I've spent January in Utah, watching films at Sundance, and attending the Sundance Windrider Forum. Windrider is run by the amazing John & Ed Priddy Brothers, who I was lucky enough to meet in person. You will not meet nicer people and the Priddy Brothers have a long history of supporting inspiring and uplifting films. Mind the Gap is being featured on their website this month and I am really honored. Much thanks to the Priddy Brothers for their support!

I absolutely love being in Park City during Sundance. Yes, there are tons of wannabe filmmakers and posers, and I probably fall into that category, but there is an energy that is really also really inspiring. Another highlight of the trip was getting to meet Heather Rae, who is a fantastic indie film producer with a penchant for telling honest stories. She produced 'Frozen River'- which is just one of her wonderful past films, but a personal favorite of mine . I really liked her because she seems very intimidating...she's gorgeous, classy, smart, successful and yet was so down-to-earth.  It's great to have women role models. 

See MTG featured on Windrider here:
http://windriderforum.org/2010/02/03/sometimes-all-we-can-do-is-mind-the-gap/weeblylink_new_window

For me, one of the most gut-wrenching moments of my life comes during the 10 seconds of blackness sitting in a theater before my film is about to screen. Sometimes it gets so bad I want to run out of the theater and vomit... but so far I haven't. Maybe my biggest fear is that people will hate it, but then in reality, some people are of course going to hate it, and as a filmmaker you can't please everyone. I'm learning this! Nevertheless, when someone says something nice, it really feels good.

This was recently posted by Adam K, in review of the 2009 LDS Film Festival:

Mind the Gap by Kristal Williams-Rowley and Marcy Holland
This was the winner of the competition, and deservedly so. It centers on Sara, the daughter of a railroad engineer whose train is the weapon in a classmate's suicide. Sara struggles to deal with her feelings of bitterness towards the dead girl and her sense of injustice at the victimization (not for the first time) of her father, who copes with his own feelings by keeping a collection of small items found on the bodies of the people he has hit. Not only does this film reveal some startling statistics about the railroad industry, it openly confronts some difficult issues that are not often addressed simply because they are not obvious. The storytelling is superb. I was left feeling unsure whether this was a purely fictional film or a docu-drama. The film is beautiful, difficult, and in the end, uplifting.

http://ldscinema.blogspot.com/2009/06/in-review-ldsff-09-part-8-short-films.html
Thank you Adam!!