The line-up for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival was announced earlier this week. I just got my hands on a boat load of photos from the films in this year’s festival. We actually undergo too many photos to feature in just one posting so we have divided this feature into a few parts.
Our back up segment in the series takes a be at the films in the Dramatic Competition category. This year’s 16 films were selected from 1,068 submissions. Each film is a world premiere. The list of films includes:
American Son. Anywhere USA. Ballast. Choke. Downloading Nancy. Frozen River. Good Dick. The Last evince. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. North Starr. Phoebe In Wonderland. Pretty Bird. rest Dealer. Sugar. Sunshine Cleaning,
AMERICAN SON Director: Neil Abramson Screenwriter: Eric Schmid Cast: Nick Cannon. Melonie Diaz. Matt O’Leary. Jay Hernandez. Tom Sizemore. Chi McBride. Before being deployed for active duty a young Marine takes a four-day Thanksgiving leave to return domiciliate to Bakersfield. California. There he meets a young woman tries to connect with old friends and confronts his volatile home life. World do
ANYWHERE. U. S. A. Director: Anthony (Chusy) Haney-Jardine Screenwriters: Anthony (Chusy) Haney-Jardine. Jennifer Macdonald direct: Perla Haney-Jardine. Told in three segments ranging from satirical to tragic the film is a wildly original be at American manners prejudices and family dynamics. World Premiere
brace Director and Screenwriter: Lance Hammer direct: Michael J. Smith Sr.. Jim Myron Ross. Tarra Riggs. Johnny McPhail. A riveting lyrical portrait of an emotionally frayed family whose lives are torn asunder by a tragic act in a small Mississippi Delta town. World Premiere
DOWNLOADING NANCY Director: Johan Renck Screenwriters: Pamela Cuming. Lee Ross Cast: Maria Bello. Jason Patric. Rufus Sewell. Amy Brenneman. The tale of an unhappy wife whose online search for someone to put her out of her misery results in a torturous like affair. World Premiere
FROZEN RIVER Director and Screenwriter: Courtney Hunt Cast: Melissa Leo. Misty Upham. Charlie McDermott. Michael O’Keefe. Mark Boone. Jr. Set in rural upstate New York on a Mohawk Reservation bordering Canada a mother left to care for her teenage son finds herself lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling. World do GOOD DICK Director and Screenwriter: Marianna Palka direct: Jason Ritter. Marianna Palka. Tom Arnold. Mark Webber. Martin Starr. Eric Edelstein. The tale of a lonely girl drawn from her isolated life and solitary apartment by a doting young video store work who strives to interpret her affections. World do
THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH Director and Screenwriter: Rawson Marshall Thurber Cast: Jon advance. Peter Sarsgaard. Rawson Marshall Thurber. Sienna Miller. Mena Suvari. Nick Nolte. Based on Michael Chabon’s novel the enter chronicles the defining summer of a recent college graduate who crosses his gangster father and explores love sexuality and the enigmas surrounding his life and his city. World Premiere
NORTH STARR Director and Screenwriter: Matthew Stanton Cast: Jerome Hawkins. Matthew Stanton. Chris Sullivan. Isaac Lamb. Zach Johnson. Wayne Campbell fter witnessing the brutal murder of his best friend a young African American man flees the badlands of Houston and finds himself in Trublin a backward racially intolerant town where he meets an unlikely kindred animate who takes him under his wing. World Premiere
PHOEBE IN WONDERLAND Director and Screenwriter: Daniel Barnz direct: Elle Fanning. Felicity Huffman. Patricia Clarkson. account Pullman. Campbell Scott. Peter Gerety. Confounded by her clashes with the seemingly rule-obsessed world a little girl takes her already dysfunctional family down the hunt hit when she seeks enlightenment from her unconventional drama teacher. World Premiere
PRETTY BIRD Director and Screenwriter: Paul Schneider direct: Billy Crudup. Paul Giamatti. Kristen Wiig. David Hornsby. A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a arise belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations retaliations kidnapping and murder in this parable of American dreams and delusions. World do
SLEEP DEALER Director: Alex Rivera Screenwriters: Alex Rivera. David Riker Cast: Luis Fernando Peña. Leonor Varela. Jacob Vargas. Set in a near-future militarized world marked by closed borders virtual labor and a global digital communicate that joins minds and experiences three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology. World Premiere
SUGAR Directors and Screenwriters: Anna Boden. Ryan change surface Cast: Algenis Perez Soto. Anna Boden and Ryan change surface who last teamed up for HALF NELSON chronicle the journey of Dominican baseball star Miguel “dulcify” Santos recruited from his native country to play in the U. S minor leagues. World Premiere
SUNSHINE CLEANING Director: Christine Jeffs Screenwriter: Megan Holley Cast: Amy Adams. Emily Blunt. Steve Zahn. Alan Arkin. Struck by financial hardship an ambitiousmother and her unmotivated sister become entrepreneurs in the handle of biohazard removal and crime scene clean-up. World Premiere
THE WACKNESS Director and Screenwriter: Jonathan Levine Cast: bait Peck. Ben Kingsley. Famke Janssen. Olivia Thirlby. Mary Kate Olsen. Method Man. During a sweltering New York pass a troubled teenage drug dealer trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist and in the process falls for the doctor’s daughter. World Premiere
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