Why Sundance Rejected You

January, 16, 2009 12:33 pm | On #film festivals, independent film, Sundance Film Festival

 Here we are once again in January on our way to Park City, UT in the hope that we'll be among the first to see the latest and greatest of independent filmmaking at Sundance. Some 120 feature filmmakers and 85 short filmmakers are having business cards printed, picking out their favorite parkas and creating a “vision board” of all the things they're going to buy with the three-picture deal money Harvey Weinstein is going to beg them to take. Buena suerte con este.

 
During the five years I programmed short film at Sundance, the unhappy recipients of rejection letters sought me out at other festivals and often asked me, "Why didn't I get in?"  Seems like an impossible question to answer. But in my book “How Not To Make A Short Film: Secrets From A Sundance Programmer,” I do share some ideas -- over a few hundred...
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Roberta Marie Munroe is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, entrepreneur, international film festival programmer, and consultant. From 2001-2006, she programmed short films at The Sundance Film Festival. Her new book "How Not To Make A Short Film, Secrets From a Sundance Programmer" (Hyperion) is out this month. www.robertamunroe.com
 

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