Sundance Part 2

Saturday, January 18, 2003

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* Today we got up early and saw 4 different screenings… 3 of them were collections of short films, which were what we really wanted to see because we are writing a screenplay for our own short film. They were all over the place… each of the 3 screenings had 10 or so short films in it. Most all were really incredible. I have always loved short films because they give creative people the opportunity to put things out there that are outside the usual. Today we really saw alot of real “industry” people… even a few examples of the kind of women who inspired me to take the name Evangelique Von Faustenberg VII… you can probably imagine what they look like. Mostly though Ive seen alot of cool, artistic looking people. Lots of tall, cute, intense young men. sigh!
* The films have been a real inspiration to us, and we stayed for all the q&a sessions after. We also saw an hour long documentary about a controversial photographer who makes shocking images of Appalacian people. Those are the incredibly poor people in Kentucky who were sort of parodied in “Deliverance” (not “The Deerslayer” as I mistyped earlier). His photos are shocking, and the film showed both sides of the controversy: Is he taking advantage of the people, or is he their champion?
* (These diary entires are written quickly, before bed, sorry they are not the best! I will add and edit later...)