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December 27, 2004
Sundance Music Cafe...

Fest organizers at Sundance unveiled plans for this year's Music Cafe, revealing the complete daytime lineup of artists (it is posted below). Also on tap at special nighttime events are performances by alaska!, Calexico, Daniel Johnston, Gary Louris,?Raz Mesinai and Pete Fitzpatrick?, Yo La Tengo and others to be announced. Daytime programming is free to all fest attendees and nighttime shows require special tickets.

The Day-time line-up for the 2005 Sundance Film Festival Music Cafés:

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December 20, 2004
PostWorks' Films to Screen at Sundance

PostWorks, New York, a full-service film and High Definition post facility and 2005 Sundance Institute Associate, congratulates several of its clients for having their feature films selected as part of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. “Murderball,” “Romántico,” “212” and Kevin Bacon’s theatrical feature directorial debut “Loverboy” all have collaborated with PostWorks and its subsidiary Photomag Sound & Image for various aspects of post-production.

“As our country’s most important venue for showcasing daring films that celebrate diversity and redefine the aesthetics of cinema, we are very proud to be associated with multiple films showing at the festival,” says PostWorks’ president Billy Baldwin, who is moderating the festival’s Post-Production Forum on Jan. 25 at the Sundance Digital Center. For more information, about Postworks, visit www.pwny.com.

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December 13, 2004
Slamdance Lineup Set

The lineup for the 2005 Slamdance Film Festival was announced tonight in Los Angeles. The festival will open with Amy Sewell's "Mad Hot Ballroom" and will close with a work-in-progress screening of Michael Franti's doc, "I Know I Am Not Alone."

A full story will be published in Tuesday's edition of indieWIRE, the complete lineup follows below.

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December 05, 2004
VARIETY | Execs scramble for Sundance titles

In Variety, Ian Mohr looks at the race to rep Sundance titles:

The majority of Sundance's slate -- from Steve Buscemi's "Lonesome Jim" to Noah Baumbach's "The Squid and the Whale" -- has been tracked by industryites from script stage through Sundance Labs, agency packaging and so on.

In the tightly knit -- and ever-consolidating -- indie sector, execs and agents lose sleep imagining the competition pouncing on that unknown entity that has found its way into the heart of Sundance topper Geoff Gilmore.

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December 01, 2004
Texas in Focus

indieWIRE-hosted blogger Matt Dentler, from SXSW in Austin, weighs in with some insight on a trio of new Sundance Film Festival projects, from Kyle Henry's "Room" and Luke Savisky's "Frontier 6" in the festival Frontier program, to the doc competition entry, "The Devil and Daniel Johnston".

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Ok, its 60...

While 63 titles were in fact announced by the festival on Tuesday, a fest rep emailed me last night to clarify that 3 of those are not feature length, meaning that 60 more features were added to the lineup, for a total of 120. Today in indieWIRE, Geoff Gilmore talks about some of the movies.

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