Sundance Stories on Netscape

With just a couple of days left in the Fest, and my work all but done (I may have one more film-specific feature, then I'll do a fest wrap-up after the Awards on Saturday night), here's a look at the stuff I've cranked out thus far. I'll update this post with links to any further stories.

• Above: An interview with Daniel Kerslake and Bishop Gene Robinson, director and star of the documentary For The Bible Tells Me So.
• My feature on Ghosts of Abu Ghraib is (predictably) drawing a good deal of hate mail from the Netscape faithful. I always say I'd rather get a death threat than no reaction at all; today, I'm starting to think that's a really fucking stupid thing to always say.
• A report from a press event held in concert with the premiere of Charles Ferguson's devastating Iraq documentary No End In Sight.
• Zoo director Robinson Devor explains his attraction to the deceased zoophile at the center of his film: "This was a guy who was a conservative man at one point, and those ideas started breaking down for him. I think that 9/11 triggered a lot of it. But he was [also] in the center of one of the most secretive military complexes. Meanwhile, he listened to a lot of left-wing radio, he questioned everything our government was involved in, and he was ethically conflicted about his job and the money he was making. That's the core fascination for me."
• Blah blah blah Grace is Gone, blah blah blah Harvey Weinstein...
• Lynn Hershman-Leeson's Strange Culture was my early favorite film of the festival; it's fallen to the bottom of my Top Five, but it's still a fascinating story and essential viewing for anyone worried about the Bush administration's offenses against the First Amendment.