Check out who’s repping the Boston area at 2016 Sundance
The film festival announced its lineup Thursday.
The lineup for the 65 features that will make their world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, in January was unveiled today, and it includes some New England representation.
Jim, a look at the life of the New Hampshire-raised journalist Jim Foley who was killed by ISIS in 2014, is part of the U.S. documentary competition. Heather MacDonald, who works for Boston.com, cowrote the film and was childhood friends with Foley along with director Brian Oakes.
Boston-based Burn Later Productions made the list with the film The Intervention in the U.S. dramatic competition. The film tells the tale of four couples on a weekend retreat gone awry when one of the pairs finds out that the entire trip was planned as an intervention on their marriage.
Sian Heder, a Cambridge native who writes for Orange is the New Black, made the cut for the dramatic competition as well with Tallulah, which she wrote and directed. The film focuses on a “rootless young woman’’ who takes a toddler from a wealthy but negligent mother, passing the child off as her own.
In the “Next’’ section, devoted to highlighting cutting-edge, low-budget work, is The Eyes of My Mother, the story of a woman who “is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.’’ It’s co-produced by Newton native Seth Blogier.
New Englanders aren’t just behind the scenes—well known faces appear in the films, as well. Medfield-bred Uzo Aduba of Orange is the New Black appears in Tallulah. Milton’s Jenny Slate is part of Joshy, an entry in the dramatic category about a man who uses his would-be bachelor party to reconnect with friends.
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