Cold Souls, Featuring PaysonJewelry Collection Pieces, Accepted to Sundance

It is with absolute joy that we announce that the Cold Souls movie, featuring several items from the www.paysonjewelry.com collection has been accepted into the Sundance Film Festival for January 2009! Click to read more about Payson & Co., LLC's jewelry and the Cold Souls film. Through that link you will also find links to a New York Times article discussing Cold Souls and the Sundance Film Festival, as well as a link to a website outlining all of the films that will be featured.

This is the beginning of a synopsis of the film...you can read the rest at pretty-scary.net:

"There's only one feature, actually, that you need to know about at Sundance 2009. Cold Souls, directed and written by Sophie Barthes (Zimove vesilya, Happiness), is the story of a famous American actor who contracts with Soul Storage, a New York lab that offers its world-weary customers relief from the burden of their souls and the Russian mobster keen to extract the soul of this actor. The film stars Paul Giamatti, Dina Korzun, David Strathairn, Emily Watson, Lauren Ambrose, and Oksana Lada...


'This weirdly existential sci-fi film is everything Barthes loves about cinema. “I’m very interested in poetic science fiction, films like Alphaville, that play with philosophical concerns,” he said in an interview in 2007 with Filmmaker Magazine. She describes the film in her own words to Ioncinema.com as "a surreal comedy. Paul Gianelli is an actor in New York acting in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, which is a draining role. His soul is heavy..."