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Expanding to a full ten days, the House of Docs features several new programs, the Reel Gem and Coffee Series, the Work in Progress Lab, the House of Docs Photo Gallery, in addition to the panels, labs, exhibits, roundtables, screenings screen-ings and one-on-one discussions designed to benefit documentary filmmakers throughout the Festival. The House of Docs, located at Gateway (across from the Main Box Office), will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 19 through Saturday, Jan. 27. All Festival participants are welcome. wel-come. "The timing was right for the Sundance Institute to support documentary doc-umentary film," said Nicole Guillemet, Co-Director of Sundance Film Festival. "The House of Docs was created to open doors and provide the best opportunities oppor-tunities and resources for documentary docu-mentary filmmakers." The expanded House of Docs features several new programs: The Reel Gem and Coffee Series offers screenings of forgotten or never-seen documentaries present ed at 10:00 am by a guest documentary documen-tary filmmaker in the House of Docs Video Screening Room. The Work in Progress Lab invites filmmakers from outside the Film Festival to screen their rough work to a select group of advisors and discuss its possibility and vision. The House of Docs Gallery, sponsored by DoubleTake magazine, maga-zine, will exhibit documentary stills photographs by Alice Attie, Wendy Ewald, David Turnley, Susan Meiselas, Ashley Mitchell, Tom Roma and Fazal Shiekh. The exhibit is on display throughout the Festival. Returning House of Doc programs pro-grams include the following House of Docs Roundtables: Moderated by Betsy McLane, Director Emeritus of International Documentary Association. Panelists include Jon Else, FilmmakerProfessor, Ruby Lerner, Creative Capital, Michael Shirley, National Endowment for the Humanities, Lois Vossen, Independent Television Service, Diane Weyermann, Soros Documentary Fund of the Open Society Institute, Cleo Wilson, Playboy Foundation. Filmmaker to filmmaker Roundtable The Creative Process. Moderated by Jon Else, FilmmakerProfessor. Panelists include Documentary Filmmakers, Sundance Film Festival. Roundtable: The Broadcast Arena Moderated by Patricia Boero, Former Director, International Program Sundance Institute. Panelists include Nancy Abraham, HBUCinemax, K.J. cuner, Filmmaker, Cheryl Jones, PBS, Lynne Kirby, Court TV, Liz Manne, Sundance Channel. Roundtable: Surviving and Thriving-Docs Then and Now Moderated by Geoff Gilmore, Codirector, Sundance Film Festival. Panelists include George Butler, The Endurance; Susan Froemke and Albert Maysles, LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton; William Greaves, Ralph Bunche; Barbara Hammer, History Lessons; Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker, Startup.com. Theatrical Distribution Roundtable Moderated by Steve Rothenberg, Artisan Entertainment. Panelists include Fenton Bailey, Filmmaker, Udy Epstein, Seventh Arts Releasing, Steve Friedlander, Fine Line Features, Suzanne Fedak, Winstar Cinema, Mark Urman, Lions Gate Films. International Marketplace Roundtable Moderated by Diane Weyermann, Soros Documentary Fund of the Open Society Institute. Panelists include Rob Epstein, Filmmaker, US; Nick Fraser, Storyville, BBC, UK; Vikram Jayanti, VIXPIX Ltd., UK; Merata Mita, Filmmaker, AUS; Catherine Olsen, Commissioning Editor, CBC Newsworld, CAN; Jan Rofekamp, Films Transit, CAN. Filmmaker to Filmmaker Roundtable: Stories from the Field Moderated by Vikram Jayanti, VIXPIX Ltd., UK. Panelists include Documentary Filmmakers -Sundance Film Festival. House of Docs Panels and Presentations: Documentary Film: Future, Conscience, and Possibility. Moderated by Ken S. Brecher, Executive Director, Sundance Institute. Panelists include Nick Fraser, Storyville, BBC; Pat Mitchell, PBS; Sheila Nevins, HBOCinemax. The Sundance Film Festival, presented by the Institute since 1985, provides a showcase of the best independent films from around the globe to an international internation-al audience of filmmakers, press, industry and film enthusiasts. Through its International Program, the Institute conducts Screenwriters Laboratories, Producers Conferences, and independent inde-pendent film screenings in ten countries, with an emphasis on Latin America. The Institute also maintains the Sundance Collection at UCLA, an archive dedicated to the collection and preservation of independent film.in the Institute's Film Lab. The newest endeavors of the Institute include the Writers Fellowship Program, which identifies identi-fies and supports young writers whose talent and passion are focused on writing about the arts for a wider public, and the Documentary Film Program, which nurtures the growth of non-fiction non-fiction filmmakers, encourages the exploration of innovative nonfic-tion nonfic-tion storytelling, and promotes documentary exhibition to a broader public. More information about the Sundance Institute and its programs is available at www.sundance.org. "Traffic" brings the drug war to the forefront a Continued from C-1 between two rival drug cartels, gringo snoops from the DEA, and a UaLcorrupt genera (Tcanasi- MMraTl). It also figures' tlrat Wfeeld's inept organization tries to line up the general as a partner in the drug war although his notion of rehabbing junkies is to let them die. Director Soderbergh keeps the pot stirred with a docu-dramatic style that uses a different color scheme for his three stories. In Mexico, -the photography is oyer' ' exposed, sc6rched,'yenowishvi'; N southern California, it's confidently sunny (though it glares around the edges); and for the story of Wakefield, the drug czar, the tones are institutional blue (or is that the blue flame off a spoon, while preppy prep-py youngsters fancy they're getting high to rebel against adult demands and artifice?). Most of these stories have been told before. The movie Is achievement achieve-ment is to bring them all together in a broad -stroked epic form that walks a delicate balance between hope and despair. Soderbergh draws good per- The L.A. Times Crossword Puzzle "PROPER ATTIRE" By A.J. 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Nodance aids low budget films Continued from C-1 The Nodance Film Festival, Jan. 20-27, is held at 333 Main Street on the second floor of the Main Street Mall. All screenings are free to the public on a first come, first serve basis. Schedules of festival screenings screen-ings and events are available at the Nodance headquarters, 333 Main Street, or by visiting nodance.com. Nodance is still accepting local volunteers vol-unteers to help with the festival. Those interested in volunteering at Nodance should stop by the festival. Don Rubalcava Ceramic Tile Installation Phone (435) 655-9093 25 Years Experience. ellSlnSt CAST AWAY rrenrj I Monday - Thursday: 4:1 6, 7:00 I Friday - Saturday: 9:30 Matlnaa Saturday-Sundav: 1:30 I - Reel 2 -1 15 N. Main St. j Closed for Sundance |