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A down-and-out "super legend" and a savage submarine crew are the topics of the best short films at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
Matt Piedmont's animated "Brick Novax, parts 1 and 2" — in which the title character recalls his glory days as astronaut, movie star, corporate CEO and musician — was given the Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking at a ceremony Tuesday night at Park City's Jupiter Bowl.
The Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking went to the Australian film "Deeper Than Yesterday," directed by Ariel Kleiman, which depicts a submarine crew that's been underwater so long that they have turned savage.
"Brick Novax" is playing in the festival's Shorts Program II, while "Deeper Than Yesterday" is in Shorts Program I.
Honorable mentions were awarded to the following films:
"Choke," by Michelle Latimer (Canada), Indigenous Shorts
"Diarchy," by Ferdinand Cito Filmomarino (Italy), Shorts Program V
"The External World," by David O'Reilly (Germany/Ireland), Shorts Program I
"The Legend of Beaver Dam," by Jerome Sable and Eli Batalion (Canada), playing in front of "Hobo With a Shotgun," Park City at Midnight
"Out of Reach," by Jakub Stozek (Poland), Documentary Showcase I
"Protoparticles," by Chema Garcia Ibarra (Spain), playing in front of "All Your Dead Ones," World Cinema Dramatic
The members of the Short Film jury are: director/writer Barry Jenkins ("Medicine for Melancholy"), movie writer and blogger Kim Morgan, and Sara Bernstein, vice president of HBO Documentary Films.
The winning shorts will be screened together Sunday, Jan. 30, at 1 p.m. at the Library Center Theatre, Park City.