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* Has some name actors and writer/director Casey Mott
is from Sun Valley.
A MIDSUMMER
NIGHT’S DREAM
NARRATIVE
FICTION
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Casey Wilder Mott
PRODUCERS: Casey Wilder Mott, Joshua Skurla, Fran Kranz
CAST: Lily Rabe, Rachael Leigh Cook, Hamish Linklater, Finn Wittrock
A brassy, sexy retelling of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedy that
reimagines the story as a modern Hollywood fairy tale. Four young
lovers are stranded on a mystical night in the woods outside Los
Angeles. They encounter a group of woodland hippies as well as a
band of bumbling wannabe filmmakers. Magic, mischief and madness
combine on this fantastical moonlit journey.
* Has big name actors.
BEIRUT
A U.S. diplomat (Jon Hamm) flees
Lebanon in 1972 after a tragic
incident at his home. Ten years later,
he is called back to war-torn Beirut
by a CIA operative (Rosamund Pike)
to negotiate for the life of a friend
he left behind.

* Young and energetic film
AMERICAN ANIMALS
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Bart Layton
PRODUCERS: Derrin Schlesinger, Katherine
Butler, Dimitri Doganis, Mary Jane Skalski
CAST: Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner,
Jared Abrahamson, Ann Dowd, Udo Kier
Lexington, Kentucky, 2004: Spencer and Warren dream
of remarkable lives beyond their middle-class suburban
existence. They head off to colleges in the same town,
haunted by the fear they may never be special in any
way. Spencer is given a tour of his school’s incredibly
valuable rare book collection and describes it all to
Warren. Suddenly, it hits them—they could pull off one of
the most audacious art thefts in recent history, from the
university’s special collections library. Convinced they can
get away with it, they recruit two other friends. Suddenly,
the dance of knowing what happens if they cross the line
becomes all-consuming.
DIRECTOR: Brad Anderson
WRITER: Tony Gilroy
PRODUCERS: Mike Weber, Tony Gilroy, Shivani
Rawat, Monica Levinson
CAST: Jon Hamm, Rosamund Pike, Dean Norris,
Mark Pellegrino, Larry Pine

FINDING YOUR
FEET
* Crowd pleaser and closing night film.
DIRECTOR: Richard Loncraine
WRITERS: Meg Leonard, Nick Moorcroft
PRODUCERS: Andrew Berg, John Sachs
CAST: Imelda Staunton, Timothy Spall, Celia Imrie,
David Haymen, John Sessions, Joanna Lumley
On the eve of retirement a middle class, judgmental snob
discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best
friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives
on an impoverished inner-city council estate.
NONA
* Filmmakers Michael
Polish and SVFF honoree
Kate Bosworth will be in
attendance.

DIRECTOR: Debra Granik
WRITERS: Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini
Based on the book My Abandonment by Peter Rock
PRODUCERS: Anne Harrison, Linda Reisman, Anne
Rosellini
CAST: Ben Foster, Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, Jeff
Kober, Dale Dickey
LEAVE NO TRACE
* Critically acclaimed film and filmmaker.
For years Will and his teenage daughter, Tom, have lived off the grid, blissfully
undetected by authorities in a vast nature reserve on the edge of Portland,
Oregon. When a chance encounter blows their cover, they’re removed from
their camp and put into the charge of social services. Struggling to adapt to
their new surroundings, Will and Tom set off on a perilous journey back to
the wilderness, where they are finally forced to confront conflicting desires—a
longing for community versus a fierce need to live apart.
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Michael Polish
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Kate
Bosworth, Michael Polish, Jennifer
Sulkess
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Michael Polish
CAST: Sulem Calderon, Jesy
McKinney, Kate Bosworth Kober,
Dale Dickey
NONA is the story of a girl from
Honduras who meets a charming
boy, Hecho. Hecho promises to get
her safely to America to reunite
with her mother, but instead, Nona
faces a perilous journey when he
doesn’t deliver on that promise.
NONA -- short for No Name -- will
deliver a message to change the
way the world is dealing with sex
trafficking.

OUTSIDE IN
* Screenwriter’s Lab host
Lynn Shelton and Coffee
Talker Jay Duplass will be in
attendance.
DIRECTOR: Lynn Shelton
WRITERS: Jay Duplass,
Lynn Shelton
PRODUCERS: Mel Eslyn,
Lacey Leavitt
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS:
Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
ORIGINAL SCORE:
Andrew Bird
CAST: Jay Duplass, Edie
Falco, Kaitlyn Denver, Ben
Schwartz
After serving 20 years for a crime that spun far out of his control, 38-year-old
Chris (Duplass) is granted an early release thanks in large part to the tireless
advocacy of Carol (Falco), his former high-school teacher. As he struggles
to adapt to the outside world, the digital age, and the challenges of finding
employment as an ex-con, Chris confesses his romantic love for Carol — a
love that, given her marital status, Carol cannot reciprocate. Or can she? Carol
longs for something her husband no longer provides. Meanwhile, Carol’s
daughter Hilde (Dever) befriends Chris, finding in this awkward, tormented
older guy a kindred spirit able to see her for who she believes she really is.
* Fresh off its world premiere at SxSW, filmmakers Robert
Schwartzman and Sun Valley local Dree Hemingway will
be in attendance.
THE
UNICORN
Facing the fourth year of their engagement,
an indecisive couple is thrust into the
most uncomfortable night of their lives by
intentionally and unintentionally involving a
third party in their relationship.

* Won the Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic
at Sundance 2018.
THE GUILTY
[Den Skyldige]
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Gustave Möller
PRODUCER: Lina Flint
CAST: Jakob Cedergren, Jessica
Dinnage, Johan Olsen
Alarm dispatcher and former police officer, Asger Holm, answers an
emergency call from a kidnapped woman. When the call is suddenly
disconnected, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins.
With the phone as his only tool, Asger enters a race against time to
save the endangered woman. But soon he realizes that he is dealing
with a crime that is far bigger than he first thought.
DIRECTOR: Robert Schwartzman
WRITERS: Nick Rutherford, Kirk C.
Johnson, Will Elliott
PRODUCERS: Russell Wayne Groves,
Robert Schwartzman
CAST: Lauren Lapkus, Nick Rutherford,
Lucy Hale, Beck Bennett, Dree
Hemingway, Beverly D’Angelo, John
Kapelos, Maya Kazan, Darrell Britt-
Gibson, Kyle Mooney

ALL THE WILD
HORSES
* Features local equestrian Julie Youngblood.
DOCUMENTARY
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Ivo Marloh
MUSIC: Tengger Cavalry, Chris Barnett
International riders forge unexpected bonds as they
compete in the Mongol Derby, at 1000 kilometres of
Mongolian steppe the longest and toughest horse race
in the world. The harsh Mongolian wilderness soon takes
its bone-crunching toll as the competitors are whittled
down mercilessly. This is their epic story.
* Won the Directing award for U.S.
Documentary at Sundance.
ON HER
SHOULDERS

* Won the special jury prize for breakthrough
filmmaking at Sundance.
MINDING
THE GAP
PRODUCERS: Bing Liu, Diane Quon
ORIGINAL MUSIC: Nathan Halpern,
Chris Ruggiero
Three young men bond together to escape volatile
families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they grow
up, unexpected revelations threaten their decadelong
friendship.
DIRECTOR: Alexandria Bombach
PRODUCERS: Hayley Pappas, Brock Williams
COMPOSER: Patrick Jonsson
Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, survived genocide and sexual
slavery committed by ISIS. Repeating her story to the world,
this ordinary girl finds herself thrust onto the international stage
as the voice of her people. Away from the podium, she must
navigate bureaucracy, fame and people’s good intentions.

* World premiere.
ONE
STRANGE
ROCK
Acclaimed filmmaker Darren Aronofsky (“mother!,”
“Black Swan,” “Requiem for a Dream”) and awardwinning
producer Jane Root (“America: the Story
of Us,” “The 80s: The Decade That Made Us”) join
forces on an epic, cinematic event series that will
redefine natural history filmmaking. Hosted by Will
Smith (“Ali,” “Pursuit of Happyness,” “Men in Black”
franchise), One Strange Rock promises to be a
mind-bending, thrilling journey that explores the
fragility and wonder of planet Earth, one of the most
peculiar, unique places in the entire universe. It’s the
extraordinary story of why life as we know it exists on
Earth, brought into perspective by the only people
to have left it behind: astronauts. This 10-part series
from Nutopia and Protozoa Pictures brings cameras
where they’ve never been before, having filmed in 45
countries, on six continents and from outer space on
the ISS. One Strange Rock guides viewers through
our vulnerable, tiny speck of a planet among the vast,
harsh cosmic arena, revealing the magical twists of
fate that have allowed life to emerge, survive and
thrive only on Earth.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Darren Aronofsky,
Jane Root, Ari Handel, Peter Lovering, Scott
Franklin, Tim Pastore, Matt Renner
CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Arif Nurmohamed
MUSIC: Daniel Pemberton
HOST: Will Smith

* Opening night film. Won Sundance’s Inaugural Festival
Favorite Award, and filmmaker will be in attendance.
SCIENCE FAIR
DIRECTORS: Cristina Costantini, Darren Foster
PRODUCERS: Cristina Costantini, Darren Foster,
Jeffrey Plunkett
WRITERS: Jeffrey Plunkett, Darren Foster,
Cristina Costantini
Science Fair follows one mentor and nine students from around
the world as they prepare their projects and team for the 2017
ISEF event in Los Angeles. Though all are participating for the love
of science, we also learn that there are other underlying influences
motivating them to pursue their dreams of participating in the
competition. Featuring interviews with the charming young
scientists, their parents and mentors, as well as past ISEF winners,
this absorbing film illuminates a group of amazing young men and
women who are on a path to change the world through science.

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