Eagle Vs Shark

Eagle Vs. Shark to premiere at Sundance

Sundance announces competition lineup
By Kirk Honeycutt
Nov 30, 2006

In announcing the competition slate for the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, Geoffrey Gilmore, its longtime director, said he sees the beginning of a new era in independent filmmaking. “Filmmakers are undergoing a massive expansion in perspective and aesthetic qualities,” he said. “Where once independence meant a detachment, a kind of navel-gazing, that doesn’t exist right now. Instead, there is engagement and innovation. Filmmakers are going out and engaging the real world in terms of subject matter, vision and innovative storytelling.”

World Cinema Dramatic Competition:

EAGLE VS. SHARK, New Zealand (Director and Screenwriter: Taika Waititi) — The tale of two socially awkward misfits and the strange ways they try to find love. World premiere.

Read the whole article including a list of the remaining competitors at The Hollywood Reporter or read the Variety version from Todd McCarthy.