PostWorks and Orbit Digital celebrate fourteen 2009 Sundance Film Festival client selections
January 16, 2009
Source: PostWorks
Digital motion picture
and post-production companies PostWorks and Orbit Digital have
detailed their support of numerous feature films and shorts
selected for the annual Sundance Film Festival, which kicked-off yesterday in Park City, Utah.
Staff members from PostWorks and Orbit Digital have made lab,
picture and/or sound post-production contributions to the
narrative feature films "Adventureland" from director Greg
Mottola, "Against the Current" from director Peter Callahan,"Dare" from director Adam Salky, "The Greatest" from director
Shana Feste, "Motherhood" from director Katherine Dieckmann,
"Peter and Vandy" from director Jay DiPietro, "Taking Chance"
from director Ross Katz, and director Lee Toland Krieger's "The
Vicious Kind," the feature documentaries "El General" from
director Natalia Almada, "Kimjongilia" from director N.C.
Heikin, "Quest for Honor" from director Mary Ann Smothers
Bruni, and "The Reckoning" from director Pamela Yates, as well
as short films "Copper on the Chopping Block" from director
Kai Orion and "Protect You + Me" from director Brady Corbet.
Kristen Stewart as Em Lewin and Jesse Eisenberg
as James Brennan in "Adventureland."
Photo credit: Abbot Genser.
Image courtesy of Miramax Films;
Image from "El General," courtesy of
Fideicomiso Archivos Plutarco Elias Calles
and Fernando Torreblanca.
The total number of films touched by PostWorks and Orbit
Digital this year (14) matches their record number of client
Sundance selections from last year. Since 2005, the companies'
clients have an excellent track record of standing out in the
festival's heated competitions, winning two Grand Jury Prizes
(2007's "Padre Nuestro" from director Christopher Zalla, and
2005's "Why We Fight" from director Eugene Jarecki), two
Special Jury Prizes (2008's "Choke" from director Clark Gregg,
and 2005's "Murderball" from directors Henry Alex Rubin and
Dana Adam Shapiro, which also won the festival's Audience
Award), and more than a dozen Grand Jury Prize nominees.
"Over the past five years we have been privileged to contribute
to more than 70 Sundance selections, an honor that feels all
the greater when you reflect on the influence and stature that
Sundance has consistently enjoyed among the world's film
festivals," said Joe Beirne, EVP Technology for PostWorks."Regardless of the particular tone of the industry buzz around
the festival each year, when looking back over the roster of
films that have been launched at Park City, it is remarkable
how well they represent the best independent filmmaking being
done, and everyone at PostWorks and Orbit has been thrilled to
support this work."
Beirne and other PostWorks executives will once again be in
Park City supporting client screenings, and co-hosting Park
City's New York Lounge along with the New York State
Governor's Office for Motion Picture & Television. Located at
545 Main Street, the New York Lounge will welcome visitors
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. throughout the festival. PostWorks is
also co-sponsoring the annual alumni reunion for the NYU Tisch
School of the Arts, which is a Sundance Institute Associate.
More information on this event, which is set for Sat., Jan.
17, from 3 to 5 p.m., is available at www.nyu.edu/tisch/sundance.
The 2009 Sundance Film Festival began on Jan. 15 and will run
through Jan. 25. For further information, please visit
www.sundance.org/festival.
You can also view this YouTube playlist featuring videos, each of which relates to a PostWorks or
Orbit feature-length client project set to appear in the 2009
Sundance Film Festival
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