The Sundance Channel will be presenting ‘31 Days of Sundance‘ to celebrate the 10 days of the Sundance Film Festival, which takes place from January 21 to 31 in Park City, Utah in 2010.
They’ve got feature films lined up and other informative tidbits throughout.
If you get the Sundance Channel, and you like what the Sundance Film Festival represents, you’re in luck!
Below is the press release you should check out for many more details:
Sundance Channel and sundancechannel.com will feature exclusive coverage of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as part of Sundance Channel’s January celebration, “31 Days of Sundance.” The coverage will span the ten days of Sundance Film Festival, which takes place from January 21 – January 31 in Park City, Utah. Sundance Channel will present daily Festival video updates and, for the first time, will supplement this reportage with up-to-the-minute coverage on its website, sundancechannel.com, from two respected journalists: Dennis Lim, Editorial Director at the Museum of the Moving Image and former film editor for the Village Voice, and Paula Froelich, former deputy editor at the show business gossip institution Page Six. “31 Days of Sundance” will enable viewers to design their own personal Sundance Film Festival experience throughout the month of January, with nightly double bills of feature films and shorts from past festivals and a 12-title package of features on Sundance Channel On Demand available through select cable operators.
Sundance Channel is the official television network of the Sundance Film Festival.
Daily video coverage of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival will air interstitially on Sundance Channel and will be available on the dedicated website. Short-form elements include:
· “Meet the Filmmaker” 12 profiles of filmmakers who have films screening at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
· “Interview” – interviews with people involved with the Sundance Films Festival conducted by pop culture commentator Faith Salie.
· “Wrap-up” – Two short form pieces that offer a summation of the highlights of the 2010 Sundance Festival.
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Sundance Channel’s dedicated website for “31 Days of Sundance” will launch on December 21. The site, sundancechannel.com, will feature original content unavailable anywhere else on the web. Among the highlights:
· Critic Dennis Lim will cover the Festival films with daily reviews and observations. Lim writes about film and popular culture for various publications, including The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. He is currently Editorial Director at the Museum of the Moving Image and was formerly the film editor of the Village Voice.
· Journalist/author Paula Froelich will report daily on the Festival scene and cover film deals, parties and all the action on the streets of Park City. Froelich is the former deputy editor of the influential Page Six column at the New York Post and she currently blogs for the Huffington Post.
· Exclusive photo galleries dedicated to feature filmmakers and actors in the Sundance Channel Studio, film premieres and parties throughout the Festival. These galleries will be updated daily.
Feature selections of “31 Days of Sundance” air every night in January 2010 at 8:00pm et/pt and include James Marsh’s Oscar®-winning look at tightrope daredevil Phillipe Petit, Man on Wire (Jury Prize, Audience Award, SFF 08); Noah Baumbach’s comedy/drama about a fracturing family, The Squid and the Whale (Directing, Screenwriting awards, SFF 05); and the U.S. television premiere of Baltasar Kormákur’s crime noir A Little Trip To Heaven (SFF 06), starring Academy Award® winner Forest Whitaker, Julia Stiles and Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker).
In addition, twelve titles will be available throughout January via a cable-exclusive VOD:
- Baltasar Kormákur’s A Little Trip To Heaven (SFF 06);
- Julie Gavras’s Blame It On Fidel! (SFF 07);
- Dan Klores’ Crazy Love (SFF 07);
- Anna Negri’s Good Morning, Heartache (SFF 08);
- James Marsh’s Man On Wire (SFF 08);
- Matthew Saville’s Noise (SFF 07);
- Tom Kalin’s Savage Grace (SFF 08);
- Don Roos’s The Opposite Of Sex (SFF 98);
- Chris Smith’s The Pool (SFF 07);
- Robinson Devor’s Zoo (SFF 07);
- Goran Dukic’s Wristcutters: A Love Story (SFF06); and
- Andrew Wagner’s Starting Out In The Evening (SFF 07).
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The feature film schedule for 31 Days of Sundance is as follows (all airtimes at 8:00pm et/pt):
| Fri., January 1 | The Pool (SFF 2007, TVP) |
| Sat., January 2 | The Opposite of Sex (SFF 1998) |
| Sun., January 3 | Easy (SFF 2004) |
| Mon., January 4 | Capturing The Friedmans (SFF 2003) |
| Tue., January 5 | The Talent Given Us (SFF 2005) |
| Wed., January 6 | Subject Two (SFF 2006) |
| Thu., January 7 | Zoo (SFF 2007) |
| Fri., January 8 | Strangers (SFF 2008, TVP) |
| Sat., January 9 | Mermaid (SFF 2008, TVP) |
| Sun., January 10 | Wristcutters: A Love Story (SFF 2006) |
| Mon., January 11 | Nollywood Babylon (SFF 2009, TVP) |
| Tue., January 12 | The End of the Line (SFF 2009, TVP) |
| Wed., January 13 | Swimmers (SFF 2005) |
| Thu., January 14 | On The Road With Judas (SFF 2007) |
| Fri., January 15 | Jump Tomorrow (SFF 2001) |
| Sat., January 16 | Love Comes Lately (SFF 2008, TVP) |
| Sun., January 17 | Dog Eat Dog (SFF 2008) |
| Mon., January 18 | Starting Out In The Evening (SFF 2007) |
| Tue., January 19 | Dopamine (SFF 2003) |
| Wed., January 20 | Intacto (SFF 2002) |
| Thu., January 21 | Goliath (SFF 2008) |
| Fri., January 22 | A Little Trip To Heaven (SFF 2006, TVP) |
| Sat. January 23 | The Squid and The Whale (SFF 2005) |
| Sun., January 24 | Crazy Love (SFF 2007) |
| Mon., January 25 | Thumbsucker (SFF 2005) |
| Tue., January 26 | Oldboy (SFF 2005) |
| Wed., January 27 | The Guitar (SFF 2008, TVP) |
| Thu., January 28 | Man on Wire (SFF 2008) |
| Fri, January 29 | Quinceañera (SFF 2006) |
| Sat., January 30 | Savage Grace (SFF 2008) |
| Sun., January 31 | Angel-A (SFF 2007) |
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