PRESS RELEASE – Park City, UT—Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions for the 25th Sundance Film Festival.
“This year we have a blurring of genres, a crossing of boundaries: geographic, generational, socio-economic and the like,” said Geoffrey Gilmore, Director, Sundance Film Festival.
“Audiences may be surprised by how much emotion this year’s films evoke,” said John Cooper, Director of Programming, Sundance Film Festival. “We are seeing the next evolution of the independent film movement where films focus on storytelling with a sense of connection and purpose.”
For the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, 118 feature-length films were selected including 87 world premieres, 19 North American premieres, and 4 U.S. premieres representing 21 countries with 42 first-time filmmakers, including 28 in competition.
These films were selected from 3,661 feature- length film submissions composed of 1,905 U.S. and 1,756 international feature-length films.
To see the list of films competing in the Sundance festival go to the website sundance. org/festival.