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 April 12, 2008 HR | Sony gets some 'Sugar'
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Sony Pictures Classics has acquired Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's "Sugar," according to The Hollywood Reporter. The deal marks the fourth feature acquisition out of this year's Sundance Film Festival for SPC, after nabbing Jonathan Levine's "The Wackness," Courtney Hunt's "Frozen River" and The Duplass Brothers' "Baghead." [permalink] [ filed under Acquisitions, Park City ] March 4, 2008iW NEWS | ThinkFilm Takes "Momma's Man"
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Azazel Jacob's "Momma's Man" has been acquired by ThinkFilm in a deal for North American rights, the company confirmed today. A Sundance Film Festival debut earlier this year, the film will screen this month at the New Directors/New Films series and then have an exclusive release later this year. It tells the story of Mikey, a young man who returns to the comfort of his parents and the home where he grew up instead of rejoining his own wife and newborn baby in Los Angeles. For the deal, ThinkFilm is reteaming with some of the backers of their 2006 release, "Half Nelson." The film was produced by Alex Orlovsky, Hunter Gray, and executive producer Paul Mezey. The pact, brokered by Cinetic Media, was negotiated by the company's Mark Urman, Randy Manis and Ben Stambler. Reviewing the film for indieWIRE during Sundance, Rob Nelson called "Momma's Man" an, "exceptionally tender, funny, and poignant New York indie." [Eugene Hernandez][permalink] [ filed under Acquisitions, Park City ] February 4, 2008IFC Gets "Ballast" Ahead of Berlinale
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. IFC Films today announced the acquisition of Lance Hammer's 2008 Sundance Film Festival dramatic competition debut, "Ballast." The company has acquired North American rights to the movie, which is set to screen in competition at the upcoming Berlinale. The deal was negotiated by VP of acquisitions Arianna Bocco and William Morris Independent's Cassian Elwes. Asked what prompted the idea for this film, in an interview with indieWIRE, director Hammer said recently, "The Mississippi Delta in winter is a cold and austere flatscape - almost lunar. Vast cotton acreages are fallow and devoid of human activity. The flatness is interrupted only by occasional hardwood outcroppings, which are grey and leafless. The skies are steel and saturated with rain. There is an energetic resonance in the Delta that moves me, especially in the winter. It is something that I cannot easily articulate but has to do with a sense of sorrow, and the dignity of endurance in the face of sorrow. It's quite palpable...I'm hopeful that some of this tone has been conveyed with this iteration."[permalink] [ filed under Acquisitions, Berlin, Park City ] February 1, 2008 PARK CITY '08 REVIEW | Broken Mountain: Matthew Stanton's "North Starr"
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in Movies ] [ 1 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Reviews ] January 31, 2008  More from PARK CITY '08 | Leiner & Levine
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Sony Pictures Classics' Dylan Leiner and director Jonathan Levine (right) made the rounds during the awards after-party last Saturday night. Earlier that evening, iW learned that SPC had picked up rights to Levine's Sundance competition film, "The Wackness," starring Josh Peck, Sir Ben Kingsley, Famke Janssen and Mary Kate Olsen. Anthony Kaufman reported on SPC's busy dealmaking in a recent article.[ read more in iPOP ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Sundance Film Festival ]  More from PARK CITY '08 | Trouble The Water Folks at the Awards
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. "Trouble The Water" folks had a good night last Saturday in Park City, picking up the best doc prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal were joined by Scott Roberts (middle), one of the subjects of the Hurricane Katrina doc. Roberts and his wife, Kimberly had a debut of their own at Sundance, when she gave birth hours after the world premiere of the film.[ read more in iPOP ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Sundance Film Festival ]  PARK CITY '08 REVIEW | Chit-Chat Love: Geoff Haney's "The Last Word."
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in Movies ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Lead Story, Park City, Reviews ] January 30, 2008 More from PARK CITY '08 | Diego Praises the Cinematographer
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Actor Diego Luna took to the stage at the Sundance awards ceremony last weekend after serving as a juror for the dramatic competition (headed by Quentin Tarantino). Among the winners who received their prizes Saturday night was Lol Crawley (left) who won the "Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic" for his work in Lance Hammer's praised "Ballast." Here, the two get chummy at the after-party...[ read more in iPOP ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Sundance Film Festival ]  More from PARK CITY '08 | Sundance Views a "Good Dick"
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Scottish director Marianna Palka along with actors Tom Arnold and Jason Ritter at the Racquet Club during the Sundance Film Festival following a screening of their dramatic competition film, "Good Dick." Palka said that the idea "just came to me" and that she wrote the romance feature so she could act in it, then added, "as I was writing it, I figured I could direct it and produce it too..." During the post-screening Q&A, Tom Arnold, ever the comedian, chimed in, "So Marianna, does Jason have an 8 1/2 inch dick?"[ read more in iPOP ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Sundance Film Festival ]  PARK CITY '08 REVIEW | Crazy/Beautiful: Anthony Haney-Jardine's "Anywhere, USA"
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in Movies ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Lead Story, Park City, Reviews ] January 29, 2008 PARK CITY '08 | Sundance Buying Spree Stirs Talk; Sony Classics Adds "Baghead," "River," and "Wackness" to '08 Slate
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in Biz ] [ 4 comments ] [ filed under Acquistions, Lead Story, Park City ]  PARK CITY '08 REVIEW | American Wine: Randall Miller's "Bottle Shock"
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in Movies ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Lead Story, Park City, Reviews ] January 28, 2008 PARK CITY '08 | Catching Up: 100+ Dispatches, Buzz, Photos, Notebooks, Reviews, and Interviews From Sundance '08
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in On The Scene ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Festival Dispatches, Lead Story, Park City ]  PARK CITY '08 | "Ballast" Takes some Nods
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. "Ballast" had a good night Saturday with two wins. The film picked up the cinematography prize as well as the directing prize (dramatic) for Lance Hammer who took to the stage at the awards ceremony in Park City.[ read more in iPOP ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Lead Story, Park City, Sundance Film Festival ]  PARK CITY '08 | "American Son" at Closing Night
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. "American Son" director Neil Abramson and producer Danielle Renfrew joined the fun at the awards night after-party Saturday night. Everyone danced, ate and drank and even commented on the go-go dancers...[ read more in iPOP ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Sundance Film Festival ]  PARK CITY '08 REVIEW | Love Rollercoaster: Dennis Dortch's "A Good Day to Be Black & Sexy"
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in Movies ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Lead Story, Park City, Reviews ] January 27, 2008 PARK CITY '08 REVIEW | Dancing Fool: Stanley Tucci's "Blind Date"
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in Movies ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Reviews ]  PARK CITY '08 | Tarantino Commands the Stage
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Dramatic jury head Quentin Tarantino provided a round of laughs as he took to the stage Saturday night in Park City to present the winner of the jury award for best feature (awarded to "Frozen River" by Courtney Hunt). He reminisced that when he came to Park City with "Reservoir Dogs" he never won an award, "and it felt shitty..." The charismatic director even stuck around for the after-party chatting up fest-goers and posing for pics.[ read more in iPOP ] [ 2 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Sundance Film Festival ]  PARK CITY '08 | And the winners kiss....
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Director Courtney Hunt received a nice smooch from her leading lady Melissa Leo after their film "Frozen River" won the dramatic competition prize at Sundance Saturday night. The festival really stepped up the party this year... Usually the food and drinks are pretty minimal and most people take off to private gatherings at condos, but this year's Western-themed awards party included a ton o' food and a decent bar. Plus some hot bartenders...[ read more in iPOP ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Sundance Film Festival ]  PARK CITY '08 DISPATCH | "Frozen River" and "Trouble The Water" Win Top Prizes at Sundance '08, "Man On Wire" Wins World Doc Jury and Audience Awards
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in On The Scene ] [ 2 comments ] [ filed under Festival Dispatches, Lead Story, Park City ]  PARK CITY '08 NOTEBOOK | Overlooked Frontier and Midnight Sections Offers Standout "Half Life" and Well-Directed "The Broken"
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in Movies ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Festival Dispatch, Lead Story, Park City ] January 26, 2008PARK CITY '08, 6:19 p.m. | Sony Classics Closing "Wackness" Pact
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Buzz from the Awards ceremony... Sony Pictures Classics is closing a deal for North American rights to Jonathan Levine's 2008 Sundance Film Festival Dramatic Competition entry, "The Wackness," according to insiders. The deal, being brokered by CAA, is expected to be announced soon. Sony Classics has had a busy festival, acquiring Courtney Hunt's Dramatic Competition entry "Frozen River" and also nabbing The Duplass Brothers "Baghead" from the Spectrum section. [Eugene Hernandez][permalink] [ filed under Acquisitions, Park City ]  PARK CITY '08 REVIEW | Kicking and Screaming: Azazel Jacobs' "Momma's Man"
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in Movies ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Reviews ] PARK CITY '08, 3:01 p.m. | "Man on Wire" Stir Audiences, Buyers
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Doc buzz continues... Buyers were drawn to a Noon time Sundance Film Festival screening of James Marsh's accaimed BBC Storyville/Discovery documentary "Man on Wire" at the Holiday Village theater today. Spotted in the audience were execs from Picturehouse, Warner Independent Pictures, and Sony Pictures Classics. The film, being sold at Sundance by Sumbarine, captures the dramatic tightrop walk of Philippe Petit atop a wire stretched 200 feet between the two World Trade Center towers in 1974. Enthusiastically received at Saturday's screening, Petit smiled and proclaimed to the crowd, "I am an artistic criminal." Insiders are weighing offers on the film, in the wake of recent fest screenings, projecting a deal to close in the coming days. [Eugene Hernandez][permalink] [ filed under Acquisitions, Documentary, Park City ] iW NEWS | "Kicking It" Links Theatrical, DVD, Streaming, and TV Pacts with Liberation, Netflix/Red Envelope and ESPN
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Jay Boberg's Liberation Entertainment has acquired North American theatrical rights to Susan Koch's doc, "Kicking It" at the Sundance Film Festival, joining forces with Netflix's Red Envelope Entertainment and ESPN for the film's release. In a unique deal brokered by CAA and Submarine, immediately following the theatrical release Netflix will distribute the film to its subscribers on DVD and via online streaming simultaneous with the ESPN broadcast. The sports network, which announced its acquisition of worldwide broadcast rights at the start of this year's Sundance festival, will work closely with Netflix to cross promote the day-and-date release of the film. The story of seven players from six countries competing in the 4th Annual Homeless World Cup, the soccer story was produced by Ted Leonsis. [Eugene Hernandez][permalink] [ filed under Acquisitions, Documentary, Park City ]  PARK CITY '08 | Perry in Town for "Birds"
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Actor Matthew Perry was among the bevy of star wattage that descended on Sundance this year, though he was in town in support of his role in Craig Lucas' (right) Spectrum film "Birds of America." Lucas wrote "The Secret Lives of Dentists" in 2003 as well as "Longtime Companion" in 1990, which won an audience award. Also joining the pair here is actress Danielle Lindberg.[ read more in iPOP ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Sundance Film Festival ]  PARK CITY '08 | Provincetown in Park City
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. There's the Sundance of celebrity, the Sundance of business deals, the Sundance of those awful branding house nightmares that have raised the cheese factor in the nighttime party scene to the umpteenth degree, as well as the Sundance of festival programmers, who descend on Park City in search of new work that they will program for their festival. Among them, Andrew Peterson, director of programming at the Provincetown International Film Festival (top right) and Connie White who heads the fest (bottom right), which will be having its 10th anniversary edition this June. Joining them were Howard Karren (advisory board member) from Premier and the Sundance Channel's SVP for PR, Sarah Eaton.[ read more in iPOP ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Sundance Film Festival ]  PARK CITY '08 NOTEBOOK | Slamdance Docs "Dear Zachary" and "My Mother's Garden" Offer Personal Stories; "Portage" and "Jetsam" Thrill
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in Movies ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Lead Story, Park City, Reviews ]  PARK CITY '08 REVIEW | Cat's Out of the Bag: David and Nathan Zellner's "Goliath"
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in Movies ] [ 2 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Reviews ] January 25, 2008iW NEWS | "The New Year Parade," "Song Sung Blue" Lead Slamdance's Awards
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. The 14th annual Slamdance Film Festival has announced 15 film and screenplay prize winners in three categories who will share more than $200,000 in cash and prizes, plus, for one winner, guaranteed production of a feature film. The just-concluded festival received over 3,500 submissions from 25 countries for less than 100 programming slots. Notable winners include Tom Quinn's "The New Year Parade," which was awarded the Grand Jury Award for best narrative feature, and Greg Kohs' "Song Sung Blue," which won the Grand Jury Award for best documentary feature. Audience awards were given to Ryan Piotrowicz's "The Project" in the narrative feature category, and "Song Sung Blue" in the documentary category. indieWIRE will be publish another dispatch from Slamdance on Saturday morning. [Peter Knegt][permalink] [ filed under Honors, Park City ]  PARK CITY '08 DISPATCH | Name Actors Not Needed: "Baghead," "Ballast," "Momma's Man" Shine in Park City
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in On The Scene ] [ 2 comments ] [ filed under Festival Dispatches, Lead Story, Park City ] iW NEWS | "Sleep Dealer" Takes Sundance Prize
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. The 2008 Sundance Film Festival announced that Alex Rivera's "Sleep Dealer" is the winner of this year's Alfred P. Sloan Prize. The prize carries a $20,000 cash award for the filmmakers, and is presented to "an outstanding feature film focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character." indieWIRE reviewed the film and interviewed the director earlier this week. The prize will be presented during Sundance's awards ceremony Saturday, January 26, 2008. [Peter Knegt][permalink] [ filed under Honors, Park City ]  PARK CITY '08 REVIEW | Up, Up and Away: Paul Schneider's "Pretty Bird"
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in Movies ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Reviews ]  PARK CITY '08 NOTEBOOK | Under Construction: The Nonfiction New Wave Takes Root at Sundance
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in Movies ] [ 2 comments ] [ filed under Documentary, Festival Dispatch, Lead Story, Park City ] iW NEWS | Anchor Bay Scares up Rights to Slamdance Horror "Jack Brooks"
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Writer/director Jon Knautz' Slamdance Film Festival horror/comedy "Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer" has been acquired by Anchor Bay Entertainment in a mid six-figure deal with a theatrical commitment, the festival announced Friday afternoon. The deal was negotiated by Shaun Redick and Nate Bolotin of the Collective with Anchor Bay's Mark Ward. Several distributors pursued the film, according to Slamdance. Starring Trevor Matthews and Robert Englund ("Nightmare on Elm Street"), the film is described as a "nostalgic throwback to the classic '80s horror-comedy creature features." [Brian Brooks][permalink] [ filed under Acquisitions, Park City ]  PARK CITY '08 REVIEW | Hope Despite A Cold Despair: Tom Hines's "Chronic Town"
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in Movies ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Reviews ] iW NEWS | Sony Classics Bags "Baghead" for North America
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. In a late night deal concluded Thursday night, Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all North American rights to Sundance Film Festival Spectrum feature "Baghead" by Mark and Jay Duplass, an insider close to the deal confirmed. The deal, brokered by Submarine, is understood to be a mid to high six-figure pact. Others understood to be pursuing the horror/comedy hybrid include IFC, Netflix, Picturehouse, Samuel Goldwyn and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisition Group. In "Baghead," four struggling actors head to a cabin in the woods to write a screenplay with roles for themselves and are thrust into a bizarre situation they could not have imagined. Sony Classics reps were not available for comment. [Brian Brooks][permalink] [ filed under Acquisitions, Park City ] January 24, 2008 PARK CITY '08 DISPATCH | Queer Cinema Then and Now at Sundance '08
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in On The Scene ] [ 1 comments ] [ filed under Festival Dispatches, Lead Story, Park City, Queer Cinema ]  PARK CITY '08 | "August" on Main
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Director Austin Chick ("XX/XY") returns to the Sundance Film Festival with his Spectrum feature, "August," about an aggressive dot-com entrepreneur struggling to keep his head above water as the bottom falls out of the market during the tech bubble bust. The film stars Josh Hartnett and Adam Scott (right).[ read more in iPOP ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Sundance Film Festival ] iW NEWS | Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards Winners Announced
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. The Sundance Institute and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) announced the winners of the 2008 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards. The four winners were selected from 12 finalists by an international jury which included Gregg Araki, Jeremy Pikser, Erin Cressida Wilson, Martin Rejtman, Andrucha Waddington, Shekhar Kapur and Anand Tucker. The winners were Alejandro Fernandez for "Huacho," Braden King for "Here," Aiko Nagastu for "Apoptosis" and Radu Jude for "The Happiest Girl in the World." These annual awards were created in 1996 to honor and support visionary film directors from four global regions (Europe, Latin America, the United States, and Japan) in realizing their next projects. The winning director from each region will receive a $10,000 award and a guarantee from NHK to purchase the Japanese television broadcast rights upon completion of their project. The four winners are presented with the award at the annual Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony on Saturday, January 26. [Peter Knegt][permalink] [ filed under Honors, Park City ]  PARK CITY '08 | "Mancora" All Together
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. The folks from world cinema dramatic competition film "Mancora" huddled together for a shot between television interviews earlier in the week off Main Street. The road movie/love story/spiritual odyssey takes place in Peru. Pictured left to right: director Ricardo de Montreuil, and actors Jason Day, Elsa Pataky, Enrique Murciano, Liz Gellardo and Diego Ojeda (producer).[ read more in iPOP ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Sundance Film Festival ]  PARK CITY '08 SHORTS COLUMN | International Shorts and Five-Minute-or-Less Flicks Dominate Sundance
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in Movies ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Lead Story, Monthly Short Film Column, Park City ] iW NEWS | NeoClassics Takes Slamdance Thriller "Crooked Lake"
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Worldwide rights (excluding Canada) for Slamdance action/thriller "Crooked Lake aka Portage" have been acquired by Canadian-based distributor NeoClassics Films Ltd. The film, written and directed by Matthew Miller, Sascha Drews and Erzra Krybus. is described as "a coming of age story about four 14-year-old girls who encounter death and overcome extreme adversity on a Summertime canoe trip to the north woods, where everything that can go wrong does." NeoClassics plans a June theatrical release in the States in "key cities" in June. Based in Vancouver with operations run from the Culver City offices of its U.S. subsidiary, NeoClassics is initially distributing directly to theaters in the U.S. with plans to add direct theatrical distribution in Canada and the U.K. It sells all other rights worldwide. [Brian Brooks][permalink] [ filed under Acquisitions, Park City ]  PARK CITY '08 | Kodak and the Filmmakers
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Kodak held its annual Sundance bash at the Riverhorse on Main Street (affectionately called 'the horse') though this year it succumbed to the branding house virus and became the Bon Apetit house, though we must say the food was good and not nearly as cheesy as most of the other branding nightmares on Main. Anyway, among the guests were filmmaker (and frequent festival iPOPper) Benjamin Piety (left) whose short, "Sunlit Shadows" is screening at the festival. Also joining him are D.P. Scott Uhlfelder and executive producer/editor, Morgan Gross (right).[ read more in iPOP ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Sundance Film Festival ]  PARK CITY '08 | Dinner with Stella and "Bottle Shock"
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Stella Artois hosted its annual media dinner at the posh Stein Eriksen Lodge outside Park City Tuesday night, with many media attending as well as filmmakers including Sundance Spectrum director Randall Miller ("Bottle Shock") with Stella Artois exec David Daniels. The four course meal was paired with various types of Stella. And was deelish![ read more in iPOP ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Sundance Film Festival ]  PARK CITY '08 REVIEW | Surprisingly Ordinary : Clark Gregg's "Choke"
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in Movies ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Reviews ] PARK CITY '08 3:03 a.m. | Sony Classics Reportedly Gets "Frozen River" at Sundance
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Trade reports indicate that Sony Pictures Classics has acquired Courtney Hunt's "Frozen River." However, details differ with the Hollywood Reporter detailing that a pact for North American rights is valued at just under $1 million, and Variety reporting a U.S. rights deal valued in the low to mid six-figures.[permalink] [ filed under Acquisitions, Park City ]  PARK CITY '08 DISPATCH | Immigration and Water Make a Sundance Splash
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in On The Scene ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Festival Dispatches, Lead Story, Park City ] January 23, 2008iW NEWS | Vantage Announces "Teen" Deal
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Calling "American Teen," "The most entertaining and uplifting film we saw at Sundance," Paramount Vantage president Nick Meyer announced the acquisition of Nanette Burstein's documentary today. The announcement confirmed that the company acquired worldwide distribution rights, excluding the U.K. for the film, about a group of teenagers in their senior year of high school in a small Indiana town. Produced by Nanette Burstein, Jordan Roberts, Eli Gonda and Chris Huddleston, the film is an A&E Indiefilms Presentation of a Firehouse Films and Quasiworld Entertainment production in association with 57th and Irving. Cinetic and CAA negotiated the deal with Jeffrey Freedman from Vantage. The company indicated that company EVP Amy Israel and director Ben Cotner will oversee the project for the company. [Eugene Hernandez][permalink] [ filed under Acquisitions, Park City ]  PARK CITY '08 | Amir and PJ
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Filmmaker Amir Bar-lev (left), at Sundance one year after his "My Kid Could Paint That" was a big hit at the festival, is on the fests doc jury this year. At the Cinetic party, he smiles alongside cinematographer PJ Raval, here in Park City. Raval is co-director of "Best Kept Secret," a new film expected to hit the fest circuit this year.[ read more in iPOP ] [ 2 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Sundance Film Festival ]  PARK CITY '08 | Spurlock and Sloss
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. At the Cinetic Party, company founder John Sloss (left) poses for a snapshot with filmmaker Morgan Spurlock. Sloss sold Spurlock's "Super Size Me" at Sundance a few years back and later proved instrumental in brokering a relationship between Spurlock and Adam & Steven Dell, who came up with the idea for his latest film, "Where In the World is Osama Bin Laden?", which Spurlock wrote with Jeremy Chilnick. Sloss sold the project to The Weinstein Company a year ago at the European Film Market in Berlin.[ read more in iPOP ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Sundance Film Festival ]  PARK CITY '08 | Annie and Jehane
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Filmmakers Annie Sundberg ("The Devil Came on Horseback") and Jehane Noujaim ("Control Room") pose for iPOP at the jammed Cinetic party on Monday night at Zoom in Park City.[ read more in iPOP ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Sundance Film Festival ] AFP: Festival film takes on water profiteers
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Documentary film "Flow," premiering at the Sundance Film Festival this week, condemns water profiteering, calling for a UN resolution to make access to clean drinking water a human right. The film by French-born director Irena Salina blasts Paris-based Suez and Vivendi Environment for commercializing water systems around the world, as well as Nestle, the world's largest bottled water seller, for draining watersheds. Michel Comte reports.[permalink] [ filed under Festivals, Park City ]  PARK CITY '08 REVIEW | True Grit: Trygve Allister Diesen's "Red"
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in Movies ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Reviews ]  PARK CITY '08 NOTEBOOK | International Films Shine At Sundance: "Abu Raed"; "Absurdistan"; "Mermaid"; "Stranded"
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in Movies ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Lead Story, Park City, Reviews ]  PARK CITY '08 | "Order of Myth"'s Margaret Brown with Mardi Gras King and Queen
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Director Margaret Brown, at Sundance with her latest documentary, "The Order of Myths" has a drink with her documentary subjects Stefannie Lucas and Joseph Roberson at the Cinetic Party on Monday night. "Myths" follows two segregated Mardi Gras celebrations in Mobile, Alabama and offers a sensitive portrait of race relations in the South.[ read more in iPOP ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Sundance Film Festival ] iW NEWS | "Derek" Deal at Sundance
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Isaac Julien's "Derek" has been acquired by Andrew Herwitz's The Film Sales Company in a deal for U.S. distribution rights and worldwide sales rights (with the exception of the U.K.). Narrated and written by Tilda Swinton, the film is having its world premiere in the Sundance Film Festival's World Cinema Documentary Competition and will have a specialized theatrical release later this year. It is set to screen in the Panorama section at the upcoming Berlinale. The documentary, which looks at the life of artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman, was funded by Film London, Channel 4, MoMA and the Sundance Documentary Fund. It was produced by Eliza Mellor and Colin MacCabe and executive produced by Swinton and James Mackay. [Eugene Hernandez][permalink] [ filed under Acquisitions, Park City ]  PARK CITY '08 REVIEW | Bittersweet Dreams: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's "Sugar"
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in Movies ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Reviews ] PARK CITY '08 9:22 p.m. | "American Teen" Nearing Paramount Vantage Pact
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Inside sources indicate that Paramount Vantage is nearing a deal for Nanette Burstein's "American Teen" after protracted negotiations that began with a number of would-be buyers -- including Sony Pictures Classics and Fox Searchlight ---immediately following the Friday's Sundance Film Festival premiere on Friday. The deal, said to be valued at $2.5 million for the A&E Indie Films documentary, is being brokered by Cinetic and CAA. Last year A&E Indie Films sold its Sundance entry "My Kid Could Paint That" to Sony Classics. indieWIRE reported on the film's world premiere earlier this week. [Eugene Hernandez][permalink] [ filed under Acquisitions, Park City ] January 22, 2008 PARK CITY '08 | "Assassination of a High School Prez" in Park City
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. Former "O.C." star Mischa Barton is among the bevy of starrage parading around Park City. Barton, pictured here with co-star Reece Daniel Thompson ("Rocket Science") and director Brett Simon (left) Tuesday afternoon off Main Street. Their Sundance Premieres film, "Assassination of a High School President," is described as a high school drama that "twists and turns until the last frame."[ read more in iPOP ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Sundance Film Festival ]  PARK CITY '08 DISPATCH | Buying Heats Up At Sundance; 3 Films Quickly Nabbed As Insiders Ponder The Market
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in On The Scene ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Festival Dispatches, Lead Story, Park City ]  PARK CITY '08 | "Baghead" in Park City
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. The Duplass brothers ("The Puffy Chair") returned to the snowy Wasatch mountains with their Sundance film "Baghead" and took part in a round of television publicity on Main Street where we caught them for a photo between interviews. Left to right: co-director Jay Duplass, Greta Gerwig, co-director Mark Duplass, Elise Muller, Ross Partridge and Steve Zissis. The Spectrum film is described as a "tongue and cheek, genre-twisting comedy" by the festival.[ read more in iPOP ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Park City, Sundance Film Festival ]  PARK CITY '08 NOTEBOOK | Docs Shine at Sundance; "Teen," "Polanski," and "Myths" Among Hyped Titles
Park City coverage sponsored by BE KIND REWIND. [ read more in Movies ] [ 0 comments ] [ filed under Documentary, Festival Dispatch, Park City ]  PARK CITY '08 REVIEW | Looking for Stability in a Soggy Mississippi: Lance Hammer's "Ballast"
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