A Columbia girl saved my life @ Sundance
Just read an interesting article by Columbia student Sarah McNeill in the Columbia University ‘zine THE EYE.
McNeill takes a look at the Sundance Film Festival from the film-school perspective. Columbia University, along with NYU and USC are now all permanent fixtures on the Sundance party circuit. Columbia even touts alumni “affiliated” with the production of such Sundance success stories as “Little Miss Sunshine” and “Half Nelson.”
Although McNeill gives a brilliant first-hand account of the festival in the article, even including key tips on how to prevent the ‘Sundance flu’ (I prefer to call this annual ailment ’BobYariAlpaca disease’), she fails to mention how she literally saved my life!
In perhaps one of the most harrowing scenes never captured on film, a house-full of partying people was nearly trapped atop Deer Valley’s snow-capped mountain at the Green Door Mansion and McNeill, her aunt and friend were kind enough to drive my friends and I down the hill in her aunt’s 4-wheel-drive Range Rover despite a closed road and a snowstorm. As we drove off into the snowstorm desperate people literally attacked the vehicle in a desperate hope to get a ride down….
(guess you had to be there…)
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Virginia Saward
Sarah McNeill is a stellar writer and an absolute boon to Columbia’s film department; I wouldn’t be surprised if a couple years down the line, she is the one being honored at Sundance.
Feb 8th, 2008
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Virginia. That’s a lot of hype. You should be her publicist.
Feb 9th, 2008
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