Sundance Round Up – Without Boundaries
By Mali Elfman
- Interview with Morgan Spurlock – Director Morgan Spurlock Director of “Supersize Me” releases his new and controversial film, “Where in the World Is Osama bid Laden?” where he discusses and reveals information on the relationship between America and the Middle East.
- Lack of money and an abundance of creativity has won “Under the Bombs” many awards. “Under the Bombs” is a French-Lebanese productions shot in 2006, only 4 days after the Israeli bombing of southern Lebanon. A woman hires a cabdriver to take her into a war zone to find her missing son and sister “For several days, they pass through the war-torn area, following the sometimes bloody trail of her loved ones who were displaced several times.”
- Sundance gvies the opportunity for a huge range of cultures to express themselves. Already they have shown films in which “An Israeli man and a Palestinian woman fall in love in Berlin against the backdrop of the 2006 World Cup. A white trailer park mom from upstate New York teams with a Mohawk nation woman to smuggle illegal Chinese and Pakistani immigrants into the U.S. A half-Italian, half-English art star living in the states tries to adopt a pair of orphaned Sudanese twins” and countless other films which deal with different cultures, but the same idea of coming together.
- Photo gallery of Sundance
