Film Independent Members Take Their Projects to Park City

Sure, the 2017 Sundance Film Festival technically lasts through January 29. But the main thrust of the Festival—the star-studded rigmarole and hype of opening weekend—has already begun to dissipate, with visiting festivalgoers dutifully digging themselves out from underneath Park City’s record-setting winter snowfall to shake off their hospitality-lounge hangovers and return to a so-called “real world” dispiritingly absent of complimentary reusable water bottles.

But for those of us sticking it out until the bitter end, there remains no shortage of entertainment to distract ourselves from the bitter squish of perpetually wet footwear. And for the existence of many of these distractions, you can thank our amazing and creative Film Independent Members, a whopping 81 of whom have projects at this year’s Festival. In short, it’s impossible to javelin-chuck an icicle through the crisp Park City air right now without likely impaling a literal card-carrying Member of Film Independent. So be careful!

So whether you’re watching the snowcapped topography of the Beehive state recede from view out an airplane window as you fly home or continuing to hustle hither and dither across Park City in search of cinematic perfection, we hope you’ll take the time to raise a glass of 3.2%-by-volume glass of Uintah lager to toast, category-by-category, our newly Sundance-minted Membership:

US DRAMATIC COMPETITION

Stephanie Allain, producer, Burning Sands
Jason Michael Berman, producer, Burning Sands
Ian Bricke, Executive Producer, Burning Sands
Mel Jones, producer, Burning Sands
Matthew Perniciaro, Executive Producer, Golden Exits
Sam Bisbee, producer, The Hero
Ian Bricke, Executive Producer, I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore
Gigi Pritzker, producer, Landline
Rachel Shane, Executive Producer, Landline
Daniela Taplin Lundberg, producer, Patti Cake$
Rodrigo Teixeira, producer, Patti Cake$
Nina Yang Bongiovi, producer, Roxanne Roxanne
Julie Lynn, producer, To the Bone
Rodrigo Garcia, Executive Producer, Walking Out
Julie Lynn, Executive Producer, Walking Out
Carole Meiselman, Executive Producer, Walking Out
Alexandre Moors, director, The Yellow Birds
Siegfried Harris, Executive Producer, The Yellow Birds

US DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

James Schamus, producer, Casting JonBenet
Brent Stiefel, producer, The New Radical

WORLD DRAMATIC/DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

Signe Byrge Soerensen, Co-Producer, The Nile Hilton Incident
Justine Nagan, Executive Producer, Motherland

PREMIERES

Barry Mendel, producer, The Big Sick
Rodrigo Teixeira, producer, Call Me By Your Name
Ian Bricke, Executive Producer, The Discovery
Michael B Clark, producer, The Incredible Jessica James
Uri Singer, Executive Producer/Producer, Marjorie Prime
Cassian Elwes, producer, Mudbound
Jennifer Roth, Executive Producer, Mudbound
Monica Levinson, producer, The Polka King
Jon Schumacher, Co-Producer, Rebel in the Rye
Ellen H Schwartz, Executive Producer, Rebel in the Rye
Rhea Scott, producer, Where is Kyra?
Jonathan Fuhrman, Executive Producer, Wind River

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERES

Rick Rosenthal, Executive Producer, Bending the Arc
Evgeny Afineevsky, director/producer, Cries from Syria
Nancy Abraham, Senior Producer, Cries from Syria
William Goldstein, Associate Producer, Cries from Syria
Sheila Nevins, Executive Producer, Cries from Syria
Diana Weyermann, producer, An Inconvenient Sequel
Diane Becker, Co-Producer, Legion of Brothers
Asher Goldstein, producer, Untitled Lucy Walker Buena Vista Social Club Documentary

NEXT

Michelle Renfrew Behrens, producer, Columbus
Todd Remis, producer, Dayveon
James Schamus, Executive Producer, Dayveon
Isaiah Smallman, Executive Producer, Dayveon
Ian Bricke, Executive Producer, Deidra & Laney Rob a Train
Alix Madigan, producer, A. Times
Matthew Perniciaro, Executive Producer, Person to Person

SPOTLIGHT

‘Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry’

Laura Dunn, Director/Producer, Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry
Gill Holland, Co-Producer, Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry
Elizabeth Karlsen, producer, Their Finest

SPECIAL EVENTS

Morgan Neville, Director/Executive Producer/Screenwriter, Abstract: The Art of Design
Justin Wilkes, Screenwriter, Abstract: The Art of Design
Caroline Oliveira, Line Producer, The Chances
Ellie Wen, producer, The Chances
Halle Bernard, producer, Pineapple
Kasi Lemmons, director, Shots Fired
Michael B Clark, Executive Producer, Strangers
Beatrice von Schwerin, Co-Producer, Strangers
Steve Golin, producer, When the Streetlights Go On
Michael Sugar, producer, When the Streetlights Go On

KIDS

Ben Cotner, Executive Producer, The Mars Generation
Jason Spingarn-Koff, Executive Producer, The Mars Generation
Lisa Nishimura, Executive Producer, The Mars Generation
Daniel Taplitz, Writer, Red Dog: True Blue

MIDNIGHT

Narineh Hacopian, Co-Executive Producer, Bitch
Elisa Lleras, Executive Producer, Bitch
Matthew Perniciaro, Executive Producer, The Little Hours
Karyn Kusama, director, XX
Gabriela Gonzalez, Line Producer “The Birthday Party”, XX

NEW FRONTIER

Chanelle Aponte Pearson, Executive Producer, 18 Black Girls/Boys Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are Thus Spiritual Machines: $X in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
Angela Petrella, writer, Dear Angelica
Diane Weyermann, Executive Producer, Melting Ice
Shruti Ganguly, producer, Through You

SHORTS