Authors — Jason Guerrasio

“FROZEN” | writer-director, Adam Green

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 24, 11:59 pm — Egyptian Theatre, Park City] The most difficult choice I was faced with in making Frozen was the decision between shooting the film entirely practically or shooting it while incorporating such luxuries as a sound stage or green screen for certain scenes. Given the extremely challenging nature of the story and that it all takes place 50 feet in the air and in treacherous weather conditions, the pressure was on me to try and plan the shoot in as safely and as financially secure a way as possible. However I felt that my […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 24, 2010
“HIGH SCHOOL” | co-writer-director, John Stalberg Jr.

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 24, 11:30 pm — Library Center Theatre, Park City] Cutting three scenes that I loved was a particularly difficult decision. One was a wonderfully awkward scene with Michael Chiklis and Erica Phillips, another was a deranged scene with Adrien Brody and Mykelti Williamson in Psycho Ed’s grow room, and then there was a classic with Andrew Wilson, discussing his freakish Moroccan childhood. These were some of the best scenes in the movie. I was so pleased with them, but ultimately they didn’t push the story along. I was trying to balance audience bladder pressure with laughs […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 24, 2010
“LUCKY” | director, Jeffrey Blitz

PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 24, 9:00 pm — Temple Theatre, Park City] I think the hardest part of any film is figuring out when to let go of your original conception and let it become something else. If you release the ideal film that’s playing in your head too soon, you risk finding yourself lost in the wilderness. If you hang on too long, you might be ignoring the inevitably more interesting reality that the world has dropped in front of you. So that and figuring out new ways to shoot in bathrooms (there are four of them that made […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 24, 2010
“ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE” | co-director, Rob Lemkin

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 24, 9:00 pm — Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City] There is a scene toward the end of Enemies of the People where two of our main characters, Suon and Khoun, admit to eating human body parts during the Killing Fields of the Khmer Rouge. I had been aware of this from when I first started filming with them in June 2007. My problem was this: This was vital information that an audience should know since our film is an up-close and personal account of a terrifyingly brutal episode in recent history. There could be no […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 24, 2010
“3 BACKYARDS” | writer-director, Eric Mendelsohn

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 24, 8:00 pm — Racquet Club, Park City] For the last eight years I’ve taught directing at Columbia University’s Film Program — in my opinion, the best, most comprehensive film school anywhere. More than 25 of my students, past and present, were all working on 3 Backyards in a variety of positions ranging from production designer, co-producer, editor and script supervisor to key p.a. and craft services. One student in particular, Russ Harbaugh, decided he wanted to be part of the entire process, and so he signed on as my assistant. One day during preproduction I […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 24, 2010
“THE TEMPTATION OF ST. TONY” | writer-director, Veiko Õunpuu

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 24, 8:30 pm — Prospector Square Theatre, Park City] In the editing I cut out some scenes to make the film run smoother. The first version was more than three hours long. Sometimes I think I cut out too much but then again, when your film is canned, labeled and shipped off to another continent you might want to come to terms with its possible shortcomings so you don’t have to get acquainted with the symptoms of a mild psychosis later in life. Therefore I’ll just say that everything was all smooth and suave, no hard […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 24, 2010
“LOVERS OF HATE” | writer-director, Bryan Poyser

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 24, 5:15 pm — Racquet Club, Park City] For me, the hardest decision to make is of course the most important: the “telling the universe” moment, when you finally just decide on a shooting date, regardless of time, resources or common sense and start barreling toward it, telling your friends, your co-workers, yourself and thereby the universe that indeed, you are gonna make another movie. At first, it seems ridiculous and you usually have to push it back, but then serendipity takes over and the universe starts to drop things in your lap. You start the […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 24, 2010
“THE FREEBIE” | writer-director, Katie Aselton

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 24, 9:00 pm — Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City] I recast our lead guy three days into shooting. It was terrifying, but it was something I had to do. He wasn’t having fun, we weren’t having fun, and I’m sorry, but when you’re making a film for no money, just for the love of the project, you better be having fun doing it! And in the end, we did. Those last 11 days were incredible!
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 24, 2010
“GASLAND” | director, Josh Fox

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 24, 5:30 pm — Temple Theatre, Park City] My film, Gasland, is about the largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in American history, now occupying 34 states. I was approached to lease my family’s land in the Delaware River Basin right on the border of New York and Pennsylvania. It’s not a big place by any means, but the drilling boom is everywhere, and we were approached. The hardest decision I had to make was to include not only my personal story in the film but to narrate it and appear in it. The film is […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 24, 2010
“THE TAQWACORES” | director, Eyad Zahra

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 24, 5:30 pm — Prospector Square Theatre, Park City] The thought of making The Taqwacores into a motion picture happened right after I finished the book. It took weeks for me to voice the thought to others, and weeks more to actually act upon it. Was I ready to take on such a subject? Was I the right guy? Were my intentions right? Would people get the point? Would it be more misunderstood then understood? These were the questions swirling in my head. The idea of physically making the film at such a low budget wasn’t […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 24, 2010

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