Sundance so far...

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