Sundance Responses
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“Discovering New Parallels and Personal Inlets”: Director Jason Lew | The Free World
In every film, there is the story that you knew you were telling, the story the audience perceives. But there is always some other story, a secret story. It might be the result of your hidden motivations for making the film, or, instead, the result of themes that only became clear to you after you made the movie. It might be something very personal, or it might be a story you didn’t even know you were telling. What is your film’s secret story? I think our great hope is that, as an audience member, you can find a moment of […]
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“They Used Faith as a Fuel for Hope”: Director Anne Fontaine | Agnus Dei
In every film, there is the story that you knew you were telling, the story the audience perceives. But there is always some other story, a secret story. It might be the result of your hidden motivations for making the film, or, instead, the result of themes that only became clear to you after you made the movie. It might be something very personal, or it might be a story you didn’t even know you were telling. What is your film’s secret story? Twenty years ago, I met a couple of old Vietnamese nuns, who used to run an orphanage […]
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“The First Filmmakers to Tell Her Full Story”: Co-Director Bob Hercules | Maya Angelou and Still I Rise
In every film, there is the story that you knew you were telling, the story the audience perceives. But there is always some other story, a secret story. It might be the result of your hidden motivations for making the film, or, instead, the result of themes that only became clear to you after you made the movie. It might be something very personal, or it might be a story you didn’t even know you were telling. What is your film’s secret story? Like many films we’ve worked on, there’s always the narrative you have in your head about the […]
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“You Have Very Little Control Over So Much of the Process”: Director Clea DuVall | The Intervention
In every film, there is the story that you knew you were telling, the story the audience perceives. But there is always some other story, a secret story. It might be the result of your hidden motivations for making the film, or, instead, the result of themes that only became clear to you after you made the movie. It might be something very personal, or it might be a story you didn’t even know you were telling. What is your film’s secret story? I learned very quickly that it requires a great deal of acceptance to get a movie made. […]
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“Shame Is the New Black”: Director Jessie Kahnweiler | The Skinny
In every film, there is the story that you knew you were telling, the story the audience perceives. But there is always some other story, a secret story. It might be the result of your hidden motivations for making the film, or, instead, the result of themes that only became clear to you after you made the movie. It might be something very personal, or it might be a story you didn’t even know you were telling. What is your film’s secret story? My filmmaking is often about looking back at the mess of the past so that I can […]
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“Every Film Is an Opportunity to Plunge into Another World”: Director Joshua Marston | Complete Unknown
In every film, there is the story that you knew you were telling, the story the audience perceives. But there is always some other story, a secret story. It might be the result of your hidden motivations for making the film, or, instead, the result of themes that only became clear to you after you made the movie. It might be something very personal, or it might be a story you didn’t even know you were telling. What is your film’s secret story? I joked at one point, early on in the making of this movie, that I was making […]
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“For Three More Years, I Rewrote and Rewrote”: Director Elite Zexer | Sand Storm
In every film, there is the story that you knew you were telling, the story the audience perceives. But there is always some other story, a secret story. It might be the result of your hidden motivations for making the film, or, instead, the result of themes that only became clear to you after you made the movie. It might be something very personal, or it might be a story you didn’t even know you were telling. What is your film’s secret story? When I first started writing the story of Sand Storm, a drama about a Bedouin family from the […]
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“One Last Leap Towards Independence”: Director Richard Tanne | Southside With You
In every film, there is the story that you knew you were telling, the story the audience perceives. But there is always some other story, a secret story. It might be the result of your hidden motivations for making the film, or, instead, the result of themes that only became clear to you after you made the movie. It might be something very personal, or it might be a story you didn’t even know you were telling. What is your film’s secret story? Southside With You is ostensibly a love story. A simple boy meets girl kind of thing. But […]
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“I Had a Lot of Growing Up to Do”: Director Tahir Jetter | How to Tell You’re a Douchebag
In every film, there is the story that you knew you were telling, the story the audience perceives. But there is always some other story, a secret story. It might be the result of your hidden motivations for making the film, or, instead, the result of themes that only became clear to you after you made the movie. It might be something very personal, or it might be a story you didn’t even know you were telling. What is your film’s secret story? The story behind this movie is one in which I came to realize that I had a […]
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“Behind the Story of Social Injustice and Abuse”: Director Alejandro Fernández Almendras | Much Ado About Nothing
In every film, there is the story that you knew you were telling, the story the audience perceives. But there is always some other story, a secret story. It might be the result of your hidden motivations for making the film, or, instead, the result of themes that only became clear to you after you made the movie. It might be something very personal, or it might be a story you didn’t even know you were telling. What is your film’s secret story? The film is based on a real event, a hit-and-run incident involving the son of a very […]
