Sundance 2010: Ready, Set, Sell

This year’s Sundance Film Festival saw more dealmaking than it has in years. All in all, nine domestic deals were struck — a result of festival directors steering the focus towards towards high quality, noncommercial product and away from the sort of highly commercial pictures that either fail to find deals, or are bought for way too much and wind up grossing too little. A good article summing up the festival can be found here.

Movies like Buried (featuring Ryan Reynolds trapped inside a coffin for two hours), The Company Men (TV writer John Wells’ big screen debut) and The Runaways (Kristen Stewart making her break from the Twilight Franchise) were getting big buzz before the festival began. And now that distribution deals have been struck, you’ll be hearing about them soon, too. Come next winter, these are the pictures that are going to be collecting Oscar nominations right and left.

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54th BFI London Festival October 13-28

Submissions are now open for this years festival. You can find more details at the BFI London Film Festival site or on our events calendar.

Can-Do International Film Festival and Competition

Neil Smith over at Hollywood-Di and Raworks has put together a cool Canon DSLR video festival called the Can-Do International Film Festival and Competition. From the about page:
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Do you want to win $100,000?

Nikon is sponsoring a short (140 seconds or less) film festival titled “Your Day in 140 Seconds or Less” with a $100,000 grand prize and a $25,000 “audience choice” award.

The constest is open to anyone with any camera (though I strongly suggest you read the complete rules before you submit – they own it!) and you can enter up to 5 times. I haven’t been able to find any info about entry fees but you do need to register with the site before uploading.

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