Dispatch from Sundance

By CaraBayles on Tue, Jan 26, 2010 3:16 pm

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Please note: This is written by our beloved Art Director, who will be blogging from Sundance this week. (I'm just the copy and pasting monkey.) -CB

I never expected to end up volunteerig at the Sundance film festival. I wanted to do it, but life always seems to come up. Well, here I am, six days into the fest, finally reporting to the beloved Dig readers.

Seen 6 films, 1 set of short films, 3 parties attended, 1 denied, and 4 celeb sightings. It has also snowed 5 out of 6 days and I am 100 hours behind on sleep.

It’s tough to keep track of everything that’s going on, there are so many films to watch, places to check out, different events to make it to, all while fitting in a six hour volunteer shift at one of the theaters where I work as an usher, loading the theater before each screening. “We have 10 seats open.” “Copy that.” “The entourage has arrived and I’m walking them in.”

There’s a fun crowd at the fest. Half of the people I’ve met so far have lived in Boston at some point in time. There are a handful of Aussies, and a ton of people from Utah of course. And that doesn’t even start to cover it. But the awesome thing is that everyone is here for basically the same reasons… to see films, appreciate creativity, meet people and party like we’ll all die in a blizzard tomorrow. It’s such a change from ordinary life.