Sundance Institute Film Forward: Advancing Cultural Dialogue Travels to Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Denpasar, Banjarmasin and Palangkarya, Indonesia, September 8 12, 2014 Sundance Institute and the U.S. Embassy in Indonesia Collaborate To Host Free Film Screenings and Guided Discussions
Filmmaker Srdan Golubovic (Circles) and Editor Doug Blush (Twenty Feet From Stardom) Travel with the Program
Posted Aug 18, 2014
Park City, UT Sundance Institute and the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities announced today that Film Forward: Advancing Cultural Dialogue will host free screenings of eight films with moderated discussions, panels and artist roundtables in Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Denpasar, Banjarmasin and Palangkarya. Sundance Channel Global is a supporter of the Film Forward program in Indonesia which is hosted by the U.S. Embassy in Indonesia. For a full schedule of events and venues in Indonesia visit sundance.org/filmforward.
Film Forward, a partnership of Sundance Institute, the President's Committee and three U.S. federal cultural agencies, is a touring program that offers film screenings, workshops and discussions designed to foster dialogue and cross-cultural understanding. It uses the power of cinema to promote broader cultural understanding, inspire curiosity and enhance awareness of shared stories and values. .
The program in Indonesia will focus on the contribution of women to arts and culture, the tradition of storytelling through music, communities in conflict and what it means to be a hero. Common themes explored in the films traveling with the program this year include acceptance, overcoming adversity and the transformative power of the arts to heal and bridge differences. In each location, Film Forward seeks to engage audiences that have limited access to independent film, and artists. .
Film Forward uses the powerful medium of film and storytelling to bring people of different cultures, viewpoints, and backgrounds together in a shared dialogue, said Keri Putnam, Executive Director of Sundance Institute. We are thrilled to travel to Indonesia for the first time and engage in conversation about the issues that connect us all.
Film Forward empowers filmmakers and audiences to talk about a range of ideas, perspectives and issues that touch all of us - whether we are in Mississippi or Indonesia. Just as President's Committee Honorary Chair Michelle Obama made it a priority to reach out and engage young people on her recent trip to China, Film Forward is excited to engage youth wherever the program goes, particularly in Indonesia, says Rachel Goslins, President's Committee executive director.
Circles is a story that shows the scars of war and the complicated implications of making decisions based on one's morals, said filmmaker Srdan Golubovic. Audiences around the world can relate the struggle of following your heart and what it means to truly be a hero in your everyday life. I look forward to the shared discussion around this film and hope audiences find similarities that will help make their world more nuanced.
The 2014 season of Film Forward will reach over 10,000 people through international (Mexico, Taiwan, China, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Indonesia) and domestic locations (California, Michigan, Mississippi and Pennsylvania).Sundance Institute staff members traveling with the program are: Film Forward Director Meredith Lavitt, Film Forward Manager Bethany Clarke, Sundance Institute International Manager of The Feature Film Program Matthew Takada and Sundance Institute Field Producer Luis Silva.
FILM FORWARD Year Four Films:
Circles (Directed by: Srdan Golubovic )
Five people are affected by a tragic heroic act. Twenty years later, all of them will have to confront the past through their own crises. Will they overcome the guilt, frustration, and the urge for revenge? Will they do the right thing, at all costs?
International Narrative
Dancing in Jaffa (Directed by: Hilla Medalia)
Renowned ballroom dancer, Pierre Dulaine, takes his belief that dance can overcome political and cultural differences and applies it to 11 year old Jewish and Palestinian Israelis. What occurs is magical and transformative.
International Documentary
Fruitvale Station (Directed by: Ryan Coogler)
The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.
US Narrative
If You Build It (Directed by: Patrick Creadon)
If You Build It spends a year in the life of one of America's most innovative classrooms. Designer/activists Emily Pilloton and Matt Miller, together with their high school students, unleash the power of humanitarian design to help their struggling community in rural North Carolina.
US Documentary
The Rocket (Directed by: Kim Mordaunt)
A boy who is believed to bring bad luck leads his family and a couple of ragged misfits through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity filled journey through a land scarred by war, the boy sets off to prove he's not cursed and builds a giant rocket to enter the most lucrative but dangerous competition of the year: the Rocket Festival.
International Narrative
The World Before Her (Directed by: Nisha Pahuja)
Moving between two extremes the intimate verit drama of the Miss India pageant's rigorous beauty bootcamp and the intense regime of a militant Hindu fundamentalist camp for young girls The World Before Her delivers a provocative portrait of India and its current cultural conflicts during a key transitional era in the countrys modern history.
International Documentary
Twenty Feet From Stardom (Directed by: Morgan Neville)
Millions know their voices, but no one knows their names. Twenty Feet From Stardom shines a spotlight on the untold true story of the backu
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Sundance Institute Film Forward: Advancing Cultural Dialogue Travels to Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Denpasar, Banjarmasin and Palangkarya, Indonesia, September 8 12, 2014 Sundance Institute and the U.S. Embassy in Indonesia Collaborate To Host Free Film Screenings and Guided Discussions 
