TORONTO – Corus Entertainment’s Sundance Channel (Canada) will be available via a free linear preview and select titles on demand in January with participating broadcasters and on-demand services.
The channel offers viewers challenging and thought provoking television and a home to movie enthusiasts, music fans, creative and socially engaged audiences with a lineup of award-winning, diverse and engaging films, festival-selected shorts, documentaries and innovative original series says Corus. With a free preview of Sundance Channel with participating broadcasters on-air and select titles on demand through the month of January, Sundance Channel will celebrate the spirit of the Sundance Film Festival with a different prize-winning, nominated or selected film from festivals all over the world and the premiere of two new series, The Strait and This is England.
Sundance Channel presents a selected, nominated or award-winning film from the world of film festivals every night at 10 p.m. with film gems seldom seen on television and outside of small theatre runs.
Film Festival Gems include:
Bones Brigade: An Autobiogaphy (2012) – 2012 Sundance Film Festival. When six teenage boys came together as a skateboarding team in the 1980s, they reinvented not only their chosen sport but themselves too – as they evolved from insecure outsiders to the most influential athletes in the field. Premieres Friday, January 4.
Holy Rollers (2010) – Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. In Brooklyn, a youth from an Orthodox Jewish community is lured into becoming an Ecstasy dealer by his pal who has ties to an Israeli drug cartel. Premieres Saturday, January 5.
William Shatner’s Gonzo Ballet (2009) – Winner of the 2009 President’s Award at the Nashville Film Festival. High art meets pop culture when a ballet is set to the music of William Shatner and Ben Folds. Premieres Sunday, January 6.
Bodysong (2003) – Winner of the 2003 British Independent Film Award for Best Documentary. The process of human life, from birth through to death, without dialogue, but set to a soft music score. Premieres Friday January 11.
Lions For Lambs (2007) – Directed by Robert Redford. Injuries sustained by two Army ranger behind enemy lines in Afghanistan set off a sequence of events involving a congressman, a journalist and a professor. Premieres Saturday, January 12.
Vincere (2009) – Nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. The story of Mussolini's secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son Albino. Premieres Sunday, January 13.
Hoop Dreams (1994) – Winner of the 1994 Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. A film following the lives of two African American boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional. Premieres Friday, January 18.
Prairie Love (2011) – Winner of the Grand Jury Awards at the 2011 Atlanta Film Festival & Oxford Film Festival. Three lost souls look for love on the North Dakota tundra. Premieres Saturday, January 19.
The Art of The Steal (2009) – Premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. Chronicles the long and dramatic struggle for control of the Barnes Foundation, a private collection of art valued at more than $25 billion. Premieres Sunday, January 20.
The King of Devil’s Island (2010) – Sundance Film Festival, nominated for Grand Jury Prize. The abused inmates of a ruthless youth prison revolt against their sadistic superintendent. Premieres Friday, January 25.
Shadow & Lies (2010) – Premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival. A man returns to New York after years in exile to save the girl he loves. Premieres Saturday, January 26.
Caravaggio (2007) – Winner of the Silver Berlin Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. A fictionalized re-telling of the life of Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Premieres Sunday, January 27.
