Indie Spirit Lives on at Sundance
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Critics say the Sundance Film Festival has become too big, too commercial, too focused on celebrity sightings and star-driven movies at the expense of spotlighting undiscovered talent.
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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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"Ballast," the Southern-set  drama by Lance Hammer that won two awards at the 2008 Sundance  Film Festival, has been picked up by IFC.
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Never-before-seen NASA footage boosts In the Shadow of the Moon to Sundance success. Jason Silverman reports from Park City, Utah.
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Although the Sundance Film Festival doesn't begin until Jan. 20, Dimension Films has already snapped up rights to the low-budget Australian thriller "Wolf Creek," which will make its world premiere at the Park City, Utah event.
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Several small acquisitions  kicked off the Sundance Film Festival on Thursday.
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Short films commissioned by the Sundance Film Institute debuted at the 3GSM World Congress.
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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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If sex sells, as the advertising saying goes, the independent film world should be pleased with this year's Sundance Film Festival that features a slew of movies with explicit sexual themes and scenes.
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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 about energy company Enron and Peru'sfugitive president, Alberto Fujimori.
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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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Honoring Hollywood's indie spirit, cracking a few jokes and walking a red carpet lined by porta-potties - just another year at the Independent Spirit Awards
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The Sundance Film Festivalâs opening weekend drew to a close looking more and more like a disappointment, if not an outright dud.
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Guillermo del Toro is  only 42, but judging from the list of nominees vying for  attention at Saturday's Spirit Awards -- the arthouse world's  version of the Oscars -- he's the old man of American indie  cinema.
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At this year's film festival, nonfiction films outshine the usual angst-ridden, quirky indies.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - Documentaries stole the show at the Sundance Film Festival over the weekend.
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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.