What’s that you say, the founder of the Sundance Film Festival (once known as the Utah/U.S. Film Festival in the ’70s), Robert Redford says there’s too many film festivals?
“Yeah. That’s a tricky thing for me to be saying — it could look pretty selfish — but I do think there’s such a thing as too much of certain things. Look, I think there’s now festivals for neighborhoods. If that satisfies people and they continue to grow and everyone’s happy, so be it. When we started there was very little out there; now, there’s a lot. My gut says there’s such a thing as too much information, but I don’t know.”
Redford is 72, maybe all the glad handing is getting to him.
The actor/director also told the Salt Lake Tribune that less peripheral celebrity nonsense might be better for Sundance and all film festivals as well. Or in old guy speak, “less hoo-ha.”
“What might be a positive is that if there is less hoo-ha, less of a circus atmosphere. “There will be more tendency to focus on what it is that we’re really about, which is the independent filmmakers and the quality of the work.” Wait, the quality of the work, wha?
