“Njengoba sekuphele izinyanga eziyisikhombisa ngingakhokhi angazi noma ngisazozithola yini izinto zokujima noma sekuzodliwa zona. Side lesi sikhathi ngingakhokhi,” kusho uNdlovu. ungase uthande ukuxazulula yokuvalelisa uma kunjalo ukuthi akashintshi isimo sengqondo esingaqondile enye inhlangano. endabeni abantu uthando unrequited siphenduka ngobuqotho ikuphendule, kodwa wena kungenzeka uzibuka uphezulu into yakho. konke kucace lapho. ubunama--25 xe ngosuku, susa i--5 xe futhi ubone ukuthi kwenzekani, kodwa hhayi ngokushesha, kodwa ezinsukwini ezimbalwa. kulokhu, ungashintshi umbuso wezokuzivocavoca umzimba futhi uthathe nemithi. THEANNUALINDEPENDENTFILMFESTIVAL Orange, who oversees D.C.’s Office of he Sundance Film ANDLOVE-INONCEAGAINDREWANUMBEROF Motion Pictures in the city’s efforts to Festival’s 2012 theme WASHINGTONIANSFORTHOUGHT-PROVOKINGFILMS bring more production projects to the was “Look Again” and ANDSOCIALLYFUELEDEVENINGS District, also attended. Not surprisingly, Washingtonians complied, B Y J O D Y A R L I N G T O N the Washington crew hewed to the attending in droves to see intersection of art and policy, and the the exciting new directions and fresh voices in independent film, not least of winner “Detropia”; Comic Mike Birbiglia’s power of story to affect change. which were hometown favorites Rory Kennedy’s Best of Next section-winning “Sleepwalk with biopic of her mother, the eponymous “Ethel” Me”; and actress Brit Marling who starred in ZEITGEIST (20-plus of Kennedy clan attended); Kirby Dick’s “Arbitrage,” among the first Sundance films It would be easy to suggest that the dark Audience Award-Winning “The Invisible War” acquired for distribution. themes of our time were writ large in the festival A sampling of Washington-based folks in program but with 117 feature-length and 64 exposing rape in the military (executive produced by Nicole Boxer-Keegan and Kimball Stroud); attendance included Sen. Barbara Boxer, short films representing more than 30 countries, James Alefantis and crew in support of “Me at Sundance Institute Boardmember Sheila a curator could also argue that safer, charming the Zoo” and Cutter Hodierne whose “Fishing Johnson, Rep. Jackie Speier, Motion Picture comedies, artist profiles and edgy romances were Association of America head Chris Dodd, Bruce equally marbled throughout the festival.Yes, the Without Nets” won Best Short Film. For the second year in a row, Georgetown Keiloch, Susan Koch, Kiki Ryan, Charles Paret, festival asks us to look into the heart of hunger University popped-up in multiple films by or Clark Seydel, Nicholas Cambata and Douglas in America (“Finding North”), Apartheid-Era featuring Hoyas including Heidi Ewing and Sonders. Elizabeth Webster, director of South Africa (“Under African Skies”), the detritus Rachel Grady’s Documentary Editing Award- business outreach for D.C. Councilman Vincent and nascent rebirth of Detroit (“Detropia”) and