Jamie Stuart's Sundance Film

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Last week, we introduced you to filmmaker Jamie Stuart. He wrapped his Sundance coverage and posted it this morning. While our meeting in the Albertson's parking lot got cut - Jamie's final product includes an interview with George Romero, mysterious text messages, and an ending where "reality wins."

Check out Jamie's piece for Filmmaker Magazine here.

Win Rosenfeld

8:36 AM ET | 01-28-2008 | permalink | comments (2) | e-mail post

The BPP Films Filmmaker Filming Film Festival in a Supermarket Parking Lot

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Filmmaker Jamie Stuart is not your conventional journalist. Jamie takes his camera to movie premieres and red carpets all around the country finding moments that most press would ignore. He locates unguarded celebrity moments and the mayhem around the fringes of the poshest scenes. Jamie is maybe best known for his interview with Amy Adams, in which she simply took the camera and interviewed him.

Jamie met up with us at Sundance last week, to let us in on his festival coverage. Where did he want to meet? Not outside the premiere of In Bruges, not at the opening press conference, not even at one of the many hipster coffee shops.

We met at a supermarket parking lot, a mile away from the festival - because Jamie saw something there that inspired him.

Click below to find out what:

Win Rosenfeld

10:53 AM ET | 01-25-2008 | permalink | comments (0) | e-mail post

Sundance Filmmaker Strikes a Deal

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This past weekend we met up with director Mark Pellington at Sundance, and got a chance to chat with him about his new film, "Henry Poole Is Here," starring Luke Wilson.

Tuesday morning in Park City, Pellington closed a seven-figure distribution deal with Overture Entertainment. But making "Poole" was about more than a paycheck for Pellington, who lost his wife a few years back. He told the BPP on Sunday that the experience was part of the healing process.

The last time Pellington was at Sundance was 11 years ago, when he was screening his first film, Going All the Way. Since then, he's made critically acclaimed movies like Arlington Road, The Mothman Prophecies and a slew of notable music videos.

He's also responsible for the 3D concert film on megaband U2, which was another big ticket flick at Sundance this year.

Win Rosenfeld

6:40 PM ET | 01-23-2008 | permalink | comments (0) | e-mail post

Sundance Artists: Redford Stands for Change

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Jessica Ingram meets Robert Redford

 

The Cause Collective, a group of multimedia artists at the Sundance Film Festival, just met one of the world's most handsome men.

Special to the BPP from Jessica Ingram of the Cause Collective:

Mission accomplished! We went to the Director's Brunch at the Sundance Resort last week and met Robert Redford.

It was the most amazing drive out there. Mountains, snow, frozen lakes where people are ice fishing, and two bus loads of the directors for this year's films. On the bus we talked to the Zellner brothers, whose film Goliath is screening this year. We also talked to the directors of The Linguists, about two linguists traveling around the world documenting languages on the brink of extinction. Very cool. We just kept looking at each other like, "This is crazy that we are here. Totally wonderful and crazy."

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Laura Conaway

12:50 PM ET | 01-23-2008 | permalink | comments (0) | e-mail post

Nail-Biting Artists Now 'Seriously Digging' Sundance

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Jessica Ingram works with the amazing Gigapan camera.

 

The Cause Collective, a group of multimedia artists at the Sundance Film Festival, have moved toward the whiskey. At last. As Jessica Ingram writes, their video mosaic "Along the Way" is up and running. Now it's time to party.

Special to the BPP from Jessica Ingram of the Cause Collective:

Greetings, all! Or greetings, poochies, as we like to say in the Cause. We are seriously digging Sundance. This morning we split up. Hank Willis Thomas with Will and Minette to deal with yet another computer switch, while Ryan Alexiev et moi stayed home to work on the website, blog, work on promotional biz, and most importantly, wait for Bayete Ross Smith to arrive.

We all met at 2 at the New Frontier on Main venue for the public opening of our piece. It's great to watch people watch our piece. I watched a 5-year-old mesmerized . . . it's exciting to complete a project and go through all the ups and downs, to work so hard, and then to still enjoy it.

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Laura Conaway

9:22 AM ET | 01-21-2008 | permalink | comments (0) | e-mail post

Ingrid Michaelson: Live From Sundance

Filed under: Music, Sundance Fever 2008, Video

Ingrid Michaelson is 28 years old and she lives with her parents.

She doesn't have a record deal or a huge publicity machine -- but she does have a huge hit. She produced her album Girls and Boys by herself, and thanks to the power of the Interwebs, it's skyrocketed up the itunes chart. It also grabbed the attention of the folks at Old Navy, who decided Michaelson's "The Way I Am" would make the perfect soundtrack to their latest ad.

Here's Michaelson in Park City, at the ASCAP Cafe, singing "Breakable."

Win Rosenfeld

11:17 AM ET | 01-20-2008 | permalink | comments (0) | e-mail post

BPP Sundance Diary: Park City Pandemonium

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The Saga Continues...

Win Rosenfeld

11:11 AM ET | 01-20-2008 | permalink | comments (1) | e-mail post

SUNDANCE UPDATE: Clinton, McCain, Romney Win!

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Yes, the winners of the Nevada caucuses (Hillary and Mitt) and the Republican primary in South Carolina ( John) are pictured above the fold of the paper. Sharing the front page below the fold? It's the arrival of Bono and The Edge taken at premiere of "U2-3D" at the Sundance Film Festival last night. The BPP is scheduled to speak with the film's director today....which was pushed to later this afternoon because...well... there was a premiere party last night...you get the idea. Here's the trailer.

Alison Stewart

10:43 AM ET | 01-20-2008 | permalink | comments (2) | e-mail post

Filmmaker Jamie Stuart Does Sundance

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Today we're gonna go meet filmmaker Jamie Stuart in the parking lot of the Albertson's grocery store in Park City (apparently the place where everyone here runs into each other). Jamie has carved out a little niche for himself making digital shorts about movies -- especially film festivals. His movies are poetic little glimpses into the culture of filmmaking. Even if you don't always know exactly what's happening, they're always beautiful, full of sly visual cuts, and often very funny.

Check out his work from Sundance last year.

My favorite joke in that one? The name of the movie you never actually hear Sienna Miller and Steve Buscemi talking about? Interview.

You can see more of Jamie's stuff at his website, The Mutiny Company.

Win Rosenfeld

1:22 PM ET | 01-19-2008 | permalink | comments (1) | e-mail post

The BPP Sundance Video Diary

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Greetings from the land of The Great Salt Lake.

Win Rosenfeld

8:13 PM ET | 01-18-2008 | permalink | comments (2) | e-mail post

Too Much Stress at Sundance. Whoa.

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Look! It's our video!

 

The Cause Collective, a group of multimedia artists, got tapped for the Sundance Film Festival's New Frontier division. The program displays art at the intersection of film and just about every other kind of creative expression. The Cause Collective is showing a video mosaic called Along the Way. After a rough start, Jessica Ingram says they finally got through the worst of it.

Special to the BPP from Jessica Ingram of the Cause Collective:

OK, Laura Conaway wasn't kidding in the blog she wrote for us -- which we couldn't write because we were maxed out trying to get our piece ready for the New Frontier Opening. After we stayed up ALL night Wednesday, we finally took a nap around 9 a.m. while our piece rendered for an hour. I woke up to Ryan Alexiev screaming three floors below, "Let's go, Oakland!" -- which is what one of the people in our video portraits screams.

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Laura Conaway

4:05 PM ET | 01-18-2008 | permalink | comments (0) | e-mail post

Nail-Biting Artists Save Show at Sundance

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Why won't this thing work?

 

The Cause Collective, a group of multimedia artists, got tapped for the Sundance Film Festival's New Frontier division. The program displays art at the intersection of film and just about every other kind of creative expression. The Cause Collective is showing a video mosaic called Along the Way. As Jessica Ingram wrote earlier this week, they've kind of been up against it since they arrived.

Special to the BPP from Jessica Ingram of the Cause Collective.

Greetings from Park City, Utah! It was so exciting to arrive in snow-covered Salt Lake City Tuesday. It was 22 degrees when I landed and -2 degrees by the time I got to Park City. It is seriously cold here. I learned a new expression yesterday: "It's colder than Vernal!" Vernal is a town near Salt Lake City that is always MUCH colder than anywhere else around because of its elevation (it has a high of 3 degrees today). So when you're somewhere seriously cold, you exclaim, "It's colder than Vernal!"

It is a definite winter wonderland and everyone in Park City is gearing up for the Festival. Including my colleagues Hank Willis Thomas, Ryan Alexiev, and me, Jessica Ingram...

I arrived to a tense environment at the condo -- Hank and Ryan got into a huge fight and started screaming at each other. I seriously thought they were going to throw down in the snow.

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Laura Conaway

3:43 PM ET | 01-18-2008 | permalink | comments (1) | e-mail post

Alison at Sundance: A One-Woman Show

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Here's the lovely miss's latest missive from Sundance:

I am in a single-person screening room watching Goliath. It is about a divorced, not-so-loveable loser who only seems to have gotten his beloved cat out of the marriage and now GOLIATH (the cat) IS MISSING!!!!!

Win and Jacob are catching up with Alex Rivera.

More later.

Snowing and 19 degrees in Park City.

Tricia McKinney

1:12 PM ET | 01-18-2008 | permalink | comments (0) | e-mail post

Alison at Sundance: Watch This Trailer

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Host Alison Stewart sounds in fine form after our three-studio extravaganza today. We had Korva Coleman newscasting from D.C., Rachel Martin hosting from home base in New York and Alison in Salt Lake City at member station KCPW.

Alison writes:

OUR FIRST REMOTE! And it went off pretty smoothly. We had the iChat going, e-mail and in-house ENPS to make it all go well.

The plan today...head to Park City and talk to filmmakers of Goliath.
Please watch this trailer. It's great.

Then we might stay and watch some documentaries and such...although I bucking for a BPP field trip to see CLOVERFIELD.

P.S. -- It's up to 23 degrees.

Laura Conaway

10:09 AM ET | 01-18-2008 | permalink | comments (2) | e-mail post

Alison at Sundance: 'Execution of Solomon Harris'

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An update from Alison Stewart, at the Sundance film festival in Park City, Utah:

Just interviewed first-time Sundance-goers on shuttlebus for a movie called The Execution of Solomon Harris. First screening tomorrow. We will air part of the interview tomorrow. Valiant filming on Win's part.

Laura Conaway

2:40 PM ET | 01-17-2008 | permalink | comments (0) | e-mail post

Artists Bite Nails at Sundance Opener

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From Cause Collective's 'Along the Way'

Via

Right this second, as I'm typing, Ryan Alexiev and the rest of Cause Collective are showing off their big installation art project at the Sundance film festival. They're in a category called New Frontier that's designed to show off art at the intersection of a bunch of different media including sound.

Which sound, as I'm typing, is Ryan's big problem. The group commissioned new music for their 20-minute video mosaic, titled "Along the Way" -- check it out on their site -- and it all worked just fine. Until they got to Sundance.

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Laura Conaway

1:30 PM ET | 01-17-2008 | permalink | comments (1) | e-mail post

An Update From Alison At Sundance

Filed under: Sundance Fever 2008

Alison, Jacob, and Win are surrounded by beautiful white snow, and we here at the BPP office are jealous. Alison writes:

Just left KCPW. Really great folks. All set for tomorrow's show. Station located across from a gorgeous public library. Entire area surrounded by HUGE snow covered mountains. Flurries as we drive out of town to the festival. Just passed the stadium where the Olympic torch was as well as the fine culinary establishments CHUCKARAMA and the WONDERBREAD outlet. Win is testing mics in the back seat. Jacob is driving and I am the bberry queen. Off to the press conference. Details to come.

Caitlin Kenney

1:00 PM ET | 01-17-2008 | permalink | comments (2) | e-mail post

Alison Stewart Checks in from Sundance

Filed under: Inside The BPP, Sundance Fever 2008

It's a crazy life here at the BPP. People start coming in around 3:30 a.m., or even 3. They work like mad on the show, and then they just keep going.

Wednesday, host Alison Stewart and director Jacob Ganz charged out of the office around noon and headed for the airport.They were on their way to Park City, Utah, where they're meeting up with video producer Win Rosenfeld. They'll cover the Sundance Film Festival and broadcast Friday's show. Alison sends this travelogue from Wednesday:

Landed 8:30mt. Jacob sat next to a Mormon dude who is torn about voting for Romney -- likes his religious dedication but hates his CEO approach. Win in from LA noticed the temp difference. It's 8 degrees. I was almost run over by some Entertainment Weekly gals. In the hotel an by 9:45. We have been up 20 hours. Gnite!

Laura Conaway

6:29 AM ET | 01-17-2008 | permalink | comments (1) | e-mail post

The Sundance Kids: Day 0

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Alison, Jacob and I just hit Salt Lake City, psyched to kick off our Sundance coverage.

Win Rosenfeld

2:14 AM ET | 01-17-2008 | permalink | comments (1) | e-mail post