http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/sundance Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:02:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Frozen River, King of Ping Pong, Man on Wire and Trouble the Water Earn Top Jury Prizes; Audience Favorites Feature Captain Abu Raed, Fields of Fuel, Man on Wire and The Wackness Park City, UT–The jury and audience award-winners of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival were announced at the Festival’s closing ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/sundance/2008/01/28/2008-sundance-film-festival-announces-awards/ Stacy Peralta is walking up just as Angus Hudson—the DP on The Broken—is putting on his coat to leave. In one of those uniquely Sundance moments, Hudson lingers to tell Peralta that they met before, when Peralta was half of the legendary skateboard company Powell-Peralta and Hudson was a 14-year-old ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/sundance/2008/01/27/another-america/ Reality sets in, this last day of Sundance, as 50,000 attendees move on to greener pastures and the glistening snow-covered peaks encircling Park City once again seem a part of the natural landscape instead of a fancy festival backdrop. Down below on Main Street, festival dreams and ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/sundance/2008/01/26/leitner%e2%80%99s-mondo-2008-sundance-%e2%80%93-saturday/ Gray skies persist and the big awards show arrives tomorrow night as Sundance 2008 draws to a close. Yet there are still surprises. Last year I pulled out all the stops and attended thirty films in a week, my Sundance personal best. I took quiet pride in ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/sundance/2008/01/26/leitner%e2%80%99s-mondo-2008-sundance-%e2%80%93-friday/ Overcast again. Blues skies aren’t forever. A slow day. Overheard a klatch of industry veterans planning a Walmart release of the DVD of a festival film, a well-regarded but talky interview-style doc. Can’t see how it could appeal to a mass-market crowd, Walmart’s or otherwise. Maybe it’s the thin atmosphere, ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/sundance/2008/01/26/leitner%e2%80%99s-mondo-2008-sundance-%e2%80%93-thursday/ By Michael Goldman Veteran rocker Neil Young (using his filmmaking alter-ego, Bernard Shakey) hit Sundance to promote his new movie, CSNY Deja Vu--the film chosen to close the festival. The movie documents the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young 2004 Freedom of Speech tour, and the reaction to the tour's anti-war message ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/sundance/2008/01/26/podcast-bernard-shakeyneil-young-explains-csny-deja-vu/ Park City’s weather continues its upswing, with optimistic blue skies, blinding daylight that makes snow banks dazzle like Hollywood teeth, and thin, icy mountain air that invigorates exposed skin and reveals your every breath. No matter how good the films—and they are good this year--after being cooped ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/sundance/2008/01/25/leitner%e2%80%99s-mondo-2008-sundance-%e2%80%93-wednesday/ Director Sean Ellis and DP Angus Hudson sit on either side of me at the Filmmaker Lodge—Hudson, smart and earnest, Ellis, savvy and charismatic, with an actors expressiveness; they seem an unlikely team until they start trading thoughts about The Broken. “I’ve never been so proud of something I’ve shot,” ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/sundance/2008/01/24/breaking-light/ Press Release Andrew Herwitz, president of the The Film Sales Company, announced that the company has acquired worldwide (less UK) sales and US distribution rights to the documentary Derek. Directed by famed artist and filmmaker Issac Julien (Looking for Langston, Young Soul Rebels), the film was written and is ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/sundance/2008/01/24/film-sales-company-frames-derek/ Park City’s been overcast and gray since Day 1, but this morning a brilliant platinum light tore a hole in the endless cloud cover and ignited the overlooking Wasatch peaks, back-lighting a sparkly veil of glassy no-see-ums, tiny ice crystals too delicate to form flakes, that danced on wafts of ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/sundance/2008/01/23/leitner%e2%80%99s-mondo-sundance-2008-%e2%80%93-tuesday/