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Sundance Announces '06 Fest Jurors

Sundance Film Festival organizers have named the jurors for the upcoming festival, which starts this week in Park City, UT. On the Independent Film Competition dramatic jury are filmmakers Miguel Arteta, Alan Rudolph, and Audrey Wells, actor Terrence Howard, and cinematographer Nancy Schreiber. On the Independent Film Competition doc Jury are filmmakers Joe Bini, Zana Briski, Andrew Briski, Alexander Payne, and Heather Rae. In the World Cinema competitions, the dramtic jurors are Locarno festival director Irene Bignardi, Chinese filmmaker Lu Chan, and Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg, while on the doc jury are filmmakers Jean-Xavier de Lest...

ThinkFilm Gets "Valley"

ThinkFilm has acquired North American rights to David Jacobson's "Down in the Valley," starring Edward Norton, Evan Rachel Wood, David Morse, Rory Culkin, and Bruce Dern. The film will be released this Spring. The film was produced by Norton's Class 5 Films, in partnership with Holly Wiersma and Element Films' Adam Rosenfelt. Set outside Los Angeles, it is described as "the story of a bored teenager, Tobe (Wood), whose aimless existence is turned upside down by a chance encounter with Harlan Carruthers (Norton), a charismatic cowboy who seems as if he would be much more at home in Monument Valley than in the San Fernando Valley." ThinkFilm E...

Blackwell and Sloss to Join "DVDs Vs. Theaters" Panel at SXSW

Ana Marie Cox Returns to Austin