First Day

Park City is amazing! It is probably the most scenic town I have ever been in. It is around 70,000 people and is tucked away in the snow-capped Rocky Mountains. Every building in the area is trendy in a rustic sort of way. The weather is also incredible, because even though there is snow, it is supposedly sunny and around 40 degrees every day. The only downfall is the thin mountain air. My lungs struggled a few times today just by walking and doing other normal activities. And it is really easy to get dehydrated.

This morning we had the programmer from the Sarasota Film Festival speak to us about running an independent film festival. He said that he watches 5 to 6 films a day and explained how film festivals like his shop around for films to bring for their festival.
After the speaker we went to Slamdance, a smaller independent film festival that runs at the same time as Sundance and has been around for about 15 years. We worked for about 4 hours putting up posters and moving cases of Dos Equis and Jagermeister (two of their biggest sponsors). It was not extremely captivating work, but in exchange for working we get to see all the Slamdance films for free and are invited to attend their parties and events.
After Slamdance, we were spoken to by the film critic by the Salt Lake Tribune. He spoke to us about how he criticises films. He said that the most important thing to address in his criticisms is What the movie is trying to accomplish and how successful the film is at accomplishing it.

It was a very busy day, but also awesome. Tommorrow, I have no tickets, but I am going to get up at 6am to get in the waiting line for the 9am It Might GetLoud. And I am going to work for Slamdance in the afternoon because we have to do three shifts. Also, the Gin Blossoms are playing at the Sundance Cafe in the afternoon which I will definitely try to check out.