Jennifer Beals Instagram – Looking back at my first experience at #Sundance, it was a dream. A mad band of us-Steve Buscemi, Seymour Cassel, Sam Rockwell, Stanley Tucci, Jim Jarmusch, Carol Kane, Lizzie Bracco, Debi Mazar, Will Patton-came together to make a film written and directed by Alexandre Rockwell and shot by Phil Parmet. It was an insane labor of love, shot guerrilla style in NYC. Alex wrote the script in long hand which I would type as soon as he passed me new pages. I fell in love with independent filmmaking. The DOINGness of it, the community of it. And then what felt like the longest of long shots happened. We were invited to go to Sundance. In those days not everyone was on a huge press tour, interview after interview crammed one after another. There was time to meet other filmmakers and make mischief. We made so many new friends, talked cinema all night long. Yes, there were Dionysian snow ball fights. And then the unthinkable happened, In the Soup won the Grand Jury Prize and Seymour won a special prize for his singular performance. What a dreamscape for independent filmmakers. Thank you, Robert Redford wherever you may be for creating such an intoxicating, supportive dreamscape. To all you filmmakers out there, keep dreaming.
📸 @fastphilm | Posted on 06/Feb/2026 00:30:00
