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“THE GLASS HOUSE” writer-producer, Melissa Hibbard

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 16, 12:15 pm — Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City] The idea for making The Glass House came organically when the director, Hamid Rahmanian, and I were invited to the Omid e Mehr Center in Tehran during a short visit to Iran (for what should have been a couple of weeks and turned into two years). At first we weren’t interested in covering a women’s crisis center in Iran — it had been done a few times already. Our biggest hesitation was the difficulty in penetrating the thick façade of pretenses that dominate Iranian culture; intimacy […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 16, 2009

“ART & COPY” director, Doug Pray

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 16, 5:30 pm — Prospector Square Theatre, Park City] Art & Copy is a movie about advertising, creativity, and the innate human urge we have to communicate – whether it’s painting on cave walls or selling canned spaghetti. What makes this documentary a reflection of its times may be simply that people are finding my characters to be inspirational, at a time when many documentaries– for a lot of very good reasons– are depressing, and losing their audiences a result. Maybe times are changing, and people are ready to be less cynical. (Even about advertising…?)

by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 16, 2009

“THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN” director-producer, Kevin Willmott

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 16, 5:30 pm — Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City] We made a conscious effort to fight against the issues of Internet and nonarthouse distribution. All those avenues are exciting and interesting in many ways, however, no one seems to be writing any checks for them. I still believe that most filmmakers make a film to be shown in a theater. We felt our story was cinematic in scale and because of the importance of the history involved, we needed to try to reach as large an audience as possible. I still think that is through […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 16, 2009

TED HOPE SPEAKS AT SUNDANCE’S ARTHOUSE CONVERGENCE CONFERENCE

Ted Hope gave the closing speech at the festival’s conference bringing together exhibitors and filmmakers. It’s long, and I’m packing and getting ready to head to the airport, so I don’t have time to read it carefully and post my thoughts, but I’ll try to in the next couple of days. For now, I’m linking to it and running the first three paragraphs here. Read it and post your thoughts. The beginning: In case you haven’t heard, our business is in the midst of a transformation from a limited supply gatekeeper entertainment economy based on impulse buys to a new […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jan 15, 2009

CHALLENGING THE SUNDANCE SOURPUSSES

Over at Movie City News’s “10 Days of Sundance,” Ray Pride has posted a spirited rejoinder to some of the online Sundance sourpusses who are either celebrating their non-attendance or kvetching already about the shuttle and movie lines they’ll be standing in. Encompassing Dennis Hopper, the Joker, Sarah Palin and Lance Hammer, it begins: THE OTHER DAY, I READ A CYNICAL PIECE OF TRASH by someone who hates this film festival among other things in her or his life and career. It infuriated me. I wish it could be forgotten, made unread. The bit read like some other pieces, about […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jan 15, 2009

ADVICE FROM THE FRONT LINES: SUNDANCE SURVIVAL TIPS By Alicia Van Couvering

More than anything, Sundance is a survival game. Here are some tips from veterans on how to make it through your stay there. Park City Fashion: You shouldn’t be embarrassed about skiing down to Main Street and going straight to a screening. It’s cool to show up at the Egyptian in your snow gear. — Jeff Abramson, Gen Art Budget Control: The more time you spend in an actual theater the less chance you have of buying rounds in bars and other more frivolous expenses. Rather than partying, choose that midnight movie instead! — Michael Tully, Hammertonail.com Housing Strategy: Wait […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jan 15, 2009

SUNDANCE SHORTS FREE ON iTUNES

Once again Sundance has teamed with iTunes to showcase a collection of shorts during the fest for free. From January 15 through January 25, visit www.itunes.com/sundance to view 10 shorts from this year’s festival representing a variety of countries, styles, genres, and stories. They include: Acting for the Camera (Director: Justin Nowell; Screenwriter: ThomasNowell)-An acting class. Today’s scene: the orgasm from ‘When Harry MetSally.’ Countertransference (Director: Madeleine Olnek; Screenwriters: MadeleineOlnek and Cast)-A comedy about an awkward woman with assertivenessproblems who seeks the questionable help of a therapist. HUG (Director: Khary Jones)-Drew is a musician with a contract ready tosign. When […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 14, 2009

SAG ON A SUNDANCE ACQUISITIONS SHUT-OUT

Michael Cieply had a provocative piece this morning in the New York Times’ Carpetbagger blog in which he wondered: An interesting question — and at this point, it’s only that — has been floating among the people who buy movie rights for big studios and their specialty divisions at festivals like Sundance, which begins on Thursday: Can they, or should they, buy films that were produced under waiver agreements with the Screen Actors Guild? Because these waiver agreements oblige filmmakers to adhere to the final terms of the SAG-AMPTP contract, and that contract has not been negotiated, the thinking goes […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jan 14, 2009

FILMMAKER @ PARK CITY ’09

Filmmaker leaves for Sundance on Thursday and before leaving we’ve launched our Sundance micro-site, where you’ll find all of our blog, feature, news and interview coverage of the festival. Check it now — a number of pieces are up, including Alicia Van Couvering’s conversations with filmmakers anticipating Sundance, my piece on the Sundance Archive Program and Anthony Kaufman’s article on LGBT filmmaking at Sundance following the Prop-8 battle. We’ll also be running each day responses from filmmakers to our annual Sundance question. This year we asked directors how their conception of story was affected by the changes occurring across our […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jan 13, 2009

QUICK READS ON SOME SUNDANCE FILMS

I tend to be a check-in, sit on my hotel or condo bed and go through the catalog kind of person. I don’t really plan my schedule way in advance. This year I’ve taken a longer look at the catalog than usual and jotted down a few thoughts on some films I want to see and a couple that we know a little bit more about. Consider these the equivalent of notebook scribblings and reminders-to-self — more coherent (and substantive) writing on many of these films will follow later. Dramatic Competition Amreeka: I saw the first 18 minutes of this […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jan 13, 2009

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