It’s 12:11 a.m. on Monday, January 26, and I’m wrapping up Day two at the Sundance Film Festival, a day that felt less about rushing between screenings and more about conversations, community, and showing up for filmmakers. The day started with the Producers Celebration, at The Park. I met filmmakers and producers from all over, including Siera, who traveled from Indonesia with a project called  Levitating , and Ted and Bunny, who are here with  The AI Doc  (seeing later this

It’s 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, January 25, and I’m back in my hotel room after travel day and my first official day at Sundance Film Festival. Like any proper festival kickoff, it began with an LAX delay, likely a familiar rite of passage before landing in Park City. Once on the ground, my first stop was Variety and Audible’s Conversation & Cocktails, where the real Sundance magic kicked in: standing in line and immediately making friends. Shyree, a casting director with a deep l

My experience attending this Fall’s DOC NYC Pro conference and the DOC NYC FEST was nothing short of motivational. In a year where documentary filmmakers have been confronted with financial and distribution challenges (i.e. the gutting of Federal funding, platform mergers etc.), as well as uncertainty around the evolving market for non-fiction work (diminishing audience attention spans, changes in taste), it’s the creators who band together in this community, stay the course,