After the dust settled on the last Sundance Film Festival in Park City, which saw its fair share of drama andeven a days-long bidding war, one under-the-radar project kept getting brought up to me.
There was the entertainment lawyer who talked about it over coffee, and the handful of reps who mentioned it at a party, and two nearby seatmates who were discussing it on the flight back to Los Angeles. The project generating this much conversation wasn’t a movie but instead a five-part miniseries titled The Screener directed by Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe. And while Hollywood loves its fair share of navel-gazing, it is somewhat surprising that this title made such an impact among the industry set.