Description

This is the top showcase for American independent films. The Festival culminates in the live broadcast of the Sundance Film Festival Awards, where kudos for excellence are bestowed by a jury and by audience vote. Past Festivals have included films that have literally charted the history of independent cinema: sex lies and videotape, Reservoir Dogs, Hoop Dreams, Memento, The Full Monty, Shine, The Blair Witch Project, In the Bedroom, The Good Girl, Dogtown and Z-Boys, American Splendor, Capturing the Friedmans, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Thirteen, and The Station Agent.The Sundance Film Festival programming team views thousands of films from around the world to create, each January, a slate of features and documentaries that inspire, challenge, delight, startle, move, and thrill festivalgoers. Archival gems from early independent filmmakers, works by indigenous artists, animation of every kind, cutting-edge experimental works, midnight cult films, and the innovative Sundance Online Film Festival make the Festival a complete film experience that celebrates the art and community of filmmaking.