The Sundance Film Festival concludes, leaving audiences with powerful films like 'Rebuilding' and 'Come See Me in the Good Light'. While the festival celebrated the best of independent cinema, it also grappled with uncertainty surrounding its future location.
Mona land in Turkey on their way to Syria in “Brides.” PARK CITY, Utah — Colorado ’s vast sky can offer a hushed and potent grandeur. That quality was on fine display at the Sundance Film Festival , thanks to Max Walker-Silverman’s touching drama “Rebuilding,” about a rancher who loses his modest spread to wildfire, and “Come See Me in the Good Light,” an incandescent documentary about poet and spoken word artist Andrea Gibson’s battle with ovarian cancer.
Even Colorado had something to do with the mood of uncertainty — but in a good way. There was a collective clarity about the fact the festival is pulling up stakes from the Wasatch ski town of Park City and perhaps leaving Utah entirely. Last summer, the Sundance Institute, of which the festival is its most well-known initiative, announced that Boulder, Cincinnati and Salt Lake City were finalists for a 2027 move. The decision is expected to be announced in March or April.
Josh O’Connor’s Dusty is a divorced father who finds himself living in an outcrop of temporary FEMA trailers along with other victims of a wildfire. Like his new neighbors, he’s been upended and not sure where or how to begin again. He’s thinking of leaving for a cousin’s spread in Montana. This would mean moving away from his young daughter, Callie Rose , who lives with her mother, Ruby , and grandmother Bess in town.
“On the surface, the corner of Colorado I grew up in and where we shot the film in the San Luis Valley share so much. They are only 70 miles apart as the crow flies, just on either side of the San Juans. But those 70 miles take 5 1/2 hours to drive. The rivers where I grew up flow to the Pacific, and where we filmed, they head to the Atlantic,” he said in one of the lovelier emails from a filmmaker.
And feelings abound — the couple’s, ours — as Gibson and Falley, who live in Longmont, grapple with the occasional promises and painful rebuffs of the cancer and its treatments. White weaves Gibson’s upbringing in Maine and their journey toward becoming a somewhat unlikely star of the spoken-word circuit. It was during that ascendency as a spoken-word artist that Gibson met comedian Tig Notaro, who, along with actor and producer Stef Willen, was a force in getting the documentary made.
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