Park City-based filmmaker enjoying the festival whirlwind with ‘Snowland’

Park City-based filmmaker enjoying the festival whirlwind with ‘Snowland’

Park City-based filmmaker Jill Orschel, left, and Slamdance Film Festival co-founder Peter Baxter take a moment to smile for the camera during this year’s festival in Los Angeles. Slamdance screened Orschel’s documentary feature “Snowland,” about Cora Lee Witt, a former child bride who escaped the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint cult, and how she coped with the trauma by creating a fantasy world called “Snowland.” Credi…