Edgar Wright, Winona Ryder among Sundance Film Fest jurorsDecember 19, 2014 - 11:32 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Directors Edgar Wright and Cary Fukunaga and actress Winona Ryder are among the jurors selected for the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. The trio will serve on the U.S. Dramatic jury, while screenwriter Jonathan Nolan and actress Brit Marling are part of the group that will award the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for the depiction of science in film, The Hollywood Reporter said. The festival, which runs Jan. 22-Feb. 1, named the members of its six juries, which will award prizes at the annual indie film pilgrimage to Park City, Utah. Comedian Tig Notaro will host the festival’s feature-film awards ceremony on Jan. 31, which will be live-streamed at sundance.org/live. Notaro was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2014 for her sophomore release LIVE. A favorite on Conan and This American Life, and host of a weekly podcast, Professor Blastoff, Notaro executive produced the autobiographical documentary Tig, which will have its world premiere in the festival’s Documentary Premieres section. Short-film awards will be announced at a separate ceremony on Jan. 27 at Park City’s Jupiter Bowl. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |