Sundance Buys Rights to Festival Flicks
Channel Secures Rights To 20 Films, Including A Dozen Feature-Length Docs
By Multi Channel News Staff -- Multichannel News, 9/13/2007 8:50:00 AM MT
Sundance Channel has acquired the rights to 20 films that debuted at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
The acquisition continues Sundance Channel’s annual practice of scouting the Sundance Film Festival for new titles, which resulted in the acquisition of a 12 films from the 2005 festival and 32 a year ago.
Of the 20 titles Sundance Channel has secured from this year’s festival, a dozen are feature-length documentaries, reflecting the increasing popularity of nonfiction filmmaking in contemporary cinema.
The acquisitions include several critical favorites, among them Jason Kohn’s feature debut Manda Bala (Send a Bullet), which explores corruption and violence in modern Brazil; and Jennifer Baichwal’s thought-provoking Manufactured Landscapes that captures the celebrated photographer Edward Burtynsky at work in China.
Also on Thursday, Sundance Channel officials said the network will air the world television premiere of Peter Bogdanovich’s four-hour documentary Runnin’ Down a Dream:Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Oct. 29 at 7:00 p.m.
The TV premiere will follow the film’s forthcoming world premiere at the New York Film Festival Oct. 14.
The documentary examines three decades in the history and development of the legendary American rock and roll band from filmmaker Bogdanovich, who in recent years has also stayed in front of the camera as Dr. Elliot Kupferberg, a recurrent character on HBO's acclaimed mob dramedy The Sopranos.
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