i guess you could say here goes something, and here comes nothing
All this good news and karma for my filmy friends lately. I'm hoping there's enough to go around, because I just did something wild and impulsive.
I knew I wanted to apply, but I didn't know the deadline was literally today. Melissa talked me into it; I trimmed up the first five pages of Ellipsis, wrote up a not-half-shabby 2-page synopsis and a cover letter*, and paid my $30 nonrefundable application fee. You'll note I overstamped it just in case... I wasn't sure with those big envelopes (it's padded too, it was all we had) and I didn't want to risk it being returned. 5:45am this morning I dropped the fat manila bitch in the mail slot and applied for the Sundance Institute's Screenwriters & Directors Lab.
Dont get me wrong. My shots are 1 in a million. Or, say, 25 in 5,000 or so, at best. I am still planning on a better application next year, but I figure: what have I got to lose?
* My cover letter actually includes the following: "Originally it was inspired by 1960s Japanese cinema, primarily Kurosawa, Seijun Suzuki and Hiroshi Teshigahara, but the end result maybe bears more in common with the style and tone of the Coen Brothers’ Miller’s Crossing. I’d like to think of the story as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland if the rabbit hole led to the underworlds of Chandler and Hammett."
I knew I wanted to apply, but I didn't know the deadline was literally today. Melissa talked me into it; I trimmed up the first five pages of Ellipsis, wrote up a not-half-shabby 2-page synopsis and a cover letter*, and paid my $30 nonrefundable application fee. You'll note I overstamped it just in case... I wasn't sure with those big envelopes (it's padded too, it was all we had) and I didn't want to risk it being returned. 5:45am this morning I dropped the fat manila bitch in the mail slot and applied for the Sundance Institute's Screenwriters & Directors Lab.
Dont get me wrong. My shots are 1 in a million. Or, say, 25 in 5,000 or so, at best. I am still planning on a better application next year, but I figure: what have I got to lose?
* My cover letter actually includes the following: "Originally it was inspired by 1960s Japanese cinema, primarily Kurosawa, Seijun Suzuki and Hiroshi Teshigahara, but the end result maybe bears more in common with the style and tone of the Coen Brothers’ Miller’s Crossing. I’d like to think of the story as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland if the rabbit hole led to the underworlds of Chandler and Hammett."