edendale.typepad.com - 1/22/2009
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As Sundance stumbles, punch-drunk, into its second half, the unsaid reality echoing around the festival was the lack of any fevered deal-making or rumors of bidding wars surrounding the documentary titles. Last year, ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED had already...
firstshowing.net - 1/25/2009
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firstshowing.net —
The official awards for the 2009 Sundance Film
Festival have been announced tonight. The big winners are...
We Live in Public for the Documentary Grand Jury Prize and XX for the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize. Additionally, The Cove won the Documentary ...
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Sundance Film Festival 2009 Awards Announced
cinematical.com - 1/21/2009
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cinematical.com —
The beige square on the Sundance schedule for
today -- "Sneak Preview," 6:15 at the Eccles --...
was, over the past few days, filled in with a thousand brushstrokes of rumor and intimation and heard-it-from-a-friend-who-heard-it-from-a-friend ...
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Sundance Review: The Girlfriend Experience
documentary.org - 1/23/2009
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documentary.org —
The Sundance Film Festival celebrates its 25th edition
this year, and in that quarter-century, Sundance-both the festival...
and its parent Institute-have been instrumental in helping to move the documentary form forward, giving it prominent stature with ...
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Sundance Turns Silver: Gilmore and Mertes Reflect on a ...
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Sundance News 01/22/09: Quality Films Yet Few Sales
SpoutBlog —
... buyers. The L.A. Times has a look at how this year was a buyer’s market, particularly noticeable in the low purchase prices and alternative distribution models. And many of the titles picked up, including The Winning Season, Adam and Black Dynamite, were apparently bought for their “broad” audience appeal over their quality.
AJ Schnack at All these wonderful things writes on the terrible lack of documentary acquisitions so far this festival.
Marc ...
Sundance in 60 Seconds: Thursday, January 22, 2009
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Sundancers enjoyed unseasonably warm weather (41 degrees in the afternoon) as the festival headed toward its concluding weekend.
Deals. After picking up the Nazi zombie flick Dead Snow, IFC Films added another comedy to its roster, acquiring Armando Iannucci's In the Loop just hours before its premiere, according to Mike Jones at Variety. The film stars Tom Hollander, Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini, and Steve Coogan. A 2009 theatrical release is planned, per indieWIRE ...
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blog.spout.com 9/3/2009 — The Sundance Film Festival has announced that in 2010 they’ll launch a new programming sidebar called NEXT, designed to reflect the fact that “a new aesthetic enlisting low-and no-budget filmmaking techniques has been on the rise.” ...
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blog.digitalcontentproducer.com 1/19/2009 — The jury and audience award-winners of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival were announced at the Festivalâs closing Awards Ceremony hosted by actor Jane Lynch in Park City, Utah. Films receiving jury awards were selected from the four categories: U.S. ...
Exclusive: The Makers of Sugar
comingsoon.net 3/30/2009 — Over three years after wowing the Sundance Film Festival with their debut Half Nelson , filmmakers Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck are back with their sophomore effort, Sugar , a very different film that takes place in the world of Dominican baseball ...
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hollywood-elsewhere.com 2/4/2009 — A big-city film critic friend told me tonight why he doesn't do South by Southwest anymore: 1. "No press screenings, or none that I recall from when I was there from 2003-07, or maybe just a handful. They think it's more 'democratic' to have the press ...
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weblogs.variety.com 2/19/2009 — Truth is, Geoff Gilmore has been looking to move on from running the Sundance Film Festival for some time. Gilmore has been toiling for 19 years in a powerful, influential job--in a non-profit sector. He was at one time attracted to the Warner ...
Sundance 09: SXSW & IFC
agnesvarnum.com 2/7/2009 — Yesterday, Ingrid Kopp asked me over Twitter what I thought of the IFC/SXSW announcement of launching SX films on IFC’s VOD platform during the fest. My initial reaction was, no biggie, cool for all involved. After a couple more questions, I ...
Sundance: Digital Moguls Hawk MySpace and IMDb
weblogs.variety.com 1/21/2009 — While the Sundance media reports on the beleaguered independent theatrical market, which may never return to its former robust self--even with diminished production over the next few years--various Internet moguls are in Sundance networking and ...
How Sundance Almost Rejected MAN ON WIRE
edendale.typepad.com 1/23/2009 — James Marsh's MAN ON WIRE, the film that has swept the year-end critics prizes, tied for the win at the IDA Awards and is the odds-on favorite to win the Oscar, was apparently the subject of some serious debate during...
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