Institute History
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Sunlight and Three Pickup Men for Herrick represent two-thirds of what I thought my first feature film was going to be . . . The missing one-third of what I thought was going to be my grand film debut was called A King. I made it at the same time I made the other two, but somewhere in my travels it got lost.” writes Melvin Van Peebles. These two exploratory pieces indicate the direction of stories that would interest Van Peebles from then on and show from the start his determination to create films on his own terms.
— Betsy McLane
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As you use our Online Archives, please understand that the information presented from Festivals, Labs, and other activities is taken directly from official publications from each year. While this information is limited and doesn't necessarily represent the full list of participants (e.g. actors and crew), it is the list given to us by the main film/play/project contact at the time, based on the space restrictions of our publications. Each entry in the Online Archives is meant as a historical record of a particular film, play, or project at the time of its involvement with Sundance Institute. For this reason, we can only amend an entry if a name is misspelled, or if the entry does not correctly reflect the original publication.
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