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Sundance Diary: Wednesday

by Richard Sheehan on January 26, 2012

It always amazes me how quickly Main Street in Park City starts shutting down in the middle of the festival. All of the big parties take place around the first weekend, and by today many of the storefronts that have been reimagined as festival party rooms, interview rooms/swag stops for …

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Sundance Diary: Tuesday

by Richard Sheehan on January 25, 2012

Another successful panel was held in the New York Lounge this morning, hosted by Post Factory founder Alex Halpern, on the change by filmmakers using digital as opposed to film. Director Ira Sachs, whose film ” Keep the Lights On” is in dramatic competition here at the festival, moderated the …

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Sundance Diary: Monday

by Richard Sheehan on January 24, 2012

HSBC & Three Point Capital hosted a meet and greet breakfast at the NY Lounge this morning, followed by a panel discussion titled “The Tax Check Cometh – The Ins &Outs of Financing the New York State Tax Credit”.
The panel was moderated by  John Hadity, Chairman of the PGA East. …

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Sundance Diary: The First Weekend

by Richard Sheehan on January 24, 2012

"Keep the Lights On" star Zachary Booth & producer Lucas Joaquin.

On Friday night, we attended the worldwide premier of Ira Sachs’s film “Keep The Lights On”, which left me still thinking about it 24 hours later. It is a powerful  autobiographical drama based on Sachs’s  on a 10 year …

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Sundance Diary: The First 24 Hours

by Richard Sheehan on January 24, 2012

Thursday’s opening night film “Hello I Must Be Going” is a complete delight. Produced by Mary Jane Skalski, and directed with much attention to the material world of a dysfunctional wealthy Connecticut family. Lead Melanie Lynskey gives a terrific performance, as does Blythe Danner in one of  the bigger roles …

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Getting Ready for Sundance

by Richard Sheehan on January 19, 2012

Well, my Delta app just reminded me to check in for tomorrow morning’s flight to Salt Lake City. My Sundance app is supposedly going to assist me in making sure all of my events and films are on my schedule, but I am sure once we get settled in Park …

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In Conversation With… With Geoffrey Gilmore, Rose Kuo and Keri Putnam

by Dan Schoenbrun on January 11, 2012

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I Feel Lucky: Some Lessons Learned from Shooting “Welcome to Pine Hill”

by Keith Miller on January 11, 2012

(with titles from Pat Benatar)

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After we wrapped WELCOME TO PINE HILL I was pretty shell-shocked. When people asked me about it I held back a tic and smiled. “It was great.” I’d met other directors who were battered by a tough shoot. I just never thought I would …

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