In addition to snippets of out of context conversations, there’s a lot of interesting talk about the “state of film” at Sundance. The answers are understandably mixed (hey, it’s not an easy industry), but for the most part I’ve found that filmmakers, producers, industry folks and fans are overwhelmingly positive—and I’ve met a number of people who are here despite their films being rejected from the fest. Perhaps it’s due to being in this 10-day-long bubble, sequestered in the mountains. But given the paradigm-shifting shorts, virtual reality films and documentaries, I’d say that indie film’s boundaries are being pushed far beyond the limits of what we could possibly have imagined when the first talkie’s credits rolled back in the 1920s.

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