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Author Topic: Sundance Film Festival 2013 - Are any presentations actual film anymore? Sean Weitzel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Vacaville, CA (1790 miles west of Rockwall) Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-17-2013 06:49 PM                     I was perusing the program guide for this years festival. No where it seems can you find technical specifications of the presentations. Anyone here know if there will be any celluloid film run this year?  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-17-2013 09:38 PM                     Along with the question of any film-based presentations, I'd have to wonder about all the "digital" shows. "Digital" could mean anything from a 4K DCP down to a mere standard definition DVD. Even a 240p or 360p Internet clip streaming from YouTube is "digital." But the YouTube stuff would still be cool if someone was streaming it from their freakin' iPad or Galaxy Note II.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-17-2013 11:16 PM                        You mean like setting their iPhone up on a tripod in front of the audience or something? I'd do that with a David Lynch movie if he was in the audience just to see what would happen.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-17-2013 11:22 PM                     That's even more absurd (and funny) than the situation I was imagining. Someone should try that and just bark, "this is art" to anyone who complains. I figured someone would just have their iPad and iTunes patched into the video projection system, or have a severely YouTube compressed .MP4 playing from an Android device via USB connection.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-18-2013 01:15 AM                        Or require that each audience member have their own iPad or iPhone and the projection server streams it to them.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-18-2013 05:34 AM                        I know a couple of the projectionists at Sundance and will find out. In the recent past, they have limited their accepted formats to 35mm or 16mm film and HDCAM video. I believe that some venues can take DCPs now (with HDCAM or film backup copies). They do not show DVDs, Blu-Rays, or anything of that sort.  |  IP: Logged Jeffry L. Johnson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 809 From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 01-21-2013 11:38 AM                        Last year: 198 video, 35 35-mm, and zero 16-mm. 2008 may have been the most recent year for 16-mm. From a message Chapin Cutler sent to the Art House Convergence Google Group list: quote: This year all venues will support 35-mm, DCP, and HDCAM, except for Salt Lake City Library where there is no room for 35-mm. For the first time, we are allowing anyone who wishes to supply a DCP to do so. This year, for the first time, all our screen washes, trailers, sponsor tags etc. will also be DCP's. Our projectors are all 2K.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-24-2013 04:52 AM                        It's a pity that all these arty, indie film types tend to be Apple fanboys. If they were willing to go with Android, they could bring their own projector and do away with the booth altogether!  |  IP: Logged Jeffry L. Johnson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 809 From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 01-31-2013 10:30 AM                        This year, seven 35-mm features and shorts. The rest were DCP and HDCAM.  |  IP: Logged Jeffry L. Johnson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 809 From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 02-07-2013 11:22 AM                        Correction and update. 230 titles. Eight (8) titles on 35-mm film. Six (6) 35-mm film titles ran as backup to DCP. Two (2) titles played as film-only.  |  IP: Logged

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