Sundance 2008 Competition Films Announced
The competition films for Sundance 2008 have been announced. For this festival, 121 feature-length films were selected representing 25 countries with 55 first-time filmmakers, including 32 in competition. These films were selected from 3,624 feature film submissions (2,021 U.S. and 1,603 international) as compared with last year when there were 1,852 U.S. and 1,435 international submissions.
Festival films screen in nine sections: Documentary Competition, Dramatic Competition, World Cinema Documentary Competition, World Cinema Dramatic Competition, Spectrum, New Frontier, Park City at Midnight, and from the Sundance Collection. Feature films selected for the Premieres, Spectrum, Park City at Midnight, and New Frontier categories will be announced Thursday, November 29. The Short Film program will be announced on Wednesday, December 5. Films screening in The Sundance Collection will be announced on Wednesday, December 12
