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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Sundance: Trevor Groth

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

NPR

Society & Culture

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2010

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Trevor Groth is the director of programming at the Sundance Film Festival. He started at the festival as a teenaged volunteer, and has been charged with reinvigorating its rebellious spirit.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Derek from Carmel, Indiana.

0:02.3

Hi, this is George from San Francisco.

0:04.6

The Sound of Young America is an independent production.

0:07.4

Supported by listeners like, well, me.

0:09.8

If you'd like to support the show like I did,

0:11.8

visit MaximumFund.org and click on Donate.

0:15.2

I'm Jesse Thorne, live on tape from My House in Los Angeles.

0:18.4

It's the Sound of Young America from MaximumFund.org and PRI,

0:22.7

public radio, international.

0:30.1

It's the Sound of Young America.

0:31.4

I'm Jesse Thorne.

0:32.4

We're here at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

0:35.3

And my guest on the program is Trevor Groff.

0:37.5

He's the director of programming for the festival.

0:40.2

And not to mention a veteran of more than 15 years of work here

0:44.8

at Sundance, beginning as a volunteer in high school.

0:49.0

Yeah, that was actually 20 years ago.

0:51.8

20.

0:52.3

Yeah, was I volunteered for Sundance when I was 18 and ended up

0:58.1

interning for Sundance in the Salt Lake office

1:00.6

when I was in college at the University of Utah.

1:03.2

And then they hired me to start programming shorts

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