I procrastinated all summer and autumn long uploading this video. Watching it again and again, after a year-long slog of sitting through a seemingly endless string of panels, symposiums, and talks on how people of color can play a part … Continue reading Butt-Raped by Hollywood Again, or, My Tiresome Relationship With “Diversity”
Arriving in Park City for another full day of movie-watching turns out to be significantly delayed…this day, Saturday, the third full day of screenings at Sundance and Slamdance, is all about the women. Well, at least the 10,000 or so … Continue reading Park City ’17: Outcasts, Aliens, and Anti-Heroes
So this morning marks the dawn of the Fourth Reich, during which the coronation of the 45th President will take place; and 2,100 miles west in Park City, UT, nearly 40,000 out-of-towners converging for the start of the Sundance and … Continue reading Park City ’17: Between Two Worlds
On a bright, cold Tuesday afternoon in January 2009, I was sitting in the Sundance Industry Center, on the second floor of the Park City Marriott. At the halfway mark of the Sundance Film Festival, industry professionals and some first … Continue reading Park City ’17: Prelude – The #Flashforward Nobody Wanted
The 2013 Sundance Film Festival is over and OUT! And for me and my road-trip partner, we couldn’t have picked a more opportune time to leave. The cloudless, sunny ski resort town we found when we arrived the first weekend … Continue reading Sundance 2013, Pt. 7: (Re)Connecting the Field
I Could Watch It On An iPad, But I'd Rather Not 