Adam Elliot and Melanie Combs are returning to Park City, Utah with their clay-animated feature Mary and Max. The feature, voiced my Oscar winner Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Oscar nominee Toni Collette, opens the 25th Sundance Film Festival, January 15, 2009.
The story is a portrait of global friendship that follows a 20-year, pen-pal correspondence between an 8-year-old girl in Melbourne and an obese, 42-year-old man in New York
Australian animator Adam Elliot screened his short Harvie Krumpet at the 2004 Sundance, and then went on to win the Oscar.
Synecdoche, New York directed by Charlie Kaufman (Academy Award-winning writer of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), the film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams, Samantha Morton and Hope Davis. Clever set of circumstances which is a little hard to follow in the trailer, but some great actors.
Doubt takes place in 1964 and focuses on a nun who confronts a priest after suspecting him of abuse with a black student. He denies the allegations, and much of the play’s quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality and authority.
