Film Up for Sundance Grand Jury Award Has Alt-Weekly Ties
By AAN Staff
january 18, 2008 11:52 am
Lance Hammer's
Ballast, which will
compete with 15 other films in the Dramatic Competition at this year's festival, has a certain familiar alt-weekly publisher in
its credits. The
Jackson Free Press' Todd Stauffer was production manager for the film, which is described by Sundance as "a riveting, lyrical portrait of an emotionally frayed family whose lives are torn asunder by a tragic act in a small Mississippi Delta town."