Is the Sundance Dream Still Alive?

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Live from Sundance, Matt is joined by entertainment dealmaker, lawyer, and media advisor John Sloss. John and his company, Cinetic Media, have been involved in some of the biggest sales in the festival's history. He and Matt discuss Sundance’s return to in-person programming for the first time in three years and how the market has changed over the years, as well as John’s concerns about the independent scripted drama, the future of arthouse movies, and how the age of streaming affects the world of independent cinema. Host: Matt Belloni Guest: John Sloss Producer: Craig Horlbeck Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Ryan Rosillo. I'm the host of the Ryan
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0:47.3	It is Wednesday, January 25th, coming at you live recording this at the Sundance Film Festival.
0:54.8	It's really the dream of every young filmmaker.
0:57.4	You scrape together enough money for your first movie, gets into Sundance, you show up,
1:02.0	it plays through the roof, there's an all-night bidding war, and boom, you sell your first
1:05.9	movie to a deep-pocketed distributor and launch your directing career.
1:09.5	It's happened to everyone from Ryan
1:11.2	Johnson to Ryan Cougler, Chloe Zhao, Damien Chiselle. Hundreds of filmmakers have come to Sundance
1:17.0	and left major talents. Precious, Napoleon Dynamite, Little Miss Sunshine, more recently, Palm Springs
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