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The committee has learned from the previous festival's mistakes of too many comedies and political documentaries and become more about dramas and social documentaries (though I'm convinced that men's rights activists will find a way to get the Gloria Allred documentary screenings canceled as they love to play the persecution card) but otherwise, it just looks like more films that Netflix will buy by the truckload, things that won't make a dime (another Aubrey Plaza film, a dystopian film about telemarketers, an Americanized remake of The Kindergarten Teacher), and films that don't speak to their audience. In addition, no Call Me by Your Name/Get Out type movie in the bunch (maybe Monster or Brett Haley's musical becomes this movie but both have question marks).

Lastly, does anyone else find it odd that the Next umbrella has films from filmmakers who've had previous films released (I noticed at least two)?

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/sunda ... 202625522/

A film my company was involved in, Westwood, is in international doc competition!

numbersix wrote:A film my company was involved in, Westwood, is in international doc competition!

Congrats! That's fucking awesome!

Cool !! Does that mean you're going to Park City, or are you gonna be the one staying at the London office hoping your boss breaks a leg and send you in his place ?

Actually, don't think any of us are going, because we only just provided some finance, and weren't directly producing. Would love to though!

Winners: http://www.sundance.org/blogs/news/2018 ... l-awards#/

This was an odd year, as many of the winners failed to get distribution and the Time's Up rally got more attention than most of the films screened (Hereditary, which was a late addition, seemed to get the most buzz in terms of films shown).

Now watch Netflix pick up a lot of the films for a lower price than had they been picked up at the festival (I wouldn't be surprised if The Miseducation of Cameron Post got picked up below seven figures).