Tag Archives: Sundance
What’s So Funny About A Squished Toad?
Day 29
I love a good documentary. When I was in television news, I produced several ”mini-docs,” and I appreciate what it takes to tell a true story in provocative, interesting ways.
My Sundance Film Festival schedule is always doc-heavy. I was especially looking forward to Cane Toads: The Conquest in 3D. (The director introduced it as “Avatoad.”)
It [...]
You Can’t Get What You Want ‘Til You Know What You Want
Day 26
The Director of the Sundance Film Festival , John Cooper , told a true story as he introduced the documentary “Cane Toads: The Conquest.”
Every year, the Sundance Institute conducts filmed interviews with over a dozen directors whose films are featured in that year’s festival. In 2000, Mark Lewis was one of the chosen. His documentary that year was The [...]
Sundance: I Could Just Screen
No matter what you do, who you know, how much you pay, you are still going to be stuck in traffic, stuck standing in the cold, stuck waiting in lines, stuck. Every year I swear it will be my last time to put my body and spirit through this nonsense.
At least once, you will probably [...]
