Film Festival:
New Grassroots Film Screening Series Sprouts Up In Park City
An Anglican Minister and a filmmaker walk into a bar…no this isn’t the beginning of
a joke, it’s the beginning of the Vice and Folly Private Screening Series, an all new
film venue during this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Father Darin Lovelace of St.
John’s Anglican Church in Park City and Los Angeles based producer Chris Roberts
have teamed up to bring a new crop of films to the beehive state.
The screening series will be held in the:
Community Hall of the Christian Center of Park City, at
1283 Deer Valley Drive in Park City on January 20‐22, 2012.
Roberts maintained the friendships he had made with the
church and when he returned to Sundance last year to work for the Sundance
Channel a fast friendship was formed with Fr. Lovelace, who had become the pastor
in the meantime. They have spent the past year brainstorming and talking to other
filmmakers to pull together an eclectic crop of independent films, all related to the
theme of Vice and Folly.
The Vice and Folly Private Screening Series is a full weekend of feature and short
films. Feature films include, “Flesh,” a startling documentary about the realities of
sex trafficking in the United States and, “My Name is Jerry,” starring Doug Jones
(Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth) and Allison Scagliotti (Warehouse 13) about a 40‐
something door‐to‐door salesman who opens the door into a new world. Shorts will
include the Roberts/St. John’s collaboration, “Up in the Air,” and award winning
films “Dead Cat Bounce” and “Grande Drip” (both with feature films in
development).
Admission is invite only, but tickets are free. Contact St. John’s at
(435) 655‐7994 or email viceandfolly@gmail.com The complete screening schedule
can be found on Facebook at www.facebook.com/viceandfolly

