Chapter 056

Early the next morning, Simon and Janet took off for Utah.

When the plane took off, Janet asked about yesterday: "so, how was the conversation with Fox?"

Feeling that the plane was no longer bumpy, Simon unfastened his seat belt and came up with a series of fast changing expressions in his mind when Peter Sanders saw the age information on his driving license yesterday afternoon. He smiles and shakes his head: "you know, I hope to sign a share contract. Sanders insists on buying out. So, it may be after Sundance. I hope things will turn for the better then. "

Yesterday, although Simon explained to Peter Sanders in detail the distribution strategy of using his age as a gimmick for publicity, Peter Sanders was obviously a bit excited. However, the other party finally did not agree or even give a new price.

Simon also realized that this was probably due to Peter Sanders' lack of authority.

The power structure of big Hollywood film companies is basically decided by the helmsman. Although Peter Sanders is the vice president and has certain responsibilities, in terms of films, the power to make decisions is still in the hands of President Ronald Goldberg.

Janet obviously just asked casually. Hearing Simon's reply, she was not discouraged at all. She said, "it's a big deal. We'll do it ourselves. Maybe we can accumulate some experience."

Simon smiles and nods.

It's not impossible to do the distribution by yourself, but it's a waste of time.

It took Simon only four months to make "Lola Run", but it will take him one or two years to complete the release of the film. What's more, the final profit may not be as good as selling the film directly to the film company.

After chatting casually, Simon opened a copy of Hollywood Reporter he had brought on the plane and was about to read it. Suddenly, he thought of another thing and asked Janet next to him, "Oh, I'm suddenly a little curious. Why is Katherine always so strange when she looks at me these days?"

Janet blinked innocently: "huh?"

Noticing Janet's appearance, Simon looked at her more suspiciously and said, "did you say something to Catherine?"

Janet's eyes flashed again, more innocent: "what can I say, I don't want to say you."

"It must be something," Simon said, looking at Janet's appearance more firmly. He rolled up his newspaper and said, "do it yourself. What's wrong with me?"

As Simon raised the newspaper, Janet shrunk to her seat, but then raised her white neck again. She looked like she would rather die than surrender. She cried out in a dumb voice, "I don't have it!"

With this cry, all the passengers in the cabin looked over.

Feeling the eyes of the men fighting against domestic violence, Simon had to sit up and start the newspaper again, pretending nothing happened.

A moment later, Janet leaned over and scratched Simon with her paw. Seeing that he didn't respond, she hesitated. Then she came to the man's ear: "I, I just told Kate about the whole night you bullied me on Christmas Eve."

Simon looked puzzled: "how to bully?"

Janet raised her beautiful little hand and shook it in front of Simon. She said, "yes, yes, five times."

Simon thought for several times in his brain circuit before he realized what this "five times" meant. He immediately leaned back on his seat with a decadent face and felt the impulse to jump off the plane.

Well.

It's ruined.

It's all ruined.

It's not nice to meet people.

In Catherine's mind, she must have become an overindulgent animal.

Although we have identified the woman beside us, no one wants to become such an image in other women's hearts.

Why am I so miserable.

Looking at Simon's dispirited appearance, Janet put a sticker on him and whispered, "Simon, don't worry. I've told Kate. I don't mind."

Simon said weakly, "you didn't tell Kate that I had a cold in the middle of the night that day. I had a severe fever and I was in a bad mood. I didn't want to go to the hospital. You've been by my bed all day and all night. You're a model girlfriend."

Janet blinked vaguely. "Well, didn't I catch a cold?"

Simon weakly raised his hand to the passing stewardess: "Miss, can you change my seat? I need to calm down

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Just after the snow in Salt Lake City, the plane landed on a white runway. Simon and Janet rented another car and drove east along the mountain road for nearly an hour before arriving at Park City, the venue of the Sundance Film Festival.

The Sundance Film Festival originated from a film festival in Salt Lake City in the late 1970s, and later moved to park city.

As the founder, Robert Redford's original intention of launching the Sundance Film Festival is not too simple. The Hollywood superstar bought a ski resort and set up a resort in Park City, but it didn't work. In order to change the status quo, Robert Redford decided to imitate the experience of Aspen, another ski town in the United States, and hold an art festival to stimulate the local tourism market while supporting the independent film industry.After more than 20 years of development, the influence of the Sundance Film Festival has become more and more important. Many famous Hollywood directors have emerged through the Sundance platform.

Of course, these are afterwords.

Now in 1987, park city is still unknown, and the Sundance Film Festival is far less influential.

Utah belongs to the mountain time zone of the United States, one hour earlier than California.

Simon and Janet arrived in park city. It was past twelve o'clock.

Janet made a reservation in advance at a resort located to the east of Park City. There are more than ten exquisite wooden apartments scattered in the mountains and woods, connected by the flat asphalt road. Each house is beautiful and the traffic is convenient.

Of course, it's not cheap.

Simon is now basically penniless, a few credit cards are all overdraft status. However, he still had to pay for the Resort Apartment, just pressing his hand print on Janet's IOU.

Occasionally, I think that if I can't make money as soon as possible, I may have to pay off my debt with Xier westero.

After settling down and having lunch, they rushed to the Sundance Research Institute at the foot of the West Park ski resort to go through some necessary procedures for participating in the film festival and deliver the film copy of "Lola Run" to the organizer.

Today is January 15, Simon is definitely the last exhibitor to submit a copy of the film.

As early as last December, the Sundance Film Festival announced the shortlisted films for the two major units of feature film and documentary film. If it wasn't for the recommendation of Robert Redford, the chairman of the film festival, and the competition in Sundance is far less fierce than later, "Lola Run" won't be eligible for the exhibition.

After registration, Simon just left the gate of the Institute when he met Robert Redford and his party coming from the parking lot.

"Here you are, Simon. David just asked about you

He warmly greets Simon, and Robert Redford introduces him and Janet to several people around him, all of whom are the judges of the film festival.

Simon inquired in advance that there are only two units of drama and documentary in Sundance, and each unit has five judges, a total of ten. Robert Redford was surrounded by only four people, obviously not all of them.

And listen to the names of four people, David Anson, Randa Haines, kit Carson, and Jane benix.

These people should be film and television practitioners.

But Simon doesn't know any of them.

In fact, this is not surprising. Even more than a decade later, the judges of the Sundance Film Festival tend to be "unpopular", far less than a series of big names from several major film festivals.

With the introduction of Robert Redford, Simon also smiles and shakes hands with several people.

Hearing that the judge named David Anson had just mentioned himself, Simon looked at each other and found that David Anson was also looking at him curiously.

"We are going to watch the shortlisted films. Since you have sent the copy, you can just watch it first. Everyone is very curious about your films."

So, after introducing each other, Robert Redford patted Simon on the shoulder again, gave a few words of advice, and walked into the Institute with four other people.