After a 3 year absence from the Park City fiesta, I am finally headed back to the land of snow and Redford. I've spent the past three years attending Toronto instead and it's been very civilized (and warm). A friend described the current incarnation of Sundance as a two tier event: there's the marketing convention that occurs as companies wine & dine their clients on Main Street and celebs are piled with gifts, and then there's the actual film festival. I can still remember sitting in a dark theatre and being bewitched by films lilke Pi and Slam ; verrry curious to see if the magic is still possible.

While up in Park City, I'll be producing & hosting video coverage for iklipz.com, a video-sharing, community based site that launched in mid-July 2006. Founded by industry execs who have a keen interest in identifying and nurturing new talent, the site focuses exclusively on independent film. We'll be shooting filmmaker interviews, party coverage and a variety of video goodies which will be stream from the Sundance profile on the site. I'll also be reporting for Documentary Magazine, published by the IDA, so I'll be seeing a healthy mix of narrative and non-fiction pieces.

This will be the firt time I'll be covering Sundance with a video crew...an entirely different adventure than the writing I've done about the Festival in the past. The prep process is much more exhaustive, as echoed in several other bloggers' entries, so I'll be starting the festival with a sleep deficit. And my 6:20am flight on Friday certainly isn't going to help. It's times like these that I really wish I drank coffee!

~tamara krinsky
Producer/Correspondent: IKLIPZ.COM
Associate Editor: DOCUMENTARY MAGAZINE