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Sundance 2020: Day 13

Festival Director James McNally is attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival from January 21st to February 2nd. Festival Day 11 With all my work completed, this last day of Sundance always turns out to be the day I actually get to see movies, and this year was no different. I was up early and out […]

Sundance 2020: Day 12

Festival Director James McNally is attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival from January 21st to February 2nd. Festival Day 10 Saturday meant I was back to work again, on the Awards Ceremony and Party. This year I was able to avoid being in the early group which meant that I could meet up with Terry […]

Sundance 2020: Day 11

Festival Director James McNally is attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival from January 21st to February 2nd. Festival Day 9 Slept until 9am again but had a good plan to see stuff today. First up was the new Ross Brothers film, Bloody Nose Empty Pockets, about the last day of a Las Vegas dive bar. […]

Sundance 2020: Day 10

Festival Director James McNally is attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival from January 21st to February 2nd. Festival Day 8 Up at 9am today but nothing on the schedule until noon, when I attended the volunteer screening of Boys State at the Holiday Village Cinemas. Directed by Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine (The Overnighters), it […]

Sundance 2020: Day 9

Festival Director James McNally is attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival from January 21st to February 2nd. Festival Day 7 After a very good party last night, I thought my venue duties were over, but I got a text this morning at 9am from Terry asking me to go out to Redstone once more to […]

Sundance 2020: Day 8

Festival Director James McNally is attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival from January 21st to February 2nd. Festival Day 6 Today was our last big day of the festival, with our final two premieres and the Shorts Awards party. I went to HQ at 10:00am to pick up a ride to Temple, where Shorts Program […]

Sundance 2020: Day 7

Festival Director James McNally is attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival from January 21st to February 2nd. Festival Day 5 I was able to sleep until 9am this morning and it really felt like it made a difference. Then I was able to attend the annual Telefilm Canada brunch for the first hour (12pm until […]

Sundance 2020: Day 6

Festival Director James McNally is attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival from January 21st to February 2nd. Festival Day 4 We spent quite a lot of today at the Temple Theatre, a really lovely space that is an actual Jewish temple for most of the year. It feels a bit remote, but it’s surrounded by […]

Sundance 2020: Day 5

Festival Director James McNally is attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival from January 21st to February 2nd. Festival Day 3 Today was our day of “Shorts Before Features” with three premieres scheduled. First up was Dia de la madre at the Egyptian. It was paired with the Chilean documentary The Mole Agent and it was […]

Sundance 2020: Day 4

Festival Director James McNally is attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival from January 21st to February 2nd. Festival Day 2 This was a very long day. Up at 6am to get to the Prospector Theatre for a second screening of Shorts Program 1 at 8am. Not much for us to do really, so we got […]