NEW YORK -- The 14th annual Slamdance Film Festival on Wednesday unveiled its lineup of narrative competition features, special presentations and the opening night film: Randall Cole's comedic drama Real Time starring Randy Quaid and Jay Baruchel.
The Park City, Utah, fest, long established as a renegade alternative to Sundance, includes a few other narrative features with known actors among its world premiere special screenings: Hart Bochner's romantic comedy Just Add Water starring Dylan Walsh, Danny DeVito,
Justin Long and Anika Noni Rose, and Daniel Schechter's coming-of-age drama Goodbye Baby starring Christine Evangelista, Kevin Corrigan and Alan Ruck, which was shown to distributors at ShoWest's indie film showcase this spring.
The 10 films in the Narrative Feature Competition include Tao Ruspoli's darkly comic road trip movie Fix, Steve Clark's portrait of a Manhattan playboy, Frost, and Paul Encinas' coming-of-age ensemble drama Glory Boy Days.
Other films include Simon Welsford's amnesiac thriller Jetsam, Oliver Irving's dark family comedy How to Be, Oren Peli's supernatural thriller Paranormal Activity and Matthew Miller, Ezra Krybus and Sascha Drews' erotic drama Portage.
Rounding out the narrative list are Ryan Piotrowicz's urban filmmaker drama The Project, Tom Quinn's family drama New Year Parade and Candela Figueira and Maitena Muruzabal's portrait of a factory worker, Under the Snow.
The Park City, Utah, fest, long established as a renegade alternative to Sundance, includes a few other narrative features with known actors among its world premiere special screenings: Hart Bochner's romantic comedy Just Add Water starring Dylan Walsh, Danny DeVito,
Justin Long and Anika Noni Rose, and Daniel Schechter's coming-of-age drama Goodbye Baby starring Christine Evangelista, Kevin Corrigan and Alan Ruck, which was shown to distributors at ShoWest's indie film showcase this spring.
The 10 films in the Narrative Feature Competition include Tao Ruspoli's darkly comic road trip movie Fix, Steve Clark's portrait of a Manhattan playboy, Frost, and Paul Encinas' coming-of-age ensemble drama Glory Boy Days.
Other films include Simon Welsford's amnesiac thriller Jetsam, Oliver Irving's dark family comedy How to Be, Oren Peli's supernatural thriller Paranormal Activity and Matthew Miller, Ezra Krybus and Sascha Drews' erotic drama Portage.
Rounding out the narrative list are Ryan Piotrowicz's urban filmmaker drama The Project, Tom Quinn's family drama New Year Parade and Candela Figueira and Maitena Muruzabal's portrait of a factory worker, Under the Snow.
- 12/6/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- The parallel film festival event that takes place in the same village, same street and pretty much the same dates as its more intimidating cousin is now in its 14th year. The Slamdance film festival is filled with plenty of low budget stuff and though there are not that many items here below to brag about - ever year they manage to pull a rabbit of a film out of their hat. This year the film festival opens with (pictured below): Real Time by Randall Cole.Here is the complete rundown of titles for the festival: Narrative Feature CompetitionFix, World Premiere (2008, 90 min, USA)Written/Directed by Tao RuspoliThis darkly comedic road movie journeys from Beverly Hills to Watts over the course of 12 hours, as documentary filmmakers Bella and Milo race to get Milo's brother Leo from jail to rehab before 8 p.m. – or Leo goes to prison for three years.
- 12/5/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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