“There’s not enough praise or admiration we can give Cooper,” proclaimed Robert Redford of exiting festival director John Cooper on the opening night of Sundance 2020 last night. In fact, followed …
. No replacement has been unveiled yet, but whoever gets the gig is going to be stepping into some pretty big shoes.
I’m going to miss the audiences too, actually. I think we’ve built such a loyal group of supporters and people that arrive every year. I always make a joke. It’s like I’m a wedding planner right now. It’s a 10-day wedding, and it’s big, and there are so many people, but when the audiences arrive, they revive you.They’re excited and fresh.
I was thinking about what we started off talking about, what’d I miss and I mean, one of the most glorious moments for me was when we created the Ignite Program, which is for 18 to 25-year-old filmmakers. That’s real for me, and I’ll probably see that through to a next level.COOPER: Then there’s the other side, which is supporting and making sure that they get the financial opportunities. On the other side of that, there’s this natural thing that’s happening where we are also looking for original and fresh films.We just didn’t call it inclusion back then. We just called it independent filmmakers. Those aren’t always coming from the same story being regurgitated over and over, which was coming from what I would call the almost privileged filmmakers.
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