

MUSIC CAFÉ
OF CHANGE TALK TO THE
2:00 p.m. BIG GUYS
Panel
Filmmaker Rosi Golan
Presentation
3 pm Lodge
page 71
2:40 p.m. page 63
TIBET IN
Dave Barnes 2:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m. SONG
3:20 p.m.
Angel Taylor World
Documentary
4 pm 4:00 p.m. page 29
TBA 82 min.
page 73 3:00 p.m.
TIBET20SA
5 pm
6 pm WHEN WORLD’S EL GENERAL

STINGRAY YOU’RE GREATEST
STRANGE Documentary
SAM DAD Competition
Documentary 500 DAYS OF LULU AND
page 60 Spectrum page 14
7 pm 6:15 p.m.
211: ANNA Competition page 47
SUMMER JIMI
83 min.
World page 17 Premieres World
Documentary 98 min. 6:00 p.m.
90 min. page 36 Dramatic
page 24 6:00 p.m. page 34 GENER20SE
WE LIVE IN 6:00 p.m. WORLD20WE
95 min.
PUBLIC 89 min. 95 min.
8 pm Documentary 6:45 p.m.
WHENY20BE 6:30 p.m.
500DA20GE 6:30 p.m.
Competition 211AN20BE LULUA20OA
page 17
90 min.
9 pm 7:30 p.m.
I LOVE YOU
STINGRAY WELIV20BE BIG FAN SERGIO
SAM PHILLIP
Dramatic Documentary
page 60 MORRIS AN Competition
Competition
page 19 Premieres EDUCATION page 16
10 pm 9:00 p.m. TOE TO TOE
102 min. page 38 World 94 min.
Dramatic
9:00 p.m. 100 min. Dramatic 9:00 p.m.
Competition
9:00 p.m. page 32
CARMO, HIT page 23 BIGFA20BN SERGI20SN
THE ROAD
ILOVE20WN 95 min.
100 min.
11 pm World 9:45 p.m. 9:30 p.m.
EDUCA20GN
Dramatic TOETO20BN
page 31
100 min.
midnight 10:30 p.m.
CARMO20BN
1 am
2 am

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21 Park City Screening Schedule

8 am
DIRT! THE MANURE TAKING AMREEKA

CHANCE
9 am ONE DAY IN
MOVIE
Documentary WHEN
Premieres
page 39 Dramatic
Dramatic
Competition
SNEAK A LIFE Competition YOU’RE Competition page 19
WILLIAM 105 min.
PREVIEW 2 page 14 KUNSTLER STRANGE page 23 96 min.
World 8:30 a.m.
Dramatic 95 min. Documentary Documentary MANUR21LM 85 min. 8:30 a.m.
10 am page 34 8:30 a.m. Competition Competition 8:30 a.m.
AMREE21RM
9:15 a.m. 97 min. DIRTT213M page 17 page 17 TAKIN21PM
SNEK221CM 9:00 a.m. 90 min. 90 min.
ONEDA21EM 9:15 a.m. 9:00 a.m.
11 am DISTU214M WHENY21TM
AGAINST THE
KIMJONGILIA THE ZION AND CURRENT
GREATEST HIS BROTHER Spectrum
noon World
Documentary SERGIO Dramatic World page 42
POMEGRAN- Dramatic
COLD SOULS page 26 ART & COPY Documentary Competition 95 min.
ATES AND
85 min. Competition page 21 page 35 11:15 a.m.
Dramatic MYRRH Documentary
Competition 11:30 a.m. Competition page 16 98 min. 96 min. AGAIN21RD
Spectrum
1 pm page 20 page 46 KIMJO213D page 12 94 min. 11:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m.
GREAT21LD ZIONA21PD
97 min. 95 min. 94 min. noon
12:15 p.m. noon 12:15 p.m. SERGI21TD
COLDS21CD POMEG21ED ARTCO214D
2 pm
HUMPDAY
AFGHAN LA MISSION BRONSON Dramatic
STAR Competition
3 pm World
Spectrum
page 45
World
Dramatic page 21
THE CARTER Documentary THE SEPT-
PAPER HEART HEART OF page 31 92 min.
Park City at EMBER ISSUE 117 min.
page 25 TIME 102 min. 2:15 p.m.
Dramatic Midnight Documentary 2:30 p.m.
Competition 92 min. World Competition
HUMPD21RA
2:30 p.m.
4 pm page 22
page 50
90 min.
2:30 p.m. Dramatic page 11, 16
LAMIS21LA
BRONS21PA
95 min. AFGHA213A page 33
3:00 p.m. 90 min.
3:15 p.m. CARTE21EA 90 min. 3:00 p.m.
PAPER21CA 3:15 p.m. SEPTE21TA
5 pm HEART214A
THE MISSING
PERSON
WHITE DON’T LET TOE TO TOE
LIGHTNIN’ ME DROWN Spectrum
6 pm DOCU- Park City at CRUDE Dramatic
Dramatic
Competition page 45
SHRINK MENTARY Midnight BARKING Competition page 23 105 min.
Documentary
Premieres SHORTS page 52 WATER Competition page 21 100 min. 5:15 p.m. SHORTS
page 41 PROGRAM 88 min. Spectrum page 13 105 min. 5:30 p.m.
THEMI21RE
PROGRAM II
7 pm 110 min. page 66 5:30 p.m. page 43 100 min. 5:30 p.m. TOETO21PE page 65
6:15 p.m. 91 min. WHITE213E 92 min. 6:00 p.m. DONTL21LE 97 min.
SHRIN21CE 6:00 p.m. 6:15 p.m. CRUDE21TE 6:30 p.m.
SHDOC21EE BARKI214E SHRT221DE
8 pm THE
ANARCHIST’S
WIFE
SHORTS THE YES SIN NOMBRE
PROGRAM IV MEN FIX THE Spectrum
9 pm LOUISE- page 65 WORLD
Dramatic
Competition
page 42
BOY
MICHEL 102 min. LUNCH INTERRUPTED Spectrum page 23 112 min.
World BREAK page 49 96 min. 8:00 p.m.
MOTHER- 8:30 p.m. Documentary DEAD SNOW
HOOD Dramatic SHRT4213N New Frontier Competition 93 min. 8:30 p.m.
ANARC21RN
10 pm Premieres page 33 Feature page 13 8:30 p.m. SINNO21PN
Park City at
Midnight
98 min. page 55 92 min. YESME21LN
page 40 page 51
9:00 p.m. 120 min. 9:00 p.m.
90 min. 107 min.
LOUIS21EN 9:15 p.m. BOYIN21TN
9:30 p.m. 9:30 p.m.
11 pm MHOOD21CN
LUNCH214N
DEADS21DN
CARMO, HIT EVERYTHING PUSH

THE ROAD STRANGE
midnight FIVE World THRILLER AND NEW
Dramatic
Competition
MINUTES OF Dramatic IN MANILA Spectrum page 22
HEAVEN page 31 World page 43 105 min.
World 100 min. Documentary 91 min. 11:30 p.m.
1 am Dramatic 11:30 p.m. page 29 11:30 p.m. PUSHH21PL
page 33 CARMO213L 103 min. EVERY21LL
90 min. midnight
midnight THRIL214L
2 am FIVEM21EL
92
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21 Off Screen, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Sundance Resort
OGDEN SUNDANCE
8 am
9 am
10 am
11 am
MUSIC AND
FILM
Sundance
House
noon page 72 ADVENTURE-
THE DIGITAL
11:00 a.m. DISTRI- LAND
BUTION Premieres
IMPERATIVE page 37
1 pm Panel 106 min.
page 63 noon
noon ADVNL21SD
2 pm TRUTH AND HOW TO

MUSIC CAFÉ
CONSE- TALK TO THE
QUENCES 2:00 p.m. BIG GUYS
Angel Taylor
Panel Presentation
3 pm Filmmaker 2:40 p.m. page 63
VICTORIA
Lodge Locksley 2:00 p.m.
page 71 DAY
3:20 p.m.
2:00 p.m. Dave Barnes World
Dramatic
4 pm 4:00 p.m. page 35
Phil Vassar 89 min.
page 73 3:00 p.m.
VICTO21SA
5 pm
6 pm MUSIC THE GLASS ARLEN FABER CHILDREN OF

SHOWCASE HOUSE INVENTION
Dramatic
Sundance World Competition THE ENDGAME Spectrum
House Documentary page 19 MESSENGER page 43
7 pm page 72 EL GENERAL page 26 95 min. Premieres
Premieres
page 38 95 min.
6:00 p.m. Documentary 103 min.
Competition 6:00 p.m. page 40 101 min. 6:00 p.m.
page 14 6:00 p.m. ARLEN21WE 107 min. 6:30 p.m. CHILD21SE
THE COVE GLASS21BE
83 min. 6:30 p.m. ENDGA21OA
8 pm Documentary
Competition 6:45 p.m. MESSE21GE
GENER21BE
page 13
90 min.
7:30 p.m.
9 pm COVEE21BE
CLIENTE THE END OF
THE
World GREATEST THE LINE
Dramatic Dramatic World
GOOD HAIR Documentary
page 31 Competition
10 pm BURMA VJ
104 min. page 21
Documentary
Competition
page 26
World 9:00 p.m. 98 min. 90 min.
Documentary page 14
page 25 CLIEN21BN 9:00 p.m. 95 min. 9:00 p.m.
ROUGH GREAT21WN ENDOF21SN
AUNTIES 98 min. 9:30 p.m.
11 pm World 9:45 p.m. GOODH21GN
Documentary BURMA21BN
page 29
103 min.
midnight 10:30 p.m.
ROUGH21BN
1 am
2 am

THURSDAY, JANUARY 22 Park City Screening Schedule

8 am
GOOD HAIR MOTHER- ADAM PETER AND

HOOD VANDY
9 am CLIENTE
Documentary
OVER THE Premieres
Dramatic
Competition Dramatic
Competition
STAY THE HILLS AND page 40 page 18 Competition
SHRINK World page 14
Dramatic SAME NEVER FAR AWAY 90 min. 101 min. page 22
Premieres 95 min.
page 31 CHANGE Documentary 8:30 a.m. 8:30 a.m. 89 min.
page 41
10 am 110 min. 104 min.
8:30 a.m.
GOODH223M New Frontier Competition
MHOOD22LM ADAMM22PM 8:30 a.m.
Feature page 15 PETER22RM
9:15 a.m. 9:00 a.m.
page 56 101 min.
SHRIN22CM CLIEN22EM 101 min. 9:00 a.m.
11 am 9:15 a.m.
STAYT224M
OVERT22TM
HELEN
WHY WE UNMADE OLD Spectrum
LAUGH BEDS PARTNER page 44
noon GRACE Spectrum REPORTER World World 120 min.
ARLEN FABER page 49 YOU WONT Dramatic Documentary 11:15 a.m.
Park City at Documentary
Midnight 95 min. MISS ME Competition page 35 page 27 HELEN22RD
Dramatic
Competition page 51 11:30 a.m. New Frontier page 15 104 min. 82 min.
1 pm page 19 94 min. WHYLA223D
Feature 90 min. 11:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m.
95 min. noon page 57 noon UNMAD22LD OLDPA22PD
12:15 p.m. 86 min.
GRACE22ED REPOR22TD
ARLEN22CD 12:15 p.m.
2 pm YOUWO224D
AGAINST THE
BARKING CURRENT
BOY TBA
INTERRUPTED WATER Spectrum
3 pm SPRING Documentary ART & COPY Spectrum page 42
BIG FAN BREAKDOWN Competition HEART OF page 43 95 min.
Documentary
Dramatic Park City at page 13 TIME Competition 92 min. 2:15 p.m.
2:30 p.m.
Competition Midnight 92 min. World page 12 2:30 p.m. TBONE22PA
AGAIN22RA
4 pm page 19 page 52 2:30 p.m. Dramatic 94 min. BARKI22LA
102 min. 95 min. BOYIN223A page 33 3:00 p.m.
3:15 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 90 min. ARTCO22TA
BIGFA22CA SPRIN22EA 3:15 p.m.
5 pm HEART224A
BRIEF INTER-
VIEWS WITH
THE END OF 211: ANNA BIG RIVER
HIDEOUS
THE LINE MAN
6 pm EVERYTHING World EL GENERAL
World
Documentary World
MEN
Documentary Dramatic
IN THE LOOP STRANGE Documentary BEFORE page 24
Documentary Competition
AND NEW page 26 TOMORROW Competition 89 min. page 25
Premieres page 20 AFGHAN
page 39 Spectrum 90 min. World page 14 5:30 p.m. 103 min.
77 min. STAR
7 pm 109 min. page 43 5:30 p.m.
Dramatic 83 min. 211AN22LE 5:30 p.m. 5:15 p.m. World
91 min. page 30 6:00 p.m. BIGRI22PE
6:15 p.m. ENDOF223E BRIEF22RE Documentary
INTHE22CE 6:00 p.m. 99 min. page 25
GENER22TE
EVERY22EE 6:15 p.m. 92 min.
8 pm BEFOR224E
6:30 p.m.
SIN NOMBRE AFGHA22DE
Dramatic
WOUNDED AMREEKA AN Competition
KNEE EDUCATION page 23
9 pm ANIMATION Spectrum
Dramatic
Competition World 96 min.
THE COVE Dramatic
SPOTLIGHT page 49 BURMA VJ page 19 8:00 p.m.
Documentary page 32
page 67 74 min. World Competition 96 min. SINNO22RN
THE KILLING
THE 95 min.
107 min. 8:30 p.m. Documentary page 13 8:30 p.m. ROOM
10 pm INFORMERS
Premieres 9:00 p.m. WOUND223N page 25 90 min. AMREE22LN 8:30 p.m. Park City at
ANIMA22EN 98min. 9:00 p.m. Summit County EDUCA22PN Midnight
page 38 locals screening.
9:15 p.m. Pass Holders must page 51
98 min. COVEE22TN
BURMA224N waitlist. 90 min.
9:30 p.m.
11 pm INFOR22CN 9:30 p.m.
KILLI22DN
THE CLONE PROM DARE

RETURNS NIGHT IN
midnight MYSTERY
HOME SHORTS MISSISSIPPI
Dramatic
Competition
TEAM World PROGRAM V World page 20
Dramatic Documentary 92 min.
Park City at page 66
Midnight page 32 104 min. page 28 11:30 p.m.
1 am page 52 110 min. midnight 99 min.
DAREE22PL
105 min. 11:30 p.m. SHRT5224L 11:30 p.m.
CLONE223L PROMN22LL
midnight
MYSTE22EL
2 am
94
THURSDAY, JANUARY 22 Off Screen, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Sundance Resort
OGDEN SUNDANCE
8 am
9 am
10 am
CINEMA
CAFÉ
11 am Filmmaker
Lodge
page 70
10:30 a.m.
noon CREATED DON’T LET
WORLDS ME DROWN
Panel Dramatic
page 63 Competition
1 pm noon page 21
MUSIC CAFÉ 105 min.
1:00 p.m. noon
The People DONTL22SD
2 pm NOW OR
Speak
(Panel)
NEVER 2:00 p.m. IJ CENTRAL;
Panel The People ADOPT
Filmmaker Speak (Per-
3 pm Lodge formance)
LINKS;
DIGITAL
page 71 THE
2:40 p.m. DIASPORA
2:00 p.m. RECKONING
Youth Speaks Presentationl
Documentary
3:20 p.m. page 58 Competition
4 pm Landon Pigg 2:15 p.m. page 15
4:00 p.m. 100 min.
DON’T LET
Sara Watkins 3:00 p.m.
THE TREX RECKO22SA
4:40 p.m. GET THE
5 pm Phil Vassar CHILDREN
page 59
page 72 and 73
75 min.
4:30 p.m.
6 pm TIBET IN THE YES WE LIVE IN
STINGRAY SONG MEN FIX THE PUBLIC
SAM World WORLD ADVENTURE- POMEGRAN- Documentary
page 60 Documentary Spectrum LAND Competition
ATES AND
7 pm 6:15 p.m.
SHOUTING
FIRE
page 29 page 49 Premieres MYRRH page 17
82 min. 93 min. page 37 Spectrum 90 min.
Documentary
Competition 6:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 106 min. page 46 6:00 p.m.
FRONTIER TIBET22BE
SHORTS page 16 YESME22WE 6:30 p.m. 95 min. WELIV22SE
8 pm PROGRAM 88 min. ADVNL22GE 6:30 p.m.
page 57 6:45 p.m. POMEG22OA
93 min. SHOUT22BE
LATE NIGHT
TRIVIA 7:30 p.m.
9 pm Filmmaker
SHFRO22BE
SPREAD MANURE
Lodge THE VICIOUS
KIND Premieres Premieres
page 71
Spectrum page 41 BRONSON page 39
8:30 p.m.
page 47 97 min. 105 min.
10 pm CRUDE
98 min. 9:00 p.m.
World
Dramatic 9:00 p.m.
Documentary SPREA22WN page 31 MANUR22SN
NOLLYWOOD page 13 VICIO22BN 102 min.
BABYLON 100 min. 9:30 p.m.
11 pm World 9:45 p.m. BRONS22GN
Documentary CRUDE22BN
page 27
75 min.
midnight 10:30 p.m.
NOLLY22BN
1 am
2 am

FRIDAY, JANUARY 23 Park City Screening Schedule

8 am
SHOUTING THE ONCE MORE BIG FAN
FIRE INFORMERS WITH
9 am VICTORIA Documentary WE LIVE IN Premieres
FEELING Dramatic
Competition
IN THE LOOP DAY Competition THE SEPT- PUBLIC page 38 Spectrum page 19
World page 16 EMBER ISSUE Documentary page 46
Premieres 98 min. 102 min.
Dramatic 88 min. Documentary Competition 105 min.
page 39 8:30 a.m. 8:30 a.m.
10 am 109 min. page 35 8:30 a.m. Competition page 17 INFOR23LM 8:30 a.m. BIGFA23RM
89 min. SHOUT233M page 11, 16 90 min. ONCEM23PM
9:15 a.m.
INTHE23CM 9:00 a.m. 90 min. 9:00 a.m.
VICTO23EM 9:15 a.m. WELIV23TM
11 am SEPTE234M
THE YES
MEN FIX THE
LULU THE THE QUEEN
WORLD
AND JIMI RECKONING AND I
noon LA MISSION World CRUDE Documentary World
Spectrum
Dramatic Competition Documentary page 49
DARE Spectrum EL GENERAL Documentary
page 34 page 15 page 28 93 min.
Dramatic page 45 Documentary Competition
Competition 95 min. Competition page 13 100 min. 90 min. 11:15 a.m.
117 min.
1 pm page 20 noon 11:30 a.m. page 14 100 min. 11:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m.
YESME23RD
92 min. LAMIS23ED LULUA233D 83 min. noon RECKO23LD QUEEN23PD

12:15 p.m. 12:15 p.m. CRUDE23TD
DAREE23CD GENER234D
2 pm
PUSH
ONE DAY TIBET IN Dramatic
SERGIO Competition
IN A LIFE SONG
3 pm DADA’S World World
Documentary
Competition
page 22
Dramatic GOOD HAIR Documentary 105 min.
PETER AND DANCE O’ER THE page 16
VANDY page 34 LAND Documentary page 29 2:15 p.m.
World Competition 94 min.
Dramatic Dramatic 97 min. New Frontier 82 min. PUSHH23RA
page 14 2:30 p.m.
4 pm Competition page 32 2:30 p.m. Feature
95 min. 2:30 p.m. SERGI23PA
page 22 103 min. ONEDA233A page 56 TIBET23LA
80 min. 3:00 p.m.
89 min.
3:00 p.m. GOODH23TA
3:15 p.m. DADAS23EA 3:15 p.m.
5 pm PETER23CA OERTH234A
HUMPDAY
NO IMPACT ADAM KIMJONGILIA Dramatic
MAN Dramatic Competition
6 pm THE MAID Spectrum Competition
World
Documentary page 21
WHEN page 18 page 26 92 min.
MOON World page 48
Dramatic YOU’RE 101 min. 85 min. 5:15 p.m.
Premieres 90 min.
page 34 STRANGE 5:30 p.m. HUMPD23RE REPORTER
page 40 5:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m.
7 pm 97 min. 117 min. NOIMP233E
Documentary ADAMM23LE KIMJO23PE Documentary
Competition Competition
6:15 p.m. 6:00 p.m.
MAIDD23EE page 17 page 15
MOONN23CE
90 min. 90 min.
8 pm 6:15 p.m.
WHENY234E THE
6:30 p.m.
REPOR23DE
GREATEST
WILLIAM BRIEF INTER- LET’S MAKE Dramatic
KUNSTLER VIEWS WITH Competition
MONEY
9 pm CARMO, HIT Documentary HIDEOUS World
page 21
Competition MEN Documentary 98 min.
THE ROAD THE GLASS
page 17 HOUSE Dramatic page 27 8:00 p.m.
EARTH DAYS World DIRT! THE Competition WHITE
Dramatic 90 min. World 108 min. GREAT23RN
MOVIE LIGHTNIN’
10 pm Premieres
page 11, 37 page 31 8:30 p.m. Documentary
Documentary
page 20
77 min.
8:30 p.m.
Park City at
100 min. DISTU233N page 26 Competition LETSM23PN
Midnight
100 min. 8:30 p.m.
103 min. page 14 page 52
9:30 p.m. 9:00 p.m. BRIEF23LN
CARMO23EN 9:15 p.m. 95 min. 88 min.
EARTH23CN
11 pm GLASS234N
9:30 p.m. 9:30 p.m.
DIRTT23TN WHITE23DN
NOLLYWOOD TOE TO TOE PAPER HEART

BABYLON
midnight World LOUISE-
Dramatic
Competition
Dramatic
Competition
DEAD SNOW Documentary MICHEL page 23 page 22
Park City at page 27
Midnight World 100 min. 95 min.
75 min. Dramatic 11:30 p.m.
page 51 11:30 p.m.
1 am 107 min. 11:30 p.m.
page 33
TOETO23LL PAPER23PL
NOLLY233L 98 min.
midnight
DEADS23EL midnight
LOUIS234L
2 am
96
FRIDAY, JANUARY 23 Off Screen, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Sundance Resort
OGDEN SUNDANCE
8 am
9 am
10 am
CINEMA
CAFÉ
11 am Filmmaker
Lodge
page 70
10:30 a.m.
noon
THE ART & COPY
EMPEROR & Documentary
HIS CLOTHES Competition
page 59 page 12
1 pm 90 min. 94 min.
noon noon
ARTCO23SD
2 pm 2020 VISION MUSIC CAFÉ

Panel
Filmmaker 2:00 p.m.
Lodge TBA
3 pm page 71 2:40 p.m.
2:00 p.m. Landon Pigg SIN NOMBRE
3:20 p.m. Dramatic
TBA Competition
page 23
4 pm 4:00 p.m.
96 min.
Lenka
3:00 p.m.
page 73 STEARMAN SINNO23SA
41
5 pm page 59
60 min.
4:30 p.m.
6 pm DON’T LET BLACK COLD SOULS

LUNCH ME DROWN DYNAMITE Dramatic
FILMS Dramatic Park City at RUDO Y AN Competition
page 60 Competition Midnight CURSI EDUCATION page 20
7 pm 6:15 p.m.
THE END OF
THE LINE
page 21 page 50 Premieres World 97 min.
105 min. 90 min. page 41 Dramatic
World 6:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 103 min. page 32
Documentary COLDS23SE
GRACE DONTL23BE BLDYN23WE 95 min.
page 26 6:30 p.m.
8 pm Park City at
Midnight 90 min. RUDOA23GE 6:30 p.m.
page 51 6:45 p.m. EDUCA23OA
ENDOF23BE
94 min.
7:30 p.m.
9 pm GRACE23BE HEART OF FIVE SHRINK
TIME MINUTES OF Premieres
World HEAVEN page 41
MOTHER- 500 DAYS OF
Dramatic World SUMMER 110 min.
10 pm ZION AND page 33 Dramatic HOOD
Premieres Premieres 9:00 p.m.
HIS BROTHER 90 min. page 33
page 40 page 36 SHRIN23SN
World 9:00 p.m. 90 min.
QUEST FOR Dramatic 90 min. 95 min.
HEART23BN 9:00 p.m.
HONOR page 35 9:30 p.m. 9:30 p.m.
11 pm World 96 min.
FIVEM23WN
MHOOD23GN 500DA23ON
Documentary 9:45 p.m.
page 28 ZIONA23BN
69 min.
midnight 10:30 p.m.
SHORTS
QUEST23BN THE CARTER
PROGRAM III
Park City at
page 65 Midnight
104 min. page 50
1 am midnight 90 min.
SHRT323BL
midnight
CARTE23WL
2 am

SATURDAY, JANUARY 24 Park City Screening Schedule
HOLIDAY HOLIDAY HOLIDAY LIBRARY PROSPECTOR RACQUET

ECCLES EGYPTIAN VILLAGE VILLAGE VILLAGE TEMPLE CENTER SQUARE CLUB REDSTONE
THEATRE THEATRE CINEMA I CINEMA III CINEMA IV THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE CINEMAS
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INDEX OF DIRECTORS AND ARTISTS
A F M S
Abt, Emily..................................................................23 Fast, Omer.................................................................58 Mackenzie, David .....................................................41 Salky, Adam...............................................................20
Addelman, Ben .........................................................27 Feste, Shana ............................................................. 21 Mallal, Samir .............................................................27 Saltzman, Paul ..........................................................28
Adizes, Topaz ........................................................... 43 Ficarra, Glenn ...........................................................38 Maringouin, John .....................................................25 Sanders, Scott ..........................................................50
Almada, Natalia ........................................................14 Fjellström, Mathias..................................................65 Marking, Havana ......................................................25 Sauvaire, Jean-Stéphane........................................44
Amati, Martina ........................................................ 34 Foulkes, Adam ..........................................................67 Marshall, Maria............................................25, 57, 59 Sayeed, Malik Hassan ............................................. 64
Angeles, Cruz............................................................ 21 Francis, Adrian..........................................................28 Martini, Derick......................................................... 45 Schein, Justin .......................................................... 48
Anger, Kenneth ........................................................25 Fukunaga, Cary Joji .................................................23 Maryniuk, Mike.........................................................33 Scherfig, Lone ..........................................................32
Arantes, Marcela ..................................................... 66 Fuqua, Antoine .........................................................37 Massie, Felix ............................................................ 43 Schroeder, Tom.........................................................67
Athila, Eija-Liisa .......................................................56 Massimetti, Giovanna ............................................ 24 Scott, Michel Orion.................................................. 15
Avery, Julius..............................................................65 Mayer, Max................................................................ 18 Sehr, Peter ............................................................... 42
G McAbee, Cory .......................................................... 60 Serbandini, Paolo .................................................... 24
McDowall, Adrian .....................................................29 Serra, M.M. .............................................................. 66
B Gabbert, Laura ........................................................ 48 Mell, Carson .............................................................44 Shelton, Lynn............................................................ 21
Garbus, Liz ................................................................ 16 Merav, Eran ...............................................................35 Shepard, Richard ..................................................... 66
Balasko, Josiane ....................................................... 31 García Ibarra, Chema ...............................................65 Metzgar, Eric............................................................. 15 Shiraki, Ryan .............................................................52
Barker, Greg .............................................................. 16 Gerhardt, Joe............................................................14 Michôd, David.......................................................... 66 Siegel, Robert ........................................................... 19
Barthes, Sophie ........................................................20 Gibson, Sandra Lea ..................................................57 Mirabella-Davis, Carlo ............................................ 66 Silva, Sebastian ....................................................... 34
Becerra, Roland ........................................................67 Goldthwait, Bobcat ................................................ 47 Mottola, Greg ...........................................................37 Silver, Olivia ............................................................. 64
Benenson, Bill ...........................................................14 Gordon-Levitt, Joseph ............................................65 Moverman, Oren ..................................................... 40 Simmons, Christian ..................................................65
Berger, Marco .......................................................... 64 Green, Rashaad Ernesto..........................................65 Murphy, Dominic ......................................................52 Smith, Alan................................................................67
Berlinger, Joe ............................................................ 13 Green, Sam............................................................... 66 Murray, Rupert .........................................................26 Smothers Bruni, Mary Ann .....................................28
Bezmozgis, David .....................................................35 Groen, Elke................................................................56 Soderbergh, Steven .................................................53
Bichlbaum, Andy ..................................................... 49 Guggenheim, Davis ................................................. 47 Sohn, Coley .............................................................. 66
Bisignano, Dominic ..................................................22 Solet, Paul ................................................................. 51
Bonanno, Mike......................................................... 49 N Stewart, Brent ..........................................................65
Bradshaw, Frazer..................................................... 43 H Stilson, Jeff ..............................................................14
Bratt, Peter .............................................................. 45 Najjar, Najwa ........................................................... 46 Stone, Robert ..................................................... 11, 37
Breece, Julian ...........................................................65 Harbold, Chadd ........................................................65 Nakadate, Laurel ......................................................56 Stone, Tony ...............................................................56
Breitz, Candice .........................................................58 Harjo, Sterlin ........................................................... 43 Nakajima, Kanji.........................................................32 Stratford, Lee ...........................................................65
Briet, Laurent .......................................................... 47 Harris, Jonathan.......................................................58 Nasty Nets ............................................................... 60 Stratman, Deborah ..................................................56
Bunny, Dumb ........................................................... 64 Harris Jr., Wendell B. ...............................................53 Nelson, Stanley ....................................................... 49
Buschel, Noah.......................................................... 45 Heikin, NC .................................................................26 Nettelbeck, Sandra .................................................44
Hertzfeldt, Don ........................................................67 Nikki, Teemu ............................................................ 66 T
Hindman, John ......................................................... 19 Noelle, Marie............................................................ 42
C Hirschbiegel, Oliver .................................................33 Nowell, Justin ...........................................................65 Takesue, Kimi ............................................................28
Tay, Michael ..............................................................30
Callahan, Peter ........................................................ 42 Taylor-Wood, Sam ................................................... 64
Campbell, William ....................................................20 I O Timoner, Ondi ........................................................... 17
Carrillo, Sofía ............................................................67 Toback, James ......................................................... 48
Casey, Lyndon.......................................................... 66 Iannucci, Armando ...................................................39 Odell, Jonas ..............................................................25 Toland Krieger, Lee ................................................. 47
Choephel, Ngawang .................................................29 Industries, Oblong ................................................... 61 Olnek, Madeleine .....................................................65 Townsend, Robert ................................................... 49
Christiansen, Cam ................................................... 66 Olson, Jenni .............................................................. 16 Travis, Pete ...............................................................38
Chun, Tze .................................................................. 43 O’Neill, Pat ................................................................57 Tummolini, Stefano ................................................ 34
Clapin, Jeremy ..........................................................67 J Orion, Kai ................................................................. 64
Clements, Connor ....................................................65 Orschel, Jill ...............................................................26
Connolly, Rob............................................................65 Jalfen, Martin ...........................................................52 Ostergaard, Anders .................................................25 U
Conway, Alicia .......................................................... 51 Jarman, Ruth ............................................................14
Conz, Filippo .............................................................65 Jasenovec, Nicholas.................................................22 Underkoffler, John .................................................. 61
Corbet, Brady .......................................................... 45 Jiang, Nova ...............................................................59 P Utz, Lindsay ............................................................. 66
Cortés, Alberto ........................................................33 Jones, Duncan ......................................................... 40
Cousineau, Marie-Hélène........................................30 Jones, Jason ............................................................ 66 Pallaoro, Andrea ...................................................... 66
Cretton, Destin Daniel ............................................65 Jones, Khary .............................................................65 Pasta, Murilo ............................................................ 31 V
Crowell, Jeremiah..................................................... 18 Jordan, Gregor .........................................................38 Pate, Jonas................................................................41
Cuarón, Carlos ..........................................................41 Joseph, Max ............................................................. 66 Perry, Dana................................................................ 13 Villeneuve, Denis .....................................................65
Currie, Morgan ........................................................ 66 Persson Sarvestani, Nahid ......................................28 Vinik, Michal .............................................................35
Cutler, R.J. ............................................................11, 16 PES .............................................................................67
K Pierce, Leighton ...................................................... 60
Piujuq Ivalu, Madeline .............................................30 W
D Kamvar, Sep ..............................................................58 Plympton, Bill ...........................................................67
Karr, Doug .................................................................35 Polish, Michael .........................................................39 Wagenhofer, Erwin ..................................................27
Dabis, Cherien .......................................................... 19 Katz, Ross .................................................................23 Pontikos, Urszula .....................................................26 Waldman, Annie P. .................................................. 66
Daniels, Lee...............................................................22 Kontopoulos, Michael .............................................59 Portnoy, Michael ...................................................... 61 Walker, Matthew......................................................22
de Kervern, Gustave ................................................33 Koseva, Nadejda...................................................... 64 Povolotsky, Dmitry ................................................. 64 Wallworth, Lynette.................................................. 61
Delépine, Benoit.......................................................33 Krasinski, John .........................................................20 Pray, Doug................................................................. 12 Webb, Marc ...............................................................36
DiCillo, Tom ............................................................... 17 Kunstler, Emily ......................................................... 17 Pretsell, Finlay ..........................................................29 Weber, Eva ............................................................... 66
Dieckmann, Katherine ............................................ 40 Kunstler, Sarah ......................................................... 17 Psihoyos, Louie ........................................................ 13 White, Charlie ...........................................................56
Dion, Franck ..............................................................67 Williams, Lia..............................................................32
DiPietro, Jay..............................................................22 Willmott, Kevin ....................................................... 46
Donoghue, Tony .......................................................27 R Winding Refn, Nicolas ............................................. 31
Doolan, Luke .............................................................65 L Winston, Max ...........................................................52
Dorling, Philip ...........................................................65 Rahmanian, Hamid ...................................................26 Wirkola, Tommy........................................................ 51
Dos Santos, Alexis ...................................................35 Lee, Chung-ryoul......................................................27 Rankin, Matthew......................................................33 Wolfe, Katie ..............................................................35
Dower, John ..............................................................29 Lee, Spike ................................................................. 48 Recoder, Luis ............................................................57
Dunne, Sean .............................................................. 12 Liebesman, Jonathan .............................................. 51 Requa, John ..............................................................38
Lipsky, Jeff .............................................................. 46 Reynolds, Reynold.................................................... 31 Y
Lockhart, Sharon .....................................................55 Richardson, Kelly...................................................... 61
Longinotto, Kim .......................................................29 Robinson, Michael....................................................57 Yates, Pamela ........................................................... 15
E Lough, Adam Bhala ..................................................50 Robinson, Richard ....................................................57 Yu, Jessica................................................................. 15
Lourenco, Javier .......................................................52 Robot, Walter .......................................................... 49
Eckman, Dan .............................................................52 Lozano, Carrie ......................................................... 66 Roehler, Oskar ......................................................... 34
Eisener, Jason ........................................................... 51 Rosow, Gene .............................................................14 Z
Eklund, Patrik ...........................................................65 Runarsson, Runar .....................................................65
Elliot, Adam ........................................................10, 39 Russo, David ............................................................44 Zhang Yuan ...............................................................32
Engfehr, Kurt........................................................... 49 Russo-Young, Ry ......................................................57
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INDEX OF FILMS AND INSTALLATIONS
E M
2 Birds .......................................................................65 Earth Days .......................................................... 11, 37 Ma Bar .......................................................................29 Small Collection........................................................ 18
2) Secret Machine .................................................... 31 Education, An ...........................................................32 Magnetic Movie .......................................................14 So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away .................... 66
211: Anna .................................................................. 24 Endgame ...................................................................38 Maid, The ................................................................. 34 Sparks ........................................................................65
500 Days of Summer ...............................................36 endless pot of gold cd-rs....................................... 60 Manure ......................................................................39 Spread........................................................................41
575 Castro St. ........................................................... 16 End of the Line, The ................................................26 Mary and Max .....................................................10, 39 Spring Breakdown....................................................52
Everything Strange and New................................. 43 Mate, A ..................................................................... 66 Stay the Same Never Change .................................56
Evolution of Fearlessness....................................... 61 Messenger, The ....................................................... 40 Steel Homes............................................................. 66
A Exiles of the Shattered Star, Twilight Avenger Michael Portnoy: Provocateur ............................... 61 Stingray Sam............................................................ 60
Wagons Roll........................................................ 61 Miracle Fish...............................................................65 Stronger, The ............................................................32
Abbie Cancelled....................................................... 64 Exit .............................................................................55 Missing Person, The ............................................... 45 SUSPENDED ..............................................................28
Acting for the Camera ............................................65 MISSION, La ............................................................. 45
Adam.......................................................................... 18 Mister Cok.................................................................67
Adventureland..........................................................37 F Moon ........................................................................ 40 T
Afghan Star...............................................................25 Moon Theater ...........................................................59
Against the Current................................................ 42 Field Notes from Dimension X : Oasis .................44 Mother + Father .......................................................58 Taking Chance...........................................................23
Agency of Time (Part 1b)........................................ 60 Film from My Parish – 6 Farms – A .......................27 Motherhood ............................................................ 40 TAMPER ..................................................................... 61
All Through the Night .............................................57 Five Minutes of Heaven ..........................................33 Mystery Team ...........................................................52 Ten for Grandpa .......................................................35
A’Mare ...................................................................... 34 From Burger It Came ...............................................22 My Surfing Lucifer...................................................25 Theresa’s Story ........................................................25
American Minor ........................................................56 This Is Her .................................................................35
Amreeka .................................................................... 19 This Way Up ..............................................................67
Anarchist’s Wife, The ............................................. 42 G N Thriller in Manila ......................................................29
Archive, The .............................................................. 12 Tibet in Song ............................................................29
Arlen Faber ............................................................... 19 General, El .................................................................14 Nature Between Us, The .........................................20 Toe to Toe .................................................................23
Art & Copy ................................................................ 12 Glass House, The......................................................26 Netherland Dwarf ................................................... 66 Trece Años ............................................................... 43
Asshole ......................................................................65 GOOD: Atomic Alert ............................................... 66 Next Floor .................................................................65 Treevenge.................................................................. 51
Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5, The ...........65 Good Hair ..................................................................14 NightStill ...................................................................56 Tyson ........................................................................ 48
GOOD: Internet Censorship................................... 66 Nobody Knows You, Nobody Gives a Damn .........65
Grace.......................................................................... 51 No Impact Man ........................................................ 48
B Greatest, The ............................................................ 21 Nollywood Babylon..................................................27 U
BAIT ...........................................................................35 Universe ....................................................................58
Barking Water ......................................................... 43 H O Unmade Beds ............................................................35
Beekeepers, The .......................................................57 Untitled .....................................................................57
Before Tomorrow .....................................................30 Heart of Time ...........................................................33 O’er the Land ............................................................56 Utopia, Part 3: The World’s Largest Shopping
Big Fan ....................................................................... 19 Helen.........................................................................44 Old Partner ...............................................................27 Mall ..................................................................... 66
Big River Man............................................................25 Horizontal Boundaries ............................................57 Omelette .................................................................. 64
Black Dynamite.........................................................50 Hot Dog .....................................................................67 Once More with Feeling ......................................... 46
Blindness of the Woods, The .................................52 HUG............................................................................65 One Day in a Life ..................................................... 34 V
Boutonniere ............................................................. 66 Humpday ................................................................... 21 Only Good Indian, The ............................................ 46
Boy Interrupted........................................................ 13 Our Neck of the Woods ..........................................65 Vicious Kind, The .................................................... 47
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men ......................20 Out of Control ..........................................................67 Victoria Day ..............................................................35
Bronson ..................................................................... 31 I Out of Our Minds .....................................................56
Brooklyn’s Finest .....................................................37 Over the Hills and Far Away ................................... 15
Burma VJ ...................................................................25 I Am So Proud of You ..............................................67 W
I Knew It Was You ................................................... 66
I Live in the Woods ..................................................52 P Watch, The ............................................................... 64
C I Love You Phillip Morris .........................................38 We Feel Fine .............................................................58
Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, The ......44 PAL/SECAM ............................................................. 64 We Live in Public ...................................................... 17
Captain Coulier (space explorer) ........................... 66 Informers, The..........................................................38 Paper Heart...............................................................22 Western Spaghetti ..................................................67
Carmo, Hit the Road ................................................ 31 In the Loop................................................................39 Passing Strange....................................................... 48 Wet Season ...............................................................30
Carter, The ................................................................50 Instead of Abracadabra ..........................................65 Pencil Face ................................................................65 When You’re Strange............................................... 17
Casting, The ..............................................................58 It Might Get Loud ................................................... 47 Peter and Vandy .......................................................22 Where Is Where? ......................................................56
Cattle Call .................................................................33 Pomegranates and Myrrh ...................................... 46 White Lightnin’ ........................................................52
Chameleon Street ....................................................53 Predisposed ..............................................................65 Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black
Children of Invention ............................................. 43 J Prom Night in Mississippi .......................................28 Comedy .............................................................. 49
China’s Wild West ....................................................26 Protect You + Me. ................................................... 45 William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe ........... 17
Choices ......................................................................65 James .........................................................................65 Push: Based on the novel by Sapphire ..................22 Works of Maria Marshall, The ................................57
Chop Off .................................................................. 66 Jerrycan.....................................................................65 World’s Greatest Dad ............................................. 47
Cliente ....................................................................... 31 Joel Stein’s Completely Unfabricated Wounded Knee ........................................................ 49
Clone Returns Home, The .......................................32 Adventures ........................................................ 49 Q Wunderkammer ....................................................... 66
Cold Souls .................................................................20 John and Karen ........................................................22
Concerto ...................................................................65 Johnny Mad Dog .....................................................44 Queen and I, The ......................................................28
Copper on the Chopping Block ............................. 64 Quest for Honor.......................................................28 Y
Countertransference...............................................65
Cove, The................................................................... 13 K Yellow Bird, The .......................................................67
Crocodiles and I ....................................................... 66 R Yes Men Fix the World, The................................... 49
Crude ......................................................................... 13 Keith Reynolds can’t make it tonight .................. 43 Young and Evil, The .................................................65
Killing Room, The ..................................................... 51 Real Place, The ......................................................... 66 You Wont Miss Me ...................................................57
Kimjongilia ................................................................26 Reckoning, The ......................................................... 15
D Kinda Sutra, The....................................................... 15 Reporter .................................................................... 15
Knife Point ............................................................... 66 Rite............................................................................. 51 Z
Dada’s Dance ............................................................32 Rough Aunties ..........................................................29
Dare ...........................................................................20 Rudo y Cursi..............................................................41 Zion and His Brother ...............................................35
Dead Snow ................................................................ 51 L
Dear Beautiful ..........................................................67
Dirt! The Movie ........................................................14 Lessons from the Night ..........................................28 S
Dirty Ones, The ........................................................65 Let’s Make Money....................................................27
Don’t Let Me Drown ................................................ 21 Lies.............................................................................25 September Issue, The .........................................11, 16
Little Canyon ........................................................... 64 Sergio ........................................................................ 16
Little Minx Exquisite Corpse: Rope a Dope ......... 47 sex, lies, and videotape...........................................53
Little Minx Exquisite Corpse: She Walked Calmly Short Term 12 ...........................................................65
Disappearing into the Darkness ..................... 64 Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge
Louise-Michel ...........................................................33 of Free Speech ................................................... 16
Love You More ........................................................ 64 Shrink.........................................................................41
Lulu and Jimi............................................................ 34 Sin Nombre ...............................................................23
Lunch Break ..............................................................55 Sister Wife ................................................................26
Lymelife.................................................................... 45 Skhizein .....................................................................67
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Park City going to Eccles Theatre, Prospector Square, and
Racquet Club Theatres and Headquarters; and it’s Sundance Resort
Avoid the headaches of traffic and parking by riding only a short walk to the Holiday Village and
Yarrow Theatres.
Shuttle Services
the free Festival shuttle buses. There is no parking
at Park City theatres and venues, so if you must Sundance is a 60-minute drive from Park City.
$10 per entry. The free Festival shuttle picks up
drive, park in a designated park and ride. The free Shuttle service between Park City and Sundance
right in front of the Yard.
shuttle stops in front of the Festival designated Resort is available from January 16 to 24 at $20
parking lots listed below. NOTE: There is NO parking at the Temple Theatre. per person each way. Sundance Resort Epic Ticket
Package Holders may use the shuttle for free.
CHINA BRIDGE PARKING STRUCTURE
Festival Shuttle The China Bridge Parking Structure is available to
Festival patrons for a cash fee. It is located two
FROM SUNDANCE RESORT TO PARK CITY
The shuttle leaves the Sundance Resort at 9:30 a.m.,
and Buses blocks east of Main Street on Marsac Ave., perfect 12:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m., and 11:00 p.m.
for a quick walk to the Egyptian Theatre, New
Free Festival shuttle buses stop frequently Frontier on Main, Sundance House, and other Main FROM PARK CITY TO THE SUNDANCE RESORT
at every Festival theatre and venue, and most Street venues.
accommodations. Buses operate daily from The shuttle leaves from Sundance House at 10:30 a.m.,
7:00 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. The last bus leaves Old NOTE: This facility is likely to reach capacity early 1:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m., and midnight.
Town Transit Center at 2:20 a.m. and the top of in the day.
Main Street at 2:30 a.m. Plan trips between venues For resort shuttle information, call the Sundance
using the routes listed on the transit map. OTHER LOTS IN PARK CITY concierge at (801) 223-6000. For further information
Monitor Drive Parking Lot about Sundance Resort, see page 74.
Limited, free parking.
Walking Monday-Friday, 3:00 p.m. to midnight; all day
ADA Accessibility
Walking is a great option within Park City; the lighted Saturday. NO PARKING ON SUNDAY. All Park City Transit buses are ADA accessible,
pedestrian paths and sidewalks throughout town are Within walking distance of Eccles and Racquet and drivers are trained to assist persons with
often the quickest way to get around. Remember that Club Theatres. disabilities in boarding and disembarking. Park City
it’s winter in the Rocky Mountains, so the weather can Transit offers door-to-door paratransit service for
change quickly; be sure to dress appropriately. Lots F and G passengers who are unable to use the fixed-route
Limited parking is available; cash fee per entry. The service. For more information, contact Park City’s
Timberland applauds the Sundance Film Festival’s lots are located on Prospector Ave. just south of paratransit certification office at (435)615-5301.
efforts to help preserve the environment by Headquarters. It’s a short walk to the Prospector TTY: (435) 615-4071
promoting ecoconscious modes of transportation. Square and Eccles Theatres and Headquarters.
For additional information, please contact
OUTSIDE OF PARK CITY: Sundance Institute at (435) 658-3456.
Festival Designated Kimball Junction Park and Ride
Parking Lots Free parking available six miles north of Park Lost Something?
City. Free shuttle buses are available to take
• Parking around town is extremely limited, All items are kept in the venue or theatre in which
Festivalgoers to other Park City venues. The
and towing regulations are strictly enforced. they were found for the duration of the Festival
last return bus leaves the Old Town Transit
from January 15th - 25th. Items lost on shuttles are
• Some designated Festival parking lots charge Center at midnight.
transferred to the Information Booth at Marriott
between $10 and $20 per entry (CASH ONLY). Festival Headquarters. After the Festival, lost and
• An extremely limited number of parking lots Redstone Cinemas found items are kept for two weeks until they are
offer free parking. Free parking is available at Redstone Cinemas, claimed. Items that are unclaimed after two weeks
located at Kimball Junction. are donated to charity. If you have any lost and
• Each lot is served by free Festival shuttle buses.
found issues, contact lostandfound@sundance.org.
• Overnight parking is not permitted. SALT LAKE CITY AND OGDEN PARKING
• All lots operate on a first-come, first-served basis. There are a number of convenient paid parking
facilities near the theatres.
THE YARD PARK AND RIDE
Designated parking for the Temple Theatre Express
shuttle route.
The Yard is a large lot, easily accessible for patrons
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FILM GUIDE

PARK CITY, UTAH JANUARY 15–25

Off Screen ................................................................................. 68

Film Festival Timetables ....................................... 81

The Ofﬁcial Television Network of

2009 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org/festival 7

Institute Associates Deer Valley Lodging

All films are shown in 16 mm, 35 mm, or Sony HD Cam.

Guide to the Credits

2009 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org/festival THE FILMS 9

Mary and Max

Mary and Max is unique. A claymation animation by Academy Award–winning

This film that explores friendship, autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, alcoholism,

Thursday, January 15, 6:00 pm - MARYA15CE

For more screening times, see page 39.

The September Issue Earth Days

2009 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org/festival GALA OPENINGS 11

From explorations of cultural trends and political Art & Copy

Got creativity? Got manipulation? Got art? Advertis-

Beginning in the 1960s, a creative revolution revital-

Renowned documentary filmmaker Doug Pray

ExP: David Baldwin, Gregory Beauchamp, Kirk

Preceded by The Archive

Friday, January 16, 5:30 pm - ARTCO16PE

Over the Hills and Far Away The Reckoning Reporter

We Live in Public When You’re Strange William Kunstler:

2009 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org/festival U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION 17

The vision and creativity of independent filmmakers Adam

What makes this rare story about obstacles

ExP: Dan Revers, Chistina Weiss Lurie Pr: Leslie

Preceded by Small Collection

Monday, January 19, 12:15 pm - ADAMM19CD

Sunday, January 18, 5:15 pm - ARLEN18RE

2009 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org/festival U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION 19

Don’t Let Me Drown The Greatest Humpday

formerly a janitor at the World Trade Center, now

2009 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org/festival U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION 21

Paper Heart Peter and Vandy Push: Based on

FPO pic here FPO pic here FPO pic here

Sin Nombre Taking Chance Toe to Toe

2009 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org/festival U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION 23

The Sundance Film Festival proudly presents a selection 211: Anna

the complexity of the human experience. Russia is the second-most-dangerous country in

211: Anna weaves a story of modern Russia and a

Combining interviews with her husband of many

ExP: Alessandro Papini Pr: Stefano Alpini

Sunday, January 18, 3:15 pm - 211AN184A

Let’s Make Money Nollywood Babylon Old Partner

2009 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org/festival WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION 27

Rough Aunties Thriller in Manila Tibet in Song

2009 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org/festival WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION 29

These 16 films provide a window into the thematic Before Tomorrow

It’s circa 1840 in the northernmost tundra of

As the Europeans encroach upon the territory and

In their first feature, Madeline Piujuq Ivalu and

With stellar performances by Madeline Piujag Ivalu

ExP: Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk Ci: Norman

Preceded by Wet Season

Friday, January 16, noon - BEFOR16ED

2009 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org/festival WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION 31

Five Minutes of Heaven Heart of Time Louise-Michel

Bellinghausen Though times are tough, the women workers of

2009 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org/festival WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION 33

Unmade Beds Victoria Day Zion and His Brother

2009 Sundance Catalog w/JC's Notes

2009 Sundance Catalog w/JC's Notes