Rite lead actress Tabitha Morella and director Alicia Conway talk to audience members after Rite/Grace screening at Kimball Junction.

Our third screening was yesterday afternoon, and in my absence, actor David Bickford did the intro and talked to people afterward. Production designer Cassie Allebaugh was also there. David tells me that the Egyptian was packed, with waitlist people being turned away — very good news for a screening during the second half of the festival.

Our last screening is tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Salt Lake City. David won’t be able to make that screening, so the plan was that Cassie was going to do the intro and talk to people after. She just called me, however, and told me that it started snowing yesterday and just stopped “two minutes ago,” and she’s staying up at Snowbird. Luckily, her plan today is to ski, because a park ranger told her he was sliding down the mountain in his 4×4. In other words, during a Sundance noteworthy for its mild weather and lack of snow, Cassie is snowed in! … Read More

The crowd gathered on Main Street for the Inauguration.

I am the walking dead. My eyeballs feel as heavy as croquet balls, like they’re falling out of my eye sockets. I have old woman posture, shoulders slumped forward and legs shuffling, head dropping as I nod off mid-sentence. It occurred to me much too late (like, yesterday), that I should’ve done a photo series of my eye bags: what they were like the day I arrived, fresh and perky, last Thursday, and then every day how they deepen and darken and look more and more like I’m being repeatedly socked in the face. Alas, missed opportunity. … Read More