Word: labs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early 30s) have been invited to spend a month learning how to make their first feature films in the company of professional actors, directors and other wildlife, namely moose, which can be spotted from the ski lift. This year 3,000 applications arrived for the Sundance June Filmmakers/Screenwriters Lab. All but eight ended up on the cutting-room floor...
...summer lab gets the least attention, but it's the most important thing we do," says Redford over lunch in the Sundance mess tent, the music of rushing streams riding in on drifts of alpine air. Important because this level of creative nurturing doesn't exist anywhere else and because these future directors do not seem inclined--not yet, anyway--toward the variety of film that is promoted with either a Happy Meal or the billboard image of a star urinating on a wall...
...want to make movies I haven't seen," says film-lab fellow Patrick Stettner, 31, of New York City. I realize, just in the nick of time, that it would be inappropriate to hug him. Stettner, who works as a billing secretary at a Manhattan law firm, was selected on the strength of a darkly comic screenplay he had written about the dehumanizing effect of contemporary corporate culture, particularly on women...
Central Station (1998) and Three Seasons (1999), two critically acclaimed releases, are by former film-lab fellows Walter Salles and Tony Bui. The Wood, a coming-of-age story about three African Americans by Rick Famuyiwa, is due out this week. The list of Sundance students over the years is long and impressive. It includes Quentin Tarantino, Julie Taymor, Paul Thomas Anderson, Sherman Alexie and Anna Deavere Smith. So when you watch 25-year-old Princess Peter-Raboff, an Alaska native and member of the Venetie Indian Reservation, shoot one of her first ever scenes with award-winning Hungarian director...
Fellows don't actually make their movies in the month-long lab, but they shoot dry runs in the hope that they'll one day get the financing to do it for real. (Sundance helps in that process.) And it's not like back home, where you have your roommate or maybe some waiter read for you. Here, Ally Sheedy (St. Elmo's Fire and more recently High Art) plays the role you wrote, or maybe it's Mary Alice (star of the Broadway productions of Having Our Say, Fences and The Shadow Box), or Delroy Lindo (Clockers, Malcolm...