John Anderson 
Sundancing [EPUB ebook] 
Hanging Out and Listening In at America’s Most Important Film Festival

Every winter, 8, 000 feet above sea level in the Utah snow, the hopes and dreams of young moviemakers are put on display at the Sundance Film Festival—the haven for independent films where you can show up a kid and go home a star. In barely twenty years of existence, the festival—now overseen by Robert Redford's Sundance Institute—has assumed tremendous importance for today's film culture: during the annual ten-day event, tiny Park City is so overrun by agents, publicists, studio executives, and other Hollywood types that in 1988 they blew out the town's cell-phone relay system.