Last night we saw our second film at Sundance ‘Spider’ directed by Nash Edgerton. The film seemed to have a great reception.

Sundance is an amazing experience, the density of activity is amazing. Yesterday after taping a background fundamentals class and an interview for fxguidetv we attended someone else’s taping of an extremely entertaining interview with Jack Black and Michel Gondry. Their new film Be Kind Rewind is one of the hottest films at Sundance (opening nationwide Feb. 22). The film has Black and co-stars re filming a series of major Hollywood films at a local video store when Black erases all the shops video tapes.

The two are just a fraction of the stars here for the festival, U2, William H. Macy, De Niro, Samuel Jackson, Tom Hanks, Winona Ryder, Queen Latifah, Tiger Woods.. the list goes on and on. Most are in town to promote films – some just to be seen. Other films creating a buzz here include Sunshine Cleaning and a documentary about Roman Polanski’s 1977 under-age sex scandal that led to the directors self imposed exile.

Mixing in the films are also some very well run panels such as Webolution. Moderated by Kara Swisher the panel included Ted Sarandos (Netflix), Dmitry Shapiro (founder and CEO of Veoh.com), Dan Glickman (President of MPAA), Jason Kilar (CEO of Hulu.com), Mike Volpi (CEO of Joost.com), Erik Flanagan (EVP Digital Media MTV) and tech strategy adviser Phil Lelyveld. Interesting that while moderating Swisher filmed the whole talk herself from the stage, (now that’s independent film making on the web!). You can view the session online.

We (John and myself) also joined a Panel at the Red Lodge to discuss the RED ONE camera. The panel was made up of Red users and experienced Red DOPs Jeremy Neish, Thor Wixam, Charles Papert and Jendra Jarnagin, who has been working as a DOP helping test Red since the camera was released. After this we joined Kerner Mobile for a demonstration of their mobile 3D projection technology. As amazing as the projection system was it was somewhat dwarfed by the “wtf?!” reaction we had to the laser equipped, stretch Hummer Limo that the organizers had arranged for transportation. Actually getting around Sundance is decidedly easy – even after coming out of a midnight screening festival buses are on hand to get you to the next party, which is lucky as the average speed capable on the roads due to all those limos and traffic is rarely about 12 miles an hour.

Today we bug out of Sundance which will continue for another week or so, dusted in a new light snowfall.