{"id":3711,"date":"2013-01-29T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/?p=3711"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:01:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:01:49","slug":"highlights-of-sundance-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/highlights-of-sundance-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights of Sundance 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3730\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3730\" src=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sundance-2013-cc-photo-by-downtowntraveler.jpg\" alt=\"Sundance 2013. CC Photo by Flickr \/ downtowntraveler.\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3730\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sundance 2013. CC Photo by Flickr \/ downtowntraveler.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just under 1% of the 12,146 films submitted were screened at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Here is a recap of the films whose creative and business acclaim caught my attention:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Big winners<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Updated 1\/30\/2013:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstshowing.net\/2013\/sundance-13-sales-full-recap-kill-your-darlings-fruitvale-more\/\">First Showing<\/a> has a breakdown of all the sales at Sundance, including one of the highest sales ($9.75 million) for &#8220;The Way, Way Back&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcocreate.com\/1682296\/fruitvale-director-ryan-coogler-on-how-to-make-a-sundance-fan-favorite-and-be-the-next-beast\">Fast Company<\/a> spoke with Ryan Coogler, director of &#8220;Fruitvale,&#8221; which won the Grand Jury Prize, the Audience Award, and about a $2,000,000 distribution deal with The Weinsteim Company after it&#8217;s opening weekend premiere<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kickstarter.tumblr.com\/post\/41703230953\/big-winners-at-sundance-good-morning-internet\">Kickstarter<\/a> financing was behind 17 films, including five winners (&#8220;Blood Brother&#8221; won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize for Documentary and the Audience Award for U.S. Documentary; &#8220;The Square&#8221; won the Audience Award for World Cinema, &#8220;This Is Martin Bonner&#8221; won the Audience Award: Best of NEXT; and &#8220;Inequality for All&#8221; and &#8220;American Promise&#8221; won special jury prizes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Available to watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundancechannel.com\/festival\/videos\/?playlist_id=2045914552001&#038;play_video=2106134222001#video_section\">Sundance Channel<\/a> had video of Robert Redford talking about how technology is changing filmmaking &#8212; also check out Redford&#8217;s talk on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundance.org\/video\/a-sense-of-place-robert-redford-on-the-sundance-story\/\">sense of place<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcocreate.com\/1682252\/stay-put-stay-warm-and-watch-12-hot-sundance-shorts\">Fast Company<\/a> rounded up 12 short films &#8212; already on YouTube&#8217;s Screening Room channel &#8212; and highlighted the fact that 65 of 8,102 short submissions were accepted<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/new.livestream.com\/Sundance\/\">LiveStream<\/a> provided live and archived some official video, but the ones to consider watching are the <a href=\"https:\/\/new.livestream.com\/Sundance\/ShortsAwards\">shorts awards<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/new.livestream.com\/Sundance\/Awards\">closing night awards<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/culture\/2012\/09\/khalil-josephs-short-films.html\">The New Yorker<\/a> wrote about Kahlil Joseph&#8217;s work, &#8220;Until the Quiet Comes,&#8221; which won the Short Film Special Jury Award [embedded below]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[vimeo]http:\/\/vimeo.com\/48551671[\/vimeo]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cream-of-the-crop commentary<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/entertainment\/ci_22451466\/sundance-2013-year-female-director\">The Salt Lake Tribune<\/a> (via The Denver Post) proclaimed Sundance 2013 the year of the female director &#8212; related, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/envelope\/moviesnow\/la-et-sundance-transcript-20130127,0,6670724,full.story\">Los Angeles Times<\/a> fully transcribed the &#8220;Women Directors&#8217; Roundtable&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2013\/01\/sundance-best-performances.html\">New York Magazine \/ Vulture.com<\/a> calls out the best performers of Sundance 2013, most notable Michael B. Jordan (&#8220;The Wire,&#8221; &#8220;Friday Night Lights&#8221;) in &#8220;Fruitvale&#8221; and also Scarlett Johansson in &#8220;Don Jon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Addiction,&#8221; the Joseph Gordon-Levitt directorial debut which got picked up for several million<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/videos\/travers-5-sundance-films-that-bode-well-for-2013-20130124\">Rolling Stone&#8217;s Peter Travers<\/a> picked 5 films with great trajectory for the coming year, including &#8220;Sound City,&#8221; the Dave Grohl &#8220;love letter to the historic Sound City Studios&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118064999\/\">Variety<\/a> talked seven-figure deals and quotes CAA on whether VOD is a player this year for distribution<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/envelope\/sundance-film-festival\/la-et-mn-sundance-dirty-wars-documentary-sale-20130120,0,1039574.story\">Los Angeles Times<\/a> noted that the sales of documentaries this year are like hotcakes, including &#8220;Dirty Wars&#8221; (winner of the Cinematography Award [U.S. Documentary])<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Useful asides<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sundance\">Facebook<\/a> had a strong official (and ad-filled) presence, but noticeably missing from the community management efforts were replies to questions and follow-ups to news\/awards teasers<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/article\/sundance-30-reviews-from-the-2013-festival\">IndieWire<\/a> gave a rundown of their 30 reviews, including the Casey Affleck\/Rooney Mara drama &#8220;Ain&#8217;t Them Bodies Saints&#8221; (winner of the Cinematography Award [U.S. Dramatic] and in negotiations with IFC for distribution) and the Ethan Hawke\/Julie Delpy sequel &#8220;Before Midnight&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/culture\/sundance-2013-lessons-15031591\">Esquire<\/a> had 9 lessons from their coverage, including how Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Cera, and Amanda Seyfried premiered roughened-up images of themselves thanks to their independent films<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.sundance.org\/festival\/stories\/award-winners\/\">Sundance.org<\/span> appropriately cross-linked the list the winners with each film&#8217;s details page, including archives for past festival films and winners<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Curious about past Sundance coverage? We&#8217;ve touched on <a href=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/?s=sundance\">different facets<\/a> in past articles.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just under 1% of the 12,146 films submitted were screened at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Here is a recap of the films whose creative and business acclaim caught my attention: Big winners Updated 1\/30\/2013: First Showing has a breakdown of all the sales at Sundance, including one of the highest sales ($9.75 million) for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6109,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions\/6109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}