With specified a marvelously eclectic, innovational, exciting, amusing, disturbing and attractively crafted shorts to decide from, a jury of Sundance is not a comfortable task.
But it is a rousing and challenging, and I, with jurors Sara Bernstein (Vice-president of HBO Documentary Films) and Barry Jenkins (Director / Writer, Medicine for Melancholy) were prestigious to be part of. And we had fun too. A big thanks you to everyone at Sundance for us to judge - we were fascinated by so many tables.
So last night, with much anticipation and happiness, we took in Park City Bowl Jupiter (and it is a bowling alley) and strolled on stage (me, if nervously) to present the awards. First, the honorable mentions. The brilliant various group of shorts admitted Choke, by Michelle Latimer (Canada ) diarchy by Ferdinand Filmomarino Cito (Italy ), the outside world, by David O'Reilly (Germany / France ), the fable of castor Dam, by Jerome Sable and Eli Batalion (Canada ), Out of Reach by Stozek Jakub (Poland ) and Protoparticles (above) by Chema Garcia Ibarra (Spain
Jury's Award International Business attainment short film went to Ariel Deeper Kleiman than Yesterday (Australian Russian), an obsession, grainy, mysterious and beautifully designed representing a team from Russian Submarine was lonely both horrifying and touching, then, something like a fairy tale. It was a film that has left us in awe - the acting, the actor's faces, history and the absolute guarantee that the cinema big screen. It is an unforgettable image.
Matt Piedmont saucy, creative, entrancing Mandom-esque animation (with dolls) Anyway, Brick Novax parts 1 and 2 pinch U.S. Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking, a short that we hope will extend into a series . We longed for more adventure past Brick (the folk singer in designer slacks) and we hope Piedmont gives everyone the chance to experience one of the coolest men in the world. Never mind that this is a doll.
