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"The reality is that remarkable, independent films like Punching at the Sun often suffer from severely limited distribution," said Jaman's CEO Gaurav Dhillon. "Jaman is bridging this gap between independent filmmakers and film watchers, making superior content available to a world of people hungry for great films."
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The HDi Grant further extends Microsoft's support of independent films, which ... includes the 1,000 HD DVD Indies Project announced earlier this year with Amazon.com Inc.'s CreateSpace. Due to its heritage in DVD, as well as the inherent authoring and disc replication efficiencies over other optical formats, HD DVD can scale to support the independent film community in a cost-effective way. The 1,000 HD DVD Indies Project was designed to provide independent filmmakers with free access to HD DVD authoring and on-demand replication. A number of Sundance films are already taking part in this program, including the acclaimed comedy from
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Awarded to one of the 16 U.S. films in the Dramatic Competition, the 2008 Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic went to Courtney Hunt's film Frozen River. The films story is that of a desperate trailer mom and a Mohawk woman who team up to smuggle illegal immigrants into the United States from Canada. Accepting the award, Hunt said, "Thanks to Sundance Institute because without these programmers, this film could easily have been lost....I believe in a universe of abundance and I believe that every filmmaker here will find their perfect audience."
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The event started with a screening of four Semifinalist films and a montage of films that received an Honorable Mention. The screening of the six Finalist films was preceded by a panel discussion in which two of the events judges, Blanche Araj-Shaheen, TV production professional and host of KTEH's "Video I" and Jan Krawitz, a distinguished documentary filmmaker and Director of the M.F.A. Program in Documentary Film and Video at Stanford University, discussed the role of documentaries in affecting social change.
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The festival program includes screenings of both domestic and international films, as well as emerging and established filmmakers and has nightly red-carpet gala premieres. The film screenings include Asian Cinema, European Cinema, Hollywood Cinema and Latin Cinema. All screenings and premieres take place at the state-of-the-art ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood.
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His films do not belong to the poetic narratives of Conner and Brakhage and formally exclude literary content. His move into film was facilitated by his background as an abstract painter, and his interest as a filmmaker lay in investigating the threshold between cinematic and normal perception. He ... makes a conceptual leap of regarding his films as "objects" and shows them often as loop installations.
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