Documentarian Doug Pray has made films about grafitti artists (Infamy), an iterant surfing family (Surfwise), Seattle punk scene (Hype!) Hip Hop DJ’s (Scratch) and truckers (Big Rig), and now, with Art & Copy, he profiles the living legends of corporate advertising. Advertising has a complicated relationship to filmmaking — for one thing, many feature and documentary... [continue]
Peter Callahan’s Againt the Current is road movie that takes place in a vehicle that “couldn’t out-run a turtle.” It’s a story about Paul Thompson (Joseph Fiennes), a man in his mid-30’s who is still grieving for his wife five years after her death. Emotionally adrift, Thompson decides to make it literal by enlisting his best friend (Justin Kirk) to man a... [continue]
Up there with Snakes On A Plane in the pantheon of catchy titles, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead is a horror-comedy about Hamlet and the Holy Grail premiering in Slamdance this year. The movie stars Jake Hoffman, Devon Aoki, Jeremy Sisto, John Ventimiglia, Ralph Maccio and Waris Ahluwalia and was only the second East Coast feature film to use the Red camera. The film’s director,... [continue]
We asked Sundance feature filmmakers to tell us the most difficult decision they had to make to get their films completed.
[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 23, 6:15 pm -- Eccles Theatre, Park City]Moon was a challenge to write. There were a set of pretty stringent criteria that we had come up with for ourselves... [continue]
[PREMIERE SCREENING: Thursday, Jan. 22, 6:15 pm -- Eccles Theatre, Park City]I wanted to tell a comic story with a fast, screwball structure but set in the real world and that feels... [continue]
