Sundance unveils its short list

December 07, 2006 The Sundance Film Festival has announced 71 short films set to screen next month, including a film starring Peter Sarsgaard and fiancee Maggie Gyllenhaal, and added two new features to its New Frontier and Special Screening sections. In the New Frontier section, Lynn Herschman Leeson's docu "Strange Culture" follows Steve Kurtz, who found himself charged with bioterrorism in 2004 after his wife died of cardiac arrest and authorities found his art supplies suspicious. The 71 shorts arrive from 19 countries and were selected from 4,445 submissions, categorized by U.S. and international under dramatic, documentary and animated films.

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