LOS ANGELES – Genre-bending films dominated the 2014 lineup announced on Wednesday for the U.S. feature film competition at the Sundance Film Festival, the top U.S. festival for independent cinema.
The competition will showcase 16 films spanning serious and comedic efforts, with many fusing together the traditional cinematic conventions of different genres.
“They kind of struck us as surprising, a lot of the storylines this year, especially in competition. A lot of them were unexpected,” John Cooper, director of the Sundance film festival, told Reuters.
Examples of films that cross genres include the zombie romance “Life After Beth,” written and directed by Jeff Baena and starring Dane DeHaan and Aubrey Plaza, and “Jamie Marks is Dead,” a ghost comedy by writer-director Carter Smith.
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