Selections for the 2001 Sundance Film Festival are in and while not one Canadian film made it into the independent feature film competition, Lea Pool’s Lost and Delirious will premiere and five others have been chosen to screen at the world-renowned festival, Jan. 18-28 in Park City, Utah.

Denis Villeneuve’s Maelstrom is the only Canadian selection screening in the World Cinema program, and Hey, Happy!, written, directed and produced by Winnipeg-based Noam Gonick (Big Daddy Bear Guts) is the only Canadian feature screening in the Park City at Midnight program, the after-hours hot spot of the festival.

Three out of the 11 films screening in the Native Forum are Canadian selections: Rocks at Whiskey Trench, directed and produced by Alanis Obomsawin (nfb); Abandoned Houses on the Reservation by Darlene Naponese; and Some Place Better by Dennis Allen. *

Samantha Yaffe

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