The 15 Sundance titles are the first
feature-length festival films from the AVD’s Film Festival Stars
Program to stream on Prime Video
Amazon Video Direct to extend Film Festival
Stars—the program that brings high quality independent film to
Prime Video audiences—to the 2018 Sundance Film Festival
(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon today announced the official selections
from the 2017 Sundance Film Festival are now available on Amazon
Prime Video. The collection of 15 films are made available through
the Amazon Video Direct Film Festival Stars (FFS) program that is
designed to establish an attractive distribution model for films
screened at film festivals that either don’t secure theatrical
distribution deals or are looking for distribution options after a
theatrical release. The official selections from the 2017 Sundance
Film Festival currently streaming include Manifesto starring Cate
Blanchett, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize winner
Marjorie Prime, and Special Jury Award for Cinematic Vision, Free
and Easy. These films enjoyed robust distribution strategies
throughout the year, including award-winning festival and
theatrical runs, and are now available in the U.S. with select
titles available in additional territories.
“Amazon Video Direct’s Film Festival Stars program accelerates
the career of deserving films, elevating cinematic curation into a
galvanic connection with audiences who might never have discovered
them,” said Richard Lorber, President and CEO of Kino Lorber, Inc.
“It’s an innovative strategy that allows specialty film
distributors like us to amplify support for the worthiest films—not
only with additional financial backing, but unparalleled outreach
only an amazing entity like Amazon can provide. I don’t know what
genius dreamed this up, but we at Kino Lorber are enthusiastically
participating—proud to be populating the Film Festival Stars roster
with many of our most important releases.”
“We launched the Film Festival Stars Program at Sundance earlier
this year because we heard from our customers they love watching
independent films,” said Eric Orme, Head of Amazon Video Direct.
“So far in 2017, FFS has secured the streaming rights to 76 feature
films that we’re confident will thrill and delight our customers.
These films appear alongside other great festival films already
available on the service, including Amazon Studios’ The Big Sick.
We’ll be extending Film Festival Stars to the 2018 Sundance Film
Festival with an emphasis on global distribution and enhanced
bonuses for filmmakers, and look forward to seeing the great films
we’ll be able to bring exclusively to Prime members.”
500 Years – available worldwide
From a historic genocide trial to the ousting of a president,
director Pamela Yates tells the sweeping story of mounting
resistance in Guatemala through the eyes of the majority indigenous
Mayan population, who now stand poised to reimagine their
society.
Axolotl Overkill – available in the U.S. and Canada
In Axolotl Overkill, 16-year-old Mifti is a beautiful and
reckless young girl. Her mother is dead, and her wealthy, eccentric
father is too self-absorbed to be responsible for her. Mifti has no
use for peers her own age, and being aware of the sexual power she
wields with her looks and youth, she immerses herself in a world of
adults of questionable character. Lovesick over an elusive older
woman, she strikes up a friendship with Ophelia, an actress, and
together they test the limits through Berlin nightlife and extreme
partying.
Don’t Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl! – available in
the U.S. and Canada
The film follows Joca, a 13-year-old Brazilian boy, and Basano
La Tatuada, a Paraguayan indigenous girl, living on the border
between the two countries, marked by the waters of the Rio Apa.
Joca is in love with Basano and wants to do everything to win her
love.
Family Life – available in the U.S.
In Family Life, a young man spends a few weeks housekeeping for
a relatively distant relative and enjoys taking over the comfort of
their lives in Santiago. Soon, he meets a cute neighbor and starts
pretending for his personal benefit.
Free And Easy – Special Jury Award for Cinematic Vision –
available in the U.S. and Canada
When a traveling soap salesman arrives in a desolate Chinese
town, a crime occurs, and sets the strange residents against each
other with tragicomic results.
Machines – Sundance Jury Award for Excellence in
Cinematography – available in the U.S. and Canada
Director Rahul Jain presents an intimate, observantly portrayal
of the rhythm of life and work in a gigantic textile factory in
Gujarat, India. Moving through the corridors and bowels of the
enormous and disorientating structure, the camera takes the viewer
on a journey to a place of dehumanizing physical labor and intense
hardship, provoking cause for thought about persistent
pre-industrial working conditions and the huge divide between first
world and developing countries.
Manifesto – available in the U.S. and Canada
In the film, Actress Cate Blanchett portrays 13 distinct
characters in vignettes that incorporate timeless manifestos—among
them a school teacher, a puppeteer, a newsreader, a factory worker
and a homeless man. Director Julian Rosefeldt draws on the writings
of Futurists, Dadaists, Supremacists, Situtationists, and other
artist groups, and the musings of individual artists, architects,
dancers and filmmakers to create Manifesto.
Marjorie Prime – Sundance Film Festival’s Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation Feature Film Prize – available in the U.S.
Set in the near future, Michael Almereyda’s sci-fi pic Marjorie
Prime, is based on Jordan Harrison’s Pulitzer-nominated play
exploring memory, identity, love and loss. 86-year-old Marjorie has
a handsome new companion who looks like her deceased husband and is
programmed to feed the story of her life back to her. What would we
remember, and what would we forget, if given the chance?
Motherland – World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award
– available in the U.S. and Canada
Motherland is set at one of the world’s largest and busiest
maternity hospitals in the Philippines. Ramona S. Diaz’s film
follows three women as they navigate through the severe conditions
of giving birth there — from jam-packed delivery rooms to
overflowing corridors where babies are misplaced and then
found.
Plastic China – available worldwide
Plastic China captures a plaintive sense of the human
casualties from unfettered global consumerism. The gently observed
portrait of families toiling at a plastic recycling factory in
Shandong builds into a damning commentary on a modern China marked
by extreme divides in wealth and opportunity.
Pop Aye – World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for
screenwriting – available in the U.S. and Canada
On a chance encounter, a disenchanted architect bumps into his
long-lost elephant on the streets of Bangkok. Excited, he takes his
elephant on a journey across Thailand, in search of the farm where
they grew up together.
RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World – World Cinema
Documentary Special Jury Award for Masterful Storytelling –
available in the U.S.
This powerful documentary about the role of Native Americans in
contemporary music history features some of the greatest music
stars of our time—Charley Patton, Mildred Bailey, Link Wray, Jimi
Hendrix, Jesse Ed Davis, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Robbie Robertson, and
Randy Castillo. The film exposes a critical missing chapter,
revealing how indigenous musicians helped shape the soundtracks of
our lives and, through their contributions, influenced popular
culture.
Sueño en otro idioma (I Dream in Another Language)
– World Dramatic Audience Award – available in the U.S. and
Canada
When a language dies, a unique vision of the world is lost
forever. In I Dream in Another Language, a linguist arrives in a
small jungle settlement hoping to record a conversation between two
elderly men, the last two remaining speakers of the Zikril
language. Unfortunately for him, the men are feuding and haven't
spoken to each other in 50 years.
The Good Postman – available in the U.S. and
Canada
On the eastern edge of Bulgaria, bordering Turkey, amid wizened
orchards and an ancient patchwork of farmlands, sits a poor and
sleepy hamlet that time seems to have forgotten. Despite the sparse
population of silver-haired citizens wistful for the brighter days
of communism, democracy is in full force as the village prepares in
earnest for its mayoral election. Meanwhile, an endless train of
Syrian refugees bound for Europe silently traipses through the
rural terrain, visible through the binoculars of one gentle and
taciturn candidate, the good postman.
World Without End (No Reported Incidents) – available in
the U.S.
Known for decades as a visual poet, filmmaker Jem Cohen has
captured various corners of the world with a perceptive eye in
World Without End (No Reported Incidents). Often filming by
himself, Cohen takes a camera (16mm film, and more recently, video)
and walks on the street like a modern-day Walker Evans, capturing
images of people and landscapes in our smallest moments—everyday
faces, vacant street corners, trinkets in windows, all the things
we might see sitting on the bus and wish we could see again in a
film.
Returning to the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, the Amazon Video
Direct Film Festival Stars program will emphasize global
distribution, with enhanced bonus payments being paid for worldwide
rights, as AVD aims to support overall Prime Video global
growth.
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