Tag: Sundance

The Rescue Of Belle And Sundance


Free Download Birgit Stutz, Lawrence Scanlan, "The Rescue Of Belle And Sundance"
English | 2010 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 1554686199, 1554686202 | EPUB | 3,9 mb
On December 15, 2008, two snowmobilers discovered a pair of abandoned horses atop B.C.’s Mount Renshaw in the Canadian Rockies. Belle and Sundance were a sorry sight – they were emaciated, shivering and trapped in a small shelter they had made for themselves by tramping down the six-footdeep snow. Next morning, a party of four from the nearby town of McBride was sent back up the mountain with a bale of hay, a handgun and a heartbreaking choice to make: either feed the horses, or shoot them.

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Down and Dirty Pictures Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film [Audiobook]


Free Download Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film (Audiobook)
English | December 01, 2008 | ASIN: B001MUU14C | MP3@64 kbps | 23h 30m | 646 MB
Author: Peter Biskind | Narrator: Phil Gigante
It wasn’t so long ago that the Sundance Film Festival was an inconsequential event somewhere in Utah, and Miramax was a tiny distributor of music documentaries and soft-core trash. Today, of course, Sundance is the most important film festival this side of Cannes, and Miramax has become an industry giant, part of the huge Disney empire. Likewise, the directors who emerged from the independent movement, such as Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, and David O. Russell – who once had to max out their credit cards to realize their visions on the screen – are now among the best-known directors in Hollywood. Not to mention the actors who emerged with them, like Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Ethan Hawke, and Uma Thurman.

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