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“Sun Valley Film Festival Announces 2016 Feature Film Slate” Little Giants and The Man Who Knew Infinity to Open the Festival, I Saw the Light to Close
The 2016 Sun Valley Film Festival (SVFF), presented by Zions Bank, announces the feature film slate for the Festival, March 2-6. The 5th annual SVFF offers five days of film screenings, featuring world premieres, shorts, narratives, and documentaries from around the globe.
In addition to screening over 60 cutting-edge films, the SVFF will offer engaging Coffee Talks with top industry insiders including legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone, (recipient of the 2016 SVFF Lifetime Vision Award), fabulous parties and panels, a Screenwriters Lab led by award-winning writers Mark Duplass and Nat Faxon, and the spectacular SVFF Awards Bash. The combination of cutting-edge programming and bona-fide insider access in a fun, relaxed atmosphere is making the Sun Valley Film Festival a rising star in the world of destination festivals. This coming March, filmmakers from around the world will bring their vision to the Sun Valley Film Festival, and movie lovers are invited to watch it come into focus. For Sun Valley Film Festival details, visit: www.sunvalleyfilmfestival.org.
The following is the carefully curated slate of 2016 SVFF feature films. Little Giants and The Man Who Knew Infinity will open the Festival, and I Saw the Light will be the closing night film. The film slate can also be viewed here. Additional films, including the slate of selected short films, will be announced listed on the festival website at a later date.
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EYE IN THE SKY
Director: Gavin Hood
Writer: Guy Hibbert
Producers: Ged Doherty, Colin Firth, David Lancaster
Cinematography: Haris Zambarloukos
Cast: Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi, Jeremy Northam, Iain Glen
EYE IN THE SKY stars Helen Mirren as Colonel Katherine Powell, a UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya. Through remote surveillance and on-the-ground intel, Powell discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” But as American pilot Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
102 min./United Kingdom
https://sunvalleyfilmfestival.org/films/film/?title=Eye%20in%20the%20Sky
THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY
Based on the untold story of one of the greatest minds of his generation, The Man Who Knew Infinity charts the incredible life of Srinivasa Ramanujan (Slumdog Millionaire’s Dev Patel), whose genius for mathematics takes him from the slums of India to Cambridge University in the early 20th-century. Spurred on by his mentor G.H. Hardy (Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons), Ramanujan overcomes racism and the rigidity of academia to revolutionize the field with his startlingly original theorems, which he attributes to divine inspiration. Driven by the engaging rapport between Patel and Irons as two vastly different men who find common ground in the world of numbers, The Man Who Knew Infinity is a fascinating look at how an unlikely, cross-cultural friendship changed the world.
Film Cast & Credits
Director/Writer: Matthew Brown
Based on the biography by Robert Kanigel
Producers: Edward R. Pressman, Jim Young, Joe Thomas, Matthew Brown, Sofia Sondervan, Jon Katz
Cinematography: Larry Smith
Editor: JC Bond
Cast: Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Devika Bhise, Stephen Fry, Toby Jones, Jeremy Northam
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