Sundance increasingly becomes more and more like summer camp each year. This could be because of all of the fun people that surround you and all the different activities happening at once. It might also be because its a break from reality. It’s a festival dedicated to the unique voice, the untold story, and the artist.
The last few days of the festival, we experienced power problems and were forced to move to festival headquarters in order to keep editing.
Icicles get to a point where they aren’t cute and decorative, but legitimate menacing killers.
They are not as scary as this face. Mid-edit face.
Calvin from the Sundance Insider team whipped up this Bacon explosion – sausage wrapped in a woven blanket of bacon – topped with BBQ sauce. Legendary.
Brandon Joseph Baker, showed off his bartender skills and made some tasty bloody marys. The left-over feast Saturday and Sunday nights at Sundance is quite a scene. Dave Drusky and I made pizza, omelets, sandwiches, and soup for our feast. Note for 2011 – one person buy peanut butter.
2009-2010 Snowboard season, count = 7 days. Got to double that amount.
The cinematic rebellion has only just begun. Let’s look back at ten days of different. Every festival, the Live @ Sundance team produces a “week in review” video. This year, after doing a paper edit of memorable quotes, we dove into the days of footage from this year’s festival. After locking down a quote based skeleton, we overlaid b-roll from films, events, and locations around Park City. Each one of the four editors had a pass on the edit. We all feel like the finished product is a solid piece of content.
Production Company: Sundance Institute
Client: Sundance Film Festival
Role: One of four Camera Operators, Editor, and Colorist.
Bill Gates visited the Sundance 2010 Filmmaker’s Brunch and took a moment to speak with the Live @ Sundance team. We asked him about the role of technology in art – specifically filmmaking. Bill also gives us insight into Waiting for Superman a feature documentary at the festival. Bing – Microsoft’s re-branded search engine is a sponsor of the Sundance Film Festival.
Production Company: Sundance Institute
Client: Sundance Film Festival
Role: Cinematographer, Editor, and Colorist.
dax - Did you get any pics with Bill?
Or get your mbpro signed by him?
Will - I didn't have the mbpro handy - or else I would have had him tag it. He did try to separate himself from Bing and Microsoft when questioned about their involvement with the film festival.
Robert Redford believes there should be an artist at every table and for the opening celebration of the 2010 Festival there was. Catch a glimpse of this special celebration with patrons of the nonprofit Sundance Institute and the artists it supports.
Production Company: Sundance Institute
Client: Sundance Film Festival
Role: Editor, and Colorist.
Spike Jonze’s latest work is in the short’s program #1. Entitled “I’m Here” it is a robot love-story. Excited to see it, if I get some free time, during the Sundance Film Festival.
zan - This was the very first thing I saw at this year's Festival, and it is still one of my favorite things I saw. Such a great love story. And robots!
Will - Jealous! I really enjoy Spike's work. From his Girl skateboard videos - Yeah Right, music videos for Daft Punk, and Being John Malkovich. Hopefully will get to see "I'm here"
There is an indoor ski and snowboard hill inside the mall of the Emirates in Dubai. It’s incredibly cheezy. Fake snow in a gigantic refrigerator. I personally enjoy the snowmen and penguins – oh and the ski lift.
The Address Hotel in Dubai is a nice place to stay. Plus it looks like a gigantic future sail ship space craft.
This is a few moments after the fountain show at the Dubai Fountain.
On ARTPANTS, I posted shot looking up from a different location at the Burj tower. Here is another angle.
Here is the view from the observation deck of the Burj tower. If you look in the lower left hand corner of the image you can see the undeveloped and construction areas around the tower. Dubai is still young.
Banksy’sExit Through the Gift Shopwill premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. So the piece on Park Ave indicates that the artist himself is in Park City for the premiere. The full length film is due out in Spring 2010.
srs bzns - I am stoked to see this. I love all of Banskys graffiti pieces. Favorite on has to be that one with death sitting in a boat on the water sprayed on the side of a tanker
Will - That is a great one. The rats and the museum bombings he did with remix paintings and the rat are also solid. The installation pieces are also very thought provoking.
Less than 24 hours from the first official day of the Sundance Film Festival and the snow is still coming down. This is my third year working at the festival. Which makes me feel more relaxed and comfortable with the event. Plus that I have more great Sundance friends than the previous years. The light at the end of the Sundance tunnel is two days of snowboarding in Utah powder.
I’m stoked. Here are some images from around Park City and day 0 of the festival.
Our offices are in the same place as last year – which is the silver star lift base of the Park City Mountain Resort. Silver star used to be a silver mine.
Look familiar?
Because the sky is blue… because I LOVE clouds.
Banksy is in town. Dropping some new pieces.
Fire hydrant knuckle deep in the pow pow gnar gnar.
Joe producing and locking down a location for a future shoot.
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The Hobo has done it again. My pick for Video Of the Week is Joshua Herron’s Formula Drift 2009. Excellent song selection and shots of the personalities that make FD great. Glad to see Josh is doing big things in 2010. The best part is that Hobo was able to assemble this edit without attending two of the seven events this season. Make a small bag of popcorn and enjoy!
January 2010, the Dubai 24H race brought me to the UAE. To document the Need For Speed team’s 997 GT III cup car with the Speedhunters team. Dubai is an juxtaposition of eastern and western cultures. As a center of tourism, Dubai is a playground for western tourists. While also being rooted in its arabic traditions.
Half completed buildings are everywhere. This view was from outside of my hotel window.
Getting to Dubai was a mess, I flew through London Heathrow. London does not know how to deal with a little bit of snow. The inch of snow delayed my flight to Dubai by half a day.
The race was held at the Dubai Autodrome. Which was still under construction in parts.
The Petronas BMW Z4’s laid down impressive lap times all weekend.
The Burj Khalifa, tallest building in the world. Directly located across from the Address hotel – where we stayed.
Looks similar to a spaceship huh?
The view from the top of the Burj Khalifa.
Did I mention that the world’s largest fountain show is underneath the Burj Khalifa.
I also happened to find the world famous Wendy of the Dave Thomas fame. She was rocking the picked out look.
Good times in Dubai. Stay posted for my edit from the Dubai 24H race.
Michael Mohan is an amazingly nice guy. His first feature film, One Too Many Mornings, is premiering at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Which is also amazing. I had the pleasure of working with Mike on a few Sundance projects over the past two years and was always impressed by his creativity and dedication. One Too Many Mornings also features Elisha Christian as the Director of Photography and a musical score by Capybara. Both are incredible at what they do – and I also had the pleasure of working with them last year at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
So check out the OTMM trailer and better yet, visit One Too Many Mornings site and pre-order a copy of the DVD or HD download of the film.
by Will
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