Focusing on low to no-budget films, Sundance Film Festival Director John Cooper has announced the creation of a new section, NEXT, for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. According to a press release from the Sundance Institute Press Office, the NEXT section, referred to by festival staffers with the symbol < = >, will feature “six to eight films selected for their innovative and original work in low- and no-budget filmmaking.”
Cooper explains, “Programming an event as important to the cultural landscape as Sundance Film Festival, we feel a responsibility both to represent new creative developments in the field and to contextualize films for our Festival goers. Historically, we have done this quite successfully with documentary, and most recently with New Frontier, ’saving space’ as it were, to support different trends in storytelling. We want filmmakers to feel encouraged and intrigued by this new section of the Festival. We hope to excite audiences as well as inform a budding industry already investing in new models of distribution.”
“The filmmakers who are working in this realm and who I have spoken to about this have a ‘creative impatience’ that I find invigorating,” Cooper added. “These are not just the films that have been labeled mumble core…or dogma or even guerilla. They are an emerging counter culture within our counter culture.”
For more information, Cooper discusses the creation of the section further with Eugene Hernandez over at indieWIRE. The 2010 Sundance Film Festival will run from January 21–31, 2010 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The festival is currently still accepting submissions.
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Emily added these thoughts on Oct 02 09 at 7:15 amExcited to see what the ‘Next’ section has in store. Thanks for posting on this!
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