First days and nights are paramount to settle in and acclimate |ˈakləˌmāt, əˈklīmit|: respond physiologically or behaviorally to a change in a single environmental factor– Sundance Film Festival. Finding first days, first nights ways to establish the pace and scope of productivity out of the next several days especially the Thursday and Friday afternoons into the evenings. Starting with British Virgin Islands, Texas Film and Montana...
Heading back to Sundance tomorrow and looking forward to catching up with fellow filmmakers, finding out what’s changing and happening in this year’s film festival. Since my first years of doing the annual trek to Park City, I was on a fast track learning curve with the techno transitions– the Sundance App, eWaitlist and Eventbrite coordinating my calendar schedule with my producer partners. It’s going to be a week filled with PR and...
Cool September evenings heat up with New York Women in Film & Television (NYWiFT) events. I started my crazy fall season of film watching and writing on a select film festivals circuit with a Tuesday evening screening: There Were Times, Dear and a memorial tribute, more accurately, a celebration of the life of NYWiFT member, Nancy Malone. I didn’t know Nancy, but after the Women’s Film Preservation Fund (WFPF) committee’s decision to...