Rd Year: Sundance and Future Career

rd year: It's kind of amazing, according to Guelph Mercury. Now heading into its 33rd year, actor-director Robert Redford started Sundance to showcase independent film and over time the festival developed a reputation for highlighting breakout movies that go on to bigger things, like Oscar-touted Manchester by the Sea, which premiered there a year ago. I think that's what Sundance can offer, a platform not only for stories to get out but also filmmakers to have a future career, said Latimer. Whiplash, Beasts of the Southern Wild and Little Miss Sunshine also showed first at Sundance. Nine Canadian works are on the Sundance slate and three are from indigenous producers music documentary Rumble The Indians Who Rocked the World from Montreal's Rezolution Pictures written and directed by Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana ; Heather Condo's short film My Father's Tools; and Latimer's Rise, a nine-part documentary series for Rogers Media's Viceland TV about native American environmental activism. This year's festival in the mountain town of Park City, Utah, not far from Salt Lake City, kicks off Thursday and runs through Jan. 29. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.