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Our 15+ Most Anticipated Sundance Film Festival 2010 Picks

Simon Dang — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:11:00 +0000

We won’t be attending Sundance this year (what else is new) but for all those who are, we thought we’d help you out by listing the dozen and or so films worth checking out. Of course, they’re predominantly films already floating around our radar but there’s always the “An Education”-type films of the world that can come out of nowhere. Nevertheless, here are they are in alphabetical order:

“Abel”
Diego Luna’s directorial debut follows a young boy who returns to a father-less home and must take over the patriarchal head of the household role.

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Diego Luna’s Narrative Directorial Debut, ‘Abel’ Set For April 2010

Rodrigo Perez — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:39:00 +0000

Diego Luna is all set to get behind the director’s chair for the drama ‘Abel,’ set for an April 2010 release.

The “Milk” and “Rudo y Cursi” actor Diego Luna held a press conference in Aguascalientes, Mexico recently to announce his new feature-length narrative debut. Luna, perhaps best known by the ladies for his guy on guy kissing scene in Alfonso Cuarón’s “Y Tu Mama Tambien” with fellow thesp Gael García Bernal, said that the film “deals with a universal relationship, that of a father’s and his son.

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