Unfinished Spaces Reaches From Cuba to Puerto Rico

Jennifer Prediger, Film Forward Field Producer

When Alysa Nahmias, co-director of Unfinished Spaces traveled with FILM FORWARD to Puerto Rico, she was in for a surprise. Audiences in Puerto Rico experienced the film in a deep way, resonating similarly to how the film was received in Cuba. Puerto Ricans laughed during the film in all the same places and with equal belly force as Cuban audiences. Nahmias wrote about her experience being in this place that with Cuba has been called “two wings of the same bird” here in this written piece: http://www.sundance.org/filmforward/article/two-wings-of-one-bird-film-forward-finds-intersections-between-puerto-rico-/.

She shares her experience with FILM FORWARD in Puerto Rico and the unexpected connections between her film and the audience in this video:

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Retracing Ryan Coogler’s Sundance Institute Journey

Feature Film Program Founding Director Michelle Satter recalls Sundance Institute’s journey with and support of Ryan Coogler and his feature directorial debut Fruitvale Station.I met Ryan Coogler in the fall of 2011 when he came in to have a conversation about his script, Fruitvale Station. As I listened to Ryan speak about why he needed to tell this story, his deep, personal commitment to the project became evident.

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