Sundance 2012 – part I
On January 19 has started the Independent Film Festival Sundance, founded by actor and director Robert Redford in 1981. Festival screenings and events will be held within ten days in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance Ski resort.
International Sundance - Redford's namesake hero of the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" – has become in 1985. Then in his program included 86 films. In 2012 the festival will feature 117 feature films from 30 countries, and the program of short films will be shown 64 pictures from 18 countries, more than half of them from the United States. These were game, animation, documentaries, short films, selected from more than 7,500 applications.
For each of the competitive programs of the festival there is a separate jury and separate category. In the international program of Sundance this year, competing 14 full-length feature films from Japan, Turkey, Brazil, Czech Republic, Spain, Greece, Argentina, Britain, Denmark, India, Chile, Australia and France. They will be judged by the organizer of the New York Film Festival, Richard Peña, actress Julia Ormond and Russian director Alexei Popogrebsky.
In the U.S. competition - 16 tapes. The jury consisted of the director's late films franchise, "Fast and the Furious," Justin Lin, star of “The Adjustment Bureau" Anthony Mackie, composer Cliff Martinez, directors Lynn Shelton and Amy Vincent.
Let's look at some of the competitive pictures.
"The End of Love" Mark Webber with Amanda Sayfred and Michael Cera about a young father trying to raise his son after his wife died.
Autobiographical film "Keep The Lights On” by Ira Sachs, tells the story of love, friendship and mutual dependence between two men. The plot is very similar to Britain's "Weekend", released last year and participated in several festivals, but in the "Weekend" it was a couple of days, Ira Sachs talks about the relationship up to ten years. "Keep the lights on" is praised for the manner of shooting accurately convey the atmosphere of the late 90th and texture of New York, for the embedding of disco and cello in an eclectic soundtrack.
Another participant in the contest - based on real events "Surrogate" Ben Luini about 38-year old journalist and poet Mark O'Brien, connected to the machine forced ventilation. In this state, he decides that he wants to give up his virginity, and with the help of his doctor and after the blessing of a priest is an unusual professional surrogate partner. In "Surrogate" have starred John Hawkes, Helen Hunt and William H. Macy.