We’ve been in Park City for two days now, learning the ropes and exploring. It’s always tough to get tickets for the first weekend, and while we started out with about 8 or 9 tickets a piece, purchased online, I’ve encouraged the group to push their boundaries, see films they have no ideas about going in, meet and talk to people in line and on the free shuttles, try new things. Most seem quite eager to take me up on that.
After a flurry of blogging to complete assignments for our class before they got on the plane for Sundance, the group has slowed down a bit, focusing a bit more on taking things in. Here are just a few excerpts from the things we have written in these two busy first days at the Sundance film festival.
Lizzie Kirkham on her first day and her first Sundance film:
- Lizzie Kirkham
My first day at Sundance is extremely incomparable to my first day doing anything else. It wasnt as drug-induced as getting my wisdom teeth taken out, nor was it as fun as my first race in alpine skiing. It was, despite the overuse of the word, unique. I have the largest collection of tickets, one of which was to the most beautiful movie Before Tomorrow…
This article appears in Jan 14-20, 2009.
