Sundance Responses

“WE WERE HERE” | writer-director, David Weissman

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Saturday, Jan. 22, 12:00 pm — Temple Theatre] The biggest surprise was that I made it at all. I had been very ambivalent about making another documentary under any circumstances, certainly not one that would be dealing with such painful subject matter. The idea to make We Were Here came from a younger boyfriend, also a filmmaker, who hadn’t lived through those years, but had heard me speak many times of my experiences in San Francisco during the AIDS epidemic. I probably wouldn’t have thought of it on my own, but once the idea came up, it made […]

By Filmmaker Staff on Jan 22, 2011 Sundance Responses
“THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD | co-writer-director, Morgan Spurlock

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Saturday, Jan. 22, 2:30 pm — Library Center Theatre] The biggest surprise for me in the making of The Greatest Movie Ever Sold was that we actually got brands and companies to not only agree to be in the film, but to actually pay for it. I called hundreds of companies and had hundreds of doors slammed in my face. I had people tell me how they’d “get reamed,” “be a laughing stock” or “never work again” if they took part in the movie. But every once in a while we’d get someone who would actually call back […]

By Filmmaker Staff on Jan 22, 2011 Sundance Responses
“THE BENGALI DETECTIVE | director, Philip Cox

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Saturday, Jan. 22, 3:00 pm — Holiday Village Cinema IV] Making The Bengali Detective was an incredibly intense period of filmmaking. I and my small team had no idea where our detective and his investigations would lead us. Each client brought their own revelations and twisting storyline. We had a central character die during the production, a subject who discovered her husband was sleeping with her brother’s wife. There was a poor grieving mother who then became a suspect in a triple murder case. And our hero detective turned up one day to greet us in a silver-and-gold […]

By Filmmaker Staff on Jan 22, 2011 Sundance Responses
“KABOOM” | writer-director, Gregg Araki

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 21, 8:30 pm — Prospect Square Theatre] Our biggest surprise with Kaboom had to be the crazy standing ovation we got at our Cannes Premiere. I was in the Grand Palais, literally the hugest movie theatre I’ve ever seen, with five young actors from the cast, producers, crew, etc., all dressed up in our tuxes and the girls in these stunning gowns and we were all totally intimidated and terrified. I’d warned the actors that films often get booed in Cannes, even ones by major directors like Soderbergh, Sofia Coppola, etc., so we were petrified. One […]

By Filmmaker Staff on Jan 21, 2011 Sundance Responses
“THE INTERRUPTERS” | director, Steve James

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 21, 9:00 pm — Temple Theatre] Making The Interrupters was, by its very nature, a series of hoped-for surprises: Producer Alex Kotlowitz and I wanted to be awakened in the middle of the night by a violence interrupter and told we should come quick to capture them dealing with a potential mediation. No such moment was more surprising than “Flamo,” a young man full of rage, making his entrance into our film by opening his front door and angrily flinging his cell phone out into the snow. He was on a warpath of revenge against this […]

By Filmmaker Staff on Jan 21, 2011 Sundance Responses
“ON THE ICE” | writer-director, Andrew Okpeaha MacLean

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 21, 8:45 pm — Library Center Theatre] The element of surprise is built into the process of making movies. Every film shoot is meticulously planned out in the smallest possible detail. And every plan is thrown out the first day of filming. This was definitely true for On the Ice. We were trying to shoot a complex film with a large cast of non-actors, and many locations in one of the most remote places in the world. Our most difficult location was the frozen Arctic Ocean. Specifically we wanted to get to the lead, the place […]

By Filmmaker Staff on Jan 21, 2011 Sundance Responses
“THE FLAW” | co-writer-director, David Sington

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 21, 9:45 pm — Broadway Centre Cinemas V, Salt Lake City] If I am completely honest, I would say that the biggest surprise was getting into competition at Sundance! I took on The Flaw because it seemed like a really difficult project to pull off. The brief was to make a film about the fundamental underlying cause of the present economic crisis. The first problem was therefore to identify what that was, to get beyond the stories of Wall Street shenanigans (which were obviously a big part of what went wrong, but equally clearly not the […]

By Filmmaker Staff on Jan 21, 2011 Sundance Responses
“TYRANNASOUR” | writer-director, Paddy Considine

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 21, 9:00 pm — Egyptian Theatre] No surprises. Just overwhelmed by the commitment of the cast and crew. Proud of them all. Very proud.

By Filmmaker Staff on Jan 21, 2011 Sundance Responses
“THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 | writer-director, Goran Hugo Olsson

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 21, 9:00 pm — Holiday Village Cinema IV] To me the biggest surprise in making The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 was meeting one of my subjects: Angela Davis. I had admired her for so many years from seeing her on TV and her biography. The footage that we assembled in the film is something that no one outside of Swedish television had seen before. While watching those segments from years ago, I was moved by her interviews and the way she spoke so directly and with knowledge and a subtlety that was so powerful. Then, when I actually […]

By Filmmaker Staff on Jan 21, 2011 Sundance Responses
“RESTORATION” | director, Yossi Madmony

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 21, 6:00 pm — Egyptian Theatre] As screenwriters we learn that you have to plant information and set up courses of action in the film’s first act to establish what happens next. Restoration’s script was no different. But while editing we concluded that the first act was far too laden and that we had to cut out a certain supporting character that appeared there. Of course we were convinced that spectators will miss all the information the character communicated. The information was critical to understanding the film. We experimented anyway, took the character out and shortened […]

By Filmmaker Staff on Jan 21, 2011 Sundance Responses

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