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GE?and?cinelan?today?announced the?five Jury Prize winners?of its?$200,000 FOCUS FORWARD Filmmaker Competition:?Callum Cooper?(?Mine Kafon?),?Kim Munsamy?(?Bones Don?t Lie And Don?t Forget?),?Paul Lazarus?(?Slingshot?),?Jared P. Scott & Kelly Nyks?(?The Artificial Leaf?), and?Rafel Duran Torrent?(?Cyborg Foundation?).?The?Grand Jury Prize of $100,000?will be announced at a live Awards Ceremony?on January 22?during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
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The jury for the Competition includes Sundance Film Festival Senior Programmer?Caroline Libresco, actress?Daryl Hannah?(Kill Bill), and award-winning filmmakers?Barbara Kopple?(Harlan County, USA),?Jos? Padilha?(Elite Squad),?Joe Berlinger?(Paradise Lost),?Floyd Webb?(Daughters of the Dust), and?Peter Wintonick?(Manufacturing Consent). The winning films are live and available to?view for free?on the FOCUS FORWARD website, along with the 15 other Filmmaker Competition Finalists (http://focusforwardfilms.com/finalists).
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Films submitted to the?Filmmaker Competition?are three-minute end-to-end stories about people or organizations whose innovative efforts in medicine, computer science, robotics, engineering, green energy, or other fields of art and knowledge have had a significant positive impact on humanity. Last fall, a selection of 95 Semifinalist Competition films were made available online to a global audience through?Vimeo; 10 Audience Favorites, based on a tally of public online votes, were announced on December 21.
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?Sundance Institute shares with FOCUS FORWARD a commitment to facilitating and supporting the creation and exhibition of short-form films,??said?John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival.??Two films supported by FOCUS FORWARD, from directors Morgan Spurlock and Albert Maysles, both of whom are Sundance alums, are strong additions to the Short Film Competition at our Festival this year.?
?It is an honor and a pleasure to collaborate with Sundance on the FOCUS FORWARD project for GE," said cinelan Managing Partner?Douglas Dicconson. ?Their commitment, energy and unwavering support has inspired us to continue to find new ways to work together in the future.?
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Two new films by renowned filmmaker?Albert Maysles?(Grey Gardens) and?Morgan Spurlock?(Mansome), created specifically for the FOCUS FORWARD ??Short Films, Big Ideas?series of 3-minute stories about innovation, will make their world premiere in the?Shorts Competition of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival?and will also be paired with select features in the Sundance U.S. Documentary and World Cinema Documentary sections.??They will have their global online premiere?on?Tuesday, January 22, at 12pm EST?on?www.vimeo.com/focusforwardfilms?and be shown at a special public screening beginning?5:30pm MST at the Holiday Village Cinema 1?in Park City, alongside three new FOCUS FORWARD films, by?Lucy Walker?(The Crash Reel),?Senain Kheshgi?(Project Kashmir), and?David White & Paul Wedel (I Kill), will also world premiere at the Holiday Village Cinema screening.
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FOCUS FORWARD?-?Short Films, Big Ideas?is a series of 30 three-minute nonfiction films, inspired by GE?s vision of innovative people being the catalyst for world change. Produced by leading documentary filmmakers, the films explore the incredible human power of ideas and invention and are screening at prestigious film festivals globally, followed by day-and-date distribution online to millions of viewers.?FOCUS FORWARD films are distributed across cable and satellite VOD, gaming system networks, Internet Free On Demand services as well as in theaters and on DVD.
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The schedule of FOCUS FORWARD events during the Sundance Film Festival is as follows:
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TUESDAY, January 22, 2013 | The SHOP | 2-4PM
FOCUS FORWARD $200,000 FILMMAKER COMPETITION AWARDS CEREMONY
The five winners of the $200,000 Filmmaker Competition will be awarded their respective cash prizes by
Jury members?Daryl Hannah,?Barbara Kopple,?Floyd Webb,?Peter Wintonick, and?Caroline Libresco.
The five winning films will be shown; lunch and cocktails will be served.
** Invitation Required **
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TUESDAY, January 22, 2013 | Holiday Village Cinema 1 | 5:30-7PM
FOCUS FORWARD SPECIAL SCREENING
Twelve FOCUS FORWARD films will screen to the public, including the world premiere of
3-minute documentary shorts from?Albert Maysles?and?Morgan Spurlock, the five winning films in
?the $ 200,000 FOCUS FORWARD Filmmaker Competition, the world premiere of films by
Senain Kheshgi,?David?White & Paul Weder, and?Lucy Walker, and the North American
premiere of shorts by?Leslie Iwerks,?Victor Kossakovsky,?Alex Gibney,
Fredrik Gertten,?Lixin Fan, and?Steve James.
Followed by a Q&A with attending directors.
** Tickets Required **
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FOCUS FORWARD films making their world premiere during the Sundance Film Festival include:
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Sundance Film Festival Shorts Competition
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YOU DON?T KNOW JACK, Dir. Morgan Spurlock, 2013
Jack Andraka, a high school sophomore, has developed a revolutionary new test for pancreatic cancer. The future of science is in the hands of our youth.
THE SECRET OF TREES, Dir. Albert Maysles, 2013
What do trees know that we don?t? 13-year-old inventor Aidan realized that trees use a mathematical formula to gather sunlight in crowded forests. Then he wondered why we don?t collect solar energy in the same way.
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Premiering in a Special Screening at Holiday Village Cinema on 1/22
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THE CLEANEST PIG, Dir. David White & Paul Wedel, 2013
After waiting 50 years, some exceedingly rare pigs help Dr. Bob Elliott?perform a medical miracle.
TECHISTAN, Dir. Senain Kheshgi, 2013
Tech?entrepreneur Rehan Allawala is on a mission to empower Pakistan's most disenfranchised before they?re left behind by the Internet revolution.
THE CONTENDERS,?Dir. Lucy Walker 2013
How did a group of online?fold.it?gamers solve in three weeks a medical puzzle that had baffled AIDS researchers for over a decade?
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The award-winning professional filmmakers who are contributing to the FOCUS FORWARD ??Short Films, Big Ideas?series include?Jessica Yu, Phil Cox, Jeremiah Zagar, David W. Leitner, Jessica Edwards & Gary Hustwit, Katy Chevigny, Nelson George, Eddie Schmidt, Kief Davidson, Lixin Fan, Mich?le Ohayon, Steven Cantor, Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zaman, Fredrik Gertten, Senain Kheshgi, Annie Sundberg & Ricki Stern, Lucy Walker, Liz Garbus, Ross Kauffman, Leslie Iwerks, Steve James, Alex Gibney, Morgan Spurlock, Stanley Nelson, Victor Kossakovsky, Petra Epperlein & Michael Tucker, Heloisa Passos, David White & Paul Wedel, Supriyo Sen,?and?Albert Maysles.
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