Sundance logistics.

When I told you I was tired in Anita, it occurred to me that I needed to tell you how hectic it is.  The film Top of the Lake began at 9:00 a.m. but we had to be in the ticketed viewer line at least a half-hour before doors opened.   There is also a standby line and if you aren’t there your seat is given away.

Then there is parking.

Sunday PM at Sundance: “Anita”

Documentary Premier.  Director: Freida Mock.  U.S.A., 2013, 95 min., color.

Description:  “Anita Hill, an African American woman, charges Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas with sexual harassment in explosive Senate hearings in 1991 – bringing sexual politics into the national consciousness and fueling 20 years of international debate on the issues.”

Sunday at Sundance: “Top of the Lake”

Directors: Jane Campion and Garth Davis.  Screenwriters: Jane Campion and Gerard Lee

Cast:  Elizabeth Moss, Holly Hunter, Peter Mullan, David Wenham.   Premiere; Australia/New Zealand, 2012, 363 minutes, in Color

The film was described as:  “A 12-year-old girl stands chest-deep in a frozen lake.  She is five months pregnant, and won’t say who the father is.  Then she disappears.  So begins a haunting mystery that consumes a community.”

Sundance experience day 1: “Fat Shaker”

Fat Shaker is a New Frontier film. (New Frontier features films that  “expand, experiment with, and explode traditional narrative storytelling.”  Mohammad Shirvani is the Director and Screenwriter of this Iranian film produced in 2012.  The film was in color, in English/Farsi/Dari with English subtitles.