70 SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL OFFSCREEN Round out your Festival experience with music, art, and conversation. From solo acts and bands performing throughout the Festival to panels and discussions that bring emerging and veteran filmmakers together with industry leaders, Offscreen offers a cultural outlet for Festivalgoers outside the theatre. OFFSCREEN SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL 71 POWER OF STORY: “In THE BEGINNING . .” Saturday, January 21, 3:00 p.m. (PAONE21EA) Friday, January 27, 3:30 p.m. (PATHR22EA) Egyptian Theatre Live stream at Live stream at sundance.org Egyptian Theatre sundance.org Ticket required Ticket required Over the course of the independent film movement, there’s Writers may not always have the last word, but they do been a major transformation in the landscape of nonfiction have the first. Whether it’s theatre, film, or television, filmmaking. We’ve seen the role documentary work can the power of a story begins with the vision of a writer, a play: from changing societies and communicating diverse blank page, and a world of limitless possibility. We’ve human experiences to addressing political and social invited a distinguished group of writers to explore the issues and entertaining audiences with extraordinary mystique of the creative process and how ideas travel and inspiring stories. Meet three figures who have been from the brain to the page, and to share some of the at the center of changing the face of documentary film, work they admire. expanding its audience, and redefining its impact. Nick Fraser has worked as a Soledad O’Brien (moderator) Stephen Gaghan is an Academy Anna Deavere Smith is an actress reporter and television producer is an anchor and special Award–winning writer and and playwright, best recognized and has been the commissioning correspondent for CNN/U.S. director whose feature-film for her roles in The West Wing editor of Storyville since it and has reported breaking work includes Traffic and and, currently, Nurse Jackie. started in 1997. Storyville films news from around the globe in Syriana, which he also directed. She is credited with creating have won more than two hundred addition to producing award- His production company, a new form of theatre—part awards, including several winning, critically acclaimed Unsupervised, has many film docudrama, part poetic—in Academy Awards, Griersons, documentary films. and television projects in work such as Fires in the Mirror, Emmys, and Peabodys, as well as development. Twilight: Los Angeles, and Let a Sundance Jury Prize. Robert Redford is recognized Me Down Easy. She is a professor the world over for the roles he Caryn James (moderator) is a at New York University. Sheila Nevins, President of HBO has played and the projects film and television critic who OFFSCREEN: POWER OF STORY OFFSCREEN: POWER writes the “James on screenS” Andrew Stanton is an Academy Documentary Films, is a highly he has directed or produced regarded producer credited throughout a distinguished blog for IndieWire.com. Award–winning writer and with nearly one thousand stage and film career. He is an Previously, she was film critic director best known for his documentary films, which have environmentalist and advocate and chief television critic for groundbreaking animation films, earned numerous Academy for social responsibility and The New York Times and including Finding Nemo, Toy Awards, Emmys, Peabodys, and political involvement and has authored the novels Glorie Story, and WALL•E. He currently most recently a DGA Honor. nurtured countless innovative and What Caroline Knew. serves as vice president of During her long tenure at HBO, voices through his nonprofit creative for Pixar Animation Nevins has cultivated many new Sundance Institute and Studios, which he joined in 1990 SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL talents and set the standard for Film Festival. as one of its earliest employees. cutting-edge documentaries. 72 pa pa NELS NELS CELEBRATING STORIES OF CHANGE Tuesday, January 24, 3:00 p.m. (PATWO24EA) Egyptian Theatre, Park City Live stream at sundance.org Ticket required Global issues demand innovative solutions, and documentary film is increasingly showcasing the unprecedented efforts of social-issue change makers around the world. At this special discussion event celebrating the five-year partnership between Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and the Skoll Foundation, Skoll President and CEO Sally Osberg moderates a thought-provoking dialogue among award- winning filmmakers—including clips from their work—and innovators who are impacting millions. Invited panelists include Paul Farmer (founding director of Partners in Health), Jehane Noujaim (director of Control Room), Bunker Roy (founder of Barefoot College), and other special guests. Medical anthropologist and featured films, speakers, and physician Paul Farmer is music; and can be watched the Kolokotrones University online at www.pangeaday.org Professor at Harvard University; Together with Mona Eldaief, she chair of the Department of Global is codirecting Solar Momas, a Health and Social Medicine at feature-length documentary Harvard Medical School; and a chronicling the experience of founding director of Partners In three Barefoot College students. Health (PIH), an international nonprofit organization that Bunker Roy was moved provides direct health care to respond to India’s 1967 services and undertakes research famine and traveled to OFFSCREEN and advocacy activities on behalf Tilonia, Rajasthan, to help rural of those who are sick and living villagers improve their lives. in poverty. The organization he founded in 1972, Social Work and Research Jehane Noujaim is an award- Centre, which came to be known winning director and producer as Barefoot College, has trained (Control Room, Startup. hundreds of solar engineers and com, Shayfeen.com) and teachers—women, dropouts 2006 TED Prize winner. She and unemployable youth—in founded Pangea Day, which remote villages in 16 Indian SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL was broadcast internationally; states over the past 30 years. 73 FILMMAKER LODGE Elks Building, 550 Main St., (second floor), Park City Friday, January 20–Saturday, January 28, 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Sunday, January 29, 9:30 a.m. to noon Please see ADA accessibility on page 80. Open to all Festival credential holders and the general public on a space-available basis. All events are held at the Filmmaker Lodge unless otherwise indicated. IT’S ALL IN THE STORY PROFITS AND LOSSES in such funny times? Join Mike humanity instead of wiping Friday, January 20, 1:00 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 1:00 p.m. Birbiglia (Sleepwalk With it out? Is there better living It is a common refrain that From healthcare to the Me), Mark Duplass (Safety through brain chemistry? the Democratic Party has not environment to banking and Not Guaranteed, Your Sister’s Anthropological biologist been able to tell its story, that beyond, corporations wield Sister), Lauren Anne Miller Helen Fisher (author of the environmental movement unprecedented power in our (For A Good Time, Call . .), Why We Love), Scott Burns has lost its narrative, and political system. Driven by and others as they explore (screenwriter of Contagion), so on. Recently in The New special interests, awash in whether comedy is the only Jake Schreier (Robot and York Times, Emory University lobbying dollars, and evasive way to cope with reality. Frank) and moderator Tracy professor Drew Westen of any serious regulation, can Day (cofounder and executive captured the frustration of an corporations be compatible MOVING THE maSSES director of the World Science electorate hungry for a story with the public good? Is there Festival) explore the limits Thursday, January 26, 1:00 p.m. of control and the positive showing that the government simply too much greed? Facing What is a movement made of? will protect the interests of the widening income inequality, an potential of engineering our We live in an age when, for the many against the few. Westen untenable healthcare system, future. Supported by the first time in history, millions and special guests discuss why and a government unable to Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. of people are engaged in storytelling is embedded in the articulate basic principles of movements urging equity and human psyche, and how the equity and fairness, can we justice. From civil rights to SOUND THINKING right story can change history. find a 99 percent solution? Saturday, January 28, 1:00 p.m. Join special guests from the environment to the recent Occupy initiative, strides and Filmmakers routinely conceive DISTRibUTION X We’re Not Broke, DetrOPIA, of sound in limited terms—a EscaPE Fire, Finding North, and setbacks have marked our Saturday, January 21, 1:00 p.m. history. Join special guests supporting role in the visual With distribution becoming as The Atomic States of America medium, and the last step in as they consider who profits and as we delve into the evolving complex as an intricate math nature of making change. the filmmaking process. But, problem, producers are asking, who loses from big business. as part of a film’s artistry and “Can you really do it yourself?” key component of storytelling, Split-rights deals and digital THE WiDE WORLD CONTROL FaCTOR what if sound design existed outlets offer vast potential, OF WiT Friday, January 27, 1:00 p.m. in the earliest part of the but how do you determine Wednesday, January 25, 1:00p.m. Disaster scenarios in cinema creative process? In a mix of your film’s value in a shifting Comedy is king—and go something like this: with conversation and presentation, marketplace? How do you queen—at this year’s scientific understanding Randy Thom (director of plot a strategy to attract the Festival. A bumper crop comes the ability to sound design at Skywalker right audience and generate of boundary-pushing indie control and, hence, to lose Sound), Kent Sparling (sound the greatest revenue stream? comedies manages to find control.