Last night, Jason and I had dinner with Jonathan Wysocki, a 2009 Fellow who attended the Sundance Institute’s Filmmakers Lab. After the six films premiering at Sundance (and one more to premiere soon elsewhere… “Beasts of a Southern Wild” by Ben Zeitlin), the percentage of Sundance lab films to be completed successfully seems to be on the rise. Jonathan Wysocki noted that even he is experiencing good karma and may be into production sooner than he thought with his film currently titled “We All Fall Down”.
And with Sundance wrapping up, Michelle Satter appeared on PCTV’s 9 am show, “In The Can”. There she spoke about the many ways the Sundance Institute supports independent filmmakers and their projects. Not only is there a writters workshop, a composers lab, a producers lab, the well known directors lab that Jason and I participate in… but there is a finishing funds grant and several other programs. Sundance as we know it, turning thirty this year, is truly something special. And thirty years is a great sign of the Institute’s longevity, always encouraging that story telling at its core is something that needs consistent exploration.
“It’s about the process.”