Sundance Opens Competition to Foreign Films
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By Bob Tourtellotte LOS ANGELES  - The Sundance Film Festival, thepremier U.S. showcase for independent cinema, named the filmson Monday that will compete at its 2005 festival in January,including documentaries energy company Enron and Peru'sfugitive president, Alberto Fujimori.
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After a sleepy first  four days of Sundance, the festival sprang to life Tuesday with  a number of film distribution deals, including one of the  biggest sales in the history of the fest.
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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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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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As indie moviemakers  flock to the Rockies for the Sundance Film Festival, which  begins Thursday, an abundance of available films and potential  buyers is combining with Hollywood's labor unrest to fuel talk  of the most robust Sundance market in years.
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The file transfer service BitTorrent plans to open an online movie store to sell foreign films and other hard to find video, including content from China, Japan and India.
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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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The Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday named dozens of films featuring stars from Sandra Bullock to &quot;007&quot; Pierce Brosnan that will premiere in January at what has
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The Sundance Film Festival opens on Thursday with quirky comedy "Happy Endings," but for 20,000 people heading to the top U.S. event for independent film, "Endings" is just the start of 10 days of packed screenings, star-gazing and parties.
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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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PARK CITY, Utah  - The Sundance Film Festival  moved into its debut weekend on Saturday with long lines for  movies like "The Matador," starring Pierce Brosnan, as well as  for films that lacked big-name stars, such as "Brick" or "Lila  Says."
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The 63 new titles announced yesterday for this year&#39;s Sundance Film Festival, 60 of which are feature-length films, bring the total feature lineup for Sundance &#39;05 to 120 films (a drop from last year).
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The Sundance Film Festival on  Tuesday named dozens of films featuring stars from Sandra  Bullock to "007" Pierce Brosnan that will premiere in January  at what has become the leading U.S. showplace for independent  movies.
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Robert Redford encourages film-makers to "speak their minds" at the opening of this year's Sundance Film Festival.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North American rights to the Sundance festival's narrative audience award winner, the coming-of-age comedy-drama "The Wackness," in a low-seven-figure deal.
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TORONTO  - The Toronto International Film Festival kicks off Thursday at a time when few, if any, Oscar contenders have emerged so far.
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PARK CITY, UTAH  - Two films about people working to triumph over personal tragedy took the top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday night as the key event for U.S. independent movies honored a new generation of stars.