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GARDEN STATE (Dramatic Competition) Few films have managed to capture the out-of-body experience of what it's like to return to one's home as deftly as GARDEN STATE, the directorial debut of a young actor best known for playing a young doctor on an NBC sitcom. As Zach Braff's film begins we meet Andrew Largeman (Braff), a young TV actor of moderate - but not recent - success as he arrives late for his day job at a hot LA restaurant. When he learns that his mother has died, Large returns to his native New Jersey and to his steely psychoanalyst father (Ian Holm) and his stoner friends, including Mark (Peter Sarsgaard). Largeman (or Large, as he's known to his friends) only plans on staying only as long as it takes to bury his mother and maybe have a meaningful (and dreaded) conversation with his father. But when he meets Samantha (Natalie Portman), he discovers a fragile beauty with whom he's able to share things he's kept under wraps for years. GARDEN STATE has some very funny moments and an unforgettable, astutely rendered party scene, but both as the film's star and its director Braff wisely keeps the laugh track in check. Indeed, GARDEN STATE is that rare smart movie for young people that understands how traumatic it can be to let yourself fall in love. JW+A CONTACTS: Jessica Grant, 917-887-5198, Jeremy Walker, 917-597-7286

SCREENINGS:	Friday, Jan. 16, 3:00pm, Eccles Saturday, Jan. 17, 2:30pm, Library Sunday, Jan. 18, 9:00am, Eccles Black Box (PRESS/INDUSTRY) Sunday, Jan. 18, 9:45pm, (Salt Lake City) Wednesday, Jan. 21, 8:30pm, Library Friday, Jan. 23, 11:30pm, Library
TALENT:	Zach Braff and Peter Sarsgaard will be at Sundance for the duration. TV interviews with Braff and Sarsgaard on Sunday, Jan. 18 from 1-4pm.

CHRYSTAL (Dramatic Competition) Lisa Blount paints the title character of this film, a survivor of a car wreck, with a mixture of profound dignity and frank sexuality, while Billy Bob Thornton plays a man who re-enters her life after many years away. Their complicated reunion is as daunting as a house full of ghosts, yet what goes on outside their home is equally harrowing in the hands of this extraordinary filmmaking team. Set in the Ozarks of Arkansas, where the illicit cultivation of marijuana has replaced the backwoods distillery, CHRYSTAL is a complex and very adult love story about a man and a woman coming to terms with their shared demons. Ray McKinnon wrote and directed CHRYSTAL. McKinnon, along with his partners Lisa Blount and Walton Goggins (Ginny Mule Pictures) won an Academy Award for their short film "The Accountant." CHRYSTAL reunites this creative team with unforgettable performances by both McKinnon and Goggins. CHRYSTAL is produced by Ginny Mule, Bruce Heller and David Koplan. CONTACTS: Mary Litkovich, 917-572-4739, Jeremy Walker, 917-597-7286

SCREENINGS:	Friday, Jan. 16, 5:30pm, Library Friday, Jan. 16, 11:30pm, Library Saturday, Jan. 17, 9:00am, Eccles Black Box (PRESS/INDUSTRY) Saturday, Jan. 17, 9:00pm, (Salt Lake City) Monday, Jan. 19, 11:30am, Library Wednesday, Jan. 21, 9:15am, Eccles
TALENT:	Billy Bob Thornton will be at Sundance late Friday, Jan. 16 through Saturday, January Jan. 17. Actress Lisa Blount, writer-director Ray McKinnon and producer-actor Walton Goggins will be at Sundance for the duration of the Festival. JW+A will be doing TV interviews with Blount and McKinnon on Sunday, Jan. 18 from 1-4pm.

OPEN WATER (American Spectrum) Writer-director Chris Kentis and producer Laura Lau took a killer "based on a true story" premise -- a vacationing couple scuba diving in tropical waters is mistakenly abandoned in the middle of the ocean -- and went on to create a harrowing, knees-to-your-chest thriller. OPEN WATER was made on weekends and holidays by Kentis, Lau, a few family members and actors Blanchard Ryan and Daniel Travis. Employing no special effects, the actors and filmmakers spent over 120 hours in the water many miles off shore amid all kinds of sea life, benign and menacing alike. Capturing a breathtaking range of ocean light, from hypnotic aquamarine to treacherous blackness, OPEN WATER reminds us how much fun it is to be frightened by our most primal fears, namely what we think may linger just below the surface. JW+A CONTACT: Jeremy Walker, 917-597-7286

SCREENINGS:	Friday, Jan. 16, 8:30pm, Prospector Square Saturday, Jan. 17, 8:30am, Prospector Square Sunday, Jan. 18, 2:00pm, Eccles Black Box (PRESS/INDUSTRY) Sunday, Jan. 18, 8:30pm, Holiday Village II Monday, Jan. 19, 9:00pm, (Salt Lake City)
TALENT:	Writer-director Chris Kentis and producer Laura Lau, and actors Blanchard Ryan and Daniel Travis, will be at the Festival from Friday, Jan. 16 through Wednesday, Jan. 21.

THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD (Premiere; Opens end of April from IFC Films) It is 1933 in Winnipeg in the midst of the Great Depression. Beer Baroness Lady Port-Huntly (Isabella Rossellini) announces a global competition to determine the saddest music in the world and musicians from across the globe pour into town to vie for the whopping $25,000 prize. Sobbing Mexican Mariachis, dour Scottish Bagpipers, woeful West African drummers and numerous other grief-stricken ensembles give it their all. Not to be ruled out is the splashy entry from the United States of America, led by failed Broadway producer Chester Kent (Mark McKinney) and his muse Narcissa (Maria de Medeiros), who are embroiled in a family reunion as treacherous and twisted as the competition itself. JW+A CONTACTS: Mary Litkovich, 917-597-7269, Jeremy Walker 917-597-7286

SCREENINGS:	Saturday, Jan. 17, 3:00pm, Eccles Sunday, Jan. 18, 11:30am, Prospector Friday, Jan 23, 6:30pm (Salt Lake City)
TALENT:	Isabella Rossellini will be in from mid-day Saturday, Jan. 17 through mid-day Sunday, Jan 18. Mark McKinney and writer-director Guy Maddin will be in Sundance from Friday, Jan. 16 through Monday, Jan. 19. TV interviews with Rossellini, McKinney and Madden on Sunday, Jan. 18 from 1-4pm.

UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS (Special Screening) Directed by Abby Epstein, UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS, which will air on Lifetime on February 17, documents how The Vagina Monologues grew into an international grassroots movement called V-Day to stop violence against women and girls. In 2002, eight hundred cities around the world participated in V-Day by staging benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues. UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS shows women from Harlem to Ukiah, California; from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to the Philippines and Kenya, uniting and courageously revealing their intimate and deeply painful experiences with abuse ranging from rape to female circumcision. In emotionally charged interviews and performances, everyday women and celebrities like Rosie Perez, Salma Hayek, Tantoo Cardinal, Jane Fonda, and LisaGay Hamilton embrace their bodies, reconcile their past, and bond together to break the silence that surrounds abuse. More than just testimonies and performances, UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS is a film about empowerment and the importance of dialogue in the healing process. A celebration of women reclaiming their bodies and lives, this moving documentary leaves us with hope that change can happen.

EVENT:	Dominion 3 Public Relations will be handling a star-studded pre-screening event at Sundance 4-6PM on Saturday, January 17. For more, call Judy Dixon ahead of Sundance at 323-466-3393, mobile at Sundance (323) 610-9841
SCREENING:	Saturday, Jan. 17, 6:00pm, Yarrow Theatre
TALENT:	Eve Ensler, Jane Fonda will be available for select print interviews and will be doing TV interviews on Sunday, Jan. 18 from 1-4pm. Contact JW+A's Mary Litkovich before Sundance at 212-595-6161, mobile 917-572-4739

NEVERLAND: The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army (Documentary Competition) With NEVERLAND, filmmaker Robert Stone brings into sharp focus the mood of the early 1970s, a mood that inspired the formation of perhaps the first radical domestic terrorist cell to become a media sensation. The SLA wreaked havoc on our national psyche for over two years, leaving behind a rich trove of paranoid recordings and scores of violent acts that to this day demonstrate just how far out their thinking was. Yet Stone understands and demonstrates that context is everything, and within the first reel of his film we get such a profound sense of the times that the reasons behind the formation of the SLA seem perfectly logical. The terrific archival footage used throughout this film - some of which hasn't been seen since it originally aired and much of it never before seen - is likely to be totally new to younger viewers. But the footage will also remind these viewers of something they today see all the time: the media feeding frenzy surrounding the big story or scandal of the day. Stone's film in no way sympathizes with the SLA. Instead, Stone's film uses the SLA and its most notorious act of terrorism-the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst-as a prism through which the country's attitude towards politics, race, class and the media are seen anew. JW+A CONTACTS: Christine Richardson 917-597-7269, Jeremy Walker 917-597-7286

SCREENINGS:	Saturday, Jan. 17, 10:30pm, Yarrow (PRESS/INDUSTRY) Sunday, Jan. 18, 12noon, Holiday III Monday, Jan. 19, 9:30pm, Holiday IV Wednesday, Jan. 21, 3pm, Holiday III Thursday, Jan. 22, 9:45pm, (Salt Lake City) Friday, Jan. 23, 9:30am, Holiday IV
TALENT:	Director Robert Stone will be at Sundance for the duration.

FARMINGVILLE (Documentary Competition) For nearly a year, Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini lived and worked smack in the middle of Long Island so that they could capture first-hand the voices of people for whom the issue of immigration is not an abstract debate, but a reality of daily life. Once the shocking hate-based attempted murders of two Mexican day laborers catapults the town of Farmingville into national headlines, a new front line in the border wars is unmasked: suburbia. Blending the stories of town leaders, residents, day laborers and activists on all sides of the debate, this powerful, balanced film reveals the human impact of national policies that can lead to fear, isolation, racism and violence. But FARMINGVILLE also captures the essence of the American dream by showing how these new pioneers weather even the ugliest storms by coming together and ultimately contributing to the community that is becoming their new home. FARMINGVILLE will be a POV premier on PBS in the 2004 Season. CONTACTS:Christine Richardson, 917-597-7269, Jeremy Walker 917-597-7286

SCREENINGS:	Sunday, Jan. 18, 11:30am, Eccles Black Box (PRESS/INDUSTRY) Sunday, Jan. 18, 6:00pm, Holiday III Monday, Jan. 19, 3:30pm, Holiday IV Tuesday, Jan. 20, 1:00pm, Sundance Resort Wednesday, Jan. 21, 9:00pm, Holiday III Saturday, Jan. 24, 9:00am, Holiday III
TALENT:	Filmmakers Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini will be at Sundance for the duration..

PERSONAL CLIENT JOHN SAYLES In this critical and increasingly heated election year, many of the films at Sundance have overtly political content and the independent community is starting to ask some unusually big questions. We're very pleased to be working with American independent film icon John Sayles, whose long-range perspective and consistently political body of work offer substance and authority to the topic du jour. Festival-goers will have two opportunities to hear from him. At "A Conversation with John Sayles: The Art of the Possible and Making Ambitious Movies on a Low Budget," Sayles will preview never-before-seen footage from his upcoming feature SILVER CITY to support this "Master Class" discussion. Sayles will also participate in a unique Town Hall Meeting organized by Sundance called "Talking Politics Beyond the Screen." JW+A CONTACT: Jeremy Walker, 917-597-7286 A Conversation with John Sayles: The Art of the Possible and Making Ambitious Movies on a Low Budget," will take place on Wednesday, January 21, 11:00 a.m., at Filmmaker Lodge, Elk's Lodge, 550 Main St. "Town Hall Meeting: Talking Politics Beyond the Screen" will take place on Thursday, January 22 at 3:00 pm, Yarrow Hotel Theatre, 1800 Park Ave. Sayles will be available for interviews before the Festival and at Sundance from Tuesday, Jan. 20 through Thursday, January 22.

CORPORATE CLIENT INDEPENDENT TELEVISION SERVICE (ITVS) brings independently produced programs to the public - programs that transform television into a forum as wildly diverse, creative, and astonishing as the American public itself. Founded in 1988 by a historic mandate of Congress, ITVS fulfills its unique civic mission by supporting, producing, and promoting hundreds of groundbreaking programs for public television. Many have sparked national debate and won prestigious film awards. All champion unheard voices and untold stories, reaching hungry audiences eager to participate in a free, open and informed democracy. ITVS is represented by an astonishing seven titles at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival: "Brother to Brother" (Dramatic Competition); "A Place of Our Own" (Documentary Competition); "Chisholm '72 - Unbought & Unbossed" (Documentary Competition); "Imelda" (Documentary Competition); "In the Realms of the Unreal" (Documentary Competition); "Farmingville" (Documentary Competition); and "Let the Church Say Amen" (American Spectrum). Jeremy Walker + Associates and ITVS will be fielding press requests and inquiries for both of these films out of our shared offices, Suite 113 of the Marriott. Primary Contacts for these ITVS Titles: Randall Cole, 415-425-3050, Cara White, 843-224-1442, and Wilson Ling, 415-385-5239. JW+A Contact is Jessica Grant, 917-887-5198. The makers of both ITVS films will be at Sundance for the duration. They are, again, in order of first screening:

A PLACE OF OUR OWN (Documentary Competition) A PLACE OF OUR OWN is legendary documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson's very personal film about the last forty summers he spent in the largely African American resort community of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, and what it means to live life as a member of the rarely visible black upper-middle class.

SCREENINGS:

Saturday, Jan. 17, 6:00pm, Holiday 3 Sunday, Jan. 18, 9:00am, Yarrow (PRESS/INDUSTRY) Sunday, Jan. 18, 3:30pm, Holiday 4 Monday, Jan. 19, 9:45pm, Broadway (Salt Lake) Thursday, Jan. 22, midnight, Holiday 4 Friday, Jan. 23, 9:30pm Holiday 4

IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL (Documentary Competition) IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL is Oscar-winner Jessica Yu's fascinating illumination of the epic artwork and reclusive life of Chicago custodian Henry Darger, whose inner life is captured in a 15,000 page novel with hundreds of pages of paintings that he never shared with anyone.

SCREENINGS:

Sunday, Jan. 18, 11:30am, Yarrow (PRESS/INDUSTRY) Sunday, Jan. 18, 9:00pm, Holiday 3 Monday, Jan. 19, 12:30pm, Holiday 4 Wednesday, Jan. 21, 6:00pm, Holiday 3 Friday, Jan. 23, midnight, Holiday 4 Saturday, Jan. 24, 1:00pm, Sundance Screening Room

LAKE PLACID FILM FESTIVAL (June 2nd - June 6th) We're proud to be the press representatives for this year's Festival, where Director Martin Scorsese will present one of his favorite films. Founded five years ago by Russell Banks and Kathleen Carroll, the Lake Placid Film Festival is passionately dedicated to remaining one of the most accessible, intimate and intellectually engaging events on the regional festival circuit while offering a more diverse and adventuresome program. The 2004 edition of the Festival, formerly known as the Lake Placid Film Forum, will also feature a new Emerging Filmmaker Competition to include feature-length films in Dramatic and Documentary categories.

We look forward to seeing you at Sundance!

Jeremy Walker

Mary Litkovich

Christine Richardson

Jessica Grant

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