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0000017b-652b-d50a-a3ff-f7efaf6e0000KPCW Radio will be back on the streets and in the theaters for the 41st Sundance Film Festival.We'll cover all the news before, during, and after the festival - helping listeners make decisions on traffic, film choices, celebrity sightings and weather.2019 Sundance Film FestivalThursday, January 24 - Sunday, February 3, 2019Townie Tuesday - Tuesday, January 29, 2019Best of Fest - Monday, February 4, 2019 KPCW's coverage includes:0000017b-652b-d50a-a3ff-f7efaf6f0000The Sundance Reel, featuring KPCW News Director paired with local co-hosts.Friday - Friday, January 25- February 1 from 9 to 10 AM.The Sundance Reel meets with directors, producers, screenwriters and festival organizers to give an in-depth perspective on films during this year's festival.Links to 2018 podcasts:Friday, January 19, 2018Saturday, January 20, 2018Sunday, January 21, 2018Monday, January 22, 2018Tuesday, January 23, 2018Wednesday, January 24, 2018Thursday, January 25, 2018Friday, January 26, 20180000017b-652b-d50a-a3ff-f7efaf700000Sundance on the Weekend, featuring Rick Brough and local co-hosts.Saturday, January 26 and Sunday, January 27 from 8 to 10 AM.The fun continues with pop culture savant Rick Brough and his movie-savvy co-hosts. Quirky films, returning directors and reviving careers find their way on this show.Press Agents:To request an interview on one of KPCW's shows, contact producer Beth Fratkin.CONTACT BETH2016 Coverage of the Sundance Film Festival is sponsored in part by0000017b-652b-d50a-a3ff-f7efaf710000sundance.org

Director of the Danish Film "Queen of Hearts" Discusses The Film

Sundance Institute

One of the dramatic films drawing audiences at Sundance is “Queen of Hearts” about a dark family secret that leads to tragedy.

The film, entered in the World Narrative Film program, is about an upper-class wife, Anne, who enters into an affair with her troubled teen step-son.

At one screening, Danish director May El-Toukhy said she wanted the audience to be complicit with the main character at first.

“Our aim was that at the first half of the movie we would sympathize with her, and actually we would try to create a structure where the audience kind of gave into the idea that it was okay for her to have the affair or to seduce her step-son.” El-Toukhy explained, “Then once the brutality of the first sex scene sets in at that point in time, I think some people would think okay I’m not on team Anne anymore I’m out. I think it’s depending on each single spectator’s own moral stance because I’ve experienced that while we’ve promoted this film and showed it at Sundance. Every audience member has like a specific point where they’re in and they’re out and this point differs.”

She said that one of the themes of the film is the responsibility that comes with power.

“and the responsibility we have when we are in power.” El-Toukhy said, “Even as a parent, or a step-parent, a teacher, a boss, a studio executive, whatever. I wanted to explore that theme but through a family secret, the making of a family secret. I wanted to make it close and intimate.”

The director said that one of the major elements of the plot—a male being sexually abused—is not often discussed.

“and it’s typical almost all over the world.” El-Toukhy continued, “The idea that this could happen to a guy. Just the very idea of someone growing up and realizing that actually it was an assault. I’m not saying that it’s necessarily an assault always. I think a seventeen-year- old boy could have sex with an older woman and feel great about it and vice-versa. I think what defines the assault is the power structure, and that’s genderless.”

Known for getting all the facts right, as well as his distinctive sign-off, Rick covered Summit County meetings and issues for 35 years on KPCW. He now heads the Friday Film Review team.
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