Jesse Peretz
He directed My Idiot Brother, which was purchased by the Weinstein Company for a cool $7 million.
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Elizabeth Banks
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Larry Busacca/Getty Images She plays one of Paul Rudd's sisters in My Idiot Brother.
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Paul Rudd
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Larry Busacca/Getty Images The actor stars in My Idiot Brother, playing a stoner/idiot trying to make it in the world.
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“The Lie”
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Larry Busacca/Getty Images Mark Webber, director Joshua Leonard and actresses Violet Long and Jess Weixler are the talent behind The Lie, about a couple struggling with their lives while raising a newborn infant.
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“Vampire”
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Larry Busacca/Getty Images Kristin Kreuk, Adelaide Clemens, Trevor Morgan and Rachael Leigh Cook star in the dark flick about a seemingly normal teacher and caretaker for his aging mother who obsesses about drinking blood.
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“Cedar Rapids”
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Larry Busacca/Getty Images Director Miguel Arteta joins Ed Helms, Anne Heche and Isiah Whitlock Jr. to celebrate the Sundance Film Festival premiere of their comedy about a a dweeby Iowa insurance salesman who is trying to win a corporate award for his firm.
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“Gun Hill Road”
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Larry Busacca/Getty Images Ron Simons, Esai Morales, Judy Reyes, Harmony Santana help director Rashaad Ernesto Green screen their drama about a transgender teen grappling with life with his patriarchal father and passive mother.
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Sarah Paulson, Sean Durkin John Hawkes & Hugh Dancy
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Larry Busacca/Getty Images Actress Sarah Paulson, director Sean Durkin, actor John Hawkes and actor Hugh Dancy pose for a portrait during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival at The Samsung Galaxy Tab Lift on January 22, 2011 in Park City, Utah.
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Sarah Paulson, Elizabeth Olsen & Sean Durkin
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Larry Busacca/Getty Images ]They round out the cast of Martha Marcy May Marlene.
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Madeleine Olnek
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Larry Busacca/Getty Images Writer-director Madeleine Olnek makes her feature film debut with Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same. But she's not a newcomer to Sundance: Her Shorts Hold Up and Countertransference screened at the festival in 2006 and 2009, respectively.
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Cynthia Fredette
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Larry Busacca/Getty Images She co-produces Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same, which centers on three lesbian aliens who are sent to Earth on a mission "to have their hearts broken by Earthlings so their overactive emotions won’t destroy the ozone of their planet." The movie screens as part of Park City at Midnight.
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Jackie Monahan & Laura Terruso
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Larry Busacca/Getty Images They are among the cast of Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same.
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Amy Seimetz
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Larry Busacca/Getty Images Amy Seimetz stars in The Off Hours, playing a waitress on the night shift at a highway diner in the Pacific Northwest. The movie is screening in Sundance's NEXT category.
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Gergana Mellin
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Larry Busacca/Getty Images Gergana Mellin is among the stars of The Off Hours, which was written and directed by Megan Griffiths.
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“The Off Hours”
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Larry Busacca/Getty Images The cast and crew includes (top row, from left) Ross Partridge, Lynn Shelton, director Megan Griffiths, Alycia Delmore and Tony Doupe and (bottom row, from left) Madeline Elizabeth, Amy Seimetz, Gergana Mellin and Scoot McNairy.
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Tom McCarthy
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Larry Busacca/Getty Images He wrote and directed Win Win, part of Sundance's Premieres section.
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Alex Shaffer
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Larry Busacca/Getty Images The newcomer makes his feature film debut opposite Paul Giamatti in Win Win.
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Paul Giamatti
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Larry Busacca/Getty Images As the star of Win Win, he plays a struggling attorney named Mike who volunteers as a high school wrestling coach and takes on the guardianship of an elderly client in a desperate attempt to keep his practice afloat. When the client’s teenage grandson runs away from home and shows up on his grandfather’s doorstep, Mike’s life is turned upside down.