Authors — Jason Guerrasio

“THE TUNNEL” | writer-director, Jenna Bass

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 22, 12:00 pm — Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City] Never a truer word. We had a scene — it was my favorite in the film. It was one of those scenes which didn’t necessarily drive the film on a plot level but was essential to the feel and the magic. Like everything, it was shot in a huge rush. When it came to the editing, we tried everything to make it work, but eventually we had to admit: It was bad. There was no way the scene was going to cut it. There was no way […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 22, 2010
“FAMILY AFFAIR” | director, Chico Colvard

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 22, 3:00 pm — Temple Theatre, Park City] The hardest decision I made in making Family Affair was to ask my father the question, “Why?” When my father was arrested, I was 10 years old. It wouldn’t be until much later in life that I’d come to comprehend the full magnitude of the crimes he committed against my sisters. For reasons I once could not understand, my sisters had maintained a relationship with my father almost immediately following his release from prison. In November of 2002, my sisters invited me to spend Thanksgiving with them in […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 22, 2010
“DADDY LONGLEGS” | co-writers-directors, Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 22, 8:30 am — Prospector Square Theatre, Park City] Jeesh, the amount of decisions that go into making a movie… the words “the amount” are so heavy because the list is heavy, breathing is a decision, but to quantify them seems like the scariest task with such a daunting overhead. Of course the best decisions are the ones that you don’t have to make but are forced into. During Daddy Longlegs, we were so preoccupied with constantly providing stimuli from the writing process all the way through editing: for ourselves, for the actors, the non-actors, the […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 22, 2010
PARAMOUNT TAKES SUPERMAN IN FIRST BIG DEAL AT SUNDANCE

According to Variety, Paramount has acquired worldwide rights to Davis Guggenheim and Participant Media‘s doc Waiting For Superman. The film, which premieres at Sundance on Friday, examines the public education crisis in the U.S. This is Guggenheim’s second go around with Paramount, his Oscar winning doc An Inconvenient Truth was released through Paramount Vantage.
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 21, 2010
“THE END” | Ragnar Kjartansson

[New Frontier Performances and Installations] When it comes to shooting one is faced with endless decisions. I make them like when playing a computer game or making music — really quick and without too much thinking. I make up my mind really fast just so I won’t lose my cool with my crew. Afterward I think, “What the hell was that decision?” But then in retrospect it usually works out well. Instinct is the only thing an artist can truly trust when it comes to those decisions. If the vision is clear then instinct will follow.
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 21, 2010
YOUTUBE SCREENING SUNDANCE FILMS

Announced today, YouTube, which is sponsoring the Sundance Film Festival‘s NEXT section, is partnering with the fest to make five festival films (three from this year, two from ’09) available for rental on YouTube starting this Friday. The five films will be:Louis Psihoyos‘s The CoveTze Chun‘s Children of InventionMichael Mohan‘s One Too Many MorningsBrad & Todd Barnes‘s HomewreckerLinas Phillips‘s Bass Ackwards The films are only available during the festival for a three-day rental price of $3.99. The deal is a non-exclusive revenue share deal between YouTube and the filmmakers. YouTube has also announced the start of “Filmmakers Wanted.” A campaign […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 20, 2010
“THE CLOUD MIRROR” | Eric Gradman

[New Frontier Performances and Installations] The Cloud Mirror is a technological exploration of how our online standards of privacy and tact contrast so dramatically with those standard in the real world. When building The Cloud Mirror, I had to consider whether I felt comfortable taking people’s information from Facebook and Twitter and splashing it on their faces in a real public space for all to see. I found I felt uncomfortable with invading people’s privacy in this way, even though they themselves had made the information public. In fact I discovered people who post their “relationship status”” publicly on Facebook […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 20, 2010
FILMMAKER’S SUNDANCE PAGE NOW ONLINE

Head over to our page dedicated to all things Park City. For the next week and a half there you’ll find features on films screening at the fest, on-site coverage of the news and trends this year, answers from filmmakers attending this year to our question: “What was the hardest decision you had to make to complete your film.” And much more.
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 20, 2010
SUNDANCE DIRECTOR JOHN COOPER TALKS 2010 FEST & BEYOND | By Scott Macaulay

When filmmakers heard that the Sundance Film Festival’s longstanding Director, Geoffrey Gilmore, was leaving, they wondered if his departure would signify a major change in direction at an institution that more than any other has defined the world of American independent film. When, a couple of weeks later, John Cooper, Sundance’s Director of Programming, was elevated to the Director position, they breathed a sigh of relief. As Holly Willis wrote in Filmmaker in 2006 about the 20-year veteran of the festival, “Funny, self-deprecating and entirely approachable, Cooper is known to thousands of American filmmakers as the guy who calls with […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 20, 2010
PROGRAM DIRECTOR TREVOR GROTH INTRODUCES US TO NEXT | By Alicia Van Couvering

One of the biggest premieres at Sundance this year doesn’t involve a star-studded premiere party or the unspooling of a glossy 35mm print: it’s an entirely new section of programming: , pronounced “Next” by those not brave enough to type or say the symbol. Director of programming Trevor Groth has been involved with the festival for 25 years, and points out that the symbol actually means “Less Than Equals Greater Than,” which alludes to the fact that all Next films were made for very small budgets — at least under $500,000 but in most cases much, much less than that. […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 19, 2010

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