Sundancing: Hanging Out and Listening in at America's Most Important Film Festival

by David Morgan, John Anderson, David O. Morgan, et al.

Book Overview

Every winter, 8,000 feet above sea level in the Utah snow, the hopes and dreams of young moviemakers are put on display at the Sundance Film Festival--the haven for independent films where you can show up a kid and go home a star.

In barely twenty years of existence, the festival--now overseen by Robert Redford's Sundance Institute--has assumed tremendous importance for today's film culture: during the annual ten-day event,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380804808
• ISBN13: 9780380804801
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

It draws a fair picture

A previous reviewer claimed author John Anderson was some kind of piteous wannabe. He didn't read this book very closely: it's not Anderson talking. The author almost completely relies on interviews with others; they make up 9/10ths of the book. It's an *oral history*, or maybe an oral snapshot, of the 1999 festival. I just got back from my first Sundance (2003) last month, and read this book afterwards. Very amusing, very "human-sized," as the back cover blurb puts it. Some movie suits are their own self-parodists; it's interesting to read about people who live in Park City, Utah all year and then get overrun for two weeks annually. This is not snobby at all, not whiny. It's fun and funny and true.