The critically acclaimed Sundance Film Festival, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, will take place in Park City, Utah, January 15-25, 2009. For the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, 118 feature-length films were selected, including 87 world premieres, 19 North American premieres and four U.S. premieres representing 21 countries with 42 first-time filmmakers, including 28 in competition. These films were selected from 3,661 feature-length film submissions composed of 1,905 U.S. and 1,756 international feature-length films.
Founded in 1978 as the Utah/U.S. Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival has evolved into the largest independent film festival in the United States and today is known as the premier showcase for new and innovative work from American and international independent filmmakers. Many of today’s most acclaimed filmmakers got their big break at Sundance such as Quentin Tarantino, Jim Jarmusch, Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez, Steven Soderbergh, James Wan and Paul Thomas Anderson. In addition, many critically acclaimed films received wider attention as a result of the Sundance Film Festival such as Reservoir Dogs, Clerks, Napoleon Dynamite, Maria Full of Grace, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, An Inconvenient Truth, Trouble the Water, Central Station, Saw, Little Miss Sunshine, The Blair Witch Project and Sex, Lies and Videotape. The Sundance Film Festival is hosted by the Sundance Institute, a not-for-profit cultural organization founded by Robert Redford in 1981.
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