Sundance Announces Next Year's Line-Up
Thursday November 29, 2007
Get ready for another round of star-studded quirky tales of love and loss: The Sundance Film Festival has announced their 2008 lineup. Eighty-one films will have their world premieres at the Park City, Utah fest from January 17-27. Festival director Geoffrey Gilmore says: "Regardless of where these films go in the broader marketplace, there's a lot of films that you'd walk out of and go up to somebody and you'd want to tell them about.”The Dramatic Competition features 16 films selected from 1,068 submissions. Almost grown-up tweeny-bopper twin Mary-Kate Olsen will share a kiss with former on screen Ghandi Ben Kingsley in The Wackness. Winona Ryder stars in The Last Word, a dark comedy about a writer who makes a living composing other people's suicide notes. The eagerly awaited film adaption of Michael Chabon's debut novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh will also premiere, starring Sienna Miller and Peter Saarsgard.
The enchanting Amy Adams co-stars with Emily Blunt in Sunshine Cleaning, the story of two sisters who start their own biohazard removal, crime scene clean-up business. Film making team Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, who made their Sundance debut with Half-Nelson, return with Sugar, chronicling the journey of Dominican baseball star Miguel "Sugar" Santos who comes to the U.S. to play in the minor leagues.
Army recruitment centers, the malaise of Midwestern teens, environmental crusaders, and gonzo writer Hunter S. Thompson are just some of the subjects of documentaries by American filmmakers screening in the Documentary Competition. The 16 films were selected from a record 953 submissions.
The Complete Line-Up


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