With the
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Film distributors are arriving in
Buyers are keeping their eyes opened for independent movies that have a commercial potential.
Some reports say that some 50,000 will attend the festival this year, the BBC news reports.
The first day of the festival will open with playwright Martin McDonagh’s film debut, “In Bruges” starring Ralph Fiennes, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson.
Farrell plays the role of a hit man who is traveling the Belgian city and waits for instruction from his boss, played by Fiennes. The movie is a dark comedy and is sold as a Farrell movie, who plays nicely the role of a violent hit man.
Among other movies present at the festival are “Choke” with Anjelica Houston, “The Wackness” starring Sir Ben Kingsley who plays a psychiatrist who has a marijuana addiction.
Emily Blunt and Amy Adams star in “Sunshine Cleaning,” and “Mysteries of Pittsburgh,” an adaptation of Michael Chabon is another good movie.
This year the almost 120 movies offer comedy and optimism
rather than the ones from last year, which appeared gloomier, with
Geoffrey Gilmore, the longtime director of the Sundance festival said: “As I watched the films, many of them about families, many of those families dysfunctional, I felt that they were not trying to solve the problems of the world, that it was a more personal group of films.”
Fifty one of the movies come from unknown producers, new to the Sundance scene.
Many of the pictures from this year have social issues.
Question remains if movies from this festival will live to
see the big screen.
Peter Rice, president of Fox Searchlight said: “I think that Sundance is a wonderful place to look for film,” the New York Times informs.
He bought “Waitress” from the last year which did very good.
The festival will provide material for the film industry this year as there is no ending in sight for the writers’ strike.