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Show SCENE The Park Record. Editor: Scott Iwasaki Arts@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.113 CLIMBING WALL AT THE SWANER ECOCENTER ‘CRIES FOR SYRIA’ CAPTURES REFUGEES’ PLIGHT, C-2 www.parkrecord.com CHERYL NICHOLS WANTED ‘CORTEZ’ TO BE HONEST, C-3 C-1 SAT/SUN/MON/TUES, JANUARY 21-24, 2017 Sundance Institute labs help filmmakers find their voices The Swaner EcoCenter, 1258 Center Drive at Kimball Junction, offers climbing on Saturdays and Sundays from 1-3 p.m. The climbing wall is open to most ages. The EcoCenter will provide the climbing harness, but climbers must wear closed-toe shoes. Climbers under 18 years of age must be accompanied by an adult to sign a liability waiver. The cost is $5 per climber or free for Swaner EcoCenter members. For more information, email swanerecocenter@ usu.edu or call 435-649-1767. TOWN RACE SERIES The Park City Ski Team will host the annual Town Race Series, a four-week ski race on Jan. 23, Feb. 6, Feb. 27 and March 13, at Eagle Rock Arena. For registration information, visit www.parkcitymountain.com. PAWS TO READ AT THE PARK CITY LIBRARY The Park City Library, 1255 Park Ave., invites young readers, ages 5-12, to improve reading skills by reading to a therapy dog in 15-minute blocks from 4-5 p.m. every Tuesday. The program is a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, visit www. parkcitylibrary.org. BMI COMPOSER/DIRECTOR ROUNDTABLE Broadcast Music, Inc., (BMI), will host its annual composer/director roundtable from 2-4 p.m., at the Sundance Film Festival Base Camp, 475 Swede Alley, on Tuesday, Jan. 24. The conversation will be moderated by Doreen Ringer-Ross, BMI’s Vice President of Film, TV & Visual Media Relations. This year’s panelists include Director of the Sundance Institute Film Music Program Peter Golub, Sundance Institute Composers Lab advisor George S. Clinton; composer Greg Tripi and director Mark Palansky (“Rememory”), composer Tyler Strickland and director Michael Barnett (“The Mars Generation”) to name a few. The roundtable is open to all Sundance Film Festival credential holders as space allows. For information, visit www.bmi.com. TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Sundance Institute’s President and Founder Robert Redford, center, responds to a question from the media during a panel discussion at the Egyptian Theatre. The panel included filmmakers Sydney Freeland, on couch with Redford, and David Lowery, far right. The panel was moderated by John Horn, left, KPCC-FM’s host of “The Frame.” Sydney Freeland and David Lowery share their experiences By SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record Mountain Bridge Club holds weekly duplicate games sanctioned by the American Contract Bridge League each Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. at Temple Har Shalom, 3700 Brookside Court. The games are open to new and experienced duplicate players. The cost is $8. Come with a partner, or come alone. The club guarantees a partner. For information, email MountainBridgeClub@gmail.com. Freeland and David Lowery, both lab veterans, who shared some of their experiences. Emmy Award-winning Freeland, known for her film “Drunktown’s Finest,” the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Award, participated in the 2009 Native American Filmmaker lab as well as the 2010 Screenwriters and Directors lab. She said the labs helped her become more confident in herself after shedding a few tears. “I remember crying,” Freeland said its, hits film festivals and self distributes. While doing so, he mentally compiled a bunch of stories and advice that he made into a book, “The Cheerful Subversive’s Guide to Independent Filmmaking,” which came out last August. Mirvish will sign his book during Film Festival week from 2-3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 24, at Dolly’s Bookstore, 510 Main St. The event is free and open to the public. The book, published by Focal Press, which is part of the Routeledge Press family, started as a bunch of articles Mirvish wrote for an array of filmmaking and entertainment publications. “What I have seen in the past with me and other filmmakers is that the best way to self promote your film is to give back to the filmmaking community,” Mirvish told The Park Record. “The last film I did, ‘Between Us,’ which was screened at Slamdance a couple of years ago, had me writing a lot of articles to promote the film.” One was an article about casting and how he got Julia Styles and Taye Diggs to act into a micro-budget film. “Then I wrote about how to direct these great actors once you get them, as well as other topics such as what is the secret of film festivals and things like that,” he said. “So, with all of these articles, I felt like I had almost enough to use for a book.” Focal Press was the second publishing house Mirvish approached. “They thought the book could be a big help for a lot of other filmmakers,” he said. “And since Routeledge is mostly an academic publisher, so, they’ve been marketing the book to a lot of film schools. “That is nice because in the past couple of years, I’ve been guest lecturing at some universities and telling a lot of the stories,” he said. Although Mirvish had a stack of articles, there was still quite a bit he had to write before the book was print ready. with a laugh. “I was told beforehand to find my place to cry and I said, ‘I’m not going to cry.’ But I did, twice. “What’s important about the labs is that they target filmmaker’s comfort zones and try to push them out of that,” she said. “That completely shifted my approach.” Freeland, who's new film “Deidra & Laney Rob a Train” is one of the films selected for this year’s Sundance Film Festival NEXT category, was able to set Please see Labs, C-7 Slamdance co-founder Mirvish pens book Author will appear at Dolly’s Bookstore for a signing on Tuesday By SCOTT IWASAKI LEAGUE SANCTIONED DUPLICATE BRIDGE One of the services the Sundance Institute offers up and coming filmmakers are labs that are held internationally and across the United States. Each year the nonprofit’s labs supports more than 200 independent artists working in film, theater, new media, TV and online. Sundance Institute President and Founder Robert Redford talked about the origins of the labs during the Sundance Film Festival’s opening-day press conference on Thursday. He was joined by filmmakers Sydney The Park Record Dan Mirvish, co-founder of Slamdance, has experienced a lot as a filmmaker during the past 23 years. He has done it all. Mirvish writes screenplays. He finds backers and casts his films. He also produces, directs, ed- OURTESY OF DAN MIRVISH Slamdance co-founder Dan Mirvish’s new book “The Cheerful Subversive’s Guide to Independent Filmmaking” is full of advice from him as well as other filmmakers. Mirvish will sign his book at Dolly’s Bookstore on Tuesday. “This nicely dovetailed into the new film I’m doing, because during pre production, I found myself at coffee shops, Please see Mirvish, C-4 |