Jay Van Hoy
About
Jay Van Hoy has produced over 30 films including the Cannes-award winning AMERICAN HONEY (2016) by Andrea Arnold and the Sundance-award winning box-office hit THE WITCH (2015) by Robert Eggers. Other titles include Mike Mills’ Oscar winning BEGINNERS (2010), David Lowery’s AIN'T THEM BODIES SAINTS (2013), and Ira Sachs’ LOVE IS STRANGE (2014) and KEEP THE LIGHTS ON (2012). Jay is a long-time advisor at the Sundance Institute Creative Producing Lab, a participant in the creation of the Catalyst program at Sundance, and a mentor for the Cinetrust mentorship program at Cinereach.
Wiring Utopia
In 1971, a wealthy British cybernetician gets the opportunity of a lifetime when he is invited to create an “electronic nervous system” — the world’s first internet — in socialist Chile. Under constant threat of a coup, his team creates an idealistic technology which could transform the world.