[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1523306069166{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"] 25 years ago, on April 7, 1993, the popular coming-of-age baseball film, The Sandlot, was released in the US. Shot entirely in Utah during the summer of 1992, filming locations included Glendale, Midvale, Salt Lake City (specifically Sugar House), Ogden and...
[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1522531975216{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"] This series of posts highlights some of our talented local industry: on-screen and behind-the-scenes, established and up-and-coming. Patrick Hubley is currently the Programming Director at the Utah Film Center. Since 2009, he has overseen all of the Utah Film Center’s public programming,...
[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPrfjUA8ucE"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1520630680178{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"] Here's What You Need to Know About the Latest Made-in-Utah series, Youth & Consequences. Ogden, Utah, made its web debut this week with the premiere of the anticipated YouTube Red original series, Youth & Consequences. From the producer of Grey’s Anatomy and...
[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1519839322809{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"] “It takes a village”, as the saying goes...
[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1518454022977{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"] This series of posts highlights some of our local industry talent: on-screen and behind-the-scenes, established and up-and-coming. Mark Hofeling has designed and art directed over 50 productions for film and television. He began his career in film during his teenage years,...
[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1518126549046{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"] As usual, the month of January flew by in a Sundance whirlwind! Here is a recap of just a few of the many highlights from the ten-day Festival. Made-in-Utah The 2018 Festival saw the premiere of four Utah-made productions, for the second year...
[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1517065701407{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"]Dr. Kristen Ries arrived in Utah in 1982, just as the first cases were surfacing of an uncontained, unidentified, deadly illness. An infectious disease specialist, and self-proclaimed “lover of detective stories,” Dr. Ries was immediately compelled to help. Over the subsequent...
[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1519340726318{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"]Local students are the largest group of volunteers at the Sundance Film Festival - many of them film students dreaming of bringing their own films to Park City someday. The Meet the Filmmakers series is a chance to connect students with...
[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1516752238363{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"]Over the past few months, women - in a quiet collective scream - have been telling a story at a frequency that is fracturing what was a seemingly impermeable power structure. Those among us who initially dismissed the #metoo movement are...
[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1516730371442{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"]Latino Reel cites 2016 as “the worst year in terms of Latinx onscreen visibility, despite Latino people accounting for about 23 percent of ticket sales.” Addressing this, the Latino Reel panel at Utah Film Commission on Main asked, how do we...