Obviously I’m massively behind the times but hopefully some of the previous entries will explain why that is… however I’d just like to extend massive and belated congratulations to two of my favourite people who both find themselves in the Sun. Brilliantly my mate Cath has been awarded the Sundance/Alfred P. Sloan Commissioning Grant to fund her to write a film called Beds about five strangers who come together in a ‘bed-rest’ experiment to aid astronauts in space. Equally brilliant…

Drunk History: Douglass and Lincoln won the Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking at Sundance this year. Here are a few others in the series for your tipsy entertainment. I’m impatiently waiting to see the Drunk History on Tesla. I wrote my Masters thesis on that crazy, brilliant guy!

Digital Dive is a free, one-day immersion program to help you improve your digital media literacy. Experts will present case studies, product demos, and practical information about how to get your feet wet with website, mobile phone, social media, and cross-platform production. A collaboration between Sundance Film Festival and Jigsaw Global, the workshop will be held at New Frontier on Main, and it is perfect for filmmakers and film industry professionals with minimal, hands-on digital media production experience. OPEN CALL…

We’re big fans of Jon Reiss’ book, Think Outside the Box Office. Jon is offering filmmakers a really great consultation opportunity so if you’re headed to Park City you’ll want to read this: As some of you might know, one of the reasons that I wrote Think Outside the Box Office was after those first Filmmaker articles I wrote in Fall ‘08 about my experiences distributing my graffiti doc Bomb It, many filmmakers contacted me to help them with their…

Please forgive my duplicate-blogging. I put this on the Festival Focus blog but I can’t resist adding it here too since Obama played such a large role in this year’s Sundance for me. The film was made by my wonderful condo mates Shooting People’s Jesse Epstein and Chicken & Egg Pictures’ Natalie Difford with music by Force Theory.

Sundance drank my milkshake this year (sorry, can’t stop doing that). I had a few fun, incredibly busy days and then whammo! I was struck down with a weird flu bug that made my lungs feel like they were full of little needles. So this is an apology for my lack of blogging – Jesse has been a trooper and you can read lots from her on Festival Focus. I saw a few wonderful films and still have some interviews…

Shooting People are blogging from Sundance and Slamdance this year. Follow all our adventures on the Festival Focus blog – and leave comments if there is specific information you would like us to cover.

I just arrived in Park City and have done the necessary grocery schlep to Albertsons to stock up on essentials (oranges so I don’t get scurvy, beer so I don’t get sober, Airborne so I don’t die). I’m now combing through all the films and starting to get really excited about the days ahead. Jesse Epstein and I will be blogging over at the Shooting People Festival Focus blog so please follow all our adventures there.