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Show C-4 The Park Record Sundance announces filmmakers CREATING COMMUNITY THROUGH FILM PARK CITY FILM.ORG AMAZING GRACE Screenwriters and directors labs set for May and June Submitted by the Sundance Institute Filmmakers from the U.S., Lebanon, Palestine, and the United Kingdom have been selected for the 2019 Sundance Institute Directors and Screenwriters Labs, taking place at the Sundance Mountain Resort in Utah. During the Directors Lab, which runs from May 27-June 18, filmmakers will rehearse, shoot and edit key scenes from their scripts, working in an immersive, hands-on environment with support from accomplished advisors to build their craft as directors and make key discoveries in collaboration with their actors and key crew. The Screenwriters Lab that runs from June 20-24 provides the opportunity to process the insight gained from the Directors Lab through one-on-one story sessions with screenwriter advisors and find inspiration and guidance for continued development of their screenplays. Rated G MAY 17 MAY 18 MAY 19 Fri 8pm Sat 8pm Sun 6pm "The lift-you-to-the-rafters intensity of [Aretha] Franklin’s voice remains so pure and galvanic that ‘Amazing Grace’ is one of the few movies you could watch with your eyes closed, though you would hardly want to." Underwritten by Park City Film Board of Directors - Justin Chang, LA Times Wine and beer available for purchase JIM SANTY AUDITORIUM 1255 PARK AVE, PARK CITY • 435.615.8291 Get your subscription to The Park Record! Mail or Home delivery within Summit County (Includes a free Sunday Tribune and e-Edition subscription) 1 Year $56 2 Years $98 The 2019 Sundance Institute Directors Lab Projects and Fellows are: Mail delivery outside of Summit County • “The American Society of Magical Negroes” (U.S.A.) / Kobi Libii (director and screenwriter): Omar, a young black man, is recruited into an undercover society of Magical Negroes who secretly conjure literal magic to make white people’s lives easier. Once he realizes they are using supernatural means to do the very thing he’s felt obligated to do his whole life, he attempts to buck the system and put his own dreams first. Kobi Libii is an actor/writer/ comedian, currently writing and performing on Comedy Central’s upcoming Klepper. Past acting credits include “The Opposition” with Jordan Klepper (Comedy Central), • “Transparent” (Amazon), “Girls “(HBO), “Jessica Jones” (Netflix), and “Madam Secretary” (CBS), among others. In addition to his television work, Libii has written and performed sketch and improvised comedy all over (Includes a free e-Edition subscription) 1 Year $80 2 Years $138 Home Delivery within Salt Lake, Utah, Davis, Wasatch Counties (Includes a free e-Edition subscription) 1 Year $80 2 Years $138 Call us today and ask for Lacy 435.649.9014 The L.A. Times crossword puzzle “ABRACADABRA!” By KEVIN SALAT Across 1 Mosque leader 5 Language from which “cummerbund” is derived 9 Banjo sound 14 Social division 19 Nixed, at NASA 20 Sisters 21 Oklahoma Air Force base 22 Lift up 23 For-display-only Greek deli items? 25 Twenty minutes of juggling and acrobatics? 27 Live 28 Stumble over 30 Capital south of Oklahoma City 31 Like things that go bump in the night 34 Pasture sound 35 Cubs’ org. 36 Actor Alda who wrote the best-seller “If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?” 38 Game winner 41 Dietary claim 43 Salsa singer Cruz 45 “If u ask me ... ” 46 Alien with high heat tolerance? 48 Einstein’s asset? 50 Backup group 51 Starts after a crash 53 Get a feeling 54 Racetrack ratios 55 “SpongeBob SquarePants” setting 58 Maryland coll. team 59 Season trio: Abbr. 60 Milne hopper 61 Herculean acts 63 It may be matched 64 Hogwarts’ first High Inquisitor __ Umbridge 68 Magic words ... and a hint to four side-by-side pairs of puzzle answers 72 Hosp. triage expert 73 Ear piece? 74 Rush’s Neil known for his 360-degree drum set 75 Foxlike 76 Shares an email with 77 It’s fed on streets 79 Driller’s deg. 80 Recover 81 Old calculators 84 Tranquilized 86 New Zealand native 87 Play part for a giant god? 89 Bachelor pad? 93 NBA’s Magic 94 Cats in Cádiz 95 Simon & Garfunkel genre 96 Rent 97 Palindromic bread 99 “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” channel 100 Toon collectible 101 Après-ski drink 103 Bills featuring Ben 105 Five o’clock phenomenon? 107 Microwaved 111 Musician evoking compassion? 113 Resist extra calories at Thanksgiving? 116 Poker strategy 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 Ten out of ten Standard Oil brand On the calm side Daily Planet name Pond critters Flabbergast Camera component Down 1 Facts and figures 2 Lamentation 3 Lo que un desierto no tiene 4 Spunk 5 Aussie college 6 Boring routine 7 MyHeritage service 8 KGB country 9 Expensive Super Bowl purchase 10 “Yippee!” 11 Auth. unknown 12 ATM maker 13 Earn a perfect report card 14 Phi followers 15 Ventricular outlet 16 Archimedes, by birth 17 Dangerous waves 18 Sci-fi staples 24 Qualifying match, briefly 26 29 32 33 35 37 38 39 40 42 43 44 47 48 49 52 55 56 57 59 61 62 64 65 66 67 69 70 Ark unit Turkish hospice High-__ monitor Grammar best-seller “Woe __” Crosses paths Zilch “One of Us” singer Joan Like some pet cats Info in this puzzle? 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Diver’s quest Racket Copier, maybe Hearing-related Many a gamer Eject Poems of praise Healthy salad green “Why __ bother?” Indigo and henna Backing Suffix with chlorSeminoles’ sch. “... the dew of __ high eastward hill”: “Hamlet” the country, touring with Broadway’s Next Hit Musical, One Night Stand and in the Resident Company at Chicago City Limits. Libii has a bachelors in Theater from Yale University and studied comedy at Second City Chicago. • “Costa Brava Lebanon” (Lebanon) / Mounia Akl (director and co-writer) and Clara Roquet (co-writer): The Badri family lives an idyllic life of isolation in the Lebanese mountains, far away from a country drowning in garbage and pollution. When the government decides to build a landfill right outside their house, tensions amongst the family members explode, revealing the rot was not only outside their home. Mounia Akl is a Lebanese director and screenwriter with a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from ALBA and and MFA from Columbia University. Her short film “Submarine” was in the Official Selection of the 69th Cannes Film Festival (Cinéfondation) and at the Toronto International Film Festival. In 2017, Akl was chosen to represent Lebanon at the Cannes Film Festival as part of the Directors’ Fortnight Factory with her short film, El Gran Libano, co-directed with Neto Villalobos. With Costa Brava Lebanon, Akl completed the Torino Film Lab and the Cannes Film Festival’s Cinéfondation Residency. The film will be produced by Abbout Productions. Clara Roquet is a Spanish writer and director. She is the co-writer of the films “10.000KM,” directed by Carlos MarquesMarcet, and “Petra,” directed by Jaime Rosales, which premiered at this year’s Directors’ Fortnight. Her short film “El Adiós,” which she also directed, won the 2016 Student BAFTA, was nominated for the European Film Awards, and was acquired by HBO. Her previous collaboration with Mounia Akl include co-writing the short film “Submarine.” • “The Doubt” (Palestine) / Ihab Jadallah (director and screenwriter): After 12 years in prison, Ibrahim finally returns home to his wife and a son he has never met. Although he desperately wants to rebuild his life and his bond with his family, he is plagued by doubt about the true nature of their relationships, throwing into question whether this family can survive. Award-winning Palestinian filmmaker and producer Ihab Jadallah has written, directed, and produced several highly acclaimed short films, including “The Flower Seller,” which screened at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and the Abu Dhabi Film Festival. “The Doubt” will represent his feature directorial debut. The script won the AFAC Production Fund (2018) and was supported at the 2018 Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab. • “El Otro Lado (The Other Side)” (U.S.A.) / Barbara Cigarroa (director and screenwriter): Set in Brownsville, Texas, during the child migration crisis, Lucy, a low-income Mexican American teen, is confronted with her own need for escape when her father decides to sponsor two undocumented minors for money. Barbara Cigarroa is a Mexican-American filmmaker from South Texas. She resides in New York City/Texas and holds an MFA in screenwriting from Columbia University and a BA in English from Yale. Cigarroa’s screenplay for “El Otro Lado (The Other Side)” was a featured project at IFP’s 2018 No Borders Co-Production Market and was selected for both the 2019 Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab and 2019 Hamptons Screenwriters Lab. Cigarroa was also the recipient of the Sundance Latinx SUDOKU Fellowship. Her short film “Dios Nunca Muere” had its world premiere at the 2018 New York Film Festival, and she was invited to be a member of the 2018 NYFF Artist Academy. Her previous short “Marta Rosa” was an official selection at dozens of international film festivals, including Austin, New Orleans and Palm Springs, where it won Panavision’s Best North American Short under 15 minutes. • “The Hater” (U.S.A.) / Joey Ally (director and screenwriter): Dorothy Gale Rexford is fired for taking her liberal extremist views too far, and must retreat to her conservative Texas hometown where she learns that her Republican childhood bully is running for state congress. In this town, only Republicans can win, so obviously the only thing to do is go undercover and run against him as a Republican herself. Joey Ally is an actor, writer and director based in Los Angeles. Her short films have screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival, as well as online with The New Yorker and Vimeo Premieres. She is an alumna of the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab and the AFI Directing Workshop for Women, among other programs. Most recently, she wrote and starred in “Are You Still Singing?” for Turner and Refinery29’s Shatterbox Anthology. • “Pretty Red Dress” (United Kingdom) / Dionne Edwards (director and screenwriter): South London, present day. Travis, a black man newly released from prison, returns to a turbulent home life with his longtime girlfriend Candice and their androgynous daughter Kenisha. The family’s precarious balance is sent spinning when they discover him cross-dressing, calling all of their relationships into question. Dionne Edwards’ short “We Love Moses” screened at over fifty festivals, including LFF and TIFF. It has picked up nine awards and has been licensed for television by Cine+, Canal+ and HBO. Edwards is a fellow of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab 2019. In 2018 she directed “That Girl,” for Channel 4’s ‘On the Edge’ series and directed second unit on the third series of “Top Boy” (Netflix). She is currently developing her debut feature film “Pretty Red Dress” with the BFI. • “Story Ave.” (U.S.A.) / Aristotle Torres (director and co-writer) and Bonsu Thompson (co-writer): After running away from his rough home life, a teenage graffiti artist holds up an unsuspecting old man in a robbery gone right that changes both of their lives forever. Aristotle Torres is a writer, director and producer from the Bronx, NY. Torres founded By Any Means, a multimedia artist collective, and directed content for NaS, Kanye West, The Roots and Ludacris, among others. He produced the feature “Are We Not Cats,” which premiered at the 2016 Venice Film Festival and won the audience award at Sitges 2016. Torres’ short film “Story Ave.” screened at several regional festivals across the U.S. and will have its international premiere at Festival Sayulita in Mexico City in 2019. He recently wrote and directed his third short film “The Chair,” a Mandarin thriller shot on location in Taiwan. Bonsu Thompson is a writer, producer and Brooklynite. He cowrote the short film “Story Ave.,” produced the feature documentary “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A Bad Boy Story,” created and executive produced the digital documentary series Prelude for BET.com, and Please see Sundance, C-5 |