And Everything Is Going Fine at Slamdance

And Everything Is Going Fine at Slamdance

Steven Soderbergh to premiere new film at 2010 Slamdance Film Festival and participate in revolutionary Filmmaker Summit

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Steven Soderbergh's world premiere of And Everything Is Going Fine will be at the center of the 2010 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, along with his enduring support of independent filmmakers. His latest feature film intimately documents the life and work of the late performance artist Spaulding Gray, a man with whom Soderbergh formed a special friendship.

Steven Soderbergh has maintained a dedicated and venerable role with Slamdance both by supporting the organization and working with many of its filmmakers. In 1996 he produced The Daytrippers, directed by Greg Mottola and winner of Slamdance's first Jury prize. The following year, he premiered his dadaist caper Schizopolis that led to meeting and then collaborating with first-time filmmakers Anthony and Joe Russo.

"In every way Steven Soderbergh represents the spirit of Slamdance. This year he's fully immersed himself within our community in support of the indie filmmaker by debuting an independently-made film about a renowned independent artist," stated Peter Baxter, Slamdance President and Co-Founder.

Steven Soderbergh's involvement with Slamdance this year will also include his participation in The Filmmaker Summit. The Filmmaker Summit's mission is to invite all filmmakers, both in Park City and virtually, to collectively craft a new charter for filmmaking, storytelling and content distribution, with and by the global filmmaking community. Born out of reaction to the independent film industry within a current state of turmoil, this collaboration allocates filmmakers a better understanding and different avenues to find success afforded to them by new technology and democratization of new tools and processes.

"The democratization of the tools is disrupting how films are funded, produced, distributed and discovered," says Lance Weiler, filmmaker and founder of the WorkBook Project. "The empowerment of filmmakers is a vision that the WorkBook Project shares with Slamdance and the Open Video Alliance. We're bringing together creative people from all over the world to join in a summit that has no boarders - to have a conversation about what is working and what is not on a global level. By opening up dialogue we hope that we can foster an international filmmaking community that is willing to experiment while sharing the results."

The premiere of And Everything Is Fine and the Filmmaker Summit will take place on Saturday, January 23 at Treasure Mountain Inn, Slamdance headquarters on Main Street.

About Slamdance

As a year-round organization, Slamdance serves as a showcase for the discovery of new and emerging talent and is dedicated to the nurturing and development of new independent artists and their cinematic vision. For the 2010 Festival, Slamdance received a record number of over 5,000 submissions. Slamdance Film Festival, presented again by Kodak, will run concurrently with the Sundance Film Festival, January 21-28, 2010 in Park City, Utah. Slamdance lives by its mantra: "By Filmmakers, For Filmmakers." No other festival is fully programmed by filmmakers. Slamdance counts among its alumni many notable writers and directors who first gained notice at the festival, including Christopher Nolan, Marc Forster, Jared Hess and Oren Peli. New filmmakers and writers today realize Slamdance is a great place to launch their careers. For more information, log onto www.slamdance.com and follow Slamdance on Twitter and Facebook.

Source: Slamdance

CONTACT: Megan MacLeod of Slamdance Film Festival, +1-310-597-2380,
megan@slamdance.com

Web Site: http://www.slamdance.com/

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