Two longtime friends are making the most of Sundance Film Festival’s final year in Park City, celebrating a friendship that began in an unexpected classroom encounter nearly two decades ago.
Mike Wisland of Pleasant Grove and Sean Leslie of Sandy have been attending Sundance since the mid-1990s, but their paths didn’t cross until 2006 during one of Wisland’s audio classes at Utah Valley University.
“Just like every year, I would tell my professors, you’re not gonna see me for the next few days,” Leslie said. “I went up to Mike here and said, ‘Hey, I’m going to be gone, what am I going to be missing?’ And he’s like, ‘Where are you gonna be?’ I’m like, Sundance. He’s like, ‘I’m gonna be there too!'”…