Sundance Institute Announces Short Film Program for 2014 Sundance Film Festival 30th Anniversary of the Sundance Film Festival
Posted Dec 10, 2013
-- Park City, UT Sundance Institute announced today the program of short films selected to screen at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, January 16-26 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The 2014 Short Film program is comprised of 66 short films selected from a record 8,161 submissions (59 more than for the 2013 Festival).
Trevor Groth, Director of Programming for the Sundance Film Festival, said, The Short Film program for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival features an astonishing array of new stories, viewpoints and filmmaking talent, positioning it at the core of our work to discover and share independent perspectives on our culture and world.
The Short Film program is presented by YouTube.
U.S. NARRATIVE SHORT FILMS
130919 A Portrait of Marina Abramovi / U.S.A. (Director: Matthu Placek) This one-take, 3-D film majestically documents legendary performance artist Marina Abramovic, capturing the breadth of space in infinite detail: the life of an artist, her keen sense of transition, a spaces decay, and the ripeness of rebirth.
Afronauts / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Frances Bodomo) On July 16th 1969, America prepares to launch Apollo 11. Thousands of miles away, the Zambia Space Academy hopes to beat America to the moon. Inspired by true events.
The Big House (Al Bayt Al Kabeer) / U.S.A., Yemen (Director and screenwriter: Musa Syeed) When a young Yemeni boy ventures out of his cramped apartment and finds a key to the empty mansion down the street, he lets himself and his imagination run wild in the big house.
The Bravest, the Boldest / U.S.A. (Director: Moon Molson, Screenwriters: Eric Fallen, Moon Molson) Two army casualty-notification officers arrive at the Harlem projects to deliver some news to Sayeeda Porter about her son serving in the war overseas. But whatever it is they have to say, Sayeeda aint willing to hear it.
Catherine / U.S.A. (Director: Dean Fleischer-Camp, Screenwriters: Dean Fleischer-Camp, Jenny Slate) Catherine returns to work after a hiatus.
Chapel Perilous / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Matthew Lessner) Chapel perilous is an occult term describing a psychological state where people are uncertain if they have been aided or hindered by a force outside the natural world.
Cruising Electric (1980) / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Brumby Boylston) The marketing department green-lights a red-light tie-in: 60 lost seconds of modern movie merchandising.
Dawn / U.S.A. (Director: Rose McGowan, Screenwriters: M.A. Fortin, Joshua John Miller) Dawn is a quiet young teenager who longs for something or someone to free her from her sheltered life.
Dig / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Toby Halbrooks) A young girl watches her father dig a hole in their backyard. Mystified about his purpose, the neighborhood comes to watch.
The End of Eating Everything/ U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Wangechi Mutu) The End of Eating Everything traces the journey of a flying, planetlike creature navigating a bleak skyscape. This sick soul is lost in a polluted atmosphere without grounding or roots, led by hunger toward its destruction.
Funnel / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Andre Hyland) A mans car breaks down and sends him on a quest across town that slowly turns into the most fantastically mundane adventure.
Gregory Go Boom/ U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Janicza Bravo) A paraplegic man leaves home for the first time only to discover that life in the outside world is not the way he had imagined it.
Here Come the Girls / U.S.A., Norway (Director and screenwriter: Young Jean Lee) An examination of the life of Joe Truman, an aspiring musician, father, and drug user. This unsettling paradocumentary investigates Joes private life through invasive snapshots of his environment and relationships and is a painful pleasure to watch.
Im a Mitzvah / U.S.A. (Director: Ben Berman, Screenwriters: Ben Berman, Josh Cohen) A young American man spends one last night with his deceased friend while stranded in rural Mexico.
The Immaculate Reception / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Charlotte Glynn) Its 1972 in the hardworking steel town of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Sixteen-year-old Joey has the chance to prove himself when his crush ends up at his house to watch the infamous football game between the Steelers and the Raiders.
Jonathans Chest / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Christopher Radcliff) Everything changes one night for Alex, a troubled teenager, when he is visited by a boy claiming to be his brother who disappeared years earlier.
Kekasih / U.S.A., Malaysia (Director and screenwriter: Diffan Sina Norman) While pursuing his late wife, a botanical professor encounters a divine presence that will transform him forever.
Master Muscles / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Efr n Hern ndez) Veronica and Efren go on a trip.
Me + Her / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Joseph Oxford) In a faraway world, tucked away in a small fold of land behind an enormous willow tree, exists the tiny city of Cardboard. After a tragic event, Jack Cardboard goes on a journey to mend his broken heart.
Person to Person / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Dustin Guy Defa) Waking up the morning after hosting a party, a man discovers a stranger passed out on his floor. He spends the rest of the day trying to convince her to leave.
Rat Pack Rat / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Todd Rohal) A Sammy Davis Jr. impersonator, hired to visit a loyal Rat Pack fan, finds himself performing the last rites at the boys bedside.
Verbatim / U.S.A. (Director: Brett Weiner, Screenwriter: Court Document) A jaded lawyer wastes an afternoon trying to figure out if a dim-witted gove
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Sundance Institute Announces Short Film Program for 2014 Sundance Film Festival 30th Anniversary of the Sundance Film Festival
