Fresh start at Sundance – Vietnam Dance

“Filmmakers are undergoing a massive expansion in perspective and aesthetic qualities,” he said Wednesday. “Where once independence meant a detachment, a kind of navel-gazing, that doesn’t exist right now. Instead, there is engagement and innovation. Filmmakers are going out and engaging the real world in terms of subject matter, vision and innovative storytelling.”Old categories of films long a staple of Sundance — the coming-of-age picture or the dysfunctional family drama — are no longer applicable to the competition films in the upcoming festival, Gilmore said. These new films tend to be more optimistic about the future, both politically and personally. Where once the independent world created its films almost in reaction to Hollywood and its happy endings, the new independents are drawing on the traditions of the American independent film itself. So if one thing characterizes Sundance 2007, Gilmore said, it is “freshness.”For the festival — which runs Jan. 18-28 in Park City, Sundance, Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah — programmers looked at a mind-boggling 3,287 feature submissions. That includes 1,852 U.S. films and 1,435 international movies, an increase from the previous year, when 1,764 U.S. features and 1,384 international films were considered.The 122 feature films selected include 82… Read full this story

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