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Record-Breaking Year For Canada At 2015 Sundance Film Festival

Telefilm Canada [1]Ten Canadian feature films will be screened at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, a record for Canada at Sundance. This outstanding selection will also include five shorts and three video installations.  With 10 feature films out of a programmed 123 features, Canada will present the third-largest line-up at Sundance—accounting for 8% of the overall selection—after the United States and the United Kingdom. The Sundance Film Festival runs from January 22 to February 1, 2015, in Park City, Utah.

“The Canadian line-up at this year’s Sundance Film Festival stands out for its abundance, quality and diversity, confirming that our country is at the forefront of indie filmmaking,” said Carolle Brabant, Executive Director of Telefilm Canada [1]. “The Canadian selection includes narrative features, documentaries, genre films and children’s films, among them several coproductions. Sundance and Canadian filmmakers have long had a close relationship, and this year our talents are offering a range of daring and inspiring films that reflect the spirit of the Festival itself. I’m especially pleased that the 2015 edition is highlighting the uniqueness and appeal of independent Canadian voices in a particularly dazzling way.”

Over the years, several Canadian feature films have won awards at Sundance:

The Sundance Film Festival has also launched several other Canadian films on the international scene, among them Up the Yangtze, by Yung Chang, in 2008; Prom Night in Mississippi, by Paul Saltzman, in 2009; and Payback, by Jennifer Baichwal, in 2012.

Canadian feature films selected by Sundance 2015

World Cinema—Dramatic Competition

World Cinema—Documentary Competition

New Frontier—Film

Premieres

Park City at Midnight

U.S. Dramatic Competition

Spotlight

Sundance Kids

For complete information about the 2015 Canadian line-up at Sundance and Slamdance, the Sundance Festival’s parallel event dedicated to debut feature films, please visit Telefilm Canada’s 2015 Sundance eBroadcast [2] page.

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