Heading to Sundance

Before you get too excited, Things We've Made isn't premiering at Sundance (yet), but producer An Tran is in Park City, Utah for this year's festival in an effort to get TWM -- made. Among the meetings, movie watching and parties, An was also invited to the Sundance Producer's Lunch. She reports that producer Lynette Howell (Half Nelson, The Greatest) offered an inspiring keynote speech:

Independent producing is not a job you can interview for, nor does anyone really give us a road map. But what we all have in this room is an entrepreneurial spirit that you cannot teach.

You can read the entire transcript of Howell's speech, here.

TWM Goes Back To The Lab For Further Scientific Studies...

Thrilled beyond belief to announce that Things We've Made will once again be participating in Film Independent's prestigious Filmmaker Lab series. Producer, An Tran was selected for the 2009 Producers Lab back in October. And now I'll be bringing our sad clones into the 2010 Directors Lab!

More info soon, but in the meantime...

http://www.filmindependent.org/content/directors-lab

49% of Americans Believe Cloning Organs To Be Routine By 2020

 

From Reuters: 

Many expect organ cloning could be routine by 2020

Forty-nine percent of 2,841 people questioned in a Zogby interactive survey said use of stem cells and cloned organs will be commonplace in the next decade.

"Also, more than one-third say it is likely by 2020 that computer chips will be implanted in humans, robots will perform manual labor, and virtual reality will be a staple of home entertainment," the polling group said in a statement.