Cinema's Secret Formulas: How to win Sundance.

Another excerpt from my book, Hope For Film.

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There are a few of us who have won Sundance Grand Jury Prize three times. For me that happened with American Splendor (2003), The Brothers McMullen (1995), and What Happened Was... (1994). Yeah, it’s been awhile. I think the combined budgets of those films was $3.3M and 90% of that was Americ…