Lars von Trier Chats with New York Audiences (Virtually Speaking)

"I'm kind of in New York. I never thought it would happen!" Lars von Trier told audiences on Sunday at the IFC Center during an "iQ&A" following a screening of his latest film, "Manderlay". No, the auteur (who famously makes films that criticize America without ever having stepped foot in the country) didn't actually visit Yankee shores, but instead interacted with U.S. audiences using the next best thing: video conferencing made possible by Apple's iChat software. During a half hour discussion with critics and fans, von Trier reflected on his career and responded to questions in a relaxed, self-deprecating, and witty tone, with only a slight hint of mockery.
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PARK CITY '06: Chris Gorak: "I never went to film school...working for 14 years in the film industry was my film school."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions. Chris Gorak directed "Right at Your Door", which is screening in the Independent Film: Dramatic Competition. "Right at Your Door" follows Brad, who is on his way to work when he hears radio reports of a dirty bomb being detonated in downtown Los Angeles. Brad seals himself in his home, and what follows is "the realities of this kind of attack-the isolation and fear, the panic, the frustration, and the media misinformation," says Sundance. "Gorak and his collaborators demonstrate a restraint and attention to detail that multiply the effect of both the personal and public crises. This is ambitious and accomplished storytelling, wonderfully conceived and executed, that stands apart from similarly themed, multimillion-dollar extravaganzas that have nowhere near the tension, thoughtfulness, and impact of this very independent feature."
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PARK CITY '06: Dito Montiel: "I learned filmmaking from loving movies and then just saying, OK, let's do it."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions.

Dito Montiel directed "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints," screening in the Independent Film Competition: Dramatic section. The film is based upon his memoir of the same name, about growing up in a tough New York neighborhood and the friends he left behind. According to Sundance, the film "is steamy with humidity, cooking and adolescent sexuality." Montiel participated in both the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and Directors Lab. This is his first film.

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PARK CITY '06: Maria Maggenti: "It took seven years to make 'Puccini for Beginners'...my biggest challenge was not giving up."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions. Maria Maggenti's "Puccini For Beginners" is a hilarious story about love and commitment across sexual boundaries. Unabashedly confident in its portrayal of lesbian relationships, the film's heroine, Allegra, has just been dumped by her girlfriend when she meets a man who wins her heart against her will. At the same time, Allegra begins a relationship with a recently single straight woman, but soon finds herself in over her head and unable to handle either lover. "Waltzing behind the coming-out stories of a decade ago, Maggenti playfully ushers in a new era of lesbian cinema free from an ideological agenda," says Sundance. "Puccini" is part of the Independent Film Competition: Dramatic category.
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PARK CITY '06: Hadjii: "Personal experiences and the experiences of others are always heavy in my work..."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions. In his new film "Somebodies," director/screenwriter Hadjii tells the story of 22-year-old Scottie, an African American university student who's just trying to figure out the mysteries of life as they hit him, sometimes all at once. When his "nonchalant approach towards life" gets him in trouble, his eccentric circle of friends and family comes to his aid, and Scottie embarks on "a hilarious journey of self-discovery" (as described by Sundance). The film has no political or social agenda, commented reviewer Roger Ebert, it's just about ordinary guys: they're "very, very funny, because they don't seem to know they're in a movie...they're performing to celebrate themselves." "Somebodies" is part of the Dramatic Independent Film Competition.
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PARK CITY '06: Brian Jun: "There's no such thing as 'that's not my job' in indie film."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions.

Brian Jun directed "Steel City," screening in the Independent Film Competition: Dramatic section. The film explores the relationships among the men of a working-class family: a father in jail for murder and an estranged uncle. After Jun's short film "Jimmy Brown" screened at the Los Angeles Shorts Film Festival he was invited to Fox Searchlab, which identifies emerging directors, to create a short film. "Steel City" is his first feature film.

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PARK CITY '06: Linda Hawkins Costigan & Linda Goldstein Knowlton: "...A documentary can be both beautifully stylized and still tell an important story."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions.

Linda Hawkins Costigan and Linda Goldstein Knowlton directed "The World According to Sesame Street," screening in the Independent Film Competition: Documentary section. According to Sundance, the film takes a look at the efforts of three Sesame Street producers to "localize" the children's program for broadcast in Bangladesh, Kosovo and South Africa. Hawkins Costigan has directed and produced for TV and cable. Goldstein Knowlton was an executive producer on "Whale Rider," which won the Sundance World Cinema audience award in 2003.

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PARK CITY '06: Sabina Guzzanti: "...The restriction of freedom of expression is a problem that concerns all Western countries..."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions.

Sabina Guzzanti directed "Viva Zapatero!," screening in the World Cinema Competition: Documentary section. According to Sundance, Guzzanti's documentary is "a savvy critique of the current era of vast media corporations and the political forces that attempt to manipulate them." The film was inspired in part by the cancellation of Guzzanti's television show "RAIot," which satirized the Italian government. In addition to directing, Guzzanti has acted, produced and edited films.

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PARK CITY '06: Patrick Creadon: "Final Score: Happy Results = 1, Red Tape = 0."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions. Will Shortz, New York Times puzzlemaster and connoisseur of word-based brain-teasers, is the subject of Patrick Creadon's fascinating documentary "Wordplay." Creadon investigates what it takes to create a crossword puzzle for the Times, while also highlighting a number of contestants at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. Sundance describes the film as "an engrossing, yet lighthearted portrait of an American institution...and its masterful execution produces the same satisfaction as completing a particularly ingenuous and challenging puzzle." "Wordplay" is part of the Independent Film Competition: Documentary category.
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PARK CITY '06: Bobcat Goldthwait: "I'm really more interested in the excitement and the creativity of making a movie...than...the possibility of success."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions. Bobcat Goldthwait directed "Stay," which is screening in the Independent Film: Dramatic Competition section. "Stay" follows Amy, a young woman whose sexual history comes back to haunt her, as her fiance insists that they both be completely honest about everything. "Stay," says Sundance, is "a wonderfully perverse tale that adeptly explores honesty, family, forgiveness, and courage. In building on its premise by frankly probing our relationships and idealization of the virtue of absolute honesty, "Stay" becomes as perceptive a romantic comedy as you will see this year.
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PARK CITY '06: Brian Hill: "Although the prison authorities were very supportive...filming schedules and prison regimes are not necessarily compatible."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions.

Brian Hill directed "Songbirds," screening in the World Cinema Competition: Documentary section. In "Songbirds," the female inmates at Downview Prison in Surrey, England, sing about their experiences. "Through the vulnerability of singing we are able to glean another image, another portrait of who these women are beyond their prison sentences," Sundance states. Hill founded and is managing director of Century Films production company. He has won a number of awards, including the British Academy of Film and Television Arts award, for his documentaries and television dramas.

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PARK CITY '06: Alan Berliner: "I wanted to understand the source and seed of some of my deepest conflicts and contradictions..."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions. Alan Berliner directed "Wide Awake," which is screening in the Independent Film Competition: Documentary section. "Wide Awake" documents Alan Berliner himself, who "has composed a deliriously intimate portrait of himself, his obsessiveness and manias, and his inability to sleep...", writes Sundance. ""Wide Awake" gives its viewers a chance to delve into an unsettled mind, while generating a better understanding of insomnia.".]
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PARK CITY '06: Mark Dornford-May: "I got into film very late - last year!"

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions. Mark Dornford-May directed "Son of Man," which is screening in the World Cinema Competition: Dramatic section. "Son of Man" is the story of Jesus retold as an African fable. Sundance describes the film as "contagious, a life-enriching elixir for Christians and non-Christians alike who feel mired in the unyielding bigotry of fundamentalism. By modernizing one of the world's most famous stories, Son of Man creates lasting resonance and imparts a significance that is truly glorious."
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PARK CITY '06: Heidi Specogna: "With no fixed story in mind, being open and most important: having time...to develop what can become a documentary."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions.

Heidi Specogna directed "The Short Life of Jose Antonio Gutierrez," screening in the World Cinema Competition: Documentary section. Gutierrez was one of the first U.S. soldiers to be killed in the Iraq War. He grew up an orphan on the streets of Guatemala City and illegally crossed into the U.S. when he was 22. Specogna's previous work includes documentaries that focus on socialism in Latin America and a former guerilla group in Uruguay.

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PARK CITY '06: Hilary Brougher: "I flirted with being a painter but realized I needed a medium involving lots of other people..."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions.

Hilary Brougher directed "Stephanie Daley," screening in the Independent Film Competition: Dramatic section. "Stephanie Daley" is about a young woman who denies killing her baby and the psychologist hired by the prosecution to find out what happened. Brougher developed the script at Sundance's Screenwriters and Directors Labs. In 2005, Sundance awarded her an Annenberg Fellowship for this film.

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PARK CITY '06: Michael Cain: "The sheer volume of material, over 3200 hours of footage, often ran people away."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions. Michael Cain co-directed "TV Junkie," which is screening in the Independent Film Competition: Documentary section. The film follows Rick Kirkham, who received his first video camera at age 14 and, from that point, he began documenting every facet of his life. "A self-imposed The Truman Show with a dark twist," according to Sundance, "TV Junkie transcends one man's tragic story and becomes a harrowing reflection on a generation obsessed with celebrity and technology."
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PARK CITY '06: Max Makowski: "A true indie is made by filmmakers armed with nothing more than a script, a camera, passion, and a lot of peanut butter sandwiches."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions. Max Makowski directed "One Last Dance," screening in the World Cinema Competition: Dramatic section. In the film, a mysterious hitman known as "T," who wants to retire from the criminal world, is summoned to take care of a man who has betrayed the gangster code. Sundance describes the film as "a cinematic riddle that's as fun to figure out as to watch." Makowski's "The Pigeon Egg Strategy" previously screened at the Sundance Film Festival.
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PARK CITY '06: Tin Dirdamal: "I became a filmmaker by accident."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions. First-time filmmaker Tin Dirdamal directed "DeNADIE," which is screening in the World Cinema Competition: Documentary section. The film follows Mexican immigrants as they search for liberties that are denied in their own countries, and yet it doesn't have a political agenda. As described by Sundance, Dirdamal is more concerned with personal stories that "force deeper understanding of the United States' border crisis" while also exposing the "hypocrises [and]...uncomfortable intolerance" of Mexican culture by making sure the voices of those affected are heard loud and clear.
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PARK CITY '06: Laurie Collyer: "When I used a camera to document what I experienced on the job, I realized that this was what I needed to do for the rest of my life."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions. Director Laurie Collyer brings to Sundance "an intensely compelling experience" in her newest film "Sherrybaby," about a mother recently released from prison who must fight for custody of her five-year-old daughter, while also confronting unresolved pains from childhood. Part of the Dramatic Independent Film Competition, the film is "an emotionally powerful dramatic debut" from Collyer, whose "sharply observed characters are brought to life by all-around strong performances" (as described by Sundance).
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PARK CITY '06: Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg: "It's...a gift to find a subject that truly inspires you to achieve something lasting."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions.

Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg directed "The Trials of Darryl Hunt," screening in the Independent Film Competition: Documentary section. According to Sundance, their documentary examines the "impact of crime, race and law on a community divided along racial lines" in the case of Darryl Hunt, who was wrongly convicted in a 1984 North Carolina rape and murder. Stern and Sundberg also collaborated on the 1998 documentary "In My Corner," about a community boxing club in New York City.

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PARK CITY '06: Yuan Zhang: "I realized that, no matter how young children might be...they have a complete soul, a full set of emotions."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions.

Chinese filmmaker Yuan Zhang directed "Little Red Flowers," screening in the World Cinema Competition: Dramatic section. In the film, a four-year-old boy struggles with institutional order when he enters school for the first time. Sundance described the film as a "poignant reflection on comformity." Zhang has received awards at numerous international film festivals for his previous work, including "Seventeen Years," "East Palace West Palace" and "Beijing Bastards."

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PARK CITY '06: Wash Westmoreland & Richard Glatzer: "We didn't want this film to feel like it was made by two white boys peering in."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions.

Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer wrote and directed "Quinceanera," screening in the Independent Film Competition: Dramatic section. In the movie, a girl eagerly anticipating her 15th birthday celebration discovers she is pregnant and is subsequently kicked out of her house. She is taken in by an uncle and a cousin who was rejected by his own family for being gay. Westmoreland previously directed the documentary "Gay Republicans," about the dilemma faced by gay Republicans considering President Bush's opposition to gay marriage. Glatzer's film "Grief" appeared at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival.

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PARK CITY '06: Rex Bloomstein: "There is talk of 'Holocaust fatigue,' as if such a subject can ever be exhausted."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions.

British filmmaker Rex Bloomstein directed "KZ," screening in the World Cinema Competition: Documentary section. Bloomstein goes beyond recounting the crimes that occurred at the Mauthausen concentration camp, instead choosing to focus on the reactions of visitors to the camp today. Bloomstein has explored the themes of prison life, the Holocast and human rights abuses in his previous documentaries.

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Eugene Jarecki Proves Ike Was Right In "Why We Fight"

On the evening of January 19, 1961, Dwight D. Eisenhower spoke from the Oval Office for the last time as president. In his farewell address he warned of a "military-industrial complex" that was taking form and if not controlled could threaten democracy as we know it. At the time his remarks may have fallen on deaf ears, but forty-five years later Eisenhower's premonition has unfortunately come true. While researching his last film, "The Trials of Henry Kissinger," Eugene Jarecki stumbled upon Eisenhower's speech and thought; "this cries out for a movie." Once "Trials" was completed Jarecki quickly began work on his next film, and using Eisenhower's phrase as a guide, investigates America's obsession with war. But what Jarecki didn't know was while he was examining war the powers-that-be were planning one.
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PARK CITY '06: Auraeus Solito: "...It was almost like going back and remembering how I grew up, like being in a documentary."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions.

Filipino filmmaker Auraeus Solito directed "The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros," screening in the World Cinema Competition: Dramatic section. In the film, 12-year-old Maximo dutifully performs tasks like cooking and sewing for his family, while his father and two brothers all involved in criminal activities. He becomes conflicted when he falls for a cop. Solito's films have received awards at a number of festivals worldwide.

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PARK CITY '06: Malcolm Ingram: "And if you truly have something to say. Nothing will stop you from saying it."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an email interview, and each was sent the same questions.

Malcolm Ingram directed "small town gay bar," screening in the Independent Film Competition: Documentary section. The film focuses primarily on two bars in Mississippi. These bars, according to Sundance, offer "sanctuary" even as they "struggle to stand their ground in hostile terrain." Ingram previously directed the films "Tail Lights Fade" and "Drawing Flies."

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Making Sense of The Wild, Rambunctious Double Take...Michael Winterbottom on His "Cock and Bull Story"

Known for his audacious treatment of tough and timely topics that skilfully blends documentary and narrative techniques in a variety of genres, ["Wonderland", "In This World", "Code 46", "Nine Songs"] Michael Winterbottom's latest "Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story" is a wild, rambunctious double take on Laurence Sterne's "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman". Written by Martin Hardy, this is probably one of the funniest and liveliest adaptations of a historical novel ever made and the themes and form of the film [birth, the interweaving of life and art, storytelling digressions] mesh well with the literary original.
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PARK CITY '06: So Yong Kim: "Tell your story now and work within the limitations of what you have."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an email interview and each was sent the same questions.

So Yong Kim directed "In Between Days," screening in the Independent Film Competition: Dramatic section. The film is about a Korean teenager who recently immigrated to the U.S. and the feelings she develops for her best friend here. Kim earned an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. She is making her directorial debut with this film.

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PARK CITY '06: Juan Carlos Rulfo: "I believe documentary filmmaking is the best thing"

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an email interview and each was sent the same questions.

Mexican filmmaker Juan Carlos Rulfo directed "In The Pit," screening in the World Cinema Competition: Documentary section. His film, according to Sundance, chronicles the daily lives of the workers building a second deck to Mexico City's Periferico freeway with their hopes, dreams and struggles for survival highlighted against the backdrop of a Mexican legend that says whenever a bridge is built, the devil asks for one soul. Rulfo won awards at the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Havana Film Festival as well as two Ariels (Mexico's Oscar equivalent) for best editing and best first work for "Del olvido al no me acuerdo."

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PARK CITY '06: Patricia Foulkrod: "I learned to direct from having my heart broken and reshaped a few times..."

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an email interview and each was sent the same questions.

Patricia Foulkrod directed "The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends," screening in the Independent Film Competition: Documentary section at the '06 Sundance Film Festival. The film explores the costs of training soldiers to kill and how soldiers readjust to their lives back home when they return from the Iraq War. Foulkrod has produced a number of other documentaries and independent feature films.

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PARK CITY '06: Jocelyne Saab: "I was sipping my coffee and staring at the Nile. I was asking myself, 'why is everything so hard?'"

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an email interview and each was sent the same questions.

Jocelyne Saab directed "Kiss Me Not on the Eyes," screening in the World Cinema Competition: Dramatic section at the '06 Sundance Film Festival.
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