Sundance 09 wrap up

So another year at Sundance film festival. This year was not bad...
Last year the the highs were barely in the low 20s it snowed almost every day and we were chasing a snow storm all the way home.
This year the highs were in the upper 30s sunny and beautiful.
Our small group includes me, Paul simmons, a local illustrator and graphic artist (www.cerebralgraphics.com) and Brent Peterson a local film maker (www.peterson-productions.com).
Last year was hard for me to be walking to a theater or riding in a bus seeing all of the skiers on the slopes and not going. This year we took an extra day and went Skiing. We went to Brighton Ski Resort. It's not one of the top rated ski resorts in Utah but it's where I grew up skiing so we went there for nostalgia and to keep on budget.
Saturday was our fist day of screenings. I forgot the order of screenings but between Saturday and Monday we saw:
Documentary shorts program, two other shorts programs, Sin Nombre (excellent film watch for it) the clone returns home, Cold Souls, Art and Copy, and Adam, We tried to get into Brief interviews with hideous men but but the entourage for the film was, according to Sundance officials, "exceedingly large". We ended the trip with a visit to Ikea followed by another movie; Grand torino. If you have not see it do, It's very funny. Not intended to be so funny but we laughed through the whole movie. The acting was absolutely horrible. And Clint spat out so many racial slurs I lost count. His continuous growling at the screen was pretty funny too.
This year we drove home with nothing but blue skis and sunshine. All in all a pretty nice trip.
I even didn't mind sitting on the chair lift at Brighton talking with someone from Poland who did nothing but criticize our government, It was a nice entertaining way to pass 7 1/2 minutes!