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| Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan in The Trip To Italy |
The line-up includes 21 feature films and 18 shorts, which collectively received 12 awards when they premiere at Sundance in Utah. Films featured include the 2013 Audience and Grand Jury winner Fruitvale Station and this year's US Documentary Directing award winner The Case Against 8. A focus on UK film will see screenings of blackly comic drama Frank and Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's The Trip To Italy.
Among the filmmakers expected to attend are Ryan Coogler, David Cross, Rose McGowan and Marjane Satrapi. All screenings will take place at Cineworld at The O2.
Music will again feature heavily at the festival. Archive has been announced as the first headlining music act. Several of the films, both documentaries and narrative, look at the power of music, and in conjunction with screenings of Finding Fela, the festival will host a free performance from Dele Sosimi, one of the original members of Fela Kuti’s band, alongside an Afrobeat orchestra. The Art of Film Music panel will discuss the process of composing original music for films, and musician and collaborator on The Big Melt Jarvis Cocker will join the Hybrid Vigour Documentary panel alongside former Orange Juice frontman Edwyn Collins, which will explore how British documentary is pushing the boundaries in challenging the genres of music, biography and archive film.
Also, free live music performances organised by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) will take place in The Hub at Brooklyn Bowl for pass and ticket holders aged 18 and older during the festival.
Sundance founder Robert Redford said: “That audiences in London have responded so positively to the films presented at the first two Sundance London festivals speaks to the power and universality of the stories told by our artists as well as the audience’s openness to exploring new ideas.”
Sundance director John Cooper added: “The programme of films and panels for Sundance London builds on the success of our 2014 Sundance Film Festival by connecting this work with an international audience for the first time. We are excited to return this year and present a line-up of films and music with uniquely independent perspectives on our world.”
Read more about the films in each section below:
