Every year, Sundance outdoes its extravagant film banquet of the prior year’s feast, or else, as filmmaking becomes more accessible to emerging artists, it correspondingly grows more substantive and satisfying.
Lorri Vodi Rupard
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Lorri Vodi Rupard
Lorri Vodi Rupard grew up in Toronto but now resides in Salt Lake City where she studies creative fiction and writes content. Her work appears in The Montreal Review, The Black Boot, Kalon Women and Anemone Sidecar. Lorri won first place in the 2011 UWIF short screenplay contest. Visit her website.
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Inside the Sundance ASCAP Cafe green room, Jeremy Messersmith and his band warm up with persistent, luxurious harmonies. Despite my fascination with melodious repetition, my eyes target the blonde dude …
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Naturally the first weekend of Sundance 2014 kicked off with the most discernible Canadian diversion: hockey.
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There’s an inescapable landing between unimpeded childhood and the grown-up world with all of its resident angst and constraint, and it’s often aptly coined as the summer when everything changes. …
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At a recent reception in Park City, Utah, Chinese Canadian director and screenwriter, Yung Chang wasn’t hard to spot, wearing a red fundraiser toque and flanked by two prominent cast …
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Slamdance, the lesser known but feisty film festival rival of Sundance–running concurrently along with that giant predecessor–is emerging as one of the best platforms for independent filmmakers worldwide. Although the …