A young Minnesota Native filmmaker s Wild ride to Sundance After years of writing and dreaming, a Minnesota filmmaker will compete at the Sundance Film Festival this month. January 15, 2021 4:34pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Lynn Lukkas couldn t have predicted that the shy, 6-foot-5 student who took film classes from her years ago at the University of Minnesota would compete in this month s Sundance Film Festival. But she knew there was something special about Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. He is very quiet, so he wasn t a student who pushed himself to the forefront, but he had this steadiness and he was really focused, said the U professor. He had the larger picture of the projects he worked on right away, like a director does.