Every year in January, Carl takes his students from Countryside High School to the cold, snow-covered mountains of Utah in a pilgrimage to the independent film Mecca known as the Sundance Film Festival. This
festival has been the launching pad for such renowned directors as Steven Soderbergh, Kevin Smith and Alexander Payne among others. The students then have the life-changing experience of meeting and talking with the directors and actors direct after viewing the world premiere of their cutting-edge movies and documentaries. For TV production students aspiring to have a career in film and television, this is as real life as it gets.
We’ve got a few photos from Sundance uploaded at current, and more are on the way, yet among the six that have been uploaded is a surprise story from the festival.
Carl and company attended a special discussion segment early in the festival entitled “Where is the Media?” The king of Sundance himself, Robert Redford, dropped in on the discussion and took a special seat during the show. I’ll let the pictures do the talking on this.
