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Sundance Film Festival · 2010

Sundance Film Festival 2010

Spotlight (Documentary)

New for 2010, the Spotlight section is a tribute to the cinema we love. Regardless of where these impressive films have played throughout the world, the Sundance Film Festival is thrilled to light a marquee for them. We've split the strand into Documentary and Narrative sections for ease of reference.

Programme

8 films

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8: The Mormon Proposition

An examination of the relationship between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the promotion and passage of California's Proposition 8, that denied marriage rights for Gay and Lesbian couples.

(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Reed Cowan; Writer: Reed Cowan; Stars: George Takei, Hal Sparks, Dustin Lance Black, Gavin Newsom, Darren Curtis, Carol Lynn Pearson, Rocky Anderson, Ruben Israel, Emily Pearson, Mark Leno, Gayle Ruzicka, Sarah Nicholson, Melissa Bird, Kate Kendell, Jacob Whipple)

World Premiere

Catfish

An internet flirtation leads to a complicated romance in which things are not as they appear.

(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman)

World Premiere

Climate Refugees

An over-consuming, crowded world, with depleting resources and a changing climate is giving birth to 25 million climate refugees, resulting in a mass global migration and border conflicts.

(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Michael Nash; Writer: Michael Nash; Stars: Lester Brown, Yvo de Boer, Paul Ehrlich, Newt Gingrich, Al Gore, John Kerry, Bert Metz, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Ritter, Gov. Bill Ritter, Ken Salazar, Stephen Schneider, Achim Steiner, Desmond Tutu)

World Premiere

Countdown To Ground Zero

A fascinating and frightening exploration of the dangers of nuclear weapons, exposing a variety of present day threats and featuring insights from a host of international experts and world leaders who advocate total global disarmament.

(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Carsten Oblaender; Writer: Laurie K Miller; Stars: Jake Andolina, Nabil Awad, Mark Bentley, Patricia Talmadge Berry, Adrian Black, Alexander Carney, Shirley Coggon, Tim Colmus, Ray Converse, Chris Cottillo, Richard Cutting, Brandi L. Davis, Hugo Del Granado, John Doty, Brian Dragonuk)

World Premiere

Life 2.0

More than an examination of new technology, the film is foremost an intimate, character-based drama about people whose lives are dramatically transformed by the virtual world called Second Life.

(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Jason Spingarn-Koff)

World Premiere

Teenage Paparazzo

A 13-year-old paparazzi boy snaps a photo of actor Adrian Grenier, leading Grenier to explore the effects of celebrity on culture.

(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Adrian Grenier; Writer: Adrian Grenier; Stars: Alec Baldwin, Drew Barrymore, Lindsay Lohan, Whoopi Goldberg, Kevin Connolly, Adrian Grenier, Eva Longoria Parker, Paris Hilton, Mario López, Martin Landau, Rosie O'Donnell, Lewis Black, Noam Chomsky)

World Premiere

To Catch A Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks On America

Tapping into the success of Muhammad Yunus after winning the Nobel Peace Prize (2006), Grameen America has opened in Queens, NY replicating the banking model program Yunus first started in Bangladesh.

(Country: Bangladesh, US, China, Denmark, Guatemala, Haiti, Indonesia, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Mexico, Norway,; Year: 2009; Director: Gayle Ferraro; Stars: Muhammad Yunus)

World Premiere

Winning Time: Reggie Miller Vs The New York Knicks

Reggie Miller single-handedly crushed the hearts of Knick fans multiple times. But it was the 1995 Eastern Conference Semifinals that solidified Miller as Public Enemy #1 in New York City.

(Year: 2010; Director: Dan Klores)

World Premiere