Sundance Film Festival may be over officially for another year, but I confess I’m just getting down from the altitude high I got out of six days, four nights and one all-nighter– Sundancing in Park City. I’ll admit it was a last minute plan of action despite getting the nod for accreditation back in December. Life situations often get in the way and making the trip to Utah may not always be the most practical thing to do. Let’s face it,...
An article in Sunday’s New York Times January 13, 2013 announced that 9 percent of the top 250 movies at the domestic box office last year were directed by women, “a substantially higher number” than the 2011 figure of 5 percent. Funny, the 2012 report is not out yet. The NYT attributes this to San Diego State University (SDSU) professor Martha Lauzen whose annual “Celluloid Ceiling” report is usually announced the week of the Sundance...
We’re still talking about this Special Event that was presented at the beginning of the second week of the New York Film Festival. You could say we are still under the “Kubelka Spell”, experiencing the “here and now” and creating new art forms in the moment. Whoa. That’s where this ride has taken me, by surprise and seemingly stunned for some time afterwards. It’s also why I asked Yuri Turchyn to guest blog this fascinating...
