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The 2022 Sundance Question: What Aspect of Your Filmmaking Did You Have to Reinvent?
Photo: Kelsey Doyle, courtesy Sundance Institute. Each year Filmmaker asks all the incoming feature directors at Sundance one question. (To see past years’ questions and responses, click here.)
This year’s question:
The last two years have prompted much contemplation and reconsideration of the reasons why we make our films as well as the ways in which we make them. What aspect of your filmmaking—whether in your creative process, the way you finance your films, your production methodology or the way you relate to your audience—did you have to reinvent in order to make and complete the film you are bringing to the festival this year?
“The Pandemic Sparked a Deeper Contemplation Into Our Creative Process” | Sara Dosa, Fire of Love
“Getting the Opportunity to Work on a Feature Brought Me Back From the Dead” | Mimi Cave, FRESH
“We Can’t Afford to Waste Half of the Talent in Our Industry” | Hanna Bergholm on Hatching
“This Film Feels Like My Life’s Work Until Now” | Margaret Brown, Descendant
“In That Lack of Motion I Found a New Way of Working” | Sophie Hyde, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
“The Reason I Make Films Has Been Reinforced by the Pandemic” | Alejandro Loayza Grisi, Utama
“Perhaps It’s a Miracle to Make Films” | Ricky D’Ambrose, The Cathedral
“COVID Helped Us Discover a New Way to Create This Film” | Alex Pritz, The Territory
“Perhaps We Were Swayed Into Making Something a Little More Joyous” | Jim Archer, Brian and Charles
“The Universality of the Cartoon Form” | Jono McLeod, My Old School
“I Was Never Going to Compromise on the Intimacy” | Rita Baghdadi, Sirens
“It Definitely Makes You Ask Yourself Why You’re Making a Movie” | Cooper Raiff, Cha Cha Real Smooth
“I Really Experienced the Idea That None of This Is Guaranteed” | Julian Higgins, God’s Country
“We Viewed Every Opportunity to Film in Person as a Fleeting Gift” | Paula Eiselt, Aftershock
“The Pandemic Only Brought Us Together” | Krystin Ver Linden, Alice
“The Front Lines of Filming During COVID” | Tig Notaro & Stephanie Allynne, Am I Ok?
“This Film Had to Be Made by the Constant Act of Sharing” | Juan Pablo González, Dos Estaciones
Check back daily during the festival — new answers are uploaded each day throughout the festival.
