Sundance Institute: Film Forward 1st Slate

LOS ANGELES, CA ? Following up on last month's announcement of the Film Forward: Advancing Cultural Dialogue initiative, Sundance Institute announced today the ten films selected to participate in the inaugural year of this cultural exchange program. The first Film Forward slate includes five American and five international films which will be presented in collaboration with public and private partners. These films and their filmmakers will kick off the ambitious project in New York and Tunisia in December. The five American films that will tour throughout the United States and abroad as part of the initiative are: A Small Act directed by Jennifer Arnold; Amreeka directed by Cherien Dabis; Freedom Riders directed by Stanley Nelson; La Mission directed by Peter Bratt, and the 2010 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize Winner, Winter's Bone, directed by Debra Granik. The five international films chosen to complete the line up of independent films are: Afghan Star directed by Havana Marking; Boy directed by Taika Waititi; Last Train Home directed by Luxin Fan; Son of Babylon by Mohamed Al-Daradji, and Udaan directed by Vikramaditya Motwane. "This exciting and diverse slate of independent films presents the common humanity we share across all boundaries," said Keri Putnam, Executive Director, Sundance Institute. "Film Forward deeply reflects Sundance Institute's core mission by presenting films to new audiences around the world to inspire cross-cultural dialogue." "We could not be more excited about this program and these films," said Rachel Goslins, Executive Director of the President's Committee on the Arts and the ... Read More »

Source: http://www.deadline.com/2010/11/sundance-institutes-film-forward-1st-slate/

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