Authors — Jason Guerrasio

“THE RECKONING” director, Pamela Yates

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, Jan. 19, 12:00 pm — Temple Theatre, Park City] The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court is the flagship film for a three-year Audience Engagement Campaign intended to get people around the world involved in international justice. While I was filming over two years across four continents in six languages, media possibilities exploded. So from the very beginning producer Paco de Onís, editor Peter Kinoy and I were thinking about how to create educational modules for the Web and adapt digital technologies for human-rights work. The result is that we and our Skylight Pictures Audience […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 19, 2009
“DIRT! THE MOVIE” co-director, Gene Rosow

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, Jan. 19, 3:00 pm — Temple Theatre, Park City] We set out to make a feature-length documentary DIRT! The Movie inspired by the book Dirt, the Ecstatic Skin of the Earth written by William Bryant Logan. When we started out on this project we were thinking of either a four-part television series or a feature-length documentary for theatrical release. We could either explore the subject as a topic as the book had done, or with a more traditional film narrative — in our case, telling the story of dirt and humans from dirt’s point of view. My […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 19, 2009
“ONCE MORE WITH FEELING” director, Jeff Lipsky

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, Jan. 19, 2:30 pm — Prospector Square Theatre, Park City] I’m known far and wide as a contrarian. Perhaps that’s a justified accusation. For in approaching my new film, the American Spectrum selection Once More With Feeling, I consciously elected to honor a very fine, very touching and very entertaining script by celebrating old-school filmmaking trappings within our very limited budget, though we did shoot in HD, a method I found to be more time-consuming and no less costly than shooting on film (but those are issues for a different article). Once More With Feeling is both […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 19, 2009
SOME KIND OF LOVE By Nick Dawson

Greg Mottola’s Adventureland screened in the Premieres section of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. You can read our story on the film in the Winter issue section.
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 18, 2009
Against the Current | Writer/Director Peter Callahan

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 8:30 pm — Library Center Theatre, Park City] The whole point of independent filmmaking, in my mind, is to do something original, something challenging, and not to try and cater to whatever the whims of the current marketplace may be. If one is fortunate enough to be given an opportunity to make a film, I think the goal should be, “How can I make the best movie possible?” not “What do I think will sell in today’s marketplace?” So I did my best not to worry about anything other than making a good film and […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 18, 2009
“BLACK DYNAMITE” co-writer-director, Scott Sanders

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 11:30 pm — Library Center Theatre, Park City] With Black Dynamite, we wanted to make a blaxploitation movie that was as close to a 1974 blaxploitation movie as you could make in 2009. We wanted to emphasize humor, but we didn’t want to go too far outside of the strict boundaries of the genre. For us, the humor comes out in how anachronistic it all is. Everything is exposed; the clunky structure of the plots, the huge tonal shifts that can occur within a scene from one moment to another, and the desire to please […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 18, 2009
“BIG FAN” writer-director, Robert Siegel

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 8:00 pm — Racquet Club, Park City] Big Fan was edited on the biggest, awesomest computer monitor I’ve ever been in a room with. Thirty inches. As big as it was, though, it still wasn’t nearly enough. That 30-inch monitor was just a tease, whetting my appetite to see my movie on something bigger — like 800 inches. A movie screen. I don’t care what the trends are. What massive, fundamental sea changes are taking place within the industry. No filmmaker fantasizes about what their movie will look like projected onto a 1.5 inch iPod […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 18, 2009
“ARLEN FABER” writer-director, John Hindman

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 5:15 pm — Racquet Club, Park City] Although technology may have shortened the average person’s patience over the past few years I believe that storytelling should never rush to keep up. It is true that we live in an increasingly fast culture. Our communication demands that our lives be summed up with only as much information as will fit on a Facebook profile. We don’t invite, we e-vite. We don’t talk, we type. And we quit sharing and started blogging. Don’t get me wrong. Many of these things are totally cool. But I think that […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 18, 2009
“DON’T LET ME DROWN” co-writer-director, Cruz Angeles

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 12:15 pm — Eccles Theatre, Park City] Not all, but the majority of short-form works on the Net are gimmicky and instant pleasures — like candy. I am not interested in making candy. I want my works to be a full meal — a story that keeps ringing in your head, something that sticks and stays with you for a very long time. Cinema will falter for a bit but will not die. I believe the new developments are supplementary and not replacements of long-form work. When [co-writer] Maria Topete and I were writing Don’t […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 18, 2009
“THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD” co-director, Mike Bonanno

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 2:30 pm — Library Center Theatre, Park City] If one postulates that money is the root of all evil, logic dictates that with the collapse of capitalism filmmaking, all other forms of art and expression will represent the forces of good in the universe. Hard times call for hard filmmaking. Being that the forces affecting cinema affect our everyday economic reality, it’s only fitting that our film would herald the global economic meltdown. The death of capitalism is going to mean a very different kind of filmmaking in the near future. Being that money is […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 18, 2009

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