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Park City Previews/Reviews of January 2008

Quick and easy, here's your menu of reviews from the mayhem and mania of Utah's mountain movie madness, the festival frenzy of Sundance and Slamdance.

Tha Art Star and the Sudanese Twins
Profile of artist Vanessa Beecroft and how her obsession to adopt Sudanese twin orphans drives her marriage to a breaking point and fuels her controversial art. Winner: World Cinema Documentary Editing Award

Captain Abu Raed
An aging airport janitor, mistaken for an airline pilot by a group of poor neighborhood children, tells them fantastical stories that offer hope for a sad, sometimes unchangeable, reality. Filmed in Jordan. Winner: World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic

Fix
A charming user leads the viewer on a joy-ride around L.A. to hit on a bunch of different characters in an effort to get the cash to pay for rehab.

Frost
Playboy novelist spends his days whittling away the hours with heavy drinking and drug-addled "actors-slash-models."

Paranormal Activity
As Micah and Katie investigate the possibility of paranormal activity in their house, the audience's expectation of a paranormal event keeps the tension tightening toward...

The Project
Feature film shot in documentary format, about documentary filmmakers filming a feature project about cops and kids in Brooklyn, New York. Crafted with the inventiveness digital camera technology facilitates.

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