2011 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Program

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Published on Thursday, 20 January 2011 03:02

Written by Lynne Shannon

The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. One of the don’t-miss tracks is the Short Film Program, long the start of many a filmmaker who went on to feature film, and even Academy Award™ winning, accomplishments.  

This year’s eclectic mix of 81 films from 21 countries was culled from a record number of submissions: 3,014 from outside the U.S., and 6,467 entries altogether.

Some of the domestic films include:

Narrative:

AWOL – Director/Screenwriter Deb Shoval
Crazy Beats Strong Every Time – Director/Screenwriter Moon Molson
Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight – Director/Screenwriter Eliza Hittman
The Hunter and the Swan Discuss Their Meeting – Director/Screenwriter Emily Carmichael
I’m Having a Difficult Time Killing My Parents – Director Jeff Tomsic, with co-Screenwriter T.J. Miller
Pandemic 41.410806, -75.654259 – Director Lance Weiler, with co-Screenwriter Chuck Wendig
sexting – Director/Screenwriter Neil LaBute

Documentary:

Animals Distract Me – Director / Screenwriter Isabella Rossellini
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement – Co-Directors  Gail Dolgin and Robin Fryday
Living For 32 – Director Kevin Breslin

Animation:

Bike Race – Director Tom Schroeder with co-Screenwriter Hilde De Roover
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On – Director Dean Fleischer-Camp with co-Screenwriter Jenny Slate
Something Left, Something Taken – Directors / Screenwriters: Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter
Xemoland – Director / Screenwriter Daniel Cardenas

The international shorts hail from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the UK.  Some entries are:

Narrative:

Blokes (Chile) – Director Marialy Rivas
Cinderela (Brazil, France) – Director / Screenwriter Magali Magistry
Diarchy (Italy) – Director / Screenwriter Ferdinando Cito Filmomarino
shikasha (Japan) – Director / Screenwriter Isamu Hirabayashi
Small Change (Ireland) – Director / Screenwriter Cathy Brady
Stardust (Belgium) – Director / Screenwriter Nicolas Provost

Documentary:

Incident by a Bank (Sweden) – Director / Screenwriter Ruben Östlund
Negativipeg (Canada) – Director / Screenwriter Matthew Rankin
Out of Reach (Poland) – Director / Screenwriter Jakub Stozek

Animation:

1989 (When I was five years old) (Denmark) – Director / Screenwriter Thor Ochsner
8 BITS (France) – Directors Valere Amirault, Sarah Laufer, Jean Delaunay, and Benjamin Mattern
The External World (Germany) – Director / Screenwriter David O'Reilly
The Greatness (China) – Director / Screenwriter Yi Zhou
Tord and Tord (Sweden) – Director / Screenwriter Niki Lindroth von Bahr

New Frontier Shorts is “An electrifying celebration of innovation in filmmaking.” This year’s selections include:

Anne Truitt, Working (USA) – Director Jem Cohen
On the Way to the Sea (Canada, China) – Director / Screenwriter Tao Gu
Tornado (Mexico) – Director Francis Alys de Smedt
Yelp (With Apologies to Allen Ginsberg’s Howl) – Director Tiffany Shlain, with co-Screenwriter Ken Goldberg

Another “first” for this year’s Short Film Program is the new Indigenous Shorts Showcase.  Says Trevor Groth, Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming. “...we are pleased to be able to shine a light on indigenous filmmakers working around the world in the short-form medium, and to provide festival goers with a window into native storytelling.” These films include:

The Cave (Canada) – Director / Screenwriter Helen Haig-Brown (Tsilhqot’in)
Choke (Canada) – Director / Screenwriter Michelle Latimer (Métis)
Ebony Society (Aotearoa-New Zealand) – Director / Screenwriter Tammy Davis (Nga-ti Rangi & Atihaunui a Paparangi)
The Rocket Boy (USA) – Director / Screenwriter Donavan Seschillie (Navajo Nation)
Stones (USA) – Director / Screenwriter Ty Sanga (Native Hawaiian)

For further information, visit www.sundance.org.

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