Movie Cricket

At last, Julie Checkoway's neighbors can see what she made.

The Salt Lake City writer (a former arts reporter at The Salt Lake Tribune, and friend of the Cricket) made a documentary film, "Waiting for Hockney," that played the festival circuit in 2008.

It's a fascinating story of Billy Pappas (pictured), a Baltimore artist who tests the boundaries of art by drawing a meticulously detailed pencil portrait of Marilyn Monroe. He then seeks validation for his creation, by trying to get a meeting with famous painter David Hockney.

Checkoway's film makes its U.S. television debut tonight, at 10 p.m. Mountain time, on the Sundance Channel. It repeats at 4 a.m. Tuesday morning. (These times are correct if you subscribe to — it may be three hours earlier if you get the Sundance Channel's East Coast satellite feed.)

The Tribune's Ben Fulton interviewed Checkoway on the occasion of her movie's TV debut. Read it all here.