Come SwimCredit: John Guleserian
Night Shift
Credit: Estee Ochoa
The Robbery
Credit: Lowell Meyer
Park City, UT - Sixty-eight short films, announced today, will complement the lineup of longer fare at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. The short film slate aligns thematically with other Festival categories, including Midnight and The New Climate, the Festival's new programming strand highlighting climate change and the environment. The Festival hosts screenings in Park City, Salt Lake City and at Sundance Mountain Resort January 19-29.
The Institute's support for short films extends internationally and year-round. Select Festival short films are presented as a traveling program at over 50 theaters in the U.S. and Canada each year, and short films and filmmakers take part in regional Master Classes geared towards supporting emerging shorts-makers in several cities. Sundance Institute's Documentary Film Program, supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and in partnership with The Guardian and The New York Times' Op-Docs, provides grants to makers of documentary shorts around the world, including new filmmakers in Cuba featured in a Special Event program at this year's Festival.
Mike Plante, Senior Programmer for the Sundance Film Festival, said, Each year we see more short films from around the country and from more regions around the world, which is exciting as we want to discover new voices to support. This year's crop captures the full spectrum of what short films can be: emotional, hilarious, horrifying and touching - sometimes all at once.
Among the shorts the Festival has shown in recent years are World of Tomorrow, Thunder Road, Whiplash, The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom, Gregory Go Boom and Edmond.
The Short Film program is presented by YouTube.
U.S. NARRATIVE SHORT FILMS
American Paradise / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Joe Talbot) - A desperate man in Trumps America tries to shift his luck with the perfect crime in this story inspired by true events.
Cecile on the Phone / U.S.A. (Director: Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Screenwriters: Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Ellen Greenberg) - Overwhelmed by doubt and confusion after her ex-boyfriends return to New York, Cecile embarks on a series of telephone conversations that serve only to distract her from the one conversation she really needs to have.
Come Swim / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Kristen Stewart) - This is a diptych of one mans day, half impressionist and half realist portraits.
GOOD CRAZY / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Rosa Salazar) - A complex chick deals with a vanilla beau, a shitty brunch and a dead coyote all in a Los Angeles day. Theres batshit crazy and then theres good crazy-she fits somewhere in between.
Hardware / U.S.A. (Director: Stephen Jacobson, Screenwriters: Ellen Stringer, Stephen Jacobson) - An amateur electronic-drum enthusiast travels to a housewares trade show looking to strike up the perfect business partnership. When things dont go as planned, he finds himself at the mercy of the electronic drumbeat playing in his head.
Hold On / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Christine Turner) - Family bonds are tested when a young man is left to care for his grandmother one morning.
Hot Seat / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Anna Kerrigan) - Teenaged Andrea uses a male stripper to gain the respect and admiration of cool girl Daphne in this exploration of coming-of-age sexuality and teen girls complex relationships, based on a true story.
I Know You from Somewhere / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Andrew Fitzgerald) - A young woman incurs the wrath of the internet after she inadvertently becomes a viral sensation.
Kaiju Bunraku / U.S.A. (Directors: Lucas Leyva, Jillian Mayer, Screenwriter: Lucas Leyva) - Heres a day in the life of a husband and wife living in a world of giant monsters.
Laps / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Charlotte Wells) - On a routine morning, a woman on a crowded New York City subway is sexually assaulted in plain sight.
LostFound / U.S.A. (Director: Shakti Bhagchandani, Screenwriters: Shakti Bhagchandani, Emre Gulcan) - This story portrays a day in the life of a woman in the Nation of Islam.
Lucia, Before and After / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Anu Valia) - After traveling 200 miles, a young woman waits out Texass state-mandated 24-hour waiting period before her abortion can proceed.
New Neighbors / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: E.G. Bailey) - How far will a mother go to protect her children?
Night Shift / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Marshall Tyler) - Get a glimpse into a day in the life of a bathroom attendant in a Los Angeles nightclub.
Rubber Heart / U.S.A. (Director: Lizzy Sanford, Screenwriters: Lizzy Sanford, Anna Cordell) - After a painful dry spell, a woman attempts to have a one-night stand.
Shinaab / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Lyle Corbine) - A young Anishinaabe man struggles with his place in the inner city of Minneapolis.
Toru / U.S.A. (Directors and screenwriters: Jonathan Minard, Scott Rashap) - An infants life is transformed by a new technology.
INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT FILMS
5 Films About Technology / Canada (Director and screenwriter: Peter Huang) - Take a satirical look at the dumber side of technology.
And so we put goldfish in the pool. / Japan (Director and screenwriter: Makoto Nagahisa) - One summer day, 400 goldfish were found in the swimming pool of a secondary school. This is a story about the four 15-year-old girls who put them there.
And The Whole Sky Fit In The Dead Cows Eye / Chile, U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Francisca Alegr a) - Emeteria is visited by the ghost of her patr n, Teodoro. She believes he has come to take her to the afterlife-but he has more devastating news.
Dadyaa - The Woodpeckers of Rotha / Nepal, France (Dire
