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Article: S'dance gets int'l fervor.(Sundance Film Festival)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- November 30, 2004
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HOLLYWOOD -- Promoted as the foremost platform for American independent cinema, the Sundance Film Festival will become an international fest in every sense of the term as it introduces its World Cinema Competition with the 2005 edition Jan. 20-30.
Taking advantage of its position as the first major fest of the calendar year, Sundance gets the jump on both Rotterdam and Berlin, though director Geoffrey Gilmore stressed that what he and his team are looking for--exciting first or second films by relatively new directors overlaps only somewhat with the prestigious titles by bigname helmers sought by events such as Berlin.
As for the 16 pictures selected out ...