Indiwire party turns claustrophobic

10 p.m. Thursday: Sundance on Thursday night. Just got back to the condo from an Indiewire party, which was a small condo full of about 120 filmmakers and fellow festival programmers.

I spoke with Dan Mirvish, the co-founder of Slamdance, who has a film in development and is searching for financing. Then I met Cevin Cathell, the former programmer of Santa Barbara Film Festival , who now programs the Jackson Hole Film festival and Andrew Rogers, the executive director of River Run Festival in Winston Salem.

Finally had to duck out when I was feeling claustrophobic. We had to walk nearly a mile down a snow-laden road with fur trees flocked with snow and Christmas lights all around. Then back on the shuttle to our condo. We are all getting to bed early tonight so that we can catch earl morning screenings which begin at 8:30 a.m. — Jody Kielbasa