The Sundance Film Festival has wrapped another year, and, if you weren’t in Park City this time around, you may be asking yourself: should I go next year? It’s a big investment, especially if you don’t have a film in the festival, but it is a great time to see friends and movies and go to cool parties.
Even more important is the opportunity to turn this swell time in the snowy Utah mountains into professional advantages and jobs. But how is this accomplished? No Film School turned to Jendra Jarnagin, a cinematographer who has been attending Sundance for over ten years, for advice that can apply to Sundance and almost any film festival that you might want to attend.
It’s like a movie: Sundance is made in prep.
The first few times Jarnagin attended the festival, the biggest jobs she shot in the subsequent years came as direct results of meeting people at Sundance. “I can pretty much point a lot of my career success back to Sundance and relationships I’ve made out here,” Jarnagin shares, “especially my LA connections.”