IFH 090: Life After Winning Sundance with Diane Bell

Indie Film Hustle® - A Filmmaking Podcast · Jul 28, 2016 · 1h 40m

Life After Winning Sundance with Diane Bell

I always talk about not counting on the "lottery ticket" mentality that so many filmmakers today count on. Winning Sundance is not a distribution plan. Well I was involved in a project, written and directed by Diane Bell, that did just that. It won not one but two awards at Sundance. She didn't count on winning, hell she didn't think in her wildest dreams that she would even be accepted. Here's the story.

In 2010, 16 feature films were selected out of 1,058 submissions to be screened in the US Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival…