Four Georgia-lensed Films to Premiere at Sundance

The 2016 Sundance Film Festival will have four Georgia-lensed films making their world premiere at the festival: three in the 16-film U.S. Dramatic Competition category and one, “The Fundamentals of Caregiving,” selected as the closing night film. All three of the movies in competition shot largely around Savannah; "Fundamentals" filmed around Atlanta.

The three Georgia-lensed films set to compete include:

“The Birth of a Nation”
“The Birth of a Nation” is based on the story of Nat Turner, a slave who led an infamous slave rebellion. The film shares the name of the racist silent film by D.W. Griffith, but tells a different story of the man who attempted to free his people from bondage.
Director: Nate Parker
Screenwriter: Nate Parker
Cast: Mark Boone Jr., Gabrielle Union, Jackie Earle Haley, Aja Naomi King, Armie Hammer, Nate Parker

“Christine”
“Christine” is also a drama based on a true story: that of 1970’s Sarasota television anchor Christine Chubbuck, a career-driven but depressed journalist torn between integrity, ambition, and family life.
Director: Antonio Campos
Screenwriter: Craig Shilowich
Cast: J. Smith-Cameron, Tracy Letts, Maria Dizzia, Michael C. Hall, Rebecca Hall

“The Intervention”
“The Intervention” is the first writing and directing turn from actress Clea DuVall, about a weekend getaway for four couples that was actually organized to be an intervention on a troubled marriage.
Director: Clea DuVall
Screenwriter: Clea DuVall
Cast: Ben Schwartz, Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, Alia Shawkat, Cobie Smulders, Melanie Lynskey

“The Fundamentals of Caring,” directed by Rob Burnett, stars Paul Rudd as an emotionally damaged man who turns to caregiving as a livelihood and then takes a road trip with his first client, Trevor (Craig Roberts).

The largest independent film festival in the United States, Sundance will be held January 21 – 31, 2016, in Park City, Utah. Awards are presented annually in numerous categories for dramatic, documentary and short films in separate categories for U.S. and International projects.

The Sundance Film Festival notes on its website that it has introduced global audiences to some of the most groundbreaking films of the past three decades, including “Boyhood”, “Beasts of the Southern Wild”, “Fruitvale Station”, “Whiplash”, “Brooklyn”, “Twenty Feet from Stardom”, “Life Itself”, “The Cove”, “Blackfish”, “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl”, “Super Size Me”, “Dope”, “Little Miss Sunshine”, “sex, lies, and videotape”, “Reservoir Dogs”, “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”, “An Inconvenient Truth”, “Precious” and “Napoleon Dynamite”.