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TRAILER: The startling mysteries of ‘Catfish’ (video)

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By Jay A. Fernandez | August 2nd, 2010 at 10:27 am | View Comments

This was my favorite film at this past year's Sundance Film Festival. Wildly surprising, unexpectedly moving and totally riveting.

Relativity Media and Rogue Pictures picked up the doc from Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman after the fest, and they've finally put out a new trailer. It leans heavily on the film's suspense in the last third, which is a little misleading. Not in the suspense itself, which the film has in buckets. But in the nature of it. What you're in for with this film is not "Paranormal Activity" or "The Blair Witch Project," but something much more unusual and startling.

Which is why you should see it.

SUNDANCE: Park City hangovers

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By Gregg Goldstein | February 5th, 2010 at 2:37 pm | View Comments

Memories of Sundance may be fading away, but deals for many of its titles are only beginning to gear up. As overnight film-fest bidding wars become an endangered species, the indie film market is allowing buyers to take their sweet time choosing a higher quality level of film, with more coastal execs screening pics to be sure they’re the right fit. It’s worth noting that last year’s biggest deal (and biggest hit) “Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire,” wrapped its Lionsgate distribution pact a week after Sundance ended. The 2010 iteration's Sunday close had no effect on continuing dealmaking.

SUNDANCE: ‘Catfish’ rattles and touches audience

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By Jay A. Fernandez | January 23rd, 2010 at 1:55 pm | View Comments

122723 catfish 3411 SUNDANCE: Catfish rattles and touches audience

The screening of "Catfish" at the Library Theatre Friday afternoon was packed, and those in attendance were treated to one of those glorious surprises that Sundance revels in sneaking to indie-film audiences. The film is incredibly moving even while being laugh-out-loud funny and chest-tighteningly suspenseful. And the crowd was transfixed enough to talk back to the screen during the film and stand clapping the moment it ended.

The film's not an obvious sale, but a small distributor with a creative marketing campaign that targets those in their twenties who live and love on Facebook could provoke some healthy theatrical box office and perhaps some cultural debate to boot.

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