Sterling Van Wagenen and Entrepenurial Independence
First reason why it's okay to be in the film industry in Orlando was evidenced last night at the "Capstone Films" showing by University of Central Florida Department of Film undergraduates at the DMAC, and his name is Sterling Van Wagenen (the Director of the UCF Film Department, the co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival and the founding executive director of the Sundance Institute.) The students showing films last night were freshmen when Sterling took over the department, so in many ways the high quality of some of those works speaks as much to how Sterling has shaped that department into something extraordinary as creating The Zora Neale Hurston Institute for Documentary Studies or attracting truly inspiring staff like Ula Stoeckl to the region.
» Continue reading "Sterling Van Wagenen and Entrepenurial Independence"