FESTIVAL DE SUNDANCE 2014 (Sundance Film Festival 2014)

El Festival de Sundance 2014 se ha desarrollado entre los días 16 y 26 de enero del presente año. Cabe destacar en la presente edición la participación de Kristen Wiig y Ty Burrell en "The Skeleton Twins", el debut en la dirección del actor John Slattery (Mad Men) con "God’s Pocket" -protagonizada por Philip Seymour Hoffman-, las actuaciones de Kristen Stewart en "Camp X-Ray", Aaron Paul en "Hellion", Anne Hathaway en "Song One", y muchas más. 

LISTA DE SELECCIONADOS

U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION

“Camp X-Ray” —  Peter Sattler

“Cold in July” — Jim Mickle

“Dear White People” —  Justin Simien

“Fishing Without Nets” (U.S.-Somalia-Kenya) — Cutter Hodierne

“God’s Pocket” — John Slattery

“Happy Christmas” — Joe Swanberg

“Hellion” —  Kat Candler

“Infinitely Polar Bear” — Maya Forbes

“Jamie Marks Is Dead” — Carter Smith

“Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter” — David Zellner

“Life After Beth” — Jeff Baena

“Low Down” — Jeff Preiss

“The Skeleton Twins” — Craig Johnson

“The Sleepwalker” — Mona Fastvold

“Song One” — Kate Barker-Froyland

“Whiplash” —  Damien Chazelle

U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

“Alive Inside: A Story of Music &; Memory” — Michael Rossato-Bennett

“All the Beautiful Things” — John Harkrider

“Captivated — The Trials of Pamela Smart” — Jeremiah Zagar

“The Case Against 8″ — Ben Cotner, Ryan White

“Cesar’s Last Fast” — Richard Ray Perez, Lorena Parlee

“Dinosaur 13″ — Todd Miller.

“E-Team” — Katy Chevigny, Ross Kauffman

“Fed Up” — Stephanie Soechtig

“The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz” — Brian Knappenberger

“Ivory Tower” — Andrew Rossi

“Marmato” — Mark Grieco

“No No: A Dockumentary” — Jeffrey Radice

“The Overnighters” — Jesse Moss

“Private Violence” —  Cynthia Hill

“Rich Hill” — Andrew Droz Palermo y Tracy Droz Tragos

“Watchers of the Sky” — Edet Belzberg

WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION (The 12 films in this section are world premieres unless otherwise specified)
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“52 Tuesdays” (Australia) —Sophie Hyde

“Blind” (Norway-Netherlands) — Eskil Vogt

“Difret” (Ethiopia) — Zeresenay Berhane Mehari

“The Disobedient” (Serbia) — Mina Djukic

“God Help the Girl” (U.K.) — Stuart Murdoch

“Liar’s Dice” (India) — Geetu Mohandas

“Lilting” (U.K.) — Hong Khaou

“Lock Charmer” (El cerrajero) (Argentina) — Natalia Smirnoff

“To Kill a Man” (Chile-France) — Alejandro Fernandez Almendras

“Viktoria” (Bulgaria-Romania) — Maya Vitkova

“Wetlands” (Germany) — David Wnendt

“White Shadow” (Italy-Germany-Tanzania) — Noaz Deshe

WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION (The 12 films in this section are world premieres unless otherwise specified)

“20,000 Days on Earth” (U.K.) — Iain Forsyth y Jane Pollard

“Concerning Violence” (Sweden-U.S.-Denmark-Finland) — Goran Hugo Olsson

“The Green Prince” (Germany-Israel-U.K.) — Nadav Schirman

“Happiness” (France-Finland) — Thomas Balmes

“Love Child” (South Korea-U.S.) — Valerie Veatch

“Mr. Leos Carax” (France) — Tessa Louise-Salome

“My Prairie Home” (Canada) —Chelsea McMullan

“The Notorious Mr. Bout” (U.S.-Russia) — Tony Gerber y Maxim Pozdorovkin

“The Return to Homs” (Syria-Germany) — Talal Derki

“Sepideh — Reaching for the Stars” (Denmark) — Berit Madsen.

“We Come as Friends” (France-Austria) — Hubert Sauper

“Web Junkie” (Israel) — Shosh Shlam y Hilla Medalia

NEXT (The 11 films in this section are world premieres)

“Appropriate Behavior” (U.S.-U.K.) — Desiree Akhavan

“Drunktown’s Finest” — Sydney Freeland

“The Foxy Merkins” — Madeleine Olnek

“A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” — Ana Lily Amirpour

“Imperial Dreams” — Malik Vitthal

“Land Ho!” (U.S.-Iceland) — Martha Stephens y Aaron Katz

“Listen Up Philip” — Alex Ross Perry

“Memphis” — Tim Sutton

“Obvious Child” — Gillian Robespierre

“Ping Pong Summer” — Michael Tully

“War Story” — Mark Jackson

Como dato más relevante, decir que la cinta Whiplash ha sido la gran triunfadora, al alzarse con el doble premio a mejor película, tanto el que otorga el Gran Jurado como el público del Festival.