Our Man at Sundance

Hi there, for my final Sundance blog I just wanted to give an overview.

Overall it’s been a great experience.  Sundance seems to really embrace the films, and being a public festival it’s great that audiences are not just industry types but filled with enthusiastic cinema goers.  Even long line-ups and lack of tickets didn’t deter people and after the first long weekend tickets were a bit easier to find.

I actually had a pretty slack day today.  I got invited to ski by a sales agent so managed to squeeze in 3 ½ hours on the Park City slopes, which are literally 4 blocks from the main street with a lift going right into town.

I saw Whitey: United States of America V James J Bulger last night. This is Joe Berlinger’s new documentary about a Boston crime lord’s reign of terror in Boston and the alleged corruption in the police force that kept him on the streets.  Joe Berlinger is a Sundance elder, having 6 films here over the past 15 years or so.  The film was of course sold out (I think everything is sold out).

I have figured out how to use my producers badge to access tickets and saw I Origin on Sunday morning.  This is the second feature film from Mike Cahill (Another Earth).  I hadn't heard of him but was recommended to see the film and man it blew me away.  An intelligent mix of molecular biology, spiritualism and love following a PHD student intent on proving the evolution of the eye to counter creationism and falling madly in love with an exotic woman. 

Sundance is just hitting its stride, with Saturday being the busiest day of the Festival, especially as its part of the Martin Luther King long weekend. The streets are packed, the shuttles are full, the films are completely sold out but there is a real festive vibe.

Hi there,

Welcome to my blog for Sundance 2014.  I’m here as Executive Producer for a psychological thriller called The Babadook, which opens the Park City at Midnight section of Sundance on Friday night. This is my first Sundance and I’m a bit wide-eyed about the whole thing but excited to launch the film.