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Sundance 2011: Andrew Okpeaha MacLean’s On the Ice
The site will be playing catch up for the next couple of weeks with loads of Sundance reviews, interviews and screening coverage, Here we rewind back to Day 2's world premiere post-screening Q&A for Andrew Okpeaha MacLean's On the Ice. Competing in the U.S Dramatic Competition, the Alaskan-born filmmaker work-shopped the film in the Sundance labs and his previous short on which this is based on, was also at the festival a couple of years back.
Sundance Day 4: Elgin James’ Little Birds
I've got the post screening Q&A below, but I wish I would have recorded Elgin James when he was presenting the film, as it would explain how "far" this first-time filmmaker has come. An expansion from his short film, Juno Temple (who championed this project for more than two years) and Kay Panabaker essentially play the yin and yang and pull from James' own background -- which serves as a template for some of the narrative details/character motivations.
Sundance Day 3: Shorts IV Carter Smith, Daniel Mulloy, Hong Khaou…
Odds that a Sundance short films program will be a good harvest are in the high percentile -- with over 6000 short film submissions sent in and about less than 100 selected certainly increases those odds. In any given year at the festival, you could easily trace back a filmmaker's presenting his/her feature film to the roots of shorts included in the fest from previous years.
Sundance Day 2: Braden King’s HERE
Before the unveiling of the world premiere for Braden King's HERE - patrons at the Library Center had the opportunity to immerse themselves in the HERE experience. You see, the film has mutated into several forms -- next week Sundance hosts Here [ The Story Sleeps ] a live, three-screen, transmedia presentation.
Sundance Day 2: Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene
Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene is everything we hoped it would be and more -- and it too also features Olsen -- who was baptized before the festival as the breakout actress to watch out for and whoever those prognosticators were, they were evidently correct in their assertion -- she's dramatically on cue and the cuteness factor disarmingly works in her favor in this pair of challenging roles. Here's the Q&A following the world premiere.
