http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/sundance Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:12:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Press Release The jury and audience award-winners of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival were announced at the Festival’s closing Awards Ceremony hosted by actor Jane Lynch in Park City, Utah. Films receiving jury awards were selected from the four categories: U.S. Dramatic and Documentary Competition and World Dramatic and Documentary Competition. ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/sundance/2009/01/26/2009-sundance-film-festival-announces-awards/ Tonight's awards ceremony handed out 26 awards to feature-length films. You can peruse the list here This year 118 features were programmed from 21 countries, including 42 first-time directors. U.S. submissions of feature-length films totaled 1,905. An additional 1,756 features were submitted from outside the U.S. That makes a total of 3661 ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/sundance/2009/01/26/leitner%e2%80%99s-mondo-2009-sundance-%e2%80%93-saturday/ Yesterday all you heard about here in Park City, at every bus stop and bar stool, was the critic who poked the producer’s rep in the schnoz. In fact, the first email I received yesterday morning from a filmmaker friend said, “aren’t you glad Jeff Dowd doesn’t know about you?” Dowd, a/k/a ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/sundance/2009/01/25/leitner%e2%80%99s-mondo-2009-sundance-%e2%80%93-friday/ Oh no, you plead, not another blog about adventures in festival transportation! You have my promise this will be the last. Tonight I decided to pack it in early and head back to the condo. I’m beat. Last night I’d jammed on electric guitar until 6 a.m. at New York ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/sundance/2009/01/24/leitner%e2%80%99s-mondo-2009-sundance-%e2%80%93-thursday/ Press Release Stefan Sonnenfeld Handles DI for Antoine Fuqua’s Acclaimed Brooklyn’s Finest Company 3, which provides DI color grading and other post services for films, has a strong presence at this year’s Sundance Film Festival having handled final grading for four films featured in the fest. Among them is Antoine Fuqua’s violent ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/sundance/2009/01/23/company-3-makes-the-grade-with-four-films-at-sundance/ Press Release The Sundance Institute and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) announced the winners of the 2009 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards. The four winners were selected from 12 finalists by members of an international jury which included: Ira Sachs, Yesim Ustaoglu, Katherine Dieckmann, Fernando Eimbcke, Sebastian Cordero, and Ronan Bennett; and a ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/sundance/2009/01/23/2009-sundancenhk-international-filmmakers-award-winners-announced/ Park City basked in the afterglow of Obama Day as rising temperatures caused snowboarders to come off the slopes at noon to strip off layers of clothing. A pleasant day to ride around in buses—something you do a lot of here, stuck at bus stops anxiously eyeing your watch as ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/sundance/2009/01/22/leitner%e2%80%99s-mondo-2009-sundance-%e2%80%93-wednesday-2/ Press Release The 2009 Sundance Film Festival announced the jury prizes in shorts filmmaking based on outstanding achievement and merit. The Sundance Film Festival runs January 15-25, 2009 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. Full awards will be announced the evening of January 24th at the 2009 ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/sundance/2009/01/21/2009-sundance-film-festival-announces-jury-prizes-in-shorts-filmmaking/ Today was Obama Day, and first-time director Lee Daniels was wishing the packed audience at the Eccles Theatre, Sundance’s largest, a happy one. Daniels, better known as producer of Monsters Ball and The Woodsman, with characters and situations drawn from the disenfranchised (a racist prison guard, a guilty interracial affair, ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/sundance/2009/01/21/leitner%e2%80%99s-mondo-2009-sundance-%e2%80%93-tuesday/ Press Release Colorful, Mixed-Format Project Reflects Artistry of Numerous Top Commercial Industry Players Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Jessica Yu, who has been nominated for the Sundance Film Festival's prestigious Grand Jury Prize three times (for her feature documentaries Protagonist, In the Realms of the Unreal and Living Museum) returns to Park City ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/sundance/2009/01/20/nonfiction-unlimiteds-jessica-yu-returns-to-sundance-film-festival-with-documentary-short-the-kinda-sutra/