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In 1981 actor/director/producer Robert Redford founded the Sundance Institute in Park City, Utah along with producer Sterling Van Wagenen. The institute was meant to encourage and develop the talents of fledgling directors, producers, film composers, screenwriters, playwrights, and theatre artists. In 1985, the institute absorbed the financially strapped United States Film Festival, giving the festival a new location in Park City and a new name: the Sundance Film Festival.
Now in it’s 25th year, the Sundance Film Festival has become known as the festival to premiere independent films. As part of this year’s festival, "sex, lies and videotape", Steven Soderbergh’s 1989 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award Winner and "Chameleon Street," Wendell B. Harris’s 1990 Sundance Film Festival Jury Prize Winner will be screend as part of the festivals "From the Collection" series that highlights the need to preserve independent cinema and share it with a new generation of viewers.
In addition to "From the Collection" the festival will be screening over 200 features, documentaries and shorts that have been selected into competition. New to the slate of events held for Sundance Festival Pass Holders will be the "Sundance Institute Archive Project Exhibit." This exhibit will feature a selection of material incuding photographs, posters, memoriabilia and film footage that represents the 25 year history of the festival.
Tickets and information for the festival may be found by visiting:
www.festival.sundance.org/2009
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Palm Springs Int’l Film Festival
1/6 — 1/19
Palm Springs, CA
www.psfilmfest.org
Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
1/9 — 1/11
Nevada City, CA
www.wildandscenicfilmfestival.org
Berlin and Beyond Film Festival
1/15 — 1/21
The Castro
San Francisco, CA
www.berlinandbeyond.com
San Joaquin Children’s Film Festival
1/15
San Joaquin, CA
www.sjiff.org
Gone With The Film Festival
1/17 — 1/18
Los Angeles, CA
www.irisfilmintl.com/index0907gwtf.htm
Santa Barbara Int’l Film Festival
1/22 — 2/1
Santa Barbara, CA
www.sbfilmfestival.org
RED One Boot Camp
1/24
Burbank, CA
www.kappastudios.com
NATPE Market
1/26 — 1/29
Las Vegas, NV
www.naptemarket.com
San Diego Black Film Festival
1/29 — 2/1
San Diego, CA
www.sdfbb.com
Int’l Cinematographers Guild Scholarship Fund
1/31/2009
Los Angeles, CA
www.cameraguild.com
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