This spec spot puts us smack dab in a penitentiary with guards watching prisoners as they are let out of their cells for some recreation in the yard. We see inmates playing basketball, doing pushups, lifting weights, “socializing” and perhaps capering, with one guard in particular casting a suspicious eye on the proceedings.
Then an agile prisoner, who clearly has something up his figurative sleeve, makes an acrobatic leap, catapulting himself through the air to snatch the cap off the head of the vigilant guard without his knowing. Next we see this convict wearing the cap and what looks like an official guard’s uniform. The con saunters out the security gate with the sentry there assuming that the properly garbed man he sees in profile is indeed a guard.
It turns out that the prisoner gained his freedom by using a Pentel Pen to color one-half of this shirt (the half facing the sentry) a dark guard uniform blue. A Pentel pen is tucked in the shirt’s front pocket.
A parting super reads, “Free your creativity with Pentel Pens.”
TJ Hall of greatguns: usa, Santa Monica, directed, edited and co-wrote (with Ben Nott, a creative at Droga5, New York) “The Big House.” The DP was James Kniest.
Michelle Satter To Be Honored At Sundance Film Festival Gala
The nonprofit Sundance Institute today announced details for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival’s gala fundraiser, Celebrating Sundance Institute, which will take place on Friday, January 24, 2025 at the Grand Hyatt Deer Valley in Utah. The event will be an evening in celebration of Michelle Satter, founding sr. director of artist programs at Sundance Institute, for her longstanding commitment to nurturing artists and cultivating independent film through the Sundance Labs, where visionary artists convene to develop groundbreaking projects through an in-depth creative process, for the past four decades. The annual Vanguard Awards will be presented during the evening to Sean Wang, writer and director of Dìdi, and Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, co-directors of Sugarcane, who premiered their films at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.
The annual gala enables the nonprofit to raise funds to support independent artists year-round through labs, grants, and public programming that nurture artists from all over the world. The 2025 event is made possible with the generous support of Google TV. The Festival will take place from January 23–February 2, 2025, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, with a selection of titles available online from January 30–February 2, 2025 for audiences across the country to discover bold independent storytelling.
“For over four decades Michelle has been devoted to truly championing independent storytellers,” said Amanda Kelso, acting CEO of Sundance Institute. “She has encouraged artists to own their voice, learn their craft, become fierce leaders, and develop their resilience in our changing ecosystem. Her life-long commitment to supporting artists, especially in underrepresented... Read More