These films, showcased in the dramatic competition, are the festival's most unusual offerings.
(When the play was entered in the annual springtime dramatic competition at Athens that year, it took third prize).
Of the 16 films in the dramatic competition there, 8 are by women, another optimistic statistic for the new year.
Almost 850 were entered in the dramatic competition alone, a number the judges had to winnow to 16.
This year I was a member of the Dramatic Competition jury, charged with judging 16 American feature films.
In the dramatic competition slot, the juvenile detention drama The United States of Leland is already generating a major buzz.
WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION Circles/Serbia, Germany, France, Croatia, Slovenia (Director: Srdan Golubovic, Screenwriters: Srdjan Koljevic, Melina Pota Koljevic) — Five people are affected by a tragic heroic act.
The big, promising news going into the festival was that for the first time women accounted for half of the directors in the American dramatic competition section.
On Thursday, almost a year after we had gotten busted, the much-hyped "Howl" opened the Sundance Festival as an entry in the U.S. dramatic competition.
Evidence of this year's rich crop was seen in the dual awards handed out by the jury in the festival's dramatic competition.
Another actor to break through in a film in the dramatic competition this year may be Kerry Washington, who plays a stylish shoplifter in "Lift".
