Sundance Film Festival Short Films December 12, 2008

Exclusive Bay Area Presentation!

Selected by Sundance Institute programmers from the 83 short films screened at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, this lively program of nine shorts covers a variety of genres, styles and cultures. In Andrew Okpeaha MacLean’s Sikumi (On the Ice), an Inuit hunter in the Arctic inadvertently becomes witness to a murder. Daniel Robin’s my olympic summer is a touching documentary on the filmmaker’s parents set against the hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Olympic games. The animated Yours Truly from Britain’s Osbert Parker is a dazzling “cartoon noir” incorporating iconic Hollywood imagery. In Danish filmmaker Mads Matthiesen’s poignant Dennis, an introverted bodybuilder goes out on a date and disappoints his mother. Dan Beers’ hilarious FCU: Fact Checkers Unit stars Pete and Brian (Peter Karinen and Brian Sacca) as two FCU agents who break into Bill Murray’s home to confirm a magazine item about his bedtime habits. In the German film W., a most unusual public service announcement, a social outcast describes how he found his place in the world. I Love Sarah Jane from Australian Spencer Susser is an apocalyptic teenage romance, combining the crush of first love and the crunch of zombies. In Myna Joseph’s Man, two sisters form an unusual bond during an encounter with a young man. Another surprising Australian entry, Nash Edgerton’s Spider, proves that practical jokes can backfire in a big way.

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