From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to the treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. We are at the, what do you call it, the Bitton Death March of Film Festival,

the Sundance Film Festival here in Park City.

We are now in day three.

We don't call it that, Elvis.

You don't call it that, no.

What do you call it?

You call the Sundance Film Festival.

That's right.

Yes.

I'm here with the director of the festival, John Cooper, and the director of programming for

Groff guys. Thanks for coming here. I'm sure you don't have anything else to do today, do you?

No, we've already seen the movies.

We're fine.

We're going to pull up some coffee and sit for a long check.

There's nothing else going on.

Let me ask, because one of the things, I guess, I wonder, is after you get done with the festival,

if you start thinking about the kind of thing you'd like to see that you didn't get to say in 2015 you start you got to be thinking ahead already right yeah i mean it's a year

round process putting this festival together and we also have been doing other festivals and other cities

too we've done sundance london for the last three years and we did Sundance Hong Kong last

September. So you shift over and you kind of get into that mindset too. Yeah, that's right. Next

Fest in LA at the Ace Hotel at the old UA theater. So you know, you can kind of shift gears

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