What I found at Sundance
Four days in Park City
Ever since I was asked to honor my friend
upon winning the Spirit of Windrider Award, I’ve been witness to a unique gathering at the Sundance Film Festival. The Windrider Summit gathers film students from across the country to experience the Sundance Film Festival in a compassionate conference environment.The Summit has its own events, curated film screenings, and talk backs with filmmakers, while being in conversation with what is happening concurrently at Sundance. Before heading out this year, I wrote here asking what you’d like to hear about. Reader
responded with this lovely prompt: Can I identify the narratives that seem to be informing peoples' lives?The films at Sundance is one way to discover what people think is important. It takes a lot to make a film, so, the films express the stories producers, filmmakers, and curators believe are important enough to make and share. Across four days at the Summit, this is what I found…