Sunday at Sundance: “Top of the Lake”

Directors: Jane Campion and Garth Davis.  Screenwriters: Jane Campion and Gerard Lee

Cast:  Elizabeth Moss, Holly Hunter, Peter Mullan, David Wenham.   Premiere; Australia/New Zealand, 2012, 363 minutes, in Color

The film was described as:  “A 12-year-old girl stands chest-deep in a frozen lake.  She is five months pregnant, and won’t say who the father is.  Then she disappears.  So begins a haunting mystery that consumes a community.”

Sundance experience day 1: “Fat Shaker”

Fat Shaker is a New Frontier film. (New Frontier features films that  “expand, experiment with, and explode traditional narrative storytelling.”  Mohammad Shirvani is the Director and Screenwriter of this Iranian film produced in 2012.  The film was in color, in English/Farsi/Dari with English subtitles.