For the third straight year, Sundance Institute has packed up its bags and is moving into BAM for eleven days to present 22 features and 36 short films from the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, lively music concerts, Q&As with the artists, art installations, and special events that bring the creative energy of the Institute's artists and programs to New York audiences.
We attended the series to highlight two films we thought particularly extraordinary, Courtney Hunt's FROZEN RIVER and Margaret Brown's THE ORDER OF MYTHS.
To check out our interviews from the Sundance Film Festival, click HERE
When Ray's husband leaves her with two sons and no savings, she is forced to find a way to make ends meet. She encounters Lila, a street-smart Mohawk woman who deals with her own hardships by smuggling illegal immigrants across the reservation in upstate New York and into the states. Although suspicious of each other, the two women team up for a run. Full of atmosphere, heart, and outstanding performances, FROZEN RIVER is ultimately a narrative about family, necessity, and the courage that bonds people together
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Mobile, Alabama is home to America’s oldest Mardi Gras celebration. But the elaborate parades and vibrant pageantry have always been segregated along racial lines. With THE ORDER OF MYTHS, Mobile native Margaret Brown escorts us through the distinctions and similarities of the parallel black and white realms of this time-honored ritual. As stories of a lynching and other accounts of Mobile’s racial divide are introduced, Brown also illustrates examples of recent racial integration, and allows viewers to draw their own conclusions about social order and progress.
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