The annual Sundance Film Festival, which is held every year in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, Utah runs from January 20-30th. Sundance, first developed by Robert Redford and others in 1978, is the largest independent film festival in the United States. Many now popular filmmakers first got noticed at Sundance, including Kevin Smith, Steven Soderbergh, Darren Aronofsky, and Quentin Tarantino, amongst others. The Libraries own several books about Sundance including:
Down and dirty pictures : Miramax, Sundance, and the rise of independent film / Peter Biskind
Fine Arts Collection Stacks — PN1999.M57 B57 2004
Party in a box : the story of the Sundance Film Festival / Lory Smith
Fine Arts Collection Stacks — PN1993.4 .S55 1999