Sundance filmmaker Erica Tremblay has capitalized on several opportunities created by Sundance, first after the short ‘Little Chief’ and now after the feature ‘Fancy Dance.’
To commemorate next year’s 40th edition of the Sundance Film Festival, we’re spending 12 months looking at the lives of 7 members of this year’s class.This is maybe tied too much to the film, but we had a lot of Native families there — there were a lot of Native moms and Native aunties. And when we were doing press, they have all those places that you go to and there’s usually water bottles and hats and sometimes clothing and all this stuff.
There are these words that I hate using that I’m using here, but in a business that is so fickle, and in a business that is hard to ever pin down “trends” or whatever, one thing that’s kind of constant is the taste of Sundance. So I think having a film screen there in competition and be successful is something that triggers a response from other people. Because they’re like, “OK, you’ve done this very hard thing to do. What else do you have up your sleeve?” And I’m like, “I do have things.
Every time I pick up a script, or every time I watch a new film that I haven’t seen or had time to watch, I’m further encouraged by why we’re striking and the necessity to pay creators for their work. Because what we do is really difficult. It takes a certain amount of skill. It takes hard work and determination, and we deserve to be compensated for what we’re creating.
I can’t express how grateful I am to the Sundance Institute and the labs and fellowships that I’ve had because now when I’m making work, whether it’s writing a “Reservation Dogs” episode, or I’m going to a meeting or I’m pitching a project, I’m always asking myself “Why am I telling the story?” and mining for how I can infuse this with something that’s specific to me.
When you’re talking about being in an industry that’s going through so much right now, whether you’re talking about the strikes or independent film not looking the same as it did five years ago, I think that was a little bit surprising. But it doesn’t deter me from understanding what a massive accomplishment it was to be at Sundance. And it also doesn’t take away from how great I know the film is. I sat and watched the other films, and I know how good they are.
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