festivals

NAMAC was long overdue to establish a presence at Sundance, so in January, our co-directors, Jack and Helen, went to the Festival. Our raison de venir was to proselytize by giving out our membership materials and publications, like Deep Focus, at the Filmmaker Lodge. We got into some movies, we attended some parties, we stopped in on some panels, we handed out our stuff. We shared a condo with our friends Michael Lumpkin and Jennifer Morris from Frameline. Helen stayed for the first weekend of the event, and Jack followed for the next three days. Because we were not there at the same time, we had some different experiences, which are recounted below.