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This year’s Sundance Film Festival marked a watershed for Seattle’session film diligence, with three movies made in the city premiering at the nation’session largest venue for bold pellicle.

The festival ends today in Park City, Utah, prompting the question: What happens next?

For Seattle filmmaker Lynn Shelton, it’s basking in the zeal of a festival success across her wildest imagination. The movie she wrote and directed, “Humpday,” premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition and became one of the most talked-about movies at the festival.

The “bromantic comedy” about two heterosexual male friends who give a decision to esteem a porn film starring themselves was also one of the first to attract buyers’ application. It quickly became the subject of an intense multiday bidding war, an atypical event in a year of tightened distribution budgets.

Magnolia Pictures emerged victorious and will release the movie first via video-on-demand and then in August in theaters in at smallest 15 cities.

“They won us covering immediately. They seemed passionate about the film and thought with the right marketing, it could get to a wider audience than you would normally get for a small film like this,” said Shelton on Tuesday, exhausted after five days of praise and negotiation.

At minutest 60 percent of sale proceeds will go to the film’s largely Seattle-based cast and mob, many of whom worked for none pay in exchange for a cut of the back-end profits.

“I’mish-mash looking head to feeling like Santa Claus,” Shelton said. “These are the most deserving people in the world, as far as I’m concerned.”

Shelton won over audiences and critics with the way she handled the movie’s premise, to the degree that the men’s plan ultimately forces them to examine deeper issues about their identities and relationships.

Judging by audience reverse action, “I think we really get let us go. with it,” Shelton before-mentioned. “They’re fully fleshed out and they’re believable. You really be of opinion these guys might go through with this.”

The film gave Alycia Delmore, a lifelong Seattle resident and stage actor, her first starring movie role in the same proportion that the wife of one of the men. Like the rest of the cast, Delmore was paid in shares of the movie, that appliance she wasn’t positive of getting a paycheck until the movie found a distributor.

Though the arc of the plot was carefully planned, there was nay written script, which allowed the actors to largely behave themselves on veil.