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Local shorts play Sundance
After reporting that former Austinites the Duplass brothers are debuting their new feature at Sundance in January and that Austin’s Bryan Poyser’s feature “Lovers of Hate” is in the fest’s dramatic competition, comes more Austin-Sundance news:
David and Nathan Zellner’s short comedy “Fiddlestixx,” based on their outrageous Web series about a time-traveling monkey, plays Sundance’s dramatic short competition. See the series HERE. (The Zellners are Sundance veterans, with such films as “Goliath.”)
Amy Grappell’s exceptional short documentary “Quadrangle” is screening in the Sundance short docs program. It’s “an unconventional look at two ‘conventional’ couples that swapped partners and lived in a group marriage in the early 1970s, hoping to pioneer an alternative to divorce and the way people would live in the future.”
Jason Tippet’s short doc “Thompson” was produced by 2006 Austin High School grad Elizabeth Mims and is playing the short docs program. (Mims is currently a senior at Cal Arts.) “Thompson” won best short at SXSW in March. Description: “Since second grade, Matt and Ryan have shared the bond of speech impediments, weapons, and things that go fast. But as their last days of high school speed by, the two friends find that their go-carts, dirt bikes, and RC cars can’t outrun adulthood.” More HERE.
The films were picked from a record 6,092 submissions.
Get the full Sundance line-up HERE. The fest happens Jan. 21 — 31 in Park City, Utah.
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