from nyc to park city
New York stories from this year's Sundance Film Festival
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Rob Meyer, Aquarium
"I sort of started from scratch in terms of learning how to write a screenplay or cast. I learned by doing."
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Lisa F. Jackson, The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
"10 Darfurs have happened in the Congo in the last 10 years. Four million people have died. It's unimaginable."
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Azazel Jacobs, Momma's Man
"I wanted to figure out a way to hold on to some things that I knew I wouldn't be able to hold on to in the future."
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Signe Baumane, Teat Beat of Sex
"The episodes are a take on sex from a woman's point of view. Do you know why women need panties?"
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Alex Rivera Sleep Dealer
"This film really ought not exist. It's science fiction spoken in Spanish; the hero is a futuristic migrant worker."
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Ari Gold, Adventures of Power
"It's about a person who wishes he had drums discovering the drums within himself. It's a spiritual story."
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Boaz Yakin, Death in Love
"It's really about the cycles and the psychological patterns that are passed down from generation to generation."
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Tim Sternberg, Salim Baba
"It's one of those happy stories that hopefully happens more than once in your cinematic life."
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Courtney Hunt, Frozen River
"We didn't have favorable conditions. We had very little funding. What we had was a good script, and people fell back on that."
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Alex Gibney, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson
"Like Hunter, I think I'm motivated as somebody who always wants to see the underdog have his or her day."
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Dan Beers, FCU: Fact Checkers Unit
"Bill Murray looked at the script and said: 'Eight pages. It took three guys to write eight pages? That's impressive.' "
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Dee Rees, Pariah
"I really liked the feel of the outer boroughs and just wanted to tell a story that we don't particularly see."
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Carlos Brooks, Quid Pro Quo
"The best detective stories are the ones where the detective ultimately realizes he's been investigating himself."
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Tanaz Eshaghian, Be Like Others
"Everyone else takes it as common sense, but not fitting in shows what common sense is."
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Brett Wagner, Chief
"I'm drawn to all of those sort of grungy urban scenes that inspire all of us in New York. That's all been transplanted to Hawaii."
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