Jared's Life on Mars

MORE MARS ARTIFACTS: The award-winning Artifact documentary, which tells the story of Thirty Seconds to Mars’ battle with EMI during the ill-fated Guy Hands/Terra Firma era, has picked up another honor, taking home the Gotham Independent Film’s Audience Award, after earning the People’s Choice Award when it premiered last month at the Toronto Film Festival. The film, which has been picked up for worldwide sales by The Works International, was directed by Bartholomew Cubbins, the alias for the band’s Jared Leto. Leto is featured in his first movie role in five years in the upcoming Dallas Buyer’s Club, where he plays a transsexual in the Jean-Marc Vallee-directed AIDS drama opposite Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner. The band’s plans for the new year include headlining festival appearances at the Impact Fest (6/5) in Warsaw; the Rock am Ring (6/7) and Rock in Park (6/9) shows in Germany, as well as a date at the U.K. Download Festival (6/16). (11/27p)