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Sundance: Homegrown indie with star power (Excerpt)
CNN - January 23, 2000
By Jamie Allen
PARK CITY, Utah (CNN) -- The Deer
Valley Resort's party room is packed with
revelers, many of them throbbing to the techno
beats coming from the DJ's sound system.
Drinks are guzzled; lines at the bar are long.
Homegrown indie with star power
Earlier in the day, a news conference was held for another Sundance
movie. "Things You Can Tell Just By looking At Her" has more star power
than most Hollywood blockbusters, and it's indie fare. Cameron Diaz, Holly
Hunter, Amy Brenneman, Calista Flockhart, Glenn Close, and Kathy
Baker star in the story of five interwoven vignettes about the female
experience in modern Los Angeles.
And the film's a homegrown project. Writer-director Rodrigo Garcia, son
of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, nurtured it at the Sundance Institute, and this
past year it zoomed into production.
"It interested me," says producer Jon Anvet when asked why he became
involved in the project. He was speaking at a press conference for the
movie attended by the director, Hunter, Brenneman, Flockhart and Baker.
"The value is, we have put together incredible talent. I would like to see
these women on screen. I don’t want them home on the weekends. I want
to see them work. I want to enjoy their work."
Avnet says when he first read the script for the film, he thought it was
written by a woman, then later met Garcia and decided to take on the
project.
"He just followed his muse," Avnet says. "There was something in him that
had percolated for 39 years, and this is what came out."
More festivities are in store, of course. Several parties for various industry
groups will be held Sunday night as Sundance kicks into high gear.
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