[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, January 23, 5:30 pm –Prospector Square Theatre, Park City] As a documentary-maker you could wait a lifetime to happen upon a story as extraordinary as this one. From the moment I heard about it it sounded like something that could hardly have taken place in the real world – a Frenchman successfully steals the identity of a missing Texan boy and begins a new life within the boy’s family posing as their child? If it were a work of fiction it would seem far-fetched. And from this sparked the need to find out more – about the […]

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, January 23, 12:15 pm –Eccles Theatre, Park City] My mother insisted I pursue a career as a lawyer so, when the opportunity to study filmmaking arose and I could put some distance between us – physically and philosophically – I leapt at it.  In later years, my mother joined an extras casting agency and became a recognized face, and ironically, we discovered we had a common passion.   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1866249/

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, January 23 Midnight –Egyptian Theatre, Park City] Us guys from the “horror ghetto” don’t usually get the “A” word attached to our work, but thank you. I’m flattered. When I was younger, I was dazzled by the work of the greats such as Fritz Lang, James Whale and Alfred Hitchcock. Their work taught me that film could be used to travel to the dark reaches of the subconscious. These were places that other mediums such as novels and paintings were just not as effective in my opinion. They have a hard time competing with a huge moving […]

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, January 23 2:30 pm –Prospector Square Theatre, Park City] I decided that I wanted to be a documentary filmmaker on a travel I had to China in 1995. I was there on my own for three month and I had a fantastic time being an observer in a country who was in the beginning of such a life changing development. There was obviously many great stories, interesting contrasts and characters and I had my sketchbook with me and was drawing the people and situations that I met. But the silent portrays didn´t really seem enough to me […]

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, January 23, 11:45 pm –Library Center Theatre, Park City] Grabbers is a monster movie, first and foremost, and so much of the experience is visceral, for your eyes and ears… Whether it’s a monster roar vibrating your innards or the orchestra rising to mark a poignant look from our leading lady. You simply couldn’t have that experience reading a book, or watching a play. It isn’t possible. There’s something about the combination of pictures, and sound, plus time, that is utterly absorbing and compelling – when it’s done well. I enjoy a story told in a great film […]

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, January 23 8:30 pm –Library Center Theatre, Park City] Film is the most powerful art form an artist can work with.  It takes the strengths of different mediums and puts them together, resulting in a piece where the whole is far greater than the sum of its parts.  It leverages the power of photography, music, sounds, silence, words, portraiture, and most of all, time.  When creating a photo book or painting, you never know what the viewer will look at, or for how long.  But with film, it’s a medium where the viewer makes a commitment to […]

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, January 23, Noon – Egyptian Theatre, Park City] Growing up I had planned on being a comic book artist, but at some point decided it’d be a little lonely spending all day in front of a drawing board by myself while filmmaking seemed like going on an adventure with a crazy group of friends. But years later I found myself working on this film alone in front of the computer for weeks on end, so joke’s on me. Of course THIS story, about how one film has managed to inspire so much speculation and become so important […]

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, January 23, 6:30 pm –Egyptian Theatre, Park City] Because of audiovisual.  A bicycle

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, January 23, 5:30 pm –Library Center Theatre, park City] I’m drawn to be an artist because when I watch successful art- whether it’s stand up comedy or plays or movies- it makes me feel a little bit less alone. And the idea that I could do that for someone else seems worthwhile. Sleepwalk With Me is a based on a true story that actually HAS been expressed in different media: it was a story on This American Life. It was a book, and it was a one-man play of the same name. But the reason I decided […]

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, January 23 6:00 pm –Temple Theatre, Park City] Last night, I was at a holiday party and I saw my five year old daughter in a silver-sequined dress through the lens of someone else’s video camera. Christmas lights shone in the center of the frame and my daughter glistened to the right of the frame. For a second, as she danced in front of the camera, I saw her as I knew her most truly to be and had never seen her before.  It is for such moments of revelation that I am addicted to documentary film. […]