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CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION AT 2003 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
Festival program to include seven grantees in three film categories and the January Screenwriters Lab

NEW YORK, NY (January 7, 2003) – The presence of the arts foundation Creative Capital will be felt at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, a ten-day festival highlighting American and international independent film. Works by five grantees are among the 125 feature-length documentary and dramatic films and 90 shorts that will screen in the Film Festival taking place January 16–26, 2003 in Park City, UT. In addition, two grantees were selected to participate in the Screenwriters Lab, a five-day workshop that runs from January 10–15. Finally, Ruby Lerner, president of Creative Capital, will be a judge for the Short Film Competition.

Participants are: Bill Brown (Buffalo Common, Short Film); Steven Bognar (Gravel, Short Film); Kevin Jerome Everson (Vanessa, Short Film); Sam Green (The Weather Underground, Documentary Competition); Scott Saunders (The Technical Writer, Dramatic Competition); Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone We Know, Screenwriters Lab); and Elisabeth Subrin (Up, Screenwriters Lab). Gravel, The Weather Underground, The Technical Writer, and Up are projects directly funded by Creative Capital.

Selected Projects
Bill Brown’s Buffalo Common (2001, 23 min., b/w) is a portrait of North Dakota and its exploding nuclear missile silos.

Gravel by Steven Bognar (2002, 16 min., color) depicts a single mom and her teenage daughter as they navigate their relationship on a trip to the Appalachian countryside to have lunch with an ex-con, the mother’s potential love interest.

Kevin Jerome Everson will screen Vanessa (2002, 4 min., color), a film about loss and Michelangelo.

Sam Green’s The Weather Underground (2003, 92 min., color) is a documentary that tracks the history of a radical political group called the Weathermen, and examines the psychology and politics which led its members to commit countless acts of terrorist activism.

The Technical Writer by Scott Saunders (2002, 90 min., color) tells the story of a reclusive New York writer who reluctantly rejoins the land of the living.

Participating in the annual Screenwriters Lab are Miranda July, working on Me and You and Everyone We Know, a story about children and adults touching and not touching each other, and Elisabeth Subrin, whose project Up, co-written by Evan Carlson, parallels a young woman’s manic-depressive cycle with the rise and fall of the dotcom industry.

About Creative Capital

Founded in January 1999, Creative Capital Foundation is a national nonprofit organization that supports individual artists pursuing innovative approaches to form and content in the performing, visual, and media arts, and in emerging arts. Creative Capital grew out of a realization among arts leaders that it was time to take a positive approach to funding American artists. Its model differs from those of traditional grantmakers in that the foundation commits to a long-term approach to working with artists. Artists in Creative Capital’s grant program have access to professional services, including assistance in fundraising, networking, marketing, and strategic planning. In addition, grantees agree to share with Creative Capital a small percentage of any profits made by the project. For more information on the 158 projects currently funded by Creative Capital Foundation, visit www.creative-capital.org.
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