January 21, 2004

Sundance so far...

Time: The Blair Witch Project As news spews on from Park City, the most obvious idea for an entry at this point is probably going to be the best one: a filter of the best sources. Starting with the majors:

  • Movie City News. Excellent blend of on-the-ground coverage on the left side of the page; mainstream news stories blogged on the right.
  • indieWIRE. Definitely the go-to source for anyone remotely associated in any way with the biz or simply extraordinarily interested in the fest. Sundance, after all, is the event of the year for iW.
  • Blogging Sundance. Sponsored by Sundance itself. Jason Calacanis promised news, reviews, talks with directors... and he's delivering. Especially good entry: Sundance 2004 Deal Tracker; especially good remark: "IndieWire.com breaks most of this news then people quote them without credit."

    • More blogging going on:

  • Dan Webster's doing some serious blogging at Movies & More.
  • Cyndi Greening has a few fine entries at her main site, but for the sake of swiftness, at least for now, she's joined up with Alec Hart on Alastik Cynematik Sundance.
  • Pete Vonder Haar is hitting the parties and has the pix to prove it at a perfectly cromulent blog.

    • Articles, blog entries of particular note:

  • Francine Hardaway on Monday.
  • Kyle Minor at McSweeney's. (Day 1.)
  • Five years ago, The Blair Witch Project premiered at Sundance. Both Sean Smith at Newsweek and Jesse McKinkey at the New York Times had the same idea: Whatever happened to those guys?
  • Also in the NYT: Elvis Mitchell and Sharon Waxman.
  • In the Village Voice: Ed Halter on Utah's other indie scene, Mormon cinema, and Anthony Kaufman surveys the industry (just now, I heard Charlie Kaufman, presumably no relation, chiding me for using that word) and quotes former PR fellow Reid Rosefelt: "Wall Street is the engine behind independent film, and as Wall Street surges, so too will indie film."

    • Posted by dwhudson at January 21, 2004 8:49 AM