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00:00Hello, my name is Clint Bentley, and I'm the director of Train Dreams, which is premiering
00:11at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival in the premier section.
00:17Train Dreams is based on the beautiful novella by Dennis Johnson, and it's set in the world
00:24of logging in the Pacific Northwest in the early part of the 20th century, as the world
00:28is just going through incredible seismic shifts, and the whole world's changing around
00:34the people who live there.
00:36The story is told from the perspective of Robert Grenier, just a very average person
00:42who lives through this time, works his job as a logger and a railroad worker, an itinerant
00:47laborer, builds a life with his family, and lives through this time of great change, and
00:55tries to make sense of it, and tries to make sense of what his life means in context of
01:00all that great change that takes place around him.
01:04We've got a great cast in the movie, we've got Joel Edgerton playing Robert Grenier,
01:08we've got Felicity Jones, Carrie Condon's in the movie, and William H. Macy, and a lot
01:15of other great actors.
01:17And another big character in the movie is nature itself, it's a story that's about our
01:22relationship to nature as humans, and how we change it, and how it changes us.
01:27We had the great fortune of shooting in Washington State, in the area that a lot of the story
01:35is set in.
01:37I'm very excited to bring this film to Sundance, and to share it with audiences there.
01:42Sundance has meant so much to independent cinema, and been such an incredible supporter
01:48of independent cinema, not only for the U.S., but for the entire world.
01:52And to have a film play there is just such an honor, and I'm excited to share it with you.
01:57And I hope you'll join us in January.