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We've collected a list of Twitter accounts from the filmmakers, actors and folks behind the scenes in the U.S. Drama/Doc Comps, Premiere categories and NEXT section. Click on the twitter accounts (below) to follow folks such as Christine Vachon, Mike Birbiglia, the Tim and Eric guys for some lively feeds where the secrets of Park City will be revealed. And don't forget to follow the IONCINEMA.com team @ioncinema -- Nicholas Bell (NB), Eric Lavallee (EL) and myself, Jordan Smith (JS) will be tweeting from this channel.

I have spent a lot of time in Cuba, so it didn’t feel foreign. With the actors we spent over a year rehearsing. They were not actors before Una Noche, so I wanted them to spend a lot of time with me and with each other so that they would feel really comfortable. We built up a lot of trust, which was important. We spent a lot of time doing improvisations, working through the script and work-shopping constantly until we started to feel like we were ready to shoot.

I have always enjoyed Paul Greengrass's work, because watching his films make you feel like you're inside the story. For Gun Hill Road, I employed documentary-style camerawork, and shot in densely populated areas that clearly reflected the world I wished to portray. Motion Film Group

Of the eight projects in the Directors Lab, seven were previously worked on in previous screenwriters labs -- they include: Sara Colangelo (pictured above) who was in Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces 2010 edition, we have Romanian filmmaker Bodgan Mustata (who we previously featured) and Carlo Mirabella-Davis' genre film (not your typical Lab project) will also be included it now goes by the title of The Storm King instead of previous title On Evil.