The Sundance Institute announced Thursday that 11 independent films supported by its Artist Services Program are now available on Hulu, Netflix and SnagFilms (Indiewire’s parent company).
The Artist Services Program gives Sundance alumni exclusive opportunities to self-distribute, market and find finance solutions to their work. “Brother to Brother,” “Children Underground,” “Enemies of the People” and “Dirty Work” are now available for immediate streaming, and Artist Services films can also be found on iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Microsoft Xbox, Sony Entertainment Network, SundanceNOW, VUDU and YouTube. To see bonus video content for select titles, visit this link.
Official information about the films, their availability and their newly added platforms (in bold) follows:
Blessing (Director and screenwriter: Paul Zeher) — Randi’s life on her family’s farm is brightened by an oversized satellite dish, rock ‘n’ rail and her passion to go to the ocean. Standing in the way are her jealous mother, her overworked father and her quirky and lovable 10-year-old brother. Randi is caught between her own desires and her family’s expectations. iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu, Microsoft Xbox, Netflix, SnagFilms, SundanceNOW, Sony Entertainment Network, VUDU, YouTube. (1994 Sundance Film Festival)
Brother to Brother (Director and screenwriter: Rodney Evans) — A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter. Starring Anthony Mackie. iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu, Microsoft Xbox, Netflix, SnagFilms, SundanceNOW, Sony Entertainment Network, VUDU, YouTube. (2004 Sundance Film Festival)
Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade (Director: Lincoln Ruchti) — In 1982, Ottumwa, Iowa’s Twin Galaxies arcade served as the shining beacon of pixilated pop culture, attracting the best of the best in the highly competitive world of arcade video gaming. iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Microsoft Xbox, Netflix, SnagFilms, SundanceNOW, Sony Entertainment Network, VUDU, YouTube. (2007 Sundance Film Festival)
Children Underground (Director: Edet Belzberg) — Venture below the streets of Bucharest, Romania, to meet a “family” of orphaned, abandoned or runaway children living in a subway station. iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu, Microsoft Xbox, Netflix, SnagFilms, Sony Entertainment Network, SundanceNOW, VUDU, YouTube. (1997 Sundance Documentary Film Grant, 2001 Sundance Film Festival)
Clear Cut: the Story of Philomath, Oregon (Director: Peter Richardson) — Conservative logging barons and liberal urban immigrants collide over how college scholarships are distributed in this skillful documentary. iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu, Microsoft Xbox, Netflix, SnagFilms, SundanceNOW, Sony Entertainment Network, VUDU, YouTube. (2006 Sundance Film Festival)
Climate Refugees (Director: Michael Nash) — An over-consuming, crowded world, with depleting resources and a changing climate, is giving birth to 25 million climate refugees resulting in a mass global migration and border conflicts. iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu, Microsoft Xbox, Netflix, SnagFilms, SundanceNOW, Sony Entertainment Network, VUDU, YouTube. (2010 Sundance Film Festival)
Dirty Work (Directors: David Sampliner and Tim Nackashi) — Dirty Work introduces us to three professionals with the dirtiest jobs you’d never want to do: a “reproductive physiologist” who collects bull semen for agricultural uses, a lifelong septic-tank pumper, and a “restorative artist” who prepares corpses for funerals. iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu, Microsoft Xbox, Netflix, SnagFilms, SundanceNOW, Sony Entertainment Network, VUDU, YouTube. (2004 Sundance Film Festival)
The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan (Director: Henry Corra) — U.S. Army Private McKinley Nolan vanished 40 years ago in Vietnam. Theories about what happened to him abound and vary wildly. One family journeys into the heart of darkness to find the truth. iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu, Microsoft Xbox, Netflix, SnagFilms, SundanceNOW, Sony Entertainment Network, VUDU, YouTube. (2009 Sundance Documentary Film Grant)
Enemies of the People (Directors: Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath, Screenwriter: Rob Lemkin) — A young journalist whose family was killed by the Khmer Rouge befriends the perpetrators of the Killing Fields genocide, evoking shocking revelations. iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu, Microsoft Xbox, Netflix, SnagFilms, SundanceNOW, Sony Entertainment Network, VUDU, YouTube. (2009 Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Grant, 2010 Sundance Film Festival)
Miss Wonton (Director and screenwriter: Meng Ong) — An Na comes to New York from a small village in China and is quickly bedded by a slimy suburbanite in whose tract home she settles with her mother. When the man returns home with his wife, An Na must decide her fate in her adopted country. iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu, Netflix, SundanceNOW, VUDU, YouTube. (2001 Sundance Film Festival)
The Woods (Director and screenwriter: Matthew Lessner) — A satirical nod to ethnographic film fashions a critique on media technology dependence, when eight young Americans move deep into to the woods to start their own utopia. iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu, Microsoft Xbox, Netflix, SundanceNOW, Sony Entertainment Network, VUDU, YouTube. (2011 Sundance Film Festival)
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