Filmmaker puts American debt in Sundance spotlight
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PARK CITY, Utah  - "I.O.U.S.A." may not be the sexiest film at the Sundance Film Festival, but it could be the most timely as the documentary about deepening U.S. debt problems debuted in a week of tumbling financial markets and heightened fears of recession.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - When former U.S. Vice President Al Gore premiered documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, he inspired not only greater awareness of global warming, but the general greening of this top movie event.
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NEW YORK  - Sundance will bring a reliable cast of characters when it opens Thursday. Actor Sam Rockwell will hobnob at the Riverhorse restaurant in Park City. Festival chief Robert Redford will endorse indie film at the Eccles theater. Dealmaker John Sloss will manage wee-hour buyer visits to his condo.
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When Amin Matalqa made his  first feature film in his native Jordan, he got some local  attention, but when his "Captain Abu Raed" earned a spot at the  Sundance Film Festival, the director saw his ticket into U.S.  movie theaters.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - Lesser-known movies are stealing the spotlight from star-studded ones at the annual Sundance Film Festival this week, making the top U.S. event for independent films among the least predictable in years.
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A number of films have left the recently concluded Sundance Film Festival with distribution deals. For most movies, the fight continues.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - Eighteen months after the outbreak of Israel's war with Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, filmmakers from both countries have brought movies conveying frustration over the conflict to the Sundance Film Festival.
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The war in Iraq is a strong theme at the Sundance Film Festival for the second year running.
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Alex Rivera's eye-opening film delivers a message at Sundance: As technology marches forward, the gulf between the haves and the have-nots will widen into an ugly abyss.
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Geeks, sharks, lovable neurotics and a fast-food fiend have given the Sundance Film Festival one of its biggest years ever at theaters.
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George Bailey&#039;s brother proclaimed him the richest man in Bedford Falls. Now the story of the despondent businessman, who got a chance to see how ugly the world would be without him, has been proclaimed the most inspiring American movie.
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Hollywood's independent  filmmakers take a strike break starting on Thursday when the  Sundance Film Festival launches its annual showcase of movies  made outside the big studios, now embroiled in a labor dispute  with screenwriters.
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The Sundance Film Festival, the premier U.S. showcase for independent cinema, named the films on Monday that will compete at its 2005 festival in January, including documentaries about energy company Enron and Peru's fugitive president, Alberto Fujimori.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - War, world politics and  personal struggles dominated Sundance Film Festival awards on  Saturday as a dark drama, "Forty Shades of Blue," and a  documentary about the U.S. defense industry, "Why We Fight,"  won top honors.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - The Sundance Film Festival  kicked off on Thursday with a political tone struck by founder  Robert Redford, who called independent film a voice of dissent  and encouraged movie-makers to speak their minds.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - When former Vice President Al Gore premiered documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, he inspired not only greater awareness of global warming, but the general greening of this top movie event.
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As independent filmmakers descended on the Sundance Film Festival on Thursday, chatter over the fate of Miramax Films and its combative co-chief executives, Bob and Harvey Weinstein, rivaled the buzz over the gathering's movies and stars.