Dawn Keezer, director of the Pittsburgh Film Office, will send dispatches of her experiences from the annual Sundance Film Festival, which runs through Jan. 25:
PARK CITY, Utah -- GO STEELERS!!
Sunday was the big day and Steelers was all we were talking about to everyone we met, it was a very exciting day.
Started the day off at the new Ashton Kutcher and Anne Heche's new film "Spread" (pictured: Heche, Kutcher and co-star Margarita Levieva / Associated Press). It was great, but it will never be suitable for children. Ashton almost had the "quote of the day" when during the Q&A session someone asked him, "Did you do this movie because you got to have sex with so many beautiful women?" Ashton laughed and said, "I realized it was a lot when I decided I was tired of going to work and acting like I was having sex." The theater erupted into laughter.
Next was the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Brunch for Actors, it was a lot of fun and we had some great celebrity sightings including: Anne Heche (OK, so we had just seen a lot of her in the movie, but she had clothes on at brunch), Justin Kirk ("Weeds"), Margarita Levieva ("Spread") and Elizabeth Reaser ("The Ex List").
Today's winner for "Quote of the Day" came courtesy of a reporter from NPR. I invited him to join us to cheer the Steelers to victory and his response was "we don't do football in L.A." He went on to complain about Los Angeles's lack of a professional football team ... good thing we do "do football" in Pittsburgh!
We had a great turn-out at the bar JB Mulligans bar, owned by Pittsburgh-native John Sutton (yes, you can find a Pittsburgher everywhere). Over 100 people arrived, many wearing black and gold, to help celebrate the Pittsburgh Steelers. A few people confessed that their Mom still lives in Pittsburgh, saw the mention in Barb Vancheri's column about the party, called them and told them they "had to come." So they showed up and helped teach the L.A. crowd how to correctly wave their "Terrible Towels."
When the Steelers won, the bar erupted into the traditional "Here we go!" cheer. It was like being at Heinz Field (but warmer) and almost as loud. Great time, and everyone is looking forward to the Super Bowl!
The Steelers have helped raise the Pittsburgh's region profile at Sundance, granted, I am wearing Steelers clothes every day (great conversation starter) but as we know, when the Steelers win, the region wins!
Stopped by to see the people from Timberland, they are "official sponsors" of the Sundance Film Festival. Timberland is a huge supporter of the environment and they do a great job promoting a "green" lifestyle. http://earthkeeper.com/blog/
Prior to our Steeler party, I stopped by the Philadelphia storefront that the Philadelphia Film Office had set up on Main Street in Park City. Philly put together a consortium of sponsors to pay for a Philadelphia Film Lounge at Sundance. It was a great space and they filled it with companies that are interested in getting more film business in Philly as well as companies wanting to bring their products to the film industry's attention. They also flew in Philly cheesesteaks and TastyKakes. It is a great idea and once the Pittsburgh Film Office gets dedicated funding, it would be something to consider.
We wished them good luck on the Eagles (which obviously didn't work) and went off to set up our Steeler party.
Posted
Jan 19 2009, 01:25 PM
by
Sharon Eberson