{"id":120,"date":"2008-01-20T20:06:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T03:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/20\/sundance-experience\/"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:04:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:04:18","slug":"sundance-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/sundance-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Sundance Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" id=\"image121\" alt=\"sundance-experience.jpg\" class=\"imageframe imgalignright\" src=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sundance-experience.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Early birds: parking galore in Park City before 9am<\/li>\n<li>Wi-Fi is hit-or-miss outside lounges and libraries, which are sure things<\/li>\n<li>Political groups and activists counter some of the celebrity gossip<\/li>\n<li>Bistro 412&#8217;s upstairs bar and Java Cow&#8217;s back room offer escapes from the crowd<\/li>\n<li>Everyone&#8217;s shooting video; only a select few beam it up to YouTube on location (<a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.ucla.edu\/sundance2008\/\">like your&#8217;s truly<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Buy tickets in advance or risk waiting in the cold for hours for a few spare tickets<\/li>\n<li>Staying in Salt Lake City and trucking it to Park City is rare; look for rooms at the small cities along the main highway instead<\/li>\n<li>People come for to sell-out their movies, to cheerlead their friends&#8217; movies, to hawk their next movie, to report back to everyone else, or to ski and be about their own business<\/li>\n<li>Most if not all parties are exclusive, rarely dealing with tickets and almost always dealing with influence<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy the historical downtown: walk instead of taking the crowded bus every time<\/li>\n<li>Sundance volunteers are amazing: informed, friendly, and dedicated<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re not at Sundance on business, prepare to find like-minds within the first couple days, follow them around with leads on this party or that screening, and consider shacking up or sleeping in the tub<\/li>\n<li>Flyers that are passed out, involve condoms, or are well-designed get word-of-mouth attention, but might not translate into warm seats<\/li>\n<li>Celebrity sightings are daily, if not hourly<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s not quite any experience like Sundance: the sidewalks overflow, the films you pick are instead of five others that might be the next big thing, and you&#8217;re often in the wrong place at the wrong time<\/li>\n<li>As a filmmaker, you&#8217;re going to leave inspired, discouraged, and\/or exhausted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early birds: parking galore in Park City before 9am Wi-Fi is hit-or-miss outside lounges and libraries, which are sure things Political groups and activists counter some of the celebrity gossip Bistro 412&#8217;s upstairs bar and Java Cow&#8217;s back room offer escapes from the crowd Everyone&#8217;s shooting video; only a select few beam it up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6307,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/6307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}