By The Daily Buzz davidpoland@sbcglobal.net
The Daily Buzz from Sundance (Day 6)
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Our Hot Topics Roundtable features Sean Means, longtime movie critic at the Salt Lake Tribune and Maria Smith, executive creative director of M&C Saatchi LA. We’re joined by Slamdance co-founder Dan Mirvish, also director of Slamdance closing-night film Bernard and Huey, from a long-neglected Jules Feiffer script. Director Charlie Bims and actress Julie Sokolowski joins us to talk about their Slamdance feature Human Affairs.
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Today’s episode starts with a hot-topics roundtable discussion with Joshua Rothkopf, Jim Brunzell And Andrew Fish. Our second panel covers Akicita: The Battle for Standing Rock, with documentarians Gingger Shankar and Cody Lucich, as well as a figure who was onsite at Standing Rock. We conclude with Quiet Heroes‘ Jared Ruga and Amanda Stoddard.
Monday, January 22, 2018
Episode 4 covers a variety of interesting and pertinent topics for any audience members invested in furthering their own film careers. We start off by speaking with Carrie Lozano and Simon Tilburry of the IDA, International Documentary Association. They mention that their organization has many grants and a membership that has helped many independent film makers over time. We then speak with the director of Fake Tattoos, Pascal Plante and end with the director and cast of Funny Story ft Michael Gallagher, Matthew Glave, Jana Wintimitz, Emily Bett Rickards.
Sunday, January 21, 2018
Day Three ranges across film genres and guests. We start off with the Russo brothers who are here at the Sundance film festival to receive the Founders Award from Slamdance, along with Peter Baxter from Slamdance. We move on to speak with Rainbow Experiment director Christina Kallas and Isaiah Blake, a part of the cast. Closing the podcast: the We the Animals feature team.
Saturday, January 20, 2018
Day 2 of Sundance 2018 is up and running, and filled to the brim with snow! Today’s episode starts with City Weekly’s Scott Renshaw, a juror for Slamdance film competitions. We also have Anote Tong and Matthieu Rytz of the film Anote’s Ark discussing the literal sinking of the island of Kiribati and raising awareness around climate change, and ends with a moving feature film White Rabbit with director Daryl Wein and cast Vivian Bang and Nana Ghana.
Friday, January 19, 2018
It’s officially Day One of Sundance 2018, and the first episode for The Daily Buzz is packed with amazing films. This episode begins with a heartwarming tribute to the late Irene Cho, the founder of Daily Buzz; moves on to a fascinating account of the lives and training of service dogs in Pick of the Litter, made by Dana Nachman and Don Hardy; and ends with a packed panel with Nick Offerman, Kersey Clemons and Brett Haley for Hearts Beat Loud.