People keep asking me why I went home today. I mean, if I stayed I could have gone to to the Award Ceremony. Well, I assumed I would be able to watch it on TV as I have in past years. But after extensive searching it seems the show is not being televised this year. […]

This is the ninth in a series of Sundance Film Festival entries. I go home Friday, and it’s a good thing too since I’m running out of sweaters, socks and patience. Thursday was a crazy shuttle fiasco. We were on the shuttle, we were off the shuttle, we were on the shuttle, we were off […]

This is the eighth in a series of Sundance Film Festival entries. When I read in the program that there was a documentary about global warming starring and produced by former future president of the United States Al Gore I figured The Inconvenient Truth was the movie for me. And really if you have to […]

This is the seventh in a series of Sundance Film Festival entries. I always want to see films that change my worldview, make me think; films that make me want to do something. Who Killed the Electric Car? begins as a simple, dull, educational film about GM’s mid-nineties answer to nonpolluting vehicles, the stylish and […]

This is the sixth in a series of Sundance Film Festival entries. I came up with a theory on Sundance questions. These are questions that people ask you on the shuttle, at a party, on the street, wherever you may be that someone can get at you. 1) Where are you from? 2) What do […]

This is the fifth in a series of Sundance Film Festival entries. The shuttles at Sundance this year seem slow, there’s more traffic than I ever remember and MORE PEOPLE! So…Sunday I decided to avoid the shuttle buses and stay in one place, Main Street. I got there first thing in the morning for a […]

Festival attendance (2005): 46,771 Total number of films screened in 22 years: 3,587 Total number of films screened in 2006: 194 Total number of films submitted: 7,475 Number of documentary films: From 1,208 submissions, 46 were selected. Of the 46 documentary films selected, 30 come from the U.S.; the remaining 16 are international documentaries.

This is the fourth in a series of Sundance Film Festival entries. What’s the time? It’s time to get ill! Nathanial Hörnblowér (AKA Adam Yauch AKA MCA) is at it again with the new Beastie Boys concert film Awesome; I Fuckin’ Shot That! And…not to be completely cliché, but the film is awesome. The Beastie […]

This is the third in a series of Sundance Film Festival entries. Black Gold is about coffee, where it comes from and where it’s going. Buying and selling. It’s also about the people on all sides, farmers, buyers, growers, roasters, sellers and drinkers. Coffee is a multi-billion dollar industry, but the people farming the coffee […]

This is the second in a series of Sundance Film Festival entries. Friday is the calm before the storm, figuratively speaking (hopefully), so it’s a good day to pack in some films before the hordes of people descend on the city after work Friday and Saturday for the weekend. I headed over to the Racquet […]