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EDWARD II and LIVING END--FROM THE COLLECTION CHOSEN TO SCREEN AT SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
Posted January 02, 2008 12:00AM
Park City, UT, December 14, 2007--Sundance Institute announced that Derek Jarman's EDWARD II (1991) and Gregg Araki's LIVING END (1992) will be shown at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival to mark the tenth anniversary of the Festival's From the Collection category. Drawing from one of the most important archives of American independent cinema, the films exemplify the independent spirit and artistry on display at Sundance Film Festival. The 2008 Sundance Film Festival runs January 17-27, 2008, in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah. The complete list of films is available at www.sundance.org/festival [www.sundance.org].
Derek Jarman's modern day Elizabethan film, EDWARD II and Gregg Araki's hedonistic road story, LIVING END embody the artistry and creativity housed within the Collection. Known as being a true artist, Jarman explores the aesthetics of cinema while using a classic tale as a vehicle. The lasting influence of Jarman is also highlighted at this year's Festival in the World Documentary Competition film, DEREK. Gregg Araki's film, LIVING END, was one of the first films to delve into the dangerous side of the AIDS crisis.
Since its inception in 1998, From the Collection has showcased classic films from such revolutionary directors as Joel Coen, Gus Van Sant, Jim Jarmush, and John Cassavettes. These influential films are part of an ongoing collective archive called the Sundance Collection at UCLA.
Launched in 1997, the Collection broke new ground by becoming the first archive devoted specifically to the preservation of independent cinema. The Collection not only fulfills a vital role in film preservation but also provides a central resource for those interested in the study of independent film. It is an important initiative of both the Sundance Institute and the UCLA Film & Television Archive, Sundance Collection to preserve the work of independent filmmakers.
"Despite the historical significance of independent films, acceptable prints are often difficult to locate, or in some cases impossible to find," said John Nein, Programmer, Sundance Film Festival and From The Collection. "To create a living record, Sundance Institute partnered with UCLA to ensure that these films are preserved and remain accessible to fans and scholars of independent film."
"Sundance and the UCLA Film & Television Archive share a common commitment to preserving independent films for future generations and to bringing them alive on the screen for new audiences," said Robert Rosen, dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
Sundance Institute has joined with the UCLA Film & Television Archive to preserve and restore documentaries, narratives, shorts, festival films, and commercially released independent films. The Collection includes many films that originally came to life at Sundance Film Festival, as well as projects developed at Sundance Institute's various filmmaker's labs.
The Sundance Collection at UCLA has grown to nearly 500 titles, generously donated by individual filmmakers and eight founding donors: Fine Line Features, Gramercy Pictures, Miramax, New Line Cinema, October Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics, Strand Releasing, and Trimark Pictures. To supplement its growing library of films, the Collection also features a rare assemblage of data on the history of independent cinema.
Films screening in From the Collection:
EDWARD II (Director: Derek Jarman)--This exhilarating, challenging and often passionate adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's sixteenth-century tragedy tell the tale of the young, newly crowned king of England, who bestows gifts titles, and all his devotion on his lover Gaveston, while neglecting his wife Isabella, as well as the affairs of state. This blatant favoritism incites her to conspire with the nobles and churchmen against him and ultimately leads to his downfall and disgrace.
LIVING END (Director: Gregg Araki)--A romantic, eccentric and defiant film set in a quasi-surrealistic dreamscape, marked by homophobia, mini-marts and monolithic parking structures. The two white protagonists, Jon and Luke, are disillusioned, apathetic, self-obsessed and prone to boredom. Moreover they are both HIV-positive.
2008 Sundance Film Festival Sponsors
The 2008 Sundance Film Festival sponsors help sustain Sundance Institute's year-round programs to support independent artists, inspire risk-taking, and encourage diversity in the arts. This year's Festival Sponsors include: Presenting Sponsors - Entertainment Weekly, Volkswagen of America, Inc., HP, and Adobe Systems Incorporated; Leadership Sponsors - American Express, Delta Air Lines, DIRECTV, and Microsoft Corporation; Sustaining Sponsors - 360 Vodka, Blockbuster Inc., ChaCha, L'Oréal Paris, The New York Times, Ray-Ban, Sony Electronics, Inc., Stella Artois®, Turning Leaf Vineyards, Utah Film Commission, and ZonePerfect® Nutrition Bars. Sundance Channel is the Official Television Network of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival is the premier showcase for U.S. and international independent film. Held each January in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah, the Festival is a core program of Sundance Institute, a nonprofit cultural organization founded by Robert Redford in 1981.
Presenting dramatic and documentary feature-length films in nine distinct categories and approximately 80 short films each year, the Sundance Film Festival has introduced American audiences to some of the most innovative films of the past two decades. Since 1984, the Festival program has evolved to include music, art, and dialogue. Beyond the streets of Park City, the official website of the Sundance Film Festival, http://www.sundance.org/festival [www.sundance.org], shares the Festival experience with a global audience with short films, filmmaker interviews, video episodes, podcasts, photos, news stories, and more.
Sundance Institute
Dedicated year-round to the development of artists of independent vision and to the exhibition of their new work, Sundance Institute celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2006. Founded by Robert Redford in 1981, the Institute has grown into an internationally recognized resource for thousands of independent artists through its Film Festival and artistic development programs for filmmakers, screenwriters, composers, playwrights, and theatre artists. The original values of independence, creative risk-taking, and discovery continue to define and guide the work of Sundance Institute, both with U.S. artists and, increasingly, with artists from other regions of the world.
UCLA Film & Television Archive
The UCLA Film & Television Archive is internationally renowned for its pioneering efforts to rescue, preserve and showcase moving image media, and is dedicated to ensuring that the collective visual memory of our time is explored and enjoyed for generations to come.
A unique resource for media study, the Archive holds one of the largest collections of moving image media in the United States--second only to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and the largest of any university in the world. Its vaults hold more than 220,000 motion picture and television titles and 27 million feet of newsreel footage. The combined collections represent an all-encompassing media documentation of the 20th century.
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For images, please visit: ftp://ftp.sundance.org [ftp.sundance.org]; Login ID: press; password: SFF08! (all caps).
For More Information Contact:
Tatiana Tensen
Tatiana_Tensen@sundance.org
435.776.7864
Download PDF [www.sundance.org]
Derek Jarman's modern day Elizabethan film, EDWARD II and Gregg Araki's hedonistic road story, LIVING END embody the artistry and creativity housed within the Collection. Known as being a true artist, Jarman explores the aesthetics of cinema while using a classic tale as a vehicle. The lasting influence of Jarman is also highlighted at this year's Festival in the World Documentary Competition film, DEREK. Gregg Araki's film, LIVING END, was one of the first films to delve into the dangerous side of the AIDS crisis.
Since its inception in 1998, From the Collection has showcased classic films from such revolutionary directors as Joel Coen, Gus Van Sant, Jim Jarmush, and John Cassavettes. These influential films are part of an ongoing collective archive called the Sundance Collection at UCLA.
Launched in 1997, the Collection broke new ground by becoming the first archive devoted specifically to the preservation of independent cinema. The Collection not only fulfills a vital role in film preservation but also provides a central resource for those interested in the study of independent film. It is an important initiative of both the Sundance Institute and the UCLA Film & Television Archive, Sundance Collection to preserve the work of independent filmmakers.
"Despite the historical significance of independent films, acceptable prints are often difficult to locate, or in some cases impossible to find," said John Nein, Programmer, Sundance Film Festival and From The Collection. "To create a living record, Sundance Institute partnered with UCLA to ensure that these films are preserved and remain accessible to fans and scholars of independent film."
"Sundance and the UCLA Film & Television Archive share a common commitment to preserving independent films for future generations and to bringing them alive on the screen for new audiences," said Robert Rosen, dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
Sundance Institute has joined with the UCLA Film & Television Archive to preserve and restore documentaries, narratives, shorts, festival films, and commercially released independent films. The Collection includes many films that originally came to life at Sundance Film Festival, as well as projects developed at Sundance Institute's various filmmaker's labs.
The Sundance Collection at UCLA has grown to nearly 500 titles, generously donated by individual filmmakers and eight founding donors: Fine Line Features, Gramercy Pictures, Miramax, New Line Cinema, October Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics, Strand Releasing, and Trimark Pictures. To supplement its growing library of films, the Collection also features a rare assemblage of data on the history of independent cinema.
Films screening in From the Collection:
EDWARD II (Director: Derek Jarman)--This exhilarating, challenging and often passionate adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's sixteenth-century tragedy tell the tale of the young, newly crowned king of England, who bestows gifts titles, and all his devotion on his lover Gaveston, while neglecting his wife Isabella, as well as the affairs of state. This blatant favoritism incites her to conspire with the nobles and churchmen against him and ultimately leads to his downfall and disgrace.
LIVING END (Director: Gregg Araki)--A romantic, eccentric and defiant film set in a quasi-surrealistic dreamscape, marked by homophobia, mini-marts and monolithic parking structures. The two white protagonists, Jon and Luke, are disillusioned, apathetic, self-obsessed and prone to boredom. Moreover they are both HIV-positive.
2008 Sundance Film Festival Sponsors
The 2008 Sundance Film Festival sponsors help sustain Sundance Institute's year-round programs to support independent artists, inspire risk-taking, and encourage diversity in the arts. This year's Festival Sponsors include: Presenting Sponsors - Entertainment Weekly, Volkswagen of America, Inc., HP, and Adobe Systems Incorporated; Leadership Sponsors - American Express, Delta Air Lines, DIRECTV, and Microsoft Corporation; Sustaining Sponsors - 360 Vodka, Blockbuster Inc., ChaCha, L'Oréal Paris, The New York Times, Ray-Ban, Sony Electronics, Inc., Stella Artois®, Turning Leaf Vineyards, Utah Film Commission, and ZonePerfect® Nutrition Bars. Sundance Channel is the Official Television Network of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival is the premier showcase for U.S. and international independent film. Held each January in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah, the Festival is a core program of Sundance Institute, a nonprofit cultural organization founded by Robert Redford in 1981.
Presenting dramatic and documentary feature-length films in nine distinct categories and approximately 80 short films each year, the Sundance Film Festival has introduced American audiences to some of the most innovative films of the past two decades. Since 1984, the Festival program has evolved to include music, art, and dialogue. Beyond the streets of Park City, the official website of the Sundance Film Festival, http://www.sundance.org/festival [www.sundance.org], shares the Festival experience with a global audience with short films, filmmaker interviews, video episodes, podcasts, photos, news stories, and more.
Sundance Institute
Dedicated year-round to the development of artists of independent vision and to the exhibition of their new work, Sundance Institute celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2006. Founded by Robert Redford in 1981, the Institute has grown into an internationally recognized resource for thousands of independent artists through its Film Festival and artistic development programs for filmmakers, screenwriters, composers, playwrights, and theatre artists. The original values of independence, creative risk-taking, and discovery continue to define and guide the work of Sundance Institute, both with U.S. artists and, increasingly, with artists from other regions of the world.
UCLA Film & Television Archive
The UCLA Film & Television Archive is internationally renowned for its pioneering efforts to rescue, preserve and showcase moving image media, and is dedicated to ensuring that the collective visual memory of our time is explored and enjoyed for generations to come.
A unique resource for media study, the Archive holds one of the largest collections of moving image media in the United States--second only to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and the largest of any university in the world. Its vaults hold more than 220,000 motion picture and television titles and 27 million feet of newsreel footage. The combined collections represent an all-encompassing media documentation of the 20th century.
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For images, please visit: ftp://ftp.sundance.org [ftp.sundance.org]; Login ID: press; password: SFF08! (all caps).
For More Information Contact:
Tatiana Tensen
Tatiana_Tensen@sundance.org
435.776.7864
Download PDF [www.sundance.org]
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