At Slamdance's opening night pour after the successful preem of I Sell The Dead, TLA's Lewis Tice says hello and suddenly there's an eruption, one of those great moments to catch in the din of a Park City party. Derek Curl's just been named Head of Production and Development for TLA Releasing, and they've got a four-picture deal with Larry Fessenden's GlassEye Pix, which produced ISTD. But in the moment caught here, Mr. Curl shows the kind of enthusiasm filmmaking and distribution's going to need going forward.

[Below the fold, later in the evening, the 1am traffic in front of the Library on Park Avenue: shuttles, taxis, awkward confusion in the unseasonably cool (not cold) weather.]