“Ship: A Visual Poem” PHOTO
Sundance just announced their selections for the 2020 Film Festival, featuring many films by our Grad Film students and alumni.
Dee Rees’ The Last Thing He Wanted will have its world premiere in the Premieres category, a showcase of the most highly anticipated narrative films of the upcoming year. The political thriller, which was adapted from Joan Didion’s novel of the same title, stars Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck and Willem Dafoe.
Worth, directed by alum Sara Colangelo, will also screen in Premieres. Based on true events, Worth is a story about a powerful D.C. lawyer appointed Special Master of the 9/11 Fund, who fights off the cynicism, bureaucracy, and politics associated with administering government funds and, in doing so, discovers what life is worth. The film stars MIchael Keaton and Stanley Tucci.
In the Shorts, Indie Episodic & Special Events Program, three Grad Film projects were selected for the U.S. Narrative Shorts category:
Student Terrance Daye’s Ship: A Visual Poem will compete. The short follows a black boy who learns contradicting lessons of manhood and masculinity on the day of his cousin’s funeral. Alum Elegance Bratton executive produced the short while fellow alum Kristin Kouke served as the DP.
Buck - written and directed by alumni Elegance Bratton and Jovan James, and DP'd by alum Zamarin Wahdat - will have its world premiere in the category. Caught in the throes of a depressive fugue, young Lynn resorts to debauchery to find joy — only to discover that happiness is a much more complicated proposition.
Pillars - written and directed by alum Haley Elizabeth Anderson, and DP'd by alum Lasse Ulvedal Tolbøll - will also have its world premiere. Her film follows a girl who, after seeing a boy she likes before church, sneaks out to the Sunday school bathroom during the service and is given her first kiss.
The 2020 Sundance Film Festival will run from January 23rd to February 2nd.
See the full festival lineup here.