Remember a few months back, when news of Gwyneth Paltrow's directing debut relieved the suffocating dearth of culture we were sensing in New York cinema? Well, the Sundance Film Festival sent along its short film selections to indieWIRE today, and guess whose suffocating dearth of film culture is going to be relieved come January?

U.S. SHORT FILMS
Dramatic Shorts

Dealbreaker (Director: Gwyneth Paltrow and Mary Wigmore) -- A down to earth New Yorker, who is finally able to look past superficial flaws when she finds the right man.

Woo-hoo! As a sworn enemy of superficiality myself, I am going to look right past that incomplete sentence and start crossing off the days until I arrive in Park City.

OK, OK--in fairness, there are dozens of other short films set for Sundance whose directors have not won Oscars. So when programming director John Cooper says, "As the tools required to create films have become more accessible, new voices have emerged, and short films are a place to discover some of the most creative and challenging work being done today," we know he means it. You know--like Silas Howard's short, What I Love About Dying ("A documentary that helps put the fun back in funerals"), or Levan Koguashvili's The Debt, about two illegal Georgian immigrants in Brooklyn.

Oh, who am I kidding? They did not have pink crew camisoles. You might as well just engrave the trophy right now.

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