The Sundance Film Festival has announced the roster of short films that will be featured during its 2001 event, including "The Big House," directed by actress Rachel Ward.
January's Sundance festival will showcase 65 short film works during its 11-day run. Those works will either precede feature-length films or be screened in one of the festival's five Shorts Programs and will be eligible for Sundance's Special Recognition Award in Short Filmmaking.
"The shorts this year represent what a melting pot we truly are," said festival programmer Trevor Groth. "A number of these films were created in the United States by filmmakers from such homelands as the Czech Republic, Greece, Korea, Poland, Russia, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, to name a few."
This year's short selections are:
"The Anchor Man," directed by Christopher Summa; "And Now Happiness," Tung Wang Wu; "And She Wasn't," directed by Asio Liu and Awei Liu; Bridget Bedard's "Baby"; "Baby" (U.K.), W.I.Z.; "Because of Mama," Serguei Bassine; Lief Tilden's "Big Love"; "Bit Players," Andy Berman; "Closer," Tina Gharavi; "Damages," Marianne Dolan; "Delusion in Modern Primitivism," Daniel Loftin; Tom Megalis' "Detroit Jewel"; "Did I Wake You?" Venus DeMilo Thomas; "Donuts for Breakfast," Felicity Morgan-Rhino; "Drink Me," Lisa Barnstone; Scott Coffey's "Ellie Parker"; "Erased," Jay Rosenstein; "Football," Gaby Dellal; "Forrest Views," Bart Vegter; and "Four P.M.," directed by Samantha Bakhurst and Lea Morement.
Other shorts to be screened at the festival include "Giina, an Actress, Age 29," by Paul Harrell; "Gone Underground," Su Turhan; "Goulash," Mimi Zora; "Grandma," Sungyeon Joh; "Greatest Show on Earth," Anne Paas; Kara Herold's "grrlyshow"; "Gulp," Jason Reitman; "Helicopter," Ari Gold; "In Search of Mike," Andrew Lancaster; "Infection," James Cunningham; Dean Kapsalis' "Jigsaw Venus"; "Lint People," Helder King Sun; "The Little Big," Pierre Yves Clouin; "Member," David Brooks; Jonah Hall's "Metropopular"; "Miguel," Henry Lu; "Motorcycle," Aditya Assarat; "Mountain Trip," Siegried A. Fruhauf; "Mullitt," Pat Healy; Sarah Rogaeki's "Muse 6"; and "Nine Live (The Eternal Moment of Now," by Jay Rosenblatt.
Per Fronth's "Ode to a Hunter" will also be shown, as will "Offside," Leanna Creel; "Outlet," Robert C.
Banks, Jr.; "Pate," Agnieszka Wostowicz-Vosloo; Laura Levine's "Peekaboo Sunday"; "Peter Rabbit and the Crucifix," Anthony Dominici; "Pie Fight 69," Christian Bruno and Sam Green; "Rejected," Don Hertzfeldt; Tinge Krishnan's "Shadowscan"; "Shoot," Tiffany Mclinn Lore; "Silent Mercury," Jadrien Ford Steele; Mark Street's "Sliding off the Edge of the World"; "Spotless," Jessica Nilsson; "Story Telling," Guillaume Malandrin; "Sweet," Elyse Courillion; "Synchro," Kristen Nutile; Lorenza Manrique's "There is no Remedy"; "This is for You, Spike/The 99ers," Ed Haas; "3D," Pete Chatmon; "Tom Clay Jesus," Hoang A. Duong; JC Brady's "Wild Pasture"; and "Zen and the Art of Landscaping," by David Kartch.
The festival will run Jan. 18-28 in a variety of Park City, Salt Lake and Ogden sites and at the Sundance resort in Provo Canyon. For information on local ticket packages, call 322-4033 during normal business hours.