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[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 in order to give us the best chance of getting the film made.I had to keep in mind a very limited budget, keep the cast as small as possible, write something that would best be done in a controlled, studio

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[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 genuine and convincing at every moment. It was inspired by the real-life story that’s kept the world gobsmacked for the past five years: a U.S. President (using and abusing a UK Prime Minister) who mounts an

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[PREMIERE SCREENING: Wednesday, Jan. 21, 9:30 pm -- Eccles Theatre, Park City]I started out writing Motherhood from a place of frustration with contemporary movies because I couldn’t think of a single one that dealt nearly exclusively in a complicated, human, reasonably authentic way with the subject of what it’s like to be a mother. Moms in the movies tend to be neglectful, embarrassing,

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[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, Jan. 19, 8:00 pm -- Racquet Club, Park City]“Was your story — its conception, structure and/or execution — shaped by the forces affecting cinema today?” Absolutely! On the first day of shooting I said to everyone, “Guys, I know we were all excited to shoot a slow, self-indulgent, boring movie. But due to the wintery economic climate, we need to change course and try

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[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, Jan. 19, 11:59 pm -- Egyptian Theatre, Park City]I didn’t consciously think about the forces affecting cinema today at any point during the long development of the movie. The script was inspired by the life of a real person but it’s fiction so we told the story in the way we thought would be most effective. But that’s not to say myself and the writers didn’t agonize

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[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, Jan. 19, 8:30 pm -- Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City]I’m trying to tell a story as simply as possible. I want the experience of watching the film to be like watching a fiction film so that you feel like you are there and things are happening around you. The editor, Ollie Huddleston, tries to use just one or two shots in each scene so that there’s not a lot of

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[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, Jan. 19, 5:15 pm -- Racquet Club, Park City]It’s very hard to begin creating a story with a defined set of rules. It has to come from the gut and has to be truthful. David Brind, the writer of Dare, and I set out to tell a story within the format of a full-length film. It started out as a 15-minute, first-year film-school project that left us with a distinct “What

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[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, Jan. 19, 5:30 pm -- Library Center Theatre, Park City]While attending Sundance with my two short films, Populi and Pan with Us, I found myself bored with the majority of low-budget independent feature films, particularly their third acts. I didn’t know what specifically caused the redundant patterns in the scripts but I expected more originality from things that carry

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[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, Jan. 19, 12:00 pm -- Temple Theatre, Park City]The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court is the flagship film for a three-year Audience Engagement Campaign intended to get people around the world involved in international justice. While I was filming over two years across four continents in six languages, media possibilities exploded. So from the

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[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, Jan. 19, 3:00 pm -- Temple Theatre, Park City]We set out to make a feature-length documentary DIRT! The Movie inspired by the book Dirt, the Ecstatic Skin of the Earth written by William Bryant Logan. When we started out on this project we were thinking of either a four-part television series or a feature-length documentary for theatrical release. We could either

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[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, Jan. 19, 2:30 pm -- Prospector Square Theatre, Park City]I’m known far and wide as a contrarian. Perhaps that’s a justified accusation. For in approaching my new film, the American Spectrum selection Once More With Feeling, I consciously elected to honor a very fine, very touching and very entertaining script by celebrating old-school filmmaking trappings within our

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[PREMIERE SCREENING: Monday, Jan. 19, 11:30 am -- Library Center Theatre, Park City]A lot came into play when writing Everything Strange and New. I feel it’s paramount for the success of an indie film to be responsive to circumstances, and I tried to consider as many of those circumstances as possible during the film’s conception.First and foremost, I feel that there is a distinct lack of

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[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 8:30 pm -- Library Center Theatre, Park City]The whole point of independent filmmaking, in my mind, is to do something original, something challenging, and not to try and cater to whatever the whims of the current marketplace may be. If one is fortunate enough to be given an opportunity to make a film, I think the goal should be, “How can I make the best

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[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 11:30 pm -- Library Center Theatre, Park City]With Black Dynamite, we wanted to make a blaxploitation movie that was as close to a 1974 blaxploitation movie as you could make in 2009. We wanted to emphasize humor, but we didn’t want to go too far outside of the strict boundaries of the genre.For us, the humor comes out in how anachronistic it all is.

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[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 8:00 pm -- Racquet Club, Park City]Big Fan was edited on the biggest, awesomest computer monitor I’ve ever been in a room with. Thirty inches. As big as it was, though, it still wasn’t nearly enough. That 30-inch monitor was just a tease, whetting my appetite to see my movie on something bigger — like 800 inches. A movie screen.I don’t care what the trends

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[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 2:30 pm -- Library Center Theatre, Park City]If one postulates that money is the root of all evil, logic dictates that with the collapse of capitalism filmmaking, all other forms of art and expression will represent the forces of good in the universe. Hard times call for hard filmmaking. Being that the forces affecting cinema affect our everyday economic

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[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 6:00 pm -- Temple Theatre, Park City]As someone who believes in making non-fiction feature films for the big screen, Crude is in many ways a reaction against some of the forces affecting cinema today. From a craft standpoint, Crude is steeped in the traditions of cinema vérité filmmaking that I have embraced throughout my career — it’s a film with a great

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[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 12:15 pm -- Eccles Theatre, Park City]Not all, but the majority of short-form works on the Net are gimmicky and instant pleasures — like candy. I am not interested in making candy. I want my works to be a full meal — a story that keeps ringing in your head, something that sticks and stays with you for a very long time. Cinema will falter for a bit but will

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[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 5:15 pm -- Racquet Club, Park City]Although technology may have shortened the average person’s patience over the past few years I believe that storytelling should never rush to keep up.It is true that we live in an increasingly fast culture. Our communication demands that our lives be summed up with only as much information as will fit on a Facebook profile.

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[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 2:30 pm -- Prospector Square Theatre, Park City]When I was younger, my uncle told me about growing up in China during World War II, and, after a carpetbombing, seeing people emerge from a theater destroyed only seconds before. People were missing limbs, they were bleeding, searching for their friends or relatives or dates. I found it fascinating that people

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[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 12:00 pm -- Temple Theatre, Park City]Perhaps I am a romantic, but I like to imagine El General being watched in a dark packed theater with an expecting audience. It isn't only a question of scale, but of ritual. I like the ritual of going to the movies and giving oneself completely over to a film for two hours. I like the collective experience of sitting in

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[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 3:00 pm -- Temple Theatre, Park City]The inventor and venture capitalist Jim Clark and I have been dive buddies for the last 10 years but over the last 35 years of diving we have been witnessing the catastrophic collapse of the reefs and sea-life abundance. Jim and I decided to do something about it by setting up a nonprofit foundation, the Oceanic

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[PREMIERE SCREENING: Saturday, Jan. 17, 8:30 pm -- Library Center Theatre, Park City]What I can remember from very early on in the process of making The Vicious Kind was the desire to shoot my film on film. Specifically 35mm film. Even from the conceptual stage, I latched on to the idea that film would offer the kind of texture that a small, character-driven family story like mine would require.

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[PREMIERE SCREENING: Saturday, Jan. 17, 11:30 pm -- Library Center Theatre, Park City]Our movie Mystery Team is the first full-length feature film by DERRICK Comedy, a sketch-comedy group I’ve been a part of for four years now. Our sketch videos have been viewed more than 100 million times online. We never tried to figure out “what plays on the Internet,” and when we did have shorts that became

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[PREMIERE SCREENING: Saturday, Jan. 17, 8:00 pm -- Racquet Club, Park City]One of our goals while making Paper Heart was to establish a consistent reality since we would be combining a documentary on love with a loosely scripted love story. [Yi] Charlyne and I felt that most modern romantic films were very formulaic and unrealistic, but hoped that if an audience believed in what they were

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