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We’ve very excited to share this news!
The Sundance Institute yesterday announced that our feature film project I DREAM IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE by Mexican director Ernesto Contreras is one of the four winners of this year Sundance/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award
The awards were presented at a private ceremony at the Sundance Film Festival, currently underway in Park City, Utah. The prize is a cash award of $10,000, participation in a Feature Film Program Lab and ongoing creative and strategic support.
I DREAM IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE (written by Carlos Contreras) tells the story of a rare indigenous language already on the verge of extinction faces its final threat when its last two speakers, very old friends, have a fight and refuse to speak to one another.
Director Ernesto Contreras’ first feature film, Párpados Azules (Blue Eyelids) was nominated for the Camera d’Or at the 60th Cannes Film Festival and won the Special Jury Award at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. It went on to receive the Ariel Award for Best First Work by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences. His recent feature, a documentary on the 20 years of Mexico’s most important rock band, Seguir siendo: Café Tacvba (Being: Café Tacvba), had its international premier in March of 2010 during the Guadalajara International Film Festival, and opened in theatres nationwide in November.
I DREAM IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE is developed by Revolver Media through the Binger Filmlab and the Sundance Screenwriters Lab with the support of the Rotterdam Media Fund. The movie will be co-produced by Mexico based Agancia SHA, producer of Ernesto Contreras’ previous and current movie projects
Link to the official press release by Sundance
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Just bumped into an interesting piece of news on the Sundance website. They started a cinema commission that supports new ways of storytelling and creating moving images through ‘locative cinema’, meaning cinema that engages with an audience using place or location as a key element for the experience. So think GPS, Augmented Reality, mobile phones, etc… Pretty cool and again a sign that also the cinema industry is slowly moving forward :)
From the website:
Highlighting work that pushes the boundaries of storytelling and the moving image, New Frontier celebrates the convergence of film, art, and new media technologies as a hotbed for cinematic innovation. New Frontier presents feature films, media installations, multimedia performances, panel discussions, and more.
COMMISSION FOR LOCATIVE CINEMA WORK
Calling all filmmakers, media artists/scientists! The Banff New Media Institute, ZER01: The Art and Technology Network, and the New Frontier initiative announces The Locative Cinema Commission. The Commission seeks work that engages people using place as a key element of the experience. Employ any platform that shares a vision of place will be considered, from cell phones to the cinema black box, from GPS to handheld, from distributed to ambient.
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