Three Aussies at Sundance
The feature Mad Bastards, the documentary Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure and the short Deeper than Yesterday have been selected to screen at next year’s Sundance Film Festival.
Mad Bastards is set in a town in the remote Kimberley Region of WA, and tells the story of an urban street warrior who meets his match in a local cop. It will be one of 13 films screening in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. Mad Bastards was written and directed by Brendan Fletcher, and produced by David Jowsey, Alan Pigram, Stephen Pigran, and Fletcher. In Australia, the film will premiere at the Sydney Festival in January, and released by Transmission in May.
Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure will debut in the World Cinema Documentary Competition, competing agains 11 other films. It was produced by Sophie Hyde and Matthew Bate, co-produced by Julie Byrne and Bryan Mason, and written and directed by Matthew Bate. It will be released by Madman Entertainment.
A VCA Film & Television School project, Deeper than Yesterday was produced by Benjamin Gilovitz, Sarah Cyngler and Anna Kojevnikov, and written and directed by Ariel Kleiman. It will compete in the international shorts competition program. Previous achievements include the Jury Award for Best Short Film at Critics’ Week in Cannes and Best Short at the Chicago International Film Festival. The film also won Best Short Film Director at Sydney Film Festival’s Dendy Awards, and it is currently nominated for Best Short Fiction Film at the 2010 AFI Awards.
Another Australian that will be present at Sundance is Dani Valent, a co-writer in the US film Here (directed by Braden King), which will screen in the US Dramatic Competition Program.
Sundance will take place January 20-30 in Park City, Utah, USA.
