January 8, 2007

Slouching Towards Park City, 1/8.

Sundance 07 "[G]iven that so many indie-film investor business plans end with the words 'and then we premiere at Sundance,' it's painful to talk with producers and directors who have not a clue as to what to do with their movies now that the Sundance programmers have given them the axe," writes Filmmaker's Scott Macaulay. He's wondering: "If you've got a film that didn't get in, what are you doing now?" Comments on his entry may remain anonymous.

Also: "In an effort to capture the Park City experience through social networking, text messaging and camera-phone reporting, Lance Weiler has created a 'social mobile experiment' to document Sundance and Slamdance this year."

The latest round of indieWIRE interviews with filmmakers competing at Sundance: Crazy Love director Dan Klores and Comrades in Dreams director Uli Gaulke.

At Games * Design * Art * Culture, Greg looks into Slamdance's decision to dis-invite a role-playing game called Super Columbine Massacre. Via Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing. And Greg Allen comments.

Posted by cphillips at January 8, 2007 2:40 PM