Events

The Sundance Film Festival is the premier showcase for U.S. and international independent film.  Held each January in and around Park City, Utah, the Festival is a core program of Sundance Institute, a nonprofit cultural organization founded by Robert Redford in 1981.  Presenting 120 dramatic and documentary feature-length films in seven distinct categories, and 80 short films each year, the Sundance Film Festival has introduced American audiences to some of the most innovative films of the past two decades, including AMERICAN SPLENDOR, CLERKS, HUSTLE AND FLOW, MARIA FULL OF GRACE, NAPOLEON DYNAMITE, sex, lies and videotape, SMOKE SIGNALS, and BORN INTO BROTHELS.

Sundance Institute

Dedicated year-round to the development of artists of independent vision and to the exhibition of their new work, Sundance Institute has grown into an internationally recognized resource for thousands of independent artists through its Film Festival and artistic development programs for filmmakers, screenwriters, composers, playwrights and theatre artists.  The original values of independence, creative risk-taking, and discovery continue to define and guide the work of Sundance Institute, both with US artists and, increasingly, with artists from other regions of the world.