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3 unusual facts about Sundance


Sundance, Manitoba

Sundance was a community near the Nelson River in Northern Manitoba that was constructed starting in 1975 to house the workers (and families) of the Limestone Dam project, who were employees of Manitoba Hydro, GE and other companies.

Sundance, Wyoming

Robert Redford, who portrayed Longabaugh in the movie, later named the Sundance Ski Resort, near Provo, Utah, and the Sundance Film Festival after this character.

After his release from the Sundance Jail in 1888, Harry Longabaugh acquired the moniker the Sundance Kid, which entered the popular imagination in the 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which won several Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay.


2003 Sundance Film Festival

At the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, unseasonably warm weather attracted record numbers of attendees, among them singing artist Bob Dylan.

A Jihad for Love

A Jihad for Love is produced by Halal Films, in association with the Sundance Documentary Fund, Channel 4 Television (UK), ZDF (Germany), Arte (France-Germany), Logo (US) and SBS (Australia).

Al-Zain Sabah Al-Naser Al-Sabah

Al-Zain also held a co-production role in the multiple award-winning film “Amreeka”, which was an official selection at multiple film festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, and Cairo Film Festival.

Alex Kotlowitz

Between 2008 and 2011 Kotlowitz worked with documentary production studio Kartemquin Films and Hoop Dreams director Steve James as a producer on the documentary The Interrupters, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 to widespread critical acclaim.

Chanda Dancy

Music by Chanda has been heard all over the world in such festivals as Cannes Film Festival, Jackson Hole Film Festival, Sapporo Short Film Festival, Slamdance, Sundance and Pangea Day 2008.

Christine Sciulli

A recent collaboration featured her video and light work for the Mabou Mines waterfront piece, “Song for New York: What Women Do While Men Sit Knitting” by Ruth Maleczech, which was developed during her Sundance Institute Theatre Lab Residency at White Oak, Florida.

Dante Di Loreto

His production credits include Pretty/Handsome, My Louisiana Sky, Temple Grandin and Die, Mommie, Die!, which was awarded the Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize.

Deborah Kampmeier

The Sundance Film Festival organizer, Geoffrey Gilmore, praised Kampmeier for trying to cover "challenging material".

Duane

Duane Hopwood, a 2005 film featured in the Sundance Film Festival

Esther Bell

Godass (2000), starring Julianne Nicholson, Fred Schneider of the B-52's, and Tina Holmes, sold and screened on Showtime and Sundance Channel.

Frank Deal

He has appeared in the films: "Non-Stop", The Corrections, The Bourne Legacy, The Bay, Black Dog/Red Dog, Deception, Able Danger, The House Is Burning (Cannes), Flannel Pajamas (Sundance), and Body/Antibody.

Goodbye, Dolly Gray

The tune (with different lyrics) is also used in the modern day as "Good Old Collingwood Forever", the club song of the Australian Football League's Collingwood Football Club (coincidentally, in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, they joke about moving to Australia at the end).

Hilary McKay

Sundance got his nickname because Perry and Ant used to play Butch Cassidy, and Sundance was always the Sundance Kid.

Hotel de Paree

Sundance wore a string of polished silver discs in the band of his black Stetson, which often blinded his adversaries.

J. J. Lask

In 2007 Lask's first feature film On The Road With Judas starring Kevin Corrigan, Eddie Kaye Thomas and Aaron Ruell debuted at the 2007 Sundance Festival.

James T. Williams II

Jim has also appeared in films, including Gus Van Sant's critically acclaimed Finding Forrester and several independent films, including the Sundance Film Festival Official Selections Rhythm of the Saints, and This Revolution.

Ken Talbot

On Saturday, 19 June 2010, Talbot was on a chartered flight between Yaoundé, Cameroon and Congo with fellow Sundance Resources executives Geoff Wedlock, Don Lewis, John Carr-Gregg, John Jones and Craig Oliver, when the plane went missing.

Kyle Henry

Henry was the editor of the Best Narrative Feature winner at Tribeca and at South by Southwest and Sundance Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast, Manito (2001), and nine feature documentaries including the 2012 Emmy Award winning Where Soldiers Come From (2010), for which he also received, with director Heather Courtney, the Best Documentary Editing Award at SXSW in 2011.

Luis García Postigo

The film is directed by Miguel A. Reina, who was also responsible for the Sundance film Un aliado en el tiempo.

Michael J. Weithorn

In 2006, he co-created (with Nick Bakay) the Comedy Central animated web series The Adventures of Baxter and McGuire, an episode of which was also shown at the Sundance Film Festival.

Midnapore, Calgary

Midnapore has a mall, the Midnapore Mall, a community centre that it shares with the adjacent community of Sundance, as well as many fast food restaurants including McDonalds, Wendy's, Tim Hortons, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut.

Mike Pallagi

He has worked for clients like Nintendo, Arizona State Fair, JCPenney, McDonald's, InSinkErator, The Arizona Republic, Dremel, Bank of America, General Electric, and others; as a producer of the Crispin Glover film What Is It? (which played at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival); and as a freelance script doctor on several independent features.

Mother of George

Cinematographer Bradford Young won Sundance 2013's Cinematography Award: U.S. Dramatic for his work on this film and Ain't Them Bodies Saints.

No Fog West Theater Company

Through their approach to theater and attention received from The Laramie Project, No Fog West's board of directors met with theater professionals from around the country, including Philip Himberg from Sundance Theater and Nancy Borgenicht, co-creater of Saturday's Voyeur, who guided them in the planning of their second production, a summer 2008 tour of Talking to Terrorists by Robin Soans.

P. David Ebersole

He directed the boxing film "Straight Right" (2000) that premiered on Sundance Channel, and was a director on two telenovelas for Fox Television airing on My Network TV, Desire (2006) and Wicked Wicked Games (2007) starring Tatum O'Neal.

Patrick Stettner

He went on to direct and write the screenplay for The Business of Strangers in 2001, which earned him a Grand Jury Prize nomination at the Sundance Film Festival of that year and earned lead actress Stockard Channing an AFI nomination for Best Female Actress.

Prashant Bhargava

Bhargava has designed effects sequences for Alex Rivera's feature Sleep Dealer (Berlin, Sundance) and directed music videos and promos for bands Cornershop, Talib Kweli and Missy Elliott.

Presidio Graduate School

Simran Sethi, a journalist who has hosted and appeared on programs produced by the BBC, Martha Stewart, NBC, NPR, Sundance Channel’s The Green, Oprah, and PBS, is a graduate of Presidio Graduate School.

Rebeca Mauleon

In 2001 she was the recipient of the prestigious Meet the Composer New Residencies Award, one of the nation's most coveted composition awards, and has also been a Sundance Composers fellow.

Rejected

Rejected returned to movie theaters in 2006 as part of the Sundance Institute's 25th anniversary "Art House Project", a special screening series of Sundance films for local audiences nationwide.

Signe Baumane

Her films have been screened at important film festivals such as Annecy, Tribeca, Sundance, Berlin, Ottawa, Venice and they have received numerous awards.

Sundance Cinemas

The first cinema, Sundance 608, opened May 11, 2007 at the Hilldale Shopping Center in Madison, Wisconsin, and contains six stadium-seated auditoriums, along with a cafe, bistro, bar, rooftop bar, and Gallery 608, which sells local and Sundance-related arts and merchandise.

Sundance Cinema's third theater is located within the Bayou Place development in downtown Houston, Texas.

Tequan Richmond

Richmond made his 2013 Sundance Film Festival debut with a performance as Beltway sniper Lee Boyd Malvo in "Blue Caprice." The film sold to Sundance Select/IFC Films and opened New Directors/New Films Festival at MoMA in 2013.

Terry Danko

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The American Astronaut

The American Astronaut was workshopped in 1998 at the Sundance Writers’ Lab while still in screenplay form.

Tom Brook

The longevity of the series has also allowed Brook to report from some of the world’s top film festivals, including Cannes, Sundance, and Toronto.

Warner Premiere

After the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, Warner announced through Warner Premiere that the movie Spring Breakdown would be released straight-to-DVD on April 9 according to Home Media Magazine.

Wayne Wilcox

He has a small role in the movie "Interview" with Steve Buscemi and Sienna Miller, which had its U.S. premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.


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