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Show Saturday, January 20, 2001 The Park Record "Afterimage" visits underlying psyche Continued from C-1 ;it was nighttime. If she sunk, I knew we'd iiever find her." Employing the same instinc tual reaction that has proved ; successful in fire fighting, ;Cocca dove in and rescued her. "There are always so many things running through my head. When I'm in a fire situation, before I take a risk ike opening the door, I'm I thinking how many people are on the stairs behind me, how much sleep did I have the night before, how long has the fire been burning, all these things come into play and because I've been doing this so long, it's just natural for me." explained Cocca. "She was in a coma. for two weeks but she came out of Coming from a long line of firefighters and police officers, Cocca has been fighting fires since he was 12. Working at Deer Valley has been a welcome A veteran of the Killington School for Ski Instructors and former ski instructor at Bristol Mountain in New York. Cocca volunteered volun-teered to head out to Utah to work as an instructor. "I applied to Deer Valley over the Internet. I've skied in Utah before. I love Park City. I was interested in Deer Valley because it s a great Ertftfe ski hPrP cwnin 1 m 00 d,sPlay 84 K"' Art Center, ping into the Owl Bar at lnt case scenario if the Sundance and having a cup so much fun." Cocca has been residing and working in Park City since October. "I walked my dogs up and down Main Street and all over Park City to get the feel for the town. I was looking for a good place to throw a party and ended up right in front of the Kimball Art Center." Employing his characteristic charac-teristic charm and the impressive images of Manganelli and Nakis's photography, Cocca had little lit-tle trouble convincing Sara Behrens. CEO, that the Kimball was the perfect setting set-ting for the party. Behrens agreed to display the filmmakers' film-makers' work, which also include photos taken by the cinematographer. Kurt Brabbee. In a communal offering. R.l.T is sponsoring the exhibit, and Deer Valley Resort has donated televisions televi-sions and VCR's for the party. "This is a dream. If you don't dream of it. it will never happen! People talk about their dreams all the time. I have dreamed "Afterimage" filmmakers' photographs Chris and ob be st people ski here. Even in the film wasn't accepted. I still Would S liave had a great experience, beer Valley treats its employees so well. And the ski school staff is so amazing. The first day I came on. they made me feel like I wasn't an outsider." You see everything as a fire fighter. Disembowelment. Drugs. Explosions. Gunshot wounds. It's so nice to work with people outside an emergency situation," sit-uation," Cocca said. "I really like to work with kids. They're of hot chocolate, knowing that people would be watching trie film," said Cocca. "Afterimage," starring John Mellancamp and Louise Fletcher, will show at the following dates: Tuesday, Jan. 23 at 5:30 p.m. at Prospector Theatre; Wednesday, Locals rooting for "Green Diggity Dog" Continued from C-1 film "Kurt and Courtney" from its roster due to legal concerns, the fledgling Slamdunk stepped in and gave the film its world premiere. This year, Slamdunk will screen nine features and 32 short films. According to Orton, one of the goals of the Slamdunk festival is to get distribution for the films screened over the course of the 4-day 4-day event. "Last year we had five feature films get major distribution distribu-tion right out of screenings," he said. Not surprisingly. Maynard has similar hopes for "Green Diggity Etogf" jWe hope taseU &Mfor." Ae film sells. Maynard will not tfe the only one celebrating. celebrat-ing. The 'cast and crew worked for deferred payment, and will get paid when and if the film makes money. A former U.S. Team Nordic ski jumper. Maynard's interests have always leaned toward film. As a child he played with his father's video camera. Later, during dur-ing his ski jumping days, he would often man the team camera while on the road. Eventually, he entered the University of Utah as a film major, but left school when he realized he was already working work-ing consistently in the film and television tel-evision industries. Since then, Maynard has worked both behind and in front of the camera and is currently employed by Touched by an Angel. "I've done pretty much all the crew jobs." he said. He feels his experience behind the scenes gave him an edge as a first-time first-time filmmaker. In addition to industry contacts and favors, he t has had the opportunity to watch how directors on the set work with actors in order to hone his own skills. When the dust from the festival scene settles, Maynard will continue working on his next project. Tentatively titled "Shooting the Void" this script is about a ski jumper. 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