Opening Night: An Artist at the Table
Robert Redford and Sundance Institute cordially invite you to mark Opening Night of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival with An Artist at the Table, a special evening to celebrate the importance of independent artists and their stories. Please join us on the cusp of this exciting journey as artists gather in Park City, Utah, to share their original work with the world.
Opening Night: An Artist at the Table includes:
- Cocktail reception with filmmakers prior to film screening
- Reserved seating at the first screening of the Opening Night Film at Eccles Theatre
- Dinner and conversation with Sundance Institute artists
- Live entertainment by special guests
- Transportation to and from Eccles Theatre from event location
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Time: 4:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.
Event Location: Park City, UT
Cost: $1,250 per person ($991 tax deductible)
Tickets to An Artist at the Table event are sold out. Please email celebrate@sundance or call (310)492-2328 if you would like to add your name to the waitlist. Thank you for supporting Sundance Institute.
Cocktails With Filmmakers
Join us to toast the opening of the 2010 Festival with Sundance Film Festival Director John Cooper, and 2010 filmmakers including: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Freidman (Howl), Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington (Restrepo), Spike Jonze (Seeds of the Fall), Rory Kennedy (Logorama), and more.
The Sundance Institute artists participating in An Artist at the Table are listed below. Click here for more information about these artists.
- Mark Duplass
- Jay Duplass
- Ginger Shankar
- iZLER
- Kim Carroll
- Lili Haydn
- Will Calhoun
- Rodrigo Garcia
- Shirin Neshat
- Lynn Shelton
- Liz Garbus
- Joseph Gordon Levitt
- Morgan Spurlock
- Ondi Timoner
- Charlayne Woodward
- Sterlin Harjo
- Katie Aselton
Live Entertainment Announced
Award-winning musicians from Sundance Institute's Composers Lab will perform live, making this evening an unforgettable kick-off for the 2010 Festival:
- George Clinton calls Lili Haydn "the Jimi Hendrix of the violin." Rolling Stone called her music “fiery and virtuosic...” A solo artist who has performed songs on The Tonight Show and Californication, Lili has been featured in the film Pirates of the Caribbean, among many others.
- Violinist Gingger Shankar is the creative force behind some of today's most daring music. She is the only female to master the ten string violin (featured in Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ) and her music is also heard in Mike Nichol's Charlie Wilson's War.
- Guitarist Kim Carroll has scored films, including The Colony, The Horse Boy, and Survival of the Wildebeest. His guitar music is featured in Gone Baby Gone, The Chronicles of Narnia, and others.
- Guitarist iZLER cut his teeth performing in various bands around London, scoring film school movies, and working as a session guitarist. He has since composed scores and songs for films and T.V. shows including Humboldt County, Whatever It Takes, This Revolution, My Best Friend’s Girl, ER, and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
- Drummer Will Calhoun has received two Grammy Awards and has worked with artists, including Living Colour, B.B. King, Mick Jagger, Jaco Pastorious, Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon, and Lou Reed. His latest creation is Native Lands.
"By the time we reach January 21, we will have been preparing for and anticipating the moment for months. Opening Night of the Sundance Film Festival is the official kick-off to a new year of independent film. Gathering a film-loving community for ten days of extraordinary storytelling is a pleasure and I look forward to sharing it with you."
John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival
About Your Contribution
The Sundance Film Festival is one of the many programs offered by the nonprofit Sundance Institute. Your ticket purchase to Opening Night: An Artist at the Table includes a contribution to Sundance Institute and directly supports independent artists on a global scale and throughout the year.
Working to advance the impact of artists and their work in society, the Institute discovers, develops, and inspires independent film and theatre artists from the United States and around the world, and introduces new audiences to their work. Through all of its activities, the Institute fosters originality, authenticity, and innovation in storytelling.
Beyond the Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Institute's range of programs includes the Feature Film Program, Documentary Film Program, Film Music Program, Theatre Program, Native American and Indigenous Program, and the Sundance Collection at UCLA, in addition to a monthly film series in Utah and a variety of opportunities for high school and university students.
An Artist at the Table is a year-round series of events designed to bring artists together with Institute supporters in a range of settings across the country. For more information, please contact Hathaway Jakobsen at (310) 492-2321 or hathaway_jakobsen@sundance.org.
A special thank you to our Opening Night: An Artist at the Table providers Barclay Butera, Talisker, and The Canyons.
