Sundance Film Festival 2016

As Sundance Film Festival kicks off today in Salt Lake City, Utah, United Agents is excited to recognise various projects that will premiere at the festival, involving many of our wonderful clients.

SING STREET
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John Carney's Sing Street is the heart-warming story of a boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s, who longs to break free from his life and the money troubles of his parents. Moved to a new school, he quickly realises that it's going to be harder to fit in and thinks a possible way out (and a chance to impress a local beauty) is to form a band and start shooting music videos.
Starring LUCY BOYNTON, MARIA DOYLE KENNEDY
Casting by LOUISE KIELY

EDDIE THE EAGLE
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The story of Great Britain's first ski jumper to enter the Winter Olympics, directed by Dexter Fletcher.
Starring TARON EGERTON and with Production Design by MIKE GUNN

THE LOBSTER
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In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days, or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring OLIVIA COLMAN, LEA SEYDOUX, ANGELIKI PAPOULA
Casting by LOUISE KIELY

VIVA
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When everything is for sale, what's the value of love? Jesus does make up for a troupe of drag performers in Havana, but dreams of being a performer. When he finally gets his chance to be on stage, a stranger emerges from the crowd and punches him in the face. The stranger is his father, Antel, a former boxer, who has been absent from his life for 15 years. As father and son clas over their opposing expectations of each other, Viva becomes a love story as the men struggle to understand one another and become a family again.
Directed by PADDY BREATHNACH

RAMS
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After Gummi’s prize ram loses to the one belonging to his long-estranged brother and neighbor, Kiddi, at a local competition, his concerns that Kiddi’s herd might have scrapie, an incurable and contagious illness, are initially dismissed as the complaints of a sore loser. But as concern about the entire valley’s livestock turns to quiet panic, the brothers find their very different ways of dealing with the impending threat to their way of life (and their beloved sheep) forcing them back together.
Written/Directed by GRIMUR HAKONARSON

NOTES ON BLINDNESS
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A feature film and multi-platform interactive project based on the audio diaries of writer and academic John Hull, who - after decades of steady deterioration - became totally blind in 1983. To help him make sense of the upheavel in his life, he began keeping a diary on audio-cassette.
Starring DAN SKINNER

SKY LADDER: THE ART OF CAI GUO-QUIANG
Sky Ladder opens the documentary festival at Sundance this year. Cai Guo-Qiang is an electrifying artist who creates massive drawings from fireworks, uniting Eastern philosophy and contemporary social issues. With unfettered access, filmmaker Kevin Macdonald combines the artist's intimate reflections with interviews from friends, family, and members of the art world.
Director KEVIN MACDONALD

 

THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT

They were the Brangelina of ’70s South Korea—the romance between the debonair film director Shin Sang-ok and glamorous actress Choi Eun-hee took them to the heights of South Korean society. Fame took a toll on their love, but it also attracted unbelievable twists of fate. The two find themselves kidnapped by the North Korean regime, and they are forced to play along with a bizarre filmmaking project led by superfan cinephile Kim Jong-il. Enduring torture, imprisonment, and surveillance, their romance is rekindled, and they realize escape is only possible through filmmaking—but the smallest mistake in their plans could cost them their lives. Edited by DAVID CHARAP

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