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THE BATTALION
Wednesday.
Record number of women submit films for Sundance
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Heather Graham
gets to karate-kick her male co-star across a room.
Director Mary Harron pulls the strings on a male
psychopath running loose with a chain saw. Gold
en Globe winner Janet McTeer fights an academ
ic glass ceiling in the early 1900s.
Better days are here for female filmmakers, at
least on the independent movie circuit. The line
up of 113 feature films at the Sundance Film Fes
tival through next weekend includes a record 29
pictures directed by women.
“I’m thrilled at what’s happening on a person
al basis as a woman and as a fan of these films,”
said Liz Manne, who co-founded film distributor
Fine Line Features and now is executive vice pres
ident of programming and marketing for the Sun
dance channel. “The originality we’re seeing from
these women is remarkable.”
“Anyone who thinks these are a bunch of chick
flicks is really making a mistake,” festival co-di
rector Geoffrey Gilmore said.
Among the field:
— American Psycho, Harron’s brutish, bloody
adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ novel about a
1980s Wall Streeter whose hobby is serial murder
by ax, pistol, chain saw or nail gun.
— Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides, a dark
comic tale of a group of spirited sisters in a re
pressive family. The director is the daughter of
filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola.
— Gurinder Chadha’s What's Cooking?, a
skillfully layered love
song to Los Angeles
told through the tur
moil of four ethnically
diverse families as
they prepare for
Thanksgiving. The
movie was the pre
miere feature for the
festival’s opening
night last week.
— Maggie Green-
wald’s Songcatcher,
starring McTeer, who
“It's great just to see the
excitement among all
these women who made
movies and got them
here."
“If you could open a dictionary to the word ’di
rector’ 40 years ago and it had a picture, you
would probably see some white guy with a beret
and boots,” said Lisa Krueger, director of Com
mitted, which stars Graham as a jilted wife on a
bold quest to stitch her
— Valerie Brieman
director of Love and Sex
life back together.
“Now the picture
looks like 500 different
people, men and
women.”
Krueger was hon
ored at the Sundance
Film Festival over the
weekend by Women in
Film, which called her
a pioneer for Commit
ted and her previous
Sundance feature.
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