at the Egyptian Theatre, and will be followed by a Q&A with the producers and cast. The first four half-hour episodes of “The Girlfriend Experience” will be screened Saturday, Jan. Right now, if you’re just interested in telling stories, it’s a really good space to be working in.” He might have been talking about independent film when he described TV as a place of “real excitement and enthusiasm and sort of fearlessness. Soderbergh, who won a best-director Emmy for “Behind the Candelabra” to go with his best-director Oscar for “Traffic,” is convinced that some of today’s best work is being done in television, so he’s not surprised that Sundance is beginning to pay more attention. “I think it fits within this sort of construct of what that festival is trying be about.”
“The people who are going to appreciate the filmmaking approach are all going to be there,” Soderbergh said.
(Amy Seimetz and Lodge Kerrigan wrote and directed the series.) “It certainly seems, given the pedigree of the filmmakers, like a good spot for this show to be screened,” Soderbergh said. He’s an executive producer of the 13-part Starz series “The Girlfriend Experience.” Based on his 2009 film of the same title, it’s about a young woman (Riley Keough) who becomes a high-priced call girl. Steven Soderbergh, on the other hand, is a film festival veteran, an independent film icon whose 1989 film “Sex, Lies and Videotape” prompted the late film critic Roger Ebert to dub him “the poster boy of the Sundance generation.” Soderbergh will be heading to Park City with a TV show this year. “That’s not normally how television works,” she said.