2010 Sundance Film Festival

Start your day at Cinema Café. Each morning in the Filmmaker Lodge, Cinema Café revives the culture of conversation, offering audiences the opportunity to engage with Festival filmmakers and other guests in an informal dialogue about their work. If you missed the Q&A, this is your chance to hear directly from the artists. Join James Kass (Youth Speaks) , Joseph Gordon-Levitt (hitRECord) , Tamra Davis (Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child) , and Danny Perez (Oddsac) .

Start your day at Cinema Café. Each morning in the Filmmaker Lodge, Cinema Café revives the culture of conversation, offering audiences the opportunity to engage with Festival filmmakers and other guests in an informal dialogue about their work. If you missed the Q&A, this is your chance to hear directly from the artists. Join David Michôd (Animal Kingdom) , Spencer Susser (Hesher) , Rachel Perkins (Bran Nue Dae) , Ariel Kleiman (Young Love) and Nash Edgerton (Spider) with moderator Trevor Groth.

Start your day at Cinema Café. Each morning in the Filmmaker Lodge, Cinema Café revives the culture of conversation, offering audiences the opportunity to engage with Festival filmmakers and other guests in an informal dialogue about their work. If you missed the Q&A, this is your chance to hear directly from the artists. Join Derek Cianfrance & Ryan Gosling (Blue Valentine) , Debra Granik & Michael McDonough (Winter’s Bone) , Tanya Hamilton & Affonso Gonçalves (Night Catches Us) and Aaron Schneider (Get Low) , with moderator John Nein.

Start your day at Cinema Café. Each morning in the Filmmaker Lodge, Cinema Café revives the culture of conversation, offering audiences the opportunity to engage with Festival filmmakers and other guests in an informal dialogue about their work. If you missed the Q&A, this is your chance to hear directly from the artists. Join writers Russell Banks, Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman (Howl) , Matt Greenhalgh (Nowhere Boy) , and Nicole Holofcener (Please, Give) with moderator Howard A. Rodman.

Start your day at Cinema Café. Each morning in the Filmmaker Lodge, Cinema Café revives the culture of conversation, offering audiences the opportunity to engage with Festival filmmakers and other guests in an informal dialogue about their work. If you missed the Q&A, this is your chance to hear directly from the artists. With Walter Murch, Academy Award winning film editor and sound designer (The English Patient, Apocalyse Now).

An exciting new wave of filmmaking talent is emerging from sub-Saharan Africa. These young filmmakers are exploring both new directions and traditional storytelling genres—both African and from other cultures—to tell modern African stories with a fresh sense of style and meaning. This special program presents three films that reflect this new wave of African cinema. South African filmmaker Jenna Bass draws from ancient mythological storytelling traditions to create a kind of historical magical realism in relating a modern-day tale of warfare in Zimbabwe in her film The Tunnel. Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu creates a brightly original science-fiction vision in her film Pumzi, a story of a botanist who risks everything to nurture a plant 35 years after the "Water War.” And Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye draws from the fifties- and sixties-style French musicals to breathe fresh air into Saint Louis Blues, a buoyant road-trip tale set in the clogged urban streets and dusty roads of Senegal.