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PEOPLE & ARTS Friday 30 November 2018
Sundance Film Festival unveils 2019 feature film slate

By LINDSEY BAHR on real life persons, like
Associated Press Bening as Dianne Feinstein
LOS ANGELES (AP) — in "The Report," from
Annette Bening plays director and screenwriter
Senator Dianne Feinstein, Scott Z. Burns. It focuses
Zac Efron takes on Ted on the Senate's study into
Bundy, Awkwafina dives the CIA's Detention and
into a dramatic role, and Interrogation Program and
Harvey Weinstein gets a co-stars Adam Driver and
documentary spotlight in Jon Hamm.
films that will premiere at "It's kind of one of those Meryl
the 2019 Sundance Film Streep star turns where she
Festival in January. gets all the nuance of her,"
The Sundance Institute said Cooper.
revealed on Wednesday Efron is playing Ted Bundy
111 feature films, culled in the Joe Berlinger
from 4,018 submissions, set film "Extremely Wicked,
to screen at the annual Shockingly Evil and Vile,"
festival this January in Park which takes on the
City, Utah. infamous criminal from the
From incisive documentaries perspective of his longtime
to groundbreaking girlfriend, while Lupita
dramas and edgy genre Nyong'o takes a surprising
fare, films that launch at In this combination photo, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., arrives for a Senate Judiciary turn in the "midnight" movie
Sundance make up many Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Dec. 6, 2017, left, and actress Annette "Little Monsters," from Abe
of independent films Bening appears at the BAFTA Awards in London on Feb. 18, 2018. Forsythe, in which she plays
populating theaters for Associated Press a kindergarten teacher
the rest of the year, and Life," ''Eighth Grade" and summer's comedy breakout Cooper notes that "Honey who has to protect her
often find their way into "Sorry to Bother You." Awkwafina ("Crazy Rich Boy," written by and students from zombies.
the Oscar conversation Festival programmers Asians" and "Ocean's 8") starring Shia LaBeouf, is Keira Knightley stars as
too (think, "Get Out" and promise a similar breadth in a dramatic turn as a also one that might surprise intelligence whistleblower
"Call Me By Your Name"). of original viewpoints, Chinese-American woman audiences. Lucas Hedges Katharine Gun in Gavin
Films that debuted earlier authenticity in storytelling, who returns to China to plays a younger version of Hood's "Official Secrets"
this year at Sundance new talents, a particularly stay with her terminally ill LaBeouf in this story about a and Mindy Kaling writes and
include awards buzzworthy robust world cinema grandmother. child TV star and his father. stars in a film about a late-
documentaries like "RBG," section and films that might "I think it's a great showcase "He's stepping out into a night talk show host (played
''Three Identical Strangers" show actors in a new light. for her," said Kim Yutani, place that I would say is by Emma Thompson) who
and "Won't You Be My "The Farewell," from Sundance's new director of very raw and real for him," hires her first female staff
Neighbor" and narrative director Lulu Wang, is just programming. said Cooper. writer ("Late Night").q
films like "Wildlife," ''Private one of those. It features this Festival director John A few actors are taking
Oprah offers rousing tribute to Mandela in S. Africa visit

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA rule.
Associated Press But Winfrey, who said she
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — was visiting South Africa for
Oprah Winfrey on Thursday the 36th time, told young
delivered a rousing tribute people not to give up. "Be-
to Nelson Mandela, a cen- cause it is your fresh per-
tury after he was born, and spectives that are going to
urged the youth of South bring about unprecedent-
Africa and beyond to over- ed innovation for this coun-
come failure and trauma try. We need you."
on the road to accomplish- The Nelson Mandela Foun-
ing their goals. dation co-hosted the
"Your day will come. I ap- event, one of a series of
plaud your resilience," Win- activities honoring Mande-
frey told a cheering crowd la this year. The anti-apart-
in Soweto. "I say there's no heid leader and South Af-
such thing as failure. Failure rica's first black president
is just a mistake trying to died in 2013 at age 95.
move you in a better direc- Winfrey said she stayed
tion." with Mandela and his wife
The philanthropist and for- Graca Machel for 10 days
mer talk show host, who during one of her visits.
opened an academy for Mandela spoke about his
girls in South Africa a de- Oprah Winfrey gestures as she is introduced to the audience for her tribute speech to Nelson many years in prison dur-
Mandela and promoting gender equality at an event in Soweto, South Africa, Thursday, Nov. 29,
cade ago, acknowledged 2018. ing apartheid as well as his
the high unemployment, Associated Press concern about the corro-
poverty and other social sive effect of poverty, she
challenges persisting in the country that held its first all- race elections in 1994 after the end of white minority said.q