2007 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SHORT FILMS

ON iTUNES

Sundance Institute and Sundance Channel have announced they will offer narrative, documentary and animation shorts from the 2007 Sundance Film Festival for download via iTunes (www.itunes.com). The announcement solidifies Sundance's commitment to leveraging technology to help filmmakers expose their work and bring the Festival to film fans around the world.  A broad selection of short films from the 2007 Sundance Film Festival will be available for purchase and download priced at $1.99  each on the iTunes Store beginning Monday, January 22, 2007. 

"I have felt, from the earliest days, that if people really care about independent film, they should pay particular attention to short filmmakers, who are the best indicators of what is coming down the creative pike," said Robert Redford, president and founder of Sundance Institute and founder of Sundance Channel."

The films available on iTunes are drawn from the 71 Sundance Film Festival short films, representing 19 countries and 4445 submissions from American and international filmmakers. Also available on the iTunes Store will be free podcasts that take you behind the scenes of the Sundance Film Festival including engaging panels with filmmakers, journalists and industry representatives direct from Prospector Square and live performances straight from the Music Café in Park City. 

Sundance Institute will continue to stream a selection of short films online, free of charge, on the Sundance Film Festival website at www.sundance.org. These short films will be posted after they have screened at the Festival, beginning January 18 and continuing for three months to April 18.

Since 1991 Sundance Film Festival has provided a showcase for short filmmakers and their films.  Fueled by artistic expression and free from the conventions of feature-length films, shorts have the ability to transcend boundaries of traditional storytelling.  Over the years, the Sundance Film Festival Shorts Program has become a prime source of discovering filmmaking's newest voices, including Todd Haynes, Spike Jones, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, David O'Russell, Tamara Jenkins, Nicole Holofcener and Alexander Payne.