For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most-fêted playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens that took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia.
The World sections will feature 12 films each, with the Ireland-based director Rebecca Daly's Mammal selected for the dramatic competition, alongside India's Brahman Naman (about a quiz team from Bangalore university) and Israel's Sand Storm, focusing on a Bedouin mother and daughter whose lives are upended when another wife arrives.
Six of the 16 movies selected for the United States Dramatic Competition, including the buzzy "Little Birds" from Mr. James, were shaped in the Sundance Institute's workshops — a record.
Above all, 12 directors – including Shane Carruth with Upstream Color, Daniel Hoesl with Soldate Jeannette, and Michael Noer with Northwest – will be competing for the international dramatic competition Making Way with a $100,000£65,00000) prize.
The film and Parker were both met with effusive praise at the Sundance Film Festival, earning both the grand jury and audience prizes in the U.S. Dramatic competition, with Fox Searchlight acquiring the film for $17.5 million. .
Of the 16 films in the dramatic competition there, 8 are by women, another optimistic statistic for the new year.
In a world of dramatic competition, it takes confidence to identify what is most important for you and your family.
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.
Having its world premiere on Tuesday as part of the U.S. Dramatic competition at Sundance, "The Free World" is the feature debut as writer-director for actor-turned-screenwriter-turned-filmmaker Jason Lew.
Last winter, Lions Gate, which had bought the film's domestic distribution rights for close to $2 million, submitted it to Sundance, where it was accepted into the dramatic competition.
