Kiwi film producer Lizzie Gillett admits she can now never go back to Sundance.
However, it’s not because of bad behaviour, a public gaffe or awful accommodation, but rather, as a result of having such an incredible first experience at the annual Utah film festival, nothing could ever top it.
Capping an incredible past January, which also saw another of her projects – Amazonian rainforest documentary The Territory – pick up the Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, Gillett debuted the independently financed tale Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story to packed auditoriums and critical acclaim, before selling the film to Warner Bros. Discovery for around US$15m.
