Sundance Responses

“GRACE” writer-director, Paul Solet

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 16, 11:59 pm — Egyptian Theatre, Park City] The factor affecting cinema today most relevant to Grace is the prevalence of the filmmaking community’s faith in the shortcut. There’s an idea that we can make movies by checklist, that the way to write a successful script is by formula, and the way to make a successful film is by gimmickry or spectacle — that we just need to get in front of a camera and our computers will figure out the rest later. With Grace, we resisted that and put total faith in footwork. We just […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 16, 2009 Sundance Responses
“O’ER THE LAND” director, Deborah Stratman

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 16, 11:30 am — Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City] I think I might be one of the few filmmakers out there who still cuts on a flatbed. Or rather, if I shoot on film, I cut on film; if I shoot on video, I cut on a computer. I still cut on film for a few reasons (it’s easier on my eyes, the tables are all being given away so I don’t have to compete for an editing space, I like handling the plastic), but most important is work speed. And by speed, I don’t […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 16, 2009 Sundance Responses
“NOLLYWOOD BABYLON” writer-directors, Ben Addelman

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 16, 6:00 pm — Screening Room, Sundance Resort] A lot gets tossed around these days about how new technology is changing the nature of storytelling. The ability of the audience to use technology to influence how a story unfolds is considered novel, complete with all the symptoms that characterize a fresh idea with legs. But one look at Nollywood, Nigeria’s grassroots film industry, now the third biggest in the world and the main subject of our film Nollywood Babylon, paints a different picture. Nollywood’s approach emphasizes the immediate: shoot a film in a week, sell it […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 16, 2009 Sundance Responses
“TOE TO TOE” writer-director, Emily Abt

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 16, 3:15 pm — Eccles Theatre, Park City] My filmmaking process wasn’t greatly influenced by changing distribution methods. I don’t want to bend toward trends that dictate that a filmmaker’s work be shorter, faster or sexier to watch on an iPod. I’m more than happy to create Web-friendly content for paying clients, but the films that I sink years into developing are not intended to be glanced at during a subway ride by a multitasking teenager. If those are the only eyeballs I can get then I’ll take them but I want audiences to loose/see themselves […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 16, 2009 Sundance Responses
“ONE DAY IN A LIFE” co-writer-director, Stefano Tummolini

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 16, 6:45 pm — Broadway Centre Cinemas V, Salt Lake City] The conception and the structure of my story were not affected while the execution was. The script was considered a potential flop by all the producers who had read it, so I had to film it on my own, almost without money. Time was the first thing I had to give up. Cinema needs a certain time to be made, but time is money. I’m sure that if I’d had a little more, the execution would have been better.

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 16, 2009 Sundance Responses
“HUMPDAY” director, Lynn Shelton

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 16, 12:15 pm — Eccles Theatre, Park City] It would be great to make a film that would work great for an audience no matter how they saw it…be it on their iPod or laptop or on the big screen or whatever. Ultimately though, I’m pretty old-school. There’s nothing like that communal experience of sitting in a darkened theater with a group of strangers and going on a journey together…one that takes over your senses with its sheer scope and thereby pulls you — hook, line and sinker — into another world. That is an experience […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 16, 2009 Sundance Responses
“YOU WONT MISS ME” co-writer-director, Ry Russo-Young

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 16, 11:30 pm — Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City] I think everything affected the film from Obama to YouTube to my hopes of making a movie without thinking too much. I tried to just run with ideas, people, locations and not be so self-conscious this time around. I was very proud of Orphans (my first film) but in a way You Wont Miss Me was a reaction to making such a restrained movie. This time I wanted to make a movie that could only be made RIGHT NOW. That would scream of the times that […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 16, 2009 Sundance Responses
“CARMO, HIT THE ROAD” writer-director, Murilo Pasta

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 16, 12:00 pm — Screening Room, Sundance Resort] My story was shaped by the only force affecting cinema today that really counts: the financing aspect. I’m a Third World filmmaker with no private income, no friends in high places and no godfathers in the filmmaking world. The three notions that have guided me in this five-year journey, from Carmo’s conception through to being selected for Sundance, are: strategy, strategy and strategy.What choice did I have? So before I could even consider desired visual approach, casting possibilities, prospective budgeting levels, etc., I decided that my debut feature […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 16, 2009 Sundance Responses
“THE KILLING ROOM” director, Jonathan Liebesman

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 16, 11:30 am — Prospector Square Theatre, Park City] The Killing Room was never consciously shaped by any changes in the collective structures of other films today. However any filmmaker is influenced by what he or she sees around in film, movies, books and life. I do believe that there is a collective consciousness that breezes through many films as far as technique or structural choices are concerned. As for technique and execution, for a while now, the Hollywood films that have made the most impact on me have been those that attempt to make their […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 16, 2009 Sundance Responses
“NO IMPACT MAN” producer, Eden H. Wurmfeld

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 16, 11:30 am — Library Center Theatre, Park City] As filmmakers interested in creating character-driven films about social issues, we saw the story of No Impact Man as a great opportunity. An intimate, cinema vérité look at a family trying to find their place in our culture of consumption and the affect that has on the environment. The idea of No Impact Man was that Colin Beavan, his wife and their daughter would remove themselves to the greatest extent possible from the various aspects of life that cause negative environmental impact while also increasing their positive […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jan 16, 2009 Sundance Responses

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