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This limited edition, special collectors' DVD set celebrates 25 years of the Sundance Institute. It contains ten ground-breaking films that embody the sprit of independence, creative risk-taking, and diversity that define the Sundance Film Festival. Bonus materials include a booklet and an 11th disc with behind-the-scenes footage from the Sundance Institute Labs and never-before-seen interviews with filmmakers and founder Robert Redford.
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Our Sundance Film Festival DVD pack contains three great films that have been featured at the Sundance Film Festival. These films include MONSTER THURSDAY from Norway, MANITO from the USA, and ALI ZAOUA from Morocco.
MONSTER THURSDAY: Even leads a directionless life; he's kind of guy who never completes anything. Tord, his best friend, is the opposite: a great surfer with a prestigious job and beautiful Karen as his bride. The last part is especially hard on Even, who is not-so-secretly in love with Karen. When Tord asks him to look after Karen while he is out of town, Even decides to clean up and master surfing to impress her. At first he's a prime candidate for drowning, but a local surfing legend becomes his mentor, and Even, Tord and Karen end up on a collision course with the monster wave. Official Selection - Sundance Film Festival. In Norwegian with English subtitles.
"Monster Thursday marks the emergence of an electrifying new voice in Scandinavian cinema" --Trevor Groth, Sundance Film Festival.
MANITO: Manito chronicles the life of a family in Washington Heights, a vibrant Latino community still living under the legacy of an era shadowed by drugs and violence. Manny (Leo Minaya) is the salutatorian of his high school class, about to escape that same legacy that had forced his older brother Junior Moreno (rising star Frankie G.) to spend time in prison. Winner - Sundance, Tribeca and South by Southwest Film Festivals.
"Mr. Eason, using a hand-held camera and a largely new or nonprofessional cast, brilliantly captures the pulse of daily life in working-class, immigrant New York: the hectic rhythms of labor, leisure and family life, the stresses and pleasures, the anxieties and hopes." --A.O. Scott, New York Times.
ALI ZAOUA: Ali, Kwita, Omar, and Boubker are a group of street urchins living on the hard streets of Casablanca. Their everyday lives are filled with violence, begging, and indifference. In order to survive they create a bond of friendship and family between then. The bond is cut short when Ali is senselessly killed at the beginning of the film by a blow to the head; his life taken by a single act of a rival gang. Ali's friends decide not to report his death to the police, who would have the boy buried in a potter's field. Instead they decide to give him a worthy burial, to bury Ali on the private island he so often dreamed of. Official Selection - Sundance, Toronto, Berlin and Seattle Film Festivals. In Arabic with English subtitles.
"Director Nabil Ayouch takes a subject that could be thoroughly depressing (the life of street kids in Morocco's port city of Casablanca) and -- through a simple story line, dramatic acting and National Geographic-like shots of the city's rough and pristine edges -- creates cinematic magic." --Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle
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An incredible collection of shorts featuring Verne Troyer in Bit Players directed by Andy Berman; a bittersweet comedy, um, short targeting Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory as seen from Oompa Loompa?s point-of-view. Collection also includes Daniel Loflin?s Delusions in Modern Primitivism, Fits & Starts, directed by Vince Di Meglio, proclaimed in a 5-star review: "Jesus, I?m still laughing, the funniest short I?ve ever seen!" ? Eric Campos, Film Threat. Collection also features Love Thy Brother by Ralph Macchio, Neo-Noir directed by Chase Palmer and Mullitt by Pat Healy.
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Always wanted to be at Sundance? Well here?s your ticket.
INDEPENDENT?S DAY gets behind the scenes at Sundance, Slamdance, and even the Slumdance film festivals in Park City, Utah to reveal the amusing and engaging stories of the maverick filmmakers who
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Fifteen unforgettable documentaries from the last 20 years of critically acclaimed P.O.V. films are packaged together for the first time in this beautiful, limited edition set.
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Go behind the scenes of the Sundance Film Festival in Issue 1 of FILM-FEST. The DVD magazine that's your virtual ticket to the best films and film festivals in the world. Rub elbows with Robert Redford, Robert Altman, Laura Dern, Dustin Hoffman, Tim Roth, Sheryl Crow, Stuart Copeland, Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Steve Zahn, Illeana Douglas and Eric Stoltz. Check out 7 of the best short films from the festival circuit, including the ultra-realistic Genie-Award winning animation, Bingo. (Short films included in issue 1 include - Culture (Ari Gold), Bingo (Chris Landreth), The Clock (Noah Laracy), An Incident Near Falaise (Aaron Feldman), Whacked (Rolf Gibbs)). In the "Coming Soon" section, you'll see previews, trailers and featurettes of Ravenous, Run Lola Run and Three Seasons.
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Great Britain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD:it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Short Film,SYNOPSIS: Documentary which looks at the luxury legalised brothel in Nevada called the Chicken Ranch, 70 miles from Las Vegas and the lives of the prostitutes who work there. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Sundance Film Festival,
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New Zealand released, PAL/Region 4 DVD:it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),Vietnamese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),English ( Subtitles ),SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access,SYNOPSIS: Winner of an unprecedented three major awards at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival (including the Grand Jury, Audience and Cinematography awards), this first feature by 26-year-old Tony Bui is a poetic narrative about the "new" Vietnam, and is the first American independent film to be shot on location in that country. The film weaves three separate stories about four characters in Saigon and how their paths cross. In the first, a young Vietnamese woman is working for a reclusive writer who has lost his fingers to leprosy. As she sings, her master becomes infatuated with her and finds inspiration in her music, just as she finds inspiration in his words. Their union in one of song, love, friendship and aid. Second is Hai, a cyclo driver who falls for a young prostitute with high ambitions. After saving her from a few hostile clients, she lets him drive her around. Eventually Hai enters a cyclo race in hopes of winning enough money to spend one night with his beloved. Finally, a young boy named Woody sells gum, watches and lighters to passers-by in the streets. In a bar he meets an American soldier (played by Harvey Keitel) who is searching for his missing daughter. When Woody suspects the G.I. of stealing his suitcase, he goes looking. What he finds is best left unanswered.
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Australia released, PAL/Region 0 DVD:it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu,SYNOPSIS: The wife of a wealthy man hatches a plan to gain his inheritance by murdering her unsuspecting husband. She is helped by the sniveling man with whom she's having an affair. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Sundance Film Festival,
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Australia released, PAL/Region 0 DVD:it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access,SYNOPSIS: 84 Charlie Mopic offers the Vietnam experience as seen through the eyes of a combat photographer (Mopic is slang for the Army Motion Picture Unit). Byron Thames plays a combat cameraman who has already been on two tours of duty; he goes on a third because he is intrigued by a reel of film found on the body of a dead photographer. Thames must answer to green lieutenant Jonathan Emerson and experienced sergeant Richard Brooks. In straight-on, non-judgemental fashion, we are shown the day-to-day struggle to stay alive, meeting the main characters in the natural course of action. As the mission winds down, Thames is compelled to abandon his camera to rescue a fellow soldier; as a result, yet another roll of film returns to headquarters without the photographer. 84 Charlie Mopic isn't about politics or collective guilt; it's about survival. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Sundance Film Festival,
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