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Sundance Premieres Section

Wednesday, January 3-----With a little more than two weeks to go until the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, excitement is already building for the prestigious Premieres Section of the event, which includes some of the Festival’s most stellar films. This year, the Festival will present fourteen films in the Premieres section, all world premieres.

Sundance Premieres Section:

AN AMERICAN CRIME
Director: Tommy O’Haver; Screenwriters: Tommy O’Haver, Irene Turner
A fictionalized account of the true story of a young girl’s torturous ordeal at the hands of a troubled mother of seven in 1960s Indianapolis .

BLACK SNAKE MOAN
Director and Screenwriter: Craig Brewer
Desire is a burning sickness for Rae, while making her the white-trash sexual target of every man and boy in her small Tennessee town. When her true love leaves for military service, Rae plunges into wild excess. Beaten and left for dead, she is taken in by a reformed bluesman, a private self-contained black man who nurses deep anger of his own and who is fiercely committed to his task of keeping her alive.

CHAPTER 27
Director and Screenwriter: Jarrett Schaefer
A terrifying glimpse into the deranged mind of Mark David Chapman (played by Jared Leto) during his days in NYC prior to the murder of John Lennon, which is played out through his obsession with JD Salinger's classic novel 'The Catcher in the Rye'.

CLUBLAND
Director: Cherie Nowlan; Screenwriter: Keith Thompson
Tim has a new girlfriend. It should be the perfect romance but something is holding him back. He has a secret...his parents are “Entertainers”! There are never just two people in a family love story.

THE GOOD NIGHT
Director and Screenwriter: Jake Paltrow
A man finds he has more happiness and love with the woman in his dreams than in his miserable day to day reality.

KING OF CALIFORNIA
Director and Screenwriter: Mike Cahill
Michael Douglas stars as an unstable dad who after getting out of a mental institution tries to convince his daughter that there’s Spanish gold buried somewhere under suburbia.

LONGFORD
Director: Tom Hooper; Screenwriter: Peter Morgan
A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict.

THE NINES
Director and Screenwriter: John August
A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.

RESURRECTING THE CHAMP
Director: Rod Lurie; Screenwriters: Allison Burnett, Michael Bortman, Chris Gerolmo, Rod Lurie
A down on his luck sports reporter has his life and career upturned when he lands the story of his career: A former heavyweight boxing superstar, previously thought to be dead, is living his final years on the streets. Finally, he can earn the respect of his wife and editor—but the dark secret he finds may be too much for him to bear.

THE SAVAGES
Director and Screenwriter: Tamara Jenkins
Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman co-stars with Laura Linney in Fox Searchlight's The Savages. The drama tells the story of two siblings who have to care for their elderly estranged father when he falls sick. Although the man abused them as children, the siblings must overcome their resentment to aid their father.

SON OF RAMBOW
Director and Screenwriter: Garth Jennings
Will is the eldest son in a family with a strict moral and religious view and has never been allowed to mix with other people, listen to music or watch TV. That is until he finds himself caught up in the extraordinary world of Lee Carter, the school terror and maker of bizarre home movies.


SUMMER RAIN (EL CAMINO DE LOS INGLESES)

Director: Antonio Banderas; Screenwriter: Antonio Soler
The film is adapted from an award-winning novel written by the director's childhood friend, Antonio Soler, and is a deeply personal and poetic recreation of their generation growing up in Malaga in the late 1970s.

TRADE
Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner; Screenwriter: Jose Rivera
Adriana is a 13-year-old girl from Mexico City whose kidnapping by sex traffickers sets in motion a desperate mission by her 17-year-old brother, Jorge, to save her. As Jorge dodges immigration officers and incredible obstacles to track the girls’ abductors, he meets Ray, a Texas cop whose own family loss to sex trafficking leads him to become an ally in the boy’s quest.

YEAR OF THE DOG
Director and Screenwriter: Mike White
Peggy is a happy-go-lucky secretary - a great friend, employee, and sister who lives alone with her beloved dog. But when Pencil unexpectedly dies, Peggy must embark on a journey of personal transformation that is hilarious, poignant and suspenseful.


Sandy Mandelberger
Sundance Online Dailies Editor

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