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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, December 30, 2017-January 2, 2018 The Park Record Sundance adds new events and films C-7 Exclusive. Strategic. Refined. A great real estate brand is not a luxury, it’s a necessity. 2018 festival will include RuPaul and more films Submitted by the Sundance Institute Sundance Institute completes the slate of bold independent work set for the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, with eight feature films, a VR experience, the NEXT Innovator’s Award juror and hosted retrospectives joining the lineup. Screenings will take place in Park City, Salt Lake City and at Sundance Mountain Resort Jan. 18-28. RuPaul will convene a retrospective of VH1’s Emmy-winning “RuPaul’s Drag Race” on the heels of its 10th season, and host a panel with executive producers and Sundance Film Festival veterans Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey, along with Tom Campbell and Pamela Post, senior vice president of Original Programming for MTV, VH1 and Logo. RuPaul will also serve as the Festival’s inaugural and sole NEXT Innovator Award juror, and will present the NEXT Innovator Award to his favorite film in that category, which showcases pure, bold works distinguished by innovative, forward-thinking approaches to storytelling. Other additions to the program include features “Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock,” “Hereditary,” “Lords of Chaos,” “The Long Dumb Road,” “Private Life,” “You Were Never Really Here” and “Sweet Country” as well as New Frontier work “Isle of Dogs Behind the Scenes (in Virtual Reality).” “Hearts Beat Loud,” a feature announced earlier in the Premieres section, is now confirmed as a Closing Night Film. These latest additions are joined by archive film “Smoke Signals,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998, and a selection of early work by filmmaker Todd Haynes, whose feature film directorial debut “Poison” won the Grand Jury M Template.pdf 4 12/11/2017 Prize at thePink 1991 Sundance Film Festival. Kelly Rogers Global Real Estate Advisor 435-640-7600 KellyRogers.evusa.com | kelly.rogers@evusa.com COURTESY OF THE SUNDANCE INSTITUTE RuPaul will convene a retrospective of VH1’s Emmy-winning “RuPaul’s Drag Race” on the heels of its 10th season, and host a panel with executive producers and Sundance Film Festival veterans Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey, along with Tom Campbell and Pamela Post, senior vice president of Original Programming for MTV, VH1 and Logo at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. The archive films are selections from the SundanceInstitute Collection at UCLA, a partnership between UCLA Film & Television Archive and Sundance Institute. Established in 1997, the collection is devoted to the preservation of independent documentaries, narratives, and short films supported by Sundance Institute. The collection has grown to over 4,000 holdings representing nearly 2,300 titles and preservation efforts have brought renewed attention to films such as “Hoop Dreams,” “Desert Hearts,” “Reservoir Dogs,” “River of Grass,” “Walking and Talking,” “Paris is Burning,” “El Mariachi” and “Paris, Texas.” Titles are generously donated by individual filmmakers, distributors and studios. For the 2018 festival, 121 feature-length films were selected, representing 29 countries and 53 first-time filmmakers, including 30 in competition. These films were selected from 13,468 submissions including 3,901 feature-length films and 8,740 short films. Of the feature film submissions,PM1,799 were from the U.S. 3:28:14 and 2,102 were international. One hundred and eight feature films at the festival will be world premieres. In 2017, the festival drew 71,638 attendees, generated $151.5 million in economic activity for the state of Utah and supported 2,778 local jobs. The latest additions to the 2018 Sundance Film Festival Program are: FROM THE COLLECTION An Evening with Todd Haynes / In the thirty years since he burst onto the indie scene, Todd Haynes has established himself as one of most distinctive voices in American cinema. A special conversation with Haynes and longtime collaborator, producer Christine Vachon, explores Haynes’ early work, including clips from notable, recently restored gems. Smoke Signals / U.S.A. (Director: Chris Eyre, Screenwriter: Sherman Alexie, Producers: Larry Estes, Scott Rosenfelt) — When Victor’s estranged father Arnold dies in Arizona, he must leave his home on an Idaho reservation to retrieve Arnold’s ashes. Victor’s friend Thomas offers to fund the trip, but only if he can accompany Victor. Together they undertake a journey filled with discovery about their personal and cultural identities. Cast: Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer, Tantoo Cardinal. DOCUMENTARY PREMIERES Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock / U.S.A. (Director: Cody Lucich, Producers: Heather Rae, Gingger Shankar, Ben-Alex Dupris) — Standing Rock, 2016: the largest Native American occupation since Wounded Knee. Thousands of activists, environmentalists and militarized police descend on the Dakota Access Pipeline in a standoff between oil corporations and a new generation of Native Warriors. This chronicle captures the sweeping struggle, spirit and havoc of a People’s uprising. World Premiere. THE NEW CLIMATE MIDNIGHT Hereditary / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Ari Aster, Producers: Kevin Frakes, Lars Knudsen, Buddy Patrick) — After their reclusive grandmother passes away, the Graham family tries to escape the dark fate Jeff Horizontal Trib Please see Sundance, C-10 ©2016 Engel & Völkers. All rights reserved. Each brokerage independently owned and operated. 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