Director of Programming James McNally is attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival from January 16th to 28th.
Festival Day 2
I pulled an early shift in the office this morning, rising at 6:00am to get in before 8:00am. It was a dark walk (see photo above) to get my coffee at Starbucks and then to catch the shuttle, but I saw my colleagues Celine, Megan, and Fabiola at the stop, so at least there was some conversation. We’d hoped that most of the rest of our film teams would check in (we had about 12 of 26 outstanding) but only a few came in. We also had our first premiere screening, in the Spotlight programme. It was at the Egyptian Theatre, right on Main Street, and was for Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country, which played at TIFF back in September. The director and two producers were very laid back and it was a nice easy introduction to the venue part of my job.
After that it was back to HQ for about another half hour before Priya let me leave, at about 4:30pm. I stopped at Rite-Aid on the way home and bought a new hairdryer (the one I brought kind of died), some beers (Dead Horse Amber from Moab Brewery), and a couple of cans of Red Bull.
True to past experience, I never really start thinking about plans until I’m out of the office, and tonight could have gone several ways. I don’t have to be in the office until 10:00am tomorrow but I didn’t end up seeing a movie tonight. After a few days of warm temperatures and sunny skies, we got snow tonight, and I just got too comfortable recharging my batteries (literally and figuratively) in the condo.