Heidi Ewing And Rachel Grady -- Politics Daily

Published: 01/31/10

Second Life Addicts, Dropout Factories and Sundance 2010's Last Gasp

PARK CITY, Utah -- We are almost T minus zero here at Sundance and honestly feel like filmmaking warriors after the boot camp experience of 10 days of movies, alcohol, press, altitude and jangly nerves. We are grown women now. We've had the distinct pleasure to be part of an absolutely excellent year of non-fiction entries in the festival. Everyone is at the top of their game in our category, and it feels damn good. Today, we saw "Waiting for Superman" an infuriating and sometimes deflating new film directed by Davis Guggenheim. This ambitious doc takes on the failed public school system and ...

Keep Reading »

Comments

Published: 01/28/10

Humanoids From Greenland, Lying About Pat Tillman and Avoiding the Pitfalls of the Abortion Debate!

PARK CITY, Utah -- So, we are midway through the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, the snow keeps falling and some sense of decorum and civilized behavior has returned to Park City. Most of the sharks and agents have hightailed it back to Los Angeles. Most of us indie filmmakers have had our premieres, hawked our movies, jockeyed for press, scoured the inter-web for reviews and congratulated each other on a job well done. Now its time to mingle. Wednesday night, the directors of all the films got together to knock a few back and celebrate just making it this far. Intriguing characters from ...

Keep Reading »

Add Comment

Published: 01/25/10

At Long Last, the Big Premiere of '12th & Delaware'

PARK CITY, Utah -- Well, the deed is done. We premiered our new film, "12th & Delaware," Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival and managed to avoid the nervous breakdown part. Weirdly, our film was screened at The Temple, a Jewish synagogue on loan to the festival. No parking allowed because the rabbi was holding some event. On a Sunday? Hmm . . . suspicious. These Utah Jews do it differently. At least we had a full house and the buzz on the film is good. "12th & Delaware" is the portrait of a corner in Fort Pierce Fla., where an abortion clinic and a pro-life crisis pregnancy center sit ...

Keep Reading »

Add Comment

Published: 01/24/10

Foreign Territory at Sundance: Sebastian Junger's Nerves, an Ex-bin Laden Bodyguard, and a Pakistan-India Dance-Off

Early this morning, Heidi and I (along with 200 or so other directors) piled into one of five coach buses headed to the famed Sundance Resort for the Directors Brunch. Driving through untouched white powder and exquisite mountain landscapes, we got to know some of our fellow 2010 filmmakers. When first-time director Sebastian Junger ("Restrepo") sweetly asked, "Just wondering, is it always so stressful at these film festivals?" I knew I wasn't just imagining that revealing one's labor of love, sweat and passion is anxiety provoking. Junger is a tough war journalist who has been shot at and ...

Keep Reading »

Add Comment

Published: 01/22/10

Sundance 2010: More Grit, Less Star-$@&!ing

PARK CITY, Utah -- Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady here, reporting for blogging duty from the Sundance Film Festival. We are here as the directors of "12th & Delaware," a documentary on the hot-button political issue of abortion, premiering in competition on Sunday. Our film takes place on a street corner in Florida, where an abortion clinic sits directly across the road from a crisis pregnancy center -- a pro-life clinic staffed by folks who try to persuade women considering an abortion to continue with the pregnancy. It is an intense and, we hope, fresh look at the abortion battle that is ...

Keep Reading »

Add Comment

PD TOPIC PAGES

Middle East - Congress
Budget - War / Military
Economy - 2012 President

POPULAR