Sundance 2020: Day 4
Festival Director James McNally is attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival from January 21st to February 2nd. Festival Day 2 This was a very long day. Up at 6am to get to the Prospector Theatre for a second screening of Shorts Program 1 at 8am. Not much for us to do really, so we got […]
Sundance 2020: Day 3
Festival Director James McNally is attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival from January 21st to February 2nd. Festival Day 1 Today started very early with a 6:00am alarm and out the door by 7:00am to get to HQ by 7:45am (that’s my view on the way to work in the photo above). I wanted to […]
Sundance 2020: Day 2
Festival Director James McNally is attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival from January 21st to February 2nd. T-1 day until festival begins Up at 6:30am this morning to make sure I could get into HQ before 9am. I wanted to make my traditional coffee stop at Starbucks. At the shuttle stop near Fresh Market, I […]
Sundance 2020: Day 1
Festival Director James McNally is attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival from January 21st to February 2nd. T-2 days until festival begins Despite having a very comfortable bed at the Hotel RL in Salt Lake City, I didn’t sleep all that well last night. Probably just the excitement. After I checked in about 8pm, I […]
Sundance 2020: Before I Go
Festival Director James McNally is attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival from January 21st to February 2nd. I’m incredibly excited to be returning to Park City for the fifth time in the past six years. My 2019 was much better than my 2018, with my health getting better all the time and my cataracts corrected […]
2019 Festival Awards
Our second annual festival was held this past weekend, and exceeded my expectations once again. I’m grateful to our staff, volunteers, audience, and especially to our filmmakers, and I want to recognize those films awarded by our juries and audience. Thank you to all our jury members for their hard work and for lending us […]
2019 Festival Juries
With the festival kicking off in a few days, I’d like to introduce the good people who are helping us determine our three juried award winners. We’ll be giving away a total of $1,000 in prize money with the help of our audiences, as well as these fine industry leaders. Narrative Jury Liane Cunje Liane […]
Full 2019 Program Revealed
This actually happened a few days ago now, but I realized we hadn’t posted anything here. Here’s the press release we sent out. _____ Full 2019 Lineup Announced Shorts festival will screen 47 short films, with more than half by female directors Toronto, Ontario – October 17, 2019 47 films from around the world. Narrative […]
Interview: Caoimhe Clancy (Coco Dreams of Blue)
Time for another sneak peek at our 2019 festival lineup. Coco Dreams of Blue was shot in Dublin and edited (at a public library!) in Toronto. Here’s the synopsis: “Clodagh has checked out. She works in a print studio in Dublin making slogans about life. She parties a lot, maybe too much. She doesn’t want […]
2019 Festival Poster Premiere!
Very happy to share our poster art for this year’s festival. Once again, we have the wonderful Adam Waito to thank for his artwork. We’ll be doing postcards again and looking for help distributing them around the city. In the meantime, we’d love if you could share this digital postcard far and wide on your […]