Australia at Sundance 2011

The Sundance Film Festival, widely regarded as the highest profile film festival in the US, has selected two Australian features and one short film, for its 2011 competition line-up. The films were selected from a record 3,800 submissions across the festival’s programs.

Mad Bastards will have its international premiere in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. It is one of only 13 films selected for the program, which showcases exceptional emerging filmmakers offering fresh perspective and inventive styles. The Sydney Festival will present the world premiere of Mad Bastards in January 2011, with performances from Alex Lloyd and The Pigram Brothers – who feature in the movie. The film will be released in Australia in May 2011 by Transmission Films.

Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure will have its world premiere as part of Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Competition. The feature documentary is one of 12 films selected for the program, which recognises extraordinary and courageous filmmakers from around the world examining issues ranging from the personal to the universal. The film will be released by Madman Entertainment in 2011.

Deeper than Yesterday is only one of 15 films to compete in the international shorts competition program. The program is driven by innovation and experimentation, seeking original imagination from filmmaking that transcends the rules of conventional storytelling. The film has already garnered seven awards on the international film festival circuit this year, including the Jury Award for Best Short Film at Critics’ Week in Cannes and Best Short at the Chicago International Film Festival.

Mad Bastards

   
Mad Bastards
Mad Bastards

www.madbastards.com.au

Duration: 96 mins
Section: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Production Company: Bush Turkey Films
Writer/Director: Brendan Fletcher
Producers: David Jowsey, Brendan Fletcher, Alan Pigram, Stephen Pigram
Featuring: Music by Alan and Stephen Pigram with Alex Lloyd
Cast: Dean Daley-Jones, Greg Tait, John Watson, Ngaire Pigram, Lucas Yeeda
Finance: Screen Australia, Screen NSW, ScreenWest
Sales: E1
Australian Distributor: Transmission Films

In a frontier town of northern Australia's Kimberley Region, an urban street warrior meets his match in a local cop. Performances and stories from real people in Kimberley are woven through the music of legendary Broome musicians, The Pigram Brothers.

 

Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure

Shut Up Little MAn
Shut Up Little MAn

www.shutuplittlemanfilm.com

Duration: 85 mins
Section: World Cinema Documentary Competition
Production Company: Closer Productions
Writer/Director: Matthew Bate             
Producers: Sophie Hyde, Matthew Bate
Co-producers: Julie Byrne, Bryan Mason
Finance: South Australian Film Corporation FilmLab, Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund
Cast: Eddie Lee Sausage, Mitchell D, Raymond Huffman, Peter Haskett, Daniel Clowes, Ivan Brunetti, Henry Rosenthal, Mike Mitchell
Sales: Closer Productions
Australian Distributor: Madman Entertainment

When two Gen-X slackers tape-recorded the fights of their violently noisy neighbours in the San Francisco 80s, they accidentally created one of the world’s first ‘viral’ pop-culture sensations. Exploring the blurred boundaries between privacy, art and exploitation, feature documentary Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure is a darkly hilarious modern fable.

 

Deeper Than Yesterday

Deeper than yesterday
Deeper than yesterday

www.deeperthanyesterday.com

Duration: 20 mins
Section: International Short Films
Production Company: VCA Film & Television School, University of Melbourne
Writer/Director: Ariel Kleiman
Producers: Benjamin Gilovitz, Sarah Cyngler, Anna Kojevnikov
Supervising Producer: Siobhan Jackson

After three months submerged underwater, the men have become savages. Oleg fears that losing perspective may mean losing himself.


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Tuesday 7 December 2010
Sundance announces Australian short film in Competition

The Sundance Film Festiva has announced its short film competition including Australian film Deeper than Yesterday.
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Thursday 2 December 2010
Sundance Film Festival announces two Australian films in Competition

Sundance has selected two Australian features for its 2011 competition line-up from a record 3,800 submissions across the festival’s programs.
Read the media release.

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