Sundance

“MYSTERY TEAM” director, Dan Eckman

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Saturday, Jan. 17, 11:30 pm — Library Center Theatre, Park City] Our movie Mystery Team is the first full-length feature film by DERRICK Comedy, a sketch-comedy group I’ve been a part of for four years now. Our sketch videos have been viewed more than 100 million times online. We never tried to figure out “what plays on the Internet,” and when we did have shorts that became popular, we never tried to figure out what made them popular in terms of universal truths about Internet viewership. We viewed YouTube as a content delivery system and looked at our […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 17, 2009 Sundance Responses
“THE VICIOUS KIND” director, Lee Toland Krieger

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Saturday, Jan. 17, 8:30 pm — Library Center Theatre, Park City] What I can remember from very early on in the process of making The Vicious Kind was the desire to shoot my film on film. Specifically 35mm film. Even from the conceptual stage, I latched on to the idea that film would offer the kind of texture that a small, character-driven family story like mine would require. What’s so interesting about making movies today is that the choices of medium are so wide and changing every day. Even seven or eight years ago, if you had anything […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 17, 2009 Sundance Responses
“PROM NIGHT IN MISSISSIPPI” director, Paul Saltzman

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Saturday, Jan. 17, 8:30 pm — Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City] My approach to telling our story was not influenced by the changes in the way people are beginning to view cinema. Intimacy, and the freedom of the senior students at Charleston High to share their feelings with us, the audience, was paramount. By inviting the students to create their own video diaries, by not seeking to make any editorial points as a filmmaker, courage and cowardice show themselves. The heart of our story — racial feelings and the end, on April 19, 2008, of separate white […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 17, 2009 Sundance Responses
“DEAD SNOW” co-writer-director, Tommy Wirkola

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Saturday, Jan. 17, 11:59 pm — Egyptian Theatre, Park City] Dead Snow is in a very direct way the result of cinema today. Even though the premise of the film is based on a idea that I have had for a long time, there wasn’t a better time to release it until now. After we made a debut film, Kill Buljo, we decided to go for the idea for Dead Snow simply because people don’t make these kind of movies any more. Most of the horror films that are released these days are 100 percent merciless, with violence […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 17, 2009 Sundance Responses
“PAPER HEART” co-writer-director, Nicholas Jasenovec

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Saturday, Jan. 17, 8:00 pm — Racquet Club, Park City] One of our goals while making Paper Heart was to establish a consistent reality since we would be combining a documentary on love with a loosely scripted love story. [Yi] Charlyne and I felt that most modern romantic films were very formulaic and unrealistic, but hoped that if an audience believed in what they were watching, they would be more affected by it. And with audiences being more familiar than ever with reality-based programming, we knew we had to do a great job to convince them there was […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 17, 2009 Sundance Responses
CROSSING OVER: CHARLIE WHITE By Alicia Van Couvering

California-based artist Charlie White has made his mark with highly produced, carefully-staged photographs that construct scenes both disturbing and familiar, work that aims to dissect the violence, desires, and social anxieties that trouble the American collective unconscious. From his Understanding Joshua Series (2001), which offered an adorable/repulsive monster character as surrogate for human fragility and the internal demons that haunt our experiences of self, to the more varied And Jeopardize the Integrity of the Hull series that, among other uncanny images, offered The Persuaders, a flat Sesame Street-like image of puppets taunting their tormented human host in front of a […]

By Scott Macaulay on Jan 17, 2009 Sundance Features
“VICTORIA DAY” writer-director, David Bezmozgis

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Saturday, Jan. 17, 6:00 pm — Egyptian Theatre, Park City] I wrote the first draft of Victoria Day in 2001 before the existence of YouTube or the invention of the iPod. So, Victoria Day in its conception and execution wasn’t influenced by these things. But even if I were to conceive of it anew today, the story would take the same shape, simply because I don’t believe that the effect I hope to achieve — namely an emotional effect — can be achieved any other way. In my experience, the kinds of stories that I’ve seen told on […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 17, 2009 Sundance Responses
“COLD SOULS” writer-director, Sophie Barthes

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Saturday, Jan. 17, 5:15 pm — Racquet Club, Park City] Maybe I’m a dreamer, but I still believe that watching a film should be a collective experience in the darkness of a movie theater, with the viewer floating in a mental state somewhere between consciousness and sleep. I feel that filmmaking as a creative process and as a medium is very close to the process of dreaming. A film is an association of images outside of our control interacting with our memories and emotions. So by replacing the big screen with miniature devices, we’re losing an aspect of […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 17, 2009 Sundance Responses
“I SAW YOU CRYING” Frontier section artist spotlight: Maria Marshall

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Saturday, Jan. 17, 5:30 pm — Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City] As an artist I am at liberty to use everything as an influence to tell the story. I have made a three-minute wonder that was entirely filmed on a mobile phone. A series of three-minute films were commissioned by the British television stationChannel 4, and the films aired before the 7:00 p.m. news. I discovered early on how to be true to materials, and this awareness is reflected in my work. The Internet and YouTube are sources for information at our fingertips. I am, however, very […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 17, 2009 Sundance Responses
“AMREEKA” writer-director, Cherien Dabis

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Saturday, Jan. 17, 12:15 pm — Eccles Theatre, Park City] I didn’t respond to the changes in the way people are beginning to view cinema today. My story development process, which began back in 2003, was very much influenced by my own personal experience and my need for authenticity, especially in light of the political issues that rose to the forefront after 9/11 and the subsequent invasion of Iraq. From the start I knew that I wanted to craft a universal story and imbue it with humor so that it was accessible and relatable to a mass audience, […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 17, 2009 Sundance Responses

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