Online Film Guide
Lunchfilms
Film before food. Truly independent films are made from the gut. Just feed filmmakers, and they are inspired to work. The Lunchfilms concept is basic: a filmmaker is taken out to lunch; in trade, he or she makes a short film for the cost of the lunch. Rules and inspirations are written out on a napkin contract. At times poetically real and other times languidly artistic, the resulting Lunchfilms offer a variety of stunning tastes. Filmmakers featured in this edition include Anonymous, Tom Barndt, Martha Colburn, Sean Conway, David Fenster and David Nordstrom, Jim Finn, Mike Gibisser, Bobcat Goldthwait, Brent Green, Sam Green, Braden King, George Kuchar, Lee Lynch and Naomi Uman, Jake Mahaffy, Nicholas McCarthy, Sarah Soquel Morhaim, Nicolas Provost, Speedway Randy, Ricardo Rivera, Ben Russell, Kelly Sears, Jennifer Shainin, and Randy Walker.
Report from the Congo
Reporter covers the current humanitarian crisis in the Congo by following two-time Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. Join in a conversation on the current conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Saturday, January 17, 11:00 a.m.
Cinema Café with Fellows Cruz Angeles, Sophie Barthes, Cary Fukunaga, and Eran Merav
Cruz Angeles (Don't Let Me Drown), Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls), Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre) and Eran Merav (Zion and His Brother) discuss their experiences at the Sundance Institute Labs. Friday, January 23, 10:30 a.m.
Cinema Café with Native Filmmakers Sterlin Harjo, Chad Burris, Stanley Nelson, and Julianna Brannum
Sterlin Harjo and Chad Burris (Barking Water) join Stanley Nelson and Julianna Brannum (Wounded Knee) in conversation with Sundance Institute’s Bird Runningwater. Thursday, January 22, 10:30 a.m.
Cinema Café with Directors Natalia Almada, NC Heikin, and Eric Daniel Metzgar
Filmmakers Natalia Almada (El General), N.C. Heikin (Kimjongilia) and Eric Daniel Metzgar (Reporter) exchange their experiences and take questions from the audience. Tuesday, January 20, 10:30 a.m.
Cinema Café with Nick Hornby and David Bezmozgis
Writer Nick Hornby (An Education) and writer/director David Bezmozgis (Victoria Day) talk with each other and the audience over morning coffee. Monday, January 19, 10:30 a.m.
Cinema Café with Nicholas Kristof, Samantha Power, and Orlando Bagwell
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and author Samantha Power (Chasing the Flame) in conversation with Orlando Bagwell from the Ford Foundation. Sunday, January 18, 10:30 a.m.
An Evening with Steven Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh returns to Sundance for a special evening to talk about the film that launched his career and proved a seminal moment in the life of the Sundance Film Festival. Don't miss this special chance to meet the Academy Award-winning director, hear first-hand tales of his unique career ranging from sex, lies, and videotape to Traffic, from The Limey to Che, and find out what's next.
ACTIVISION PRESENTATION
THE CONVERGENCE OF GAMING AND CINEMA
As video game technology and graphics evolve to create film-like visual experiences, so too does the art of storytelling. Players and their friends become emotionally immersed in the lives of soldiers on the battlefield in Call of Duty, or live out rock star fantasies in Guitar Hero. As the capabilities to develop stories and characters grow, top talent such as directors, composers, actors and producers are embracing video games as a fresh, exciting creative outlet.
BAVC PRESENTATION
THE NEW DOCUMENTARY MOVEMENT: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND PARTICIPATORY CULTURE
The paradigm is shifting for documentary producers working in the new media landscape. How do today’s documentarians deal with urgent demands for creative transparency, transmedia collaboration, civic engagement, platform independence, and a complete re-envisioning of the audience? This special presentation invites you to meet filmmakers and industry experts who are pushing the limits of technology-inspired tools for global collaboration, alternative storytelling and social change.
Music Showcase: BMI Snowball Produced by BMI
Open to all Festival credential holders. BMI invites you to an intimate evening of inspired performances. Please join us for a great night of music, mingling, and spirits. Cocktails and appetizers will be served…so please arrive early and stay to enjoy performances by special guests.
Roundtable Discussion: Music and Film, the Creative Process Produced by BMI
Open to all Festival credential holders and the general public as space permits. What goes into creating a successful film score? What makes for an effective director/composer relationship? There are answers to these questions and more in the inspired roundtable discussion. Panelists to be announced in January.
A Celebration of Music in Film
Open to all Festival credential holders. Come join us for a special evening to celebrate music from composers and performers highlighted in this year’s films. Programming will be announced in January.
Sponsor Presentation / Panavision: How to Talk to the big Guys When You’re a Little Guy
Join qualified representatives from Panavision, Kodak, Laser Pacific, FotoKem, efilm, Mole-Richardson, Deluxe, and others to fine out how small independent films and student productions can obtain products and services from leaders in the filed without having large budgets. Topics include low-cost camera rentals, film processing, electronic workflow, and postproduction services such as digital intermediates and film-outs.
Sponsor Presentation / Sony: How to do More for Less
The maturing digital revolution allows filmmakers to reach new boundaries of filmmaking, while creating new obstacles along the way. Sony’s XDCAM EX series high-def cameras introduce new capabilities that contribute to the inevitable democratization of filmmaking – including new shooting styles, lighting techniques, workflow considerations, and dynamic latitude toward executing a creative vision. Come see how the XDCAM EX streamlined efficiency contributed to the hit Webisode series Blank Slate, and adapts to the visual effects-laden movies and televisions shows of today.
Sponsor Presentation / Avid: Meet the Sundance Filmmakers: How They Found that “Lean Forward” Moment
Longtime film editor, USC professor, and author Norm Hollyn moderates a panel with 2009 Festival filmmakers on a topic loosely based on his forthcoming book, The Lean Forward Movement: Create Compelling Stories for Film, TV, and the Web. Hear directly from directors, producers, and editors about how they turn their “lean forward” moments into compelling stories.
Sponsor Presentation / Avid: File-Based Formats: What Every Filmmaker Should Know
This session will explore file-based workflows for independent filmmakers from acquisition to distribution, and demystify the variety of tapeless formats available today. Hear from industry experts about the benefits for digital cinema and how to optimize your workflow (shooting, ingest, edit, finish) to get your film ready for distribution. Learn how cost-effective digital-cinema technology can best work for you.
Created Worlds
Technology allows us to escape into dreamlike worlds – where storytellers and designers redefine reality. Once known as “virtual reality,” today’s technological environment features immersive designers who combine film, television, animation, architecture, and gaming to create new storytelling environments. This panel assembles artists and scientists who are setting the agenda for the future of narrative design.
What’s Next? The Digital Distribution Imperative
As traditional film distribution wanes, is broadband ready to pick up the slack? We are finally seeing the major Hollywood players put their cards on the table, and filmmakers are weighing their options. Will broadband revitalize the entertainment industry, or is the industry facing a collapse? This panel assembles studio execs, major independents, and trend spotters to discuss digital distribution.
Sneak Peek: $5 Cover
A special preview screening of selections from $5 Cover, a multiplatform series by Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow, Black Snake Moan). Emerging musicians from Memphis, Tennessee, play themselves as they fight for love, inspiration, and money to pay the rent.
What’s Next? Web Content – Where are the Big Ideas for Small Screens?
What kind of content works best on broadband platforms? Web serials, television reruns, UGM, reality programming – why does so much of today’s content seem…juvenile? Where is the next generation of content for cinephiles, artists, and activists? Join new voices in the digital space as they unveil the possibilities for Web content 3.0.
What’s Next? Models and Experiments in Indie Distribution
In today’s brutal marketplace, filmmakers and distributors are forced to think outside the box. From DIY theatrical to multiplatform releases and viral marketing, there are as many new strategies today as there are successful films. Join us as we showcase films capitalizing on the newest opportunities, as well as the distribution companies articulating the clearest visions.
Where Do We Go From Here? Icons of the Digital Age
Remember the world before the internet, e-mail, and cell phones? Now we try and picture it 15 years from now. If we are currently in the greatest information revolution since the printing press, what can we expect next? How will media, entertainment, and our digital lifestyles change? This roundtable assembles visionaries of the digital revolution to discuss the limits of our imagination.
Creating New Media Technology in the Service of Storytelling
Today’s media artists stand in two worlds – one driven by technological innovation, the other by creative expression. At the intersection of science and art, today’s pioneering storytellers are finding startling new ways to bend technology to their will. Feature New Frontier artists, this panel celebrates leading voices of this new twenty-first century alchemy.
Now or Never
We live in history’s first generation that must address urgent global challenges or risk unalterable consequences. Join world leaders on the environment, women’s status, poverty, and other key issues to discuss the world we are making, and the one we could make.
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