Ashley Judd reflected on the cost of standing up for her morals.
31.08.2023 - 17:27 / deadline.com
Austin Sipes, student symposium coordinator for the Telluride Film Festival, checked in this year’s class that had traveled far and wide to participate in what he termed as a “life-changing” immersion into the intricacies of filmmaking.
In 2000, as an undergraduate at the University of Vermont, Sipes hitched up in Telluride as one of the few chosen to engage in the student symposium, now in its 33rd year.
Okay, how life-changing was it? “A thousand million percent life-changing,” came the sparky response.
“I tell the students every year that it’s a life-changing experience,” Sipes told me.
“And invariably they come to me afterwards with cries of, ‘You are not kidding!’”
Sipes now works in reality television. He’s currently associate director of Top Chef, and left the shoot for a few days to run the Telluride symposium.
Over the years, I’ve observed scores of students, sporting their distinctive orange lanyards, trooping into screenings at the town’s Werner Herzog Theatre, or the Palm, or the Galaxy in the opposite direction.
One year I was beyond desperate to get into a screening at the tiny Nugget Theatre on Colorado Avenue. The small group of students ahead of me in the queue vowed to save me a seat inside.
They kept their word.
Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk), as this column mentioned recently, was in the Telluride class of 2002. Apart from the culture shock of seeing snow for the first time and “being in a town as white as Telluride,” his experience here was also “life-changing.”
The filmmaker told me how he went from “being someone who was an apprentice at the festival to being someone who was being brought into the interior of the festival,” and he remembered selling T-shirts in town to help
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