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A wellrespected film critic turns the lens on America's favorite film festival, interviewing the directors, actors, shop owners, bus drivers, agents, publicists, cops, and restaurant owners who conspire to turn Park City, Utah, into a movie mecca once a year. Original.
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Every winter, 8,000 feet above sea level in the Utah snow, the hopes and dreams of young moviemakers are put on display at the Sundance Film Festival--the haven for independent films where you can show up a kid and go home a star. In barely twenty years of existence, the festival--now overseen by Robert Redford's Sundance Institute--has assumed tremendous importance for today's film culture: during the annual ten-day event, tiny Park City is so overrun by agents, publicists, studio executives, and other Hollywood types that in 1988 they blew out the town's cell-phone relay system.
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