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SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2010 NEWS
Sundance Institute Announces Its Spotlight Surprise Film
A shot of Bansky's graffiti, with a passer-by on the scene. Bansky's
directing debut "Exit Through The Gift Shop" will have
its World Premiere at this year's Sundance Film Festival, as the Sundance
Spotlight Surprise category film this Sunday.
Bansky.co.uk
By Omar P.L. Moore/PopcornReel.com
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The Sundance Institute announced late tonight that the Spotlight Surprise film
to be shown at this year's Sundance Film Festival is the debut feature film
directed by the world-renowned graffiti artist
Banksy. The film is titled "Exit Through The Gift Shop".
Bansky's film will have its World Premiere at the
Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, January 24 at 8:30pm at the Library Center
Theater in Park City, Utah.
"Gift Shop" is about a French amateur filmmaker and shopkeeper's efforts to
befriend the artist, which take a turn when Banksy holds up a lens to his
pursuing subject. The film will feature footage of such artists as Shepard
Fairey at work, and is narrated by the actor Rhys Ifans.
In a statement released late tonight John Cooper, the director of the Sundance
Film Festival, said in part of "Exit Through The Gift Shop": "The story is so
bizarre I began to question if it could be even real . . . but in the end I
didn't care. I feel bad I won't be able to shake the filmmaker's hand and
tell him how much I love this film."
Bansky said, "It's the story of how one man set out to film the un-filmable.
And failed."
"Exit Through The Gift Shop" will show five other times during the Sundance Film
Festival, which begins tomorrow and runs through January 31.
For more details, visit
www.sundance.org/festival.
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