Sundance Art House Project
SUNDANCE INSTITUTE RENEWS SUCCESSFUL PROJECT WITH ART HOUSE CINEMAS PRESENTING INDEPENDENT FILM SERIES TO LOCAL AUDIENCES NATIONWIDE
Park City, Utah –Sundance Institute announced today the renewal of the popular affiliation with art house cinemas across the country to create specialized screening programs of Sundance films for local audiences. The Sundance Institute Art House Project pairs the Institute with art house theaters in 12 cities ranging from Orlando, FL, and Oklahoma City, OK, to Ann Arbor, MI, and Bellingham, WA. Marking the Institute’s 25 anniversary in 2006, the Sundance Institute Art House Project was designed as a way for the Institute to pay tribute to art houses committed to building audiences for independent film at the local level, the Sundance Institute Art House Project also aims to boost the profiles of the participating theaters and the Sundance Institute itself within AHP communities. The Sundance Institute Art House Project local screening series programmed by the staff of each theatre will include films from the Sundance Film Festival, a core program of Sundance Institute, and films supported by the Sundance Institute.
Each of the twelve theaters will be designated as a Sundance Institute Art House Project theater and will design a customized Sundance screening series for its local art house community. As part of the project, film curators from these theatres are invited to attend the Sundance Film Festival and select the films to bring to their local audiences.
This year, the local programs will include a specially-selected series of short films from the 2007 Sundance Film Festival which screens at the museum’s Noble Theater November 8 to 11.
"As the second year of our Sundance Institute Art House Project gets underway, we’re excited to be collaborating with these twelve theaters again to provide unique and outstanding programs from the Sundance Film Festival that show the skill and imagination of independent filmmakers to audiences across the country," said John Cooper, Director of Programming, Sundance Film Festival. “Through our partnership with theaters that already have strong reputations for programming independent films, the Sundance Institute Art House Project allows us to further the Institute's long-term goal of continuing to build year-round audiences for independent film outside of the Festival. We're especially happy that the Sundance Institute Art House Project this year will focus on a program of short films from the 2007 SFF, extending our year-round support of short films."
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is the premier showcase for American and international independent film. Held each January in and around Park City, Utah, the Festival is a core program of Sundance Institute, a nonprofit cultural organization founded by Robert Redford in 1981.
Presenting 120 dramatic and documentary feature-length films in nine distinct categories, and 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, including sex, lies, and videotape, Clerks, Smoke Signals, In the Bedroom, American Splendor, Napoleon Dynamite, Born into Brothels, and Me and You and Everyone We Know. Beyond the streets of Park City, the official Web site of the Sundance Film Festival, www.sundance.org, shares the Festival experience with a global audience through the streaming of short films and filmmaker interviews, combined with current news and box office information.
Sundance Institute
Dedicated year-round to the development of artists of independent vision and to the exhibition of their new work, Sundance Institute celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2006. Since its inception, the Institute has grown into an internationally recognized resource for thousands of independent artists through its Sundance Film Festival and artistic development programs which provide a range of concentrated creative and financial support for fiction and nonfiction filmmakers, screenwriters, documentary film editors, composers, playwrights and theatre artists. The original values of independence, creative diversity, and discovery continue to define and guide the work of Sundance Institute, both with artists in the U.S. and, increasingly, with artists from other regions of the world.
