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November 30, 2004
63 More Sundance Films

With today's announcement of lineups for another six sections of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival program, the feature roster is complete. Organizers unveiled the films that will screen in the American Spectrum, Frontier, Park City at Midnight, Premieres, Special Screenings and Sundance Collection sections of the festival.

Get the latest in indieWIRE's special Park City section.

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"Police Beat" From Seattle

Sundance dramatic competition entry "Police Beat," directed by Robinson Devor and written by Charles Mudede, comes to the fest from Seattle, via its association with the local non-profit, Northwest Film Forum. Journalist Mudede is writer of the crime beat column in "The Stranger", while the producers are locals Jeffrey Brown and Alexis Ferris.

The film is a recipient of NWFF's Start-to-Finish grant, with the organization guiding through all states of production and post. It marks the groups first film to play at Sundance. In a description emailed today, the filmmakers describe the movie as following, "African-born Seattle bicycle cop ("Z") on his beat for seven days and six nights, covering more than forty crimes, all of which are based on actual Seattle police reports."

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November 29, 2004
Early Reports on Sundance '05

A few media outlets have already weighed in with reports on today's announcement of the Sundance '05 competition lineup:

Reuters | AP | Variety | Hollywood Reporter | indieWIRE

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Doing the Math

60 films are in competition this year, among the lineup are 42 world premieres, 9 North American premieres and 9 U.S. premieres. Programmers received 2,613 feature film submissions, including 1,385 for the U.S. feature film competition and 1,228 international feature submissions. That is an increase from 2004 when 2,485 feature films were submitted, with 1,285 coming from the U.S. and 1,200 from abroad.

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