October 22, 2019
THE DEVIL’S HARMONY
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Kiera is being bullied at school. She’s the nerdish captain of the a cappella club and an easy target. Or so it seems. In fact, her a cappella club possess a secret, supernatural power: when they sing the ‘Devil’s Harmony’, listeners are sent into a state of catatonic, never-ending sleep. Using this power, she...
October 22, 2019
CORPUS CHRISTI (BOŻE CIAŁO)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription POLAND OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM OSCAR® SUBMISSION Talent attending: Jan Komasa (Director), Piotr Sobociński (Director of Photography) After he is released from a brutally violent juvenile detention center, Daniel disguises himself as a priest and hides out in a dysfunctional small town. Reeling from a recent series of horrific deaths, the townspeople welcome Daniel,...
October 22, 2019
DEEP TISSUE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A woman orders a special massage. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Bios Meredith Alloway is a Texan who currently resides in NYC as a filmmaker and writer. Her short RIDE is streaming in collaboration with Hulu + Sundance Institute. DEEP TISSUE, which she wrote, directed and stars in, premiered at SXSW 2019. She has...
October 22, 2019
THE CROWN AND A TRIBUTE TO PETER MORGAN
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription US Premiere For the third season of the award-winning original series, Oscar® winner Olivia Colman takes on the iconic role of Queen Elizabeth II while Tobias Menzies steps into the role of Prince Philip and Helena Bonham Carter is Princess Margaret. These incredible actors embrace their new roles at the peak of the series’...
October 22, 2019
DEERSKIN
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Purchasing a vintage, fringed deerskin jacket, George slips it on, gazes at himself and says with fervent ecstasy, “Killer style,” foreshadowing violent deeds to come. The shopkeeper also gifts him an old camcorder for good measure. From here, Georges — played with unhinged abandon by Jean Dujardin (THE ARTIST) — goes from existential midlife...
October 22, 2019
DESERT ONE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Talent attending: Barbara Kopple (Director) On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian students, irate over President Jimmy Carter’s decision to grant asylum to the deposed Shah of Iran, stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and seized over 60 American hostages. After months of failed negotiations with Iran’s new leader (the radical cleric Ayatollah...
October 22, 2019
CLEMENCY
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Talent attending: Chinonye Chukwu (Director), Aldis Hodge (Talent), Alfre Woodard (Talent) Commanding the screen, Alfre Woodard plays Bernadine Williams, a stoic prison warden challenged with overseeing death row executions. She navigates the physiological complexities and consequences of regularly taking a life, treating her profession with discipline and the inmates with dignity. As the invisible...
October 22, 2019
CHILD
DescriptionBiosContactDescription In the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, a young mother struggles to connect to her new baby. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 4 Bios Talia Zucker is a Sundance Screenwriters Lab fellow. Her short film, CHILD, was developed through the AFI Directing Workshop for Women. CHILD will have its world premiere as one of 12 shorts in...
October 22, 2019
CITIZEN K
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Talent attending: John-Paul Bernbach (Executive Producer), Alex Gibney (Director) In this penetrating and gripping documentary, Academy Award®-winning director Alex Gibney charts the fascinating rise and fall —and surprising resurgence — of former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Khodorkovsky formed Yukos, which rapidly became Russia’s...
October 22, 2019
THE CLINIC
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Amidst a devastating opioid epidemic, a needle exchange and free clinic operates in the shadows of Fresno, California. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Bios Elivia Shaw is an award-winning filmmaker from Washington, DC. She is driven by filmmaking that uses intimacy and personal narrative to question our larger social systems and cultural identities. Her...
