It’ll be a bit strange at Slamdance this year without one of its most familiar faces. For eight years Sarah Diamond was a fixture at the little festival at the treasure Mountain Inn, the the upstart answer to Sundance’s Geoff Gilmore, only without the girth and goatee. She recently stepped away from Slamdance to pursue a career in law; she’ll be at Harvard this fall. Now with her media consumption opened up to things beyond Slamdance submissions, we caught up with her to talk about Flannery O’Connor, Project Runway and why Werner Herzog should let the Bad Lieutenant remake slide and make a movie about the Smiths instead.

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