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2006 Sundance Film Festival
The 2006 Sundance Film Festival was held in Utah from January 19, to January 29, 2006. It was held in Park City, with screenings in Salt Lake City; Ogden; and the Sundance Resort. It was the 22nd iteration of the Sundance Film Festival, and the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Sundance Institute. The opening night film was ''Friends with Money''; the closing night film was ''Alpha Dog''. Award winners The official announcement of the winners can be founhere *Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - ''God Grew Tired of Us'' *Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - ''Quinceañera'' *World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary - '' In The Pit'' *World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic - '' 13 Tzameti'' *Audience Award: Documentary - ''God Grew Tired of Us'' *Audience Award: Dramatic - ''Quinceañera'' *World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - ''De Nadie'' *World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - '' No. 2'' *Documentary Directing Award - James Longley director of ''Iraq in Fragments'' *Dramatic Directing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friends With Money
''Friends with Money'' is a 2006 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Nicole Holofcener. It opened the 2006 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2006, and went into limited release in North America on April 7, 2006. Plot Olivia is a single, always broke woman who cleans houses in Los Angeles to make ends meet. She is in a group of wealthy friends consisting of: Franny – a stay at home mom with a large trust fund, Christine – a television writer, Jane – a fashion designer, and their husbands. While the disparity in financial situations between Olivia and her friends creates some friction, each woman is facing her own individual struggles. Olivia can't seem to find love or money. Franny's inheritance sometimes causes tension between her and her accountant husband, who likes to spend it. Christine's marriage is falling apart. Jane is increasingly unpleasant because she's not growing old gracefully. Together, these women attend charity benefits, ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Longley (Documentary Film Maker)
James Bertrand Longley is an American filmmaker. Career His work includes the documentary, ''Gaza Strip'', released in 2002. His production, ''Iraq in Fragments'', presents a view of Iraq and Iraqis during the first two years of Iraq War. It was awarded three jury awards at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, but lost to ''An Inconvenient Truth''. His short film '' Sari's Mother'' premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short but lost to ''Freeheld''. In 2009, Longley was awarded a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant." Between 2007 and 2009 Longley was working on a film in Iran. The film was cut short during the time of the elections and ensuing protests in June, 2009. On Sunday, June 14, ''The New York Times'' Lede blog reported he "was arrested with his translator while interviewing people on a street in Tehran, near the Interior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eve & The Fire Horse
''Eve and the Fire Horse'' is a 2005 Canadian film written and directed by Julia Kwan. It won the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Claude Jutra Award The John Dunning Best First Feature Award is a special Canadian film award, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the year's best feature film by a first-time film director. Under the earlier names Claude Jutra Award and Ca ... for the best feature film by a first-time film director in Canada. Plot Eve, a precocious nine-year-old with an overactive imagination, was born in the Year of the Fire Horse, notorious among Chinese families for producing the most troublesome children. Dinners around Eve's family table are a raucous affair, where old world propriety and new world audacity mix in even measure. But as summer approaches, it seems like Eve's carefree childhood days are behind her. When her mother chops down their apple tree — a superstitious omen — bad luck worms its way into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dear Pyongyang
''Dear Pyongyang'' is a documentary film by Zainichi Korean director Yang Yong-hi () about her family. Shot in Osaka, Japan (Yang's hometown) and Pyongyang, North Korea, the film features Korean and Japanese dialogue with subtitles. The US release has Korean and Japanese dialogue with English subtitles. In August 2006, Yang released a book in Japanese under the same title expanding on the themes she explored in the film. Story In the 1970s, Yang's father, an ardent communist and leader of the pro-North movement in Japan, sent his three sons from Japan to North Korea under a repatriation campaign sponsored by ethnic activist organisation and de facto North Korean embassy Chongryon. As the only daughter, Yang remained in Japan. However, as the economic situation in the North deteriorated, the brothers became increasingly dependent for survival on the care packages sent by their parents. The film shows Yang's visits to her brothers in Pyongyang, as well as conversations with her fat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Into Great Silence
''Into Great Silence'' (german: Die große Stille) is a 2005 documentary film directed by Philip Gröning. An international co-production between France, Switzerland and Germany, it is an intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, a monastery high in the French Alps (Chartreuse Mountains). Production Gröning proposed the idea for the film to the monks in 1984, but the Carthusians said they wanted time to think about it. They responded to him 16 years later to say they were willing to permit him to shoot the movie if he was still interested. Gröning then came alone to live at the monastery, and to stay in the enclosure, where except of the order's aspirants no visitors are allowed, for a total of six months in 2002 and 2003. He filmed and recorded on his own, using no artificial light. Afterwards, he spent two and a half years editing the film. The final cut contains neither spoken commentary nor added sound effects. It consists of imag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Between Days (film)
''In Between Days'' ( ko, 방황의 날들, italic=yes) is a 2006 drama film directed by So Yong Kim about a young girl from Korea and her coming of age in her new surroundings. The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was released into select theaters on June 27, 2007. Plot Aimie is a teenage Korean immigrant newly transplanted to the snow-bound city of Toronto with her divorced mother. She experiences difficulty in adapting to her dreary new environment and misses her father back in Korea. One of her lone sources of comfort is her best friend Tran, who is also a Korean immigrant but is more Assimilation (sociology), assimilated than her. Aimie starts to harbor feelings for Tran but also isn’t sure she wants to be his girlfriend, and the two are confronted with their ambivalent romantic feelings for one another. This manifests in mixed communication between the two teens, wherein one expects the other to read his or her mind, often followed by passive-aggressiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Blackout
''American Blackout'' (2006) is a documentary film directed by Ian Inaba. It premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. The film chronicles the 2002 defeat, and 2004 reelection, of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney to the U.S. House of Representatives; it also discusses issues surrounding alleged voter disenfranchisement and the use of voting machines in both the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. Background The film focuses heavily on McKinney, and claims that her 2002 loss in a Democratic primary to Denise Majette (who, like McKinney, is African-American) was part of an effort to disenfranchise minority voters. McKinney claims that Republican voters in her district tipped the primary election to Majette. This itself is legal, as Georgia law opens primaries to all voters irrespective of party. After losing, McKinney filed a lawsuit claiming that open primaries are a violation of the 14th Amendment, but a court dismissed the case. The film also includes civil rights lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Daley
''Stephanie Daley'' — retitled ''What She Knew'' for US television — is a 2006 drama film starring Amber Tamblyn, Melissa Leo, Tilda Swinton and Timothy Hutton. The film, which received a limited release in North America on April 20, 2007, focuses on the issue of teenage pregnancy. ''Stephanie Daley'' was developed at the Sundance Writers' and Filmmakers' Lab and premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. The film also earned Tamblyn a nomination for Best Supporting Female at the 2006 Independent Spirit Awards and the Leopard Prize for Best Actress at the 2006 Locarno Film Festival. Plot In a small town in upstate New York, sixteen-year-old Stephanie Daley collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers there is afterbirth in the blood. Soon afterward, the body of a 26 weeks-old baby girl is found in a bathroom stall, its mouth blocked with toilet paper. Despite Stephanie's insis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilary Brougher
Hilary Brougher is a screenwriter and director based in New York City. She is known for her 2006 feature film ''Stephanie Daley'' starring Tilda Swinton and Melissa Leo. Career Brougher's career began in 1996, when she wrote and directed her first feature film, '' The Sticky Fingers of Time.'' The film was an official selection at the Venice, Rotterdam, SXSW, and Toronto International Film Festivals. It was released theatrically in the U.S. in 1997. In 2006, she released her second feature ''Stephanie Daley'', starring Tilda Swinton, Amber Tamblyn, Melissa Leo, Tim Hutton and Denis O’Hare. The film won several accolades, including the ''Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award'' at the Sundance Film Festival. Amber Tamblyn received ''Best Actress'' at Locarno Film Festival for her role in the film as a sixteen-year-old girl accused of killing her newborn child. The film was bought by Lifetime Television and the title was changed to ''What She Knew''. In 2014, Brougher worked as directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Right At Your Door
''Right at Your Door'' is a 2006 American thriller film about a couple and follows the events surrounding them when multiple dirty bombs detonate in Los Angeles. Chris Gorak both wrote the screenplay and directed the film in his writing and directorial debuts. It was first screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2006, where it won the award for Excellence in Cinematography. Plot Brad (Rory Cochrane), an out-of-work musician, is home by himself one morning while his wife, Lexi (Mary McCormack), is at work. He hears on the radio that several suspected dirty bombs have been detonated across Los Angeles, and sees large amounts of smoke rising from the city. Brad tries to contact Lexi through her cell phone, but only receives a busy signal, and when he tries to drive out to find her, he discovers that all roads now have police blockades, forcing him to return home. Once home, Brad sees Alvaro (Tony Perez), in the house. Alvaro asks Brad if he can stay with him as there is no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Richmond (cinematographer)
Thomas Richmond (January 18, 1950 – July 29, 2022) was an American cinematographer who worked in the film industry since the mid-1980s. His first major feature film as cinematographer was ''Stand and Deliver'' (1988), and by the time he shot for ''A Midnight Clear'' (1992), he had settled into working with different directors with ease. Richmond described his experience, "All my films look different because they're not my visions; they're my reflections of the directors' visions." In 1998, he said he was most proud of his work on '' Little Odessa'' (1994), for which he was nominated an Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography. For ''Right at Your Door'' (2006), he won the Excellence in Cinematography Award (Dramatic) at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Richmond earned an undergraduate degree in photography at Harvard University and then went to graduate film school at UCLA. He also went to the American Film Institute's AFI Conservatory and graduated in 1979. He became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |