
What have you done for me lately? The ascent of Jennifer Lawrence and other Sundance alumni update
The sheer volume of projects that pass through the programs of Sundance Institute can leave even the most tested indie film buff or Sundance staffer botching artist names and film titles. As we touched on in our last alumni updates blog, the Sundance family tree is as convoluted as it is vast—like a cruel game of ‘six degrees of separation.’ What am I getting at? That while, in principle, both Sylvester Stallone (Death Race 2000) and Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild) are Sundance alumni, we’re slightly more disposed to touting the latter’s most recent work as opposed to the former’s (Expendables 2 ).