Article Last Updated: 12/07/2004 12:30:23 AM
Eighty-two short films - including works by Sundance veteran Miguel Arteta ("The Good Girl," "Chuck & Buck") and
Alexandra Kerry, daughter of Sen. John Kerry - will screen at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, Jan. 20-30 in Park City,
Salt Lake City, Ogden and the Sundance resort. The films were selected from 3,887 shorts submitted to Sundance, festival
organizers announced Monday. Some of the shorts will also screen on the Web starting Jan. 20, on the newly redesigned
Sundance Online Film Festival. Among other notable names directing short films are: actor and Brigham Young University
alum Aaron Ruell, who played Kip Dynamite in "Napoleon Dynamite"; Ondi Timoner, who won the 2004 Grand Jury Prize
for documentaries for "Dig!"; and Joshua Leonard, one of the unhappy campers of "The Blair Witch Project." Here is the
shorts slate: U.S. films: "The Act" by Susan Kraker and Pi Ware; "America's Biggest Dick" by Bryan Boyce; "American
Fame Pt. 2: Forgetting Jonathan Brandis" by Cam Archer; "Among Thieves" by Oscar Daniels; "Are You the Favorite Person
of Anybody?" by Miguel Arteta; "Billy's Dad Is a Fudge-Packer" by Jamie Donahue; "Broadcast 23" by Tom Putnam;
"Choked" by Brad Barnes; "Cry for Help" by Nicholas McCarthy; "Eating" by Rebecca Cutter; "Estes Avenue" by Paul
Cotter; "Everything's Gone Green" by Aaron Ruell; "Exactly" by Lisa Leone; "Flotsam/Jetsam" by David Zellner; "Goodnight
Irene" by Sterlin Harjo; "Husk" by Brett A. Simmons; "In the Morning" by Danielle Lurie; "In Time" by Maurice A. Dwyer
and Adetoro Makinde; "The Last Full Measure" by Alexandra Kerry; "Late Bloomer" by Craig Macneill; "Let the Good
Times Roll" by Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn; "Love and Laundry: by Barbara Alvarez; "Mary" by Aaron Ruell; "mOTION
sTUDIES #3: Gravity" by Jake Mahaffy; "Oh My God" by John Bryant; "One Weekend a Month" by Eric Escobar;
"Planet of the Arabs" by Jacqueline Salloum; "Pura Lengua [All Tongue]" by Aurora Guerrero; "The Raftman's Razor" by
Keith Bearden; "Raw" by Tonia Lynn Barber; "The Sailor's Girl" by Brett Simon; "Spelling Bee" by Phil Dornfeld; "Staring at
the Sun" by Toby Wilkins; "Swim Test" by Alex Chung; "A Thousand Roads" by Chris Eyre; "Un Dia en la Vida" by Marco
Orsini; "West Bank Story" by Ari Sandel; and "The Youth in Us" by Joshua Leonard. Documentary shorts: "Bullets in the
Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story" by
Terrence Fisher and Daniel Howard; "Dimmer" by Talmage Cooley; "The Fair" by Jason Rayles; "Family Portrait" by Patricia
Riggen; "The Last Days of Jonathan Perlo" by Joe Warson; "Nachiliagniaqtuguk Aapagalu: Seal Hunting With Dad" by
Andrew Okpeaha MacLean; "Recycle" by Vasco Nunes and Ondi Timoner; "Saving Jackie" by Selena A. Burks; and "Small
Town Secrets" by Katherine Leggett. Animated shorts: "9" by Shane Acker; "A Buck's Worth" by Tatia Rosenthal; "The
Meaning of Life" by Don Hertzfeldt; and "Motel" by Thor Freudenthal. International shorts: "being bad" by Laurence Coriat
(U.K./France); "BerocCa" by Martin Taylor (U.K.); "Con Diva (With Diva)" by Sebastian Mantilla (Spain); "Con Que La
Lavare" by Maria Trenor (Spain); "Elephant Palm Tree" by Kara Miller (U.K.); "Elke's Visit" by Morgan Dews (Spain);
"Email to Mom" by Gerardo Ruiz Mi !n (Peru); "From Cherry English" by Jeff Barnaby (Canada); "Fuel" by Nash Edgerton
(Australia); "Green Bush" by Warwick Thornton (Australia); "Home Game" by Martin Lund (Norway); "Kare Kare Zvako Ð
Mother's Day" by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe); "Kid" by Tim Parsa (Mexico); "Mat!lo!" by Jean-Stephane Sauvaire
(France); "Pizza Shop" by Mark Mainguy (Canada); "Plains Empty" by Beck Cole (Australia); "Stronger" by Debra Felstead
(Canada); "Tama Tu" by Taika Waititi (New Zealand); "Tongue Bully" by Annie Bradley (Canada); "Victoria Para Chino" by
Cary Fukunaga (U.S./Mexico); "Waiting for the Man" by Rob Stefaniuk (Canada); and "Wasp" by Andrea Arnold (U.K.)
International documentary shorts: "The Children of Leningradsky" by Hanna Polak and Andrzej Celinski (Poland); "Meet
Michael Oppenheim" by Roni Abulafia (Israel); and "Solo Un Cargador" by Juan Alejandro Ram'rez (Peru). Animated
international shorts: "The Birthday" by Kari Juusonen (Finland); "Fallen Art" by Tomek Baginski (Poland); "It's Like That" by
the Southern Ladies Animation Group (Australia); "Moo[n]" by Leigh Hodgkinson (U.K.); "Ryan" by Chris Landreth
(Canada); and "Through My Thick Glasses" by Pjotr Sapegin (Norway). - Sean P. Means
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