The News Review:
- Sundance out of reach? Visit these closer film festivals
- Sundance to screen a leaner quieter festival
- An animated Sundance festival
- Spoleto Festival USA breaks five-day sales record
- ‘Becky Shaw’ is ‘slick stylish’ but a bit too clever
- “Rockabilly Baby” Garners Multiple Nominations From Trail Dance …
- Tucson festival highlights films with Jewish themes
Sundance out of reach? Visit these closer film festivals
Los Angeles Times CA
11 & 12 at the Palm Springs International Film festival. Credit: Moscow-Belgium. com] Despite the lousy economy tourism officials in Park City Utah expect the atmosphere to be “bustling as usual” next week.
Sundance to screen a leaner quieter festival
Salt Lake Tribune United States
And Redford is K with that. “I’m not going to be bothered if there’s a reduced attendance” Redford said in a recent phone interview. “I’m focused on ‘What are the films being shown? And what do they represent?’ ” Nobody will know until after the festival — which runs Jan. 15 to 25 in Park City — whether attendance will be down because of the nation’s faltering economy. But few are expecting the 45056 visitors that pumped an estimated $63. 3 million into Utah’s economy during Sundance 2008. According to Bill Malone president and chief executive of the Park City Chamber of Commerce overnight rentals for the festival’s first weekend are down 6 percent from last year — “nothing dramatic but obviously a sign of the times” Malone said adding that he has seen landlords advertising available rooms who weren’t doing so last year.
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An animated Sundance festival
Newsday NY
film events of the year and as such has film fans poring over its schedule like rabbinical students scouring the Talmud. Despite ups downs and an expected drop in attendance in Park City.
Spoleto Festival USA breaks five-day sales record
Charleston Regional Business SC
9 2009 Despite a down economy and a scaled-back slate of offerings this year early ticket sales for. Within the first five days of opening for sales the festival sold 17% more than in the same period in 2006 the festival?s strongest year to date for sales. ?We?re buoyed by the enthusiastic response to the 2009 program? said Nigel Redden general director of Spoleto Festival USA.
‘Becky Shaw’ is ‘slick stylish’ but a bit too clever
New York Daily News NY
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“Rockabilly Baby” Garners Multiple Nominations From Trail Dance …
MSNBC
The third annual Trail
Dance Film Festival in Duncan kla. 16 2009 with "Rockabilly
Baby" playing at 10 p. (Simmons Center Theatre 800 Chisholm Trail Pkwy).
Tucson festival highlights films with Jewish themes
Arizona Republic AZ
9 2009 12:00 AM The Arizona Republic The 18th annual Tucson Jewish Film Festival begins Saturday with screenings and events through March 1. The festival sponsored by the Tucson Jewish Community Center will bring in directors and other guests to discuss the films with diverse Jewish themes. The screenings begin with Noodle an Israeli film about a 37-year-old flight attendant whose existence suddenly is changed by an abandoned Chinese boy whose migrant-worker mother has been deported from Israel. The film is about a boy with Down syndrome who spends his life praying with “utter abandon.