Goodbye to All That: An Agent Says So Long to the Festival Town That Shaped Her Career (and Life)

My earliest Sundance memory isn’t a party or a deal — it’s a film. I was in my 20s when I first traveled to Park City with friends, not yet knowing how much that trip would shape my life. We happened upon a screening of Sex, Lies, and Videotape, and I was riveted. That film, now recognized as a watershed moment, helped revolutionize the independent film business. Watching something so raw and quietly radical unfold on screen was jaw-dropping for a young woman beginning her career in the industry and witnessing something so personal and revelatory marked the beginning of what would become both a lifelong career and an annual pilgrimage to the Sundance Film Festival.

I was living in New York at the time, and I remember the feeling of being dropped into this little snow globe of a town that felt like the center of the universe.