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SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2009: PRESS AND FILMMAKERS' RECEPTION

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An image from Laurel Nakadate's Stay the Same Never Change.

Media and movies

By John Esther

Without publicists and agents present, media from around the world met filmmakers from around the world met today to talk about movies at the annual Sundance Film Festival 2009 Press and Filmmakers' Reception.

“There isn’t a better place to show my movie and talk about to interested press than at Sundance," said Laurel Nakadate's about her film, Stay the Same Never Change, a video project about female adolescent in Middle America she turned into a narrative features after receiving a $20,000 grant.

“The film has received an overwhelming response from the first three screenings,” said Nakadate, continuing to converse about her experience at Sundance with exuberance. “The audience is laughing and what I call my ‘Visual Fact and Narrative Fiction.’”

Unlike many household names with guarded personalities, these independent artists are happy to talk to the press about their film. Good press for an independent film can give it the kind of exposure it needs to attract audiences, agents and acquisitions.

“I am a writer so I know how important it is to get the work out,” said David Brind, the screenwriter of the Dramatic Competition entry, Dare, a film about three teenagers going through their last semester in high school. “The film layers and unmasks the three main characters. It’s funny, smart. It’s got a good cast with Emmy Rossum, Zach Gilford, Ashley Springer, Ana Gasteyer, Sandra Bernhard and Alan Cumming. If people know that, they will come.”

In the economically challenging times Sundance attendance and acquisitions were down. While this plagued these budding filmmakers who had put a lot of their own money (and friends and family) and time into their films they were optimistic in the talks they were having in Sundance.

"The talks are vary but we are hopeful the film will get picked up," said Cherien Dabis, the writer-director behind Amreeka, a film Palestinian family amongst the aftermath of America's occupation in Iraq, which is gathering a lot of good buzz amongst filmgoers. "We can tell by the really good questions how much people like the film."

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